PEEL TOWER

I could see this monument, known as Peel Tower from my house. I suppose I saw it every day for nigh on 20 years. As lads we had managed to scramble in the bottom bit and even get to the parapet.The stairs, those that were left were frightening. It wasn't to this year that I finally got inside and had a look up and down. It is cold, damp and if it wasn't lit it would be scary. There is nearly 200 steps to the top. However the signal on the mobile is superb! The actual monument cost £900 pounds to build. The tower was opened by Rossendale Mountain rescue that day. They charged a £1 to go in and climb to the top!
When the flag is flying the tower is open. There are more pictures in the datastore here.

Looking down the inside of Peel Tower

Peel Tower from the West

Peel's Speech on the "ground floor"

More distant view of the Tower

PEEL MONUMENT, HOLCOMBE
ERECTED 1852
IN MEMORY OF SIR ROBERT PEEL

"It may be that I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of good will in the abodes of those , whose lot it is to labour, and to earn their daily bread with the sweat of their brow-when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food the sweeter, because it is no longer leavened with a sense of injustice"

EXTRACT FROM SPEECH OF SIR ROBERT PEEL, DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
JANUARY 27th 1846

Greenmount Cricket Club - Memorial

I have updated this page in the light of the brass plaque at the church. The reference is at the bottom of the page

I had no idea this little stone existed until today. It was only because I had parked up and walked across the road to get a shot from the right angle that I spotted it.  I saw many bands there in the early 70's. I may have played there myself at that time. The land to the side, where there is a park was the practice pitch of Greenmount Primary School football team. The road at the right hand side ends up as a T junction at the "Bull". The left fork goes to Tottington, the right to Holcombe Brook and Ramsbottom. The school is on the right. The church is at the junction too, "looking" up the road.

The memorial is on the left.
The road looks down towards Bury past Nabbs House.

View of the cricket club

The stone memorial

THIS MEMORIAL STONE
WAS ERECTED IN MEMORY OF MEMBERS OF
THE GREENMOUNT CRICKET CLUB WHO GAVE
THEIR LIVES IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945
SO THAT WE COULD ENJOY FREEDOM.

IAN ADAMSON.
HARRY BARROW.
NEVILLE PILLING.
WILLIAM PLATT.
KENNETH SAVIN.
JOSEPH SCHOLES.
GORDON BUTTERWORTH.

Looking up towards Greenmount village. The Congregational Church is in the distance.
The school is to the right of the church and the pub faces the school.

Many of the names on the stone memorial are clearly the same as the brass plaque "up the road"

At the top of the  road is a  brass plate inset on a corner of the church with the names of the fallen from WWII. This is facing the Bull.