Rossendale Farmers Market takes place on the first Sunday of every month in Helmshore. If you follow the tourist signs to Helmshore Mill it's signed from there. There's a wide range of stalls including the Port of Lancaster Smokehouse, Bowland Outdoor Pork, Savin Hill Farm and a good fish stall. Shorrocks were selling their farmhouse Lancashire cheese and a really nice creamy English blue brie.
I've already mentioned Wearings who sell fresh vegetables and salads in previous posts. As you can see above their display is colourful and stunning. It's not often I get excited about vegetables!
Down the road in Rawtenstall is Fitzpatricks - Britain's last original temperance bar. They sell non-alcoholic and herbal drinks, including Sarsaparilla and Dandelion & Burdock.
Web: http://www.rossendalefarmersmarket.co.uk
If you're visiting Rossendale Farmers Market why not also visit Helmshore Mills Textile Museum? It's a fascinating museum. Our guide showed us tubs where the wool was pounded by mens' feet in (human) urine to remove the lanolin. The process is called Fulling or Tucking, if your surname is Fuller, Tucker or Walker your ancestors may have been involved in the process!
If you're visiting Rossendale Farmers Market why not also visit Helmshore Mills Textile Museum? It's a fascinating museum. Our guide showed us tubs where the wool was pounded by mens' feet in (human) urine to remove the lanolin. The process is called Fulling or Tucking, if your surname is Fuller, Tucker or Walker your ancestors may have been involved in the process!Apparently the mill used to buy urine from local villages, hence the terms "piss poor" and "spend a penny". They paid double money for urine from non-drinkers (as there was less water in it). So maybe the mill owners supported the temperance bar. Our guide reckoned there was a phenomenal number of "methodists" in the village (some who used the back entrance to the local pub).
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