Past Events
This page is intended to provide a record of past events, to be built up gradually.
This is a dummy. I have just written out examples of the sort of external events that might be mentioned here. Dates and details are to be added as we get real events on this page. By adding to this page regularly, say once a month, we can eventually have a survey of the year's events.
Date... Opening of the Meeting House during Heritage Week
Date ... Visit from American Quakers
14 June 2002: The flood 
On 14 June 2002 there were flash floods. 56 mm of rain fell in just 45 minutes, and the moors were unable to absorb the water, which cascaded down the hills bringing with it tonnes of rocks and rubble. (The Shuttle, Blackburn, Oct 2002, p 1)
| Gully-holes spewing out water instead of draining it away | |
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| Our Meeting House was flooded not from the adjacent
river but by the water coming down the hill.
Uphill from the meeting house a culvert was blocked. So much water came down the hill and into the gully-holes that lower down it found release by gushing out of the gully-holes like a fountain. |
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| Collapsed wall. Water still flowing into garden | |
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The water built up behind our garden wall and made the wall collapse.
It then flooded the garden and filled the Meeting House, where it
was about one metre deep. |
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| The Mason's Arms is opposite our Meeting House |
Last time the building was flooded was in 1950. Water had subsided when photograph was taken. |
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| Mopping up | |
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The furniture floated about in the water.
When the water subsided, the building and the garden were covered
in mud. Members came and cleared the mess. |
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After drifting, like Noah's arc, the furniture settled as best it could. Then came the dove with the olive branch. |
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Floods rush in. Now Quakers fear to tread. |
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| The building is now being replastered, and the wall will have to be re-built. Meanwhile we hold our meetings on the old gallery, which has not been used for a long time. | |
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29 June 2002: Chapel Hill
On Sat, 29 June 2002, the last Saturday in June, we had our customary meeting on the old Quaker burial ground on Chapel Hill. We had to be brave. As on so many previous occasions, it rained.
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Annual meeting on Chapel Hill burial ground, 29 June 2002 |
| After the meeting those of us who were fit enough walked on the traditional footpaths over the hills to the Crawshawbooth Meeting House (about one hour), where normally we would have had a sandwich meal and tea. (The older members were ferried to the Meeting House by car.) | |
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Walking route from Chapel Hill to Meeting House: blue line from
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| However, since the floods had hit us only two weeks before (14 June), the Meeting House was in a shambles, the furniture had been put into storage. Our friendly neighbour, the landlord of the Mason's Arms Pub, came to our rescue and offered us the exclusive use of his pub. | |
| The neighbourly publican |
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