Andrea, I enjoyed my bedtime reading. It was really odd reading of events happening in the year my grandma was born. She lived to be a very old lady (95) and lived with us for several years before she died. I was 28 when she did die, so I remember her clearly as being a lovely lady with a wonderful dialect that she never lost. The last years she spent in Todmorden before moving to Blackpool she lived with my dad and her uncle Tom Law at Leeming Hall at Millwood on the Halifax Road. The house is still there - perhaps you know it? I have been to visit the present occupiers and they were kind enough to show me round. Tom Law bought it in 1911 when he retired and after his death in 1927 the house was sold as part of his estate. I have happy memories of visiting Walsden with her and my dad when I was a child. We used to visit her old cronies at Bottoms and Ramsden, also Square. I loved the area then, and still do. It was so different from anything I had known in Blackpool. I am fortunate in that most of the properties I have tied to ancestors are still standing., and I have been able to photograph them. This includes a house at Inchfield, now called the Blue Pig and much altered. It was called Knowsley Cottage and was in the Crossley family (tenants) throughout the whole of the 1800's. Roger Birch found me a photo of it as it was and that is my most treasured possession. My Law family owned and built Ramsden Wood Mill which is still there, also most of Square Street and much of the property at Bottoms on Rochdale Road. They also converted Lumbutts Mill from Corn to Cotton before selling to the Fieldens. Way back in the 1700's the Laws farmed at Broad Carr, Spencer House, Mellings and Hazelgreave, all of which are still there, aswell as Deanroyd later in the 1800's. I will copy and send the other book to you this week (I forgot it was a Bank Hol. tomorrow) and look forward to your next email, Linda