pendleside

Please forgive the little self-indulgence of the snapshot, it's a picture of my dear departed mum and myself, taken in 1937 'up the Watermeetings'.

After careful consideration and deliberation, I've decided to change the format of this site.Originally it was going to be an 'ego-trip', but modesty prevailed, and after the following resume' I will try not to mention myself again.

I was born in 1932 at Nab's House in Roughlee Booth. I left school when I was 14 years old (it was statutory in those days), and I learned most of what I know today from the University of Life

I served my Queen and Country for 2 years in the early 1950s, and was proud to do so; I was a Signalman in the Royal Signals regiment.

I worked for many years in a textiles factory; I am now retired.

I have many hobbies and interests which include : stamp collecting, poetry,

reading, music (if it's melodic), watching old movies, Internet-chat and MP3 encoding.

PENDLE, is an area situated in the most Easterly part of North Lancashire, and is comprised of the former Municipal Boroughs of both NELSON and of COLNE, and also the villages of Barnoldswick, Barrowford, Brierfield, Earby and Trawden as well as many smaller parishes and rural hamlets.

PENDLE was formed on the 1st of April 1974, and was granted Borough status on the 15th of November 1976.

The BOROUGH of PENDLE is approximately 64 square-miles in area, and takes its name from the Ancient Forest of Pendle where it is mostly situated.

Contrary to popular belief , Pendle Hill (1831 elevation), is not in the Borough, but in the neighbouring South Ribblesdale constituency.