OneGuyFromBarlick

I'm sure my mother knitted some of these for me and my brother

And gloves on strings down the sleeves?



Roughlee mill about 1900. The date 1845 is the build......

Crankshaft for the big compound I was making in 2007. An impressive bit of turning even though I say it as shouldn't!
Never again.....

Teatime at Hey Farm in 1976..... So much of our lives devolved around meals like this. Nowadays even the tablecloth is a rarity!

Two of my favourite people on their wedding day. June and Steve Constantine. Steve was my main tutor at Lancaster and the reason why they are a forgotten corner is because Bob Bliss, who has been visiting Lancaster, told me that they have both succumbed to severe dementia and are so bad there was no point visiting even though he was a colleague for many years. Life can be very cruel.....

This is the stone trough that used to be on Whitemoor at the site of Lister Well.

I found this lavatory bowl in the old Colne Grammar School building. Can you think of a more inappropriate name?

An old image of Colne. I don't know where it is or the exact date. Pre 1900?

It doesn't look like Colne Stanley.

Do you know Wendy, it nagged me a bit as well but that's what I was told....
Perhaps Kev could treat us to one of his image searches?

I've tried that Stanley, and nothing comes up.

Reversing the image and running it through an AI search gives me the following, the source appears to be the Sedbergh & District History Society

This image shows Back Lane in the town of Sedbergh, located in Cumbria (formerly the West Riding of Yorkshire), England.
The photograph dates to 1890 and captures a scene from Victorian times. It features a narrow street with stone buildings and a group of local children posing for the camera. Notable details include:
Agricultural Equipment: A metal plow and other farming tools are visible in the foreground on the left.
Local Industry: To the right, a large wooden barrel sits outside a stone building, which may have been a local shop or workshop.
Architecture: The "Jackson's Buildings" can be identified in the background, which were significant structures in this part of the town.
As with all AI, there's no guarantee this information is correct.

No but it makes sense Kev. I found I had this reverse version of the image also which I suspect is the correct one. The duck foot cultivator was what triggered me because I couldn't imagine there being arable land at Colne.

Well done Kev!

Skyreholme water wheel. LINK

Waterwheel powering fulling stocks and a rotary mill at Helmshore. I don't know where there is another example. I refurbished all the fulling machinery 25 years ago.....

I refurbished all this machinery as well and was particularly pleased with the results on the dolly scourer (The washer in the centre). It was all reclaimed timber and a total rebuild, very satisfying.

Calf Hall Shed in 1978.

At Ellenroad we built a backwall over sixty feet high on the rope race. Think about that, a local builder and his son and no reinforcement at all. Just perfect bricklaying..... Would I have the confidence to do it now?

Here's the foundation for the wall I shewed you yesterday. That's very heavy rebar and there is a lot of it! There was a reason why we could be so generous if not profligate. For months during 1987/88 we had allowed the contractors who were installing the fourth lane on the M62 to use our front field for the storage of materials. When the contract was finished and they cleaned the site they asked us if there was any material we could use and we got a lot of stuff, this included a lot of very heavy rebar. They also paid for all first class the refractory brick and seating blocks we needed to reseat the Lancashire Boiler. That's all forgotten now but that foundation under that back wall will hold I think!

Margaret and Jack the Lurcher. Happy days......

An antiq1ue fire bucket. Designed like this so that it couldn't be used as anything other than a hanging fire bucket.

A load of hay for Dick Lancaster in 1969. These were the most difficult loads to carry and demanded very careful driving.....

The landlady in the bar at the Three Tuns, Hay on Wye in 1998. At the time it was reputed to be the smallest pub in England and was quite famous. It was closed shortly after this pic was done.....

Nelson gala 1950. Hattersley's thought it was worth entering one of their looms in the parade.... Textiles was still big business even though it was in decline. Now of course it is a forgotten corner....