Boys & Girls Come Out To Play. Hareholme mill Tragedy 1801. Rossendale Lancashire.

In this video we visit the small village of Cloughfold in the Rossendale valley where a little remembered tragedy befell a group of children and an old man back in 1801 and more information has come to light following the making of the video. The 70 year old man on first going into the water managed to save at first one child. Returning to his task he then got two more in his arms and tried to get them out onto the bank whilst a third child clung to his legs. He did his utmost to get them out of the water, crying and shrieking for help but alas his strength finally failed him and he along with the two children in his arms sank to the bottom. assuming the children who perished were baptized in the year of their births the victims were; Charles Tattersall of Lench Betty Lord, Wife of William Lord of Newchurch. Richard Rabby of Hareholme Deborah Pilling aged 19 Daughter of James and Jane Pilling of Heightside, though she was born up Edgeside. John Pilling aged 9. her brother Judith Maden of Newchurch. Betty Nuttall aged 13 daughter of Edmund and Judith Nuttall of Newchurch Mary Ashworth aged 19 Daughter of John and Mary Ashworth of Newchurch.. As well as the above tragedy, we also take a look at other industrial archaeology in the area.