Bonny Colne

[Wendyf]

I thought I'd start with a map. This is the 1910 25" OS map of the centre of Colne. You can see Windy Bank with Lister Street and High Street off it.

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[Wendyf]

This is Park Row, also taken from Windy Bank in 1932.

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[Stanley]

60 years ago Windy Bank was famous for two things in my world, tarmacers and the best bred Lurchers in the area.

[Wendyf]

Windy Bank

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[Gloria]

I love old photos, there’s so much of a story in them.

[Big Kev]

[Stanley]

These are good Wendy and very evocative of that time.

[MickBrett]

Windy bank again. Circa 1880.
The large building in the top left corner is the Free Trade Hall which was demolished in 1944.
The square chimney in the centre was Stone Bridge Works.

[Wendyf]

Is that building the one that's marked Theatre Royal on the map Mick?

[MickBrett]

Yes, it is Wendy. It became the Theatre Royal in 1898.

[Wendyf]

You can just make out the roof of the Arcade behind it, then Mason Street running straight down the hill.

[Wendyf]

I love the big house at the bottom right of the photo with it's walled garden. I wonder who lived there....

[MickBrett]

This is a view down Dockray Street towards Windsor Street and beyond taken around 1902.
The bottom of Windy bank can just be seen on the far left of the image.

[Stanley]

Good stuff.....

[plaques]

Some of these views baffle me. The caption says Langroyd which its clearly not. Mick is correct of course. The Methodist Chapel far left and the area where Sainsburys is to day. I was told that the Stoney Bridge St / Norfolk St of Windy Bank used to house an abattoir.

[Wendyf]

The Chapel is always a good marker in these old photos. I believe that is the abattoir to the left. The buildings opposite the bottom of Dockray Street must be the back of Grove Mill. Was Vinelia a textile company?

[Wendyf]

Vinelia was a soap and cold cream brand.

[MickBrett]

Circa 1890 image taken from the top of Bridge Street, opposite the Crown Hotel.

[Wendyf]

Is there a horse pulling that load of stone?

[MickBrett]

Is there a horse pulling that load of stone?

The cart itself and the load combined looks a bit heavy to be horse drawn. Steam engine maybe?
Is that a stove pipe rising vertically just above the drivers left shoulder?
It's bad to tell.

[Wendyf]

Could be!

[plaques]

Is it a combined gas tar boiler and stone trailer. Those look like very heavy loaded wheels far to heavy for normal cartage.

[MickBrett]

Yup.
Here's a view of Carriers Row circa 1903. A "similar" vehicle is in the image but this being a steamroller. Similar stovepipe.

[Stanley]

I've never seen anything like it before but yes, it's a steam powered vehicle and those heavy back wheels must have been driven like the back wheels of the steam roller in the other picture. You can see large brake shoes that act on the surface of the wheel.
PS, that lamp post in the pic of the resurfacing looks like the same pattern as the ones Barlick used to use.

[Wendyf]

Cabbage Lane ran this side of these properties, Buck Street on the other.

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