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Memories of Nelson - Waltons - Manley 19th century
Memories of Nelson Eleazer Manley - Colne & Nelson Times 1910
The Waltons and the buildings between Holme St. and Dial St:
Formerly, about the middle of this block of buildings, there was a passage leading through from back to front. Below this passage were 10 single houses, half fronting on to Leeds Road and half onto open field and gardens at the back where the older portion of Holme Mill now stands. #(Holme Mill stood where the Phoenix Chambers Tax Offices and Nelson bus station now stand. Dial Street ran from Leeds Road along the back of the mill approximately where the Leeds Road entrance to the market beneath the Arndale Centre is now)#BJ.
John Walton the Elder was the owner of these cottages and land and carried on the business of a Wheelwright in the lower end of the building above the passage and lived over the top of his workshop. He afterwards converted these premises into what became a beer house obtaining a licence bearing the name of The Royal Oak. His son, Ingham Walton became the first tenant. John Walton built the two-storied mill in Holme Street for two more of his sons, Joshua and James, to run. Hartley Walton, who owned two single houses and a house and shop above the Royal Oak, was a brother of John Walton.
There were also three more brothers, William Walton (a Joiner),
Harvey Walton (Landlord of Nelson Inn),* see Nelson Inn reference below
Abraham Walton (Quarry Worker at Catlow Quarry).
There were also two sisters:
Sally (Assistant to Harvey at Nelson Inn)
Alice who married Henry Nutter and was mother to:-
Lonsdale Nutter, the Builder in Carr Road.
Hartley Nutter of Carr Road, who was a salesman for Messrs. Ecroyd of Lomeshaye for many years #(Lomeshaye Mills were founded by the Ecroyd family, Quakers of Foulds House in Briercliffe)#BJ.
Ann who was the mother of Coun. James Brown, lately Headmaster of Bradley Board School.
Elizabeth who was the mother of Henry Dixon of Edge End.
Suzannah, now the widow of the late Moses Crowther.
John Walton was the father of Joshua, James, Gabriel, Mathew, Mark, Luke, Ingham, Betty, Olive and Sophia:-
Joshua married Elizabeth Crowther and was the father of Hartley Walton whose first wife was Alice (sister to the late William Parkinson, ex-Mayor of Burnley) Alice also married John Walton the recently elected County Councillor for Nelson and a Cotton Manufacturer of Leeds Road - they had two more sons and three daughters.
James Walton married a cook from Lomeshaye House and had several sons and daughters, some of these are still in the neighbourhood.
Gabriel Walton married a sister of Abraham Altham's mother and has two daughters residing in Nelson.
Mathew Walton died young and is buried at Wheatley Lane Inghamite Chapel, the burial place of the family for generations.
Mark Walton lived in Manchester for some time then emigrated to America.
Luke Walton married Emma Holgate (daughter of Richard Holgate) who also went to America and is the only one of his generation still living.
Ingham Walton died in America, his widow and children are buried at Newchurch-in-Pendle.
Betty Walton became Mrs.Turner leaving one son, John.
Olive Walton died.
Sophie Walton married Samuel, the son of John and Mary Clegg of Lower Marsden. Her daughter Mary became Mrs. Helliwell: her son John was a well-known schoolmaster at Blacko: another son, Edward, formerly in the furnishing business in Manchester Road, Nelson is now at Colne: Margaret and Willie Clegg are living in Nelson.
In the 1860s Joshua and James Walton were Cotton Manufacturers in that portion of Holme Mill which was first built by their father. The business was not very successful and discontinued. Joshua later commenced building in and near Every street, Nelson. He also became the owner of the land opposite the bottom of the market which his family (after his death) covered with lock-up shops.#(Current open market near the library, in the ownership of the Lambert family until recently)#BJ This property was purchased for them from Nelson Corporation for the purpose of a fish market.
James Walton also commenced building in Carr Road, Nelson, but afterwards again began manufacturing coloured goods in Victoria Mills. He was the only Walton who turned his attention to local matters, he became a director of the Marsden Building Society and member of the Local Board of health.
April 19th 1910
The land at the corner of Railway Street (Bolton's Corner) was acquired by Harvey Walton, then the tenant of the Nelson Inn.
The land on Leeds Road, on which the Co-Op Society have erected a handsome property, was obtained by John Mancknowles of Nun Clough and he built 4 or 5 cottages on it.
James Walton the Elder (uncle of James the Manufacturer) built the property at the lower corner of Dial Street, this has been replaced by Astley's Brewery Stores. This James was very fond of politics and his house was a sort of 'camping ground' where his cronies met and discussed matters, they subscribed towards buying the newspaper of the day which cost 10d. Many people could not read the paper and anyone who could was much in demand for reading out loud.
In 1878 Hartley Walton was the occupier of Size House, part of Bridge End Mills.
James Walton was a Manufacturer at Victoria Mills and living in Railway street, Nelson.
Moses Walton and James Crowther were occupiers of Walverden Mill and both lived in Every Street, Nelson.
*The Nelson Inn:*
A photograph of the Nelson Inn, taken in 1867, exists today showing it to be a Georgian style building with attached stables. Mathew Manley was the Landlord at the time of said photograph. The Inn gave Nelson its name.
Built by Mathew Pollard the Nelson stood at the junction of the new turnpike roads to Barrowford, Colne and Burnley where the Lord Nelson now stands. The Inn was a stopping place for stage coaches and was the scene of many a brutal Miners clog-fight. Following the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester in 1819 the Inn saw a demonstration of local hand-loom weavers.
Following Mathew Manleys death in 1870 his son Eleazer (author of the above Memories of Nelson) sold off the large area of land to the rear of the Inn running down to what became the Market Hall,now the Library, and across Nelson Street (now Market Street)to 'Altham's Corner' and down what is now Scotland Road roughly to Pendle Street.
Known as Nelson Meadow this land was divided mainly between Eleazer Manley and his relatives by marriage, William Tee and James Edward Lambert (Lambert's Wood Yard & Lambert's Market family). The Inn was sold to local brewers Astley & Brown, later to become Astleys this large brick building was situated on Sagar Street (now the main road through Nelson centre traffic lights, from Barrowford direction, to the roundabout on Netherfield Road where the Engineer’s Arms stood). The main Brewery was on the left just before the railway bridge. The site is now a taxi rank, opposite the bus station.
The Inn was demolished in 1892 and was the subject of a small book named Tales of the Lord Nelson Inn by Mrs.G.V.Wilson.
* Not part of 'Memories of Nelson'.
John A Clayton
Barrowford
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