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It could be a different view of the building in Stanley's photo? The gateposts look sideways on to the building.
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I think that Kev has the right image. It's me that has got it wrong. My pic could be the chapel that was at Townhead and became the spiritualist's.

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The photo above is the one that used to be on Station Road where the car park is now.
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Vegetable show in the Liberal Club in 1976. Does it still happen?
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My dad is there, second from the front in the left foreground. He is inspecting the onions, a category that he always entered with his allotment produce. Some of his will be on display.

There used to be early and late season flower and vegetable shows in Barlick. Prior to the Civic Hall it was held in Gisburn Road school hall.
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Stanley wrote: 31 Jul 2025, 02:59 Image

This is the only image I have of the Primitive Methodist Chapel that used to stand in Station road between the Liberal and Conservative clubs
That willbe where my great great great grandfather used to preach perhaps in the 1860s
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Look again at the correction to that reply Sue.... There is a pic of the actual church.

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Just noticed that the station Road Chapel has very similar gateposts to what used to be on the Isolation Hospital on Banks Hill. The hospital gateposts are now used for the entrance to Victory Park off Westfield Road.
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I had one but never liked it as much as my Meccano! I wonder how many remember it now...
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It used to be quite common to find this image fused into the glaze of urinals. It had a practical purpose, it was an aiming point for the gents as they micturated and was determined to be the point which gave the least splash back. Not many people know this...... So that makes it a forgotten corner.
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Newton Pickles turning a flywheel for the waterworks at Alston on the vertical lathe in the shop at Wellhouse in the 1950s.
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We use one all the time here, it's over the stairs.
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I'm glad to hear that Kev, but I think you'd agree they are widely regarded as old-fashioned and obsolete....
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Mine is in constant use too.
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Could it be that more people use them than I think?..... :laugh5:
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Yes, but probably the modern version made of aluminium tubing and electrically heated like we use. :smile:
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Mine was bought new 5 years ago but it's cast iron with timber slats :good:
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When East Hill Street was built the garden fronts had to be protected from stray animals with kissing gates. Nobody would dream of that being necessary today so it's a forgotten corner.
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When I was a lad a regular caller was a man on a bike like this which he could set on its stand and use the pedals to drive a grinding wheel which he used to sharpen the kitchen knives. Ernie Roberts once told me that there used to be a bloke in Barlick who went round door to door on foot giving the same service. He used to go round the corner and sharpen the knives on the nearest suitable kerb stone. All this is redundant now, the knife grinders have gone except for the commercial knife services that service restaurants, there used to be one in Rochdale.
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I always find it very satisfying to sharpen tools such as knives, secateurs, hedge clippers, loppers etc. When I next use them it makes such an obvious difference. Good for generating endorphins! :smile:
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Stanley wrote: 08 Aug 2025, 03:30 I have always said that it took me 40 years to learn how to get a good edge on a tool, there is much more to it than first meets the eye!
Nice cobbles too. :smile:

Anecdote - I was in the barbers a couple of years ago when Tony sent his daughter to post a small parcel. She asked him how much to insure it for. He thought for a bit, then said 'two hundred pounds'.

He explained afterwards that it contained his scissors - going away to be professionally sharpened. Expensive but worth it he said.
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"Nice cobbles too."
And they are laid in the Durex pattern.....

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Barnsey and Moss sheds in 1978.
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I think there is plant machinery that has moved onto the Barnsey site. Sally walked past the other day. Could be that the proposed development for houses is finally happening. Fine and dandy on the brownfield site but not if they push onto the flood plane beyond.
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An earlier iteration of the area before Moss and Barnsey sheds were built. The two chimneys are Long Ing and new Coates sheds....
Barnsey Farm was still an item. The towpath bridge is where the new cut branched off into Rainhall Rock.
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