FORGOTTEN CORNERS

[Stanley]

You're right Comrade, a senior moment!

[barlickrog]

Fascinating to see the picture of Clough Mill, and how packed in everything is in front of it. The old North Street Baptist church along with the Sunday school and the Institute, police station the old CO OP and Bethesda Church, i always enjoy these pictures, all part of the fabric of Barnoldswick . Spent many a sunday night dashing between North st and Bethesda.

Roger .

[Stanley]

Glad you're enjoying them Roger.



As promised, Bank Street yesterday.

[Tripps]

Thanks for that. Are they flats? I googled and find that the original for sale advert for the plot said -

"Summary: Former Joiners Workshop and Land with full P.P. to demolish and erect 3no. 3bed cottages each with gardens and off street parking, one detached and a pair of semis, all with road frontage."

The mysteries of the planning system.

[Stanley]

The new building already erected is housing association flats.



The gala procession forming up at the end of Bank Street in about 1920?

[Stanley]

This one's a mystery. An old pic I copied in 1981 and have never been able to christen. Anybody got any ideas?

[Wendyf]

You put this one up on the old site Stanley and I decided that it might be Copy House up on Kelbrook Moor, now called Harwes (where the Dissenters Well & Tom Cross can be found). Though it is a big and very different place now, my neighbour told me that it was once a small house, not really a farm, and that the gamekeeper for the moor lived there.

[Stanley]

I remember now Wendy. That figures because the batch of pics seemed to all be taken about 1900.



Abel Taylor and his son David in the barn at Greenbank on Gisburn Old Road in 1956. They're sat on an old fashioned meal kist, still in use at the time. David must be over 60 now, makes me feel old!

[Stanley]

Just noticed in the pic above, both of them wearing clogs. The local clogger was called Harry Whiteoak, he farmed White Moor Bottom and later retired to the house at Standing Stone Gate.



Abel Taylor mowing with his horse Dick at Greenbank Farm in 1956.

[Stanley]

A meeting on Jepp Hill. Church banners so perhaps the Whitsuntide walk. Looks to be 1920s from the dress.

[Stanley]

Whit walk in Barlick in the 1960s. The lady in black on the right is my late mother in law Mary Agnes.

[Stanley]

Bancrofts in 1950. The cottages on the main road, long since demolished, were called Windy Harbour, a name associated with overnight halts for drovers and packhorse trains.

[David Whipp]

In the late 1980s, the acute corner on the Barlick side of the Gillians/Manchester Road junction was eased to allow the (then) new town bus service to negotiate the corner.

[Stanley]

The view from Bancroft yard in 1976 before Sid Demain got permission to build his bungalow. I sold him the field in the background so he could qualify and also gave him access to Manchester Road by a right of way through Hey farm yard so he had a way out if there was any problem with access.

[Stanley]

An old postcard (19thC) of a twister joining the individual threads in a warp to their mating thread in the heald and reed sat by twisting (knotting) the ends together. Thes skills are lost now and so are definitely a forgotten corner.

[Nolic]

Comrade, thanks for all the trouble you go to in order that we can enjoy these little peeks into the past - as well as for all the other topics that you keep going. Nolic

[Stanley]

Not easy to pick out but in the centre of the picture is the dam that held back the water flowing from Lane Bottoms that powered the Gillians twist mill. They couldn't use the water in Gillians Beck because Clogh Mill owned the water rights.

[Stanley]

If you look into the beck at Parrock Laithe you'll see this jumble of masonry. Very difficult to make sense of it but these are the remains of the weir that served Parrock Laithe when it was a small twist mill around 1800.

[Stanley]

The morning after the Alhambra cinema in Butts burned down in 1923. Butts mill in the background. I wonder if the young Ernie Roberts is on this picture? It would surprise me if he isn't there....

[Stanley]

[Stanley]

Redundant ash pits/middens in a Barlick back street in 1982. All the household waste was thrown in the top hole after being burned on the fire and they were cleaned out periodically by raking the waste out from the bottom hole and shovelling it on a cart for disposal. You can still see the hinge pins and sneck for the door catch on the top holes.

[Stanley]

Folly Well. Doesn't look much but this was an important source of drinking water before we got the mains.

[Stanley]

I was told that this is the temporary wooden cenotaph used in Barlick until the permanent one could be erected.

[PanBiker]

From other views that are available of this it was sited just about where Steele's corner is, just off Fernlea onto Albert Road. Interesting that it is only a spit from where we have the proper memorial now.

[Stanley]

That makes sense Ian. Here's the area in 1892. According to Billy Brooks Albert Road building started shortly after 1900 and the Matt Hartley building at the Fernlea end had only just started at the end of the war. In addition, what is now the Post Office Corner hadn't been developed so a site where you suggest is sensible.