OneGuyFromBarlick

I sorted out the house opposite the Greystones Pub. It used to be called Higher Greystones and they gradually dropped the Higher. The Tattersall family have farmed there for a long time and I was lucky enough to meet Roy and his wife last summer, who it turned out is a distant relative via the Rushw...

Thank you for that Steve. Very interesting. I would go and see the show if he came round again!

That's a good bit of family history hbw. Did your Gt Grandfather live in Colne? Perhaps my Gt Grandmother did see some of the stuff come through Colne after all. Sorry for the late response. This site is blocked at my workplace - they must think Barlickers are a bit dangerous!

I was just wondering if the farmhouse on the hill more or less opposite the Greystones could be the Sandyford Mission? I always wondered why it has chapel type windows. Any ideas?

I said I seem to be dim and can't work out how to create a new post other than to reply to an old one but maybe I've cracked it now so copying this message here with apologies if it appears twice for everyone. I have found a reference to some of my ancestors being baptised at Sandyford Mission in th...

I agree. If you walk above Foulridge there are many such stones incorporated into walling. I don't know anything about the megalith website but I guess they are looking for any likely stones to attach significance to and this one happens to have ended up being by the roadside so easily spotted. The ...

I was misled re the standing stone by this link:http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=28412 It didn't seem right to me. All around our area, big stones were built into the walls - as who would want to move them. I'm pleased to have you confirm it was on the original Standing Stone Lane. Thanks...

That's wonderful! Thank you. We did wander about but didn't think to look behind the bungalow. I will go and get my own photo before it disappears as you say.

Its great to be able to tap into all this local knowledge and apologies for all the questions but I'd be grateful for help with one more: I have never known where the standing stone of Standing Stone Gate/Lane is? There is a stone built into the wall near Lark Hill Farm but I thought that road was c...

Thanks Stanley. That suggests the lake was still there in the 1960s? I'll take a walk round there very soon.

Thank you Stanley and Wendy. I will have a walk round. Pity it was drained it looks a nice spot for a bit of rowing and a picnic in the summer sun.

I got such good responses to my last question I thought I'd ask another, with thanks to all local historians out there. My Dad said he remembered going on a boating lake in Bracewell and that he had a photo taken there, but we can't find it and we couldn't see anything in Bracewell when we drove thr...

That's a remarkable amount of information - thank you everyone. I guess my great gran could have easily caught the train into Skipton or Burnley so we probably got it wrong about him coming to Colne. It must have been such a spectacle at the time - it would still be worth seeing I think! It must hav...

My great grandmother said she saw Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show in Colne when she was a little girl. Does anybody have anything on this? I've googled and it seems he was in Keighley in 1887 so perhaps it was part of the same tour? I think his show came to the North West again in 1904 and stayed...

That's nice. Yes, my Dad said the same.

My great grandmother Mary Sharp Bird with her husband George Bird was the landlady at the Lane Head for about 23 years I think until she was about 76 which would be until about 1959. She was Salterforth's oldest resident when she died aged 87 at Burdock Cottages where she lived as a widow with her b...

Re George Rushworth. I found the relevant news article with help from staff in Colne Library. George Rushworth (grandson of George Rushworth, founder of Rushworth Brothers) died tragically in the stream at Wycoller on 16 April 1972 aged 48. An inquest the following day decided it was an accidental d...

Just a quick post to notify the death of Gordon Bird this week at the great age of 97 years. He was the son of George Bird, who was Gamekeeper on Whitemoor and Landlord at the Lane Head (Fanny Grey) with my great grandmother Mary Sharp Bird (nee Rushworth). Gordon moved South in 1947 and brought up ...