OneGuyFromBarlick

It's 1908 and here are two advertisements from Chatterbox, a weekly magazine for children.... Interesting to see what was advertised and also note the price of a Swan fountain pen. Half a guinea was a considerable sum of money then!

Lots of pushy advertising there. Not much has changed.

You're right Cathy. Even as early as 1908, kids were seen as a market.

Some more advertising from Chatterbox, 1908.

Another page from Chatterbox 1908.

Just one more advertisement. They fascinate me. Remember the date, 1908 and remember what we have previously discovered about drugging children to keep them quiet..... That explains the language used by Steedman's.....

Victoria Wood and Russell Harty at Radio Lancashire in the days when I used to be invited to guest by the media.....

SCG in make up at Granada TV in 1987...... Definitely a forgotten corner!
Notice the Leica camera, my favourite....

I met this lady at Granada, Lynette Lithgow who presented the show I was in. She became a good friend but had a tragic end.... (LINK)

593 ft Core from well-drilling at Whitemoor waterworks. Several of these cores are in Letcliffe Park.

Stanley, can you please explain what a Core from a well-drilling is, and the 593ft. Is that depth

When a well is drilled in rock using the old type of drilling rig it made a circular cut and cut out a plug of rock which lodged inside the drill. the drill was withdrawn ever two or three feet and brought the plug to the surface with it where it was ejected and the drill sent down again for another cut. In solid rock like this the plug was marked with the depth it was from and became evidence of strata and progress.
Modern drills don't cut cores, they grind the rock up with mud and this is continually pumped to the surface as slurry.....

Stanley… Ah! Thanks for the explanation. I can see it now. Gosh, heavy work.

Eigg inspecting another core in Letcliffe Park 25 years ago. Gone but not forgotten....

Maz did this pic of Jack the lurcher in July 2005. He could jump like a cat!

Eigg and the friends she stayed with while I was on my travels.... Philip and Julie Lawson were a godsend for me and Eigg saw them as a second home.

French Market in 2005. We used to have regular markets but they seem to have fallen by the wayside these days. A pity, they always brought colour and interest to Town Square.

New York Battery and Twin Towers in 1981.....

Concord at Heathrow in 2003 preparing for a flight to Montreal. A beautiful plane but not economical.

Fernlea Avenue in the days when the Post Office and Council shop were on the corner.

Not forgotten by me, I remember the site before PO buildings were built when it was wooden hoardings on the site. Also of course the shops that were in the new building after it was built, (1959) I believe, Wool Shop, Cake Shop, Donald Fodens Sports Shop and a Butcher at the end, (cant remember the name). The PO used to have stamp vending machines next to the outside post box which was double sided as you could post your letters inside as well. The Sorting Office was upstairs and there was a public Telephone Box on the left next to the entrance.

All correct Ian and the thing I remember was a Shap Granite Company's flag in front of the building with an embedded brass message: "The Post Office has not dedicated and does not intend for this to become a public right of way". Evidently the original property line was the same as the shops beyond towards Albert Road.....



You can see the property line in this 2020 image of Fernlea Avenue.

A horse tethered outside the entrance to the central Co-op in Albert Road in 1977.

For hundreds of years the corn mill was one of the most important buildings in the town. Now it's almost forgotten.....

Oh I don’t think I’ve heard of a Corn Mill in B’lick.
Are they flats/apartments now?