00:01Today Bygone Burnley is in Barley, which is a beautiful little village in the heart of
00:11Pendle country. A lot of Pendle Hill actually is in Barley, but I think we should start
00:17with the name. The name, if you say it, Barley, two syllables. The last syllable is lay, which
00:28means a field. The problem is that people have never really agreed about the first syllable.
00:37Now it is spelt B-A-R, but in the past it is often spelt B-A-R-E, bear, lay, bear field.
00:49Now bear doesn't mean that it didn't have any grass on it. It means that the soil was
00:54not of very good quality, and it didn't produce very good pasture. So that's one possibility.
01:03Another one is that it could be from the word for the ancient pig, the boar. Boar field.
01:19The field of the wild boar is another possibility. And there are others as well. But those two,
01:25of the two, I prefer the poor quality of the pasturage in this area. And by poor I don't
01:34mean that it was absolutely appalling. It was just not as good as it was elsewhere. It didn't
01:42produce pasturage for animals, which was as good as it might have been. And so the name
01:50has arrived.
01:51Barley is in the middle of the Forest of Pendle. It's surrounded by the Forest of Pendle. It's
01:56not far from Trawsdon. And of course in this vicinity there is the Forest of Boland. A little
02:04further afield as the Forest of Rosendale. All of them have areas known as booths. In Rosendale,
02:15for example, the best one is probably Croshaw Booth. But the proper name of Barley is Barley
02:23Booth. And these were medieval cattle farms that not only did the work of normal cattle farms,
02:31but they produced on a huge scale excellent oxen, which were used all over the country for
02:41ploughing purposes. And it was here that they were reared and bred.
02:49Although Barley has long since been agricultural, it had appeared when it was industrial, but we
02:58look at that later on. What the village now is, is a centre of tourism. People come from
03:07all over the country to enjoy the walks and sights and sounds of this village. And in the
03:13background we have Pendle Hill, which of course is an area that people know about from all over
03:21the country. We are still in Barley and we are at Narrogate. And Barley is more associated
03:28with witchcraft and mythology, but really it's got this splendid bit of social history. In
03:36the background is Narrogate's Mill, which was started as a water mill for the textile industry.
03:42It was a spinning mill, or what they said in those days, they used to call spinning a twist
03:48mill. So it twisted yarn into material that could be woven into cloth. I'm not absolutely
03:57certain whether it was wool, but it was certainly cotton in later years. And it was woven in the
04:04cottages around which we're standing now. These were hand loom weavers' cottages and they've
04:09all survived from the early days of the industrial revolution. It is a really remarkable little
04:17village because it's totally intact. The village called Mr Pendle, which has been in the news
04:26recently because it will soon have new owners and you've got big plans to develop it. I hope
04:32they don't spoil it. The building was completed in 1930, and it was either Massey's Burnley
04:41Brewery that undertook the job, or alternatively it was Astley's Brewery of Nelson. Now, Massey's
04:49and Astley's merged in about 1926-27, so it could be that both of the breweries were involved in it. But it has always been a
05:01charming little place. The business has developed over the years, and it's good that the village has a good pub.
05:10Now, we're still in Bali. We're at Whitehoe, which is a house built in the late 16th century by the Bulcock family. The date is 1593, although in the 17th century and later on it's been altered. However, the bulk of the original building is still
05:30there. And Whitehoe now, not this building, but the area, this hamlet that we're in, is all Whitehoe, is known for its educational facility. If I remember correct, it used to be owned by the county council. Schools from all over the county came here. I remember when I was a sixth former, it might have been a fifth former, but it would have been because I was doing your level. So we did a day of geology.
05:48and geography around this area with Miss Parkinson from school. But it's a charming little area, quiet, peaceful, lovely area in which to live. But this building is the outstanding residential building of the area.
06:00I'm standing in front of the Barley Primitives Methodist Church of 1910, and it's good that the village has got another facility, which is a great place to live.
06:12But it hasn't got a church. But it hasn't got a church. But it hasn't got a church. The actual Anglican church is over the hill from where we are.
06:24And it's in the parish of Pendle, which was established in the 13th century, which was established in the 13th century. So there was never a church here, with one exception.
06:45In front of me is the barn, which we talked about before. And when the reservoirs were being built here around Barley, there are three or four of them, by Nelson Corporation, they found that a lot of the workers were Irish and they were Catholics.
07:13So part of the barn, which we've already seen, was converted into a temporary Catholic Church. So there is a bit of a history of a church here, but it was only temporary and it was Catholic rather than Church of England.
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