FORGOTTEN CORNERS

[Stanley]

Ivory Hall in Brook Street in February 1980. It was demolished shortly after this.



Roughly the same scene in 1986.

[Stanley]

Bancroft Shed in 1953. Notice the air raid shelter in the yard. The fact that the Tannery across the road hasn't been altered yet by Sid Demaine, that came later in the 1970s when Young Sid had taken over. A forgotten corner, a working steam driven weaving shed.

[Stanley]

Some things are so big we stop seeing them. Whitemoor is a good example. Here we are stood on Weets facing East with the prevailing wind on our backs and looking down on to the town. We forget how the hill shelters us from 75% of the weather. That';s today's forgotten Corner....

[Stanley]

Newtown in 1998.

[Stanley]

I tripped over this plan from the sale document for the Bracewell Estate 1887 sale plan. It's valuable because if you look carefully the position of the well between the two dams, the overflow and the pipe in from the Bowker Drain in Eastwood Bottoms were all pencilled in for me by Harold Duxbury in 1982. Possibly the last man alive who could accurately pinpoint them because he was the Calf Hall Shed Company manager and they owned Wellhouse.

[Stanley]

This image shows the demolition of Briggs and Duxbury's original workshop on Commercial Street in 1982. B&D started their partnership in the furniture shop in the background which was William Duxbury's home and business. At one time they had the properties on each side of the ginnel down into Butts, both two storeys and connected by a bridge over the ginnel. When the Model Lodging House in Butts closed in the 1930s they took that over and the business is still there to this day but under Merritt & Fryers Ltd now.

[Stanley]

A Barlick Motor Club badge. I suspect from the 1950s.... I think it may be a forgotten corner.

[Stanley]

I like this image of the shops between Seven Stars and Butts in about 1900. Many of these old pictures are done at weekend but this was done in a working day as the shops are open. This gives a good idea of what the town was really like.

[Stanley]

Barlick station in 1961 awaiting demolition.

[Stanley]

Here's the larger pic that the above was pulled out of.



And here's the top of Butts pulled out of the same image. The Jubilee Fountain is there.

[Stanley]

The Methodist church at Kelbrook in 1926. Note that in those days a small village like Kelbrook could support two major places of worship. I doubt if that could happen today. That's the forgotten corner, the change in attitudes and support of religion.

[Stanley]

Walls ice cream kiosk at Chester in 1979 when there was still a trace of the dreaded flares about! Walls are still in business but that particular brand name seems to be a forgotten corner now. Unilever concentrate on their other brands.

[Wendyf]

Oh! What a surprise seeing that view on here, I knew The Groves so well and walked past that kiosk on my way to work most days. I worked at the Boat House pub just a bit further along from 1974 to 1976. That phone box tucked behind the kiosk was where I phoned home and kept in touch with my parents. Happy times and sad times.....sobbing over a broken heart then news that I'd met Col and a couple of months later that we were going to get married. We were married at the registry office in town and walked down to that spot where we had hired one of the big trip boats to take us to a restaurant further down the river that had a landing stage. So many memories, thanks Stanley!!
What's with all the litter?

[Stanley]

It was on a Sunday in high summer and I think they had been busy.



Same day in 1979. More memories Wendy?

[Wendyf]

I even recognise the small, dark-haired lad who worked the on boats. He came in the bar sometimes but was a trouble maker and a fighter!
Here we are setting off on our wedding day trip, a glorious sunny Saturday in 1975...you can see the kiosk in the background.

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[Cathy]

Oh that’s lovely Wendy, was your hair ‘permed’?

[Wendyf]

Oh that’s lovely Wendy, was your hair ‘permed’?

No Cathy, my natural curl!

[plaques]

Oh that’s lovely Wendy, was your hair ‘permed’?

. Not from what I can remember but may have given it one of the light grey tints to keep up with modern trends.

Love wavy and crinkly hair on ladies.

[Angus]

That would be Eric Hepworths " Craven sheepskins" which is situated over the Barlick tops on Manchester road.

[PanBiker]

Ey up Gus.

[Stanley]

Pushing my luck but here's the telephone box Wendy...... You can't beat neg files.....

[Stanley]

Berry's Whitegate sawmill at Sough in 1989. It was notable because it was lineshaft driving to all machines by belts. The difference was that most unusually, the shafting from the gas engine was under the floor. All gone now, I think the machinery was saved and installed in another location when the building was demolished.

[Stanley]

The Crossley gas engine at Whitegate joinery works in 1989. For many years it was run off smouldering shavings in a gas producer in the yard but as that deteriorated and the cost of town's gas stayed low the gas producer was abandoned in the 1960s. Then the gas board came to inspect the meter and change it for a new one. The cost of gas consumed more than doubled, the old meter had been doing them a favour. Too expensive to repair the gas producer and so the cost had to be absorbed.
See THIS link for more information about Crossley Engines.

[Stanley]

Ten years ago and now a forgotten corner.....

[Stanley]

1983, and a totally forgotten corner. Remember when we had a Job Centre?