FORGOTTEN CORNERS

[Stanley]

Thanks David....



In the late 18th C when trade unions were illegal working men formed 'Friendly Societies' for mutual aid and support, eventually these developed into the modern building societies. This is a copy of the certificate of membership for such a society in Todmorden. The two men have met and one is asking the other if he has the secret password.....

[Big Kev]

I joined a friendly society over 45 years ago, the annual subscription is still the same amount for me today.
https://www.anglo-saxons.co.uk/

[Stanley]

Our national aversion to 'foreigners' is not new. In the 18th century this society was formed to alleviate what was seen as an evil. The society is a forgotten corner but the aversion isn't. In some quarters it is stronger than ever.

[Stanley]

The canal had an ice breaking boat moored at Greenberfield and it sank. In 1977 the remains were still visible above the surface. It will still be there sunk in the mud but now is out of sight and out of mind; a forgotten corner.

[PanBiker]

It's not there it was dragged out and dumped when they built the houses and shoved in a concrete mooring area for the small boats that the owners never had. They grubbed out the lovely overhanging Willow tree as well which made the view like a picture postcard.

[Stanley]

Thanks for that Ian. What a shame, it was one of the most picturesque sights on the local canal.....

[PanBiker]

Indeed, my dad sketched it in 1936.

[Stanley]

The year I was born....

[PanBiker]

My dad was 18 when he did that sketch.

[Stanley]

I've just noticed that the ice boat is numbered. Number 9!



Board school interior in Liverpool in about 1900. The Board schools were such a major advance in the 19th century but improvements on that scale in primary education are now a forgotten corner.

[Stanley]

Seven Stars Yard in 1982. The yard was always a place where varied activities took place. It was always a venue for small businesses, in 1982 George Gane and Sons were the tenants as joiners. Over the years there was a tinsmith at one time and the nearest end of the building was always a two storey cottage. Arthur Entwistle talks in the LTP about a friend of his living there in the 1930s.
We have evidence, also in the LTP for it being used by the Council for the distribution of food to volunteer's wives in the early days of the Great War before the government rationing and support schemes had started operating.
A busy place, but now a forgotten corner.

[Stanley]

The entrance to Clough yard twenty years ago. This used to be the way into the mill for the workers and one remnant of this remains. Look at the flat top to the gable on the building at the top left of the image. This was where the small turret was mounted that contained the bell that was used to summon the workers to the mill. This was common on the early mills.



Here's a similar but larger one on the early Butts Mill.

[Stanley]

1969 and we were having our first holiday of our marriage, a fortnight at Ayr in SW Scotland. Despite the freezing weather I insisted on a picture of the kids 'enjoying themselves' in the sea.
They never let me forget this. A long forgotten corner, but I don't regret being so cruel!

[PanBiker]

No cruelty here and not a forgotten corner. Our problem is always keeping them out! Northumberland 2017. Can't find the original but this is a photo of a canvas we had made. It's in our bathroom and one of the first things you see, we call this one "Joy".

[Tripps]

Nice picture and well titled.

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Forgotten corners

I phoned a Government department today, and was advised immediately that they are a diverse workforce, and abuse by callers will not be be tolerated in any way. I later went to the Pharmacy and there was a printed notice on the door and window to much the same effect.

We didn't use to have to be constantly reminded to behave politely to such people. It was 'built in'.

When and why did such notices become necessary?

I know what I think. . . .

[Big Kev]

On the subject of kids in the sea, a few of the grandchildren at Scarborough

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[Stanley]

22 years later at Perth, Western Australia.

[Stanley]

I am so lucky in that over a century ago my grandparents had the means to have images like this made. This is my Grandfather with my Mother and this must be about 1914 as he was killed in the Great War in 1918. So long ago but thanks to this image, not a forgotten corner.
The message is, make sure you leave your descendants images that they can identify. (If necessary write on the backs of the photos....)

[Stanley]

My uncle Tom Challenger, Mother's brother, in Home Guard uniform in Dukinfield in 1940. Always a keen singer he later moved to Huddersfield and for many years was a member of the Huddersfield Choral Society. Long gone but not forgotten.

[Stanley]

11 East Hill Street in 2004 the day after a house fire killed the tenant who I only knew as Connie. She was a smoker and had fallen asleep in her chair and dropped a cigarette. It just made a couple of lines in the local paper......
A young friend of mine, David Capstick, bought it and refurbished it.

[Stanley]

This was the Burden water wheel at the nail works at Troy, New York State. It was claimed to be the largest vertical water wheel in the world and is reputed to have produced up to 1,100hp.

[Stanley]

Supermarket greengrocery section in 1976. This is a forgotten corner today. When are we going to get the message that there is something dreadfully wrong about the way we are running the UK?

[Stanley]

Salad with hot chips. You might wonder why this is a forgotten corner for me. Well, for a start off chips are verboten on a low carb diet but otherwise it's because of the clear memory of the first time I ever had salad with hot chips.
It was in the cafe at Lanark Auction Market the first time I ever went there with David Drinkall. One of the nice things about being with David was the fact that he had diabetes and had to eat at regular intervals. Being a good man, he always took me with him and fed me. So every Monday I had hot chips and ham salad twice, once at Lanark and once at Mrs Graham's cafe in Shap on the way home.



Mrs Graham's in later years, still a good stop on the road South!

[Stanley]

Hacking's oatcake bakery in Wapping next to the New Ship Chapel in 1890. Already a successful business they built a new bakery and moved shortly afterwards when the Sunday School was built next to the chapel.



This was the new bakery and they ran a very successful business as bakers and outside caterers from there until I think about 1970.

[Stanley]

The annual gala used to be a big event in northern towns but today has died out completely. We have different interests these days.....
This was Barlick Gala parade forming up in Wellhouse Road about 1920.