Turton - Pigeon Tower c.2000 modern art postcard

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  A walk to the Pigeon Tower, Turton bear Darwen, Lancs.
• Publisher:  Bolton Hospice, Chorley Road, Bolton. Printed by Judges of Hastings
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s): n/a
• Sent to:  n/a
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Turton was a township and later civil parish and local government district in Lancashire, England. Its former area is now divided, with North Turton being part of the Borough of Blackburn with Darwen in Lancashire, and South Turton being part of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester.

Turton Tower in Chapeltown was once the home of the Lords of the Manor of Turton and dates back to the 1100s. The earliest reference to the Manor of Turton is found around 1200 by which time part of the manor was in the hands of the de Lathom family (sometimes called "de Torbac"). Turton Tower was inherited in 1420 by the Orrell family.

The pele tower was rebuilt in 1420 and around 1596 the height was increased and the floors raised, creating the three spacious rooms. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the timbered farmhouse buildings on the east and north of the Tower and the Entrance Hall were added.

In 1628 the Orrell family sold Turton Tower to Humphrey Chetham, a Manchester merchant who is responsible for the creation of Chetham's Library and Chetham's School of Music. The Tower was then passed down to his descendants, the Bland, Green and Frere families who leased it to a succession of tenant farmers.

The Tower was sold in 1835 to James Kay, a local man who had made good through the harnessing of steam power to the spinning of flax, and developing the first commercially successful wet-spinning process for flax, in 1825. Kay was determined to restore the Tower to its glory. Few rooms in the main part of the Tower escaped Kay's attentions, and often his valuable work was marred by his inability to resist the temptation to 'restore' what has never been there in the first place. James Kay enjoyed living there until he sold it to two local ladies Elizabeth and Anne Appleton. The Misses leased the Tower to William Rigg, a calico manufacturer whose daughter Ellen wrote down her memories of Turton now published under the title "Victorian Children at Turton Tower".

In October 1903 the tower was bought by Sir Lees Knowles, Baronet, for £3,875, who was MP for Salford West and made his fortune in the Lancashire Coalfields. After his death in 1929, his widow, Lady Nina Knowles, presented Turton Tower to the Urban District Council in 1930, and it became the Council Chamber.

With local government re-organisation in 1974 Turton became part of the new Borough of Blackburn, and the Tower was administered by Lancashire County Museums Service. Following changes with the Lancashire County Museum Service, the tower was taken over by Blackburn With Darwen council. ^[2]