OneGuyFromBarlick

Stanley wrote: ↑26 Dec 2024, 03:23
How old do you have to be to remember one of these? It's a shilling in the slot gas meter and every home had one at one time. A man came round from the Gas Board to empty the meter and take the shillings back to the office. It seems incredible now but the system worked well.

I remember my parents having one, late 1960s, it was a shilling. They had a similar thing in the tele too, I think that was sixpence.

We had a coin meter in Stockport but none of the meters we had up here at Sough or Hey Farm, going back into the 60s, were coin in the slot, they were just plain meters and we got a bill in the post which we paid at the gas showroom.



I bought two Jack Russell pups in about 1990....... Not forgotten by me

The late David Moore, Principal of Nelson and Colne College, in the engine house at Bancroft in 1977. The first time I met him....
He was to be a big influence on me.....

This barn stood immediately next to the north-bound carriage way of the A74 at Moss Band and it fascinated me for years. Eventually on a pleasure trip north I remembered to stop and take a picture of it. Its history is written in the patterns in the stonework.....

You may well wonder what is going on here. In 1982 when my beard was still black, Roger Owen, a BBC producer, thought I was just the man to present a new series that was to be made about cotton so he got me down to London for a screen test. Roger is the man with curly hair in the image. He had a full crew and they spent about three hours tutoring me and getting a sample of my presenting 'in the can'. Unfortunately someone called Burton I think was better connected and the engagement never happened. But it was an interesting experience and I think qualifies as a forgotten corner.....

Newtown 43 years ago..... I remember once someone asking me why I bothered taking pictures of everyday things. I'm glad I did. They become unique over the years......

My grandfather Alec MacDonald outside his cottage in the show ground at Dubbo, NSW. Nobody knew for certain how old he was because records weren't kept where he was born on the gold fields but best estimate is that he was just over 100 years old in this image.

Long distance travel in the early 18th century.

Mick Brett's pic of Earby Level crossing around 1960.

Did you know that the 'bell' used at the new Earby Parish Church to summon the faithful to prayer used to be a piece of steam pipe?
See Horace Thornton's evidence in the LTP, it was his job to hit it with a hammer to make the sound!

Hopefully this lovely building won't become a forgotten corner.

Langroyd Hall has been struggling for as long as I have known it.....
Billy Entwistle, slater of Barlick, once told me that at one point the balls which were finials on the gable had come down and were rolled into the reservoir for a laugh.....
Someone has spent a fortune on razor wire!



My mother's job at General Gas Appliances in Audenshaw, Manchester in the 1930s. She was spraying vitreous enamel onto gas cooker parts before they were fired in a furnace. (My father was works general manager and that was how they met......

This image of Gisburn Road in 1908 has always interested me, partly because we can see the retaining wall for the new Catholic Church being built and the fact it shows the bridge in place.
It struck me that there must have been an earlier bridge and possibly before that a ford over Butts Beck but I have never come across any mention of it. Whatever preceded it is a forgotten corner for me.

The 1853 OS map (surveyed 1849) shows Dam Head Bridge.

Open All Hours at Sough in 1956. Almost 70 years ago. Amazing!

Bridget's house on the end of Castle View in 1982.

35 years later Bridget is long gone and her house is a 'desirable cottage'.

The castle as it is today.....

From this Oxford Archaeology North web site: LINK

The Pram shop on Rainhall Road in 1983.

Mother and children in 1982. Images like this get more precious as the years pass so look after them!

For many years I had this wonderful image of c. 1900 cyclists and then one day I realised that the man in the centre is Leonard Holdsworth, manufacturer of Barnoldswick and one of the directors of the Calf Hall Shed Company. I am still in the dark about the identity of the other two......

The site of the town well which is embedded in the wall of Gisburn Road School. I am assured that the trough is still embedded in the wall. This was in 1984 and since then the crossing has been moved..... that might explain any problems anyone has with the image.

26 Townhead in 1982.

Not changed a lot, Google Street View 2009 from outside no 24.