FORGOTTEN CORNERS

[Stanley]

I don't think so Cathy..... I haven't been down there for a while....

[Stanley]

The Corn Mill in 2007.

[PanBiker]

Google Maps the last time the car was down there July 2023:

Corn Mill.JPG

[Stanley]

The Corn Mill Clow in Butts in 1982, sadly neglected at the time. This dammed the beck to feed the head race for the Corn Mill dams.

[Stanley]

One of the footbridges over the beck in Valley Gardens. I had noted that both the bridges were massive cast iron girders and after many years of nagging I established that they were originally the main structural members of the bridge over the railway on Rainhall Road that was taken out when the Pioneer Store was built.

[Stanley]

Redman's branch in the Majestic Buildings c.1920......

[Stanley]

North Valley services at Colne in 1982. The fins on the stack were an attempt do disperse any smoke produced....

[Stanley]

During WW2 it was common to see cars with gas bags on the roof. These were filled with Town's Gas and provided fuel to run the car's engine. Could it ever happen again?

[Stanley]

This was another fuel replacement strategy. Gas producing plants on a trailer. The fuel was coke breeze or charcoal and the resulting producer gas fuelled the engine.

[Tripps]

This seems to be a forgotten corner. I'd never heard of it, and hailing from Chadderton, assumed it was a typo.
Anyway - today is the 200th anniversary of this disgraceful episode. I read somewhere that it was a Yorkshire Regiment that fired upon the rioters.
Covered by the BBC. Chatterton Riots
Scroll down that link - ITMA

Several citations from the works of Chris Aspin. (The First industrial Society: Lancashire 1750–1850, Carnegie Publishing, ISBN 9781859360163) The power loom riots 1826

Here's more information from EP Thompson's book. EP Thompson

I realise I have it somewhere in the depths of the collection. Inherited 'upwards' (that's an interesting concept) from my young lad's History degree course.

[Stanley]

Loved ITMA David.... Though I am not quite sure what the connection is between Daniel, me and Chadderton....
The 1826 machine breaking outbreaks happened in the older established textile communities, their roots were in the earlier Luddite movement and in turn were themselves a precursor of Chartism. It is no accident that in 1832 Parliament passed The Great Reform Act addressing the perceived complaints about corrupt legal and political practices.

[Stanley]

Workers marching n protest in1932. Some of us would argue that politics was much healthier in those days.....

[Stanley]

Muriel Smith weaving at Bendem's in Wellhouse Mill in 1982. Muriel wove at Bancroft for many years and went to Bendem, the last weaving in Barlick, when she was woven out. Like many others, weaving was in her blood!

[Stanley]

Earby. Old Lane around 1900?

[Tripps]

Prompted by Panbiker's reviving his fishing gear- I remembered the paperback book, and newspaper column from childhood

Mr Crabtree goes fishing

I found it fascinating - but still have no interest at all in catching something that you immediately put back into the water.

Now mackerel fishing, in the summer, at Chesil Bank after work is a different matter entirely.