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Outlook At Home with Mr C.
IT’S A good life at a history-steeped three and a half centuries old home in the wilds of rural Brog den for businessman, flea market and . sale entre- prenuer and keen social history buff Mr Dick Chitty and his wife. But it’s a hard one too!
say - where on earth is Brogden? I t sounds like somewhere from Gulliver’s Travels!: The answer is that it is one of those little cor ners of our part of Lanca shire tucked away off the • main roads which was more important in the 17th cen tury than it is in the 20th. Brogden occupies a few
Just a minute, you may
square miles of farm and moor between the back of Gisburn Road, Barnolds- wick; and the Greystones pub area off the main Nel- son-Gisburn Road.-There are a few private houses and a handful of farms,and up to recent years it had its own parish council,' but is now combined with Bra- cewell. Before re-organisa tion, Brogden'was in York shire. And that’s' where the deeds to M r'an d Mrs Ghitty’s ,1630 Kirk Clough home are still kept. . “I’ve spent , hours in the
press, and has since bought some more at various sales. They now make interesting garden features. Mr Chitty came to the
so people know who is in charge.
of interest and bring people,, from miles around,” says Mr- Chitty, who enjoys them as " a change from his quilt business. Modernisation attempts
“The sales generate a lot .
area 30 years ago as a tech nical expert with cable tele vision, later moved into management and became Redifusion’s top man in the Northwest. Then he left to follow his
own v a r ie d b u s in e s s interests, run the loci firm of Sundown Quilts, and become th e man who brought flea markets to this area in a big way. Invitations in our paper
. that there is quite a market- in oak floorboards, old doors, and the like, but they are still hard to find,” says :Mr Chitty, who sometimes needs all his keen nose for a bargain to get what he wants
...There’s plenty of work to
.being undone by Mr and Mrs Ghitty. “So many old ' houses are being restored
for potential stallholders to “Ring Mr C” put one in touch with Mr Chitty, who quickly fell foul of Burnley, council’s market ban but runs sales over the rest of the local area. He has a stall himself, too, and wears a special hat with a rose in it
record office at Wakefield tracing the former owners, and so far I have got back to 1720.' The Listers, who pro duced the first Lord Ribb- lesdale, owned it once, though stories about it once being a monastery or church seem to be just legend, says Mr Chitty. “The only deeds we have date back to the last war.” The house has been ocu-
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_ are the animals......... four goats including a frisky billy, anything up to 75 ducks depending on the time of year, peacocks,
- dfijoutside as well as in. The ,'rive'r flowing through the ■ grounds needs constant attention to stop it silting up, fences and walls need •keeping up, and then there
at the house by various pre vious-owners are gradually
geese, 15 hens, two d°gs Words-Tii and three cats.
aand central heating system both consume giant quanti ties of wood, sawn from fallen trees. “But you need to stack it for. a .year to make sure it is dry. Burning ■wood with sap-in it stickies. up the chimneys,” says Mr Chitty. “All the sawing is good excercise, but it is hard work.”
well as a cycle route pass near the house, and there are numerous'visitors' all the year round. “The snow can put people off, though,” says Mr Chitty. He has a suitable jeep vehicle for these occasions,-but prefers to drive round in his 1930 Standard Avon car in any other weather.
The Pendle Way route as
Kirk Clough is seen as a big re sp o n s ib i l i ty by the Chitty’s and over the years they hope to assemble as .complete a. history ,of it as possible, as-well
as.restore it in a sensible way.' •
Owning a house such as
ture comforts but there is a limit - I wouldn’t want to double glaze it for instance, even if I was allowed to,” says Mr Chitty.“But if you take things too seriously, you can spoil the pleasure of living in a wonderful old house in the middle of the country.” □
“We’re entitled to crea The inglenook fireplace Anthony w o r a s - 1M
pied for most of its life by yeoman farmers, and one of the interesting features was a stone cheese press, the various stones scattered about the property. Here was the sort of challenge the historian in Mr Chitty lo v e s . He did some research, re-asembled the
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