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COTS (Church on the Square) charity shop I reckon at the moment Stanley.
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PanBiker wrote: 10 Mar 2022, 08:46 Church on the Square
Interesting to see another (perhaps) sign of the semi isolation of the town. My kids would say again that I'm over thinking it all. :smile:

To me 'on the sqare' is a discreet way of identification that I'm a Freemason. (I'm not by the way.)

I noted recently that Barlick Pride has just been celebrated. Probably the only place in the world where it means pride in the town and all of its inhabitants. :smile:

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PanBiker wrote: 10 Mar 2022, 08:46 COTS (Church on the Square) charity shop I reckon at the moment Stanley.
I believe it's Church on the Street, a charity set up by a reformed villain.
https://www.cots-ministries.co.uk/
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Good Grief! I looked it up.... (LINK)
David, we are turning into a cult haven......
And yes, that's what #on the square' means to me as well.
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The reason that I remember the address is because it was always on the adverts at the Majestic cinema. But, of course with the ravages of time I may be mistaken.
It was run by the wife of one of my instructors at the engineering college situated in the left side end of Barlick Modern.
The instructors name was Jack Firth.
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My mistake, yes, Church on the Street.
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We all have that problem Mick! Here's a pic of those shops in 1983. Number 27 is a video shop and was later absorbed by Jester's.

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26 Townhead in 1982. The only reason I am posting this is because I have no memory of it and hope someone can educate me. Forty years ago means it qualifies as Flatley Dryer!
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Do you mean is it still there?
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Thanks, I still have no memory of it.....
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Mrs Harrison, in the shed. This lathe is now definitely Flatley Dryer country as far as industry is concerned. Production isn't done on manual lathes like this but on CNC 'Machining Centres' that take all the fun out of the job!
The only place you'll find them is in a tool room or maintenance section where there is still a place for old fashioned turning.
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Much of Brown and Pickles work was with mills and other businesses using steam engines. They all had one thing in common, they used lineshafting. This lathe in the Wellhouse shop was specifically designed for turning lengths of shafting. In case you were wondering what the rod and ball is for sticking out of the back of the headstock, It's a slide hammer for knocking out Morse taper mounted tools from the tailstock like centres or chucks.
Another piece of what would be seen today as hopelessly out of date technology but it did the job just as well as a modern CNC lathe.
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There's a story behind this lathe that I snapped in 1979 in B&P's Wellhouse shop. In WW2 Brown and Pickles were asked to machine some bases for anti aircraft guns. They hadn't got a lathe big enough for the job but Johnny took the contract and built this lathe to do it. It remained in the shop until the 1980s when Gissing and Lonsdale bought the firm and scrapped the lathe. The last time I saw it running was in the 1970s when Newton was truing the driving wheels off a 'Black Five' locomotive, they were about 6ft 6" diameter.
Flatley dryer for two reasons, first nobody would build a lathe for a contract and second, this is far too simple a machine for today's needs even though it did the job for almost fifty years!
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William/ Henry Brown's shop at Earby in about 1900. To a modern engineer this looks like a scrapyard but at that time some very big repair jobs were done using this equipment. Definitely Flatley Dryer country!
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A travelling tinsmith in Perthshire in 1920. Such men were called tinkers and were common callers in the days before plastic when many household goods were made from sheet metal. When plastic arrived they lost their income.... In Barlick we had several tinsmiths and one had a shop on Church Street.
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Spooky! I've been reading about tinplate manufacture in the Forest of Dean. In the 1600s there was a collapse in demand for iron from the Forest. Engineer Andrew Yarranton noted that there was also a collapse in demand for Cornish tin and prompted the Forest iron men to buy the Cornish product and make tinplate. He'd learnt the tinplate process in Saxony. There's more detail in the History section of this web page ChemEurope and this long BBC article has a lot about canning and many photos Tin cans
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I think the canning industry is the only one where tinplate still rules the roost. Plastic is an obvious replacement for glass but not sheet steel it seems.
I'm going to buy a new short coat today and it will almost certainly be woollen tweed, thank God that that isn't Flatley Dryer country, nothing better has been found to replace it.
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Ouzledale Foundry in 1979. They were still using the old cupola furnace and note the advanced safety clothing and PPE! This is Flatley Dryer country. Since then the ironfounding trade has almost entirely migrated to China and India. Killed in this country by regulations which the far Eastern foundries don't have to pay for.
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Here's Clifford Turner tapping the cupola at Long Ing at about the same time as the other image. Foundry work was always hard, dirty and dangerous. That's why it migrated and is now Flately Dryer country.
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Are Esse stoves made elsewhere?
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I can't say for certain Wendy but I doubt if any melting or casting is being done now. More like Manufacturing the stoves using castings bought in, most likely from India I think.
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I'll ask my mate Chris next time I catch him on the radio. He has just started a new job down there, he is a welder/fabricator.
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Dropping the spent charge from the cupola furnace at Long Ing in 1979 at the end of the day. They had been melting scrap from Bancroft and making Firemaster Domestic grates. It was a very dirty and dangerous trade, good to tell why it died out!
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A Firth postcard of the Post Office in 1960. The only image I have of the front of the shop when the solid copper facia was still in place below the clock on the right of the window. This had the letter boxes for mail and also coin in the slot stamp machines. Flatley Dryer country now as it vanished when the PO moved out.
There was also a brass notice let into the paving slabs at the front of the shop that read something like:- "The post office has not dedicated and does not intend to dedicate this area as a public right of way". I seem to remember another brass plate saying "Shap Adamant", the trade mark of slabs produced by the Shap Granite quarries on Shap Fell. Both have vanished.
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There was also a public telephone box on the left as you entered the Post Office. You could also post your letters from inside as it had letterboxes on the inside as well, all going into the same hopper. Sorting Office was upstairs at that time and the vans were loaded from the gated yard behind the office.
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