Bygone Burnley: Jib Hill

Bygone Burnley Part 3: Jib Hill, with Roger Frost 9-10-24

Transcript

00:00Today we are at Jib Hill which is between Harls Ike and Burnley. It's an

00:09old industrial community and a lot of it survives in cottages some of which you

00:16can see in the background. The main industries were handling weaving and

00:22that started in the 1790s and quarrying and there was a large quarry here giving

00:29the name to one or two streets for example there's a Delve Square here.

00:36Behind us is Lanehead school or to be more accurate the old Lanehead school.

00:42It has an interesting history because in the past it served as a handloom

00:50factory. Several handlooms were in the building and people lived in the

00:55building as well and so it was like a little handloom factory. It was steam powered

01:00entirely powered by handloom workers themselves. Later on it became a

01:07Methodist Chapel and then in more recent times it became the Burnley school for

01:16the Church of St. James the Great in Briarcliff. Burnley was once one of the

01:23largest towns in England without a hospital. It wasn't until 1886 that a

01:31hospital was built for the people of Burnley. It was a charity hospital. It was

01:37the Queen Victoria as many people will know but within the next 20 years the

01:43town got lots of other hospitals. Altogether at one time there were six

01:48hospitals and we're standing on the remnants of the third hospital which was

01:55the Marsden Hospital. It was a sanatorium and it served patients who had

02:03infectious diseases. It was known as the infectious diseases hospital or the

02:09sanatorium. Built in 1901 it served about 70 years before it was pulled down

02:19and the site was not exactly preserved but part of the building was and this is

02:25it makes a nice feature of this modern housing estate.