FORGOTTEN CORNERS

[Stanley]

Fernbank chimney in 1982 when Lontex occupied the mill.

[Stanley]

Not the most exciting image in the world but so important! This is where a feeder for the Bowker Drain dives underground to flow through an oak culvert under the canal to join the main drain. In the meadow opposite Lower Park Marina.

[Stanley]

1998. Peter Thompson (Thomo) with a boat he built at Lower Park Marina.

[Stanley]

Click to enlarge. This is Ouzledale pulled out of a copy of a postcard. All I can say about the date is that it is before 1936 because the brick extension built by Ashby at Ouzledale isn't there. I suspect it's about 1900. Lots to study in the picture!

[Stanley]

Coates Hall around 1900.

[Stanley]

The view from Coates Bridge in 1978. Crow Nest stack is laddered but still has its head, the gas-holders were still there.

[David Whipp]

In 2011.

[Stanley]

Before and after pics are so instructive! We once did a series while I was at Pendle Heritage and remember being very puzzled one day when I couldn't get exactly the same view. I found out later that the road level had been raised.....



A canal side view of Coates Mill before it was demolished.

[Stanley]

Pirn winding at Bancroft Shed in 1977. This was the process of rewinding weft from cone to the shuttle package and there were many winding rooms like this in the town mills. All gone now.....

[Stanley]

Ernie Dawson at Thornton Hall Farm in 1976. Ernie was a big man and famous in his younger days for a fiery temper. I never had any problems with him or his lads. I remember that they were late with their milking one day in summer because they couldn't get the cows to go into the shippon that morning. It transpired that there was a fault in an electric cable and the ground was live, the cows could feel it and weren't having any! We sold him TWY 972 after Harrisons lost the contracts at the dairy and Ernie used it for bale carting in hay time for years.

[Stanley]

Ernie Dawson with one of his ponies at Thornton Hall Farm in 1976.

[Stanley]

Ernie Dawson and his wife at their Ruby wedding anniversary in November 1977. Ernie farmed at Thornton Hall Farm.

[Stanley]

Lister Well Lane after the 1932 flood.

[Stanley]

Kelbrook church around 1900.

[Stanley]

The junction of King Street and Newtown in about 1890 or perhaps a bit earlier. When I was first given this image it was a great puzzle to me, I couldn't identify it. One day I tried reversing it and all became clear! The original negative had been printed the wrong way round. Notice that there is no paving in the streets. This is what dates it for me as Billy Brooks lived in Newtown and told me when the setts were laid, around 1900.

[Stanley]

The same corner in 2012.

[Bodger]

Stanley, a bit of nostagia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wol_U4mkjs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvd5Y_maKQc

[Cathy]

I like the lamp-post in the first photo, is that a turned post?

[Stanley]

Cast iron Cathy and the same pattern as the ones that used to be on Wapping and Westgate.



Townhead in about 1950.

[David Whipp]

The 'new' Victorian style lamp posts in the town centre, which were installed in the '90s, are steel, with the embellishments fixed round them. The posts are bolted on to a concreted in section below ground.

[Wendyf]

Took a walk up to Thornton in Craven on Sunday morning and took these pictures of faces on the windows.

[Stanley]

Nice pics Wendy, you can see why I think the head in Wapping could be off the old church. That style of carving was very ancient even when Gill church was built.



Jessie Watkinson gave me this image. I don't know who it is but I like the look of him!

[Cathy]

Is it just me or do the people in a lot of old photos tend to look the same?? haha

[Stanley]

Naahhh Cathy, this bloke is an individual!



Remember the pic of Fred Slater and Annie at Bracewell Hall? Fred Slater and Annie's children. L to R Eva, Enid, Myra and George. About 1920. Good looking kids!

[Stanley]

A personal forgotten corner. Family group at Hey Farm about 1961 I think. Mother on left, Norma Capstick, Father holding Norma's daughter, Janet. Vera, Vera's mother, Mary Agnes, Dorothy with son Michael standing and her younger son Philip in trolley. Brother Leslie on the right.
Salutary when you realise that Mother, Father, Vera and Mary Agnes are all dead. That's why we need to remember....