OneGuyFromBarlick

Many happy returns Stanley. My dad was born on Valentines day in 1905!

Fish chowder at Manchester Cornerhouse last night. Smoked mackerel tonight with left over salad from the week end if the lettuce isn't too limp.

What a lovely tribute to your dad.

For many years it has bee the case that when an elderly person is admitted to a care home they needed to sell their home to pay for their keep. I don't believe that we need to own property anyway. In the 1970's there was (I think), the Housing & Finance Act, which resulted in widespread oppositi...

I have just thought to record this! Stephen Pickles - Barlick man....some years ago I discovered that a play which he had commissioned, "The Lancashire Witches", along with a letter which he had written, have ended up in the Tate Theatre Collection at Harvard University. I duly contacted s...

Last night I cooked a mega cheap tea (dinner?). I bought a biggish bag of jerusalem artichokes for 75p & made a risotto with them & shallotts & parsley. A bit fiddly, but delish! I found the recipe on't t'interweb.

I suppose the solution is to return to the cottager lifestyle - a plot of land to grow your own & a pig. I don't eat much meat, but I love the cheaper cuts -shoulder of lamb, oxtail & belly pork etc. Unfortunately they are the most fatty, but that gives them their succulence. They are identi...

Wow!!

I was unsure where to post this, but it sounds like dialect matter!

What are hippins & who was Pickles?

Well blow me down! Only on Saturday my partner looked up the origins of Brummagen and came across the Brummagen Boys a Birmingham gang operating in the early 1920's. Along with a gang from Leeds they decided to take on the Sabini gang from London, who ran a protection racket with on course bookies. ...

How exciting...resurrection of old music! When was it composed do you think? I have made notes of some books about music around victorian lancashire if you would like me to dig them out.

Maria Martin..that would have been interesting! Is " Died & never called me mother" a line from that play? Stephen - I visited Lancashire Archives yesterday & had a look through the birth / baptism records for Bridge Chapel & Salterforth Chapel while I was waiting for my docume...

Came across this information about the day school run by the Lancashire Local History Federation, which is to be held at Preston Masonic Hall on Saturday 23rd February. Four guest speakers with topics including Preston & the cotton famine, recordings of mill memories from the NW Sound Archive, L...

Bacup Natural History Society have a musem - open on Thursday evenings I think - which has a collection of old household item like Zebo & Brassos. It's a real trip down memory Lane. They also have Blodwyn, an ancient skeleton which was found near Llandudno. I was told that at one time someone fr...

I see what you're saying about your Richard, Stephen, but I'm not so sure that we share him. The birth records from Bridge Chapel consistently show his occupation as a weaver. I'm almost certain that he is on the Craven Muster Rolls (the criteria fit) and again, if it is him, his occupation is liste...

He he. A man met his friend in the street. The friend asked him where he was going and he said he was off to the pictures to see "Moby Dick". "I don't hold with those sex films" said the friend. "It's not about sex, it's about whales" replied the man... "I can't st...

Did Zebo have a sunburst logo on the tin? The first time I came across someone using socks as an anti slip device in snow was in the early 1980's. My partner & I used to drink in the Duke of Wellington, a pub in Blackley, Manchester. It had more than its fair share of characters, one being Nelli...

Well George Pickles looks a merry chap.. I wonder if he's any relation. Pickles seems to be such a localised name I bet we are all related in some way. I heard somewhere that we are ALL descended from six African tribes...even racists! Family history is a strange beast. I have only ever looked at th...

Oh Bruff....I had a rag pudding at the Three Fishes and you're in for a treat! I had always simply called them suet puddings, but my friend who hails from County Durham, calls them rag puddings. Her mother used to make them out of leeks from the allotment.

Enjoy.

Glad you're enjoying Wolf Hall Stanley. There may be other books about Cromwell, but it was Mantel's characterisation of him that I was so taken with...and her writing style.

Oh goody Elise - can go to take a look at it now.

From the photo it does look as though it may now be a des res.

Sorry...a senior moment. The report with a photo of the Bridge Chapel is the Historic Towns Assessment undertaken by the County Archaeology Service. It also refers to the "History of the Bethesda Baptiist Church, Barnoldswick, Yorkshire" - Lewis 1893, but I am now confused as Stanley says ...

Thank you so much Wendy. I would never have found it since I was looking for the wrong thing. Now I have the right moniker I even managed to find a photo on the Town Survey of Barnoldswick undertaken by library staff. (Tried to put the link in, but failed miserably owing to special needs in computer...

Thia is an amendment to my previous post about StephenPickles. It has only just dawned on me that the records from Bridge Chapel must have been the birth records; I couldn't understand why the Pickles children were baptised so soon after birth, but the answer is that they weren't.

Can anyone give me any information about Bridge Chapel, Barnoldswick? Can't find anything on th' interweb. Have looked at the "Baptists in Barnoldswick", but coudn't find a reference there. Maybe I'm just missing something!