FORGOTTEN CORNERS

[David Whipp]

This picture was taken from the top of Ghyll Church tower when Beating the Bounds was launched. You can see Ghyll Hall Farm, part of the Rolls-Royce plant at Ghyll and bridge 158 on the canal with the drumlins in the background.

[Stanley]

Former corner shop on Hill Street.

[David Whipp]

This is taken from bridge 158 on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal looking towards Ghyll Church (looking back to where the church tower pic was taken). This bridge is where the towpath switches from one bank of the canal to the other north of Greenberfield. It was rebuilt a few decades ago with a concrete arch replacing the previous stone one. An interesting snippet is that, when the Act of Parliament was approved for our section of the canal a clause was included requiring fixed bridges along this length. Hence the absence of swing bridges, which are common on other sections.

[Stanley]

New lock gates ready to be installed at Greenberfield in 2000.

[Stanley]

1937 Coronation Party, Ellerbank Manufacturing Company at Wellhouse Mill. First row, bottom, left to right; David Pickup, Albert Macro (astride plank), Johnny Green, H Hargreaves. Second row. Fred Matcalfe, Luke Hartley, Ernest Walker, Parker Firth, ?, Gladstone Cairns, Neddy Anderson (butcher of Park Road) Jack Boyce, Alfred Strickland. Back row; Billy Shuttleworth, Norman Windle, Leo Stubbs, two Shuttleworths.

[Stanley]

Bancroft Mill; Loomers and twisters, coronation 1937. Back row, Left to right: Dan Brennan, Bill Eccleston, Bob Walker, Fred Walker, Walter F Plumley and Harry Clavert. Front row; Miss Jane Atkinson, Lawrence Kiernan, Mrs Grev Davy, Billy Whiteoak, Hilda Lomax and Hettie Clark.

[Stanley]

Bancroft Mill, Coronation 1937. Group of tacklers in the warp preparation department. Top row, left to right; Harry Hartley, George Beaumont, Herbert Crow, Dick Smith, Bill Tomlinson. Front row; Levi Steele, Johnson Carr, Dick Lord, George Monks, Ted Burke.

[PanBiker]

I love these old group photo's, especially when there are names to all the faces. Future Genealogist dream.

[Stanley]

Dead right Ian, that's why I post them. Just imagine researching a name and suddenly finding one of these pics!



Tacklers at Moss Shed shortly after it opened in 1903.

[Stanley]

Tacklers. Shed unknown. Second from right on the back row is Fred Watkinson and the man on his left could be Billy Brooks. Shela Smith as was rang me and the man on the left of the back row is John Smith, her grandfather. The man next to fred Watkinson, third from the left, is Dan Smith her father who used to drive for Wild Brothers. She has an idea that the small man with glasses sat at the right on the front row is Billy Haines who lived on Clarence Street at one time but is not sure. The pic was taken c.1937 and she thinks it could be Long Ing.

[Stanley]

On the back of the photograph is written: Mill Stir at Anthony Carr's, Crow Nest Mill. L to R: Elsie Lancaster, Clara Hudson, ?, ?, Elizabeth Morgan, Vera Eastwood, ?.

[Stanley]

Three of me weavers at Bancroft in 1978. Gwen on the right, Phyliss in the middle and I forget the name of the lady on the left. Wonderful women and a joy to work with them, always a joke about something!

[Stanley]

Mary Cawdrey making a forcible point to Jim Pollard the weaving manager at Bancroft Shed in 1977. Jim looks to be under attack, Mary was a good weaver and a formidable lady!

[rossylass]

What belting photos! There's a word for you. Where did that come from?

[Stanley]

Rossy, a good pic hits you in the face! Glad you are all enjoying them.



Mary Wilkin weaving at Bancroft Shed in 1977. Jim Pollard reckoned she was the best weaver in the shed. Always tidy and hard at work, never a wasted move and a great skill.

[Stanley]

Bancroft weavers having a smoke in the disused canteen in 1977. Over the years they got used to me being around and snapping them. You'd be amazed at some of the things I learned while listening to them!

[minimiller]

Over the years they got used to me being around and snapping them.

.....and I'm really glad that you did too.

[Stanley]

Mick, it was a unique opportunity because I was part of their world. This is why the interviews for the LTP were so penetrating, they knew me and trusted me.



A weaver's buffet in the shed at Bancroft. A simple thing but tells you so much about conditions in the shed. This was at the end of the set of looms and was headquarters. Made out of scrap wood and apart from being a seat it held all the tools she needed for her trade.

[PanBiker]

No fridge at Bancroft then? Re-cycled dried milk tins, a feature of my dad garden shed as well. One thing I would like to ask Stanley. I can see the packet of Embassy on the stool. Was smoking confined to designated areas in the mill? I see the ladies having a fag with their brew and wondered about the risk of fire / flashover with the dust.

[Nolic]

Panny, smoking was pretty well regulated in most mills and the weaving shed and spinning rooms in particular were kept smoking free. This was due to the presence of highly flammable cotton dust and particles that were in the air. I believe that if these caught fire then it could spread like wildfire(sic) and seem as if the air itself was ablaze. Nolic

[PanBiker]

As I thought it would be Nolic, thanks.

[Stanley]

Smoking strictly prohibited everywhere in the mill except in the office, tackler's cabins, engine house and the old canteen. References in the LTP to the flashover of burning fly in the shed particularly when the gas lighting was being lit in the old sheds. This flashover was probably a good thing because it was regular and happened so fast that it didn't trigger a fire.



Mary Cawdrey doing a bit of tackling in 1977. She's sticking fur in the shuttle to act as a brake on the weft as it flew off the cop. In the old days this would not have been allowed but by 1977 many of the old rules had been relaxed and Mary was certainly skilled enough to recognise the fault and cure it.



The couple are Fred and Elizabeth Mary (nee Windle) Bracewell. Married in 1898 and pic taken in 1900. Info from Mrs Tom Ward, their grandaugher April 2004.

[Stanley]

Ernie Roberts with a fur hat brought in by the weavers for use in the shuttles. The management reckoned they couldn't afford to buy any!

[Stanley]

Ernie with the fur hat. A natural born comedian!

[Stanley]

Slack time in the tackler's shed at Bancroft. Ernie sat down, Roy Wellock honing his skills.