OneGuyFromBarlick

The supporting infrastructure is still there with the jambs and lintel so it would not take a lot to open it up, it's only infill by the look of it. Can't quite see what it originally looked like from the old photo but it was clearly retained at that date when the school was opened.

You were right Ian, the pic was 1984, only yesterday.... Here's my 2002 pic of it.

A quick question. Does the old part of the school carry a date stone? The newer top section at the back of the play ground is dated at 1910. (I think).

Stanley, I know it's a typo but quite an amusing one under the circumstances.

The image I put up showing the MP at the opening was from a postcard sent at the time, the postmark on the back was 1907. This would be about right as the Infants school dated at 1910 is not visible in the shot. I went to both but never took any notice of the dates.

Here is another image of the new council school, this one supplied by Bryan Wan showing the school during the latter stages of construction. Boys entrance this time, view from Gisburn Road looking up Dam Head.

1984, can't help being blind.... The date I have for the main building is 1907.

1900 onwards was when development in the town was at its height and building started on what is now Gisburn Road below Dam Head Bridge·



The first big housing build was this terrace built by the Co-op. Further building rapidly followed and by 1914 almost all the housing below this had been built.

Click to enlarge. Kim and Arthur Morrison in 1977 at the Con Club in Earby. It was their joint retirement party.....

At the end of the party in 1977 they poured Arthur into his taxi. The funny thing was that his mates attacked me and tried to stop me taking snaps until Kim pointed out that I was there by invitation as they wanted a record of the party. My leaving present for them was an album of pics of the party....

Arthur in his surgery on Water Street.....

We were very lucky with our doctors in Earby in the late 1950s. Dr Dick was a star, I once rang late at night to get some advice on a badly trapped finger which was agonising. Instead of doing this he popped up and cut the membrane under the nail to let the trapped blood out, instant relief! Can you see that happening now? Dr love was a good doctor but misunderstood. His irascible manner was a defence against getting too involved with his patients. I told him when he retired that I had sussed him out, anyone who had David Shepherd paintings of steam locos and elephants on his wall in the surgery and made violins in his spare time couldn't be all bad!

I agree with you Comrade. A good bunch of doctors. My mum and Dr Love got on really well together. Dr Morrison would often pop in to our house if he was on The Ranch as my mum smoked Senior Service and he was partial to them. Nolic

Arthur Morrison enjoying his retirement present... Looking through the box of pics I gave him and Kim for their leaving present.

I seemed to attract doctors.... John Wilfred Pickard was a noted doctor in Barlick and after he retired he used to call in regularly to visit me in the engine house and at home. Quite eccentric, he was loved by most of his patients but regarded with suspicion by others. I found him a very interesting man. For instance, he demonstrated to me one day that in the engine house your heartbeat synchronised with the speed of the engine if you sat quietly and listened to it. We were both running at 78RPM!

I used to service John Wilfred's little camper van for him. He waited and passed the time on in the house with Vera or, if it was fine, I put a deck chair out in the garden for him. A happy man and a welcome visitor.

Another well known GP was Dr Jago in Earby. He was not above eating his tea at a house he was visiting if he fancied what was being cooked.

Flood in Water Street Earby, 18th July 1964. Arthur and Kim Morrison had their surgery in the house on the right with the white bay window. It was called 'something' House but I forget the name.

Would that be 'Keb House' on Brook Terrace?

I went for a furtle and found THIS letter from Dr Dick to John Turner in which he gives the name, 'Oldfield House'.

Earby level crossing in about 1910? In the field behind the signal box there was a slaughterhouse....

This is Red Lion Street about 1905. Pickles Farm on the left obscuring the Red Lion. On the right, behind the cottages now demolished for a car park is the bakehouse where Jim Pollard's father set up business. See RedLionStreet2004 in Stanley's View. I spent quite a lot of time digging into who the little girl with the dog is, general conclusion was that she was from the farm.

We have got LiDAR images of this part of Earby to help with our search for the mill. John Clayton is helping us and he thinks that there is evidence in the images of an old village in the fields behind Glen (Pickles) Farm, going up towards Mill Lane He spotted it before we pointed out that one of the fields there is called Old Earby on a couple of estate maps. Exciting stuff!

Nice map Wendy, I shall be having a closer look at it.....

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

The Love Tree outside the Post Office at Thornton in Craven in I think it was 2003, shortly before it was felled.

Thornton in about 1900. The Love Tree is there outside the village shop.