OneGuyFromBarlick

Enjoy your chill out Sue. Glad the day went well.

Just got back from a good walk with my neighbour. We are sticking to roads at the moment as the fields are so muddy. Set off from home and walked down Skipton Old Road to the Lothersdale turn off. (This part is not enjoyable and not for the faint hearted. It is a favourite spot for speeding/overtaki...

It looks as if the Bernard Sutcliffe name goes right back to the early 17th Century. There are over 800 Sutcliffe entries in the St Bart's Colne registers on the LanOPC website...it makes interesting reading! (There was a Barnard family at Alkincoats Colne in the early 17thC) Have you got this infor...

Will that be Dotcliffe Mill in the background? There is a wooden bridge over the beck below Paris now, where the footpath crosses over towards Heads Farm. Was there a stone bridge there at one time?
Thanks Ian I will give it a try.
Harden Niche postcard

Let me know if I can check anything for you in Colne library Jules. I am in the local history section every Wednesday morning. There is a Higher Standroyd in the Lidgett area of Colne, on Skipton Old Road (a couple of miles down the hill from me.) It is now in the Lidgett & Bents conservation ar...

I think it must be taken from somewhere above Paris Farm. Moh will know. I have seen the name Harden Nick before, but never seen Harden Niche. Perhaps I should put a bid in.

I need more than just wellies. Nobody went outside yesterday.... except the ducks. who thought it was a wonderful day. I kept the ponies inside, and took the opportunity to give them a brush. They start shedding winter coat by the end of January, but there was at least a feed bag full of white hair ...

Someone told me about this postcard on Ebay this morning. I thought Moh would like to see it (it's from well before your time though Moh! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HARDEN-NICHE-Lancashire-Nicely-animated-Colne-postmark-1906-/370582108032?_trksid=p5197.m7&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D...

Hello again Rob, good to see you back on the new site. Did you ever sort out where your runaway Procter was born? Someone should complain to Ancestry about the Carleton in Craven parish records coming up as Netherthong. I have a membership this year, so perhaps I will do just that!

Thanks for the info Catty. So when they come to shoot with hides and set out decoys, they are more likely to attract rooks than crows? (Likewise when my black cat sits quietly in the field waiting for me to walk all the way round, she sometimes ends up with a crowd of rooks around her!) The gamekeep...

I assume my neighbour has given permission. This was very close to the farm buildings so he must be aware of them. The game keeper from the moor on Pinhaw was trying to trap crows in the fields round here last year. He said they were a threat to the pheasant chicks.

I don't moan much.... I'm a sitter on the fence, always see the other side of the argument type of person. This evening, at sunset, I was looking out of the window swearing & cursing blue murder at persons unknown who were hiding behind a wall above us shooting the crows who were heading home to...

Icy cold wind on top of Weets this morning! Glorious views though, you could see the mountains of the lake district from up there. My face was numb with cold by the time we met Ian (again!) on the way back down.

I couldn't get anything past my Mum, though her eye sight is very poor she doesn't miss a trick! Here is a pic of them on their wedding day in 1944.

Both my parents came from Bradford Eileen. Mum's family from Wyke for generations and Dad's from Dudley Hill/West Bowling. They only met once just before my dad was posted overseas during the war, then wrote to each other almost every day until September 1944 when they were married whilst Dad was on...

Went out in the lashing wind and rain this morning and heard my first curlew of the year. Lovely sound.

The website has been designed by the daughter of one of our members, and she has done an excellent job. This is just a start, and I hope the gallery will be developed over time. Take your point Stanley, but at least we are making progress, better than having everything locked away in a cupboard!

The Earby & District Local History Society have a new website which has just gone "live" at: http://www.earbyhistory.co.uk It is a new venture, and we are just getting the hang of using it at the moment. Members of the society will have access through the website to items from the arch...

As far as I can remember I have never never ever been the owner of a knitting wool shop.......though it would have been nice.

Glad you are restored Belle. The new site has great potential, you just have to find the way of using it which suits you best. Now I can look forward to our next OGFB arty get together.

Oh dear Doc, you know how to reduce me to tears.....

The talk we are having on Tuesday 21st looks interesting. It is Dr Stephen Caunce talking about "Business & Pleasure Combined; The Yorkshire Hiring Fairs".

Ham & Mushroom omelette, oven chips, broccoli & runner beans.

It's the reason I come to the site.

Just realised that you mentioned John Clayton in your initial post. He has information on his website about the Bollard family and a means of contacting Shirley Butterworth.http://www.barrowford.org/page63.html