OneGuyFromBarlick

Harry lived in Earby and was a regular at the Band Club when I was Steward, at that time he worked for the EUDC. He was also rent collector (enforcer) for a local farmer landlord.

The Albion Mill engine at Earby.

Billy Webster running Brook Shed engine on New Road Earby.

Work slowed a bit due to the weather on the new homes across the road, today it is going apace again and the roofing of the second pair begins tomorrow. The aluminium rainwater gutters for the first pair have just been fitted, this involved something new. How would you get a single length of seamless metal guttering long enough for two houses into the back of a transit van? In the van there is a roll of aluminium plate, this is fed through a roller former until the desired length is achieved, the end caps are fitted and the outlet cut out, it is then fitted as a single length, and very neat it is too. The remaining ridge tiles are being put in place and the roof end sealing is done, the double chimney stack now has its chimney pots, traditional of course. Work inside has also commenced with flooring going in, even this matches that in the original building, no blockboard or chipboard sheets in there, 10" solid timber floorboards that looked much like hardwood to me.

The big beam engine at Victoria Mill.

Lower Burnt Hill Farm, derelict in 1971.

The outshut pantry and dairy in the yard were just about to be demolished.



The original front of the house facing south...a hayloft where our bedroom is now.



The front yard with water trough and the door in the wall to the coal place under the stairs.



The old cart shed, also soon to be demolished.



Thanks to Sue Heywood for the photos, who lived here 1971 to 1975 and paid us a surprise visit yesterday.

That's how I remember it from when I delivered groceries there in the late 1950s.

Edward and Mabel Booth outside Dowshaw Farm, Lothersdale, in 1957.

Lovely photo Stanley, they are still living there.

I went back and contacted them all a few years ago when I was mobile. I found these three as well....





All at Warley Wise in 1957.

About 1900. Leonard Holdsworth in the centre I think and one of the others could be Stephen Pickles father as I think this is 'The Three Apostles' as described in Stephen Pickles' transcript in the LTP

Fred and Elizabeth Bracewell on their tandem.

Another update on the Fosters Arms site development. The main structure of the higher level is now complete and the internal timberwork is going in, the lower level is awaiting its roof stones:-



Yesterday I had a quick look at the new houses off Valley Road. Finished in amber brick they are reminiscent of older council housing, and my thoughts were "what would happen if the canal embankment breached" all of the water in the canal between Greenberfield and Barrowford top locks would arrive at speed, and that's a lot of water!

A load of setts on the way to Lancashire. Once a major Barlick export. See Jack Platt, in the articles 'Rock Solid'.

A London bus in 1947. Far worse up here......

During dry spells of weather we tend to forget about flooding. Water Street in Earby in 2004. It's always a good time to check drains and watercourses!

The 1932 flood at Bancroft.

A slightly technical forgotten corner but this lump is a one horse power single phase electric motor made by the now defunct form of Horace Green at Connonley. A 10hp motor today would be smaller and lighter than this but would not be anywhere near as durable or proof against overloading. So many things are made more 'efficiently ' today but in the process we have lost a lot.

The refurbished Horace Green 1hp motor doing what it was intended for in 1956 when Johnny bought it. Driving his big OT lathe in Stanley's Shed!

Stanley wrote:

A London bus in 1947. Far worse up here......

Not London
Searched the net
Derbyshire bus stuck in a snow drift Photo: Hulton-Deutsch Collection
(From Daily Telegraph Website) 09 Jan 2010 (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/weather ... n-bed.html)

Still bugging me as I cannot think of the company likely to have been operating this bus, with no reg number its difficult, I am going to guess at Burton-On-Trent corporation,only because it does not look like any of the main Tilling/BET companies of the time.

I have some photos of London Buses in 1963 in the winter snow, might have some of 1947 but too much of my stuff is archived around the flat now.

Two forgotten corners here. Snow on Manchester Road and the croft at Hey Farm and what could be done with old fashioned TriX, a long exposure and a steady hand. Those were the days!

1982, 33 years ago. The cornmill and gas holders. Things have changed a bit!

Entrance of the tunnel from Rainhall Rock (Little Cut) which used to connect the quarry to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. (Taken recently.)

Where does the name Rainhall come from, obviously important to have a road and a tunnel named after it.