 Bull fields and the Clough
"The Clough" was Sep Clough, which started behind Rossendale Avenue and ran in a long culvert under Rossendale Road, then ran down through the Bull Fields, and into Scott Park.
The farm at the bottom of the Bul Fields was, I think, Lower Hales Farm. The last farmer was called Collinge before the land was sold to Leech Builders about 1960.
My father told me that the name "Bull and Butcher" was a corruption of "The Boleyn Butcher", in other words, Henry VIII. Whether this is right or not I don't know! |