OneGuyFromBarlick

A fog bow! Upside down, but right way up if you click on the photo.

Bodger wrote: ↑

18 Sep 2019, 07:19

So we have a Shook of Staves or a Stook of Sheaves, English, you have to love it !!

You can also have a shock of sheaves!

Soy sauce and black treacle for flavouring! Yum.

It seems to be a Scottish term also used in Northern England and no one seems to know how to spell it.

Nope, nothing more unpleasant than weaning from their mum's!

Talk of belly pork in other topics has made me dig out my old self sufficiency bibles looking for a favourite recipe. I have always loved John Seymour's books on that subject and keep them safe just in case the world as we know it comes to an end, but its the drawings that are a delight. 20190914_18...

Back in the 70's we had a favourite pork and beans recipe using belly pork.....it was always cheap, wonderful and warming. Taken from one of the self sufficiency books that I also devoured with enthusiasm!

My neighbour has just told me that they will be 'spaining' the calves soon. (Spayning, spaening speyning??) I guessed what he was talking about because he was warning me it could be noisy for a couple of days.....

Woodend Coal Mining Museum in Reedley. I've never been but they are open on the Heritage weekend.


https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/vis ... ng-museum2

After Dad died my mum phoned every morning at 8.30am and every evening at 5pm, it was reassuring but got a bit wearing! It was supposed to be a quick check that she was OK but as the years went by she wanted more and more conversation. I miss it now of course!

Something large and white in our field......

Beside a size 11 boot.
Breakfast for the week sorted!

The new medical centre in Colne is a fine place. The waiting room for the surgery is on the top floor with magnificent views, I might choose to go there next time.

She was chasing a prescription for eye drops which wasn't at the Earby Surgery where the request was put in on Monday it was in Colne at the partner surgery in the new health centre. What a good job I have a car and could drive to Colne to collect it. No explanation as to why it was there and no ap...

No she wasn't out with the mower! She was chasing a prescription for eye drops which wasn't at the Earby Surgery where the request was put in on Monday it was in Colne at the partner surgery in the new health centre. What a good job I have a car and could drive to Colne to collect it. No explanation...

Lovely photo, Wendy. ( just love the outfits...despite being a "war" wedding, with so many things being hard to get hold of) Is great gran 3rd from the left? So are your Grandparents on the right? Yes Maz, that's great gran. From the left :- Dennis my Dad's brother, Clare his big sister, Gt grandma...

Stanley wrote: ↑

05 Sep 2019, 07:58

I hope you have a good day Wendy. I am a bit worried about the grass cutting though.... You might miss a window.

So am I! It's still very wet underfoot though and I'm hoping for a dryer weekend.

Today I'm heading for Wyke to follow "Mary's Wartime Walk" through Judy Woods which we helped set up as a memorial to Mum and Dad. Today it is 75 years since they were married in Wyke and as they always celebrated their Wedding Anniversary I like to keep up the tradition. 🙂 This is a special photo f...

Peacocks have 2 large blue spots like eyes on their wings.

Tetley's used shire horses to deliver in Leeds right up until 2006.

Craven Working Men's Homes Ltd was registered in April 1908 with a capital of £4000 in £1 shares. The subscribers were all from Barnoldswick.
A report in the Burnley Express in 1917 states that the home had accommodation for 168 tramping weavers.

Fascinating! I found a Public Health Committee report in the Barlick & Earby Times from the early 1950's talking about poor conditions in the home and how the majority of men living there were elderly and infirm which wasn't the original intention. It was supposed to be a lodging for working men eit...

There were 50 men living there at the time of the 1939 register. Thanks for all your help, as I don't know Barnoldswick I am a little confused, can you just confirm the address all you lovely people have finally agreed on, and by register do you mean electoral? I do have access to Find my past so c...

Tizer wrote: ↑

29 Aug 2019, 08:36

The link at the end of John's article doesn't work for me - Firefox says it can't find it.

The link is probably part of the original 2004 post Tiz.