Re: Barnoldswick Forces Memorial Gardens

[David Whipp]

The highway authority are being asked to mark where the adopted highway comes to on Mosely Street, as objectors to the access don't accept that it's as shown on the adopted plan (posted earlier). I'm told that objectors have also launched a petition against the access onto Mosely Street.

[David Whipp]

This is the wall where the access is being created onto Mosely Street.

The adopted highway includes about 2m of the concrete section.

[Big Kev]

I'm told that objectors have also launched a petition against the access onto Mosely Street.

No one has knocked on my door yet

[PanBiker]

Looking at the plan of the adopted highway and the orientation of the last garage in the row on Google Earth street view. It looks like the last one has been turned round to squeeze another one in but in doing so it exits onto what is in effect the pavement and not the road as all the others do. I assume that this orientation is in order to stay within a boundary line? As you say in an earlier post, plenty of other access runs into garages cross pavements. I can't see for the life in me what the problem would be with an entrance to the gardens there. A suitable sign on the garden side no doubt.

[Big Kev]

I can't see for the life in me what the problem would be with an entrance to the gardens there.

It'll be change, Ian. Folk don't like change.

[Stanley]

And some have tunnel vision once they have adopted a position. That wall is UGLY and anything that's done to it will be an improvement!
(Once done, would this be a snicket, alley or Ginnel?)

[Big Kev]

All sorts of machinery in use yesterday. I'm guessing the stone has arrived.

[Tizer]

(Once done, would this be a snicket, alley or Ginnel?)

You'll have to submit a request for clarification to the Committee for Snickets, Alleys and Ginnels and they'll pass it to the Sub-Committee for Naming of Snickets, Alleys and Ginnels. In due course (couple of years of dispute) they'll compromise and call it a `snickallgin', but then the European Commission's Comité Pour Nommer Ruelles will probably intervene and demand a reconsideration and that could be compromised by interference by Angela Merkel on behalf of Germany's Ausschuss für die Benennung der Gassen.
(Translations provided by Google - I hope they are correct!)

[Big Kev]

Very good, Tizer. Works are continuing today. Lots of banging and clattering going on.

[Big Kev]

A bit of graffiti has appeared on the "ugly" wall. KEP(sic) OFF it says...

[PanBiker]

How to win friends and influence people - not!

[Stanley]

Isn't it sad.....

[Bruff]

It is unusual to spell 'keep' wrong in 'keep off' I would have thought. 'Keep of', I could understand as you might have been disturbed near the end and rushed it. 'Kep' couldn't be a result of being disturbed could it, as the grafitti artist has managed to stoically see it through with their 'kep off'. Someone should scribble 'Why?' next to it....

I'm sorry but if you didn't laugh, you'd cry...

Richard Broughton

[Tripps]

"It is unusual to spell 'keep' wrong (sic) in 'keep off' I would have thought."

I won't lie to you - You're not seeing enough of the characters on the Jeremy Kyle Show Richard. Know what I mean?

Sorry that should read 'Nartamean'. Ya get me?

[Thomo]

Or maybe whoever did it simply cannot spell even basic words.

[Bruff]

I was being facetious in my post, sorry. A misfiring attempt to bring some levity to a sorry tale on an important matter.

Richard Broughton

[Tripps]

I was being facetious in my post, sorry. A misfiring attempt to bring some levity to a sorry tale on an important matter.

Richard Broughton

So was I Richard - no apology necessary.

"Or maybe whoever did it simply cannot spell even basic words.

That's what I was trying to say too.

Memo to self - Attempts at humour are not best done in a written environment.

[Bruff]

We need an irony/sarcasm/facetiousness font to alert as you're right, it is not easily conveyed. I'm sure some have suggested a 'backwards' italic to just this problem.

Richard Broughton

[Big Kev]

Here it is in all its glory, looks like Highways have been defining boundaries too

[David Whipp]

Here are the new railings at the front of the gardens. These replace a wall which prevented passersby seeing the attractive flower bed just behind it. The concrete in which the railings are set will be capped with a stone plinth cut round the posts and the soil graded at either side to match (not much of an issue at this end of the gardens, but there's quite a difference in levels at the other end).

In the background, you can see where the internal walls are being rebuilt. One of the two ginko trees is visible against the gable of no 52 Mosely Street. Behind that is the garden side of the wall, with Mosely Street beyond.

As Kev reports, highway staff have been out and marked the limits of the adopted highway.

[Big Kev]

Looking good

[Stanley]

This graffiti came to mind. From my late mate Roger Perry's book 'The Writing on the Wall'. (Complete with the obligatory spelling mistake....)

[Big Kev]

All the railings are up along the front now. The graffiti has been painted over too

[Big Kev]

Someone's been out with yellow paint "marking their territory" today. The area, where Highways made their white marks, is now marked out in yellow and signed as "Private".

[PanBiker]

I had occasion to drive past and noticed that the annotation was done on the adopted public highway! I would assume this would constitute an offence.

Can't understand why whoever painted it up did not mark within the correct boundary.