The bull fields and the clough

[wayneyboy1942]

Burnley as lost a lot of pubs. you are lucky to have so many different types, here we have a few pubs the rest are clubs.the pubs have no soul and are full of fruit machines,dukeboxes,loud music played by DJ Pillock,pooltables and sometimes you just want a quite drink.

[Mattylad]

And any that do have pool tables in have 40p glued to the top so that the regulars can always claim that they were first on :D

[Kiki]

Never went down the Miners but heard there used to be a line on the floor where women couldnt pass?

[Robert]

Last I heard, there still is!

[jaseyboy]

iv heard of that as well.

[wayneyboy1942]

A lot of working mens clubs were like that, i went to one in Cleveleys that had a room for men only.it was not the toilets before you say anything! :)

[grannyclaret]

it was the bowling club in cleveleys ,i once through the wrong door and there was such an uproar ,i wondered what id done,(so much for womens lib)

[dellym]

think its still the same in the miners..the line is where the snooker room starts...i think its funny. I once stood at the edge casually popping my foot over now n again and some old bloke came to tell me off lmao!!!!

[Stu H]

"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!

[grannyclaret]

that sounds about right stu. when we were kids we used to go in the tunnel near the duck pond in scot park and wade up through the water to the exit near rose hill ,or sometimes we would go up pasturegate and along a bridge to the bull fields.if we were going up the clough we would go right up coal clough lane ,then through the farm,we always took jam butties and spanish juice .....agh those were the days

Originally Posted by grannyclaret

When i was a kid ?????years ago we used to take jam butties and spanish juice , up the bull fields and we had agreat time ,i remember there were lots of kids ,but we always respected peoples property ,i rememember also going up the clough,does anyone know why they had these names,?iam talking about the top of coal clough lane.maybe thats where the name bull and butcher comes from!and is cherry fold still going strong?or has st hildas school taken it over (just a thoughtG.C.

I knew the Bull fields well.
I lived at 355 Cog lane from 1935 til 1956.(Bleak House)
and the bull fields were a few yards from our house on the left, and just before it was Comrie Crescent there was a wood yard there where we used to play in it, things got damaged, so we got into trouble with the police and six of us from around there got fined 7 shillings, at a children court, we were only about nine years old, but we had to pay one shilling per week at the police station.
Also at the the end of the crescent was the cricket field that's what we all called it.
Where abouts did you live?

[grannyclaret]

Originally Posted by oldburnley

I knew the Bull fields well.
I lived at 355 Cog lane from 1935 til 1956.(Bleak House)
and the bull fields were a few yards from our house on the left, and just before it was Comrie Crescent there was a wood yard there where we used to play in it, things got damaged, so we got into trouble with the police and six of us from around there got fined 7 shillings, at a children court, we were only about nine years old, but we had to pay one shilling per week at the police station.
Also at the the end of the crescent was the cricket field that's what we all called it.
Where abouts did you live?

I lived on Airdrie Crescent all my life until i got married in 1961,
I took papers round bleak house when i was about 13/14,Comrie Crescent ,Ayr Grove ,Dalton Street etc...I took them to a big pub on Cog Lane.. I think it was called The New Albion ...
On Friday nightsi went to Back Lane youth club... we had good times in those days even if we were skint .....

[Brian]

Originally Posted by Col.Kurt

I read that the drinking of Benedictine at the Miner's goes back to the first world war. The returning soldiers got a taste for it in France, where I think it's made.

A Lancashire regiment was stationed near the Benedictine monastery in World War I and the soldiers brought a taste for the liquor back to Burnley. As a result there's a working men's club (Miners) in the town sells more of the stuff per year than anywhere else in the world

Burnley also used to be known as the Royals. It was apparently because they were the first team to be watched by a monarch when they beat Liverpool in the 1914 FA Cup.

Thanks to Hob Nob Anyone? Forum


Brian:tnpe:

[Kiki]

i like Benny and hot!