OneGuyFromBarlick

Indeed, the original plan had housing on the brownfield site and at the other side of the little cut, in the foreground of your picture. Fine on the former mill site but no further. Not sure what actually got passed by the planners or on appeal. No extra infrastructure that will be a given I bet.

This is the 'published' plan


Pic courtesy of David Whipp

Thanks Kev, that makes 66 houses on the flood plane by my reckoning. The water will have to go somewhere and I wonder how many will be affordable housing for first time buyers?

The. new estate called Cotton Meadows , Skipton Rd, looks really nice.

Apart from the fact that all the houses are 300K plus and there has been no expansion of the local support infrastructure, (schools, dentists, doctors, sewage, etc)

But plenty of profit and massages the Labour plan for more houses.....



Same view in 1982.

Taken on a trip to Blackpool in 1981. It would probably be illegal to do this pic today.... How times have changed!

1979......

The last tobacco advertisement in the UK. It was for Silk Cut cigarettes. Quite brilliant but how many remember it today?

Cross Keys and Seven Stars corner, 1983......

The view from the engine house window at Bancroft. How many work stations had wallpaper like that?

Dee Mill engine at Shaw vandalised beyond any hope of recovery. A great shame because it was a fine engine.....



Here's what it looked like in happier times. All gone and forgotten now.

One of my heroes..... Nye Bevan. We have forgotten what politicians should be. This man was a giant!

I tripped over this pic I did of three friends of mine walking down Rainhall Road in 1980 before the new police station was built... I realised that I had accidentally got a picture of the house that used to stand on the corner which was for many years a doctors surgery. Was It called Fernbank?
Whatever, it's definitely a forgotten corner now!

I took an American friend of mine to visit the Barritt family at their dairy farm, Kayfield, over 25 years ago. They were wiped out by F&M disease in 2001 and I visited yesterday. All these buildings are gone and farming has ceased. This is true of so many small farms round here these days..... A very sad forgotten corner.

The level crossing at Earby in the days of steam. A forgotten corner on so many levels....