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- 07 Feb 2012, 06:20
- Forum: Census and Resource Discussion
- Topic: Looking for general advice
- Replies: 56
- Views: 31453
Re: Looking for general advice
Gloria, surely not!!
- 07 Feb 2012, 06:13
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
- Replies: 3943
- Views: 590942
Re: ENERGY MATTERS
Tiz, your description of the annuity minefield reminded me of the reaction I have when I hear people like Paul Lewis describing the shenanigans that are going on today in that field. I have to confess that I an crap when it comes to financial complications, I have always had a very simplistic view o...
- 07 Feb 2012, 05:46
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20113
- Views: 2335621
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Closely related to Tiz's object.
- 07 Feb 2012, 05:38
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Winged Heroes
- Replies: 556
- Views: 180545
Re: Winged Heroes
Watching 'Bomber Boys' triggered me into reading Len Deighton's 'Bomber' again. Good read time after time..... Bad weather damages walks and work in the shed but encourages reading!
- 07 Feb 2012, 05:34
- Forum: Looking For Someone
- Topic: Joseph Bracewell/Susy Hartley/John Higgin
- Replies: 105
- Views: 50313
Re: Joseph Bracewell/Susy Hartley/John Higgin
Eileen, 1780 onwards was the start of the big expansion in the cotton trade because of improved machinery, Arkwright etc. Agricultural incomes were low and it was a struggle to support children so they tended to be sent into other work. In the Dales and other remote areas it was mainly girls going i...
- 07 Feb 2012, 05:27
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hi - New to Site
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2515
Re: Hi - New to Site
Welcome to the site Jo. The search bots are working on the archive and eventually Google et al will catch up on the new location. It will take time because the archive is so big. Thanks for registering and taking part.
- 07 Feb 2012, 05:21
- Forum: Local History Topics
- Topic: Barlick police
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4247
Re: Barlick police
That's the one.... Seen regularly on YTV Heartbeat.
- 07 Feb 2012, 05:15
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: Is it just me ....
- Replies: 34
- Views: 12225
Re: Is it just me ....
My view as well Brad. As for encouraging the younger members. I remember the Barnoldswick.com website in 1984 and it was simply being used as a forum for children posting criticism (and worse) of each other. I thought about this last night as I watched the Panorama programme on Trolls and abuse on s...
- 07 Feb 2012, 05:08
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
- Replies: 3943
- Views: 596989
Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
Tiz, we have a path in Barlick that the older end still recognise as 'Shitten Ginnel'.
I used an old saying that I heard first in Scotland yesterday. "A pup for the pavement but an old dog for the hard road". Anyone heard it south of the border?
I used an old saying that I heard first in Scotland yesterday. "A pup for the pavement but an old dog for the hard road". Anyone heard it south of the border?
- 07 Feb 2012, 05:04
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: SPEAKER'S CORNER
- Replies: 118
- Views: 63107
Re: SPEAKER'S CORNER
I recognise that problem Whippy but when it is something clear cut like abusing children the course should be clear.
- 07 Feb 2012, 05:00
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: Bluesinger's Musical Ramblings
- Replies: 182
- Views: 67261
Re: Bluesinger's Musical Ramblings
Duke Ellington.... In the 1980s I went to a concert in Montreal to hear the band but of course it was his son and I wasn't impressed until they wheeled a bloke on in a chair. He was an original member of the band and played the trumpet. Brought the house down, he was streets better than the reconsti...
- 07 Feb 2012, 04:57
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?
- Replies: 9214
- Views: 1075454
Re: WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?
Helen, there is a good reason for 'stodgy food'. Think suet puddings! I had a menu malfunction yesterday. Plan was to not bake a loaf as I had enough bread for a sausage butty for brekkers this morning and to make fish pie after dinner ready for teatime. Went to bed and had a sleep and forgot the fi...
- 07 Feb 2012, 04:45
- Forum: Seasons
- Topic: SPRING 2012
- Replies: 416
- Views: 171154
Re: SPRING 2012
Nice to see such varied traffic on this topic. I still think it will be useful in the future to anyone researching historical weather but there's a better feel to it with more response. Slow thaw continued yesterday and we managed a mincing walk through Valley Gardens in the morning but very bad und...
- 06 Feb 2012, 08:44
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20594
- Views: 1913235
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
Commiserations Comrade. Sounds as though you have the Full Monty! Susan and I both endured five weeks from the infection date and some of the after=effects still linger. A proper cold, look after yourself.
- 06 Feb 2012, 08:41
- Forum: Census and Resource Discussion
- Topic: Marriage in Barnoldswick
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10788
Re: Marriage in Barnoldswick
Or chapel?
- 06 Feb 2012, 06:37
- Forum: Forums
- Topic: Original Posting on Top Of Each Page
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8694
Re: Original Posting on Top Of Each Page
On reflection I am with Pluggy about the first post being confined to the opening page. There is the case for reminding people what the topic is about but on the whole they go off piste anyway!
- 06 Feb 2012, 06:20
- Forum: Local History Topics
- Topic: Location, Location, Location
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5921
Re: Location, Location, Location
Just been reposting my holly articles for Eileen and on reading them again I remembered that 'hagg' was an alternative name for 'holm', often used for an island but in this case as a name for an isolated stand of trees. In the case I was looking at these were Holly trees cultivated for browse wood a...
- 06 Feb 2012, 06:11
- Forum: Stanley's View
- Topic: THE HOLLY AND THE IVY PART TWO
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1710
THE HOLLY AND THE IVY PART TWO
THE HOLLY AND THE IVY. PART 2 We were looking at Holly last week and I promised you my theory as to why they are so numerous in our ancient hedgerows. We have to start by looking somewhere else, at word origins. One of the ‘facts’ fed to me in my schooldays was that the name Holly derives from ‘holy...
- 06 Feb 2012, 06:08
- Forum: Stanley's View
- Topic: THE HOLLY AND THE IVY PART ONE
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2569
THE HOLLY AND THE IVY PART ONE
THE HOLLY AND THE IVY. PART 1 What’s the first thing that comes into your head when you read the title? In my case it triggers off a memory of my days as a choirboy, ‘The holly and the Ivy, when they are both full grown, of all the trees that are in the wood, the Holly bears the crown’. No, I didn’t...
- 06 Feb 2012, 06:05
- Forum: Looking For Someone
- Topic: Joseph Bracewell/Susy Hartley/John Higgin
- Replies: 105
- Views: 50313
Re: Joseph Bracewell/Susy Hartley/John Higgin
Eileen, I'll repost them in Stanley's view.
- 06 Feb 2012, 06:01
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?
- Replies: 9214
- Views: 1075454
Re: WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?
Helen, Stewart Brown has plenty of oxtail! I finished it last night and today I'm considering fish pie made with some smoked haddock I bought the other day on a whim....
- 06 Feb 2012, 05:56
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: Is it just me ....
- Replies: 34
- Views: 12225
Re: Is it just me ....
I have no problem with youngsters joining and putting their own topics up and see no need for separate moderators. Let's wait and see if it happens before we start complicating things. I have a funny feeling the site is self-selecting and look at Conor, definitely the younger end! Let's not make any...
- 06 Feb 2012, 05:46
- Forum: Technology & Communication
- Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
- Replies: 6676
- Views: 960701
Re: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
Tiz, no because it reloads the page and the order is re-arranged. Right click on the navigation arrows takes you back to the original view. Like you I lost the reload button but then realised it was where Pluggy indicates. Didn't realise we had yet another new version of Firefox. It's working well t...
- 06 Feb 2012, 05:41
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
- Replies: 3943
- Views: 590942
Re: ENERGY MATTERS
I too have grumbling rights and intend to use them! Tiz, I know what you mean. Nobody could accuse me of being anti new technology but I am very choosy about it. I hate the 'add-ons' that companies arrange to maximise profit from their inventions. Things like Nectar points trying to persuade you the...
- 06 Feb 2012, 05:27
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20594
- Views: 1913235
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
Sue, last time I was in Healey Dell was when my mate Peter Tatham was pointing the underside of the viaduct arches. I saw your post about avoiding Old Bett's, That journey across the hill is a bugbear in winter whichever way you go. I had some interesting mornings when I was driving to Rochdale from...