FORGOTTEN CORNERS

[Stanley]

I like this pic of an old man. Don't know anything about it or where I got it from but there's something about him.....

[Stanley]

Fred Slater and Annie's children. L to R Eva, Enid, Myra and George. About 1920.

[Stanley]

George & Mary Sharp Bird nee Rushworth with Margaret aged 12 mnths Craven Laithe, Admergill/Middop Gisburn Road, Blacko 1914. If I remember rightly he was the gamekeeper on Whitemoor.

[Stanley]

A very dirty forgotten corner. Jack, Charlie Sutton's second man, in the flue of the boiler at Bancroft shovelling flue dust over the bridge at the back of the furnace. Probably the dirtiest and most dangerous job in the world. The long term risk was the effects of the flue dust on lungs and the body. I'm glad I don't have anything to do with it any more but remember that it still has to be done wherever flues get dust in them.....

[Stanley]

Old postcard of Coates Hall. Possibly about 1930?

[Stanley]

A view of the back of old Coates Mill sent to me by Nick Livesey. I have a report of illicit spirits being distilled in the old gas house. The mill had its own gas plant for lighting.

[Stanley]

The water tank on Wellhouse Mill roof in 1978.

[Stanley]

If you look carefully at this 1853 OS map you'll see Gilbert Well on the side of the road opposite the site that is now Wood End bungalow. It's a forgotten corner as far as Barlick is concerened because Garra Pickles used to cart water from this spring for sale in Barlick in the days before we had a public water supply.

[Stanley]

The Cavaille-Colle organ originally installed in Bracewell Hall.

[Stanley]

Bracewell Hall interior at demolition in 1950. This was where the organ was installed by Hopwood.

[Stanley]

Photo of Bracewell Hall in 1850 taken by William Bracewell of Newfield edge. Ruins of the old Bracewell Hall on the left and the church on the right. Taken from across the lake.

[Stanley]

There used to be a wooden shed on this corner of Harrison Street. A man called Crabtree used to run a loom-shifting business from it. The BUDC minutes for 18th September 1957 note that the building is in a ruinous condition and set in motion a compulsory order to repair or demolish.
Loom shifting was big business at one time because when a manufacturer found a place with a lower rent, or perhaps a grace period of rent-free occupation, he thought nothing of moving all his looms and equipment from one shed to the other. This was a very common occurrence and I often think that the streets must have been full of horses drawing carts loaded with looms!

[Stanley]

Bracewell Hall under demolition by Briggs and Duxbury in 1950

[Stanley]

Believed to be Christopher Bracewell of Earby, died Colorado 1904. Source of pic Ann Battersby 2004

[Stanley]

1853 pic of Christopher Bracewell with his mother in law and first wife, Susannah Elizabeth (Betty) and his son Robert. Source: Ann Battersby 2004.

[David Whipp]

Literally a forgotten corner...



A section of sett paved channel and gulley at Town Head uncovered by work being carried out to the garden area.

[Stanley]

Fascinating what you find when you start digging. All my research points to the fact that the area from Townhead across to Calf Hall Lane is some of the oldest habitation in the area, could be said to be the nucleus of Barlick. I believe there was a church there from possibly the 6th century.



Elizabeth Bracewell (bottom right) with her family in Llandudno probably about 1890. Elizabeth was the widow of William Metcalfe Bracewell, Billycock's eldest son who died young and when she drew her money out of the Bracewell partnership it collapsed. A formidable woman!

[David Whipp]

I thought this view of the original arch of the Pickles Hippings bridge was better here than in what attracted your attention today...



... as it's from before the girder was replaced and parapet rebuilt in June 2013.

[David Whipp]

...and here's a view from upstream, with the concrete deck which takes the footpath over the beck.



This was taken before the girder was replaced.

[Stanley]

Elizabeth Bracewell with 4 of her grandchildren, l to r, Edith Ellen daughter of Edith Metcalfe Bracewell. Mary Forrest, Billy Forrest and Hannah Forrest, all children of Canon William Bracewell who married Hannah Forrest, sister of Sir William Forrest

[Stanley]

We're pretty certain that this is William Metcalfe Bracewell, the son who died suddenly at Calf Hall and precipitated the collapse of Bracewell Brothers when his widow Elizabeth took Billycock to court and apparently won her case.

[Stanley]

This is believed to be Ann Bradley, the Earby Bracewell's family's nurse and Chris Bracewell's long time mistress. She bore him children, followed him to America and eventually married him. See the Bracewell story for the full, fascinating story. Source is Ann Battersby who's great grandmother Ann was. Photographer 'King Street?

[Stanley]

Obviously a copy of Billycock's photograph and interesting that the hand coloured postcard promoted the ruin of the hall to an abbey.

[Stanley]

Old postcard of the post office at Bracewell. About 1900? Not sure where this was, anyone any ideas?

[elise]

It's at the rear of King Henry's Parlour down the side of the church