FORGOTTEN CORNERS

[Gloria]

Adding another pic from Catlow Bottoms in Briercliffe.

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[Stanley]

I'll follow Gloria with an old bridge over the beck at Pickles Hippings in Barlick. I did this pic in 1982, good job I did because it has collapsed since.....

[Stanley]

Hey and Bancroft in 1969. Like all old images this one repays close scrutiny as much of it is now a forgotten corner.

[Stanley]

The Wesleyan church and Sunday School in 1963. Part of the impressive array of religious buildings in the town then. One wonders whether the same investment would be made if they were starting now.... A forgotten corner.

[PanBiker]

I cant quite figure out the orientation of this zoomed photo?

[Big Kev]

Essex Street horizontal centre
Mousley Street horizontal top
Rainhall Road vertical on the right.
I trust that makes sense?

The original bit of St Andrew's House right side of pic

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[PanBiker]

Doh! of course it is.

[Big Kev]

Doh! of course it is.

It took me a while as I only remember it as it is now.

[Stanley]

Sorry, I thought the railway line was the clue. I think the building picked out by Kev was originally the Manse.
This morning's forgotten corner is people.....



Lynette Lythgoe interviewing David Moore at Granada TV in 1987. Both personal friends and both dead, David Moore by a massive coronary after a severe stroke and Lynette was murdered whilst visiting relatives in Port of Spain, Trinidad in 2001. Both were good people and today are almost completely forgotten....

[Stanley]

Dye House Farm 1929 and 1930.

[Stanley]

I tripped over this image in the archive this morning. Wendy and her mate Dennis. A forgotten corner in that it's an image from the past.....

[Wendyf]

A bit of a shock to see that!

[Stanley]

Sorry Love I did wonder but then thought it would be OK. Such a lovely pic and memory. Sorry if I've upset you. Feel free to erase it.

[Wendyf]

Not upset at all Stanley, just surprised to find myself in Forgotten Corners!

[Stanley]

Not you ...... the situation. It's such a good image and it grabbed me this morning. Glad you're OK....

[Wendyf]

It was when the bore hole was being drilled.

[Stanley]

[Big Kev]

Not upset at all Stanley, just surprised to find myself in Forgotten Corners!

[Stanley]

Tubber Hill round about 1900 but mainly of interest because it shows the houses at Windy Harbour which were demolished in the 1950s. There are many locations named Windy Harbour and I discovered many years ago that a common feature was that they were overnight stops for pack horse trains and drovers.

[Stanley]

Bancrofts and Windy Harbour. Perhaps as late as 1963.....

[Stanley]

Tacklers at Moss shed pre-WW1. These men and others like them in the other sheds were the aristocrats of the textile industry commanding the best wages and having iron control over their weavers. In those days their wage was linked to weaver's productivity and this gave them a reason not only for looking after the looms but getting the maximum out of the weavers. War conditions thankfully altered that and it became a forgotten corner.

[Big Kev]

A bit further away to be classified as local but I lived here, for two years, from 1982-84. The original planners dreams never fully materialized and now parts of it are being demolished, soon to be a forgotten corner for me.

[Tripps]

It's hard to 'plan' a town. The well meaning ideas of the planner run up against the practical wishes of the planned.
Interesting video - the elephant was in the room - even then.

" The walkways quickly became littered and abused. They were not considered safe places to walk. Pathways set out for people to walk on were put in without regard to how people would wish to get about, so some were ignored in favour of more direct routes over grassed areas. "

I see it's near to the magnificent Crossness Pumping Station which pumped raw sewage directly into the River Thames falling tide. Thank goodness we've advance so much since those days. Oh wait a minute . . . .

[Stanley]

I've seen Crossness Pumping Station referred to as the high point of Victorian engineering. Ironic when you think that pumping sewage into the river was its sole objective!



Indurated asbestos packing for steam cocks. A very efficient packing and never any danger as the fibres were trapped in the composition but banned alongside all asbestos products. So, a forgotten corner unless you know an old fart like me!

[Stanley]

Rochdale Electric Welding's old shop on Bridgefield Street in Rochdale. Long gone and if you look carefully you'll see that there are three traction engine boilers being repaired. This isn't quite a forgotten corner but is vanishingly rare these days. The old skills are dying out and not being replaced.