OneGuyFromBarlick

There's another application in for housing on that site.

A bit earlier than the late 70's Stanley I reckon. Problem with the current building plan is the Seddon's want to build half of the houses past the brownfield footprint and out onto the flood plane. It has been rejected once and they have just submitted more or less the same plan. Maximising profits is all that it's about. No plans for additional infrastructure support, (doctors, health centre, school places etc.)

PanBiker wrote: ↑10 Nov 2022, 10:11 Problem with the current building plan is the Seddon's want to build half of the houses past the brownfield footprint and out onto the flood plane. It has been rejected once and they have just submitted more or less the same plan.

Its perfectly legal to build on flood planes providing action is taken to prevent flooding downstream. How they propose to do this should be part of their submission.

plaques wrote: ↑10 Nov 2022, 10:33

PanBiker wrote: ↑10 Nov 2022, 10:11 Problem with the current building plan is the Seddon's want to build half of the houses past the brownfield footprint and out onto the flood plane. It has been rejected once and they have just submitted more or less the same plan.

Its perfectly legal to build on flood planes providing action is taken to prevent flooding downstream. How they propose to do this should be part of their submission.

Yes it is but the question is, do we actually need 128 new expensive houses with no expansion to infrastructure?

I'm with Ian on that one. Impossible I know but what I'd like to see is an expansion of the Coates Council estate across the site, all social housing financed by the government. That's how we solved the housing problem before......



Coates looking east in about 1910. Bankfield Shed was a new build. Notice the iron railings on the garden walls and on the right half way up the hill to the canal bridge the buildings in Coates Wharf yard. The Calf Hall Shed Company owned the house and may have owned the wharf itself. At that time though lessened by the advent of the railway there was still a lot of mill coal coming in from Lancashire to Coates Wharf.....

Another view of Coates around 1905/1910. Bankfield as a new build, Bank House prominent on the skyline and New Coates mill chimney on the right.

These two maps are worth a coat of looking at! They show the Coates Bridge area in 1892. This was before Bankfield Shed was built, Eastwood Bridge was still in place and Bank House overlooked the town.

Is WM an abbreviation for weighing machine?

Yes Wendy, here's another example in the Station Goods Yard.



Here's David Whipp's image of Bank House and his father's hen huts. An imposing house, it was built by Billycock's eldest son Christopher and he lost it when Bracewells bankrupted. It was suggested later that it could be converted to a cottage hospital for the town but that never happened and eventually it was demolished.

The isolation hospital at Bank Hill on the northern edge of the town. Long gone but see Ernie Roberts evidence in the LTP of it being used. Opened in 1902 in use until 1948 pulled down 1960 and houses built on the site.

The gateposts in the photograph are now at the entrance to Victory Park.

I've never heard that before! Thanks Ian, that's the way knowledge is preserved, by sharing it.

Courtesy, Google Street View

Stanley wrote: ↑16 Nov 2022, 11:40 I've never heard that before! Thanks Ian, that's the way knowledge is preserved, by sharing it.

It has been mentioned previously

Yes, I thought we had covered it before.

Ah well there you are, a memory that is getting worn out....



Bob Parkinson firing the boiler at Bancroft Shed in 1977.

Stanley wrote: ↑17 Nov 2022, 03:12 a memory that is getting worn out...

Nicely put.

They do stand a lot of wear though.

Thank you David. I say I have a brain the size of a planet but have never claimed infallibility. I leave that to the Pope.....



4th of November 1988. Condenser mules spinning at Field Mill, Haslingden. To the best of my knowledge these were the last mules to run in Lancashire. A genuine forgotten corner.

This is a partially used bottle of The Invincible Purified Driffield Oils and is all that remains of my emergency kit that I always carried on the cattle wagon. It contained all I needed for doctoring poorly cattle or calving them. Driffield Oil was used to disinfect and lubricate the hands so that you didn't infect the calving cow. I still have it because it reminds me of those days (and I love the smell!) but it is a long forgotten corner.....

A 'soon to be' forgotten corner. Croft Mill in Foulridge.


Soon to become, potentially, Croft Mill Close. Numbers 15 -23 will front onto Lowther Lane.

Postcard of Foulridge in about 1910.

Stanley wrote: ↑20 Nov 2022, 03:07

Postcard of Foulridge in about 1910.

Station Road, running diagonally across the pic, and the railway station which was dismantled and transported over to Ingrow near Keighley.

I walked down the track from Foulridge Hall Farm that comes into Station Road recently, completely unaware that I was crossing the railway track. So that's where the station was! I'll know next time.

Nice to know there are still surprise discoveries like that locked in the archives Wendy.



In 1982 I did this picture of works that had been done to strengthen the railway bridge at Foulridge before the line closed.



Here's an image of it and the wharf in the 1950s when the line between Colne and Skipton was still in use.

The start of this morning's walk.