FORGOTTEN CORNERS

[Stanley]

A Smith Rodley crane in Jumbles Quarry near Slaidburn. The quarry was worked during the building of the reservoir nearby. When the work was finished the crane was abandoned and is there to this day. A Forgotten artefact, if not corner!

[MickBrett]

Nice view of Salterforth.

[Stanley]

I haven't seen that one before Mick.

[Stanley]

Muriel Smith weaving at Bendem's shed in Wellhouse mill in 1982. (Bendem was originally B&M Holden.) Some of the Bancroft weavers went to Bendem when Bancroft closed. Bendem was the last independent firm working on Room and Power in Barlick, I think they had 98 looms which were run off the original shafting but powered by an electric motor. A totally forgotten corner now.
(Some people have argued that Pickles at Long Ing Shed were the last weavers but strictly speaking this is not the case as their last work was knitting and they had no looms.)

[Stanley]

This gate post and the surrounding stonework on the corner of Number One Damside cottages has intrigued me for years. It is so much at odds with the main building and has evidence of so many alterations that it looks as though it's older than the house. But then I start to ask questions.... Why? I'll never have an answer but I think a forgotten corner is trying to communicate!

[Stanley]

Barnoldswick Station site during the period between demolition and site preparation for the Pioneer supermarket.

[Stanley]

Two forgotten corner elements come with this image. First is the absence of the trees we have now. A result of the fact that they were cut for domestic fuel then but aren't needed now. Second, the number of people out walking. I have long suspected that most of these old views were done at weekends and this is almost certainly an example. People went out for a walk at weekends, nothing to keep them in the house of the weather was decent. I remember being told that win Kelbrook the favourite was a walk to New Hague and back. Incidentally, these walks were often used for courting a young lady and that's another forgotten corner!

[Stanley]

This was the state of the Dee Mill engine in December 1992 when I was given the job of getting rid of it legally by Littlewood's Home Shopping who wanted the land for an extension of their warehouse facilities at Newhey. I did it and was called a vandal by many. It's a forgotten corner now......

[Stanley]

Those were the days.....

[Stanley]

A showman's van owned by a friend of mine. I stayed in it for a few days once and it was very luxurious and warm. They were quite common with showmen in days gone by but are now highly collectable antiques.

[Gloria]

Stanley, behind the Dee Mill engine, are those tiles on the wall, they look very ornate?

[Stanley]

Yes Gloria, it was a very ornate engine house.



Here's what it looked like in its hey days.

[Gloria]

A sign of wealth, there were some beautiful buildings both inside and out.

[Stanley]

Here's another fine engine house for you Gloria. Clover at Rochdale.

[Gloria]

Lovely floor, what is the row of little doors for on the right hand wall?

[PanBiker]

They look like large tiles to me Gloria, just part of the ornate decoration I reckon.

[Stanley]

I don't know Gloria but I've seen similar doors that are access to a wall shaft bearing set in the wall.



Moss Houses at Foulridge.

[Cathy]

Just wondering, what are Moss Houses?

[Stanley]

The Moss was often a local name for a moor or boggy waste Cathy. As in Chat Moss in Lancashire. There is boggy land at Foulridge and these cottages must be near it.



Old cottages like these are often a forgotten corner and looking at the Foulridge example reminded me of the differences you find in different areas. This is my late friend Roger Perry's cottage at Braiseworth near Eye in Suffolk. The two things that always struck me were the steep pitch of the thatched roof and the massive brick chimney stacks. Roger told me that they were built like that to minimise the chance of sparks getting into the thatch.
this was an agricultural worker's cottage and is totally different than the same class of housing would be here.

[Cathy]

[Stanley]

The days when cast iron was king and we had engineers in Barlick who could cast and machine big artefacts have gone. This is a vacuum pump body on the planer at Brown and Pickles. The face of the flange on the side is being cut.

[Stanley]

Mrs Brown's shop at the end of Crow Row (Longfield Lane) in 1984. By then the shop was closed and if you look up the side, the door into the shop has become a window. However a reminder of a forgotten corner survived, the porcelain enamel advertising signs on the end of the building.

[PanBiker]

One of our younger Bosom Friends trustees lives in the property now.

[Stanley]

The back of the buildings in Seven Stars Yard in 1982 as seen from the grounds of the clinic in Butts. The size has always surprised me and if you look at the right hand end you'll see that there are chimney pots. This was a dwelling until at least the 1930sd. See Arthur Entwistle in the LTP for evidence. A friend of his lived there.

[PanBiker]

Look how big the clinic footprint is. Ideal for a proper two or three storey health centre for the town with parking. It used to have a theatre on the site before the clinic of course which is only a prefab construction.