OneGuyFromBarlick

A Barlick Family who's ancestor is not on the memorial at his Mothers request may now be added. When I queried this originally, the family decided to stay with that decision, now it appears there may be a change of mind, they have my contact details and are advised to get in touch with their final w...

Two modern bits of terminology fit a cat just as easy as their original subjects. "Armed rapid response unit" and "Stealth fighter", a third could be "Undercover agent!" We have on that can circumnavigate the whole house including several pelmets in under ten seconds.

At that size Richard, they would make a Bull Terrier or indeed any other terrier look like a complete wimp. One of the many advantages of a cat is that on an absolutely dreadful day when one is getting on a bit, they do not have to be walked!

I had a visitor this morning, Mr David Brooks of the Rolls Royce Heritage Trust, bringing in person the material I was looking for, all beautifully laid out and presented. At a stroke he has answered all of my questions and I now have the full picture of Bankfield and all other local sites from day ...

That may sound like a daft question as I am sure that most of us already know, but there is more to it than that and I am going to attempt to bulk out the obvious answer with a little extra detail. Those of you who own or love cats are welcome to put your stories in here, share your experience, your...

With regard to the Fosters Arms sale, the site has been split into five lots: 1. The main building at £195,000 with planning to convert to four bedroom dwelling, now sold. 2. The annexe, ex function rooms with planning to convert to four bedroom dwelling. 3 & 4. plots with planning for semi deta...

Tizer, that sounds like a case of good old fashioned British ingenuity to me, but one wonders if whoever found it and restored it, should have kept quiet, for who knows, we may yet need it again! From a more local point of view, the main building of what was the "Fosters Arms" has been sol...

A number of roadside signs have appeared in the area, "Keep Barnoldswick Special, vote for ALDI" these are professional signs, certainly not home made and they bear the ALDI logo!

At last it stopped raining long enough to get the awful job done. Frankie is now with his Brother and pals and will shortly have a new shrub to mark his place of rest. Its strange how the other cats react, they know that something has happened but they will settle down again soon, the senior cat Ell...

Aye Pluggy, that was him. His chosen spot at night was between the back of my pillow and the padded headboard, he would get in there and purr, and Frankie could purr, deep, sonorous and steady, a fine sound to send you off.

Thank you Ian. that's the part that eluded me.
Like the song says, "You'll get by with a little help from your friends".

Well I got the pic into the gallery, but how do I get it to here?

Many of you will remember this, posted in December 2009:- Many of you have pets, and it is possibly fairly well known that over the past thirteen years my Wife and I have rescued a number of animals. Two were posted on this site as Cats in need of a new home. These two were taken in by "Steamtr...

Another mail from my contact at Rolls Royce, they have several articles that could be useful, these I will be receiving in due course. By talking to old school friends I also now have leads to the Fire Brigade. The local St Johns Ambulance is now based in Nelson, so I will have to track down local m...

Sorry to be so long in responding Ian, the pictures in question are not held by government, "cabinet" is a name given to posed photographs and the ones I refer to are in the possession of a dealer in London. I had just about given up on any response from Rolls Royce when lo and behold I ha...

Progress, slow but determined. I have done the "A"s, only another 303 names to go! My address book is growing rapidly and up to now my requests for the use of copyright material has met with a positive response, its nice to know that the mention of charities is a fine incentive. I came acr...

On reflection, its been a strange week and I confess that looking back there was a fair deal of trepidation involved. I have done many things in my time, most of which I can look on with affection and pride, but I have never even thought about producing a book. As an Marine Engineer Officer Writer f...

I agree with Ian, but what makes it interesting is that the surname of wife No 2 is also the maiden name of wife No 1, yet there is a five year age difference, and by the time they reached British Columbia, one of them was dead!!

And there are others Stanley, most of which originated next door as it were. Things are growing apace, chiefly the publishing and marketing. My landlord whom I also do occasional work for owns a firm that does the entire package from E books to traditional. They will sort out the production and mark...

Working my way through the names I have just seen something odd and interesting. One census shows the soldier in question living with his parents in Barlick, but when you look at the his father, the Head, it shows father with two wives living under the same roof. Maybe that why they emigrated to Can...

Yesterday I started on the task of going through the 315 names for WW1 and adding all of the updates, pictures and documentation and re-formatting the end product to make it easier to manage. I estimate at least three months for this part of the project. Overnight I received a very nice mail from Co...

They are at it again!! e/mails from Africa seeking help, ie please contact?, you know the rest. DELETE INSTANTLY!!

I can find no evidence to support Percy or Richard other than SD has them both as resident in Barlick. Richard joined the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in 1899 and fought in South Africa, but his attestation document has his birthplace as Burnley, Percy was not only born in Manchester he enlisted ...

And I thought that was the end of it!! When the pond of information dries up its always as well to sieve the mud, and in this there were two finds. Percy Rosen and Richard Mercer. Percy if he qualifies could well be the first casualty from Barlick, one month into the war. Before the War a great many...

And mine Ian. And now the final tally:- FINAL LIST OF WW1 NAMES FOR ADDITION TO MEMORIAL ABBOTT ALBERT ABBOTT BROUGHTON BAILEY GEORGE ALFRED BARRETT PETER BELL ARTHUR BLEZZARD JOSEPH CLAYTON JOSEPH COUSINS GEORGE CROWTHER JAMES HARTLEY DODGEON BERTIE DOWD WILLIAM DUERDEN RICHARD ERNEST ALFRED FAY JO...