FORGOTTEN CORNERS

[Big Kev]

Now a forgotten corner, Croft Mill in Foulridge. There will be 17 houses on the site.

[MickBrett]

He would probably have known my neighbour, Colin Holt. He was an engineer at Bristol Tractors.

That name rings a bell with me too. Craig Holt is also a name I remember from my past. Maybe related?
Tommy's son, Glen Watson worked at Bristol Tractors.

Another Bristol Tractors man I knew was Harry West, father of John West. Harry lived directly opposite me on Kenilworth Drive.
Both Harry and John later worked at Earby Light, Dotcliffe when I was doing my apprenticeship there, 1969 - 1974.

[Stanley]

Foulridge in about 1910.

[Wendyf]

My first wife's dad, Tommy (aka Harry) Watson was a foundry man.
He worked on the furnace at both Bristol Tractors and Ouzledale in the 1960's and 1970's.

He would probably have known my neighbour, Colin Holt. He was an engineer at Bristol Tractors.

Spooky as Tripps would say! I know Colin slightly from Earby History Society events, his father was the warden at Earby Youth Hostel for many years. We bump into each other from time to time and have a chat. When you mentioned him it occurred to me that I hadn't seen him since Kelbrook Tractor Run in 2021 but we met at the top of the stairs in Colne Library this morning.

[Tripps]

Definitely spooky. 100%

[Stanley]

An early model of the Bristol Tractor made at Sough.

[MickBrett]

[Stanley]

Nice one Mick!

[Stanley]

Nice One Mick.



A different aspect of life in Sough. Police dispersing pickets outside Sough Mill in the More Looms strikes of the 1930s.

[Stanley]

Another image from the paper in 1932. Just before the trouble started.....
Notice that the police are all big men. They were specially chosen and imported from other areas to police the strikers. Some of them stayed in the area afterwards and it was a long time before the memory of what they had done faded.
The council complained to the Home Office about the use of excessive force by the police but the complaint was dismissed out of hand. Surprise surprise....

[Stanley]

The redundant Nore lightship in retirement at St Katharine's Dock London in 1976.

[Big Kev]

Now a forgotten corner, Croft Mill in Foulridge. There will be 17 houses on the site.

Here are there details for the 17 new properties
https://www.skiptonproperties.com/devel ... ming-soon/

[Tizer]

An early model of the Bristol Tractor made at Sough.

That photo reminds me of this one which shows an artillery tractor passing through Taunton in 1916... Tractor

[Stanley]

I suspect that one is an early American Holt Tractor, the firm that eventually became Caterpillar.



Newtown in April 2002.

[Stanley]

Not a forgotten corner actually. We don't forget our mates! Jack the lurcher up on Letcliffe in 2004. A fine figure of a dog who had a very difficult life before I rescued him. He never really got over it and came to a bad end which I have always regretted but as the vet said, I shouldn't blame myself, I gave him more than four very good years.

[Stanley]

Park Mills at Royton between the wars. If you look carefully to the right of the tennis courts you will see a WW1 tank parked on the recreation ground. This is a Savings Tank same as Barlick's up on Letcliffe. This one is also a forgotten corner.

[Stanley]

This was the area in Butts that used to be stables to the right and on the left the old shambles where the local butchers did their slaughtering. The waste went into the beck in those days. I made this image in 1982 when both the stables and the slaughter places were no longer used. The stables have since been demolished but the cellar slaughter places are still there but disused.

[Stanley]

The gardens in Butts in 1982. I believe the origin of the name 'Butts' is more likely to be the existence of a medieval field system than a ground for practising archery but have no definite proof beyond the existence of some cottages called 'Herriff Butts' a common name for a field strip.
In the 19th century there were stables in Butts and that meant the importation of hay and straw and the production of a lot of dung. I don't think it's a great coincidence that the trade directories inform us that there were market gardens in Butts supplying the greengrocer''s shops in the town. The horse manure would have been exactly what was needed for productive gardens.
This use of resources and land is long gone and all that remains as evidence are these fertile gardens.

[Stanley]

Westfield Mill in 2005 shortly before it was demolished and became the site for 54 new homes.

[Steeplejerk]

Fond memories of lurcher Jack met him maybe once or twice then along came black Jack but due to my absence from ogfb for some time I have no idea how he's doing.

[Stanley]

Dennis, Sparky and Jack in 2018. Jack shuffled off this mortal coil Tom about 18 months ago and I decided it was unfair to have another dog when I can't exercise it properly. This is my favourite image of him, playing out with his mates.
(Apologies for the little tug on the heart strings Wendy..... )
Needless to say, none of these have been forgotten!

[Wendyf]

Lovely photo of my boys and Jack. Definitely not forgotten

[Stanley]

We are very lucky to have images on the site gathered over the years. This one is Water Street at Earby round about the end of the 19th century.
I love interrogating these forgotten corners to discover what they can tell us. The first thing that strikes me is the extended chimney on the single storey shop on the right. In the later parts of the 20th century this was John Livesey's pie shop and it looks as though it might have been a bakery when this picture was taken. Note the horse muck on the street, it looks as though, liker many of these old images, it was done on a Sunday. This was because the photographic emulsions used then weren't fast enough to capture movement.
Just out of shot on the right were more small shops and one of these in the early 20th Century was a barber's shop, Young Tooley. He was noted as the biggest liar in Earby (Except, so I am told, for Jacky Waterworth, Look up the famous boxing match at the Red Lion for more about Jacky.....)
For some reason the name Riley Cycles on the left rings a bell but at the moment I can't remember why.

[MickBrett]

Lovely image, Stanley.

Ooooo, Livesey's pies. I remember those!
Every Saturday morning my friend used to purchase a cardboard box full and bring them to Earby Light where I worked.
He'd put them in the old gas oven, get them piping hot and sell them for a bob apiece.

His son, Keith, went to Barlick Modern at the same time as Ian and myself.

[Stanley]

A meat pie for a shilling is a forgotten corner now Mick, the going rate is 20 times as much......



Haweswater in 1976. The villages of Measand and Mardale Green were visible again for a short while.
Haweswater is a reservoir in the valley of Mardale, Cumbria in the Lake District, England. Work to raise the height of the original natural lake was started in 1929. It was controversially dammed after the UK Parliament passed a Private Act giving Manchester Corporation permission to build the reservoir to supply drinking water to the city. The decision caused a public outcry because the farming villages of Measand and Mardale Green would be flooded and the valley altered forever.
So, a forgotten corner.