oswaldtwistle

Hi - I'm tracing 10 siblings of the COCK family including my Grandad. This is mainly around the Fylde Coast but one brother Henry Cock was a resident of Oswaldtwistle when he died in 1934. I've applied for a copy of his DC and see that he ran a Fish & Chip Restaurant at 5 Catlow Hall Street...

Hi I am looking for any volunteers to help with my weed problem, some of them are 8 foot high but are easy to pull up. Thanks :eek:

The centre of Foxhill Bank Brow was the demarcation line between Church and Oswaldtwistle. Does anyone have any information about the works (Nehesco?) which used to be at the bottom of the brow? Info requested by my father Owd Bert. Thanks.

Hi all was talking to some the other day who said there used to be a corner shop at 55roegreve road ossy a good few years back any one know anything at all about it it had big windows apparently and was on the corner as you would expect from a corner shop haha Atb

Considering that West End Ossy is a good area of the district, I'm surprised that if you leave your grey bin out overnight : eg Sunday late on as you're maybe working Monday morning ( a reasonable scenario ) anything from food waste eg potatoes to bagged up ( thankfully ) dog poo bags are...

Councillor Britcliffe has announced that Ossy is having a farmers market next month and,if successful, it could become a regular thing. I think this is a cracking idea and can only be a good thing for the town. I'll be trotting over there anyway. :)

I've just been to the Spar on Thwaites Rd. (9.10 pm 25 th Feb) and there is a brown and white boxer running around that has obviously escaped from home. If anyone is missing one or who knows who's dog it is, it was last seen running up Banbury Avenue chasing someone walking their own dogs. It...

In the Church Kirk registers pre 1812 there are several references to the placename 'Ibbotts in Oswaldtwistle.' There are no entries for it after 1812. I cannot find it on the first edition 6 inch OS map dating from the 1840s. Does anyone have any idea where it was? Thanks

I have just found an 1823 encyclopedia in which Ossie is spelled as Oswaltwistle ( ie no letter 'd') / It reads: Oswaltwistle, a township of Lancashire. In 1801, the population was 2710, with 951 employed in manufactures: six miles North-east of Blackburn..... It credits Cruttwell's...

I've just read in the Accrington Observer of the death of Olive Lomas,the founder of Only Foals and Horses animal sanctuary.I often read of the sanctuary needing funds to feed and home the animals and thought she sounded a wonderful, selfless woman. I hope the sanctuary carries on the great work...

Dear Ossy Folk Should the people of Ossy be concerned about 'fracking' in any adjacent area that reaches even the boundaries of our town? This was once a mining town and we live above old coal mining tunnels and shafts and subsidence is not uncommon - the lintel over my front door is fractured...

Hi, does anybody know what is happening with the old Golden Cross?

While walking round Rhyddings Park Pet Corner yesterday I noticed that the animals seemed to have no water to drink, the ducks especially seemed desperate for a drink and were putting their heads down the 'plug hole' of the pond (which is dry) to try and get a drink. Does anyone know of contact...

Does anyone know anything about the two horses tethered up at the front of Wordsworth Close.? They have been outside in all weather for a few weeks. I see them on my way to work every day. Surely they should be in some sort of shelter in this weather, it's snowing and blowing a gale as I type...

I think I know why Duncan Square is so named, but want to seek the opinion of others before posting about it on the Street Names thread. When did the name first crop up? Is it shown on early maps - what's the earliest? I suspect it will be early 1800s I cannot find my History of Ossie & Church...

Anyone walked past the waterfall at stonebridge lane recently.I went past the other morning, the whole path at the side has more or less been washed into the brook, itl be cut off before long.

Ooh err - I spotted surveyors on the the spare land on Thwaites road on Friday morning, oh I hope they don't build more houses :(. Has anyone any ideas what could be in store ? :confused:

Hiya am new to this site so not sure if am postin this in the rite place!! Anyway I'm lookin for a 3-4 bedroom house to rent in ossy but would like it thru private landlord!! if anyone knows of any that are for rent cud u please let me no fank Q xx

just wondered if anyone knows of anywhere localy i could find someone to shorten a pair of curtains,the only one i can find is post them to preston and recive them back in a couple of weeks..thanks for the help:)

Was sitting watching the TV this aft and I heard something come through the letter box, so I goes to the door and its another chinese takeaway leaflet, its only when I saw the address of this "new" shop that I realise another good fish and chip shop gone, Trinity St Chippy was a good chip shop...