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Bonny Colne
Posted: 12 Mar 2022, 21:29
by Wendyf
I thought I'd start with a map. This is the 1910 25" OS map of the centre of Colne. You can see Windy Bank with Lister Street and High Street off it.
Colne OS map.jpg
Re: Bonny Colne
Posted: 12 Mar 2022, 21:32
by Wendyf
This is Park Row, also taken from Windy Bank in 1932.
48.842 - Park Row from Windy Bank, 1932.jpg
Re: Bonny Colne
Posted: 13 Mar 2022, 03:16
by Stanley
60 years ago Windy Bank was famous for two things in my world, tarmacers and the best bred Lurchers in the area.
Re: Bonny Colne
Posted: 13 Mar 2022, 09:36
by Wendyf
Windy Bank
48.918 - Windy Bank.jpg
Re: Bonny Colne
Posted: 13 Mar 2022, 10:13
by Gloria
I love old photos, there’s so much of a story in them.
Re: Bonny Colne
Posted: 13 Mar 2022, 13:49
by Big Kev
Re: Bonny Colne
Posted: 13 Mar 2022, 14:51
by Stanley
These are good Wendy and very evocative of that time.
Re: Bonny Colne
Posted: 13 Mar 2022, 19:04
by MickBrett
Windy bank again. Circa 1880.
The large building in the top left corner is the Free Trade Hall which was demolished in 1944.
The square chimney in the centre was Stone Bridge Works.
Re: Bonny Colne
Posted: 13 Mar 2022, 19:23
by Wendyf
Is that building the one that's marked Theatre Royal on the map Mick?
Re: Bonny Colne
Posted: 13 Mar 2022, 19:37
by MickBrett
Yes, it is Wendy. It became the Theatre Royal in 1898.
Re: Bonny Colne
Posted: 13 Mar 2022, 19:39
by Wendyf
You can just make out the roof of the Arcade behind it, then Mason Street running straight down the hill.
Re: Bonny Colne
Posted: 13 Mar 2022, 19:48
by Wendyf
I love the big house at the bottom right of the photo with it's walled garden. I wonder who lived there....
Re: Bonny Colne
Posted: 13 Mar 2022, 23:44
by MickBrett
This is a view down Dockray Street towards Windsor Street and beyond taken around 1902.
The bottom of Windy bank can just be seen on the far left of the image.
Re: Bonny Colne
Posted: 14 Mar 2022, 03:43
by Stanley
Good stuff.....
Re: Bonny Colne
Posted: 14 Mar 2022, 08:33
by plaques
Some of these views baffle me. The caption says Langroyd which its clearly not. Mick is correct of course. The Methodist Chapel far left and the area where Sainsburys is to day. I was told that the Stoney Bridge St / Norfolk St of Windy Bank used to house an abattoir.
Re: Bonny Colne
Posted: 14 Mar 2022, 08:47
by Wendyf
The Chapel is always a good marker in these old photos. I believe that is the abattoir to the left. The buildings opposite the bottom of Dockray Street must be the back of Grove Mill. Was Vinelia a textile company?
Re: Bonny Colne
Posted: 14 Mar 2022, 09:07
by Wendyf
Vinelia was a soap and cold cream brand.
Re: Bonny Colne
Posted: 14 Mar 2022, 18:30
by MickBrett
Circa 1890 image taken from the top of Bridge Street, opposite the Crown Hotel.
Re: Bonny Colne
Posted: 14 Mar 2022, 18:37
by Wendyf
Is there a horse pulling that load of stone?
Re: Bonny Colne
Posted: 14 Mar 2022, 18:44
by MickBrett
Wendyf wrote: ↑14 Mar 2022, 18:37
Is there a horse pulling that load of stone?
The cart itself and the load combined looks a bit heavy to be horse drawn. Steam engine maybe?
Is that a stove pipe rising vertically just above the drivers left shoulder?
It's bad to tell.
Re: Bonny Colne
Posted: 14 Mar 2022, 18:47
by Wendyf
Could be!
Re: Bonny Colne
Posted: 14 Mar 2022, 19:13
by plaques
Is it a combined gas tar boiler and stone trailer. Those look like very heavy loaded wheels far to heavy for normal cartage.
Re: Bonny Colne
Posted: 14 Mar 2022, 19:23
by MickBrett
Yup.
Here's a view of Carriers Row circa 1903. A "similar" vehicle is in the image but this being a steamroller. Similar stovepipe.
Re: Bonny Colne
Posted: 15 Mar 2022, 03:49
by Stanley
I've never seen anything like it before but yes, it's a steam powered vehicle and those heavy back wheels must have been driven like the back wheels of the steam roller in the other picture. You can see large brake shoes that act on the surface of the wheel.
PS, that lamp post in the pic of the resurfacing looks like the same pattern as the ones Barlick used to use.
Re: Bonny Colne
Posted: 15 Mar 2022, 15:14
by Wendyf
Cabbage Lane ran this side of these properties, Buck Street on the other.
48.615 - Cabbage Lane.jpg