FORGOTTEN CORNERS

[Big Kev]

From Gus Brennan's Facebook page; anyone know where the Wellington Club was?

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[Stanley]

I have nothing concrete but I have a suspicion it was associated with the conservative club. Something rings a bell!



Those were the days. A forgotten corner now I fear.....

[Wendyf]

From Gus Brennan's Facebook page; anyone know where the Wellington Club was?
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I found a newspaper article from 1917 about the Wellington Working Men's Club being taken off 'the Register' because of the amount of drunkenness amongst it's members. The owners of the neighbouring property, the Ivory Hall Club, applied to take over the premises, theirs being a much better class of establishment with an extensive library.

[Stanley]

In that case scrub the Co Club!
Ironic that in latter days the Ivory Hall had a very bad reputation.... mainly due to strippers.....

[Big Kev]

From Gus Brennan's Facebook page; anyone know where the Wellington Club was?
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I found a newspaper article from 1917 about the Wellington Working Men's Club being taken off 'the Register' because of the amount of drunkenness amongst it's members. The owners of the neighbouring property, the Ivory Hall Club, applied to take over the premises, theirs being a much better class of establishment with an extensive library.

Thank you

[Stanley]

The Lurcher in a recumbent posture......

[Stanley]

Butts Top in 1982. A lot has changed since then..... Remember paying your leccy bill at the YEB? Forty years ago now, time flies......

[Stanley]

Her Majesty's Troopship, Empire Parkeston. This is the boat that took me to Europe in 1954.....only 69 years ago.....

[Stanley]

On the day when Autumn arrived to supplant the unseasonable Indian Summer we have been enjoying here's a reminder of how bad it got in 1947, and this was down in London! Let's hope we have better this winter.....

[Stanley]

Church Street in about 1900. Sorry about the quality but notice the market stalls in the street in front of St James. The road is still the old water bound Macadam paving, Dusty in dry weather and a sloppy mess in wet. That's at least one great advantage we have now.....
Look down on the bottom left side of the image, you can see the circular paving round the Gormless at the top of Butts and the iron railings outside the Commercial pub.

[Stanley]

My workshop at the Hey in 1976. A cluttered mess! However, I see many tools that still grace the shed at East Hill Street (But a bit more tidily!)
In the background is my first lathe, an old and very worn Myford. I forget where I got it from but I know I sold it cheap to Roger Perry shortly after this pic was taken. I've learned a lot since then and improved in the shed but I still look back fondly at this scene. I did a lot of good work in there....

[Stanley]

The caption tells the story. This is the last big job Roberts Brothers at Nelson did. I think the man on the right is Arthur Roberts.
They were tasked with making the replacement flywheel for Bishop House Mill in Burnley which had smashed due to an overspeed. You'll find the complete story on the site in various places but most vividly in Newton Pickles' evidence in the LTP. He tells the story of how Roberts got the wheel wrong but it had to be cobbled to fit as it would have bankrupted the firm if forced to do it again.....
A forgotten corner.

[Stanley]

This is a picture of the damage inside the engine house of a spinning mill at Oldham after the flywheel of the large vertical engine exploded after running boggart (An overspeed) I found it in some insurance company reports.
This was what happened at Bishop House Mill in 1949.

[Stanley]

The Lumb governor on Bancroft engine. Properly managed this was a fail safe safety measure. Follow the rules and it would never let you down. Would that everything in life was as clear-cut! Unfortunately such clear cut results seem to be a forgotten corner!

[Stanley]

Jim Pollard at his looming frame in 1976 at Bancroft Shed. So what you might say, another textile worker doing his day to day job. But it's not quite like that.... Jim was weaving Manager at the shed, in effect he ran the mill and whether we functioned well and made a profit or not was his responsibility. Among his many talents, Jim was an expert in the complicated craft of cloth construction, setting up a warp with healds and reeds and getting it into a condition where it could be installed in a loom by a tackler and produce good cloth. If you could do this using second-hand healds and reeds and using the minimum amount of cotton yarn in both the warp yarns and the weft, you could make all the difference between a profitable mill and a failing one. This was Jim's magic and he regularly drew in over 10,000 ends a day in addition to all his other duties. Men like that are a forgotten corner in themselves....

[Stanley]

The corner of Wellhouse Road and Skipton Road opposite the gasworks in 1982 and Fairchild's monumental masons. In those days the National Showman's Association had the lease of the Wellhouse car park and used it for the annual fair.

[Stanley]

A useful rare postcard of the station because it puts a date on the view. A forgotten corner now of course.....

[Wendyf]

How about this? Anne in 1957.
I went and found the girls years later.....

I had a chat with Ann on Tuesday at the History Society meeting! She and her second husband, Gordon Sharp, produce short films and were booked to show us a film called Spellbound on the Borderline about various places worth visiting from Burnley though to Lothersdale. There was one sequence which looked very familiar, in fact it was Broom House Farm with grass rolling going on in the big field opposite me....actually filmed from my field! When I asked Gordon about it afterwards he told me that his wife's daughter farmed there with her husband. I then spoke to Ann, who told me she was brought up at Warley Wise. We had a lovely little natter.

[Stanley]

Lovely Wendy, so nice to hear she is alive and well!



Here's the pic that goes with it, Her two younger sisters and I think on the same day in 1957.

[Stanley]

The felling of the chimney at Perseverance Mill Blackburn in February 5 2009. This chimney was notable as it was the first one I have ever seen that had iron bands fitted at the base. I doubt I shall ever see another!

[Steeplejerk]

I could taken the brickwork out with a knife and folk it was that rotten

[Stanley]

I'd forgotten it was you Tom!

[Stanley]

These houses on King Street are some of the oldest buildings in the town centre and if you ever decide to delve into vernacular architecture they would repay a lot of study and thought!

[PanBiker]

I know the internals very well. My grandparents lived at number 15 and my Aunt Margaret and Uncle Norman at number 17 which is proper full of nooks and crannies.

[Tripps]

Aunt Margaret and Uncle Norman at number 17

What would they have thought about this?

17 King Street