FORGOTTEN CORNERS

[Big Kev]

I got the clearer image from Gus's Facebook page

[plaques]

Normally I don't do FaceBook. Does Gus have a separate page without trawling through loads of others stuff.
Kev can you give me the link I would be interested in his photos.

[PanBiker]

Ken, Gus has his own page but most of the vintage pictures are hosted on Barnoldswick & Barlickers Then and Now of which I am an Admin as well as Gus. Most of the pictures on there are loaned or donated then scanned if Gus hasn't taken them himself. He is an avid "snapper" as such and also has a Flikr account with about 60,000 of his images on.

[Big Kev]

Normally I don't do FaceBook. Does Gus have a separate page without trawling through loads of others stuff.
Kev can you give me the link I would be interested in his photos.

Here you go https://www.facebook.com/loopywine

[PanBiker]

Ha, I referenced it the posh way Kev. See my comment about Gus's FLIKR page also.

It's easy to share pictures on the Facebook platform but because it's just a linear wall it's a bugger to find anything. Especially if it was posted a while ago and the wall has moved on. Only thing you can do is manually troll the picture archive on the page. I will mention also that Gus is not precious about his images. As I commented most have been donated for scanning to the site.

I will mention also that the "loopywine" reference in the title is regarding the Red Biddy variety of refreshment that used to be available at the Green Street Working Men's Club.

[PanBiker]

Here we go, Gu's Flikr page, 57,000 to troll through.

Gussyb24

Just noticed I am featured.

[plaques]

Thanks for the links. I think I recognise a couple of the more 'mature' celebrities on the picture link. After about 10 years or more the background is more interesting that the original subject.

[Big Kev]

Ha, I referenced it the posh way Kev. See my comment about Gus's FLIKR page also.

Looks like we both posted a response at the same time
I'm limited on how I can post a url from my phone
Opening the url icon just gives me the url 'tags' with no option to add any additional labels.

[Stanley]

An abandoned horse-drawn hay rake which has been converted for tractor pulling. 1982 opposite Folly cottages.

[PanBiker]

It's still there, a bit more overgrown in 2015.

[Stanley]

Nice.... The best thing is if you dug it out and oiled it it would still do the job!

[Stanley]

Sough Bridge Mill in winter 1956. In those days Bristol Tractors had the main mill. This end was occupied by Kelbrook Metal products and at the back was the Forecast Foundry. It was a busy corner.....

[Stanley]

In 1957 you could still see the buildings that were essential to the mill when it wove cotton. Here's the yard, you can still see the engine house, boiler house and of course the chimney. Notice that at some time the chimney has been extended with brickwork, very common in the early mills as they were built with cheaper short chimneys but were short of draught.

[Stanley]

The Bristol Tractor made at sough Bridge Mill after the end of WW2. They lasted on the site until 1971. See THIS site for the history. They tested all the tractors on land across the road from the mill at Sough and it was common to see them crossing the road. I often wondered if they had an arrangement with the licensing authorities because I never saw trade plates on them.

[Stanley]

Peter Tatham demolishing Sough Mill chimney in September 1979. Another stack bit the dust.

[Stanley]

Colne Road Sough in 1979. Sough chimney is still there.

[Wendyf]

Stanley can I pinch these pictures of the Sough Mill chimney for the Kelbrook Facebook page please?

[Stanley]

Course you can Wendy. I'll put some more up so you have a choice.



From the rear of the mill 1978.




From Sough Row back Street 1978.

[Wendyf]

Thank you, that's great.

[Stanley]

You're welcome Wendy.
The wider message is that I will never object to anyone copying my pics and using them. Feel free.
BARNOLDSWICK CORN MILL
Craven Herald, 28th December 1951, page 7

“Fate of Corn Mill Chimney”
Summary

In an interview with J M Hoyle of C Hoyle and Sons, the article stated the following:
The old chimney is to be pulled down as soon as negotiations are completed. It has been redundant for at least 70 years. One of the towns oldest landmarks, 110` 0” high. Probably the oldest chimney in the town. Mr Hoyle thinks that it was in existence many years before his grandfather took over the mill in 1888 following a sale. Before that date the mill had been idle for about three years. Before the Hoyle family took over the mill, it was owned by Mr W Bracewell and used as a flour mill.
Owing to a slump in trade in Whitley Bridge, Mr M Hoyle moved to Barnoldswick and began working for Mr Bracewell. In 1888 the chimney went out of use as a water wheel was installed. In 1896 a turbine belt was brought into use and in that way the mill continued until 1916 when the water lease ran out and the Council took over putting certain by-laws into operation, which prevented its continued use.
That was not the end for Mr Hoyles father had a suction gas plant installed and production continued by that method until 1939. In 1939 electrification was carried out.
Mr Hoyle referred to the chimney as “derelict” and said that it was difficult to demolish due to the proximity of neighbouring houses. With a smile, Mr Hoyle said “the only use for years and years was as a corner for courting couples”.

[Stanley]

This is where the stone trough for Lister Well used to be before it was moved to safety, isolated stone artefacts of that quality were being stolen in the district. The actual source of the well is the copse on the skyline, you can take your pick of where the original Lister Well was!



Elise posted this image of the trough that was by the side of Lister Well Lane, it's safe now.

[Stanley]

If you walk up Folly Lane to the cottages at the foot of the hill and look carefully in the bank opposite the cottages you'll find this. If all the grass was cleared off you'd find a well made and installed stone trough. This is Folly Well and was the original water supply for the cottages and doubtless others as well.

[Stanley]

If you keep your eyes open while walking down the back alleys of the town you might find one of these or perhaps an aperture at higher level that still has hinges in the wall. (This was in Beech Street) These are all the remnants of Victorian services. The ones at lower level are for raking the ashes out of the midden or dragging the soil bucket out from the outside privy. The higher ones are where the coal was tipped into the coal house in the back yard. Most houses had all three, a coal place, an ash midden and a privy.

[plaques]

This one is on Brook St. I have it down as a coal shoot . I'm not sure what is on the other side of the wall. What does the team think?

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Coal shoot.jpg

[chinatyke]

Is it not a coal chute?