FORGOTTEN CORNERS

[Stanley]

Not sure Cathy but very old. Probably a medieval house or 'hall' named after a family 'Rain Hall'. That's only an educated guess, I don't have any evidence. 'Rain' could be a corruption of a very old name beginning with 'Regna...'



Rainhall Rock shortly after the quarry closed and before it was filled with household waste. What a shame.....

[Stanley]

There used to be a crane like this one at Halifax at Rough Games quarry on Tubber hill. See my articles 'Rock Solid' for the driver trying to lift too much and tipping the crane into the quarry bottom....

[Stanley]

Greenberfield postcard, about 1900?

[Cathy]

In one of my books about Barlick the index lists a Rainhall situated on Rainhall Crescent (parallel with Marys Avenue)
Could it be an old meeting place, is the building still there? Just thought it might have a plaque or something.

[Stanley]

The only thing that springs to mid Cathy is that there used to be an old barn on the site of what is now the telephone exchange and it was used at one time as a chapel.

[Stanley]

Long Ing in about 1900.

[elise]

"Rough Games quarry on Tubber hill" - this should read LOOSE Games

"an old barn on the site of what is now the telephone exchange" - this was New Laithe farm, not seen a photo but there is an oil painting of it

[Stanley]

Quite right Elise.... It's my age....

[Stanley]

What used to be the village of Stock near Bracewell is definitely a forgotten corner. It thrived until the mid 19th century as part of the Bracewell Estate but went into rapid decline as people migrated to Barlick in search of work in the new textile mills for all of the family including children.

[Stanley]

The 1853 OS map showed Stock Green as an intact village in its own right. The census details shops and businesses in the village.

[Stanley]

Map of the field system at Stock in 1717. Click to enlarge....

[Stanley]

List of holdings on the YAS Stock estate map posted on 21st February.

[Stanley]

I've bumped the original postings on the 1717 estate map of Bracewell. Some interesting information in there.....

Here's the map. click to enlarge....

[Stanley]

My mind has been on Bracewell and Stock so I've bumped the article I did and the pic by William Bracewell in 1850.

[Stanley]

Same view in 1874 from the sale brochure.

[Stanley]

About 1930?

[Stanley]

Poorbones. We really do need to save this......

[Stanley]

I'd love to see this investigated....... It wouldn't cost a fortune to take a few stones out to see if the trough is still in the wall.....

[David Whipp]

I thought I'd got the new headteacher interested in a project to open it up, but nothing has materialised.

[Big Kev]

No one has any money, especially 'authorities'. You'd need to find a bunch of willing volunteers and the gain the relevant permissions to do the job.

[PanBiker]

I'd love to see this investigated....... It wouldn't cost a fortune to take a few stones out to see if the trough is still in the wall.....

This must be a very old photo Stanley, before the mini roundabout I would assume when the crossing was adjacent to the old Skipton Road junction. Crossing has been moved further down now and the belisha at that position has been replaced by a lamp standard. I was thinking that looking at the stonework, there must be something remaining of the well, behind or within as why would they have bothered to put in jambs and a lintel? Looks like the wall was originally built round a feature then in filled at a later date. Good chance that there are surviving features. Are there any earlier pictures of the school build? I'm sure I have seen some somewhere, maybe on the Barlick and Barlickers then and now Facebook site. Will have a look.

[PanBiker]

Here we go, knew I had seen one somewhere. This photograph, from a postcard was submitted to the Barnoldswick and Barlickers then and Now Facebook site by Liam Wild. It shows the M.P. of the day Mr W. Clough leaving the school after the opening ceremony. It looks like the well was in place when the school was first built and then walled up later.



Pity the annotation is obscuring the area we are interested in but I think it shows enough.

[Stanley]

Ian, not an old pic. I took it a coup[le of years ago.....

[PanBiker]

This is Google Street view image taken in 2009. The zebra is about ten yards to the right back from the junction just slightly higher than the garage. The well is almost on the junction in front of the girls entrance.



Your image must be a lot earlier than you think before the zebra was moved. I think that happened when the mini-roundabout went in a good number of years ago now. No worries anyway, the well is still in the same place only the rest of the features around it have moved a bit.

[David Whipp]

Perspective of age, Ian? (A lot of the things I think of as 'a couple of years ago' turn out to be a decade ago...)

I thought I'd got the head interested in doing a topic with the school, researching the history of the well and opening it up; I suggested a way of funding the work which wouldn't have cost the school anything apart from their time. I'll have another go at getting them going.