FORGOTTEN CORNERS

[Thomo]

In the Navy, that comes under the same heading as "absent from place of duty" and the punishment is severe. A repeat offence would also carry a dishonourable discharge.

[Stanley]

Maybe. But this wasn't the Navy, if something worked we let it be.



I'll bet this would be illegal as well. Frank Bleasdale, the winding master, cutting my hair in the engine house while the mill was running.

[Stanley]

Joan Smith's pic of Stanley running Ellenroad engine..... Lovely job!

[Stanley]

An idyllic country scene but actually quite essential to our lives. The sewage works near Greenberfield Lane. Always a forgotten corner, very few ever think what happens when they flush to lavatory or pull the plug in the sink.

[Stanley]

Before the water carriage system this was how sewage was disposed of.

[Stanley]

Night soil men working in King Street, Barlick in 1982. They were emptying the commode of the lady who lived round the corner who was bedfast on the ground floor. The commode bucket was emptied into the hopper on the left hand corner of the vehicle and sucked into the main tank by vacuum.. The council also emptied rural septic tanks. I think the service is run commercially now.

[Stanley]

The great advance was the water carriage system and the tippler toilet. So called because the flush was from waste water which colleceted in a hopper until it filled and overbalanced giving a flush below ground level.

[Stanley]

Eigg going for a pee in the outside lavatory at Clarion House, Dimpenley where the tippler is still functioning. The brickwork isn't the best quality because it was built by volunteer building apprentices.

[PanBiker]

The ceramic tippler mechanism is accessible through a stone covered trap into the drain which accepts all the water from the kitchen. This is at the side of the path down to the toilet block. It was broken by a team of "experts" I think from Bradford University who asked if they could come along and document the system for their sanitary history project or something like that. The mechanism had sat in its little cubby hole doing it's job for well over 70 years until one of the bunch decided to lift it out for a better photograph, he dropped it and it smashed into 3 pieces! No chance of a compatible off the shelf replacement of course so we had to flush the toilets for a while by pouring buckets of water down the drain on the toilet block side. Needless to say the university mob were sent packing with their tails between their legs, never to darken the doors again. We mended the tippler with a lot of modern epoxy adhesive and some metal bracing strips, that's about 10 years ago, fortunately it's still working.

Clarion House now has indoor toilets including access for the disabled, these are housed in the extension added behind the original kitchen. This was done as part of the first phase of renovation of the Clarion a few years ago.

The toilets mat be a forgotten corner but the Clarion was rammed (as usual) the other Sunday when we went up for a committee meeting to discuss a new initiative which I will put in the Clarion thread in due course.

[Stanley]

Nice to hear you rescued it....



My friends Daniel Meadows and Linda Lloyd Jones having a brew in the Clarion House in 1977. They were of course under the watchful eye of Kier Hardie. Is he still there?

[PanBiker]

Of course.

[elise]

This corner is so forgotten that it is no longer there! I took this pic in 2002 of the site where there used to be a very fine stone trough that was fed by the Lister Well spring which rises in the copse in the background. I believe the trough was removed by the land owner after a failed attempt to steal it. Lister Well crops up a lot in Barlick history and was perhaps once a holy well. The water from the well was reputed to be a sovereign cure for whooping cough and other childhood ailments like croup.

Lister Well trough alive and well

[Stanley]

The railway bridge at Foulridge wharf in 1982. Is it still there?

[PanBiker]

Railway bridge is long gone Stanley, scrapped in 1984 according to the info Gus has with the picture on the Barlick and Barlickers then and now site hosted on Facebook. There is a then and now set of images on the site as well but it's a few week since they were put up.

Barnoldswick and Barlickers then and now

[Wendyf]

Possibly the doorstep to the old inn beneath the Anchor at Salterforth.

[Stanley]

The footbridge into Butts from Valley Gardens. Both this and the other footbridge lower down the beck have massive cast iron girders for a base. I think these were originally used in railway bridges in the town but have no proof./ Certainly re-used and far heavier than what would be needed for a simple footbridge. They will never wear out!

[Stanley]

The other footbridge in Valley Gardens. Also on a base of massive cast iron girders.

[Cathy]

Looks like a really nice part of Barlick, am I right??

[David Whipp]

Valley Gardens is a lovely part of town. It forms part of a green corridor alongside the beck which flows through the heart of Barnoldswick. I love the way you can walk from the centre of town to the greenery of Valley Gardens in just a couple of minutes.

Here's a view of the canal which you only get to see every few years. A section of the canal has been drained to allow new lock gates to be installed at Greenberfield's bottom lock.

[David Whipp]

I remembered I had a picture of the stream in Valley Gardens. This is what we can look forward to in a couple of months when the days are long enough for leaves to begin growing on the trees.

[Stanley]

Valley Gardens in June 2011. Nice thing about the gardens is that the paths are well used by pedestrians moving to and from the centre of the town.

[chinatyke]

Here's a view of the canal which you only get to see every few years. A section of the canal has been drained to allow new lock gates to be installed at Greenberfield's bottom lock.

Interesting how they put up a fence for edge protection when there is no water in the canal, and then take it away when there is water.

[David Whipp]

Interesting how they put up a fence for edge protection when there is no water in the canal, and then take it away when there is water.

You could be quoting what I said when we passed it on Sunday.

The lock itself has site fencing around it; when in operation, the drop is just as great.

[Stanley]

The original setts, installed around 1900 according to Billy Brooks, in Newtown. This was during re-surfacing. I have been told that the paviors were French but have no proof of that. The fan shaped pattern is known as Durex according to a pavior I talked to in Halifax.

[Stanley]

Your friendly millwrights from Brown and Pickles at work on a hot bearing on the tape drive shaft at Bancroft in 1977. You might wonder why I hadn't spotted it in time. Reason was that the tapers reckoned to look after their own maintenance so not guilty m'lud!