Brindle Parochial School logbooks
during WW2 and the Lancashire Evening
Telegraph East Lancashire at War
50th anniversary supplement (published
on 30th August 1989) recorded:
26th October 1940 One
high explosive bomb dropped; damage
to building at Denham Farm and to
adjacent rabbit warren.
21st November 1940 "From
2.45 until 3.15 all children were
taking shelter in the boilerhouse
as a warning was given that hostile
aircraft were near".
Batesons Farm, Sandy
Lane, Brindle
5th December 1940 "The
warning sirens sounded just at 1
p.m. (assembly time) so until the
all-clear at 1.40 the children were
taken for cover in the boiler house".
12th March 1941 500
incendiaries dropped; these landed
on the Carse field, between the
Rectory and Batesons Farm (next
to Sandy Lane, the B5256). One of
the incendiaries was recovered,
intact, by Harold Baxendale who
took it back to his parents at the
Cavendish Arms!
Harold Mayhall
4th May 1941 Four high
explosive bombs dropped; these landed
on the private golf course in the
grounds of Crabtree House (off Hillhouse
Lane).
The Air Raid (ARP) Warden was
Harold Mayhall, the Headmaster at
the Parochial School who lived at
the School House on Water Street.
His equipment was an emergency
wagon an old pram equipped with
stirrup pump, water container, two
spades and a bag of sand.
