OneGuyFromBarlick

I've heard chunner and chunter too.

What about "out of flunter" meaning "out of kilter". ?

Just read the stuff about Asian men grooming girls etc. Sexual abuse happens within all communities and I think the highest incidence is within families - not in the main incestuous. Men target vulnerable women who have children, move in and bingo! For many years I worked as a social worker in Manch...

This joke which I have also posted on the lovely pussycat forum. It was posted on Facebook and really tickled me. I hope it will do the same for you. A Yorkshire man takes his cat to the vet. Yorkshireman: "Ayup, lad, I need to talk to thee about me cat." Vet: "Is it a tom?" York...

A Yorkshire cat joke which was posted on Facebook. It really tickled me and I hope it will do the same for you. A Yorkshire man takes his cat to the vet. Yorkshireman: "Ayup, lad, I need to talk to thee about me cat." Vet: "Is it a tom?" Yorkshireman: "Nay, I've browt it wi ...

Visiting my son and his wife in London. They have a box of veg delivered every week and had a glut of leeks and potatoes so made soup and some soda bread, which is so easy that even I can manage it without it turning out like a stone.

Was interested to read Pan Biker's Liverpool tale. I travelled there on Tuesday aboard the steam tug "Kerne" which celebrated her centenary this year and was on her way to an event to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the North Atlantic. We sailed from Acton Bridge via the ...

Reading Engels which was being promoted at Waterstones. Interesting and has not lost it's relevance, but I'll be glad when I've finished it. Very harrowing.

Engels was an anti semite.

Thought of another one!

Chatting to an Austwick farmer who was feeding his sheep a magnesium supplemented feed, he said "I want them feet down not feet up".

If anyone patted our dog which was a mongrel and looked a bit like a Jack Russell on stilts, my partner would say "Watch out it's a plain clothes police dog".

A mole scarer?

Faraj was interviewed on Radio 4. The focus of the interview was around his statement that there would be no party whip and that the elected individuals would be able to make "votes of conscience" and would not be taken to task if they did not adhere to policies. He confirmed that was the ...

Stanley wrote:. "The best gelder was that bloke with the scythe. He never missed a stone". Anyone else ever come across it?

Haven't come across the term, but stones are a euphemism for testicles. Sounds very painful....a scythe!

Thank you for the responses. Brilliant stuff in the Calderdale archive Wendy. I am particularly interested in the hand loom weaving of delaine. My ggg grandfather Richard Pickles was such a weaver as late as 1851 by which time he had moved to from Barlick to Roughlee; in the census HLW delaine is li...

I came across the following when researching handloom weaving in Barnoldswick and am wondering if anyone knows more about the following:- "One of the advantages of having mills in this district was the presence of handloom weavers forming a large part of the population. The Sutcliffe papers sho...

I thought that this may be of interest given the references to "Maria Marten & the Red Barn". There is a loose connection between the play and Barlick. Prior to becoming the wife of Barlick man James Pickles, my ggrandmother was a Mrs Longmore, an actress. I recently visited the Wolver...

What belting photos! There's a word for you. Where did that come from?

Quirky title Nolic! It sounds tempting. Currently reading "The Rotters Club" by Jonathan Coe, which I am enjoying. Am working my way through Hilary Mantel's repertoire interspersed by other books....she's up there with Margaret Attwood who is another of my favourites. Wondering whether to ...

Should have explained that this relates to a family who moved from Barnoldswick to Blacko Foot Farm. I don't know which mode of transport they would have used. Never mind....it is a bit of a long shot.

Does anyone have any idea which road you would have travelled from Barnoldswick / Springs to Blacko Foot in 1824? Have looked at the OS Map & tried the internet to no avail.

Heard that a study has found that drinking coffee reduces the risk of having a stroke. Bring it on!

I remember reading that antibiotics given routinely to cattle to promote growth and reduce infections in "factory farmed" herds, were largely responsible for the rise in antibiotic resistant bacteria in humans. I followed a link to "The Guardian" website & found an article fr...

The end of a barbell?

I've spent the last few days with my nose in Victorian newspapers, researching Henry Pickles, theatre proprietor & son of Barlick. I found a purler of an article from the Burnley Advertiser 18/02/1865. The gist is that Richard III was being played at Henry's wooden theatre in Burnley. In the fin...

Ukip came second in the Eastleigh by election. I find that rather scary.

More gardening before the inevitable rain arrives, trying to make sourdough bread, shopping & whatever.