A team of about 20 SPAG members have volunteered to help record the Grade II* listed Waggoner Tunstead Farm in Tunstead, Stacksteads. With the oldest datestone in Bacup, 1632, it appears that it was originally 3 buildings. It has gone through many changes over the centuries and indeed may be built on the site of […]
The Lancashire weavers’ riots of April 1826 were one of the most dramatic events in the history of the English cotton industry. Twenty three members of the South Pennine Archaeology Group gathered in Chatterton last week to re-enact this remarkable story. After two days of power loom breaking in Accrington, Over Darwen and Clitheroe an […]
A group of SPAG members met outside Owd Bett’s pub recently to explore the industrial archaeology of the Upper Cheesden Valley. Our leader, Mike Knowles, gave us the history of this well known building which was originally a farmhouse built in 1796 by Richard and Mary Ashworth (a well known name in the local area). […]