OneGuyFromBarlick

I could ask "is Barlick such a terrible place that drivers have to traverse or exit it at such great speed" but there is an equal amount of incoming traffic exhibiting the same disregard for both law and safety. Barlick is recorded as being one of only a few towns of its size that is not s...

Quite right Tizer, there are many cases of misuse of the word "we" most of which I would prefer to be excluded from, and there are the assumptions that all of us can be labeled with a single word, ie, "we all love football" I hate it, and I am not alone in that!!

RAF Brize Norton will soon be receiving another sad delivery, three more of Britain's finest as a result of another "Green on Blue" attack, this brings the total cost in lives to 422, thats 422 too many, and for what? We feed that country money and good people, they send us bodies and by a...

What grabbed my attention last night was the Olympic Rings fitted to Tower Bridge. £300.000!!! What are they made of, Titanium?? If the cost is reflected in terms of skill in construction the Narrowboat "Red Admiral" built in Barlick should be worth about £15,000,000 by now!

I like the news about the recycling bins, never having been happy about their proximity to the War Memorial, great stuff and well done. And If I keep on finding new names at the current rate the extra space may be useful!

Since my last post there has been much to do on the domestic front, pressure washing of the large amounts of paving and trimming the big hedge, plus finishing touches to the kitchen. Thanks to the current weather situation, jobs saved for a rainy day include this one, yet in order to preserve domest...

Earby has a problem that goes back a long way, a greater part of it is built on what was a lake bed. When Brookfield Estate was built. the water table was at best only 15" below the land surface, I have the remains of a Conch Shell that was excavated in that area, what is left is 4" long, ...

It would take a week to design, do we have that long?

Does any of our esteemed members have a set of plans for an Ark?

That was a long winded but interesting exercise. I now have all WW1 names in chronological order and here are a few facts:- The first to die in 1914 was Private Walter McLeod Johnstone on September the 8th, in that year there were 17 deaths, these included the greatest loss to the town in a single d...

I am currently arranging all WW1 losses into chronological order for the purpose of the book, this involves going through all of the names again and crossreferencing them and shifting them into separate databases for each year. I am three fifths of the way through this and surprise surprise, two mor...

I am currently arranging all WW1 losses into chronological order for the purpose of the book, this involves going through all of the names again and crossreferencing them and shifting them into separate databases for each year. I am three fifths of the way through this and surprise surprise, two mor...

I have been having a play with the presentation of they who died in WW1 and I would like your opinions on the following. This is how the information first appears from CPGW:- Surname: AYRTON Forename(s): Frank Place of Birth: Gargrave, Yorkshire Residence: ----- Service No: 62480 Rank: Private Regim...

If you don't find it Ian you are welcome to come down and see it here, I have it recorded on BT Vision box.

Best wishes from here as well Tripps. Stanley was right about the river pageant, the stars of the show were supposed to be the vessels, we saw much more of the presenters and we did not need to be reminded about the weather, it was obvious. We could hear the old steam boats but saw little of them an...

That Ian is just as I see it. Yet I have also been told that the funding is in place and that this will be done, but not to my face as it were. Like ice left in the sun, its difficult to get to grips with. I would like to know when this will all happen as I have it in mind to invite a rather special...

My sentiments exactly Ian!

Then good luck to you Kev, I am sure that yourself and lots of others will enjoy it. One of Barlicks redeeming features is that its inhabitants are able to enjoy what is available without the aggravating the community or the nation.

I am not in the habit of looking at the public diatribe attached to news items on the net, but after reading about HMS Diamonds salute to the Queen at Portsmouth I took a look and posted a response:- Time some of you forgot your grievances for a day or two, enjoy whatever it is that you like to do a...

In the wake of updating my PC specifically for this purpose I have completely redesigned the database for the project. Several of my contacts are proving to be "backward at coming forward", or, whilst at first being enthusiastic, have now gone back to sleep. I do however have the luxury of...

Very true Ian, have a look at the BWMG topic, how is it going with your research? At Earby, several blanks were included for the possibility of further inclusion. For the purpose of the book I am now looking at events before WW1, Waterloo and so forth, difficult but worth the effort.

I have heard that the powers that be would like to have the War Memorial sorted and updated before Memorial Sunday this year. It will soon be time to think about making our list of additions public, besides the press, may I also propose that we display the list locally in such places as the council ...

That must have been the boat only partly damaged, we had another one burnt out by vandals near Gargrave, it was towed back to Barlick and Paul Harold and I stripped it out for refit, both of us now have chest trouble. I also had the terrible job of removing the body of a young Sailor from his gutted...

My ten year old cousin Gordon, a Barlick Lad was killed in the North Atlantic as a result of a "U,boat" attack, September 1940, he was born on Clarence St. Also there is the wife of a Barlick Soldier, lost in the sinking of the Lusitania, her widowed husband was killed in France later, his...

Its Barlick at its best. The sun is shining and I am having a bit of "me time" in the garden with a glass o wine and a rollup, and this came along:- http://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/gallery/image.php?album_id=3&image_id=554 and this:- http://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/gallery/image....