Boys & Girls Come Out To Play. Hareholme mill Tragedy 1801. Rossendale Lancashire.

In this video we visit the small village of Cloughfold in the Rossendale valley where a little remembered tragedy befell a group of children and an old man back in 1801 and more information has come to light following the making of the video.
The 70 year old man on first going into the water managed to save at first one child. Returning to his task he then got two more in his arms and tried to get them out onto the bank whilst a third child clung to his legs. He did his utmost to get them out of the water, crying and shrieking for help but alas his strength finally failed him and he along with the two children in his arms sank to the bottom.
assuming the children who perished were baptized in the year of their births the victims were;
Charles Tattersall of Lench
Betty Lord, Wife of William Lord of Newchurch.
Richard Rabby of Hareholme
Deborah Pilling aged 19 Daughter of James and Jane Pilling of Heightside, though she was born up Edgeside.
John Pilling aged 9. her brother
Judith Maden of Newchurch.
Betty Nuttall aged 13 daughter of Edmund and Judith Nuttall of Newchurch
Mary Ashworth aged 19 Daughter of John and Mary Ashworth of Newchurch..
As well as the above tragedy, we also take a look at other industrial archaeology in the area.

[@hyperballadbradx6486]

Great video!

[@freddythefrog70]

Very well presented that, history should never be lost.

[@martinjf467]

Fabulous! I left England to retire to Portugal but videos like this often make me miss my home.

[@stephenarmour8342]

Rossendale guy living in Sweden. Brilliant video from my own stomping grounds. Loved every minute of it. Keep it up mate

[@claretmad1]

brilliant video Clive, always nice to know the history of home.

[@RaysonsExhaust]

My first subscribe!! 😁😁👍 Keep up the good work pal. 😉

[@slmyers0106]

Thank you for this. Very interesting information. Love learning anything I can of my father's family's homeland. Appreciative.

[@IG7799-c4u]

I love learning about the history of where I live. I frequently walk around those quarries you mentioned.

[@sueshuttleworth5541]

Thank you, great vidro

[@adamrussell7978]

Ace Clive... Cracking Vid... 😃😎😉👍👍👍✌️👌🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@grahampartridge9335]

Another great video. Thank you.

[@LancashireLarks]

Nice video again Clive, what was beeping at beginning? Thought Asda was reversing on mi street haha

[@Katmando376]

The bridge and cycleway by Lydall are closed as there renovating it!

[@tiscali.c]

The electrice works where you mention the bricks in the wall was where the water went for the boilers and at the side of that is where the dam gates where , when there was to much water coming down the river the dam could be opened.

[@russellmurray8102]

That was the turbine hall,the sluce would have been the cooling water return into the Irwell. Next time your down look at the substation building on the road down to Irwell Vale.

[@richardstott6023]

Was there also a hospital on the hillside at the back of the electric works as well?

[@rossendalecollieries7995]

you could be right there Richard, it may have been a smallpox hospital

[@RaysonsExhaust]

Yeah there definitely was 😊👍

[@stephenarmour8342]

There was definitely a hospital up there. Made of red bricks. Used to (wrongly) go bird nesting up there as a teenager. Originally, I was told it was an old war hospital but I think the poster of the video is correct regarding the smallpox hospital.

[@russellmurray8102]

Did you find out about the teacher I asked about?Also did you know two brothers called Thompson?

[@rossendalecollieries7995]

Dont know the Thompsons. As for Mrs Write, I asked my friend, he remembered the name but couldn't place her

[@rossendalecollieries7995]

what subject did she teach? can you remember?

[@MsOperababe]

Great video as always!