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Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 13-03-2015, 20:22

Replies: 131 Priestly Clough Views: 13,911 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Priestly Clough Long before 1960...during a pretty cold winter we(my brothers and I) went to survey the lodge. This was a place that we were forbidden to go, unless with an adult...and we weren't. Both of the...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 23-09-2014, 11:00

Replies: 131 Priestly Clough Views: 13,911 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Priestly Clough Cashy, I have no doubt whatsoever about that. :D

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 23-09-2014, 07:17

Replies: 131 Priestly Clough Views: 13,911 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Priestly Clough I lived on Riley's Hill and only knew of one of those tunnels. I thought they were part of the coal workings which went under the hill. As children we were warned about going into these workings. ...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 19-05-2013, 18:09

Replies: 131 Priestly Clough Views: 13,911 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Priestly Clough See Cashy...we are almost related :D

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 19-05-2013, 17:47

Replies: 131 Priestly Clough Views: 13,911 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Priestly Clough It was indeed. We went up to the five arches after he fell in he brook. We dare not go home. Ma would have skinned us alive. We made a fire under the arches to try and dry his clothes, but we...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 18-05-2013, 07:48

Replies: 131 Priestly Clough Views: 13,911 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Priestly Clough Yes it is Woodnook Water...or at least that is what we always knew it as. As for those pipes going across the beck...they were there when I was a child(there were three sections of the beck...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 31-03-2011, 12:06

Replies: 131 Priestly Clough Views: 13,911 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Priestly Clough The railway track is now a country walk with a decent gravel path.

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 04-03-2011, 08:20

Replies: 131 Priestly Clough Views: 13,911 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Priestly Clough You just might be right there, Son....it was alright going up....but coming down was a real pain. Cashy........I'm not sure that the word 'Bonk' had that connotation way back in the...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 03-03-2011, 20:57

Replies: 131 Priestly Clough Views: 13,911 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Priestly Clough We always called those the 'sharp bonks'....don't ask me why......it was passed down from my Grandma who lived on Higher Antley St......if we went to Bullough Park, we always went by the sharp bonks.

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 26-05-2009, 11:03

Replies: 131 Priestly Clough Views: 13,911 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Priestly Clough Yes Doug, I do remember the bluebells.....we were forbidden to pick them and take them into the house as my Ma thought it was bad luck to have them in the house. They were indeed happy days.

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 23-05-2009, 10:17

Replies: 131 Priestly Clough Views: 13,911 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Priestly Clough Priestley Clough was my playground.......you could enter by the bottom path, near Highams Mill....this took you past the lodge on your right hand side, and the brook on the left side(the lodge had an...

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