FORGOTTEN CORNERS

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The back street behind the surgery on Park Road in 1982.

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Tom Phillips. Bancroft Chimney 2012.

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In 1940 General Gas Appliances, Corporation Road, Audenshaw was changed over to war production.... This included necessary signage....

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I found this image in a book I bought on stationary steam engine management. I was intrigued so I went digging. It was a steel sailing ship built in 1895 at Nantes and was originally named 'General Mellinet'. Sold later to Norway and renamed Gunvor.

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Bankfield, two engines and a boiler house on the side of the canal.

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There was a time when this was my office. I always said it was the best job in the world..... A forgotten corner now.

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In the days when I was into serious snapping I loved using this Nikkor 13mm wide angle lens. It produced perfectly square images if you got the angles right. The most impressive lens I ever used. A good second hand example would cost £3,500 today.....

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When I was young we swore by Lintox tonic for dogs but it doesn't exist now. I don't know what was in it but it was good stuff!
The modern use of the Term Lintox applies to a powerful insecticide used on large beasts.

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1930s postcard of the lower entrance to Letcliffe Park.

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Pill box for wartime defence of Rolls Royce in Barlick. Still there in 1963 when this aerial shot was taken.

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The security tower was still there in 2023 but it's all gone now as well as the old mill building, just a blank brownfield massive slab of concrete. I always thought they would have kept the tower.

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My friend the late John Harrison ran a Rolls for a while because he said it was cheaper than any other big car if bought sensibly, second-hand.

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India Mill Darwen. The chimney was built as a statement in the days when manufacturing was at its peak.

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Some images tug at the heartstrings..... Ayr 1969.

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My friend the late John Harrison ran a Rolls for a while because he said it was cheaper than any other big car if bought sensibly, second-hand.

In the late 1980s we had one of the last classic Series 3, 4.2 litre, XJ6 Daimler Sovereigns. We never had any trouble with it, nothing ever failed, it ran really well. All except for one time when we broke down on a main junction in Blackburn. I phoned the RAC and the man came quickly but couldn't figure out what was wrong so he brought in a trailer and hauled the car back to our home in High Wycombe. We always used a car mechanic who was a good friend and familiar with classics. He pinpointed the problem straight away and had choice words to describe the RAC man. The XJs had dual fuel tanks, one in each rear wing, and a switch on the dashboard to change tanks. We knew there was plenty of fuel in both tanks but the switch had failed and cut off the fuel altogether!

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John said that Rolls ran their own insurance and it was cheaper by far than any other....

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Bill Harrison, John Harrison's brother... At Stone Trough Farm in 1976. Hard to accept it was 50 years ago..... (A lifetime!)

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We insured our classic cars with a specialist which was always much cheaper than standard insurance because they know owners of classics are careful and don't want to damage their cars!

Incidentally, a lady I know whose husband worked at the ROF in Chorley has just stopped driving and sent back her licence. She's 90 and bright as a button but says she now finds other drivers are too dangerous. She was unsure about it at first but now says she feels liberated and that it was a good decision! (Reminds me of you but you stopped earlier.)

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Yes, that was why I chucked my licence into touch. I had stopped trusting the other drivers on the road. I have never regretted it.



Martha's house in Northfield. Round about 2000 Martha and Roger told me about wanting to remove the old lead paint from their house in such a way that it could be recycled and removed from the environment. I said the only way to do that was with a scraper and heat gun and do it by hand. I ended up scraping the whole house for them and it was spread over five years. It was a big job and I doubt if anyone else ever did it!

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Station Road in 2009. Mundane images like this get more and more important as the years go by. We really need someone doing such images as a matter of course..... Eventually they all get to be forgotten corners.

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Bob Bliss teaching at Lancaster in 1982. Next Tuesday he will be visiting me at East Hill Street. Yippee!

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The World Trade Towers in New York in 1980......

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The old water board offices in Barlick. I think this was about 1976 before conversion to flats.

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The Model Lodging house in Butts in 1920, ten years before it closed as demand for beds fell with the start of the decline of the cotton industry.

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The central garage in 2011. This too used to be a model lodging house.....