OneGuyFromBarlick

Havin' a party to celebrate Donna C's 80th.
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cloggy

EileenDavid wrote:Today I am relaxing with a novel, hopefully outside in the sunshine,as yesterday I did my ironing then tonight we are going to a fella campers van for a party Eileen

My eyes pricked up when I saw this! Are you a motorhoming fan by any chance.
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cloggy

Do I remember rightly that the MMB had a cattle breeding centre at Whalley for AI?
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cloggy

:smile: Very enjoyable articles Stanley, even if 'back' ones all new to me. Brought back many memories. My dad was a dairy farmer and stockbreeder; first near Kelbrook, and then later at Reedley near Burnley. At Reedley we had a 'proper' steam driven dairy, with coolers, boilerhouse, big cold store,...

always knew grandad had a bob or two!
Thanks wendy, useful information that I didn't know.
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cloggy

:smile: Hello Wendygavin, and welcome from me. I am the last person to be any sort of an expert in these things; but funnily enough on another totally unrelated forum (motorhomes) earlier today somebody was looking for a long lost son. He was found very quickly by trying the site www.192.com/people/...

Just spotted my cousin Ritchie Crabtree (now sadly passed away) on the Vicarage Garden Party 1945 circa pic. I think it's more likely to be 1946. He is on the far right of the picture with fair hair and a grey buttoned up jacket; peeking round the edge of the frame as it were.
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cloggy

I'm not sure about that. He most likely would have gone either there or Skipton. He became an industrial chemist and worked for many years at Pilkington Glass St. Helens.
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cloggy

The church bells in the little village where I live in Southern Italy still play an important part in everyday life. Apart from chiming the hour and the quarters; they tell us when there is a wedding, or a funeral, and when services are starting or ending. Last year I visited one of Italy' oldest su...

I may well have seen you then Moh. Often used to stay at Sough in the school holidays during that sort of time. My father's widowed sister Fanny Crabtree lived there, with her two sons Jack and Richie. Jack was a keen cricketer, and for a time worked at Bristol Tractors. He now lives near Leicester,...

...worrying whether or not the sun is going to burn the lettuce, tomatoes, dwarf beans, and courgettes that we transplanted
yesterday. And hoping that we might get a spot of rain later in the day to save watering.
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cloggy

Now push the boat out and include them in the posts. More people will see them that way. :grin: Push the boat out he says. Every time I push a boat out it either capsizes, swamps, or both. Not for nothing did Capt. Schettino take boating lessons from me when 'e were a lad. Don't blame me if the sit...

:smile: Hello Stever, Thanks to Stanley's help I have posted some pictures in the gallery that may be of interest to you. In the 'people' gallery there is a picture from 1910 with Mathias Dixon included in the group. In the 'buildings' gallery, the cottage where the Dixon family lived at Kidstones -...

Thanks Stanley, sounds easy peasy. Now stand back and watch me b***s it up!
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cloggy

Hello Stever, I have some pictures I recovered from a grandaughter, who has been following through research started by her uncle. The 1st one is of my grandparents with their family at Home Farm, Cracoe, 1910. The babe in arms is my father. The chap in the trilby standing next to grandmother (Roesem...

:smile: I know I'm way behind time compared to most of you; but yesterday managed to watch 'Countryfile' of 15/04/2012. Really enjoyed its reportings from areas we all know well. Enjoyed a glimpse of Blackoe tower as they reported from the Clarion tea rooms. Still have to watch the programme on Rome...

Brought tears to my eyes that did. An uncle acquired through marriage lived a very similar experience. Eventually arrived in England and served in the Free Polish airforce. His father never made it out of Siberia, but his mother and a brother managed to get to London after the war. He married and br...

:smile: Distant memories indeed. Does the Market Hall still exist in Nelson? I remember Barmy Micks alright, and the bus stands all around the outside. The Burnley bus via Higher Reedley Road and Marsden Road was my bus home after going to the Saturday afternoon 6d matinee. Also loved the old Bedfor...

My Uncle Bob Dinsdale's youngest son Lesley is still at Thornton. I believe in the Manor House. I met him for the first time for over 50 years a couple of years ago. His oldest son John Dinsdale farms in Barlick. Not quite sure when they moved from Tunstead to Thornton; thus severing all 'Dinsdale' ...

Just noticed reading through this thread again that some children of my grandparents Frances Spence Dinsdale and Rosemary Dixon have been left out of the already long list. They also had my father, Richard Norman Dinsdale; and his sisters Mary Dinsdale (married Ottwell Lodge, who eventually became o...

Thanks Wendy, that's the one.
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cloggy

Have just spent an incredibly frustrating twenty minutes with my 'support team' at HSBC somewhere in the foothills of the Himalayas finding a way round the problems they are causing me by closing the Barlick branch. Wonderful! :laugh5: Stanley, you're lucky it was only 20 miutes! You should try the...

:smile: 'morning all. I have sent you a private message Stever. In the OGFB archives somewhere they are on a photo called 'Kelbrook school 1952' Wendy, I'm afraid not. Have nothing whatsoever from Harden Hall except vague childhood memories. (Dad taking a German airman prisoner on the moors; being s...

Who were your cousins at Kelbrook school? I left in 1949 and someone I knew then who lives in Australia has just sent me a photo of the class taken in 1949 - quite a trip down memory lane. John, Frank, and Lesley Dinsdale from Tunstead Farm. John now farms in Barlick; and Lesley lives in Thornton i...

My father was Richard Norman Dinsdale, the youngest child. Born 1910 if I remember rightly. Billy is Billy Dinsdale, only son of Mathias Dinsdale who was one of my father's many brothers and he farmed at Belbusk.
Happy Easter to you.
cloggy