OneGuyFromBarlick

THE WILD BUNCH
Pendle Borough Council come in for a lot of stick from time to time, it’s one of the local spectator sports. So it would be as well to give them praise when it is deserved. I saw an article in the paper a fortnight ago asking for suggestions for improvements to park benches so I contacted the named officer, Colin Patton, and informed him of a serious deficiency in the seating arrangements at Letcliffe Park, Barnoldswick.

There is a group of men in Barnoldswick who are an asset to the town. I am not allowed to name them but refer to them as The Wild Bunch. They meet on Letcliffe most days and are the finest source for gossip, historical fact and general philosophy in the town. However, there was a problem, the bench in the most favoured position only holds five (and that cheek to cheek) and there are often seven in the quorum. I requested that another bench be placed there so that the group could all sit comfortably. I pointed out that one of the new metal benches wouldn’t do, these aged bottoms are only comfortable on wood.

I am happy to report that one of the existing benches has been moved and we now have plenty of room. So, if you are ever asked why there are two benches together looking out over the Dales you will know the answer, it’s to comfortably accommodate Barnoldswick’s superior version of the Last of the Summer Wine.



The Wild Bunch in 2005.

SCG/08 October 2005

They do look like characters from Last of the Summer Wine!!

The Magnificent Seven ?

I can only see five!!

6 if you count the photographer....

or 7 if you count the trees each side.

"I talk to the trees, but they don't listen to me"...

That lot would give Ned Kelly a fright!

They're still about but I miss them these days because I don't get up to Letcliffe in the afternoon like I used to.

Tiz, I have it on good authority that one of them is Ned Kelly. Nolic

Comrade, careless talk costs lives!

Bumped. The Wild Bunch should not be forgotten! When Billy Parsons died I was approached at the funeral by some of his close relations and they said that it was a standing joke in the family right up to Billy's death.

Do the survivors still meet?

Only a couple of the younger ones China and as far as I know not on Letcliffe, the rest have died.....
The forms are still there next to each other!



Martha and Roger visited these two, both dead now.... (As is Jack the lurcher.)

Bumped. The Wild Bunch should be remembered!

I never mentioned it but the reason why they hid their faces was because they claimed to be 'spooks' and as such had to remain anonymous.....