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Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 05-12-2008, 01:06

Replies: 47 Hacking boat Views: 11,077 Posted By arthur bithell Re: Hacking boat 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...

Forum: Lost Friends / Family 15-10-2008, 11:44

Replies: 92 BROCKHALL HOSPITAL 1960s Views: 21,735 Posted By arthur bithell Re: BROCKHALL HOSPITAL 1960s that probably means i know you. So give us a hint. Age did you live there etc. Do not know his step mums name but his sister was called Lesley. i remember Russell and i broke her sholder when she...

Forum: Lost Friends / Family 10-10-2008, 11:45

Replies: 92 BROCKHALL HOSPITAL 1960s Views: 21,735 Posted By arthur bithell Re: BROCKHALL HOSPITAL 1960s Her name is familiar. i think one of my dads friend was called birtwistle i think. My dad was the charge on Johnswood (the rough tough boys) and before that thistleHouse. Dick Hazelteen (spelt wrong...

Forum: General Chat 10-10-2008, 02:35

Replies: 146 What Stopped You In Your Tracks Today? Views: 4,137 Posted By arthur bithell Re: What Stopped You In Your Tracks Today? Emigrated to Australia. over here they got real spiders. we get huntsmans in our house up to 80mm across, they bite if pushed but no venom. we also get white tails. small but a bite will cause...

Forum: Lost Friends / Family 09-10-2008, 11:56

Replies: 92 BROCKHALL HOSPITAL 1960s Views: 21,735 Posted By arthur bithell Re: BROCKHALL HOSPITAL 1960s Re....Can anyone help!! My uncle (whom i have only just found out about) was instituionalised in Brockhall Hospital as a child. Around 1945ish and lived there till his death in 2004, aged 65years....

Forum: Lost Friends / Family 09-10-2008, 11:42

Replies: 92 BROCKHALL HOSPITAL 1960s Views: 21,735 Posted By arthur bithell Re: BROCKHALL HOSPITAL 1960s Wow reading through this makes me home sick. i was born in the staff houses at brockhall in 1957 and lived there til 1978. knew about a third of the names mantioned in this thread. know every nook...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 09-10-2008, 11:31

Replies: 47 Hacking boat Views: 11,077 Posted By arthur bithell Re: Hacking boat 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...

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