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Green road, near the bridge. This was the cartway ; but flights 

 of steps breaking off near tlie Crown Inn and passing the edge 

 of the mill dam would bring foot passengers by a straighter route 

 to the bridge. 



In the evening a party, of whom our friends formed a part, 

 attended a theatrical performance held in the Hall Inn, kept by 

 Thomas Brooks. To-night the play was " The Red Barn Murder," 

 and a sufficiently exciting tragedy was produced. The price for 

 admission into the pit was 2s., into the gallery Is. The large 

 room at the Hall Inn had no competitors for pubHc entertain- 

 ments. Occasionally a travelling company would engage a barn 

 for an evening— Bankhouse Barn, and Henry Crook's barn (now 

 the Butchers' Ai-ms) were the most attractive places for this 

 purpose. 



Next morning our friends started off early for a walk round 

 the country side. They passed up Mill Lane by the steps, by its 

 well-known mill dam, and out on the Parade. The pair walked 

 up Burnley Lane, past Bank Hall, then a new building, a Baptist 

 Chapel, and scattered houses. It is scarcely necessary to say 

 that 99-lOOths of Burnley Lane is strictly modern. Turning to 

 the left opposite John o'Nobody's they crossed the canal and 

 descended mto the vaUey of Pendle Water. They followed its 

 course through lands innocent of sewage works, among fair 

 meadows and smihng fields, and returning by " Pendle Hip- 

 pings," made thek way homewards by Park Lane and Gannow. 

 Gannow House existed, and here and there were gi-oups of 

 houses, and occasionally a workshop. 



A happy company assembled in the Bed Lion that evening, 

 and they talked over the recent events in the history of the 

 country. One of them described the rejoicings in Burnley after 

 the victory of Waterloo, when a pubhc feast was held in the 

 Bull Croft: provisions were given freely to every apphcant, 

 but everyone had to bring his own knife and fork and 

 plate. Another, who had been present at the celebration to 

 commemorate the coming of age of the late Robert Townley 

 Parker, Esq., the year before Waterloo was fought, created much 

 amusement by his recital of the doings then. Mr. Fielding 

 steward of the estate, lived at Royle at the time, and a great 

 feast was made. An ox was roasted whole ; all comers were 

 supphed ; each one had to take his own bread— oatcake chiefly 

 bemg provided. It is hardly necessary to say that such an 

 event created quite a prodigious stir in the whole neighbourhood, 

 and everybody seemed to consider it his duty to put in an 

 appearance. I know of one case where a httle boy two or three 

 years old was carried on his brother's back all the way from 

 Bnerchffe to be present. 



