Rainhall Rocks History.

[Nick Hancock]

This has probably been discussed loads of times in the past but I need a little help. I recently went up to the site of Rainhall Rocks, took some photos of how it is now and posted them on my Flickr account with a picture of how it was in the early 1900,s and a picture from the 1980's with a dustbin waggon emptying its load. I put a brief history of Rainhall Rocks with the photos, the basic stuff that most Batlickers know, it was a limestone quarry, the canal into Rainhall Rocks was a branch off the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, turned into a landfill site in the 1960's. This set of pictures has generated a bit of interest from , my Flickr contacts. One in particular from Otley has asked for some more detailed history on the branch canal. Does any body know more details? eg. when the branch canal was constructed when the quarry first came into use and when it was abandoned. My contact from Otley said he couldn't believe that people were still destroying our industrial heritage in the 1980's.

Any further details on the history of Rainhall Rocks would be appreciated (even if it is just pointing me in the right direction on this site.


Nick

[Stanley]

Lots of resources on site. Warner History and Old Barlick in Rare texts and have a look at the John Bagshawe topic I put up this morning. You could also get a lot from the History of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal by Mike Clarke.

[David Whipp]

Mike Clarke is the expert on Leeds and Liverpool Canal history.

He's doing a talk at the Rainhall Centre tonight (7pm Thursday 17th Oct) on Canals in China. Further details here:

http://www.visitbarnoldswick.co.uk/even ... ventid=570

[Tizer]

Wow, canals in China, a fascinating topic, how can anyone resist it?. If I were up there I'd be queuing for a seat! I wonder when the first Chinese canal was built?

[Nick Hancock]

Thanks for the assistance. I'll dig a bit deeper on site, it's just a question of knowing where to look.

Nick

[PanBiker]

Use the search facility at the top right of the page Nick, try different associated keywords and see what comes up.

[Stanley]

I thought I'd already posted Bagshawe but couldn't find it with Search so I posted it again.....

[David Whipp]

Wow, canals in China, a fascinating topic, how can anyone resist it?. If I were up there I'd be queuing for a seat!

Slow boat to China comes to mind.

About a dozen people went to the talk... I was at a meeting in Nelson, else I'd have asked Mike about Nick's enquiry.

[Stanley]

One tip about site search, if it lets you down try the same keyword on Google but add 'oneguyfrombarlick' to it. This makes it site specific and can often throw up an answer when the site search fails.