Dear Linda, glad you enjoyed the almanack. Nice to hear about the different houses - yes I do know the ones mentioned. Was Leeming Hall also once the home of William (Billy) Holt the writer - I'm sure he mentioned it in his book "I havn't unpacked yet". I looked at the Blue Pig many years ago with a view to buying it, how about that for a small world. Have you come across Henrietta Scholes and her daughter Mabel Scholes Fielden? She first married John Haigh Fielden (Mary Wrigleys brother), but her second husband was Thomas Leach, and for a time they lived at Thornhill where Mabel "died a painful death" aged 22 years in 1896. Best wishes Andrea ---------- From: Linda[SMTP:Linda.Briggs1@btinternet.com] Sent: 05 May 2002 19:13 To: ENG-TODMORDEN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ENG-TOD] 1881 Almanack 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 ==== ENG-TODMORDEN Mailing List ==== Have you used Tree Tops? The Free FAMILY TREE & WE'LL MEET AGAIN SERVICE http://freespace.virgin.net/tree.tops ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237