OneGuyFromBarlick

The ginnel alongside Craven Court at the top of Newtown. As far as I can make out this was originally the main road to Gisburn from Barlick connecting to Back Lane which is now Philip Street. It was stopped when Craven Court was built as Back Lane itself had become redundant with the main road through Church Street.

Shitten Ginnel between Esp Lane and Calf Hall Lane. Very ancient and no obvious reason for it being there unless perhaps as a route to the old Saxon church?

Dark Hill Well above Springs Farm on Esp Lane. Disused now but in the 19thC a very important source of water for the mills in Barlick.

School Lane Earby in about 1900. The old tin church is still in use, the Con Club is built and the kids play in the beck. I often wonder if the lads survived the war.... The cart is the local grocer J Edmondson delivering orders.

Red Lion Street in Earby looking back towards the town. The pub is on the left and the building on the right was a back-stone bakery run by Jim Pollard's family in the 1920s. I love the little lass and the dog, spent a lot of time in the area showing the pic to old people but never found out who she was.

37 Church Street in 1983. The two large stone corbels were there to support a rainwater tank which was the house water supply before the days of mains water. Now gone in another refurbishment.

Hundreds of people walk past this wall at Gisburn Road School without realising that the walled off section in the retaining wall conceals one of the most important of the town wells, the only water supply before mains water in the late 19th century.

The large, slow speed, water cooled grinding wheel in Brown and Pickles Wellhouse shop in 1979. Essential for sharpening high carbon steel tools without over-heating them.

The junction of Newtown and King Street in Barlick in about 1890. This pic puzzled me for years till I realised it had been printed in reverse!

Unusual cap stones on a wall in Philip Street. They look as though they might be from the reveal of ornate windows, definitely demolition stone and almost certainly from the old cottages on King Street next to the Legion. Stones can talk (shades of Maz!).

Here's a funny one for you. This is part of a field wall at the end of the Black Dike just below Blacko Tower. It's still in Barlick as it is the extreme boundary of the manor. The puzzle about this is that you can see a worked piece of stone in the wall which is obviously from a demolished building. The question is, what was the building? Stone for field walls was never carried any further than necessary so how did this get here? Is it from a building nearby? If so, what was the building up there on top of the hill. Always worth looking at walls to see if there is any demolition stone in them!

A short section of wall near Slipper Hill. Hard to see on the pic but it contains demolition stone. Question is, what building did they come from?

Stanley, today is the first time I have looked at this forum. These pictures are superb.

Thanks for that Sue, glad you like them. We forget so much and I thought it would be good to trigger people to actually observe their surroundings. It's amazing what evidence there is about if you really look carefully.



Rack stones in a wall at Booth Bridge Mill near Thornton in Craven. The indentations were for the poles which supported the horse hair cloth on which the grain sat above the fire in a drying kiln.

Ancient stones used as a sheep barrier on a path up at Letcliffe.

Amen Corner below Lane Head at Salterforth.

The squatter's hut in Walmsgate before it was refurbished.

Poorbones on Manchester Road. Overgrown now but you can see the gateposts into the small yard where poor people on Outdoor Relief from Skipton Workhouse used to knap stone for road-mending in all weathers.

The biggest stone slop-stone I ever found. It was in the warehouse at Bancroft Shed.

A smaller domestic slop-stone at Hilltop Farm. I can remember when a man at Haworth had a yard full of old slopstones and chimney pots and the locals thought he was mad. He had the last laugh!

The memorial to 'Pop' Harry Hill, a noted Barlick cyclist, near Yarlside on the Bracewell Road.

The lower end of the churchyard at Gill. I suspect the victims of the Black Death are buried here. (1348/9)

Old baptist chapel in Walmsgate 1979.

Clearing up after the 1932 flood at Procter's furniture shop in Walmsgate. It later became, and still is, a joiner's shop.

I think we should mention for those not familiar with the area that the last photo is at the opposite side of the street to the one previous.