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by Stanley
25 May 2024, 06:27
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
Replies: 20661
Views: 1924582

Re: Today I shall be Mainly...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28799/medium I started by finishing the milling of the gap between the bearing beds. Then I drilled the holding down lugs on the base and the bed. Next I drilled and tapped for two of the 2BA set screws that fasten the bed to the base. Then ...
by Stanley
25 May 2024, 06:25
Forum: Local History Topics
Topic: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
Replies: 6922
Views: 953863

Re: FORGOTTEN CORNERS

:biggrin2: :good:
by Stanley
25 May 2024, 06:23
Forum: Crafts
Topic: Shed Matters 3
Replies: 2446
Views: 296925

Re: Shed Matters 3

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28801/medium https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28800/medium https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28799/medium I started by finishing the milling of the gap between the bearing beds. Then I drilled...
by Stanley
25 May 2024, 04:00
Forum: Stanley's View
Topic: BADGERS, BROGGERS, GALLS AND JAGGERS.
Replies: 9
Views: 4579

Re: BADGERS, BROGGERS, GALLS AND JAGGERS.

Bumped again, still essential history.
by Stanley
25 May 2024, 03:56
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Seen in the News
Replies: 3800
Views: 405107

Re: Seen in the News

See THIS for a report on Paula Vennells at the PO enquiry. She wasn’t on trial – but she might just as well have been. Over the three days, Paula Vennells faced an onslaught of hostile questions. Lead counsel to the inquiry, Jason Beer, was subtle but probing. The lawyers for the sub-postmasters, wh...
by Stanley
25 May 2024, 03:49
Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Replies: 20170
Views: 2348972

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

If there is no movement by dinnertime I shall reveal all.... :biggrin2:
(I'm surprised! I thought you'd have been all over this one.
by Stanley
25 May 2024, 03:47
Forum: Stanley's View
Topic: William Bracewell. Newfield Edge. Last will and testament.
Replies: 0
Views: 8

William Bracewell. Newfield Edge. Last will and testament.

William Bracewell. Newfield Edge. Last will and testament. Transcribed from a copy of the original supplied by Ann Battersby. I, WILLIAM BRACEWELL of Barnoldswick in the County of York, cotton spinner and colliery proprietor do hereby revoke all former wills and testamentary dispositions made by me ...
by Stanley
25 May 2024, 03:36
Forum: Stanley's View
Topic: THE BRACEWELL STORY
Replies: 12
Views: 170

Re: THE BRACEWELL STORY

(12) THE FALL OF THE BRACEWELL EMPIRE. (2) The story I am telling is an attempt to untangle the web that was the Bracewell family. It is not the history of the area. However, we can’t avoid the fact that the events we are following had enormous effects. The collapse of the Bracewell interests in Bar...
by Stanley
25 May 2024, 03:31
Forum: Fun & Jokes
Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
Replies: 4893
Views: 577621

Re: Old fashioned clean jokes

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by Stanley
25 May 2024, 03:24
Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
Topic: Where Have You Just Been?
Replies: 800
Views: 136674

Re: Where Have You Just Been?

There's no doubt you are having better weather than back in Foulridge!
by Stanley
25 May 2024, 03:22
Forum: Seasons
Topic: TODAY'S PENNINE WEATHER
Replies: 5450
Views: 453455

Re: TODAY'S PENNINE WEATHER

Yesterday was another overcast gloomy day and once more the CH came on. (It's on now!) This morning it was overcast, dry and cool and the only change is that the overcast might be lifting a bit. The glass is up on 1016mb and the forecast is for a sunny start to the day but reverting to overcast at N...
by Stanley
25 May 2024, 03:01
Forum: Local History Topics
Topic: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
Replies: 6922
Views: 953863

Re: FORGOTTEN CORNERS

I wouldn't argue with you David. I'm sure about the base though, It's a Leyland Comet tractor unit.... :biggrin2:

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I can't remember who wrote this..... :biggrin2:
by Stanley
25 May 2024, 02:41
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
Replies: 20661
Views: 1924582

Re: Today I shall be Mainly...

You seem to have struck a rich seam there David! (I have never heard of Suranne Jones.....) I shall be in the shed as usual from 06:00 onwards further refining my bed casting. What happens later today depends on whether Susan is visiting, they are back parked up at Edisford bridge in Clitheroe for a...
by Stanley
25 May 2024, 02:34
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: POLITICS CORNER
Replies: 12678
Views: 1348479

Re: POLITICS CORNER

I saw THIS and my first thought was how will we manage without him? :biggrin2: Long-serving Conservative cabinet minister Michael Gove has announced he will not stand at the general election, as the second full day of campaigning was marked by an exodus of MPs. r Gove, first elected MP for Surrey He...
by Stanley
25 May 2024, 02:16
Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Replies: 16636
Views: 1947851

Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

A wonderful survivor Wendy. Funny thing is she is in reverse on the website picture!
by Stanley
24 May 2024, 13:12
Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
Topic: BOB'S BITS
Replies: 4483
Views: 516442

Re: BOB'S BITS

"Dr. Blalock, you've done a nice job closing this ductus; why can't you build a ductus?" Learn to listen with your fingers.   Dr. Helen Taussig.     When I began my schooling, in Grundy Center, I was aware that a local girl in my age cohort was a ‘blue baby.’  More than vaguely aware: for ...
by Stanley
24 May 2024, 12:26
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: POLITICS CORNER
Replies: 12678
Views: 1348479

Re: POLITICS CORNER

I've been listening to Keir Starmer wooing his Labour supporters in Scotland. I wonder if any of them remember the way Tony Blair's New Labour treated Scotland. At the time it was described as regarding the Scottish Labour Party as a regional office. If Starmer is clearly anything he is a Blairite. ...
by Stanley
24 May 2024, 10:18
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
Replies: 20661
Views: 1924582

Re: Today I shall be Mainly...

That was unexpected! I have just got up after three hours of second sleep! I must have needed it..... I shall go to the Co-op for some milk now......
Weare dry in Barlick Sue after an unexpected light shower earlier..... But it's cold and the CH is still on. This is not summer weather!
by Stanley
24 May 2024, 06:03
Forum: Fun & Jokes
Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
Replies: 4893
Views: 577621

Re: Old fashioned clean jokes

:biggrin2: :good:
by Stanley
24 May 2024, 06:02
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
Replies: 20661
Views: 1924582

Re: Today I shall be Mainly...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28797/medium Only one image. I have milled the beds for the crankshaft brasses and refined other aspects of the bed casting. Just one more adjustment needed and that will be done tomorrow, I have spent an hour in the shed. I have had a chip ...
by Stanley
24 May 2024, 06:01
Forum: Crafts
Topic: Shed Matters 3
Replies: 2446
Views: 296925

Re: Shed Matters 3

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28797/medium Only one image. I have milled the beds for the crankshaft brasses and refined other aspects of the bed casting. Just one more adjustment needed and that will be done tomorrow, I have spent an hour in the shed. I have had a chip ...
by Stanley
24 May 2024, 03:45
Forum: Stanley's View
Topic: THE WILD BUNCH
Replies: 13
Views: 5192

Re: THE WILD BUNCH

I never mentioned it but the reason why they hid their faces was because they claimed to be 'spooks' and as such had to remain anonymous..... :biggrin2:
by Stanley
24 May 2024, 03:40
Forum: Local History Topics
Topic: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
Replies: 6922
Views: 953863

Re: FORGOTTEN CORNERS

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/28796/medium I saw this strange marriage of an Austin Oxford car and a Leyland Comet wagon on Water Street in Earby in 1978. Later it lived in the yard of an outbarn at Marton Hall Farm. I can only assume that it was street legal and had pas...
by Stanley
24 May 2024, 03:25
Forum: Fun & Jokes
Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
Replies: 4893
Views: 577621

Re: Old fashioned clean jokes

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by Stanley
24 May 2024, 03:12
Forum: Stanley's View
Topic: THE BRACEWELL STORY
Replies: 12
Views: 170

Re: THE BRACEWELL STORY

THE FALL OF THE BRACEWELL EMPIRE. (1) Billycock’s wife, Ellen Metcalfe died aged 45 on the 22nd of April 1860 at Horton House. We don’t know the circumstances but having nine children in eighteen years could have had some bearing on this. We are constantly reminded of the hard life women had in an a...

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