OneGuyFromBarlick

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.

"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...

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!

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?

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...

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...

We never did get any nearer the identity of the old lady......

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...

Same again except that I missed dinner as I didn't feel like it.

No takers? Think of what the song says are a girl's best friend....

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...

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...

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...

Bumped because I am about to post the Bracewell Story again.

I have realised that the set of articles I wrote on the Bracewell Story seems to have vanished so I shall post them again.

BARLICK LIFE 1900 ONWARDS. (5) The story so far, we left Ernie Roberts in 1926 when he was living at 1 John Street. He was ten years old and had a sister and an elder brother called Fred who had started work. His younger brother Wilson went to York Street school with him and his sister and his mothe...

See THIS BBC reort about MPs dancing on the head of as pin as Sunak rattles his sabre. MPs arrested for serious sexual or violent offences could be banned from attending Parliament under new plans approved on Monday. It comes despite the government putting forward a motion that recommended MPs are o...

I gave my dinner suit to Susan for a fancy dress evening with instructions to take it to the charity shop afterwards. (It fitted her surprisingly well actually!)
Today I shall be in the shed making tiny parts and doing fiddly things. The sooner these small bits are over the better!

Georgiana, "Bess," and Queen Zenobia. The Duchess of Devonshire, as Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, wore a magnificent costume.   Society report in the Times of London, July 3, 1897.     In 1897, to celebrate Victoria’s ‘Diamond Jubilee,’ the Cavendishes (better known as the 8th Duke of Devonsh...

I tripped over this interesting video about Manchester's airports..... I never knew most of this.



(And here's a little bonus!)

I have been for my midday walk and half an hour on traffic duty. Very pleasant out there. I popped in the Co-op for a couple of items and noted one sneaky bit of inflation that had escaped me. My favourite coffee used to be packed 227g per pack. It is now 200g. Mr Sunak evidently hasn't noticed this...

Morning Sue.... Don't get too engrossed in washing. Make sure you have a rest.
I am following my own advice and am off to bed for second sleep.

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28753/medium Only one image needed. I have spent over an hour making the top and bottom lids for one of my two cylinders. I have drilled the holes in the top lid but have yet to do the bottom. No way was I going to rush just to try to get a ...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28753/medium Only one image needed. I have spent over an hour making the top and bottom lids for one of my two cylinders. I have drilled the holes in the top lid but have yet to do the bottom. No way was I going to rush just to try to get a ...