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Isn't hot water pastry the hard crust that you get on pork pies?

I am trying to find a recipe for the type of pastry that you get Hollands / Oddies potato pies. Does anyone know of the recipe? I can make standard shortcrust pastry but not the softer pastry that you get on these Lancashire pasties and pies. As I live in Switzerland I'm desperate for a...

I've attached a modern map which shows Cobbs Lane as being a continuation of Pot House Lane . . . . .

I've looked through the censuses for 1841 to 1901. The Bull Inn was known as the Black Bull Inn by 1901. It was situated near to the junction of Haslingden Old Road (A677) and Cobbs lane. Cocker Brook also flows past this point. There was also a Cocker Brook School at this crossroads. I don't...

Thanks for your help and suggestions! The 1841 census gives the order in which the census was taken as:- Rushton House Hole Bottom Clough Cockerly Slanderly Cocker Brook Bull Inn Piers Row Colliers Row I have just found an old map of Oswaldtwistle on the site on the web, dated 1849 and I...

Does anyone know if the Bull Inn, Cocker Brook, Oswaldtwistle still exists? It was there in 1841 and an ancestor of mine was the innkeeper.

Does anyone know which calico print works were situated in Baxenden between 1820 and 1860? My ancestors were "calico block printers" all living in Baxenden during those years and I am just trying to put a bit of "flesh on the bones"!

Just found the site and it looks great! Although a Darwener born and bred, I used to spend many a great night at the Accrington Stanley Sportsmans Club (?) in the late sixties. Jazz nights with Kenny Ball, etc. Now live in Switzerland.:music8: