I just had to add this comment and the accompanying image that appeared in Bryan Yorke’s Blog (mentioned in my previous post): “Saw your “My Memories of Haslingden’s Early Asian Settler’s” this morning and was thrilled to see the house on Lower Lane, which I remember well. We lived in the row behind (the part…
Category: Haslingden
Haslingden, late 1950s, photograph courtesy of RM Nostalgic Railways. The period when the first of the immigrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh were beginning to arrive in Rossendale to work in the cotton textile mills that were short of a labour force, especially for the unpopular shifts – usually the night-work. If you were trying to…
To St. James CofE School with Shamshad Khan for the first session with a class of the older children. I collected Shamshad from Bury; drove to Haslingden and introduced her to Linda Roberts, the Headteacher. I then left Shamshad so she could prepare the room in advance of the class arriving. I came back to…
I came to live in Haslingden in 1966 because my teacher at art school, Dave Pearson, lived there. I immediately liked it – very much. From the age of 9 I had lived in Stevenage, a New Town where almost everything was new, and clean, and at right angles. I loved the messiness and wild…