MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Tizer]

Something to do with drains?

[Stanley]

On the right track, it's Hedley Bradshaw doing something in the dam at Spring mill where he was engineer.... The clue is the large CI pipe.

[Tizer]

Is the pipe to drain the dam?

I'm curious about the short terrace of houses across the road. Looking at the gable end, the roof at the back seems very narrow compared with the front, as if the ridge is placed much nearer to the back of the house. They look a bit like the low-relief models of houses that railway modellers use to save space on their layouts! Or is the near end house an odd shape?

[Stanley]

Interesting point. The only thing I can suggest is that it gave a more imposing frontage on a cheaper build. Note that the house at this end has a bay window. Typical of a group of houses built by someone who had a good job in the mills. They built a row of houses for an investment but gave their own a bay window to raise it's status. Has it got a bigger chimney stack as well? Another variation on this was to make one of the houses a shop.
But has anyone any idea what Hedley is doing?

[chinatyke]

Thanks for that Wendy I've pinched it for my archive....
He's checking and cleaning the intake for the condenser water for the engine. Lovely clean lodge, I wish Bancroft could have been so clean!

Is everyone being polite or have they really forgotten?

Forgotten corners, 11Sept 2015.

[Marilyn]

What bloke?

[Tizer]

Talking of windows and houses, there are some unusual shops in Hayle, Cornwall, with an interesting history. If you walk along the road with the quay on one side and a terrace of houses on the other you see that a number of the houses have a shop built in the front garden (see photo below). To quote Wikipedia: "Harvey's operated a "Company Store policy" forcing workers to buy their provisions from Harvey's Emporium and prohibiting the development of any independent shops. When this policy was finally brought to an end a number of shops quickly established. These so-called "Garden Shops" were built in the front gardens of existing buildings, and are still evident in modern Hayle." I didn't have my own photo and the one below comes from this web site which has a miscellany of other interesting photos: LINK

[plaques]

Looking at the gable end, the roof at the back seems very narrow compared with the front

Making a guess as to why the roof had this profile its was probably because the terrace was built into a slope so that the back rooms would be on a different level to the front. This would require the roof to be set higher so as not to restrict the bedroom height. Some of the back to back houses in Burnley use the cellar of the back row as part of their downstairs living area.

[Stanley]

China is right of course, that's what he was doing.
Maz, you need a bigger screen.....
Next for shaving?

[Marilyn]

Ah...got him! Too late, of course....

[Stanley]

Can anyone tell me where I found this notice?

[PanBiker]

Seems like some "Good ol Boy" notice from the loony gun carrying lot in the states.

[Tizer]

On Doc Martin's front door?

[Stanley]

No, very close to Barlick.... I shan't let this run for long as it is so obscure. Clue, I saw it on my first can pick up of the day when I was picking farm milk up....

[Stanley]

The sign used to be on the door of the barn next to Horton House Farm in Horton in Craven. It evidently started life as post no bills because the barn door was handy for village announcements but at some time had been over-painted with all stray dogs will be shot. Try this one, what's different about the church today? This pic is dated 1963. (click to enlarge)

[plaques]

They've put a hand rail and ramp up to the entrance.

[PanBiker]

I know and it's easy if you are local and old enough. I remember it being built. It was quite good design to look at, pity it was not functional. I'll not tell yet.

[Tizer]

Does it have a steeple or tower now?

[PanBiker]

There is a lot to see in this picture, the coal yard and what remains of the sidings are still visible, no road through yet from Fernlea and Skipton Road goes straight down from the end of Church Street. Two way traffic on Station Road, Laycock's Skipton bus is waiting outside the Con Club. Picture was probably taken on a Monday as well, all the washing is out, now that's a thing of the past, check it out hung across Ash Grove, too many cars there now to do that, all the line posts have gone anyway. You can just see my house, washing is out on Bessie, Alice and Robert Streets as well as the back of the Croft.

[Stanley]

Good points well observed Ian. If you keep your eyes open some of the old hooks for the cross street washing lines still survive. This one is on Railway Street.

Tiz, good question, you're getting warm.

[chinatyke]

The church is shown in one of the site banners, surely it's obvious? But like Ian says a lot more things have changed. Lovely picture of Windle and Bowker, Croft House where I shirked 50+ years ago.

[Tizer]

If it's in the Board Index image then it looks like it has a wizard's hat on, light blue in colour.

[plaques]

Could it be anything to do with Johnny Pickles's clock. Other than that I give up.

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[Stanley]

Tiz has it exactly and of course some good people know but are hanging back. In the 1963 pic the church has a squat tower but it was soon found that it was badly designed and built and was not weatherproof. The solution was to partially demolish it and put copper cladding on. Pity they didn't get the original build right!
Next for shaving?

[Tizer]

A poor quality photo but can anyone guess what the building was for at the centre of the picture of this small Scottish port?