OneGuyFromBarlick

We are in Chester, staying at the Boathouse Inn where Colin and I first met, celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary. It's a very different place now to the Newcastle Breweries boozer where I worked behind the bar and Col was a customer. Tomorrow we are booked on a 2 hour river cruise on the Dee, t...

I would have curtsied if I had known!

I saw that but had no idea 'twas he.

I remember finding articles about it in the old newspapers and posting them on here...but not so much detail. Did Heather start doing some more research?

It's interesting that Hawshaw is mentioned as a hamlet in Kelbrook in the 1822 Thornton in Craven listing. The properties called Hawshaw are now within Lothersdale Parish (previously Carleton) and as far as I know have always been there.

I'll guess at Ireland. Is it a dolmen?

Stanley wrote: ↑23 Jun 2025, 10:14 Are you going over the Settle Carlisle line?

Yes I did, Skipton to Carlise, on to Edinburgh then back out to West Calder. My return journey on Thursday takes me via Lancaster instead of Carlisle which will be a first for me.

Yes it did and I managed to get everything finished. It tried to rain occasionally but it didn't amount to much. I did get stuck in the polytunnel later on though when we had a torrential shower.
Just heading towards Settle.

I'm off to stay with friends in Scotland for 3 days. Col will be dropping me off in Skipton to catch the 9.58 train to Carlisle, then on to Edinburgh where I catch another train to West Calder. My return trip goes through Lancaster rather than Carlisle, which will be a first for me!

I'm hoping to get my grass cut today before I head off to Scotland for a short break with friends. Fingerscrossed I can dodge the showers.

Just dots in the distance for me!

There was a strange rumble coming from the Barnoldswick direction.
Reported flight times seem to differ, but the Red Arrows should be heading east to west over Barlick this morning. Watch the skies around 10.45 ish.

I had a wakeful night so at about 3.15 I decided to get up and listen to the dawn chorus. I took a cup of coffee and my phone with the Merlin bird identification app out to a seat in my flower garden and sat down ro wait. It was pleasantly warm out there at that time! I could hear a distant tawny ow...

Born in Barnoldswick though Stanley. I see he was living with Holdsworths in Knaresborough in 1939. Did he not marry Theresa?

Morning Theresa, I have deleted the duplicate topic.

It seems odd that you have posted successfully twice but can't post the comment that you originally tried!

Cathy wrote: ↑15 Jun 2025, 14:15 I’m thinking street lamps. Did they light them and put them out .

I think you are on a winner with that, Cathy!

A drive belt stud or rivet?

I'm guessing that it's a stud of some sort, large and decorative, possibly from a leather garment or boots?

Sad news, another constant in our lives from teenage years onwards.

You caught me out there Tripps, Col was born in Warrington so perhaps he is more Lancashire than Cheshire.

Yes I use nesh, but I think I might have picked it up from Col who is from Cheshire.

It looks very much like the Holy Well outside Thornton in Craven Church.

Tomorrow I'll be watching out for a possible fly over by the Battle of Britain Flight Lancaster. Its due at Newby Hall near Ripon between 2 and 2.30, then Accrington between 2.30 and 3.00, so every chance it could come this way.

It's worth adding here that the mill which burnt down in 1812 and was offered for sale with a new 30ft wheel in 1814 was Earby Mill and not Booth Bridge. There were failed attempts to spin cotton at Earby and the mill disappeared from history before the 1820s. Remnants of the dam remain in the Earby...