Old Map of Burnley

[jaseyboy]

too true.

[Stu H]

Check out Post No.10 in this thread, Ollie. As far as I know there is no trace of it visible today - it was shown as "Race Course" on the 6" to 1 mile Ordnance Survey map surveyed in 1844.

[snowy]

http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environ...y/burnleye.jpgTry this website for a very good map of Burnley late 1800's.
I seem to remember that when I was young,someone telling me that there was some kind of racetrack up Towneley near Towneley school and the golf course.
:icon_hump :)

[Mattylad]

Ahem... post 9, cough, cough... :D

[Kiki]

Originally Posted by snowy

http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environ...y/burnleye.jpgTry this website for a very good map of Burnley late 1800's.
I seem to remember that when I was young,someone telling me that there was some kind of racetrack up Towneley near Towneley school and the golf course.
:icon_hump :)

That was dog racing!

[snowy]

I stand corrected,it was a dog track.

As for the cough cough regarding post 9, I did not see that but if it contained the same information, I am sorry for trying. I will know better next time and not bother trying to help.

[Mattylad]

noooo, don't not help.

I'm only pulling your leg.

[Brian]

Originally Posted by ollie

Burnley had a race course? Where was it Wayney?

When I was a lad there was the remains of a dog race course on Towneley Holmes, where the Astra Turf is now, I used to play on the concrete slabs that outlined the course

Brian

[Brian]

Originally Posted by ollie

Burnley had a race course? Where was it Wayney?

Just found this by By JAMES GRANT. March 18th, 1890. talking about 1815

"Burnley at one time had its own horse-race ground. It was a large flat piece of ground to the left of Brunshaw (Halifax) Road, reaching from the street going up to the lime-kilns to Brunshaw Bottom. The cricket field now forms part of the ancient race-course. It was disused soon after Col. Hargreaves's death, presumably through the influence of the Rev. Wm. Thursby. Later the family who reared Kettledrum let land for the races on Burnley Moor, but the locality was unhappy, and "the sport" survived the removal of the course from lower levels for only two years".

Brian:leprechau

[Burnley (USA)]

Hello all, I find the sugject matter being written about here to be very cool and would like to know what are some of the sites you use to find the aforementioned cool stuff.

[Brian]

http://www.churches-online.org.uk/st...ley/page6.html

http://www.communigate.co.uk/lancs/w...ey/index.phtml

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/Burnley/

Try these sites, i will put some more on here next week

Brian

[Kiki]

Originally Posted by Brian

When I was a lad there was the remains of a dog race course on Towneley Holmes, where the Astra Turf is now, I used to play on the concrete slabs that outlined the course

Brian

Used to go there too! and play jumping the stream and look for tadpoles in the pond behind the stream also the rope swing over the stream was good. And my Dad had the allotment with the sream in it and the old brick tunnel and I used to bury dead birds in the same place as my husband did! and i didnt know him then!

[jaseyboy]

lol, its a small world isnt it

[Kiki]

Originally Posted by jaseyboy

lol, its a small world isnt it

Yes it is! I was talking to a friend who was also from Burnley who told me he was walking through Central Park ( New York)and saw this guy he knew from Burnley they both said" hiyah"to each other and walked off! lol! it happend afew times to me once in a toy shop in Hong Kong with some of my old neighbours and again in a bar in Hong Kong with another neibour!

[Child of Brigantia]

Hi Kiki,

Hows you? It also happend to me when I lived in Kuwait, found that a lass on the next street to me had been at Towneley school at the same time as me. Another time a guy we had met in Algeria turned up in Kuwait.

Love, Child of brigantia.