Bank Edge View

[David Whipp]

Well, the clags lifted a little. Here's Barlick at 10am today.

[David Whipp]

Mist in the valley. Looking over Rolls-Royce towards Waddington Fell. Taken in December 2007.

[Stanley]

It could be like that this morning.....

[David Whipp]

It could be like that this morning.....

Thought the same myself, but it's as clear as a bell.

[Stanley]

Little bit early on at 04:00 but as you say, a nice clear day now.....

[PanBiker]

What's on fire in that last photo David?

[David Whipp]

What's on fire in that last photo David?

Nothing, hopefully!

The last photo shows some of the site lighting at Rolls-Royce appearing as a glow. The photo before that has (and others) shows steam coming out of the plants heating system near the old boilerhouse.

[David Whipp]

This picture is a companion to the one posted in Forgotten Corners the other day.

It shows Folly Lane (Moorgate Road), with Higher View the highest property visible top left and the roof of Newfield Edge House bottom left.

The picture posted in Forgotten Corners shows the mounds and dips better on the hillside. This one was taken a few minutes ago when a break in the cloud cast sunlight onto Weets.

[Big Kev]

It's a nice walk up there.

[PostmanPete]

This one was taken a few minutes ago when a break in the cloud cast sunlight onto Weets.

10 minutes earlier David and you would have got my post van on the photo up at Higher View Farm.....!

[Marilyn]

so...(trying to get my bearings)...would that be Standridge Farm about one third up on the left?
If so, MoorClose Farm would be off to the mid right and out of shot? (down t' hill)

[Cathy]

Beautiful. I remember many happy times climbing over the stone wall on Colne Rd and then heading up Folly Lane.

[Marilyn]

I wish I remembered as much as you Cazza...being younger I only have snippets...mostly of watching the older ones heading off for walks! ( guess no-one wanted to carry me if my legs got tired!)
So I don't remember Folly Lane specifically, but the general view and terrain before all those houses were built opposite us is very familiar.
Not bad considering I was only four and a half when we left there.
I certainly remember Colne Road and the half tumbled down stone wall leading to the fields...and being rather miffed that I didn't always get to go on walks.

[Stanley]

Pics trigger all sorts of memories don't they. Yes it's Standridge and I remember one cold day Mrs Robinson offered me a bowl of stew to warm me up. But I had noticed that the handkerchiefs she was boiling on the stove were overflowing into the stew..... (She never put salt in her cooking and her family had to get used to it!) She used to carry the milk down to the stand at the bottom of Folly in a back kit, a formidable woman! Her husband used to get Cramp Hoyle to deliver the hen grub in half hundredweight bags and leave them on the stand. He said his missus couldn't manage a one hundredweight bag....

[David Whipp]

Dreary weather this week; grey and wet. Not much chance of a photo worth posting.

Here's one from the archive; a sunset seen from Bank Edge November 2012.

[David Whipp]

This morning, sunlight through a break in the clouds lit up the catkins on this tree.

[Marilyn]

That is lovely. Love all the different shades.
Looks like an oil painting.

[plaques]

Trees are always problematic. Great in the first years for hiding some undesirable feature. Then all of a sudden the view you wanted to keep has disappeared. At this point you realize you're too old to be climbing trees.

[PostmanPete]

That is lovely. Love all the different shades.
Looks like an oil painting.

Bank edge view 2nd Feb 2014 oil.jpg

[David Whipp]

This is an autumn view out of our window in autumn 2012, when I'd just come out of hospital.

[David Whipp]

The trig point at the top of Weets catches the sun this morning.

[Stanley]

Nice pic, good Barlick weather when the SW was suffering. Lots to be said for Barlick!

[David Whipp]

Wind turbines on Brogden Lane.

[David Whipp]

The phone mast at Wedacre, which is nearly at Gisburn but is within the parish of Bracewell and Brogden - part of the Craven ward of Barnoldswick.

[David Whipp]

The view of Weets this morning with a light covering of snow.