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Used to love Whalley in the 50s & 60s. The dog Inn, The Swan, . My aunt Mary & uncle Herbet had a cabin at Hacking Boat, some happy memories there. Worked at Brockhall & went down to the river quit regular, good place to take the nurses in the summer. Ahh the memoris.

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Remember my gran used to talk about going there:drink:

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Spent my youth there. lived a Brockhall. 2 of my friends drowned there when i was 18. found the boys bodys where the ribble joined the calder aparently the 2 rivers meeting causes a trench at the bottom once pulled down you can not go up against the water pushing down, or so the police diver said. there used to be a boat there before my time i found the old mooring posts about 200mt down from the ribble/calder join. As a boy i swam to the other side and found the oars in an old barn. firther back from the water was an old farn house that sheep lived in from time to time. there i found the origional boat. about that time i got chased off as it is was a private estate. maybe the old boat is still there. as i remember it was about 15ft to 20 ft covered in tar and needed 4 oars.

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I remember the suspension bridge down the side of the Tanners Arms, it got washed away years ago, did they replace it?

There has been a whirlpool there for as long as I can remember. I think the area is called Sale Wheel Wood, between Ribchester and Dinkley. You used to be able to see the river from the woods but don't know if you still can. The trees were covering the view years ago.

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we don't get the summers like we used to,the weather is against us for picnics at our favourite spots.

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The suspention bridge near the Tanners is at Dinkly a couple of miles down streem. I remember a couple of times when a patient of brockhall escaped and tried to swim the river. my dad and others used to go down to the suspention bridge a day or so later because they expected the body to get stuck on the rocks, it usually did.

There is no visable whirlpool where the Calder meets the Ribble (the spot i am talking about) just lots of under tow. OK if you swim on the top but if you dive down you may not come up.

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Sally's cafe back in the 50's!! mushy peas!-all after a day at Hacking boat where, at the Hall, you could get a basket with mugs, pot of tea etc. the Green Punt would take you over the water for2d. EW.
Other great swimming places were West Bradford bend, Mytton & Brungerly bridge

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I have old colour photos of Hacking hall & boat-- How do I upload them?

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There are instructions here Wiggy ... to be honest I just hit the attachments button above this window .. it brings up the browse window .. and go from there, as per Len's instructions.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...ples-4719.html

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This is off t'internet...."Dinckley is Celtic in origin and the name means 'fort of the wood'. It is positioned off the beaten track and is unspoiled making it ideal for delightful walks including through Sale Wheel Woods to the Old Dinckley Ferry which has now been replaced by a low level suspension bridge. The Old Hacking Boat House is a reminder of when the ferryman would transport travellers across the river (The Boat is now in Clitheroe Museum). Hacking Hall Stands on the opposite bank built by Thomas Livesey in 1607 and the riverside can see part of the ferryboat’s jetty. The front of the Hall has 14 sets of mullioned windows and a public car park can be found here".

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My maternal grandparents' were tenant farmers at Dinckley in the 1930's and my late mother often related to the 'Dinckley Ferry' which operated between Dinckley and the river bridge at Ribchester. The ferry vessel was known locally as the 'Hacking Boat' for whatever reason and the name apparently stuck to the area in which it plied it's trade - or so I was led to believe.

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The farm was owned by the Hacking family, thats as much as I know about it

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The land was owned by the del Hacking family from at least 1200, and may have been known in those days as Hacking or land of Hacking.

Bernard de Hacking gave his estate to his son William in 1328. The land then passed to the Shuttleworth family when his only daughter Agnes married Henry Shuttleworth.

It again passed through marriage when Anne Shuttleworth, the sole heir of Robert Shuttlworth married Sir Thomas Walmsley, who built the house in 1607.:)

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According to an article in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, 5 July 1993, the ferry ran from 1686 to the mid-50s. It was a flat bottomed boat with seats round the sides. Mr Michael Jackson, a former Ribble Valley Council chief executive discovered it decaying in a barn while out rambling and had it restored. It was on display at the Clitheroe Castle Museum but took up to much space and is now in the possession of the Ribble Valley Borough Council. Standing on the Billington side of the river you had to shout for the farmer or his wife to ferry you across the Ribble, where it joins the Calder, for a few coppers. It is reputed that dogs were sometimes left to swim across to avoid payment. A long chain acted as an anchor

http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/...ckingFerry.jpg

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Wonder what ever happened to this idea from 2000?

Hacking Ferry Bridge | Projects | WilkinsonEyre.Architects

http://www.manzieclan.plus.com/RAlancashire/bridge.htm