We have discussed the top photo before and it does not look like Barlick to me. I cant think of any terraced streets that are on a direct bus route, No 29 I reckon. Looks more like Nelson to me, Barkerhouse or Hallam Road area maybe, it could also be Westmorland Street in Skipton.
PanBiker wrote: ↑21 Jul 2017, 09:24
We have discussed the top photo before and it does not look like Barlick to me. I cant think of any terraced streets that are on a direct bus route, No 29 I reckon. Looks more like Nelson to me, Barkerhouse or Hallam Road area maybe, it could also be Westmorland Street in Skipton.
Isn't that Stage 29 rather than route 29? Don't remember there being bus stops labelled like that in Nelson.
Just commenting on the general view, cant think of anywhere in Barlick like that. It is similar to the areas in other towns mentioned though. I think the same photo has been on one the local facebook groups and discussed there as well. Same result, no one thought it was Barlick.
Croft House on Station Road. The first reference I have to it is from Billy Brooks' evidence in the LTP. He said that William Brooks lived there and I have an idea he was a stockbroker. He was Robinson Brooks' brother and had a major interest in the new Long Ing Shed. The next occupant I know of is Mr Atkinson the dentist who pulled a tooth for me without anaesthetic in 1962. Betty Corner (nee Greenwood) told me that prior to being there Atkinson had an office in the first house on Ribblesdale Terrace. Later after Atkinson the accountants Windle and Bowker took it over and are there still.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
The annexe to Gisburn Road CP school is about to become a forgotten corner. I remember it first in the 1960s as the school meals kitchen serving Barlick schools and Marshall's from Bradley picking up the food waste to feed their pigs. Then it became the nursery for the school and it seems this is about to be transferred to the main school buildings. I don't know what it's future will be.....
Stanley Challenger Graham
Stanley's View
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
When I was at Rainhall Road school in the 50's and early 60's we had our meals prepared there and brought to school mid morning in big aluminium containers. The food was not good and it was usually lukewarm at best.
A total contrast at Ermysted's where the food was cooked and served in a Nissan hut type building, The food was excellent and always fresh from the oven. Nolic
The annexe to Gisburn Road CP school is about to become a forgotten corner. I remember it first in the 1960s as the school meals kitchen serving Barlick schools and Marshall's from Bradley picking up the food waste to feed their pigs. Then it became the nursery for the school and it seems this is about to be transferred to the main school buildings. I don't know what it's future will be.....
You could be right Tiz, there's a big site adjoining on the side of the beck on what used to be the old Corn Mill Dam which is full of old garages...... It will be valuable land now with frontage on to the main road. Here's the 1892 map. The old kitchen is on the end of the dam at the roadside.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
The Surgery in Park Road in 1983. The cast iron frame on the right was for the rain water tank, the source of drinking water before 1900. Harold Duxbury once told me that almost all the older houses in Park Road had pumps in the kitchen and small wells underneath. We are so used to turning the tap on and getting good water we forget what it was like when we had to provide our own. I've lived in a house that depended on a well under the floor and can remember what a difference mains water made.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
The cast iron frame and tank was a product of William Bracewell's foundry in Burnley so this puts it's date as before 1880. This foundry made engines as well and later became Burnley Ironworks, makers of very good engines. When the surgery was re-modelled it was scrapped and I always regretted the fact that we lost it. It could easily have been incorporated as a structural element of the new wall with its face still visible.
Stanley Challenger Graham
Stanley's View
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
This is a very old image of what was in its time reputed to be the biggest steam engine in Britain. It was built by Bracewell's Burnley foundry for Dalton Mills at Keighley. This picture is of the engine after the jack wheel on the side of the main flywheel which was the driving gear for the shafting disintegrated and stopped the mill. Bracewell's quoted for a repair but the easiest and quickest way to get back in production was to install two new Pollit horizontal engines. Worth remembering that Billycock wasn't just active in Barlick, his foundry built some very big pumping engines as well for the coal fields.
Stanley Challenger Graham
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
I haven't got a pic this morning. I remembered being told by one of my Old Barlickers abut the day we had a submarine in the Cut! It turned out it was a mock-up built over a normal boat and it was going round as support for a fund-raising effort during WW2. It triggered a hilarious conversation on the site about gondolas! So much good stuff lost......
Stanley Challenger Graham
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
One of the unfortunate consequences of a long life is that you lose many friends. People are a wasting asset! Here's Newton in Wellhouse shop with his wife Olive in 1977. I had a breakdown on one of my stokers at the mill and of course I called Newton to get me out of the hole. Here he is making a new part on the Wilson lathe at Wellhouse. It was Newton's favourite lathe because it was so accurate and when he retired and the shop was demolished he took it home to Vicarage Road. When he moved out of there into a smaller shed when he married Beryl after Olive's death I bought it off him and used it for many years. It was, as Newton said, a good old lathe. The most accurate on face turning I have ever used. I wish I still had it but it died in a flood after I gave it to my mate John Ingoe at Rochdale Welding where I used it for about five years for refurbishing safety and stop valves. It was old but a good servant!
Stanley Challenger Graham
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Looking down Philip Street from its intersection with Ridge Street it's hard to realise that this was once the main route through Barlick, a continuation of Colne Road from the old ford across Gillians Beck to what is now Rainhall Road. Part of the original medieval road pattern.
Stanley Challenger Graham
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Good! My mate Robert called them 'The Lonely Sentinels of the Industrial Revolution' and put his money where his mouth was, he still owns a bunch of them dotted about the North and looks after them.
I've done my bit but those days are gone!
Stanley Challenger Graham
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
When I returned to my car after Jury service in Burnley last week I noticed that there were at least four redundant stacks in view from the car park on Whittham Street.
