You’re now asking yourself, “Is Nelson a good place to live?” You have found estate agents who have given you the information you want. A local councilor has written some information that says Nelson is on the rise. It’s now time to get some reality. The latest census, the Indices of Decline and Police provide hard facts. Are Nelson really a great place to live? Or are Brierfield and Burnley better choices? It’s time to find out.
While the property market in Nelson (Pendle), has seen a sharp increase over recent years, there has been a slowing down of growth. A detached house is now on average PS242,791, an increase of 12.7% from last year. On average, a semi-detached home costs PS153.641, while a terraced home costs PS104.605 and a flat costs PS77.878. A two-bedroom flat for rent will run you PS451 per monthly.
The property prices in Nelson (Pendle), are slightly less than the average property price in Lancashire, and slightly lower than other areas with similar density in England. The annual price rise in Nelson (Pendle) has been similar to that seen in the Lancashire region’s average.
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Property data is based upon Pendle-level pricing data. Publicized 23 March 2022
The Curious Beginnings of Nelson, Lancashire: A town without a history
DURING the socialist tendencies of its voters, they used to call it Little Moscow.
Curiously, however, the same town was once called “America of Lancashire” because it was young, rumbustious, and had hardly any history.
The Northern Daily Telegraph’s Roving Commission was looking at Nelson when he ran his rule in a special report 66 year ago. He was actually looking at a town which had grown so fast and so recently that only a few people over 50 were actually born there. The Telegraph’s man called the town Nelson, which had been known only for 40 years and was still relatively new to outsiders despite its 38,000 population.
Nelson had to give Matthew Pollard his patriotic sentiments for the name. The Nelson Inn at Marsden was built by him on the old road between Burnley & Colne, at the time that the country was celebrating Lord Nelson’s victory at 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar.
The reporter wrote that he didn’t know that he was beginning “one of the romances in the cotton trade.”
Although the inn did prosper and the hamlet of handloom weavers and farm laborers’ homes that grew around the pub soon adopted the name of the pub, not much happened until 1849, when the railway was built and powerlooms arrived at Ecroyd’s mills at Lomeshaye.
The reporter said that “Other factories sprang like mushrooms in the evening and Nelson began growing and grow until, doubling it each decade, it had more than 20,000 people living there at the time of incorporation of the Borough in 1891.”
“So Nelson is a land without a past. It is, in essence, the America of Lancashire. It doesn’t have any traditions that are passed down through generations to hinder or inspire its future growth – there is nothing to look back at but a small inn on the Burnley to Colne main road, which was built not more than 100 years ago.”
He stated that the character of the company was only just beginning to emerge in 1932.
“The town grew quickly, and people came from all over Lancashire and other parts of the country to make it possible to identify the Nelson type. It is likely that there are fewer natives than in any other county of the same size. He said that many of the people who visited Nelson had not heard of Nelson before.
Even though Nelson was officially named, many people had not heard of the borough until the incorporation of the borough.
The Roving Commissioner described Nelson soldiers returning from leave during World War I and finding that staff at London railway stations could not tell the time of trains to Colne or Nelson in Wales. However, they were very vague about Nelson’s existence in Lancashire. The reporter also found that Nelson’s novelty was reflected in the attitudes of its inhabitants.
He said, “The young people in the town have all of the qualities and aggressions of youth.”
They are aggressive. It doesn’t take long to notice that they are aggressive. You can see it by their confident walking style on the footpath.
They were not cocky despite being in a place that was born out of a bar. Nelson, which had only 13 pubs per head of the population, was home to the lowest number and highest ratio of churches in the country. The town still has one legacy from its origins, which was an inn. This allowed Nelson’s citizens to assert themselves.
The Commissioner discovered that the Nelson Hotel, the town’s centre, was “now, just like the town it gave its name,” and had been “enlarged beyond recognition of the tiny hostelry Matthew Pollard constructed.”
It was flanked by a large open space that extended into the main street. This was the pub’s private property.
He wrote that “Here,” the police were powerless to “move on” the mass of human flotsams and jetsam that always seem to congregate aimlessly at the centre of large towns.
Do you think Nelson is still able to enjoy this bizarre sanctuary from the law?
There are more pieces to the’spite walls’ puzzle
TWO additional readers joined Looking Back on our quest to find the origin of the “spite wall”
The wall was built from rubble, old tiles, and half bricks at Ribchester Road in Wilpshire.
Clayton Manor’s owner made it impossible for his neighbors to look in his house.
Mrs. S Wood of Clayton-le-Moors recalls that her grandfather Thomas Connor was the stone mason and that he built it for Thomas Connor. He also worked as a mate at Accrington textile machinery engineers Howard and Bullough. Mrs Elsie Ellison, a former resident of Shore House Farm in Ramsgreave, recalls also seeing the wall for first time as an adult. It was built to prevent gawpers from gazing in the Manor. The wall is still there today.