Kemp Delph

garinda said:
'Electrocuted and burnt to a crisp' but he didn't die???:eek:
Click to expand...
I actually saw the guy about a year after the accident,he was scarred from head to foot!some people have all the luck.
I know you rindy by the way(i think),we were friends for a while,your parents had a swimming pool outside,am i correct?
 
prestonbob said:
I actually saw the guy about a year after the accident,he was scarred from head to foot!some people have all the luck.
I know you rindy by the way(i think),we were friends for a while,your parents had a swimming pool outside,am i correct?
Click to expand...

Yup that's me.

Will pm you.:)

By the way, talk about that guy being lucky!
 
prestonbob said:
I actually saw the guy about a year after the accident,he was scarred from head to foot!some people have all the luck.
I know you rindy by the way(i think),we were friends for a while,your parents had a swimming pool outside,am i correct?
Click to expand...

Outdoor swimming pool in Ossy ???????????????
 
I used to go up when I was younger. You were great if you had the nerve to jump off "top rock". We heard all sorts of stories about it. Like it was bottomless and that there was a bus under the water, and cars, motorbikes even people that they'd never found. All silly when I think about it now though. Lol!
 
WillowTheWhisp said:
Outdoor swimming pool in Ossy ???????????????
Click to expand...

I know, that's when we were underprivileged as children.:mad: :D

When we moved my Dad had an indoor one built.:) :D

There's actually quite a few pools in Ossy. Well three I know of, and all safer than jumpin' in Kemp Delph.:D
 
2 of my neighbours have built pools in there gardens with patio's and a house type thing around them, they look pretty smart
 
prestonbob said:
does anyone remember sand delph,which was near cockers lodges?
Click to expand...


Never heard of that.:confused:

Behind the Cocker's lodges, towards Duckworth Hall, there was a bright orange lodge, which looked like sandy sludge, and that was thick enough to run across if you were quick, and before you sank.:D

Was that it?
 
Maybe the place we called the "sand pits".. we thought it looked like the moon surface.. my mum got me a brand new pair of jeans and we went up there.. we were walking on the moon when I sank.. came out and washed my new jeans in the brook and they came out almost white!.. I'll never know if it was the cheap dye in the jeans or the chemicals in the pits that made em white. (probably the cheap jeans) :D
No problem!.. in one swoop I had some great faded jeans without having to wash em 50 times!
 
Last edited:
i went fishing on the bottom lodge at cockers on sunday and caught 32 tench i was always told as a kid there was nothin in that one
 
kemp delph used to be a sandstone quarry years ago . Also anyone remember little delph back of aspen lane behind all saints church ?? that used to be a quarry for a brickworks that stood on the site before the stanhill mill was built.I used to live in the houses that were built on top of the mill. If you look in a few books that are about lancashire you can find references to it.
 
ossypete said:
kemp delph used to be a sandstone quarry years ago . Also anyone remember little delph back of aspen lane behind all saints church ?? that used to be a quarry for a brickworks that stood on the site before the stanhill mill was built.I used to live in the houses that were built on top of the mill. If you look in a few books that are about lancashire you can find references to it.
Click to expand...


I remember that little delph very well, I used to swim in it. Sadly, a little boy from a family who lived near me drowned in that place. He was only 7.

Where is All Saints church? When I left West End (1962) Stanhill Ring Spinning Mill was very much a working mill and they had only just started building houses on Aspen Lane, round the school. The only church was St Thomas', on Blackburn Rd., almost opposite our house
 
West Ender said:
I remember that little delph very well, I used to swim in it. Sadly, a little boy from a family who lived near me drowned in that place. He was only 7.

Where is All Saints church? When I left West End (1962) Stanhill Ring Spinning Mill was very much a working mill and they had only just started building houses on Aspen Lane, round the school. The only church was St Thomas', on Blackburn Rd., almost opposite our house
Click to expand...

The church is next door to the school, as you're going up the lane.

It is quite modern by design, and has a large triangular copper roof, which has gone green with age.
 
At the risk of a good old fashioned cliché I'll have to say it was all fields round there when I was young. But, it was. :D
 
Only just found this site, but obviously not many of the past visitors knew Kemp Delph.
To get there you had to go through Stanhill (on the road to Knusden) and not far after the Stanhill House (on the left) it was on your right hidden by a slight 'hill'. We used to go there in summer to swim but it was always considered as a dangerous place as the depth of the water had never been established and we were told that it was full of 'all kinds of strange things from animals to abandoned cars.
I'm going back to the late 50's.
Susan from Sicily
 
sm_counsell said:
Only just found this site, but obviously not many of the past visitors knew Kemp Delph.
To get there you had to go through Stanhill (on the road to Knusden) and not far after the Stanhill House (on the left) it was on your right hidden by a slight 'hill'. We used to go there in summer to swim but it was always considered as a dangerous place as the depth of the water had never been established and we were told that it was full of 'all kinds of strange things from animals to abandoned cars.
I'm going back to the late 50's.
Susan from Sicily
Click to expand...


You must have been going there when I was. I swam in there many, many times, when I was in my teens, but the water was always damned cold even on the hottest days.
 
West Ender said:
You must have been going there when I was. I swam in there many, many times, when I was in my teens, but the water was always damned cold even on the hottest days.
Click to expand...
We used to go up there in the summer and like yu said West Ender it was really cold, we would get to it from Brookside Lane, up through the fields past Vine Mill, all the older kids used to jump in of the "Top Rock" as we used to call it, ain't been near for years now
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top