OneGuyFromBarlick

I think that's at the top of Skipton Road in Colne, the archway behind the bus is the entrance to the yard of the Commercial Hotel.

A 30hp Leyland Crossley, the Pioneer service was part run by the owners of the Commercial so I reckon you're probably right with your location Wendy.

Wendyf wrote: ↑16 Jun 2022, 05:26 I think that's at the top of Skipton Road in Colne, the archway behind the bus is the entrance to the yard of the Commercial Hotel.

Not quite - it's the top of Cumberland St, opposite the Union car park

noyna wrote: ↑16 Jun 2022, 18:23

Wendyf wrote: ↑16 Jun 2022, 05:26 I think that's at the top of Skipton Road in Colne, the archway behind the bus is the entrance to the yard of the Commercial Hotel.

Not quite - it's the top of Cumberland St, opposite the Union car park

Which building did the archway belong to?

A Photo which is clearly at the top of Skipton Road, same arch and same poster....i think

Yup. Fenestration on the shop in the background (now a carpet shop I think) confirms it.
In my day the shop to the left of that building (not visible on Wendy's image) was a club called The Willow Tree. Not the sort of place you'd take your mother

Both The Tower Building and the site of what was The Willow Tree can be seen here.



Nice image, Wendy.

Junction 21 on the M62, the Milnrow junction. This to me is a forgotten corner because for years I tried to get the authorities to use the valuable land sterilised by the building of the junction for a car park for a park and ride facility on the adjoining railway. Everyone agreed it was a wonderful idea but nobody could get the Department of Transport to move on their blank refusal to even consider the proposal. Many thousands of acres up and down the country are wasted by the way we build our roads.

Jack Platt taking fly ash from Bancroft shed to use on the paths in his allotment in 1977. Everybody knew that if they wanted some ash or clinker they could come and take some. We never paid for ash and clinker removal, the locals kept our piles down and the Council occasionally came for a tipper wagon load.

The staples of a good housewife's armoury 100 years ago. All forgotten corners now.

Apparently this soap made a ‘come-back’ in 2015, as a liquid dish-washing detergent. Shown here as a laundry soap. I’m sure I can still smell it from years ago

So can I Cathy....

Hill Top Farm Letcliffe in 1890.

Toilets in East Hill Street just before demolition. Admittedly, this was a low point but it gives a good idea of the standard of toilet provision in the early and mid 19th century when outside bucket privies were the norm. In 1964 at Sough we were still using an outside tippler toilet and even thogh it was clean and white washed it was still outside in the back yard and not the most enticing prospect on a cold winter's night. A forgotten corner and thank god for that!
(It's worth pointing out that these toilets were at the upper end of provision. Each house had its own privy. Nobody had to share....)

Here's an oddball forgotten corner for you. This is 1982 and Stanley is being filmed by a BBC director and crew as a screen test to find the presenter for a proposed BBC series on King Cotton. Roger Owen was the director and he wanted me to get the job but I wasn't charismatic enough! Regardless, it was a fascinating experience and definitely a forgotten corner!

Dallam Tower, Beetham, Westmorland. A few years ago I was contacted by the family that owns this house and asked to give an opinion on a piece of textile machinery they had. They had contacted English Heritage and they had suggested that I might be the man. I went there and found it was a forgotten corner. The estate is still private and I found myself in an enormous kitchen being treated to breakfast and coffee and after I had looked at the artefact I was given a bottle of their own label wine as a fee! As I drove away I reflected that this was a forgotten corner, old money sat there quietly surviving despite what was happening in the outside world. I wonder how many places like that are left. Probably more than we would think because they don't advertise. It was just chance that got me in there.....

I came across Beetham only yesterday when I was doing a bit of family research for a lady in Australia. She had a postcard amongst family papers of "Windlefields" in Earby, dated 1906, written to a Master Hector Beck c/o Mr Beck, Windlefields, Earby and wanted to know more about the place and Hector. It was a struggle to find the Beck family as they moved around the country a lot and were only in Earby between census returns. I eventually found Frank Beck at Windlefield in the 1907 Electoral Register so they were only there for a year or so. Frank Beck was born in Beetham in about 1860 and I kept meaning to look it up as I'd never heard the name before, now I've heard it twice!!

Stanley wrote: ↑18 Jun 2022, 03:56

Junction 21 on the M62, the Milnrow junction. This to me is a forgotten corner because for years I tried to get the authorities to use the valuable land sterilised by the building of the junction for a car park for a park and ride facility on the adjoining railway. Everyone agreed it was a wonderful idea but nobody could get the Department of Transport to move on their blank refusal to even consider the proposal. Many thousands of acres up and down the country are wasted by the way we build our roads.

Is this not that far from where the HS2 route is supposed to terminate ( sort of a place that is nearly Huddersfield )

These used to be fun to take to school for playtime. They'd probably get the bomb squad in now and arrest you.

Remember them well!

The funny thing is that we could still get caps for our cap guns during the war, old stock I suppose.



This is the original lodge in Calf Hall Beck at the rear of Calf Hall shed in 1978. It was filled in during the alterations to the mill when Carr's Printers moved in there. There was a bore hole and pump on the right hand bank at one time. The engine drew its water for cooling the condenser and supplying the boiler from a small secondary dam inside the culvert that carries the beck below the shed. During the Flood of July 1932 the pressure of water in the culvert was great enough to burst through the roof into the weaving shed and caused a lot of damage.
All gone now so it's a forgotten corner.

Back Railway Street unpaved in 1980. It was to be completely repaved as part of the building of the new Pioneer Store.

Another view of Railway Street in 1980 before the Pioneer store was built. Over 40 years ago now. Time flies!

Putting the washing out and mowing the grass at Hey Farm in 1971. Days long gone.....

At this time of year floods caused by extreme weather events are never far from my thoughts. They cause so much damage and disruption. This was at Ouzledale Mill on July 11th 1932, 110 years ago. The skeps in this picture were washed down from Wild Brothers yard on Colne Road above Bancroft Shed. At the time Bancroft was blamed for allowing these to wash downstream but this was unfair as all of their weft skeps were indoors in the warehouse.
Floods are always a forgotten corner until they remind us that they are there!

1932 was 90 years ago