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the house was a large garden reaching to the canal, full of fruit 
trees. Near this house was a corn mill run by Mr. Winterbottom. 
It later became converted into a cotton mill. It was twelve 
o’clock when our friends passed ‘‘ The Bastile,” and from out its 
portals there came quite a crowd of boys and girls let loose from 
school. ‘he school was kept by a Mr. Cooper, and seems to 
have had quite a respectable claim to be regarded as a school. 
Mr. Cooper was a musician, and in his school he had a veritable 
organ, with upright gilded pipes, of good size. It seems to have 
been played, though, by an assistant master. The girls were 
instructed in knitting and sewing by a Mrs. Barker. Mrs. Barker 
was a widow. Her husband had been a sergeant in King 
George’s army, and had fallen on the field of Waterloo. She 
enjoyed a pension for herself and her two young daughters from 
Government. Mr. Cooper himself lived at the house known as 
the Ship Inn, then a house standing in its own grounds. Near 
here, too, were the Infantry Barracks, though they do not appear 
to have remained long. The troops practised and were inspected 
in a field off Parker Lane, near the site of Enon Chapel. At a 
little later period there was another school in this locality. The 
house was against the Gashouse, and to reach it the scholars had 
to ascend a flight of steps. The master was Mr. John Maden, 
whose wife had previously been assistant to Mr. Cooper. Just 
above Mr. Cooper's house, and on the same side of Foundry 
Street, there stood a cotton factory run by Mr. John Sellers. It 
had been built by Mr. Cooper, and was commonly known as 
‘Cooper Factory.” At the top of Hufling Lane—on the left 
hand side-—stood a row of cottages bearing the title of Organ 
Row. ‘The builder’s daughter married Jonas Smith, who was at 
this time organist of St. Peter’s Church. He lived in St. James’s 
Street at the shop near Messrs. Cowgill and Smith’s, now and for 
a long time a boot and shoe shop. 
The party returned from their country walk towards the town 
early in the afternoon. The road was quite a good one, for it 
had been for 800 years the ordinary route between Burnley and 
Lancashire towns beyond and Halifax and Yorkshire district. 
Henry de Lacy’s cavalcade had many times come along the road 
on the heights of the Portsmouth valley in their yearly pilgrim- 
ages fron Pontefract to Clitheroe, and it was still used as the 
highway between Lancashire and Yorkshire. Indeed it was then 
called Halifax Road. 
At Brunshaw there were three or four cottages, in one of 
which lived James Hey, the parish clerk; the house now 
occupied by Mr. Storey was also standing. In it lived Mr. 
Henry Eastwood, the butcher, his shop was near the White 
Lion Inn, nearly opposite Mr. Munn’s; it is still a butcher’s 
shop. Mr. H. Hastwood’s son, Mr. Richard Eastwood, was a 
