Now I like the way that stories are picked up and added to.
So when I posted two stories on the Burnley Volunteer Training Corps in 1914 I vaguely knew of the connection with Worsthorne but this was confirmed by Craig Simpson who identified the location of this picture of the Corps on parade.
It “was taken in front of St. John the Evangelist Church in the village of Worsthorne on the edge of Burnley.”
And sure enough the location today is still pretty much the same even down to the lamppost, which I think may have moved marginally in the century since the picture was take,
But that said it is possible to stand on that open space in front of the church exactly where the Burnley Volunteer Training Corps stood in 1914 which is a powerful link to that group of men a full hundred years ago.
Picture; the Burnley Volunteer Training Corps, from the George Davison collection, courtesy of David Harrop
It “was taken in front of St. John the Evangelist Church in the village of Worsthorne on the edge of Burnley.”
And sure enough the location today is still pretty much the same even down to the lamppost, which I think may have moved marginally in the century since the picture was take,
But that said it is possible to stand on that open space in front of the church exactly where the Burnley Volunteer Training Corps stood in 1914 which is a powerful link to that group of men a full hundred years ago.
Picture; the Burnley Volunteer Training Corps, from the George Davison collection, courtesy of David Harrop
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