FORGOTTEN CORNERS

[PanBiker]

Definitely David, the paths are now a lot more durable and a vast improvement on the wooden staging that they replaced. I have pictures somewhere that I put up on the old site. I'll try and dig them out.

[Stanley]

I think future archaeologists will realise that transport was easier when the paths were put down. Tow clues to old mill flags, they are usually Rossendales which were planed level as they had no definite bed, you can tell them because often the grooves left by the planer survive. Another clue is small square depressions cut for the loom feet. Once of a day they were all scrapped because they were oil-stained but lately the reclaimers haven't been so particular.



John Wilfred Pickard at Hey Farm in 1977.

[Stanley]

If you find flags cut like this you are looking at the hole where a tippler toilet was installed.

[Stanley]

Bancroft weaving shed demolition in 1979. Sad sight and very common as the old mills melted away.

[PanBiker]

Sad indeed Stanley, we have one of the folding chairs that you can see in the foreground of your picture. We rescued it from the GMB rooms (Weavers) on Frank street when the building was sold off. For them that don't know it's where the Post Office is now. We used the rooms of course as the hub of Labour Party activity in the town. Our kids always refer to it as "the weavers chair".

[Stanley]

This is even more sad. Jim Pollard, weaving manager at Bancroft surveying the end of his life's work in 1979.



John Pratt on right and Tom Pratt on left. Father and uncle to John pratt Jnr who is Joy Pratt's husband. Pic taken at Crook Carr Farm 1953.

[PanBiker]

Two men went to mow ......

[Stanley]

Alwin Simpson in 1977 before he lost his eye.

[Cathy]

Sounds nasty Stanley, how did he loose his eye?

[Stanley]

I seem to remember it was a bramble thorn that whipped into his eye while he was hedging but it was a long time ago.



Allan and Alwin in 2003.

[Stanley]

My old mate Jack Platt. See the 'Rock Solid' articles in Stanley’s view. A good man!

[plaques]

Perhaps not a local forgotten corner, this one's in America. Interesting all the same when viewed as a time capsule.
http://news.sky.com/story/1210002/aband ... en-in-time
View the picture gallery.

[Stanley]

When I was at Pendle Heritage John Miller and I went to look at an isolated house in Newchurch which had been the home of I think two brothers who lived alone and died in the late 1940s. The house had been shut up ever since and it was fascinating, my childhood preserved in aspic. I think the person who inherited it cleared it out. We also went to look at a big house in Waddington similarly abandoned and the nursery was full of old toys the most modern of which were 1930 vintage.



My sister Dorothy in the shop at Sough in 1955. Click to enlarge.

[Stanley]

Mrs Brown in her little shop on Castle View. About 1950 I think.

[Tripps]

I bet no white froth came out of that bacon.

[Stanley]

That'll be right David, it was Vale of Mowbray bacon same as we sold at Sough and was all properly cured. Vera got ours from her when my own had run out. Sorry about the quality of this but I think it's worth posting.



Earby station March 2 1930. L to R; back - A Walton, L Ganon, W Reynolds. Front - H Hodgson and T Mylott.

[Stanley]

Gisburn Auction. The dairy ring in 1981.
Have a look at this LINK for another forgotten corner. I was 11 years old and remember it well.

[Stanley]

Peel House on Gisburn Old Track in August 2002.

[Stanley]

Gisburn Station in 1903.

[Stanley]

I was told that this small cellar shop on the end of Damside Cottages used to be a cobbler's shop competing with the one in the shed on the other side of the road.

[Stanley]

Will someone please remind me what this building was used for. I have an idea it was the home of a club or society at one time. Pic taken in 2003.

[David Whipp]

Society of Illiterate Whipp Haters?

(You know you've made it when you're the subject of hate graffiti...)

[PanBiker]

Can't place the location, where is it?

[SAC]

Bottom of Stoneybank Road Earby a local builder uses it for storage.

[David Whipp]

Bottom of Stoney Bank Road in Earby, close to the junction with Water Street.