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Annie Brooks and Fred Slater at Bracewell Hall near the boating lake. 1929.

Moses Lee Farm

Philip Street/Back Lane in Barlick behind the Cross Keys.

The culvert under Calf Hall Mill before the dam was done away with.

Calf Hall culvert after the dam had been broken and the area landscaped.

Calf Hall in 2000 after the culvert had been buried by further alterations.

Culvert under the canal at Salterforth near the old boatyard at SD 888458. Incidentally this was also the point where the Tramway from Park Close Quarry met the canal and I often wondered whether the culvert had been constructed large enough to carry the tramway under the canal if so required.

The culvert at the side of Gillian's mill where the beck from Lane Bottoms goes underground to join Gillian's Beck.

The exit of the culvert under the yard at Ouzledale Mill where it enters what used to be Clough Mill lodge.

1979. On the right you can see Eastwood Bridge over the canal just before it was demolished.

Eastwood Bridge after demolition.

The old arched bridge at Pickles Hippings in 1982. I think it has since collapsed.

Westgate in 1910. Notice the early motor bike near the lamp post. The houses on the left were demolished in the 1950s to widen the road.

Some time ago, there was a query about the setts being reinstated following a trench being dug on the side street next to the old gas works yard. Myself and council staff have been going round the houses trying to pin down the utility company that carried out the work.

Last week, I discussed this with the owners of the Cornmill.

They advise that they own the whole of the side street from the front of Cornmill Cottages towards their property. The trench dug earlier in the year has been temporarily reinstated with bitmac to allow settlement prior to the setts being reinstated. They are in touch with the contractors, and will make sure the work is carried out when the trench has settled.

They also expressed the desire to reinstate setts on the whole of the roadway in their possession when funds allow.

Gritstone setts make a good road surface for slow speed traffic. When I was a lad the whole of Wellington Road through Stockport was paved with granite setts and the problem with them was that they were so hard they got polished over the years and were very treacherous when wet. In London, particularly in the city, tar-soaked hardwood blocks were popular, a very hard wearing and quiet surfece. However they burned well on the fire and were pinched by the poor for fuel!



Setts exposed in Newtown during re-surfacing in 2003. The technical name for the pattern is Durex.....

Packhorse bridge at the site of the old Wood End water mill at County Brook.

Old drying rack stones in a wall at Booth Bridge Mill, Thornton in Craven. Evidence that the site was once a corn mill and had a drying kiln.

Maurice Windle on duty at Linda Pickles' wedding in 1976.

Jim Windle, Maurice's brother, on wedding duty at Gill church in 1977.

Maurice and Jim took Sally and myself to our wedding in 1976. Jim came for me and Maurice picked up my bride to be.

The tape room at Bancroft in 1979. The machines have been scrapped, all that is left is the remains of human activity.

That is a great picture, Stanley.

Thanks Mick.

Jim Pollard and Sidney Nutter in the office at Bancroft in 1979. They were running a mill under threat of closure despite the fact it was making a profit.

The wooden café opposite Bankfield gates in about 1960.