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Burnley Express
  • 09/10/2024
Bygone Burnley Part 3: Jib Hill, with Roger Frost 9-10-24
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00:00Today we are at Jib Hill which is between Harls Ike and Burnley. It's an
00:09old industrial community and a lot of it survives in cottages some of which you
00:16can see in the background. The main industries were handling weaving and
00:22that started in the 1790s and quarrying and there was a large quarry here giving
00:29the name to one or two streets for example there's a Delve Square here.
00:36Behind us is Lanehead school or to be more accurate the old Lanehead school.
00:42It has an interesting history because in the past it served as a handloom
00:50factory. Several handlooms were in the building and people lived in the
00:55building as well and so it was like a little handloom factory. It was steam powered
01:00entirely powered by handloom workers themselves. Later on it became a
01:07Methodist Chapel and then in more recent times it became the Burnley school for
01:16the Church of St. James the Great in Briarcliff. Burnley was once one of the
01:23largest towns in England without a hospital. It wasn't until 1886 that a
01:31hospital was built for the people of Burnley. It was a charity hospital. It was
01:37the Queen Victoria as many people will know but within the next 20 years the
01:43town got lots of other hospitals. Altogether at one time there were six
01:48hospitals and we're standing on the remnants of the third hospital which was
01:55the Marsden Hospital. It was a sanatorium and it served patients who had
02:03infectious diseases. It was known as the infectious diseases hospital or the
02:09sanatorium. Built in 1901 it served about 70 years before it was pulled down
02:19and the site was not exactly preserved but part of the building was and this is
02:25it makes a nice feature of this modern housing estate.

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