FORGOTTEN CORNERS

[Bruff]

Far and away my favourite thread on this site is this. Educational as well as bringing back a host of memories with the pics from the 70s and 80s.

Excellent.

Richard Broughton

[Stanley]

Thanks for that Richard. Nice to know that such a lot of people share my fascination with old images, they can always teach us something. (But then I would say that wouldn't I....)



This might trigger you off. The cast iron kitchen range used to be the heart of the house. It provided heat, hot water and cooking facilities and was the focus of many a kitchen. This is a modern reproduction but absolutely representative of the highest class of range.

[Tripps]

I have a copper kettle like that. Paid a lot for it about twenty years ago, but they seem to be out of fashion now. Probably worth more as scrap, but I like it so it stays. I notice that the dogs are both facing the same way.

[minimiller]

We had an old range when I lived in Bradford. Nothing near as fancy as that one but had the same functions.
Mum used to get 5 bags of coal delivered for 10 bob, methinks. This was dumped into the back yard then Dad shoveled it down the cellar steps.
The Clean Air Act had just kicked in so it couldn't be left outside in full view.

[Stanley]

A later version of the full range, this was called a 'cottage range'. It had no hot water hopper but a back boiler instead. This one was in a miner's cottage at Newbiggin in 1979 and ran on Concessionary Coal.

[Nolic]

Still got one!! Nolic

[Stanley]

Oven was mainly used for drying firewood and warming bricks for bed-warmers after the advent of gas cookers bu still a viable way of cooking if you have a fire lit. Cheaper than leccy! (And power cut proof....)

[Wendyf]

The old black range takes me back to my Grandma's house in Wyke when I was little. But it wasn't the range that was important to me, it was the big cupboard beside it. There was an old Nuttalls Mintoes tin in there full of dominoes and coloured wooden shapes...kept me happy for hours!
Then there was Grandad's pipe rack on the mantelpiece, and the holders for pipe cleaners and spills that we were always making at school.....

[Tripps]

" and ran on Concessionary Coal."

As mentioned by the geordie singer Jez Lowe

" They tried to teach me Geography, but found it much too hard
They asked where did coal come from - I answered 'next door's yard'

[elise]

There is a fully extant kitchen range in the cellar of the gatehouse at Bankfield Shed, possibly the only one in the town

[Stanley]

David, the place where I saw the cottage Range was in Newbiggin. Jack was a retired Depty and still got concessionary coal. He worked in the wet undersea mine for 52 years and I asked him what he got for a retirement present, "A serstificate!" "Can I see it?" "It's nailed on the back of the coalhouse door". Good man Jack.......



An early cast iron gas cooker, about 1920?

[Stanley]

Only 35 years ago but how old-fashioned this cooker looks and the fridge is a Gascold. It ran on a small pilot flame heating an evaporator unit. Kept the fridge cool but no freezer for ice cubes. The cat was an optional extra!

[Stanley]

The older end of King Street.

[Stanley]

Far Newfield Edge. SD 858457. It's possible this could be Newfield Edge Hall Farm a bit further west. About 1900.

[Bruff]

Bloke next door to me has a range as impressive as the one above posted Fri 22. It's original and it took him 18months, a bit a day and now and again, to bring it 'to life' when he moved in. It's absolutely fantastic. We don't have one, as the street is divided into quarters with a different design of house in each and his is the first of one of a differing design to us. We do have a nice original fireplace and ornate surround though in the living room, and a nice one in one of the bedrooms, but nothing like that.

Richard Broughton

[Stanley]

Richard, in about 1945 when we moved into an old Victorian house built for running with servants we had the full monte, a cast iron range like the one above and the ashes dropped straight into a pit in the cellar. We used it for a while until my dad got a Rayburn installed on 'area test' (He worked for Allied Ironfounders). I went back over 40 years later to have a look at the house just before it was demilished to make way for modern flats and it was spooky apart from minor alterations the house hadn't changed a bit! The Rayburn was still there in the kitchen exactly as installed by my dad all those years ago.

[Stanley]

Newfield Edge on Folly Lane in about 1910. Home of Billycock Bracewell until 1885 when he died but he never owned it.

[Bruff]

The foundry in Barlick produce the 'Esse' ranges, which are doing very well I understand, helped no doubt by that Hugh Fearnley-Wearnley fellow who has one down at his River Cottage. Sharp-eyed viewers have spotted the make and so set out to track them down. There's a shop in Hoylake that does this sort of thing and they have the Esse range in there - the strap-line is something like 'Born in Barnoldswick'.

Richard Broughton

[Stanley]

Firemaster bought out the Esse brand. Esse was strictly not 'born in Barlick'. See LINK

[Stanley]

Dotcliffe Mill, Kelbrook after the fire in 1959 believed to be started by the 'Firebug'

[minimiller]

I served my apprenticeship at Dotcliffe Mill 1969 - 1973.
I can't seem to get a bearing of which angle that picture was taken from.

[Stanley]

Can't help you, it was one Bob King sent me and we can't ask him!



Old postcard of the road up to Dotcliffe Mill.

[Stanley]

I think this is Waterside at Colne in about 1900.

[Wendyf]

It does't look like Colne Stanley...not hilly enough and much too clean to be Waterside.

[Nolic]

At first sight I thought it was Earby. Nolic