OneGuyFromBarlick

West Marton Dairy Bedford JTB517 in 1957 at what was then the WMD Barlick Depot in Valley Road. It is still there behind the fence in Gissing and Lonsdale's yard.

There is an extension on the top house on Havre Park now. Old front entrance built up and the new entrance in the extension.

Kids playing out in North Street in 1952.

These are 'Tuppeny dips', The most common form of interior lighting available to ordinary people before the advent of public gas supplies in the late 19th century. They were made from a variety of fats, the best being beeswax and the worst inferior tallow. Think about these the next time you switch an electric light on!

A concert party got up by the workers at Dotcliffe Mill in 1947. Such amateur theatrical events used to be common but these days it is a forgotten corner.

Queen Street Mill Harle Syke. The high pressure piston with its new rings and backing springs when Brown and Pickles repaired it in 1979.

The Bristol Tractor was made at Sough and exported all over the world. Part of the industrial growth that we saw in the area after WW2 as the government returned modernised mills to the market after they had been used for war production.

Looking back at Ellenroad I marvel at the extent of the work we did there. The sole flue under the boiler was a good example. We completely rebuilt it using not firebrick but grade one refractory bricks, the highest standard available. The contractors widening the M62 at the time paid for them in return for us allowing them to use our front field as a works depot during the contract.

Lifting steel into the new Yorkshire bank in Church Street in 1979. That didn't last long did it!

Crow Nest, Bankfield and Coates sheds. All long gone now. This was how important cotton weaving used to be in Barlick and these were only three out of twenty five working sheds!

A tackler's bench in the shed at Bancroft. It looks derelict I know but this was part of the complicated structure that enabled the production of cotton cloth on a previously unheard of scale... A tackler's tool kit was what he carried in his pockets.



I asked Ernie Roberts, tackler at Bancroft, to turn his pockets out one day....... (The Glacier Mint is for any of his weavers who was having a bad day!)

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One of my favourite weavers at Bancroft, Mary Cawdray, having her lunch at her loom. (Weavers always had a clean tablecloth.... ) Mary was old school, direct and honest. You always knew exactly where you stood with her!

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Mary Cawdray 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.

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An old post card of the Post Office at Bracewell. I think this is probably in the 1890s....

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I found this doghouse waiting for me at Elslack in 2005.....

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Ellenroad in the days when it was one of the most modern spinning mills in the NW. Platt Brothers supplied all the machinery and this was their promotional image.

No pics here either

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Out of sight, out of mind and so this is a forgotten corner. The inside of a working Lancashire boiler.

Apologies for the intrusion, this is the image using the BBCode - Kev
One of Edna Lumb's paintings of the inside of the rope race at Ellenroad.

Bancroft engine on a normal working day in 1977.

Garden Fronts, Wellhouse Street/Railway Street. A lovely way to build houses but nobody is doing it now.

I realised this morning that I got my first electric slow cooker 10 years ago and this way of slow cooking went into history for me!

Stanley, I see you are still double posting images. Can you not see the firsts ones using the full URL? If that is the case can I suggest you fully close your browser and then reload the site and see what happens. Look at the SSL thread in the admin section for more info.

I'm double posting to make sure that everyone, and not just members, can see the images I post. I don't know what other people's browsers are showing them. I shall double post until I am sure that things have gone back to 'normal'. For instance, can everyone see historic images?





Mechanised farming in 1957 at Greenbank Farm on Gisburn Old Track. Early one morning I drove this from there to Wheathead Farm at Blacko where we were going to help with haytime.... It had an open exhaust and sounded lovely in full song despite its age!

Stanley wrote: ↑05 May 2025, 02:03 I'm double posting to make sure that everyone, and not just members, can see the images I post. I don't know what other people's browsers are showing them. I shall double post until I am sure that things have gone back to 'normal'. For instance, can everyone see historic images?

You will never get an answer to that Stanley, guests cannot post on the site.

Regarding historic images. I tested that a few days ago by logging out of the site and browsing as and unregistered visitor. I could see all images including historical ones in posts.

I have a simple question which I have asked before it only requires a yes/no answer:

Can you see the first images you post using the full URL?

If so you don't need to double post. I ask as double posting is just using disk space up unnecessarily on the server. Might seem a trivial thing but all images inserted as BB code or as attachments are stored within the site software using the servers storage space. It's good practice not to double post and it keeps the hosting charges down, we don't really want to have to buy more virtual disk space if we don't need it.