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Alan Bennet and Lord Charles Shuttleworth at the opening of the Gawthorpe Barn in 1979. I was mixing in elevated circles at the time. (It didn't last! )

Colin Barritt, floor manager at West Marton Dairy in 1968. He also Farmed Kayfield Farm on the cross lane between Salterforth and Coates.

Long Preston in about 1930 I think....

How things have changed in 40 years! YEB had a shop where you could go to pay your leccy bill. How quaint that seems now.

So did the Gas Board. Not long after we were first married we bought a Canon Gasmiser fire from them. This was after coal changed to that grey reconstituted Anthracite smokeless stuff that you couldn't light!

By July 2010 everything had changed.

Oak View Terrace at Salterforth. I have always been fascinated by the fact that, unlike so many other rows of houses in the district, Oak View managed to retain its iron railings when all the others were taken for the war effort. There is a story behind that fact but I doubt if we will ever hear it. So, a forgotten corner for you.

Daniel Meadows recording the engine at Bancroft Shed in 1976.....

I see from the BBC news website that I am the last surviving mill worker in Barlick. I Don't think that is true. The two young ladies on the left of this group could still be survivors. If so they are forgotten corners!

I think it says the Last Surviving Mill Worker that Daniel photographed (for the exhibition prints?)

There is a strange world where young ladies seem to disappear, and old ones arrive out of nowhere

Joe Nutter sorting his ends on the tape machine at Bancroft in 1977. All those skills gone....

Jim Sutton paying his last visit to Bancroft in 1978. Jim was father to Charlie, my flue chap. Jim was a hard man but he once told me that he had seen people dying from starvation on the streets of Nelson..... His hobby was making and flying kites!

Newton Pickles at Ellenroad in 1985. He is tending a fire in the flues which is establishing a healthy up-draught in the chimney before we light the boiler fires to raise steam in order to demonstrate that the Ellenroad engine was a runner to the Coates Brothers management. An essential step to getting their support for the project.
It worked and in the process we lit the flue dust in the flue which was mainly half burned coal dust from the forced draught operation of the economic boiler that had been installed to heat the mill in its last days. It burned for over 3 months that winter, warming the flues and reducing the level of the dust in the flue to manageable proportions. Long forgotten days!

Stanley wrote: ↑05 Mar 2025, 04:24 It worked and in the process we lit the flue dust in the flue which was mainly half burned coal dust from the forced draught operation of the economic boiler that had been installed to heat the mill in its last days. It burned for over 3 months that winter, warming the flues and reducing the level of the dust in the flue to manageable proportions. Long forgotten days!

A loosely similar process to a modern diesel engine burning the soot from a DPF. With the forced addition of a small amount of vaporised diesel, rather than coal dust.

That's a good analogy Kev but in our case it was purely accidental! It reduced about three feet depth of dust with less than six inches.

If you haven't already seen it, today's Guardian has a review and photographs of Daniel Meadows current exhibition;

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... el-meadows

db

Thanks for that!

Mary Cawdrey doing a bit of tackling in 1977 at Bancroft Shed. She's sticking a piece of fur in the shuttle to act as a brake on the weft as it flew off the cop. In the old days this would not have been allowed by the tacklers but by 1977 all the old rules had been relaxed. A forgotten corner now as the whole industry has been destroyed.

Mary Cawdrey at her looms when we were weaving out. Notice that she only has two looms running. This was such a sad time for us all. A forgotten corner now.

The pile of scrapped looms at Primet Bridge in Colne that was there during the 50s and 60s. It belonged to George Rushworth and I was told that it was kept there at the behest of the government. It was part of the national strategic reserve of raw materials and Rushworth was paid to maintain the resource. When the Queen visited Colne in 1955 Rushworths planed a Union Flag on the top of the pile and they were heavily criticised for it as the pile was seen to be a shameful symbol of the collapse of an industry..... All forgotten now!

The Lad scrapping Daniel's morris Minor in 1978..... I'm afraid those days have gone!

You could easily walk past this back wall in Philip Street (The old Back Lane main route through Barlick) and not notice the stones on the wall top. They are demolition stones from an older building. These are possibly from a window surround. Question is, which old building?

This recent article is interesting on re-use of building stone...
`Roman recycling at Reedham: Exploring the imperial origins of a Norfolk church' Current Archaeology

That was an interesting article Peter. I am always on the look out for re-used materials in walls and buildings. Nearby Whalley is interesting because of the amount of stone used in local buildings which quite obviously come from the ruins of Whalley Abbey which was used as a quarry for centuries.
Our ancestors were very good at recycling some materials.....



Old stables in Butts in 1982. Long gone but we forget that there was a need for accommodation for all the horses used for transport. These buildings were part of that provision. Note the doors into the hay lofts on the second floor.
There used to be market gardens in Butts and I often wonder if that's where all the horse muck went.

Coates Mill (Carr Printers) in 1985.