BY ANDREW MARKHAM, PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION FUNDRAISER
Another update on our little group.
Yesterday (July 1st) Lesley (Whitehand) and I went over to Halifax to go over the route of our bike ride.
This will begin from Siddal Rugby Club at 8.30 am on Saturday July 15th and will follow the Rochdale canal towpath for 18 miles to Littleborough returning to halifax to complete 60km (for my 60 years).
We arranged a send off from the club and they allowed us to collect (£118) at their home game yesterday. We visited pubs and businesses along the route to promote the ride and got a very good response from all we spoke to.
People can donate to the ride In aid of Pancreatic Cancer Action either by going on Just Giving (andrew markham 60km for 60 years) or by seeing us at Brigg Bike Night on Friday the 7th of July or at Brigg farmers' market on Saturday the 22nd of July.
...only slightly relevant to the story....but my old Granny Turner used to be a cook/housekeeper at a doctor's house in Littleborough -a Pennine town on the Lancashire/Yorkshire border.
ReplyDeleteI had an Uncle Ken and I presume I've been named after him, but why 'Ken', the extended family have no history of 'Ken' ....of Scottish origin.
Then, when researching the 1901 Census, I find my Granny, aged 20, working in a Dr McDonald's house in Littleborough. At the time, he has a 10 year old son called, Kenneth.
Both my Granny and Uncle have gone, so I can't confirm my findings but I believe my old Granny must have been influenced/impressed by the doctor's little lad that she named her own son Ken and I followed suit.
So perhaps a bit of my ancestry originates from the ghostly and desolate moors about Littleborough.