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- 15 May 2024, 03:22
- Forum: Research Topics
- Topic: BARLICK LIFE 1900 ONWARDS.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 226
Re: BARLICK LIFE 1900 ONWARDS.
BARLICK LIFE 1900 ONWARDS. (6) We’re about to follow Ernie into the world of work but before we plunge into that, let’s have a look at some of the other things that formed part of his life. At one point I asked him what the status of Wapping and Westgate was in the 1930’s compared with other parts o...
- 15 May 2024, 03:10
- Forum: Stanley's View
- Topic: THE BRACEWELL STORY
- Replies: 1
- Views: 13
Re: THE BRACEWELL STORY
BARLICK AND BRACEWELL IN 1400. A good alternative title for this weeks episode in the story of the Bracewells would be ‘The Curious Consequences of the Black Death’. Anyone caught up in that terrible epidemic would have been hard put to to see anything good about it at all. But good there was and th...
- 15 May 2024, 03:04
- Forum: Local History Topics
- Topic: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
- Replies: 6908
- Views: 945171
Re: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/1744/medium 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.) Th...
- 15 May 2024, 02:34
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3791
- Views: 400336
Re: Seen in the News
Have a look at THIS and then ask yourself whether these privatised water companies are as efficient as we were assured they would be when the government sold them off for 30 pieces of silver..... Millions of litres of raw sewage were illegally pumped into one of England's most famous lakes after a f...
- 15 May 2024, 02:18
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?
- Replies: 9216
- Views: 1076036
Re: WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?
Three hot meals as usual. I allowed myself a treat, cheese on oatcakes with brown sauce for a snack after tea.....
Such indulgence!
Such indulgence!
- 15 May 2024, 02:15
- Forum: Seasons
- Topic: TODAY'S PENNINE WEATHER
- Replies: 5422
- Views: 448412
Re: TODAY'S PENNINE WEATHER
Yesterday followed the forecast mainly but the 'heavy rain' was light and patchy and once again we had a sunny late afternoon but by 20:00 it had gone back to overcast. This morning first thing it was calm, clear and dry and so far it hasn't changed. The glass is up slightly on 1000mb and the foreca...
- 15 May 2024, 02:00
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20600
- Views: 1913966
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
Until I logged in on the site this morning my day was clear, An hour in the shed, 2 hours second sleep, Covid booster at Well and some shopping. No Covid booster now, it has been cancelled again so I shall stop bothering. It is evidently not a high priority if a town with 11,000 inhabitants has no s...
- 15 May 2024, 01:48
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4872
- Views: 569979
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
I think I need that explaining to me Kev..... Sorry!
- 15 May 2024, 01:44
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16623
- Views: 1938298
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
So AI is just as liable to cock-up as the old system.... Hard luck Ian, it must be so frustrating.
I wonder if AI failing is the reason why my Covid booster has been cancelled for the fourth time? We will never know and I shan't be trying again, it's evidently not a high priority with the system.
I wonder if AI failing is the reason why my Covid booster has been cancelled for the fourth time? We will never know and I shan't be trying again, it's evidently not a high priority with the system.
- 15 May 2024, 01:37
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
- Replies: 7635
- Views: 865187
Re: MEDICAL MATTERS
No such luck! Just had a message telling me that my Covid booster has been cancelled for the fourth time. It was scheduled for 11:35 this morning. Evidently not a high priority with the powers that be.
- 14 May 2024, 14:16
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20124
- Views: 2337124
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
They're correcting a chimney that is leaning by cutting out brickwork to encourage it back to perpendicular and then replacing the bricks they have taken out with new tight brickwork.
- 14 May 2024, 14:12
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: BOB'S BITS
- Replies: 4470
- Views: 510419
Re: BOB'S BITS
"The Mathematics Nobel" Transire suum pectus mundoque potiri ("To surpass oneself and master the world"). Inscription on the Fields Medal, awarded every four years by the International Mathematical Union to young (40 or under) mathematicians (4 or fewer) who have substantially a...
- 14 May 2024, 11:50
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20124
- Views: 2337124
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
They're the normal commercial ones but these are a lot more efficient and in my experience cheaper because one of these will outlast several of the others with the star wheels.
Give us the next object!
Give us the next object!
- 14 May 2024, 06:48
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20124
- Views: 2337124
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Not quite Tom but once again I have to give it to you. I suspect you're thinking about a glass cutter. It isn't that. It's an industrial diamond set in the end of a piece of half inch steel and it's used for dressing grinding wheels to get a flat surface.....
Next one for shaving?
Next one for shaving?
- 14 May 2024, 06:15
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20600
- Views: 1913966
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
Morning Sue! I'm sorry to hear you ache but realise that it's a good sign. Today is looking like a damp gloomy one so far in Barlick. I doubt if I will be walking. I shall get some exercise tomorrow when I go for my Covid booster. https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28756/mediu...
- 14 May 2024, 06:10
- Forum: Crafts
- Topic: Shed Matters 3
- Replies: 2435
- Views: 292440
Re: Shed Matters 3
https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28756/medium Again, only one image needed. I have spent an hour, first on finishing the top lid for the first engine I am working on. I fitted that, all that engine needs now is the bearing that goes on the piston rod. That can wait until th...
- 14 May 2024, 03:32
- Forum: Stanley's View
- Topic: A SURPRISE PHONE CALL
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2250
Re: A SURPRISE PHONE CALL
We never did get any nearer the identity of the old lady......
- 14 May 2024, 03:17
- Forum: Seasons
- Topic: TODAY'S PENNINE WEATHER
- Replies: 5422
- Views: 448412
Re: TODAY'S PENNINE WEATHER
Yesterday was a warm sunny afternoon with the heavy rain forecast turning out to be a light shower between 4 and 5. By 20:00 it was dry and overcast. This morning first thing it was just starting to rain and since then a breeze has developed and slightly heavier rain. The glass has fallen to 998mb a...
- 14 May 2024, 03:10
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?
- Replies: 9216
- Views: 1076036
Re: WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?
Same again except that I missed dinner as I didn't feel like it.
- 14 May 2024, 03:08
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20124
- Views: 2337124
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
No takers? Think of what the song says are a girl's best friend....
- 14 May 2024, 03:07
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3791
- Views: 400336
Re: Seen in the News
See THIS BBC report on the NHS. The government is spending £5.5bn less on health in England than it suggested it would be at this stage, the Institute for Fiscal Studies says. Plans set out in the 2019 election campaign indicated the budget would increase by 3.3% a year above inflation during this P...
- 14 May 2024, 02:42
- Forum: Local History Topics
- Topic: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
- Replies: 6908
- Views: 945171
Re: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/4289/medium 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 an...
- 14 May 2024, 02:28
- Forum: Stanley's View
- Topic: THE BRACEWELL STORY
- Replies: 1
- Views: 13
THE BRACEWELL STORY
WHAT’S IN A NAME? I’ve got a story to tell you about Barlick. It goes back 500 years and is a rollercoaster ride of birth, life, love, death, betrayal and ultimate survival. It’s taken me thirty years to get to the stage where I feel I know enough to go public with it but my usual public health warn...
- 14 May 2024, 02:24
- Forum: Research Topics
- Topic: BRACEWELL HISTORY IN BARLICK
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6346
Re: BRACEWELL HISTORY IN BARLICK
Bumped because I am about to post the Bracewell Story again.
- 14 May 2024, 02:20
- Forum: Stanley's View
- Topic: THE FALL OF THE BRACEWELLS IN BARLICK.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3112
Re: THE FALL OF THE BRACEWELLS IN BARLICK.
I have realised that the set of articles I wrote on the Bracewell Story seems to have vanished so I shall post them again.