Father of Alice Longstaff nee Speak, he is buried at Slack cemetery. Inscription: Sacred to the Memory of JAMES SPEAK, LEARINGS, HEPTONSTALL. DIED 24TH FEBY 1947 AGED 79 YEARS
Sunday School, c.1863. Hammer-dressed stone, ashlar dressings. Single storey. Pedimented gable front. Broad ashlar quoin pilasters. Tall semi-circular arched windows with expressed keystones retain small pane glazing. Set between is open…
Chapel of 1878 with manse of c.1830 attached to chapel by single bay of earlier chapel house of 1807. Hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings to chapel. Forms an L-shaped group with manse to the left which is of 2 storeys. Quoins. 3…
Chapel of 1878 with manse of c.1830 attached to chapel by single bay of earlier chapel house of 1807. Hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings to chapel. Forms an L-shaped group with manse to the left which is of 2 storeys. Quoins. 3…
Barn, dated 1801. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. Quoins. Coped gables with kneelers. Segmental arched cart entry with tie-stone jambs, over which is simple Venetian window with impost and false keystone. To either side mistal…
Probably taken in the early 1960s. Slack Baptist Chapel is in the triangle of roads, one leading to Widdop and the other to Colden and Blackshaw. The building on the right of the road almost in the centre of the picture is Robertshaw Farm where…
GV II Pair of cottages, early to mid C18 with added cell early C19 when the whole was altered to form three cottages, now forms two dwellings. Watershot masonry, stone slate roof. Two storeys. Original cottages have paired doorways to…
Guide-post. Probably late C18 or early C19. Monolith with dressed faces.
South face inscribed:- north east face inscribed:- 2 west faces both inscribed:-
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