FORGOTTEN CORNERS

[Stanley]

Era stack at Rochdale prepared for felling by burning the supports out by Fred Dibnah in 1979. This was a slow and painstaking way of felling a chimney and the last I saw done was Westfield in Barlick. As far as I can see the free-standing chimneys now are all felled with explosives. A tidy job like this could be a forgotten corner.

[Stanley]

Fred Inman putting a belt up on the shafting in the weaving shed at Bancroft in 1978. He was doing this at lunch time when the engine was stopped but tacklers have been known to do it when the engine is running. This could be extremely dangerous!

[Stanley]

Wellhouse Farm on Church Street in 1881 shortly before it was demolished to make way for the shops that are there now. The name puzzled me for years until I learned it was the farm that controlled all the land from what became Church Street down into Butts. The fact it existed also explained the names of the streets behind it abutting onto Brook Street; Garden and Orchard Streets. I think the man in the doorway is Atkinson who was the postmaster at the time.

[Stanley]

1977 and a rainy evening outside the old Co-op in Albert Road. Nobody gave the horse a second glance. I haven't seen this since.......

[Stanley]

The Green in 1982. This is before Cravenside Care Home was built and the Station Garage still occupied the plt, Next door was Cowgill's Joiners in premises that used to be the base of Proctor Barrett an important joiner and builder and very active in the Calf Hall Shed Company.Then there was the bakery where Stanley's Crumpets were made. All shortly to vanish and become a forgotten corner.

[plaques]

Barclay's bank Barlick shortly to remove all signage ATM etc. Shortly to become a forgotten corner.
Anybody out there with a camera to record the passing of another institution.

[Big Kev]

Barclay's bank Barlick shortly to remove all signage ATM etc. Shortly to become a forgotten corner.
Anybody out there with a camera to record the passing of another institution.

I'm working unfortunately, would have driven up otherwise.

[Stanley]

Will this help until I can get to do an external image?

[Stanley]

Barclays Bank with ATM and signage intact, March 2023.

[Stanley]

The new clinic in Church Street. Contractors hard at work......

[Stanley]

The Clinic in Butts in 1982. It existed in exactly this form until 2023 when it was replaced by the conversion of the old Trustee Savings bank on Church Street.

[Cathy]

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I wonder how much this would cost today?

[Stanley]

I don't know Cathy but certainly a lot more than that!

[PanBiker]

The Clinic in Butts in 1982. It existed in exactly this form until 2023 when it was replaced by the conversion of the old Trustee Savings bank on Church Street.

Just to show that I am taking notice, it's the Yorkshire Bank that they are converting, the old Trustee Bank are now flats.

It's not open yet and has not not replaced some services.

[Stanley]

The site the Clinic in Butts is built on used to be the Alhambra skating rink until it burned down in April 1923. According to Ken Ridge who lent me this image, the lad in the oversized cloth cap is Walt Boss, son of Jim Boss. The family name was Smith but they always got called Boss.
After the fire the derelict site was used as space for a market and eventually the government took it for the clinic. Harold Duxbury used to collect the rent of the garages at the back of the site and once told me that he just put them in a holding account because he didn't know where to send them. Harold had a lot to do with the land down in butts as he was managing director for the Calf Hall Shed Company who owned Butts mill and he said there were a lot of bad titles to the land down there that used to be part of the Parrock and owned by the Baptist Chapel in Walmsgate.
I suppose that over the years they have settled as owned by the occupier and that will apply to the site of the clinic.
All those matters are forgotten corners but you can still read about them in the Lancashire Textile Project.

[Stanley]

The garages on Parrock land in 2014. This is just behind the site of the clinic and is part of the land referred to by Harold as having doubtful title. I think that by now length of occupation will have solved that problem but if you read the Calf Hall Shed Minutes you'll find that it gave the directors a lot of problems to solve.....

[Stanley]

The architects drawing for the alterations the Ministry of Aircraft Production made to Calf Hall Shed when it was taken over by them in 1942 during WW2 as a shadow aircraft factory. The architect Jaques from Nelson was the Calf Hall Shed Company's architect and also a director.
After the war, these improvements were a vital factor in the recovery of the town's economy.

[Cathy]

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This is one you’ll be able to compare prices with.

It’s from a Fish ‘n’ Chip shop in Devon, 1933

[Stanley]

Cathy..... are you sure it's 1933? Looks a bit expensive and we didn't have decimal currency then.....

[Cathy]

Bl**dy F’book. It’s gone now ofcourse.
Probably 1983.

[Stanley]

Never mind Love, at least you were trying!
God loves a trier!

[Stanley]

Viv Barnett, landlady of the Greyhound pub in 1977.

[Stanley]

Fred Taylor at Greenfield's cheese factory at Goosnargh in 1983. Fred was the cheesemaker at West Marton Dairy but also acted as inspector for the cheese maker's association and here he is doing an inspection at Greenfield's. His role was to ensure that individual factories retained their characteristics. He was also a judge at the big cheese competition held at Nantwich in Cheshire annually.

[Stanley]

Colin Macro, Mary Cawdray and Gwen in the shed at Bancroft on the last day of weaving in 1977.
It was a happy place of work despite being old fashioned, dirty and redundant. I still miss it.

[Stanley]

Colin Barritt at Kayfield sat on his grey Fergie at haytime sometime in the 1950s with his daughters. This was a far more simple time, long gone and so qualifies as a forgotten corner.
(In case you're wondering, the wheels on the rear hydraulic lift belong to an 'Acrobat' combination swathe turner and hay rake. It was made by Vicon, a Dutch manufacturing company who are still in business.)