FORGOTTEN CORNERS

[Stanley]

I met Alberta Hunter in NY in the 80s when she had been 'rediscovered' after years of obscurity working as a nurse. At the time she was singing in The Cookery, a club in Greenwich Village, two nights a week, just her and an accompanist. She was possibly the sexiest woman I ever met.... We corresponded until she died after a fall when she broke her hip.
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[Tripps]

She was possibly the sexiest woman I ever met....

How cool. I think you've mentioned her before but I didn't look her up. I read that she worked at Coney Island Hospital and they made her retire when they fouind how old she was. Here's "Handyman" - did she have anyone in particuar in mind ? - quite a bit of circumstantial amongst the many wonderful euphemisms. Gets up before dawn - turn my damper down. . . . .

[Stanley]

Ethel took me to the Cookery. It was simply a room with long tables and forms with a podium at one end with a piano on it. Bare floorboards and no decorations. People went just for the music......



The railway at Foulridge Wharf in 1950.

[Stanley]

The remains of a mine engine house at Fox Clough, Colne in 1984. The thriving coal mining industry at Colne is a forgotten corner now but was important once.

[Stanley]

The main industry in Thornton in Craven used to be quarrying. Thornton Rock Quarry in about 1900. All long gone now.

[Tizer]

That's an interesting photo and shows some intricate track-work so I searched online for a higher resolution photo. I found this web site which has more information, a map and other photos including the one I wanted to see.
Thornton Limestone Works

[Stanley]

That's an improvement on my original image Peter. Thank you!



Another forgotten aspect of Thornton, the railway station in the valley bottom near Booth Bridge Mill.

[Tizer]

My train spotting days are long gone - but at least we now have reverse image search, so here goes. I came up with this image of the same locomotive, `The Great Marquess'. It's a K4 2-6-0 and you can see its number 3442 matches in the two images. In the pic below its on `The Dalesman' rail tour on 4 May 1963 and is standing at Arthington station having arrived from Bradford and about to leave for Leeds. The little plaque above the smokebox door shows RCTS which stands for The Railway Correspondence & Travel Society.

Great Marquess 4 May 1963 Arthington.jpg

[Stanley]

Thornton Manor in the days when it was run as a Care home by the Anchor Trust. It has stood empty for over three years but has now been sold and there are signs it could be reused. I'm not sure but I think the plan is to convert it to high end flats.

[Wendyf]

It's going to be a residential home Stanley.

[Tizer]

I'd wondered if my pic of engine 3442 on 4 May 1963 shows it on the same tour as Stanley's pic of 3442. Now I know it is because the pic here 3442 Barlick shows it at Barlick on the same day. I seem to remember seeing a pic of an engine with `Stanley's Crumpets' on the building behind it so the image might already be on the site. I also found a photo of it at Earby Station on the same day 3442 Earby It's in the third photo down.

[Stanley]

The Whit Walks in 1960 outside the soon to be demolished railway station. The lady in the dark two piece is my mother in law Mary Agnes and my wife Vera must be behind the lady in light clothes in front of them. A forgotten corner on many levels.....

[Stanley]

The demolition of Briggs and Duxbury's original workshop on Commercial Street in 1982. They also ran the furniture shop across the road behind it.
They moved into what used to be the Artisan's lodging house in Butts in the late 1930s when it became redundant as weaving jobs were lost in the mill closures.