OneGuyFromBarlick

Well done for getting to Christies on time despite the weather and the traffic. Pity you weren't driving the vaccination bus on Monday./... :biggrin2: Not sure if we are having a better day or an amber warning spell of weather like you. I shall go to bed and see what it's like after I have had a sle...

The Bracewell Brothers of Coates. William (b1756) of Coates is mentioned in 1808 as ‘calico manufacturer’ of Barnoldswick so I think we are safe in assuming he built the water twist mill at Old Coates. His son William (b.1782) seems to have gone to Barrowford to live in his wife’s community on his m...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28792/medium More work on the bed casting. Today, mainly on the milling machine. I touched up the everyday cutter but also used a much longer cutter for the face of the target end. I am ready now to mill out the beds for the crankshaft beari...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28793/medium https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28792/medium More work on the bed casting. Today, mainly on the milling machine. I touched up the everyday cutter but also used a much longer cutter for the face of the t...

I still have my doubts about this. So I have bumped this article again.

meat and veggies X three.....
Kev's mention of the Beach House threw me for a minute. I suppose the Aurora is a floating town actually.......

We need to go back and have another look at Ann Bradley. In 1851 Ann Bradley, at the age of 12, was working in the Bracewell household at Green End, Earby as a nurse. This was before Christopher married Susannah Whitaker so it seems there must have been other children in the house. Ann was a red-hea...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/422/medium 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 forg...

That's what I thought David but I am not clapping hands yet. The one thing you can rely on British Gas for is that they will be inconsistent! (I still don't understand why my statements for the last two months date from the 27th of March. I have no doubt there is some perfectly logical reason but it...

"Ms Vennels has been in tears already. Quite touching. " Do I detect a hint of irony here David? I watched a bit of it and soon gave up, disgusted by the crocodile tears and the fact that she has obviously been schooled by someone who specialises in advising on how to give evidence withou...

Yesterday it rained all day and it was still raining at 20:00 when I went to bed. The NW wind chilled everything down enough to trigger the CH! It was raining first thing this morning and there has been no change. The glass has fallen and is down on 1000mb. The forecast is strange, we have a yellow ...

All the evidence indicates that the NHS weren't very enthusiastic about the vaccinations. They couldn't even be bothered to turn up on time on Monday with an adequate no of doses. You're right David I did stop taking Cod Liver Oil for a while as I was having problems with bleeding after one of my Co...

Can't be a wall you have painted recently..... Give us a clue Ian!

See THIS for David's video of a rain soaked Sunak. (And I agree about the umbrella....) Rishi Sunak announces a 4 July general election in a statement outside Downing Street. After discussing the Covid pandemic, the furlough scheme, and the war in Ukraine, he says the question is "who do you tr...

Tea powder Wendy? Tetley are still using fine tea leaves and no problems with explosions....
What grabbed me this morning was the fact that the CH is on, wed appear to have slipped back into the heating season!

Once more, into the breach!! This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by, >From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remember’d; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers . . .  Henry V, at Agincourt, in the Shakespeare play.    The ‘Old ...

It's still raining and I see that there is now an amber warning of rain that could affect Gloria and Sue....

They've consolidated all the accounts since March 27th and decided I owe them £84 which is better than I expected because their estimates were so wildly inaccurate. This account is based on today's readings so it will be accurate.

So pleased to hear that you had a clear run at the dentists. Best of luck to Bob for his scan and I hope you managed to dodge the traffic. https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28788/medium Rough dirty work this morning fettling castings using files and the grinding wheel. I spen...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28789/medium https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28788/medium https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28787/medium Rough dirty work this morning fettling castings using files and the grinding wheel. I ...

Ah.... Thank you for that Tom, I had an idea I might have been wrong.....

THE RISE OF BILLYCOCK BRACEWELL. (9) I want to leave Christopher(1818) for the time being and step sideways to have a look at what his elder brother William(1813) was doing. In case you haven’t realised it, this is the famous ‘Billycock’ Bracewell of Barnoldswick. I say ‘famous’ because it’s impossi...

Bumped again. Essential history!

Taking it easy after the jab seems to have worked. Arm sore and I feel a bit achy but nothing more than that.