FORGOTTEN CORNERS

[Stanley]

Well at least they did their research on naming the development!

[Stanley]

One of the things that has changed completely in the last fifty years is how we get our soft drinks. Here we have Haworth's from Burnley delivering pop in glass bottles in Frank Street in 1980. There was a deposit on the bottles which were returned and re-used. All completely change now so this is a forgotten corner. The fact that it's also a nice tidy Ford Thames 4D truck appeals to an old driver like me.....

[Tizer]

That's a beautiful lorry and I hope it's preserved in someone's collection. Do you remember the colour? I would guess green.

[Wendyf]

That's a beautiful lorry and I hope it's preserved in someone's collection. Do you remember the colour? I would guess green.

It is showing as taxed until June 2025, and the colour is green!

[Tizer]

Whoopee! Thanks for that, Wendy!

[PanBiker]

A bit more information:


Vehicle make
FORDSON THAMES
Date of first registration
April 1950
Year of manufacture
1950

So, 30 years old when the photo was taken.

[Tizer]

I wonder if it's been through Mathewsons and on the Banger & Cash programme?

[Wendyf]

I wonder if it's been through Mathewsons and on the Banger & Cash programme?

One of my favourite programmes!

[Stanley]

We had a forward control 4D at West Marton with a small tank mounted on it. It was used for delivering skim milk to farms. The two things I remember about it were that it was a pleasure driving it and it had a very comprehensive instrument panel, Far more sophisticated than you'd usually find in a small wagon of that era.



Seen in New York in 1981. Cockroaches are a big problem there. I love the advertising slogan, "Roaches check in but they don't check out!"

[Stanley]

Seventy years ago this was my answer to a morning shave, my Rolls Razor. The strange thing was that in the army I was not allowed to have this in my kit for inspection. I had to put a safety razor from the NAAFI in there instead. I think it was felt that only officers could afford such luxury. I can't remember what happened to it..... So it's a forgotten corner!

[Stanley]

Foulridge reservoirs. I don't know the date......

[PanBiker]

Hardly forgotten Stanley, the canal feeders are both still there and probably would look much the same on an Ariel photo now.

[Stanley]

[Stanley]

My last cohort of Carleton College students at breakfast, Keele University in 2001. They were bright kids and it was a pleasure teaching them each year. Some still talk to me today.....

[Stanley]

Tacklers. Second from right on the back row is Fred Watkinson and the man on his left could be Billy Brooks. Sheila Smith as was rang me and the man on the left of the back row is John Smith, her grandfather. The man next to Fred Watkinson, third from the left, is Dan Smith her father who used to drive for Wild Brothers. She has an idea that the small man with glasses sat at the right on the front row is Billy Haines who lived on Clarence Street at one time but is not sure. The pic was taken c.1937 and she thinks it could be Long Ing. Later information placed it as Westfield Shed and that would fit with what I know about Billy Brooks after interviewing him for the Lancashire Textile Project.
These men were the working class aristocracy of the mills. Look carefully at their dress, some wore ties and some shoes instead of clogs to work.

[Whyperion]

There would appear to be an event on , some Jubillee of a Male Monarch ?

[Stanley]

Tacklers at Widdups, Moss Shed. Left to right, Joe Askham, Fred Watkinson and unknown. Before WW1.

[Stanley]

Bancroft Mill, Coronation 1937. Group of tacklers in the warp preparation department. Top row, left to right; Harry Hartley, George Beaumont, Herbert Crow, Dick Smith, Bill Tomlinson. Front row; Levi Steele, Johnson Carr, Dick Lord, George Monks, Ted Burke.

[Stanley]

These are spike files. For many years they were the standard method of storing documents in date order as they were foolproof, as long as the papers were spiked on the day they were generated they could never get out of order.

[Stanley]

Taken in 1982 this image has three forgotten corners on it. Left to right..... The Station Garage, Cowgill's joinery shop and Stanley's Crumpets. This was of course before Cravenside was built.

[Stanley]

Swimmers at Greenberfield in 1958. Could it happen today if we had a spell of hot weather. Somehow I doubt it.....

[PanBiker]

Could it happen today if we had a spell of hot weather. Somehow I doubt it.....

I doubt it also, we now have proper swimming baths which have the benefit of no dead sheep in the water or cow muck. Also a bit deeper than 4 ft for diving in!

[Stanley]

Another view of the Costa Barlick at Greenberfield in 1958....

[Stanley]

The engine name plate from Albion Mill, Earby.

[Stanley]

Bancroft Farm milk stand in 2010. The cans of milk were put on the stand every morning ready to be picked up by the milk wagon..... Redundant when the pic was done but still there....