FORGOTTEN CORNERS

[Stanley]

I did this picture in the central Co-op building when it was being demolished in 1989. I wonder if it survived?

[Stanley]

The stand up desk in the office at Bancroft shed. Originally intended for working at while standing it had been modified to allow sitting on tall stools. The top of the desk was one piece of walnut right through. The small loudspeaker device on the shelf is the communication set that allowed speech direct to the engine house and at one time, the drawing in department upstairs.

[Tizer]

When I worked in a brewery in the 1960s the brewers' office had a desk like that along one wall with windows so we could look out over the yard and see the wagons coming to and from the sett where the barrels were loaded and unloaded and malted barley, maize adjunct, hops etc were delivered. The end wall of the office had a `stand at' sloping desk holding a massive ledger, the size of a table top. The ledger was always open and held rows of entries for the daily brews and columns running from left to right. The first column would start with the time of the first of that day's brews, usually about 04.00, and proceed across the ledger with all the collected data as it passed through the stages of brewing. Clear handwriting was essential!

[Stanley]

And systems like that worked well Peter!



Stanley running Bancroft engine on a normal working day in 1977. I think it was Daniel Meadows who did this pic.....
Happy days......

[Stanley]

Willie Wilson in Lanark Auction ring in 1977. Willie was one of my Scottish farmers. He and his brothers farmed at Crawfordjohn up in the hills to the west of the A74. They had a saying, 'Into Crawfordjohn, out of the world' and it was true. They were still farming exactly the same as a century ago. I fear families like that are a forgotten corner now.
(I've just remembered something about the Wilson brothers. They were the only people I have ever see that fed their cattle in the byre with whole sheaves of oats, straight out of the stack. The cattle ate the lot including the straw and any weeds that had been cut at the same time. It also shows that they were still harvesting at least part of their oat crop with a reaper/binder. That is very old farming!)

[Stanley]

Jubilee engine house at Padiham in 2005. Robert Aram had bought the engine and house and for many years we guarded it while we tried to find a way of saving the engine on site. Eventually we had to admit failure and moved the engine to Masson Mill at Matlock Bath. That was a big job and another story. The engine at Padiham is now a forgotten corner.....

[Stanley]

Building Rolls Royce at Gill Brow. I don't know the date but this is in the early days.....

[Stanley]

The corner of Brook Street and Church Street in about 1980. We had the town barber in the corner shop and Phil Smith and his wife Margaret were still running the Jesters Restaurant.

[Stanley]

It was 1981. Ethel had taken me to visit the Museum of Modern Art in New York and this caught my eye.....
I couldn't help making up my own back story for her.... A rich widow's morning routine......

[Stanley]

Just one of the little jobs we did at Ellenroad. It's 1989 an d we are replacing the pillars in the boiler house that were inadequate light RSJs. If you look carefully you'll see that the pillar in the centre of the picture has a missing bottom half and that a heavier Rolled Steel Joist on the left has been temporarily installed to support the weight of the concrete roof. The old support was replaced with a new pillar fabricated out of heavy walled steel pipe that matched the original cast iron columns and we are making a new reinforced concrete base for it.
Everyone has forgotten these jobs now, they take the new pillars for granted. I look back and marvel at the things we did..... Yesterday's Men!

[Stanley]

The Newtown end of Rainhall Road in 1983.

[Stanley]

Just South of Mallaig in Scotland is this abandoned house and garden. A wealthy plant collector travelled the world collecting plants and bringing them back here and planting them. At the same time he was building a mansion but he lost all his money in the market crash of the 1920s and all work was abandoned. The garden is under the care of a university I think. When I knew it in the latter years of the last century you could go in and wander round the exotic plants. I can't say what the position is now but the garden and ruin will still be there.....
I wonder if it has been forgotten?

[Wendyf]

This one Stanley?

https://larachmhor.co.uk/

[Stanley]

Yes Wendy, that's the one, I didn't know the name..... It's a lovely place to walk round full of striking plants.

[Stanley]

Bank Street and Hill Street in 2007. The old ambulance depot has just been demolished but the replacement flats haven't been built.

[Stanley]

Bank Street five years later. The flats have been built on the site of the old ambulance depot, Now it is the turn of the demolition site on the other side of Bank Street.

[Stanley]

Thornton Hall Farm washing line in 1978. This was in the days when the Dawsons ran it as a working dairy farm.
I love this image.......

[Stanley]

Looking down Gisburn Road in 1908. There have been big changes in the last ten years, prior to that the next building down Gisburn Road was Hen House Farm. Since then the houses of Ribblesdale terrace have been built and work is in progress building the retaining wall around what was going to be the site of the new stone-built St Joseph's Church. You can't see it in this image but there is a tin tabernacle on the site which was later re-purposed as the Sunday School.
Notice also that the road is not paved.....

[Stanley]

Jim Marsh (extreme left) and his clogger's shop at Dam Head in 1908. This pic is in 'Barnoldswick, A century of change' and was brought to my attention by Rodney Birtwistle of Barnoldswick.

[Stanley]

Clog irons, pegs for filling the old nail holes and clog nails. All you needed beyond these was an iron last and you were set up to keep your own clogs well-shod. The last sole and heel I had of my leather shoes cost £40.
Definitely a forgotten corner.

[Stanley]

Tuppeny dips. The cheapest candles available which were the go to source of light for the poorest families before gas lighting became common. Oil lamps would be too expensive. I am told that these candles, which are mainly beeswax I think, are terribly smoky and smelly but don't want to experiment as it will damage an irreplaceable artefact.

[Stanley]

A surviving cast iron ash pit door in back Beech Street in about 1980. They are gradually vanishing as time takes its toll but at one time they were emptied by the Council or their contractor once a week if you were lucky and all the household waste went in there after being put through the fire. This method of sanitising and disposing of waste is now a forgotten corner.

[Stanley]

My mother was still burning all her rubbish on the fire in the 1940s. All that went in the bin was ashes.
Here's an image from the 1970s of bin men in Barlick from the Craven Herald. Councillor Roderick MacSween - pictured in he centre with Harry Earnshaw and Norman Hyde - decided to go behind the scenes in his council’s bin department.

[Stanley]

Bancroft 1976. Loading sweeps on to Jackson's wagon for transport to the tip.
These sweepings from the weaving shed and processes were kept in the old air raid shelter. They were prohibited from being stored in the shed as they were prone to spontaneous combustion and until this was recognised they cause several severe mill fires in the industry.

[Stanley]

Monk House, lady's outfitters shop and barn in 1984.



Twenty years later in 2004 there have been changes.