OneGuyFromBarlick

Me too, slightly different angle from 2009.

Hee hee! Do you know I think you are right. It's so much like Long Ing and is identified as such in the neg files. I shall have to do a bit of editing!



Here's the right one. Long Ing Shed in 1977.

Bankfield Shed in 1980.

We've always been quite good at hiding our dirty little secrets. Here's one of them, the sewage works twenty years ago. Everyone wants to forget this one!

The Lad in 1976 at Hey Farm. 40 years old and a world away from today!
(I still have those boots.... )

My friend Slim Seaton who was in charge of this RAF 'air-sea rescue launch' on the Havelsee in Berlin in 1955. It was based at the British Berlin Yacht Club and was very useful for expeditions on the river which were nothing to do with air sea rescue!

A German Olympic Star boot on the Havelsee in Berlin in 1955. The British Berlin Yacht Club had Herman Goering's boathouse and custody of all the 1936 Olympic boats. The man at the helm in this picture is Harry Smart, chief warder at Spandau Gaol and the bane of Rudolph Hess's life. If you're interested, see me memoirs!

It was 2004 and I was in Birmingham to collect an award from the Association of Industrial Archaeologists and while there I met an olf friend of mine, the late Sonia Rolt, widow of LTC Rolt who wrote many good books on industrial history. See THIS Wikipedia biog for her. Sonia was a good woman and during the war manned canal boats. Well worth looking up.

Here's a forgotten corner for most of us, I reckon Ian has probably still got one in his toolbox though.

Green End Shed, Earby.

Big Kev wrote: ↑04 May 2023, 21:16 Here's a forgotten corner for most of us, I reckon Ian has probably still got one in his toolbox though.

I reckon that is both a forgotten and a never known corner Kev. Not something most folk would come across.

I used one exactly the same for years on installations of CRT based colour TV's. Also remedial degaussing of mainly, heating radiators usually under the window and reasonably close to the shadowmask CRT tubes. The TV sets had their own built in degauss coils which operated during the power up cycle. Normal radiation from the CRT though would introduce a magnet field into nearby metal objects which had to be dealt with.

I have not had a need to keep or use one though for 35 years.

I had two, a small probe for de-magnetising recording heads and a larger one for bulk erasing tapes. Both long gone, I know not where.

I love this old pic of the cottages in Elslack with the ghost figure on the doorstep.

German prisoners of war who were billeted at local farms and helped with farm work. Gathered at White House Elslack towards the end of WW2.

Coates Hall in about 1900.

August 1923 outside John Pickles' workshop in Federation Street at Barlick. L to R; Herbert Hildersley (an amateur clockmaker from London, friend of JP), John Pickles, Newton Pickles, Dennis Pickles (no relation, worked under John at Browns), Brierley holding dog, he was a greengrocer on Wellhouse Road in Barlick.
Herbert Hildersley had come up to Barlick to pick up an involute scroll pulley for a clock he was making. Johnny was an expert at making them and had converted a Drummond Round Bed lathe to make the job easier.

Earby level crossing in about 1960. Will we ever see it return if the line is reopened?

My GP Arthur Morrison in his surgery on Water Street in Earby in 1977. I can't remember when I last saw my GP face to face. I suspect it will never happen again.... So this is a forgotten corner for most of us....

Workers leaving the mill in days gone by. The way things are going a sight such as this will completely baffle our grandchildren. The concept of hundreds of people in one building working for a living will be gone.

We didn't identify that location as I recall last time we saw that picture. I've been watching some Mitchell and Kenyon films recently - I find them fascinating. Was the shawl thing just to keep warm, (it doesn't look cold enough to wrap up like that) or perhaps it started with that, and just became normal dress. Ironic that the fashion for female head coverings has returned to the North, but for different reasons.

Stanley wrote: ↑12 May 2023, 03:46 The concept of hundreds of people in one building working for a living will be gone.

Not gone - just moved to Asia.

I suppose the shawl was superseded by the cardigan David but much more useful outdoors. Here's my great Grandma Shaw wearing one indoors in 1936.

Unfortunately Len's brand of socialism is long gone in Westminster. A forgotten corner.

The shop steward at Cleveland-Guest in Colne was called Dole when I worked there briefly circa 1990. I wonder if he was related?

I knew Len of course, he was on the council at the same time as Sally. Very active in the CLP, at that time we used to have our CLP AGM at The ILP Institute on Vernon Street. Now the Unity Centre. He and his wife Betty were also regulars at Clarion House.

Engine at Primet Mills, Colne. That's a Roberts barring engine so without looking it up it must have been by William Roberts, Phoenix Foundry, Colne. Seven driving ropes so it was 350hp.