The rotating arm and its stone wheel were moved - by animal or man - around a circular base to produce sand for floors, roads and building work. The stone crusher was removed to Bacup town centre in the 1970s.
Near the top end of the Colden Valley on a packhorse route to Hurstwood and Colne this medieval wayside cross stands in magnificent moorland above the Gorple reservoirs. In the drought of 1976 the receding water revealed an ancient paved trackway,…
Allegedly on a coffin road from Lancashire to Yorkshire, above Withhens Clough, where the coffin bearers were allowed to rest. Back of photo dated 26 Sept 1956