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He's wearing his racing spats as well! :biggrin2:

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A serious looking Stanley with his dad at Burrs Mount , Great Hucklow in 1940. We were there to escape the bombing in Stockport but there wasn't any, the 'Phoney War', so we went back just in time for it starting!
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Simply an urban back yard in Stockport but this was the world of my childhood, or at least, the first nine years from 1936 to 1945. The coal hole on the right and the flags and garage are unchanged since then. The pocket handkerchief of back garden has seen a major change because this is where our Anderson Shelter was dug into the ground and served as our refuge for many nights in 1940 and 1941. I went back and did this pic in 2002, so many memories but now of course a forgotten corner, it was over eighty years ago.....
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A rake of coal wagons leaving the sidings in the days when we had a railway. Notice the signal. Even then this type of signal was redundant but for some reason this one survived right up to the end of the line.
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Access to the Bowker Drain in Eastwood Bottoms in 1982. It has been destroyed since then by developments but was possibly the most important hole in the ground in Barlick! It was the main source of the water that enabled Bracewell's Wellhouse mill to function for almost a century. Water was pumped from here day and night by a steam Pulsometer pump into the two lodges on the site and this was where the engine derived its cooling water from. This was essential for economic running.
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Stanley wrote: 11 May 2024, 03:33 into the two lodges on the site
Would someone who had no knowledge of textile mills know what a 'mill lodge ' was? :smile:
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No David but they might be pushed into enquiring and end up learning something..... :biggrin2:

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In October 1939 there was a smash at the waterworks on Whitemoor and Brown and Pickles were called in to repair the damage. This included making a new jack gear almost six feet in diameter. In those days the technology was available in the town to do such a repair. Is what we have to report progress?
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Church Street next to the Seven Stars in about 1900. For those of you who are reading Ernie's story in the Barlick 1900 post, this barbers shop is the one he was a lather boy at in the 1930s.
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The ventilator that used to sit on the roof of Gisburn Road School. These used to be a common sight on the roofs of public buildings. They were part of a comprehensive system of ventilation that was thought to be essential for any building where large numbers of people gathered together. This was because the prevailing theory to explain the spread of disease before the discovery of microbes was 'The Miasmic Theory'. This held that diseases were spread by vapours or miasmas carried by air currents and so it was essential to have a current of clean air flowing through buildings. Eventually it was realised that this was mistaken and the ventilators were removed because they made it harder to heat buildings.
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The junction of King Street and Newtown in about 1890. I can date it by the fact that the road is still paved with stone, the setts have not yet been installed. (See Billy Brooks in the LTP for evidence of when this was done.) The Cast iron gas lamp is the standard pattern that was used for all of Barlick's street lamps
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Wood Cut of Bracewell Hall in Whitaker's 'History of Craven'. This was first published in 1805 and crude as it looks, this could be the most accurate depiction we have as it was almost certainly drawn originally from life.
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Reading from the top:- Coates Mill, Bankfield and Crow Nest mills in 1963. This gives an idea of what Barlick looked like in the glory days of cotton before 1930. There used to be over 25,000 looms in Barnoldswick at peak making it one of the most concentrated centres of weaving in the industry.
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Wellhouse Mill in 1963. Bracewell's big build on a site that had no obvious water resource, essential for running a steam mill. At the time of the build he was thinking of using the waters of the Butts Beck and extracting them at the Corn Mill which he controlled and later owned. However, for some reason which I have never understood he finally settled to pumping from the Bowker Drain in Eastwood Bottoms to top-up the mill lodge.
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I'm sorry to see I have lost the text for this post so here it is again. In 1980 Peter Tatham took on the job of demolishing Butts Mill chimney stone by stone, the only way it could be done safely because of the restricted area of the site. The eagle eyed amongst you may recognise his partner on the left. If my memory serves me correctly it was a young Tom Philips. (Steeplejerk) Only 44 years ago Tom!
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The chaos that was the workbench in the tackler's cabin at Bancroft Shed. Yet out of this the tacklers tuned the century old looms that produced some of the best cloth in the world.
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The warehouse at Bancroft Shed. It covered the whole of the ground floor of the two storey section and held cloth waiting for dispatch at the far end. Boxes and skeps that twist had been delivered in and the two tackler's cabins. I once asked Sidney Nutter why we kept boxes and skeps from mills that had closed long ago and he said that it was because they were on the books as the deposit had never been repaid and if they were destroyed the loss would have to deducted from the bottom line reducing the profit. So they sat there gathering dust.
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The Butts mill chimney pic is Higgy think it was his last job before his eyesight got too bad
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Ah.... Thank you for that Tom, I had an idea I might have been wrong.....
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This old postcard of Waterloo Road in Kelbrook is one of those images which has so much in it from the past. Village post offices are a thing of the past as is a general grocery store and greengrocers in a small village. Long forgotten and regretted by some of us......
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I saw this strange marriage of an Austin Oxford car and a Leyland Comet wagon on Water Street in Earby in 1978. Later it lived in the yard of an outbarn at Marton Hall Farm. I can only assume that it was street legal and had passed an MOT test. Can't you imagine the scene as the inspectors tried to find grounds for rejecting it? It was only about for about six months and I never learned anything more about it.
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I think we've seen that picture before, and I suggested the car was an Austin Westminster. I still think so. I had one once, along time ago, in the days when my nickname was "The Baron". :smile:

They are seen often as Police cars arriving in the nick of time in the old films on Talking Pictures TV. Maybe there was just one in the props department.
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I wouldn't argue with you David. I'm sure about the base though, It's a Leyland Comet tractor unit.... :biggrin2:

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I can't remember who wrote this..... :biggrin2:
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Gosh, that was hard reading, well put together tho.
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:biggrin2: :good:
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Elmer's Corner in 1982 when we had a proper ironmonger's shop. I loved the smell of paraffin.
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The central Co-op in Albert Road in 1989. This was just before it closed and business was transferred to the new Pioneer Store on the site of what had been the railway station. The side door into the building was the entrance to the offices where you went to collect your divi. Many Barlickers will remember that well!
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