Ruins and Romans, Fonts and Furrows. Anything Old in Lancashire

[msr]

You could try this for starters.

Hope it works as it's been shrunk


http://www.rootschat.com/links/0jvz/

[msr]

This too.

http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/rochdale5.html

[msr]

This one is very interesting, and covers the whole country, not just Lancashire.
I'm sure it will appeal to everyone interested in the subject being discussed.
Hope so

Maggie, you have started something with the cottage. 
Breathing life into our past, for which I am most pleased

http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/places.html

[Wiggy]

Interesting reading Su - specially the last one about abandoned towns/villages - I expect when villages are submerged under reservoirs in UK they stay submerged - (slight sidetrack, but during our 11 year drought, several submerged towns resurfaced as the reservoirs got lower and lower - you could see the houses and streets!)

[msr]

This one gets us back on track.

Much closer to home for Maggie, Mo, Me and..........

http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/haslingdengrane.html

Hi Wiggy, it's amazing what you can find in just a few moments isn't it?

And yes, re your sidetrack, when the reservoirs were very low a few years ago, a village flooded in the Lake District was suddenly resurrected.

[Greensleeves]

What wonderful links, Su - thanks for those.  They make fascinating reading and I'm sure there must be people on RC who had families affected by these events.  Will settle down now to read the links through properly but a quick glance revealed that an entire cotton mill and associated village were drowned in one reservoir.  I know they will all be in ruins now, but in my mind I can imagine them all still standing, under water, just waiting to be resurrected once again.

[Greensleeves]

Wiggy, in years of drought some of our drowned villages reappear.  It is a strange feeling to see them and to know that generations of families were brought up there, tended their flocks, had their babies......  It must have been heart-breaking to be thrown off the land you called home; more so in those days, I suppose, when people weren't so mobile and when compensation wasn't an issue.

[msr]

Quite so GS

Imagine someone coming to the door, telling you to pack up your family and belongings and leave.  Nowhere to go, and all you get is "not my problem".

Thinking about it logically, that could explain why we find familes split up in some censuses.  Mum and dad and maybe some of the children living with parents, with other children farmed out to aunts, uncles, cousins etc.

[Maggie.]

Su, what wonderful links and thank you so much for adding them.  I shall look forward to reading them in depth when I've a bit more time later today.

Interesting about that dig at Stocks reservoir as our history group was sent notification of the church foundations investigation in case anyone wanted to go along and help.  It clashed with our holiday in the autumn so we were unable to go.