IT'S Good Friday in the 1930s and hundreds of East Lancashire folk have grabbed the chance to get out and about in the Ribble Valley.

They had made their way to Brungerley Bridge, where the energetic could paddle and swim in the waters of the Ribble and those not so, could watch the world go by, from the grass banks.

Families would pack their cars with rugs, picnic baskets and balls, or climb aboard the local bus, to spend a day at the popular beauty spot, just a mile out of Clitheroe.

It was particularly busy in the early 1900s when there were boats for hire and temporary shops opened for jugs of tea and cakes.

During the Second World War, however, it was out-of-bounds for local folk, when the Royal Engineers practised building temporary bridges there, prior to the Normandy landings.

The bridge itself is thought to have been built in the early 1800s, when the previous wooden structure was washed away in floodwater and it has three spans.

Until the boundary changes with local government reorganisation in 1974, it also marked the border between Lancashire and Yorkshire.