Eating in Leyland

[noel]

you lot are too clever for me with your trolls eyes and Euxton Buttons. I'm going to have to read a bit of Pratchett to get me sense of nonsensity going.

[noel]

Cor lummy that's a bit of a calory filled shop . Think the tooth fairy would have a ball with that site. Thanks anyway Martin. AND I didn't look honest.[:I]

[Guest 01]

All this talk of Pontefract Cakes and Treacle forced me to listen again to the story of the Sabden Treacle Mines Raid on my tape of Gradely Lancashire Dialect.

[LDunlop76]

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Originally posted by William R

its all spanish to me.

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Spanish? Licorice? Groooaaannnn! []

[LDunlop76]

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Originally posted by Lady Griffin

Sabden Treacle Mines

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Didn't Ken Dodd used to do a thing about Knotty Ash jam butty mines?

[Guest 01]

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Originally posted by rocketmanjohn

'Pontefract' is really a pseudonym, they're harvested every autumn from the fields near the Travellers Rest,[where they grow like truffles,] close to Pincock Treacle Mines, and should be called by their correct title, 'Euxton Buttons'. My dad told me so.
John
Pincock now there's a real gradely Lancashire name.

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[Guest 01]

You could make a great drink with Spanish-just a strip of the strap and hot water.

[noel]

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Originally posted by LDunlop76

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Originally posted by Lady Griffin

Sabden Treacle Mines

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Didn't Ken Dodd used to do a thing about Knotty Ash jam butty mines?

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Yes he still does. And I think the Treacle Wells as "wells"

[Guest 01]

Didn't Boggarts like a spot of the old treacle and can you still visit the mines!
The recording I have was from 1978 and made at Astley Hall.
An old uncle told me about the mines and I always thought Oh yeh-yet another tall tale all these stories of digging up the lumps of black stuff.

[noel]

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Originally posted by Lady Griffin

Didn't Boggarts like a spot of the old treacle and can you still visit the mines!
The recording I have was from 1978 and made at Astley Hall.
An old uncle told me about the mines and I always thought Oh yeh-yet another tall tale all these stories of digging up the lumps of black stuff.

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Umm yesssss.
Sabden


Many people, living in Lancashire, during the first forty years of the 20th century, knew about the Sabden treacle mines. Above Sabden village, where the road winds over the Nick of Pendle, on both sides of the road there are signs of excavations. These mounds of earth looking very much part of the moorland, are supposedly the original sites of the entrances to the SABDEN TREACLE MINES.



Those curious to know, what happened to the mines, were told stories about treacle eating boggarts and that the area was best avoided in the hours of darkness. Most regarded these stories as huge jokes and anyone who believed that you could dig treacle out of the ground, were just plain daft. This is exactly what the P.I.E. agents (the Treacle Miners' Secret Army) wanted the curious to believe. The stories of treacle eating boggarts have continued to this day and Bill Dewhurst in the 1980's became the Managing Directors of Sabden Treacle Mines Ltd.



He created a tourist centre, attracting visitors from the UK and overseas to visit the 'mine' and see the parkin cake weavers, the black pudding benders as well as great treacle eating boggarts. It was a these boggarts that first worked the mines, eating drips of treacle and keeping the floors tidy. Bill based his 'Treacle Mine' enterprise on an old legend that went back to medieval times when Pendle Hill was famous for its witches. Bill Dewhurst found that places where treacle mine traditions exist were also sites of holy wells.



A children's T.V. series appeared on I.T.V. in 1996, it was based on the Sabden Treacle Mine. It's signature tune included these words:- "We are the treacle people, we seek treacle high and low; we are the treacle people we all live in Giggle Row; WILLY WISWELL saved the day; Treacle Tracker found our way; for as we seek the treacle far below - down the mines we go. We are the treacle people, we seek treacle high and low".



There were many adventures for the 'Treacle People' of Sabden. Silas Mitton was the owner of the mine. Not only did the treacle bring fame for the village and prosperity for some of the villagers, but it brought disasters too. Experiments in the Treacle Mine Laboratory met with disasters; one of the workers, Rosie falls into a vat of treacle; the mine professor causes an explosion during one of his experiments, releasing invisible treacle vapour in the air, which settles on the village of Sabden causing a really sticky mess. Then at the ginger beer plant (a by-product of the treacle mine) the ginger beer bottling machine is put into reverse and there is a spectacular explosion, which brings more work for Police Constable Nick Pendle. However the 'Pakin' production at the village shop continues to thrive and the village life is full of excitement from one year to the next.



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