Ginnels, Alleys, Snickets. (Call them what you will.)

[Stanley]

Sulk! Moi! Never! Perhaps we need another designation, 'entry'. As for 'tenuous link', I'll wait till we have a definite identification....

[David Whipp]

You were very close with your Earl Street/Hill Street location Stanley.

The tenuous link is more to do with my musings than geography.

[Thomo]

The end of Turner Street linking through to the bottom of Earl Street perhaps? My Great Grandfather was born in Dickens Entry Blackburn, just off King St, this entry led to Dickens yard. If the yard behind Church St is Hudson's Yard, then Hudson's Entry would be appropriate.

[David Whipp]

Thomo is in the right spot; it's the gap at the gable end of Turner Street which gets you through to the bottom of Earl Street and the back of Bank Street. Can anyone follow my thoughts as I chose that one whilst typing my previous post about old Barlick?

[Big Kev]

My Great Grandfather was born in Dickens Entry Blackburn, just off King St, this entry led to Dickens yard. If the yard behind Church St is Hudson's Yard, then Hudson's Entry would be appropriate.

Sound good to me

[Stanley]

Earl St/Turner St. That was the one I meant.... I got the names wrong because I associate it with Getting through to Hill Street up the other little path past the waste bin enclosure. Can't puzzle out the tenuous connection....

[David Whipp]

I think I better spell out my train of thought...

When I was musing about the street pattern of old Barlick and what had been swept away in slum clearance programmes, I thought of one of the last such clearances, which was of the lower part of Earl Street and Hill Street.

It must have been in my early days on Pendle Council and I was newly appointed to the Housing Committee. I can remember arguing that such back to back properties were very suitable for single people and convenient for the town centre and shouldn't necessarily be written off. The decision was to clear the bottom and keep the top; one of the last such multi-home clearances in Barnoldswick.

Here's a not entirely random selection for the next one...

[Big Kev]

Off Raihhall Rd near Bank St. Alongside the house with the triangular end?

[Thomo]

Spot on I believe Kev.

[David Whipp]

I thought Thomo would know that one, and top marks to Kev.

[Stanley]

Good call on back-to-backs. Very desirable properties these days! I always said that the flats in the Barbican were essentially back-to-backs. Little known fact, the houses on Crow Row have no back doors, probably to stop through draughts?
Do the paths through garden fronts qualify as ginnels etc.?

[David Whipp]

In the spirit of inclusivity, I think the front paths Stanley refers to should have the status of ginnels. (And also because I included the one outside Stanley's front door in my first Ginnel Gather...). Not to be obvious, here's one from somewhere else.

[Thomo]

Gisburn Road to the inner ends of Rosemount and Melville avenues.

[David Whipp]

Thomo is spot on with the last one.

[Thomo]

Priory Way to Fernbank perhaps?

[David Whipp]

Thomo on the right road again.

This is one of the ginnels included in the Urban Ginnel programme for this year. As long as the prices are OK, It'll be given a bitmac surface. We should know in August if it's affordable.

The next one isn't a ginnel...

[Stanley]

Is it on the track from the Marina into the field behind Moss Shed?
By the way, the gulley grate at the bottom of Dam Head Road next to the florist was not taking any water this morning.....

[David Whipp]

The picture isn't far from where you thought, Stanley. It's the same woodland, but not on that path.

(Gulley noted; will report, thanks.)

[Stanley]

Hmmmm. My mind goes to the path behind New Road School....

[David Whipp]

That's near enough; the last picture is of the path from the end of Clifford Street to Victoria Road, as it enters the Silentnight wood.

This is the view looking the other way, with Clarence Street in the background.

[Stanley]

I seem to remember crossing a ditch...

[Stanley]

Does this dead end access qualify as a ginnel?

[David Whipp]

What do others think?

[Stanley]

Ah, democracy at work!

[PanBiker]

It's not a through route so I would say this is a yard, however the route to it....