OneGuyFromBarlick

Yes Wendy there was Craven Lambskins at Wood End farm farm on the top road out of Barlick just past the Lane Head. I Don't think they are trading now but there are quite a few references on a Google search.

Here's a bit from Volume two of me memoirs Wendy....
Father and I used to have a couple of bob on the pools. He did the Treble Chance and I favoured the Three Draws, both bets went in under his name. One week he got a letter and told me that we had both won that week, he had £75 from the Treble Chance and I had £15 from the Three Draws. This was good news but it all soured a little when I looked at the letter and realised that father had got it the wrong way round, it was me that had won the £75! Vera and I had a running joke going whereby I had promised her that when our ship came in she could have anything she wanted that we could afford. Never a big spender, she said she’d settle for a Moreland sheepskin coat, she really fancied one. I rang Eric Hepworth up at Wood End Farm as he had a sideline, Craven Lambskins run by his wife Moira, I asked him what a Moreland Coat would cost and found we almost had enough so I sprang a surprise on Vera, we went up and bought the coat she wanted. That was the end of the pools win, but never mind, I had treasures in heaven and a very happy woman!
Eric also had a dedicated Unimog 4WD vehicle with a large sprayer mounted on it and had a good trade spraying for weed control around the farms in the district.

Thank you both, that's great! I'll look at my dad's account books later and see how much they spent!
Now if you could also tell me who George and Doreen from Barnoldswick were it would make my day! Mum and Dad met them on the caravan site at Lochmaben in Dumfrieshire in 1973.
There are a number of references to this area as Dad paid regular visits to 2 big customers in the area, Bowker Brothers in Clitheroe and Berry's in Chipping, both furniture manufacturers.

Sorry Wendy, that has me stumped.

They paid the same price as you Stanley, £150 for the 2 coats. Mum notes a couple of days later that they wore their new coats to visit her sister and "felt very affluent".

I see Morland are still in business but don't seem to sell coats now. From comparable coats on sale by other retailers it looks as though we'd be paying closer to £750 apiece today. That's not bad, only a tenfold increase. The same calculation for Tricker boots from the same period is £14 to £500.
I think we are in forgotten corner country here....

We had snow in November but none since. Is snow in winter a forgotten corner? Or am I tempting fate by saying that.....

Is this Riley Street chapel in Earby? If so the clock in the gable end is the one that was in the wall of the Wellhouse Mill shop of Brown and Pickles and is now in the offices of Gissing and Lonsdale on Wellhouse Road.

Yes it is Stanley.

Are there two soldiers in uniform in the background?

Yes at least 2. I think this was May Day parade but I'll check on that.

It doesn't look like the same clock does it?

It is Wendy. There is a plate on the clock in the offices at Wellhouse Road.



This plate is on the clock and it was originally given by Johnny to Riley Street chapel and rescued by him when it was under threat.

Johnny in Henry Brown's shop at Earby in June 1903.

John Pickles and his new wife Sarah. They took a house in Federation Street and John wanted a Birch Lathe for his home workshop, a shed behind the house. He couldn't afford one so he made a copy (with improvements!). Doing things like that is a forgotten corner.

This 19th century picture shows that cycling was a middle class occupation. The middle rider is William Holdsworth a mill owner and on the board of the Calf Hall Shed Company. I was told once that these three friends were known as 'The Apostles' and were seen together regularly.
From the wear marks on the road, that's not a farm track but a piece of main road. It gives a good idea of what was an acceptable road surface in the second half of the century.

I don't have a date for the upper image but John Street in Earby looked a lot more fun for kids in those days.
They don't make puddles like they used to.

Love that photo! I'm sure we have a date for it somewhere but it's surely the late 1950s. That gun holster brings back so many memories!

I would say it's the 50's as well. In Barlick the front streets of Craven and Stuart Streets were rough like that and the back streets were still setts. Made up in the mid to late 60's I think from memory. One thing that sticks in my memory about our front street was that it had lots of large interesting stones with loads of fossils in them.

Photo taken in 1957 by council surveyor Colin Wilkinson. We have a number of his 'before and after' photos in the history society archive.

Wendyf wrote: ↑24 Jan 2022, 18:14 Photo taken in 1957 by council surveyor Colin Wilkinson. We have a number of his 'before and after' photos in the history society archive.

Am I able to access the archive online, Wendy?
I'd love to have a look through if possible

Sorry Mick, we haven't got our photo archive online, our website doesn't have the storage necessary. Our website is a mess at the moment after a forced migration to another platform but we are working on restoring all the links.

Ah, ok. I wondered why the links you sent me in a previous message were no longer working.

Another undated image. I believe this is the bowling green that used to be at the back of the Station Hotel.
Definitely a forgotten corner. I never even knew there had ever been one.