Fingers crossed for 'Steam Sunday' at Bancroft Mill
VOLUNTEERS are working round the clock to complete urgent repairs at Barnoldswick’s Bancroft Mill Engine Museum in the hope of rescuing the next…
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Landmark historic Barnoldswick clock finds a new home
A UNIQUE historic clock has been given a new home surrounded by more local history at Barnoldswick’s Bancroft Mill Engine Museum, thanks to the…
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Repair work underway at historic Barnoldswick Bancroft Mill
Repair work to one of Pendle’s historic mill chimneys has been given the go-ahead, thanks to additional funding from a national heritage body.
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Restoration work gets underway at historic Bancroft Mill
VITAL repair work to one of Pendle’s historic mill chimneys has been given the go-ahead, thanks to additional funding from a national heritage…
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Letter: We do not want tragic mill worker Elizabeth to be forgotten
Elizabeth Brown's grave in Barnoldswick INDUSTRIAL health and safety 100 years ago was not what it is today. The mills of Barnoldswick in those days were probably no better or worse than anywhere else. Bancroft Mill was opened in March 1920 and only ten months later it recorded its first, and, so far as we know, only fatal accident. Monday, January 18, 2021 marks the centenary of the death of Elizabeth Brown, a weaver, of Cobden Street. She was 28, married to Herbert Brown, who we believe was also a weaver at Bancroft. Their son Frank was just five years old. Elizabeth had left the we...
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