FORGOTTEN CORNERS

[Stanley]

Long Ing Shed in 1978.

[Stanley]

Barnsey Shed at Long Ing in 1978.

[Stanley]

Barnsey and Moss Sheds in 1978.

[Stanley]

Gus posted this image of the Long Ing area. This was before the old canal bridge was replaced by the present one. There's another relic on here as well. If you look at the corner of the field in the middle distance, at the bottom of the lamp post there is a milk stand. It used to be used for the kits of milk from Long Ing Farm and the milk wagon picked them up from there every morning.

[Stanley]

Old water board offices in about 1980. This building has always puzzled me because it has grey sale roof (Stone slates) which usually denotes a building before about 1870 in Barlick but this would put the build before Barlick had public water.

[David Whipp]

We had a right battle to get the owner of the old waterboard offices to renovate them a few years ago. I recall having the issue on the agenda at each monthly meeting of the local area committee and almost as frequent site visits and meetings with the owners to chivvy progress.

Sometimes, such projects are 'hospital jobs' that builders resort to when there's no paid work for them.

It always surprises me that people are willing to let a building sit unused and costing money rather than do summat with it and get some money coming in.

There are a surprising number of empty houses around (some of them empty for donkeys years) which the owners just neglect to the dismay of neighbours and the neighbourhood.

[Callunna]

Gus posted this image of the Long Ing area. This was before the old canal bridge was replaced by the present one.

This was the view from my bedroom window when I was a teenager. I hasten to add that it’s nearly the view, in case anyone was wondering why Gus was taking photos from my house. I remember the hump back bridge well - used to watch out for my boyfriend driving over it. His car headlights would briefly reflect in the mirror on the back wall, so I knew exactly when he’d turn up.

[Stanley]

David, we had an 'Eyesores' topic on the old platform and the water-board offices was one of them. Perhaps we ought to start it up again......



Old postcard of Long Ing c.1900. No Barnsey or Moss Sheds, Long Ing Shed chimney having a good puther and on the horizon the stack at new Coates Mill. The canal bridge on the right is the entrance to the Little Cut that served Rainhall Rock quarry. Barnsey Farm and cottages still there as are the cottages in Long Ing shed yard.

[Stanley]

Part of Long Ing Shed in 1978.

[Stanley]

The old town hall on Jepp Hill in 1984.

[Stanley]

Bankfield Shed engine and boiler houses in about 1980. Backside of Coates Shed over the canal.

[Stanley]

Rag Albert in his house on Orchard Street in the 1970s.

[Stanley]

Rag Albert outside his house in summer 1982.

[Stanley]

The cottage in King Street opposite the Legion in 1979 just before demolition. Commonly called the Nook.

[Stanley]

Demolition of the Nook in 1979.

[Stanley]

King Street in 1983.

[Stanley]

Newtown in 1982

[Stanley]

More Newtown in 1982.

[Stanley]

Hacking's bakery in Wapping about 1890 before the Sunday school was built.

[Stanley]

The old 'men's shelter' on Letcliffe Park just above the bandstand in 1982. Since demolished due to vandalism.

[PanBiker]

There was a push button drinking fountain on the gable end of the shelter.

[Stanley]

There's still a water pipe in the hedge just below the site.



The war memorial when it was on Letcliffe. Bit disorientating because the layout was changed later and a separate garden made round it but that's the men's shelter on the right and the lawn was used as a putting green, trees planted there now.

[minimiller]

These are great old pics. Thanks

[Stanley]

Thanks Mini. They are worth getting up on the new platform I think.



The bandstand at Letcliffe in about 1920. Notice how the trees have grown in the last 90 years!

[Stanley]

The same scene in 2010.