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by Stanley
21 May 2024, 03:41
Forum: Stanley's View
Topic: TRANSPORT OF DELIGHT
Replies: 3
Views: 2630

Re: TRANSPORT OF DELIGHT

Bumped, still a valid point of view I think!
by Stanley
21 May 2024, 03:28
Forum: Local History Topics
Topic: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
Replies: 6913
Views: 947975

Re: FORGOTTEN CORNERS

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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.
by Stanley
21 May 2024, 03:03
Forum: Seasons
Topic: TODAY'S PENNINE WEATHER
Replies: 5437
Views: 450460

Re: TODAY'S PENNINE WEATHER

Yesterday was a re-run of the day before. Once more, there was definitely a chill if you couldn't shelter from the wind. Later in the afternoon the cloud returned and at 20:00 it was overcast. During the night it cleared and first thing this morning it was calm and clear but since then it has cloude...
by Stanley
21 May 2024, 02:54
Forum: Fun & Jokes
Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
Replies: 4885
Views: 572427

Re: Old fashioned clean jokes

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by Stanley
21 May 2024, 02:47
Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
Topic: WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?
Replies: 9223
Views: 1078517

Re: WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?

Three hot meals as usual but in addition I had a salad butty as I sat waiting for the vaccinations to come from Nelson. :biggrin2:
by Stanley
21 May 2024, 02:42
Forum: Stanley's View
Topic: THE BRACEWELL STORY
Replies: 7
Views: 85

Re: THE BRACEWELL STORY

CHRISTOPHER BRACEWELL AND HIS FAMILIES. (8) There was a report in the Craven Herald of 29/08/1930 of ‘…. the death of R W Bracewell aged 77 of Red Lion Street, Earby. He claimed direct descendancy from Christopher Bracewell who came to Earby from Thornton Manor in 1821 to start cotton manufacture wi...
by Stanley
21 May 2024, 02:21
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: POLITICS CORNER
Replies: 12664
Views: 1344050

Re: POLITICS CORNER

It would be hard to find a more damning verdict from a public enquiry than THIS. It makes grim reading and confirms what we have always suspected.
Now we watch to see what is done about compensation.
(Don't hold your breath!)
by Stanley
21 May 2024, 02:14
Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
Topic: Where Have You Just Been?
Replies: 791
Views: 135754

Re: Where Have You Just Been?

I got mine yesterday Gloria and can report the same effects. I shall be having an easy day today.
by Stanley
21 May 2024, 02:05
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Seen in the News
Replies: 3798
Views: 402516

Re: Seen in the News

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28125/medium A picture is worth a thousand words..... :biggrin2: I heard the report about norovirus and then saw THIS in the news this morning. Human faeces in our rivers is putting the public in danger and the risk will increase without act...
by Stanley
21 May 2024, 02:01
Forum: Stanley's View
Topic: THE DECLINE OF THE HEN PEN
Replies: 16
Views: 2638

Re: THE DECLINE OF THE HEN PEN

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David Whipp's Dad's hen huts at Bank House.
by Stanley
21 May 2024, 01:49
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
Replies: 20632
Views: 1918424

Re: Today I shall be Mainly...

I shall be in the shed as usual enjoying straight turning of my flywheel after the purgatory of the wobblers!
Then my main task for the rest of the day is to look after myself. That Covid jab yesterday was a savage little beggar!
by Stanley
21 May 2024, 01:45
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: OBITUARIES
Replies: 1901
Views: 343895

Re: OBITUARIES

I agree with you David. Every word as clear as a bell.
by Stanley
21 May 2024, 01:42
Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Replies: 20155
Views: 2343673

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

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What is it?
by Stanley
20 May 2024, 13:33
Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
Topic: BOB'S BITS
Replies: 4479
Views: 512150

Re: BOB'S BITS

A great 'girl' reporter. God made man.  Then he said ‘I can do better than that,’ and made woman.  Adela Rogers St. Johns.    Once upon a time, my dad wrote what may have been the shortest reference letter of all time, to an old friend, then the editor of a major midwestern daily.  “If you don’t hir...
by Stanley
20 May 2024, 13:31
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
Replies: 20632
Views: 1918424

Re: Today I shall be Mainly...

I didn't know I was being checked..... :biggrin2: It's your perception of distance that's off if you think it was only half a mile but who's counting?
by Stanley
20 May 2024, 13:24
Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Replies: 20155
Views: 2343673

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

You got it Tom, small files for cleaning the holes in welding and cutting nozzles.
Nest object?
by Stanley
20 May 2024, 10:58
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
Replies: 20632
Views: 1918424

Re: Today I shall be Mainly...

It took a shade over 2 hours to walk a mile and get my meds, a vaccination and a salad butty. The vaccination bus was late and ran out of jabs, it took Well almost half an hour to find my meds and eventually a van turned up from Nelson with 50 more vials of vaccine.The bottom line is that I have my ...
by Stanley
20 May 2024, 10:55
Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Replies: 20155
Views: 2343673

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

No Gloria. I don't know whether you can see it but it says BOC on the lid!
by Stanley
20 May 2024, 08:18
Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Replies: 20155
Views: 2343673

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

I can see why you thought that Gloria. No, not feeler gauges but a set of something!
by Stanley
20 May 2024, 06:47
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
Replies: 20632
Views: 1918424

Re: Today I shall be Mainly...

Morning Sue, I'm glad Bob had a good day at the park! Have a good day today. I shall be hoping to get vaccinated and get my meds. The way things are nowadays you can't be sure.
by Stanley
20 May 2024, 06:20
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: POLITICS CORNER
Replies: 12664
Views: 1344050

Re: POLITICS CORNER

I was musing yesterday on the cost of alcohol to government because of drinking in the House of Commons. I see this morning that the cost of alcohol abuse is laid bare in a new study that shows £27bn a year being spent in England on the health and social harms of drinking. Isn't it about time that i...
by Stanley
20 May 2024, 06:15
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
Replies: 20632
Views: 1918424

Re: Today I shall be Mainly...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28779/medium Today I get back into making the next Stuart Number 9 engine. A welcome change as it is relatively enormous! My first job was to tidy all the remaining evidence I had been working on wobblers and then get out the castings and pa...
by Stanley
20 May 2024, 06:13
Forum: Crafts
Topic: Shed Matters 3
Replies: 2441
Views: 294551

Re: Shed Matters 3

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28781/medium https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28780/medium https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28779/medium Today I get back into making the next Stuart Number 9 engine. A welcome change as it i...
by Stanley
20 May 2024, 03:21
Forum: Stanley's View
Topic: THE DECLINE OF THE HEN PEN
Replies: 16
Views: 2638

Re: THE DECLINE OF THE HEN PEN

Bumped again, can't have too much of this quality of writing.....
by Stanley
20 May 2024, 03:11
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Seen in the News
Replies: 3798
Views: 402516

Re: Seen in the News

See THIS Report on the amount of money taken out of the UK water industry since privatisation. Shareholders in some of the UK's largest water companies have taken out tens of billions of pounds but failed to invest, new research claims, with firms planning to raise household bills to fund future spe...

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