FORGOTTEN CORNERS

[Steeplejerk]

A newspaper is also becoming a forgotten corner

[Stanley]

That's true Tom!

[Gloria]

We get the Daily Mail every Saturday, for the television guide and the puzzles, we briefly skim through the paper itself, there’s lots of stuff which we aren’t bothered with reading. I know we can get everything online, but it’s like reading a book, I like to hold it and turn pages.

[Wendyf]

We get the Daily Mail every Saturday, for the television guide and the puzzles, we briefly skim through the paper itself, there’s lots of stuff which we aren’t bothered with reading. I know we can get everything online, but it’s like reading a book, I like to hold it and turn pages.

Same here Gloria, we stopped buying the Radio Times a couple of years ago because it became expensive and full of rubbish. The Saturday Mail has the best TV guide and the pages burn well!

[Cathy]

I do something similar Gloria with our ‘Sunday Mail’.
I buy it for the TV Guide. Not weekly tho, I just change any updates according to what OnLine says, and it becomes a bit of a mess, then buy a new one.

[Stanley]

I used to get Radio Times every week religiously. But then realised how ridiculous it was getting. I stopped buying it, the Guardian and the Observer. It was like paying a mortgage!



The new Low Pressure Cylinder for Plumb Street Mill Engine being bored in Wellhouse Shop in 1958. Long forgotten now.....

[Stanley]

A Castle Bus in Skipton in 1925.

[Stanley]

Twenty years ago...... No 8 Newtown.....

[Stanley]

David Riley in the butcher's shop on Newtown in 2002.



By 2019 things had changed.....

[Steeplejerk]

Do you still use the shop Stanley

[Stanley]

I think you know the answer to that one Tom......

[Stanley]

I did this pic of the old bridge over the beck at Pickles Hippings in 1982. Since then it has collapsed and is no more. I have always wondered if it was something to do with a footpath to our lost Saxon church which was in this general area.
(It's hard to distinguish it but look for a dry stone arch in the centre of the image over the stream.)

[Whyperion]

A newspaper is also becoming a forgotten corner

Becoming difficult to get the fires lit in the steam locos apparently (though rags burn better)

But dont you plck up the free "Metro" on the bus weekday mornings ? (is the MEN still free twice a week - not got into Manchester since mid covid due to family committments)

[Stanley]

Earby Station in March 1955.

[Stanley]

The 2,500 HP George Saxon engine at Times Mill, Middleton. This image demonstrates how in the big spinning mills, the engine was treated in the same way as a religious building would be. The phrase that comes to mind is Temple of Power.
Electric motors don't generate the same respect....

[Stanley]

A more utilitarian treatment of a power source at Home Mill, Blacko. A small mill with a small engine and nothing spent on embellishing the engine room.
Note the fact that the steam valve above the cylinder seems to have two handles. The front, single handle rotates the valve head on the seat and if used with care daily has the effect of keeping the faces of the valve in good condition. I think this is the only image of this that I have.....

[Stanley]

The watermill on the Isle of Eigg. At one time one of the most important buildings on the island. For many years it was used as a holiday let by the Eigg Estate and Mary and I used to go twice a year in March and October and enjoyed every minute of it. It was equipped with a Jøtul wood burning stove and I was pretty good at firing it and getting the building warm!

[Stanley]

In case you were wondering about the words cast in the front of the stove...... They are Old Norse and roughly....
EG GREV NED MIN ELD
* SENT OM KVELD *
NAAR DAGEN ER SLUT
GUD GJE MIN ELD
ALDER SLOKNA UT

The translation is:
I bank my fire
Late in the evening
When the day is through.
God ensure my fire
Never blows out.

Not many people know that! Evidently it is only found on the oldest stoves and is no longer on the modern ones. It's a forgotten corner.

[Stanley]

In 1998 I put a new floor down for Janet in Perth and she asked my advice about a stove. I of course said that if it was possible to find a Jøtul she couldn't do any better. After a bit of research she found this one and we put it in. Now here's the thing. This was a genuine Jøtul made in Norway and transported 10,000 miles to Australia and yet it was cheaper than the same stove was in the UK. Very strange.
All a forgotten corner now of course but I still remember.

[Whyperion]

Anyone remember the School Board Man. I always thought so called cos they would come round your house with a clipboard and check on the reason - pregiven or otherwise - why you were not in school that registration period (they would check afternoons sometimes). I didnt realise at the time Local Education Authorities had been organised out of the parish schools and the like into a number of metropolitan boards (of overseeers) of education (bit like the Metropolitan Water Board) .Nowadays schools tend to be independent academies and so on and do their own chasing up

[Stanley]

Board school interior in Liverpool about 1900.
This was a standard design and my first school, Hope Memorial at Stockport was exactly the same.

[Cathy]

It must have been very annoying when someone sat in the middle wanted to get out.

[Stanley]

What was even worse Cathy was the fact that the long benches always had some side to side play and were constantly moving. If you were sat in the middle and the cheek of your buttock was over the crack you could get a very painful nip when the two bench ends came together.

[Cathy]

My first thought was “How unfortunate “

[Stanley]

This Browett and Lindley 1000hp steam engine was used by Salford Corporation to generate electricity for their trams because there was no public electricity supply at the time. That's a real forgotten corner for you!