Colne

[poliphilo]

 It was raining hard first thing, but by the time we got to Colne it had more or less stopped. Ailz and Ruth went shopping at the Boundary Mill complex and I took a walk round town.  Colne is built on a hilltop; there's a river with mills alongside it and a railway viaduct and a town hall by Waterhouse and a 12th century church with rare 17th century grave stones in the yard. Round about lunchtime the sun came out and I got to eat my egg crunch sandwich (egg mayo with peppers and iceberg lettuce) sitting on a bench in Pendle View Park. I don't suppose tourists come to Colne unless they're on the trail of the Pendle witches- and even then I shouldn't think they linger. I like towns that don't do a sit up and beg routine for outsiders. 

Colne's two most famous sons were both Hartleys- and presumably related.  One of them- William Pickles Hartley- founded the  jam company and the other- Wallace Henry Hartley- was bandmaster on the Titanic.

Comments

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Excellent bit of exploring there - and that sounds a fantastic sandwich.

[mummm.livejournal.com]

Great photos!

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

these are great pcitures.

Harry Chapin had an album titled 'Dance Band on the Titanic'. "Bandmaster on the Titanic' sound like a title for a mystery or something...

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

There's a melancholy in these pictures perhaps due to the grey and rain. I like them very much. I take it your camera was slanted when you took the grave stone pictures and they don't bury everybody on an incline? That is QUITE a steep grad in the first picture!
:)

[margaretarts.livejournal.com]

Interesting to think that the bandmaster of the Titanic was from this little place. How did he get from there to there, I wonder.

Beautiful creative font on the Isabell Hartley gravestone. I would have guessed that kind of design to be early 1900s. So maybe the Arts and Crafts Period was simply bringing back a kind of font from the 1600s. I didn't know that.

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

I love the "typeface" on that headstone. So Arts and Crafts, in fact. Thanks for posting these.