FORGOTTEN CORNERS

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This'll bring a tear to Doc's eye. Big Jack and Meg up at Prospect in 2005.

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The Majestic in 1982.

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Graham shop at what was then 99 Colne Road Sough. (The numbering has been changed now) 1956. Open All Hours!

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Shed door at Bancroft in 1977. Weavers used to leave messages on it. Click to enlarge.

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The Pram shop on Rainhall Road in 1983. (click to enlarge)

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The Pram Shop block on Rainhall Road in 1983.

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Today's forgotten corner is very personal. This is a picture of a room in a house about to be demolished, 6 Napier Road, Stockport. The significance is that I took this picture in 1988, 35 years after I lived there and nothing had changed. I went through every room in the house and it was a weird feeling stepping back all those years.... My bedroom in the attic was just as I had left it apart from being empty, even the decorations were the same. Weird!

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The middle house is 6 Napier road, just before demolition in 1988.

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The original course of the canal at Greenberfield ran under the bridge in the background and down this channel. The original two riser locks were criticised by John Rennie in 1816 because they wasted water so they were replaced by the present course and locks.

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Butts chimney in 1978 after it had been shortened by taking the brick extension off it. Billycock had to extend it because of the poor quality of the coal from the Ingleton collieries which he had bought.

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Crow Nest chimney in 1978 before the venturi was fitted to the top. A handsome stack....

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Calf Hall Shed chimney in 1982.

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Not strictly Barlick but definitely a forgotten corner of local politics. Len Dole speaking at the Nelson Labour Party's gala in 1978. It was like a Sunday school meeting and was a lovely occasion.

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The old Baptist chapel at Salterforth.

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Was the gala photo above with Len Dole taken at Vernon Street Stanley?

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Ian, if I remember correctly it was in the old Co-op building on the main drag.



Earby Station. Change here for Barlick!

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Thornton in Craven railway station.

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Gisburn railway station in 1903.



Brew time at Berry's Whitegate sawmill at Sough in 1989.

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The Crossley gas engine that drove Berry's sawmill at Sough. At one time it ran of producer gas made from the shavings and sawdust but in later years ran exclusively on town's gas.

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Newton Pickles using the Rapidor saw in the thoroughfare at Wellhouse Mill in 1978. Four years later it was all demolished and Newton retired.

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The moulding shop in Henry Brown and Sons' new foundry at Havre Park in 1922. Sorry about the quality, the only images I have ever seen were from a brochure published at the time.

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Long Ing Shed. Boiler house and chimney in 1978.

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Olive and Newton Pickles at Linda Pickles' wedding in 1976.

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Old postcard of Earby Crossing.

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taken out the front of the Clarence Club Earby around 1950 ,the two gents on the right are Harry Hodge(snr)and Bobby Taylor two old Earbyers. Sent by Rosie OGFB.