The View from Up Here.

[Stanley]

The reverse view from Letcliffe, Winter 2005.

[Wendyf]

Like the reverse view Stanley. we are near the skyline, just to the right of the trees on the left!

Shhh'....Sparky & Dennis are having a nap.

[Stanley]

Bleara from Sunnybank on Whitemoor.

[Wendyf]

The grass cut & rowed up in the fields around Salt Pie & Ninevah ready for siloing.



Looking down towards Harden New House and the track which curves around Kelbrook Moor to join Cob Lane. In the distance you can see the old Fanny Grey.

[Wendyf]

All enjoying the view in the early morning sunshine today...

[Gloria]

Wendy, a little bit of heaven, peace and quiet. Bliss.

[Stanley]

Bleara can be savage in winter but in good weather it's just about perfect. I nearly bought a farm up there just below Hawshaw in 1959, can't remember the name. Those small farms could all be bought at that time for £50 an acre including buildings.

[Wendyf]

Would that have been Hawshaw Side Stanley? It's on the opposite side of the road to us, just slightly lower down. Its been made into 2 or 3 houses now. There is another Hawshaw Side, almost next to it but with access from a lane nearer Lothersdale, and that is currently on the market for £795,000 with less than 4 acres of land...how times have changed.

[Stanley]

It was one of those two Wendy, I think the one that was accessed from the Lothersdale Road. I fancied one near Milford Haven and we went down to look at it. Nice little place with a river frontage and I forget what stopped us buying it but we bought the shop at Sough instead and finished up delivering groceries to many of those farms in the days when I was 'Open All Hours' at Sough. It was hard work but I met a lot of good people.



Two happy lasses in 1957 at Warley Wise. Years later I sought them out and they remembered the picture being taken. Of course now, I wish I'd done far more!

[Cathy]

Don't beat yourself up with 'should haves' Stanley, it's rarely a good idea!! Lovely pic.

[Wendyf]

That is a delightful picture Stanley, I took a copy when you posted it on the old site. I think one of those little girls is now at Broom House Farm on Bleara.

Sunshine & showers.

[Stanley]

What was the name of the family?

[Wendyf]

Stanley, I don't know the name of the family at Warley Wise. My neighbour told me who it was when I showed him the photo, but I didn't write it down. Warley Wise has been empty for a couple of years since the old lady who lived there died, though it has recently been sand blasted and the windows have been boarded up, so perhaps someone is going to bring it back to life....it's such a grim looking place!

[Stanley]

It's in the back of my head somewhere.... I found one of the daughters living out on the Paythorne road out of Gisburn. I have a pic somewhere.....

[Stanley]

Click to enlarge this aerial view of Earby. Not sure of the date. Could it be 1983?

[Wendyf]

Interesting view Stanley, I can't date it, but there is no modern housing so I would guess that it's before the eighties.

Next door were busy cutting grass for sileage in the meadows below us yesterday....it was all a bit frantic with rowing up being done just in front of the giant hoovering machine.

[PanBiker]

Nice photos Wendy, regarding the resizing. Images in posts are now behaving as they should since I fixed the resize anomaly which was apparent since the crash. If you click on the image in the post, it will open in it's viewer, you can then click on the magnifier in the viewer for the native image size.

[Wendyf]

I Just edited my post to take that comment out before I saw your post Ian. I'd checked it again and found it was OK...strange.

[Stanley]

They go back to original size for me with one click. Funny, but I have never had any problem with the pics since Ian mended the image display.....

[Wendyf]

I'm told that the aerial photo is probably from the early 1950's. Wentcliffe Drive has just been marked out, but no building has begun on it yet.

[PanBiker]

No development between Red Lion Street and Stoneybank either. I think they were 60's builds. Certainly all in place when I started work in 1970. I knew all the streets in Earby, Sough, Kelbrook and Barlick at the time, outlying farms and a good proportion of Colne and Skipton and the villages in between, everything built since 1989 I don't have a clue. Working in Colne and then Burnley so lots of houses went up locally unnoticed.

[Stanley]

Can't remember when I did this. From Bleara side I think.

[Stanley]

Lothersdale in 1983.

[Wendyf]

After the thunderstorm...

[Gloria]

That is lovely Wendy, we had that storm at about 4-30pm. You have a very good eye for a photo, like I have said before, you should send them to Countryfile.