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1. Brierfield House/ then added its balustrade parapet 2. Old Fire Station in 1924 when Nelson Fire Brigade 1 Brierfield Town Hall and a door-case with consoles The Old Fire Station was opened took over looking after Brierfield’s 2 Brierfield House was built by Henry supporting a balcony. in 1901 and was designed by J.T. fire services. The fire station Tunstill for his family in 1833 and Unfortunately it no longer acts Landless, the Town surveyor. It consequently ceased its operations. named after the pasture it was built as the Town Hall or offers council Cost £1000 for the building and From 1928 the top floor of the in. The Tunstill family often held services for the people of Brierfield, £200 for the equipment. You can building housed the library, which meetings for the newly established but ownership was transferred still see the three big broad arches was very popular and often had Wesleyan Methodist congregation back to the in 2014 below the tripartite windows queues of people waiting to get in their wash house. for them to run for the good of the above. in. This closed when the current In 1901 the house became the community. The building is now The first Fire Engine, named library was opened in 1962. new Town Hall for the Urban Grade ll listed. Ellen, was bought in 1907. Road District Council of Brierfield. J.T. Colne Road Brierfield Fire Brigade had been Brierfield 5NP Landless, the Borough Surveyor Brierfield BB9 5NP formed in 1892 but was disbanded

3. Primitive Methodist Chapel 1955 and is now a gym. 4. The Primitive Methodist with a stepped parapet and large 3 The Primitive Methodist Chapel There was an early chapel which Sunday School arched upper windows flanked by 4 was built in 1866 at a cost of £1800. was built on land just off Halifax The Primitive Methodists built bulging stair bays. It was later enlarged and re-roofed Road which had been founded in their Sunday School next to the You can still see an odd stained in 1889 and an organ was bought by 1832. It closed in 1866 when the chapel in 1887. It is said that the glass window or two from the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in new chapel was built on building won an architectural prize outside of the building. 1908. By 1909, the total cost of the Road. There is a graveyard at for its style and architecture which Burnley Road, Brierfield, BB9 chapel was about £4,000. the site with a few remaining is markedly different from the rest 5AD The building has four bays with gravestones. of the buildings in the town. a four bay pediment and subdued Burnley Road The building has been described Italianate forms. The building Brierfield BB9 5AD as being in the Free ceased to be a place of worship in style. It consists of a 3 bay centre

5. The Baptist Church fixtures and fittings and has had Chapel St 5 The church was opened in 1886 no structural alterations). It still with money from Abraham retains all its pitched pine fittings, 6

John St Altham, a man who came from pews and ceiling and has the nothing to be a very successful original immersion bath, although business man. Although he died the Victorian plumbing has been Wesley St before the church was completed, modified. his estate continued to pay for the A new school room was opened running costs for the first 20 years. in 1910 and a new organ was added The inside of the building is in 1939 to replace the one that had 9 largely unchanged since it was been given to the church in 1898. Bridge St built (possibly one of the only Burnley Road churches in East Brierfield BB9 5HX 1 that still retains all its original 7 Hudson St 2 6. St Luke’s Church C of E Dale St / Pendle Rd Railway St General Sir James Yorke Scarlett laid the foundation stone of St Luke’s Rd in 1871, and the Church was completed in 1872. The church was built by James Green and has a clock and bell tower. The congregation added a vestry, and acquired an organ from William 7 Hill and Sons in 1888 for the sum of £670 which was loaned to the

church by the choirmaster Edward Stocks Massey, part of the Massey l

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a 8 The organ consists of a gothic case and the pipes are made of

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o Carlton St In 2003 the organ was listed as a Grade ll historic instrument by the p r Train Station British Institute of Organ Studies as the organ had been restored and e

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d 4 The church also has a number of memorial stained glass windows. n Montague St a Burnley Road s ed Brierfield BB9 5JL Le

7. Smith & Nephew/ Brierfield In 1925, the mill reported that it employer until well into the 1960s. Guilford St 5 Mills had a total of 86,340 mule spindles, In 2006, BSN ceased production of Brierfield Mills was built on the east 5964 ring spindles and 2786 looms. woven cloth at Brierfield Mills. Final D 8 A bank of the and Liverpool Smith and Nephew Textiles Ltd production ceased in September O R

Canal in about 1838, and was started producing surgical bandages 2010. Albion St Y E in 1957, and modernised the plant in After years of disuse, Pendle L Brierfield’s first steam-powered N R . It was erected on behalf the 1960. The company operated as Council bought the mills in 2012 U Smith and Nephew plc and merged and the historic buildings are being B of Henry Tunstill. Regent St Richard St The mill was built near to with the German Beiersdorf AG soon transformed into a new destination a colliery owned by Colonel after trading as BSN Medical Ltd in called Northlight. Hargreaves and was run as Henry the mill. Dale Street/Pendle Street 6 Sackville St Tunstill and Sons. After Henry died Designated Grade II Listed BB9 5NH Building in January 1988. The cotton Townley St in 1854, the name was changed to St James St industry continued to be the main Tunstill Brothers. Railway Terrace

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Albert St 8. Jamia Sultana and its green dome is built on similar The Jamia Mosque Sultania first lines to that at the Mosque in Medina. opened its doors in 1972 when local The walls are lined with marble and Clegg St Lord St residents bought and converted there is a large stunning chandelier in Massey Ln number 3 Bridge Street. The mosque the main praying area, which reflects catered for a small population of in the windows of the hall giving people who worked in the local textile the illusion of double the space and Massey St industry. Over the years the Mosque chandeliers. Committee bought numbers 5 & 7 to The mosque is now one of the meet the growing demand until it was largest in Lancashire and can cater for decided that a new Mosque should be 2000 worshippers and is a testament Robinson Ln built. to those first generation who Reedley Rd The new mosque was opened with limited resources, conceived and in 2013, after 8 years of planning created this new mosque. and raising funds, both locally and Sackville Street nationally. It cost approx. £4 million Brierfield BB9 5LE

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main church for the Wesleyans and Primitive Methodist congregations and the Congregationalists when they merged locally in 1957. Prior to the chapel being built, the Wesleyans used the wash house of Brierfield House and then met in a converted cellar in Lomas Row before adapting the space over two bedrooms in Halifax Road to make a chapel in 1848. A Sunday school was also built and 9. Wesleyan Methodist Church opened in 1862. In 1881 a new school This imposing Church was the vision was built which can still be seen, of Henry Tunstill and his wife who although it no longer belongs to the were keen supporters of the Wesleyan church. Movement. Their sons, Robert and The Church has two memorial William were substantial benefactors stained glass windows to commemorate after their father died, providing land soldiers who died in WW1 and and funding to build the church and belonged to the church. The building is later the School extension. Grade ll listed. © Eddie Bobroski The church was opened in October Colne Road 1862 at a cost of £3400 and became the Brierfield BB9 5RD Henry Tunstil was born in 1802 in Wheatley Lane, a village close to Brierfield. He was already a wealthy and successful business man when he moved his family to Little Marsden. Brierfield House was built for him and his family in Brierfield Pasture in 1833. Henry thought that the area was the ideal location to expand his business. It had plenty of land to develop, factories full time. good communication links (the canal had already opened in1796) Brierfield is a good example Some mills were run by and a road, of sorts, was already operating between Burnley and of a Lancashire town that the person that owned them. Nelson. There was an operational coal mine at Low Pit that would developed around a cotton Other mills offered space provide a cheap power supply. Mr Tunstill and his sons built Brierfield Mills alongside the mill in the 1830s. and power so that small canal where he built and installed spinning and machines. Originally part of Marsden, businessmen could start up Henry petitioned for and was successful in bringing the railway without having to invest a lot it become a legal township to Brierfield in 1848. Due to his efforts he was offered a place on of money. This practice was in 1868 and was named the railway company board. Brierfield after the pastures called room and loom. A committed Christian, Henry and his family were acutely and fields that it rose from. Employment in the aware of the circumstances of others. They followed the teachings At the beginning of the mills brought economic of the church, providing funds and help for many people across the 19th century, the area was migrants originally from the area during their lifetimes. little more than farmland with surrounding areas and towns. He and his wife broke form the Providence Chapel on Halifax the odd cottage or two. But Later, in the 1950s and 60s, Road and decided to help fund a new Wesleyan Chapel in by 1850 the area had already people came from abroad Brierfield. He died in 1854 before the new chapel was completed become densely populated when the government invited and never saw Brierfield become a legal township in 1868. After with terraced cottages and workers from the sub- his death, his sons continued his philanthropic work. housing surrounding a variety continent of India to come to of weaving and spinning the UK to take up jobs in the Trinity in Richard Street, along also highlights some of the Please arrange this prior to sheds. mills. more famous entrepreneurs visiting. Go to the Brierfield In 1652 George Fox climbed with a school. This closed in Many of these migrants to and philanthropists that shaped blog for more photographs and , an iconic landmark 2008 when the congregation Brierfield, who were mainly the rise of the town. extra information on the town’s Mills and factories seen from the town. After his was relocated to Nelson and from the new republic of Today the housing and history. revolutionised working climb, he saw his vision of a great the church was demolished. In stayed in the area, community is more diverse and www.brierfieldtowntrail. practices. People who many people which inspired him 1957. the Primitive Methodists, bringing their families, faiths the town is no longer focused blogspot.co.uk originally either worked to found the Quaker Movement. Congregationalists and Wesleyans and cultures to Brierfield. on a single industry after on the land or were cottage The town has a long association all merged and moved into the BSN Medical Ltd. (formerly weavers moved to working in with the Quakers and there’s been Wesleyan Methodist Church, now known as Smith & Nephews a meeting house at Marsden Cross the Methodist Church. or Brierfield Mills) closed its since 1760. By the 1890’s there were more weaving sheds and mill in 2010 By the 1800’s Brierfield churches than pubs in Brierfield. to move production overseas residents continued to be mainly Tram drivers, from as early as This huge mill, now known non-conformist. the 1890’s, christened Brierfield as Northlight was bought by By the 1900’s there were nine The Holy City. This call was taken Pendle Council in 2012. different places of worship, many up by the bus conductors from of which were funded by local the 1930’s, when buses were first entrepreneurs. Several are still introduced on the route. standing and are open today along with a new £4 million mosque. This trail includes some of the Many people connected The Anglicans opened St buildings mentioned above, with the buildings on the trail Luke’s church in 1872 and in detailing Brierfield from the are happy to open their doors 1901 the Catholics built Holy 1800’s to the present day. The trail and show you around.

Abraham Altham was born into a The North Lake District devoutly religious family in 1841 Moors in , Burnley. M6 His father was a Baptist preacher, The but his parents died when he was n d l young. Abraham first worked in e e York p a local quarry hewing stones, but Colne M6 A1 S rose from these humble beginnings Nelson E M S P A N to become one of the most M55 Hull E R V G I L M65 Burnley I influential men in East Lancashire. Leeds Preston M66 At twenty three he became a M61 M62 wholesale grocer in Burnley where he also began his tea business M1 in 1872. His business grew across East Lancashire and it was Liverpool M60 estimated that he sold eight tons of tea a week to a quarter of a M60 million tea drinkers in the North of ! Sheeld M56 The Peak District By his death in 1885 he had significantly expanded the number of his shops across Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire and Chester Lincolnshire. He started a travel agency in 1877 which is still M6 running today. TOWN TRAIL He was an extremely generous benefactor to many causes and provided the funding for the Brierfield Baptist Church with VISITOR INFORMATION CENTRES enough funds to run it for 20 years after his death. Discover Pendle Centre, Boundary Mill, Colne Tel: 01282 856186 He built Oakleigh House in Reedley (now the Oaks Hotel) for himself and his family and there is a huge stained glass window TIC, Tel: 01282 677150 portraying the tea harvest on the magnificent staircase. County Info Centre, Transport Interchange, Nelson Tel: 01282 698533

Brierfield Heritage Trail is one of many fascinating trails in Pendle, General Scarlett was born in 1799 including trails on The , and other Pendle towns like and died in 1871 shortly after Colne, Barrowford and The Steam and Stream Trailin . laying the foundation stone for St For more information on these trails and Pendle as a whole please go Luke’s Church, Brierfield. to www.visitpendle.com. The second son of Baron Abinger, General Scarlett was For more information and contact details go to educated at Eton and Cambridge www.brierfieldtowntrail.blogspot.co.uk. before being stationed at as a young officer. For more information on Northlight go to On his marriage he became the www.northlightpendle.co.uk joint owner of Brierfield Low Pits Mine. He famously led the successful Charge of the Heavy Brigade A at Balaclava which earned him a promotion to the rank of Major General. A military man all his life, he did, however, dabble in politics Marsden Brierfield and became MP for Guildford and later stood for Burnley but was ction in the WALK Heights B ommunity defeated at those elections. COMMUNITY COLLEGE His obituary in the Burnley Advertiser stated that: “…nor was A he only generous to the poor. He was first and foremost in every THROUGH work of public good, aiding and helping generously in his own true Christian Catholic Spirit. There is scarcely one work of good in the town and of Burnley which does not yield Graphic design by Pendle Council iJb-11450-03/15. HISTORY evidence of his large-hearted generosity’. And it is for this that the Main photography by Andy Ford. people loved him so.” Old Brierfield map and pictures © Lancashire County Council. Support from Brierfield now and then.