OneGuyFromBarlick

Hi Stanley, Regarding Michael Pickles as victualler at the Bay Horse Inn, Salterforth; I presume you dont know where this Inn was located? it was sitauated at Park Close Cottages, which back in the early 19th century was formerly a working farm until the Quarry opened up on its land, the inn served ...

Hi Stanley, Another lovely article... yes the top photo is of the old Inghamite chapel this photo is circa 1900, I have got around 15 old photo's of this original chapel including interior photo's of the chapel and the interior of the attached house... with Henry Swire and his wife Alice who moved i...

No.. for me, its not about making money from publishing a book... I have enough capital pledged from wealthy local people to cover costs of producing a book... but perhaps upwards of half of my research is from private estate records and individuals and some of the material is or has only been grant...

Hi Stanley, The boat was not a 'Park Close Boat'... well definately not at the time of the photo being taken!.. which is fact! as that was during the time when he owned the small quarry above Higher Lee, but once this venture failed... with the rise in rent for the tram road to Hatters Bridge Wharfe...

Hi Stanley, Good job on the history of the quarries... it ties in nicely with what I have found out... I also have lots of tales from the workers who worked there and the neighbouring landowners, who had many run-ins with the Barnoldswick Sagars (who lived at Bleak House on Hodge Lane) I believe he ...

Hi all,

I've just posted a reply to this part three, but I accidently added it to the end of part Two... for those who want to know where the shanty town was...?

Hi all, To answer Stanleys question; where was the shanty town for the canal navvies in our locale? Through my research and talking to Muriel Pollard and the older generation here in the vilage, the shanty town was sited just the other side of Canal Cottage, near the Anchor Inn on what is known as '...

"the article you wrote in 2000 regarding Whitemoor is also very good, but misses what is blindingly obvious to us monastic landscape historians, at some point when I have enough to almost prove something I'm going to throw a massive spanner in the works! no-doubt barlickers will throw me to li...

As a lady who likes her pubs I am intrigued where the information re The Holy Lamb Inn and The Plough Inn came from. Old trade directories/ voting lists/ deeds and folklore from the old generation of Salterforth who's grandparents and great grandaprents were around at the time and passed down the k...

Wonderful stuff! Oh that other local historians would follow your leads! Keep it up Nick, eight articles to come! I always tell my readers in the BET that they must take nothing I say as irrefutable fact, it's only my best shot and research always changes the conclusions. No such thing as a histori...

I've been looking at the 1853 OS map discovering all the places you are talking about. I see that the section of lane going from Spen Head towards the junction with Cross Lane is called "Mucky Lane", is that a corruption of Musghyll? Does the new Pennine Bridleway follow that route? I sha...

As a lady who likes her pubs I am intrigued where the information re The Holy Lamb Inn and The Plough Inn came from. Old trade directories/ voting lists/ deeds and folklore from the old generation of Salterforth who's grandparents and great grandaprents were around at the time and passed down the k...

Also of note for you; People have been buried in Salterforth since the bronze age; the old cottages that stood on the site of the 1903 Baptisit Chapel were known as Barrows Hill and foklore holds it was the site of bronze age burial mounds on top of this small hill cheek by jowl with the flood plain...

Hi Stanley, Thanks for the email, hope you are keeping well, its been a few years since we last met. The burial ground does exist as I wrote down statements and personally interviewed a number of people who actually worked on the construction of the New Road and the dyke which cut through the burial...

Gordon Bennet... thats one heck of a leap! it must have been at least 60ft or 70ft maybe more? its amazing she wasnt hurt... I can just remember it before they started to use it as a landfill site and it was an awe-inspiring view, I will try to upload the photo of the Old Rayne Hall as it was being ...

Thanks Ian, Yes the viaduct did used to sway! I was on there with my dad back in mid 70's when Diny came across on his tractor... it was only single lane, and quite narow for such a tall and long structure! it was very strong vertically but in the horizontal plane it was a bit waffy... and the weigh...

please do accept my appologies for the spelling mistakes, my fingers were typing faster than my brain could think! I do need a better key board... I keep catching the wrong keys!

Hi Stanley and other members, Its Nick from Salterforth, I've just joined so bare with me as this is all a bit new to me... re: Salterforths History, please if you want to know owt about Sodom..? ask us that live here and know the place very well... either myself, Muriel or Kevin Pollard. The term '...