Lamb Working Mens Club

You don't get many Working Mens Clubs like this one. 
The building - formerly a house - dates from 1696.  
According to legend, on a May Day during Victorian times The Lamb was the starting point for a walk up and over Pendle Hill, organised by a man known as American Tom, who wished to celebrate a return to his native haunts after a spell in the States.
His followers first had to eat a pudding made from nettles, eggs, dripping and meat but nobody was allowed to drink alcohol until they had recited the following rhyme without any hesitation: "Thimblethung Thistlethwaite who thinking to thrive through thick and thin, though throwing three thimbles hither and thither was thwarted and thwacked by thirty three thousands thick thorns."
You heard it first on Blip :-)

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