OneGuyFromBarlick

Lovely to see other pics popping up! Here's Niagara just above the old mill site.

The Bristol Tractor. Made in Earby at Sough Bridge Mill in about 1960.

What engine is that Stanley?

The original build had the Jowett opposed cylinder petrol engine as the firm was an off-shoot from Jowett at Idle, Bradford who bought the firm from the original owners, Douglas Motors of Bristol.. Over the years they used different engines, see this LINK for more details. I did some articles on Sough Bridge Mill but they don't appear to be on the site so I'll put them up in Stanley's View.



Sough Bridge Mill in 1956. Kelbrook Metal Products in the part nearest the camera, Forecast Foundry behind them at the back and Bristol Tractors in the far end using the main entrance.

Carleton Mill in 1955.

Weavers having a smoke at lunchtime in the old canteen at Bancroft. It must have been raining that day because if it was fine they would be outside. August 1978.

Clough dam. Once one of the most important water power resources in Barlick. Now sadly neglected and silted up.

One of the ventilators on Gisburn Road School in 1979 before they were all removed. They hark back to medical beliefs in the late 19th C when disease was thought to be spread by 'miasma' and the cure was thorough ventilation. Good for air quality but bad for heating costs!

Engine houses had ventilators as well. This is Calf Hall Shed in 1978. Note that the WW2 pill box was still in place.

The Coates Mill site. Seems to be a forgotten corner these days.

Stanley wrote:The Coates Mill site. Seems to be a forgotten corner these days.

I think there'll be some movement on re-developing the site soon.

Previous owners made a nominal start on the site by putting footings in for one of the houses. This keeps the planning consent 'alive'. (If no work takes place, planning permission lapses after a few years.)

It's likely that a different scheme will be submitted by a prospective new owner.

(We suggested the site as a possible additional parking area for Bankfield; the housing development value of the land ruled this out.)

Click to enlarge. More than a forgotten corner, it's a forgotten village. Part of the 1717 estate map of Bracewell Estate.

Hall Lane at Bracewell. The abandoned road between Bracewell and the lost village of Stock.

The remains of the ford over Stock Beck on Hall Lane at Bracewell.

The old drill hall on Crow Nest Road.

Xmas 1977 outside the entrance to the old Co-op Central building in Albert Road.

Interior of the Coop bakery under the Mayfair School of Dancing before conversion to flats. The ovens are behind the hanging on the wall.

The Co-op lorry ready for the gala about 1920. Lettering on wagon reads: Bakery and cafe department. Picnics, weddings and funeral parties catered for. The prize card reads Trade turnout, motor lorry. Second prize. The two girls on the flat are Gladys Windle and her cousin Eileen Watkinson. The driver is thought to be Mr Nuttall. The sign on the lorry reads 'Noutrix condensed milk. None better'. Picture lent by Dorothy Carthy, sister to Gladys.

This corner is so forgotten that it is no longer there! I took this pic in 2002 of the site where there used to be a very fine stone trough that was fed by the Lister Well spring which rises in the copse in the background. I believe the trough was removed by the land owner after a failed attempt to steal it. Lister Well crops up a lot in Barlick history and was perhaps once a holy well. The water from the well was reputed to be a sovereign cure for whooping cough and other childhood ailments like croup.

The remains of what was generally recognised as Lister Well Spring in the late 19th century. This was in August 2002.

Gisburn Road where the old post office was. About 1950?

Crow Nest Syke running down the side of Eastwood Bottoms at Havre Park.

The washbasins and boiler for brewing tea at Bancroft Shed. This, plus the ancient toilets was the full extent of worker comforts in the mill.

They don't make jobs like this nowadays! Stanley running Bancroft engine in 1977. Daft as it looks, even though he is asleep for ten minutes any variation in the engine note will waken him immediately. John Plummer pinched this pic when he came in for his brew. He didn't waken me. he knew there was no need. He did the same in the boiler house between firings.