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Maybe the place we called the "sand pits".. we thought it looked like the moon surface.. my mum got me a brand new pair of jeans and we went up there.. we were walking on the moon when I sank.. came out and washed my new jeans in the brook and they came out almost white!.. I'll never know if it was the cheap dye in the jeans or the chemicals in the pits that made em white. (probably the cheap jeans) :D
No problem!.. in one swoop I had some great faded jeans without having to wash em 50 times!

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i went fishing on the bottom lodge at cockers on sunday and caught 32 tench i was always told as a kid there was nothin in that one

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Kemp Delph is up Stanhill on the left hand side out of Stanhill Village.

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kemp delph used to be a sandstone quarry years ago . Also anyone remember little delph back of aspen lane behind all saints church ?? that used to be a quarry for a brickworks that stood on the site before the stanhill mill was built.I used to live in the houses that were built on top of the mill. If you look in a few books that are about lancashire you can find references to it.

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I remember that little delph very well, I used to swim in it. Sadly, a little boy from a family who lived near me drowned in that place. He was only 7.

Where is All Saints church? When I left West End (1962) Stanhill Ring Spinning Mill was very much a working mill and they had only just started building houses on Aspen Lane, round the school. The only church was St Thomas', on Blackburn Rd., almost opposite our house

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The church is next door to the school, as you're going up the lane.

It is quite modern by design, and has a large triangular copper roof, which has gone green with age.

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At the risk of a good old fashioned cliché I'll have to say it was all fields round there when I was young. But, it was. :D

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Only just found this site, but obviously not many of the past visitors knew Kemp Delph.
To get there you had to go through Stanhill (on the road to Knusden) and not far after the Stanhill House (on the left) it was on your right hidden by a slight 'hill'. We used to go there in summer to swim but it was always considered as a dangerous place as the depth of the water had never been established and we were told that it was full of 'all kinds of strange things from animals to abandoned cars.
I'm going back to the late 50's.
Susan from Sicily

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You must have been going there when I was. I swam in there many, many times, when I was in my teens, but the water was always damned cold even on the hottest days.

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We used to go up there in the summer and like yu said West Ender it was really cold, we would get to it from Brookside Lane, up through the fields past Vine Mill, all the older kids used to jump in of the "Top Rock" as we used to call it, ain't been near for years now

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remember it well, used to fish there when a young lad, it was later used as a landfill, think it was smething to do with magnols farm.

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Never remember there being fish in yon, plenty of aud rusty objects an odd motor bike and a car or two:D

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Was that the one just off Brookside Lane, at the bottom of the path up the fields to Kemp Delph?

That one, behind the ruined farm house, with the little pier thing you could walk in, certainly had fish in, and two swans who lived there. Who used to chase after you when they had cygnets. They nested on the grass verge that went across the middle of the lodge.

The two lodges behind this one didn't have fish. Just weird orange sinking sand type mud.

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I was thinking of Kemp Delph, never so many fish in yon