FORGOTTEN CORNERS

[Big Kev]

I'm sure my mother knitted some of these for me and my brother

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[Stanley]

And gloves on strings down the sleeves?



Roughlee mill about 1900. The date 1845 is the build......

[Stanley]

Crankshaft for the big compound I was making in 2007. An impressive bit of turning even though I say it as shouldn't!
Never again.....

[Stanley]

Teatime at Hey Farm in 1976..... So much of our lives devolved around meals like this. Nowadays even the tablecloth is a rarity!

[Stanley]

Two of my favourite people on their wedding day. June and Steve Constantine. Steve was my main tutor at Lancaster and the reason why they are a forgotten corner is because Bob Bliss, who has been visiting Lancaster, told me that they have both succumbed to severe dementia and are so bad there was no point visiting even though he was a colleague for many years. Life can be very cruel.....