The Hapton Heritage Group invited Professor Richard Horrocks to give a fantastic talk about the Hameldon Rifle Range to the local community. The group are most grateful to Richard and his colleague Bill Flentje for preparing this talk which really … Continue reading The directory includes classification of trades and professions as well as a General Alphabetical Directory for Burnley, Nelson and Padiham including Hapton. The Hapton sections for 1902 and 1911; Barrett’s Directory (Hapton) 1902 Heys Henry & Co, quarry owners, Hambledon … Continue reading The report and maps, describe in detail the findings and reasons for the disaster and shows the way the explosion developed and progressed along the coal face causing the deaths of those miners working in the area. The Hapton Heritage … Continue reading Filmed in 1977 and was of Haptoners celebrating the Queens Silver Jubilee with a Carnival procession, and then celebrations after on the recreation ground / park, the film was shot on super 8mm cine film, but had deteriorated over the … Continue reading Below is Richard Riley’s (descendant of John Riley, founder of the chemical works at Hapton) account of his family as he knows it. I am Richard Oliver (Noel added by the time I started school) Riley, born 09/12/1942, married Janet Elizabeth Farrow … Continue reading Tom Westall’s has put together his childhood memories of life in Hapton. These memories have been taken from a larger document which go on right until the present day. He left Hapton when he got married in 1948 and is now … Continue reading Hapton Castle Report FINAL Hapton in the Middle Ages HaptonHist&ArchSurvey2 HaptonPark Elsie Barnaby, b 1920, her memories of Hapton as told to Joan Lakeland Education Whitefield Street – Church of England (now site of Methodist Church). School doubled up as a Church until St. Margaret’s was built. First sod dug by … Continue reading The Lady Sybil Legend – Bearnshaw Tower and Hapton Tower Legends Lady Sybil and the Milk White Doe Through the great gorge of Cliviger, Where cold, abrasive winds scour, In a ravine beneath Eagles’ Crag Stood the ancient … Continue reading CLITHEROE Court Rolls v 111 TITHES AND OBLATIONS RECEIVED BY THE ABBOT AND CONVENT OF WHALLEY FROM THE WHOLE PARISH OF WHALLEY AND PAROCHIAL CHAPELRIES IN THE YEAR 1536. In the account of Brother Richard Mersden in the office of … Continue reading Talk about Hameldon Rifle Range by Professor Richard Horrocks
Barrett’s Directory of Burnley and District
The Official Report on the causes and circumstances of the Explosion at the Hapton Valley Colliery on the 22nd March 1962.
Hapton Silver Jubilee Celebrations 1977 Video
Richard Riley’s recollection of his family past
Tom Westall’s childhood memories of Hapton
Hapton Heritage Final Reports
Memories of Hapton by Elsie Barnaby.
The Lady Sybil Legend
Clitheroe Court Rolls
RANDOM FACTS
19 men were killed and 22 injured in the pit disaster at Hapton Valley in1962
