OneGuyFromBarlick

The bane of coal men trying to deliver!



Old clothes line hook on Wellhouse Street.

Long gone but this was the rain water tank base on the end of what is now the Park Road surgery on Philip Street. Cast by Bracewell's at Burnley it was to collect rainwater for domestic use in the days before we had a mains water supply. Harold Duxbury told me that quite a few of the older properties on the street had small wells and pumps in the kitchen.

The bottom of Jepp Hill in 1982. Look at the top right hand corner of the small building at the rear. The two massive stones built into the wall were for a tank that collected rain water from the roof.

Back of the Cross Keys in 2001. Note the line of gutter supports from front to back. This was almost certainly for a gutter to convey rain water from the front roof to a water tank at the back.

The surgery on Park Road in 1983.

Park Road in about 1900

St Andrew's area in 1963

The old railway station site in 1979 before the construction of the new supermarket started.

1979.

Not local but see Bob's Bits. New Lanark in 1977.

Again, not local but the old District Bank in Grimshaw Street Burnley caught my eye yesterday. A sign of the times, magnificent old bank buildings falling like flies.

Pubs as well. The pic by Angus of Syke pub.

These premises on Commercial Street used to be a rag and bone business owned by Paul Brydon. He had one leg off below the knee. LTP 82/HD/03.

The lime kiln in the field over the canal from Lower Park Marina.

Culvert under the canal at Hanging Bridge wharf at Salterforth.

A view of Barlick from Avon Drive in 1979. Many changes particularly Eastwood Bridge on the right of the picture.

Eastwood Bridge in 2002. It was declared redundant and demolished.

Another lost canal bridge. Look in the top left hand corner for Bank House bridge in 1963.

The valve house at Greenberfield at the end of the pipeline from the canal reservoir at Winterburn.

Colin Macro's cactus garden in the warehouse at Bancroft in 1977.

Yesterday afternoon the rain came down, so too did the old Fosters Arms bus shelter. Its component parts now cleaned and stacked.

The barn at Hey Farm in 1960. Demolished later to widen Manchester Road.

Manchester Road before widening in about 1965. Gara Pickles and his dog in the foreground. He lived in one of the cottages next to the Dog.

The photographer is stood close to where a present day land dispute looks likely.

Over 20 years ago, the town council began cutting the grass on the neglected patch on Manchester Road at the end of Park Avenue. Confronted with loose bricks and other debris, in later years, the grass cutter took to weedkiller rather than the mower. A couple of years ago, we decided to take it on as part of the Barlick in Bloom initiative. Glenys Breckon volunteered to look after the plot and has gardened it since.

Now someone has put a string line up, presumably to mark a boundary. After donkey's years of neglect, Glenys isn't too pleased that the land is being claimed after she's put in the work to make it look loved.

The photographer was me and the land was originally the site of one or two small cottages on the end of the existing row. Here's the same piece of road from the other direction. You can see how the site of the demolished cottage has been tidied up, almost certainly by the council.