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.

[Stanley]

The lads fishing at Greenberfield in 1979...... They'll all be coming up to retirement now, I wonder if they are still fishing?

[Stanley]

Yellow Hall and Walter Parker's farm at Kelbrook. I have no date for this image.....

[Stanley]

Post card of Yellow Hall. Date uncertain.

[Big Kev]

Looks to be the same image as in the Francis Frith collection, if it is it's 1955.

[Stanley]

That was what I was thinking.....thanks Kev.



The steam tug Challenge at St Katherine's Wharf in London in 1976.

[Whyperion]

May Bank Holiday today. A fairly recent public holiday to the calendar. I note Labour Day on the 1st in Australia is fairly enforced by local authorties. Mum remembers for May Day getting New Shoes and New Dress every year (likewise her cousin). There was maypole dancing at school around a pole in the playing field - this indeed carried on until 1966 then seemed to fade out , maybe too complex to learn. I assume the local clubs and societies (and small fun fair) are at Townley Hall this bank holiday as that was one of the events I went to for a couple of years.
Down in London the 1st weekend/sunday in May at the Historic Commercial Vehicle Club run from London (Hyde Park) to Brighton , with over the years the London , Southern Counties and Sussex branches involved with marshalling and a mid break at Crawley. Over the years the start point changed and with the may monday coming we decided to use the then GLC controlled Battersea Park as start location expanding it to a three day event to show vehicles that couldnt fit in the space at Marine Drive calling it Wheels of Yesterday where I displayed my dads 1940s bicycle that I had rebuilt - there are a lot of nuts and bits on a cycle and it takes time with a full repaint saddle food panier fitting checking dynamo lights and so on. Sponsered over the years by Volvo and then Scania with boy scouts from the Esher squad selling programmes and being event runners. It was the largest non-music free entry event the park ever had ( why we didnt get vintage tribute music acts I dont know I have done similar low key events in High Wycome with them). After the disbandment of the GLC Wandsworth Council were not inclined to continue the support and the start and three (set up Friday effectively 4) day event with the start moving to Crystal Palace where I think it still occurs this weekend.

[Stanley]

Roberts made the new flywheel for Bishop House in Burnley, 1949. The last big job they ever did. Not apparent from this image of the wheel in the wheelpit at Nelson is the fact they had got the teeth on the Jack wheel wrong and Brown and Pickles had to rectify the problem as well as they could because making a new jack wheel would have bankrupted Roberts Brothers.

[Stanley]

Newton Pickles and Leslie Green with the casting for the second motion pinion for Bishop House Mill in 1949.

[Stanley]

The stub of Wellhouse Mill Chimney in 1978.

[Stanley]

Tanks in the Gallowgate Cattle Market in Glasgow ready to be used against strikers in 1919.