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in Burnley where a manufacturing business has been conducted 
for so long on the same spot. At the foot of Whin Hill, (so spelt 
by the Rev. John Raws in the Registers at the Parish Church,) 
stood the little Toll Bar House and its gates—close by the gates 
of Massey’s Fold. The toll bar was kept by George Stansfield, 
and with him lived his sister Mally—(Mally is the ‘‘ old style” for 
Mary.) They were in the prime of life, and known to every 
inhabitant of Burnley. When “ Mally at the Bar,” and her 
brother were first installed in their home, the Bar—a little round 
house—was well to the front near the Bridge. It controlled two 
roads, the one going up Sandy-gate, and the other Blackburn 
New Road. Later the Toll-house was removed bodily, though 
not its occupants; it was set up near the Mitre Inn, at the 
junction of Padiham Road and Accrington New Road; a few 
years later it was pushed back on to the Ridge—the high land 
up Padiham Road before the Tim Bobbin is reached, and later 
still it vanished altogether. When the old toll house was 
removed, the Stansfields removed to the bottom corner house 
in Sandy-gate, on the right hand side, and a chain bar was 
established to prevent the upright Burnley people from sending 
their carts and lurries up Sandygate and round by the Barracks, 
and so escaping the toll at the Mitre. The part of Sandygate 
on the lower side of the canal was known as ‘ Pencilling shop 
brow,” pencilling being a class of work executed by females for 
calico printers. It was a brick building on the right side of the 
road going up and has been transformed into a row of cottages, 
to reach which a number of steps have to be ascended. Massey’s 
woollen factory was just opposite, and this was flanked by two or 
three cottages. Just above the canal on the left hand side a 
stone still indicated the beginning of the path which led across 
the ‘‘ sheep-fields”’ into Manchester Road, coming out about the 
end of the present Piccadilly Road. Higher up the road there 
ran the long row of cottages, part of which is now in frocess of 
demolition. They are now below the level of the road, which 
has been raised since their erection, parallel circumstances, as 
e.g. Manchester Road opposite the Canal Tavern, and Cow-lane, 
near the Craven Heifer, are not by any means uncommon. 
Folds, the shuttlemaker, had his workshop at the top, and he 
and one or two others who were above the rank of operatives had 
built for themselves detached houses on the opposite side of the 
road, The public-house bearing the singular style ‘‘ The Hole- 
in-the-Wall,” with its equally singular sign, dispensed its ale to 
thirsty souls then as now, though neither Massey’s nor Keirby’s 
brewery had yet seen the light. Near the stone delph (Pickup 
Quarry) there were two or three cottages, and the guardian of the 
delph was old Cunliffe. It was near the Hole-in-the-Wall that 
the Burnley Summer races were held, races in sacks and donkey 
