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The Beatles play the The rst Asian-run shop in Coalpit Road is renamed Glen Way Hollin Bank Mill is hit by a The Briar Ballroom closes down. Allen & Edith Greenwood, Briereld’s The Richard Street Mill site is now used Magician Robert Atkinson escapes Spinning ends at Jewel Mill. Industries in Briereld include UK local authorities are reorganised; The Imperial Ballroom burns down. The rst Asian-run takeaway in Jewel Mill (built 1780) and Higher The rst section of the M65, connecting Two res, one of which is found The rave scene starts. Briereld community centre opens. Wisebuys closes down. Bodies in Motion opens in a former Pendle View Shed site is cleared Veevers's Mill (aka Lob Lane Mill) Elevate (the East Lancashire part of the Richard Street Mill is demolished Planning permission is granted Veevers' Mill is badly damaged Following the compulsory purchase of Work starts on the Lob Lane The combined population of Briereld Library sees a doubling New mosque opens on Carlton Street. is built through the area and in 1803 the Briereld section of the Blackburn and Addingham Turnpike Road Briereld resident Mrs W. Smith has Burnley ceases operating. of Briereld Town Hall closes. Mill, dies. keyboard player with The Hollies, billeted in Briereld. Walter Street School, shoots himself destroys the engine room of killed by a dog. The buildings are used for Imperial Ballroom, Nelson. Briereld opens. by Smith & Nephew 20-ton runaway crane. last clog makers, announce closure. for the manufacture of concrete garden from a German police cell. light engineering, furniture Pendle Council is created and Briereld opens. Chamber Hill Farm (built 1667 and Burnley to Briereld, opens. to be arson, gut the remaining grocer’s shop. for housing. closes down when occupants Housing Market Renewal Scheme) after a re. for Marsden Heights Community in an arson attack. properties and land on sites o housing development. Briereld and Reedley is 10,153. of visitor numbers following a It has cost £3.5m; the money has been Briereld’s Robert Atkinson becomes Lob Lane Shed ceases weaving. Mosque opens on Prince Street, (now Colne Road) is completed. In 1821, the population of Little Marsden is 2,052. won £156 in a crossword competition. is born in Briereld. rather than facing criminal proceedings Briereld Gasworks. The ames shoot rearing chickens. furniture and plastics. manufacture, the production of Briereld ceases to be an urban Briereld’s oldest building) are warehouse at Pendle View Shed. Trojan Products move out. begins, with a fteen-year plan to College to be built on Bent Head Clitheroe Road, King Street and Holden The population is 60% white, 38% £500,000 refurbishment. raised locally and nationally. The population of Briereld is 7,251. In the week that war is declared, the youngest member of the Briereld resident Ruby Hindle Livingstone Street Co-op The Skipton to Manchester railway paid for by £600 raised by the Briereld’s Mohammed Afzal Khan Miller Regeneration is selected as As part of its Spending Review, the for possible child abuse. 50 feet into the air and the explosion is 96-year-old Arthur Crabtree surgical products, pharmaceuticals and district. demolished to make way for the M65. The buildings fall into decline. refurbish and rebuild selected areas in playing eld. The College opens Road for the Briereld Canal Corridor Asian, 2% other. In 1868, Briereld becomes a legal township; Briereld Local Board holds its rst meeting in the Greyhound Inn, Briereld residents Mr & Mrs Smith The Stump trough is removed from International Brotherhood Calvert appears on ITV’s ‘Take Your Pick’. grocery shop closes. line, which passes through Briereld, Pakistani community. The Millennium Peace Garden is becomes Lord Mayor of Manchester. ‘the preferred developer’ for the Government announces the end of Councillors give the go-ahead It is announced that Briereld signal box, heard in Nelson, Burnley and Colne. plans his 6th wedding. hairdressing preparations, welders, an attempt to stimulate demand later the same year. project, the demolition of 100 homes under the chairmanship of Robert Tunstill. In 1901 Tunstill House becomes Briereld Urban District Council's new Town Hall. celebrate their golden wedding. Burnley Road. It had stood outside the of Magicians. closes; the last train runs at 8:59pm Briereld Town Hall closes. created by local residents after the Briereld Canal Corridor, Pendle’s the Housing Market Renewal scheme; The conversion of Lob Lane Mill for a block of ve premises on installed in 1876, will be closed in The only fatality is the gasworks cat. Bird Trap Northern Soul nights take smiths and millwrights, body work for housing. begins. The canalside development is There is a market in the grounds, which goes on to have over sixty stalls. By 1911, the population of the town is 8,200. Greyhound Hotel until the pub was on 1 February. death of 21-year-old Shabaz Arshad rst major housing project under the many houses in East Lancashire and into the Quaker Heights housing Railway Street to be demolished December 2013 as part of Network Rail's Church ministers protest against the place on Walter Street specialists and cellulose sprayers. planned to feature 85 new homes. demolished in 1909. in gang violence in 2000. Elevate Housing Market Renewal other areas are left boarded up. development by PEARL2 is completed. and the area landscaped. modernisation programme and replaced Briereld is known as Holy City, on account of the number of places of worship: Anglican, Roman Catholic, Baptist, Wesleyan, Primitive 77 Club’s Sunday strip bingo sessions. initiative. Long-term projects left without by an automated level crossing. and Independent Methodist, Congregationalist and Pentecostal churches and a Quaker meeting house. The combined population of Joyce and Frank Rowland, who funding include the Briereld Briereld and Reedley is 8,199. Pendle Council makes Compulsory ran the Livingstone Street Chippy Pendle council suers a 17% cut in Over 5% of the male population of Briereld and Reedley – around 200 men - are killed in the First World War; the rst fatality is Canal Corridor. Purchase Orders on the two in the 1970s, celebrate their government funding. Private James Sellers, who drowns when the hospital ship Rohilla founders o Whitby. Briereld Canal Corridor housing sites. diamond wedding anniversary. The planned Briereld Canal Corridor BRIERFIELD MILLS homes remain unbuilt. In 1833 Henry Tunstill builds Tunstill House on Briereld Pasture and founds Briereld Mills, which houses both spinning and weaving and opens in 1834. The closure of Briereld Mills is Smith & Nephew buys Briereld Mills. Smith & Nephew ends spinning at In January, Smith & Nephew After being bought by Montagu BSN Medical stops production at The disaster relief charity Islamic Help The Charities Commission blocks Pendle Council buys the Briereld In 1844 Tunstill adds a shed for 100 power looms, although the mill continues to employ handloom weavers as well. announced. 360 people lose their jobs. The company completely Briereld Mills and make further announces redundancies of 10% Private Equity for 1.03 billion euros, Briereld Mills, moving production buys Briereld Mills for just over Islamic Help’s plans to open a boarding Mills complex with a grant of £1.5m In 1848 Tunstill's petitioning for a railway pays o with the opening of Marsden Station (renamed Briereld Station in 1857) next to the mill. renovates and modernises the mill, investment in the weaving section. of the workforce at Briereld Mills. BSN Medical announces it will be to Germany and Mexico. The mill £1 million and announces school in Briereld Mills, as it is not from the government's Homes and increasing the number of power reducing the work done at Briereld closes down. Communities Agency. The buildings He dies in 1854; the business is carried on by his sons Robert and William under the name Tunstill Bros. In August, Smith & Nephew plans to convert the mill into an Islamic within Islamic Help’s charitable objects. looms to 660 and replacing steam Mills and moving production abroad. are then transferred to PEARL2, The south part of Middle Mill is built in 1868. The original factory is destroyed by re in1872 and replaced by the north part of Middle Mill in 1873. invests £800,000 in 14 boarding school for up to 5,000 girls. power with electric driving. a joint venture between Pendle Council In the same year, the Tunstills buy the site of Briereld Colliery (Low Pit) and by 1879 South Shed and a single storey weaving shed have been built. state-of-the-art gauze-weaving and property developers Barneld The mill now has 92,000 mule spindles and 2,235 looms, and by 1881 employs 1,500 people.