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peteaharrison
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I was born in 1945 and lived at 10 North Street, Barlick. Park Road then seemed to be populated almost exclusively by members of my family....at 46 Park Road my grandmother Eleanor (Nellie) Harrison lived with her sister Edna Bowker, and at different times, other sisters including most recently (till 1989) Grace Simpson. Grace previously lived further down Park Road with her husband Alf Simpson (at one time Chairman of Barlick UDC)....their son Jack and his wife Shirley also had a house in Park Road, and Alf's brother Billy Simpson (married to Bell another of my grandmother' sisters) had the Butcher's shop in Park Road.
I have fond memories of catching Sticklebacks and Bullheads in 'Cloggers Beck' and lackin' (playing) in an area between North Street and Forty Steps....I remember there used to be a big wooden shed next to the rough track going down to Forty Steps, and at one time it contained a huge fabricated shoe that I think was built for a stage production which included "The Old Woman who lived in a shoe". On some occasions we go up Esp Lane to 'The Springs' which was then farmed by my great uncle Maurice Dewhurst (formerly married to another of my grandmother's sisters Annie).
I recall my friends from North Street included the Warrington lads, the Bracewell sisters, Wright, Broughton and Peckover boys.
I have a vague memory that, as a family, my brother John and I with our father and mother Frank and Joyce Harrison used to call in on folk living in Gisburn Road. I feel that it could have been 203 Gisburn Road which is an address on funeral cards relating to Francis and Rose Harrison my great grandparents.....it seems that they perhaps ran a grocery shop or similar at that address. In the vagueness of early memories I also associate the name 'Auntie Liza' with the same area.....this lady is Elizabeth (nee Harrison - I'm unsure of her married name).....I would be most grateful for any information regarding this Gisburn Road reference.
In the early 1950s my family moved to the south coast and my grandmother used to post a copy of 'The Dalesman' each month. There was a cartoon character called Young Fred who'd get up to some mischievious antics.....it was captioned in dialect and after a couple of years I began to have a little difficulty in figuring out what it said....but in my defence I think it did get rather extreme at that time. It reminds me of an occasion when I returned 'up north' with my wife on holiday, staying with my uncle Jack in Cowling. The holiday was in late July/early August and on a day which happened to be the 12th of August (the 'Glorious 12th') we had lunch in a moorland Pub. Sitting in the inglenook was a chap with a girt stick and a Collie dog - Jack goes over to him......"Na then" says Jack "how't shooting going". Now Jack had a wonderful strong accent......but when this chap started to answer - at length and with an even more pronounced accent - Jack would from time to time nod and say 'Aye' or 'Na then'. Eventually Jack returned to our table and, looking somewhat embarrassed, he said "I couldn't understand a ruddy word he said".....
A bit early but.....Christmas Greetings.
Edited by - peteaharrison on 05 December 2005 16:49:53
Edited by - peteaharrison on 05 December 2005 16:53:20
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Stanley
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Posted - 04/01/2006 : 18:40
I can remember Father Christmas shouting at us and his pot gobblers flew out! We helped him to find them.
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Posted - 07/01/2006 : 08:07
Anyone remember an incident in 1947? the "bin man's" horse broke loose and ran through the streets with a broken shaft in his ribs? The "bin man" Heb Taylor ended up with a broken back and was paralyzed for life from the waist down?
HERB
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Stanley
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Posted - 07/01/2006 : 14:54
Before my time in the town Herb but a common accident with horses especially on a steep downhill with a heavy load. See Jack Platt in the LTP he talks about horses falling on Tubber Hill.
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Stanley
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Posted - 15/06/2006 : 09:23
HARRISON INDEX ENTRIES AS OF 28 May 2005
1741
Electoral roll for Barnoldswick. John Harrison noted as elector and freeholder but no address given.
1753 and 1756
John Harrison paid land tax of 7/- and 13/4 in these years. No address given.
1753
John Harrison pays land tax of 10/- for Hollins and in 1757 pays 13/4 but no address given.
1757
Thomas Harrison noted as paying land tax of 6/9. No address.
1822
Baines Directory notes George Harrison as being a cotton manufacturer at Broughton. [almost certainly in the old Broughton Corn Mill]
1822
Baines directory notes William Harrison as being a coal merchant in Barlick. Ditto for 1823.
1835
An electoral roll for Bracewell gives Swatcliff [sic] as the address for John Harrison.
1835 and 1837
John Harrison noted as farmer of New Laithe and elector of Barnoldswick for both these years. Ditto for Thomas Harrison, address given as Blackburn, Lancashire.
1837
Richard Harrison noted as elector of Barnoldswick, address given as Colne. Ditto for 1841, address given as Corn Close, Colne.
1837
Septimus Harrison noted as elector of Barnoldswick and address given as Isle of Wight.
1841 census
Harrison family at Gill Hall: William Edmondson, 70, Independent seems to be the head. Also listed are John Harrison, 55, ag. Labourer. Sarah(?) Harrison, wife, 50. James Harrison, 15, weaver. Elias Harrison, 14, weaver. Christopher Harrison, 13, weaver.
1851 census
Fanny Harrison, 31, HLW Wool. Sister Mary Harrison, 25, HLW wool. Both noted as resident at Hey. [Note: this was the district around Hey Farm and could be on Longfield Lane or the other small cottages clustered around what is now the Greyhound Hotel]
1851 census
John Harrison, Gill Hall, Coates. 67 years, Ag labourer. Sarah, wife, 67. James, son, 27 HLW, wool.
1851 census
Residing at Wapping; John Harrison, 45, warper. Mary A, wife, 42. William, son, 20, PLW cotton. Carolin, Daughter, 3 years.
1851 census
Edward Harrison, 52, Townhead, Barnoldswick. Power loom weaver. Jule{?} sister, 55, PLW. Mary, 45, sister, PLW.
1871 census
Ellen Harrison is noted as farming Bashfield at Salterforth, 55, 70 acres and employs 2 men.
1871 census
James Harrison noted as farmer of 50 acres at Prospect Farm, Barnoldswick, aged 42.
1871 census
Residing at Townhead; Jeremiah Harrison, 34, cattle drover. Sarah, wife, 34, HLW wool. Rocksannah[sic] daughter, 10, winder. Thomas, 8, son, winder. Richard, son, 5, winder.
1881 Census
Christopher Harrison described as butcher of Red Lion Street. Hartley Harrison also noted on Red Lion Street as weaver of cotton. Ditto; Evelena Harrison, cotton bobbin winder.
1887
Barrett’s Directory notes that Arthur Harrison is a farmer at Windlefield, Earby. Same directory; Benjamin Harrison resides at 5 Chapel Street, Earby. [same entry in 1896 Barrett]
1887
Barrett Directory notes John Harrison as farmer at View Cottage. (On Folly?)
1890
R. W. Harrison mentioned in various entries in the Calf Hall Shed Company Minute books as supplying goods, India rubber rings mentioned in some instances between 1890 and 1892. Could have been in another town as this was a specialised supplier.
1895
[Family informant] John or William? Harrison came to Barlick in 1895 as a coal merchant and was from a Long Preston family. He was at one time a gamekeeper on Pen y Gent at Dalehead. His son Willy Harrison was born in 1896 and worked for Herbert Hoggarth in Wellhouse Road as a welder in premises now owned by Gissing and Lonsdale. He was a prominent member of the fire brigade and I think he may have worked at Henry Brown, Sons and Pickles at one time. [see also 1822 entry for William, there may be a conflict]
1902
Barrett’s Directory notes Fred Harrison as being a joiner, builder and contractor of Park Road [tel. 182] Same directory notes William Leech Harrison as residing at Melbourne Mount.
1907 – 1962
John Harrison, member of BUDC 1907 – 1910 and 1922 – 1928. Died March 22 1962.
20/11/1907
Ernest Harrison appointed to fix two girders at Ouzledale Foundry by the Calf Hall Shed company if his price be satisfactory.
11/06/1912
Engine christening at Barnsey Shed. Ernest Harrison seconded the vote of thanks to the ladies who started the engine. He had shares and was a director of the shed company.
Undated entry
[‘A Way of Life Gone By’ page 15.] Ernest Harrison noted as a Barnoldswick builder who built Montrose Terrace, the long side of Leonard Street and some of the houses in Rosemount avenue.
1914.
Undated entry in A Way of Life Gone By but probably c.1914. Notes that John Harrison was farmer at Aynhams.
29/04/1914
Ernest Harrison of Barnoldswick asked by the Calf Hall Shed Company to repair the well at Dark Hill with flags and a grate.
Post 1914
[LTP 78/AC/01, page 13.] Ernie Roberts told how his mother was on Parish Relief after WW1. She drew 25/- a week but should have had 35/-. The relief officer, a man called Harrison, had been cheating her out of ten shillings a week. He was found out, convicted and sentenced to nine months in the second division.
Post 1914?
[LTP. 82/JM/01. Page 25.] John Metcalfe talks about New Coates Mill. He mentions Elisha Harrison of Earby as being in the partnership which ran the mill. [There may be a connection here with the Seal Manufacturing Company which was named after Seal Croft in Earby]
18/04/1917.
Ernest Harrison asked to repair the leakage at Ouzledale Dam and make a cement wall behind the puddle clay.
1923.
Richard Harrison, Sanitary Inspector to BUDC 3 Oct 1923 to Jan 31, 1938. Died February 8th 1942.
1930/1970
William Harrison senior was a coal merchant and farmer at Smearber Farm, Elslack. He got the contract for picking farm milk up and carrying bottled milk for West Marton Dairies and his sons Jack and Billy took over after his death and traded as Harrison Brothers. C.1960 Jack Harrison paid Billy out and went into partnership with Jack Widdup and Gordon Stuart and they bought Whitewell Dairies at Accrington which they later sold to Associated Dairies. Billy carried on with the haulage business. Lost the contract at West Marton due to reorganisation and ended up as a general haulage contractor with one wagon driven by SCG. [see SG Memoirs ‘West Marton Dairies’ and LTP transcript 82/HD/06. Harold Duxbury. Page 16.]
SCG/29 May 2005
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Posted - 15/06/2006 : 10:34
Wow...what wonderful stories. Please keep them coming. I for one will be re-reading them, and may well pick up bits that I missed, because I was in such a hurry to read them the first time. Wonderful!! 
All thru the fields and meadows gay .... Enjoy
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Posted - 15/06/2006 : 20:31
Wow that is digging up the past -I remember going dancing up the Majestic to ???Huson band from Cononley - all you could get for refreshments were tea,pop, sandwiches or cake. Most of the guys turned up at 10pm after a session in the pub ready for fighting - it was the rock & roll era - there was a train which took the people back to Skipton, and buses waited to take us home from the Majestic - can you imagine that today??
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Callunna
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Posted - 15/06/2006 : 22:46
Quote: Most of the guys turned up at 10pm after a session in the pub ready for fighting - it was the rock & roll eraFunny isn't it? Youths of yesteryear weren't so different from those of today, yet we often hear how terrible they are now. Perhaps memories fade and the bad times get forgotten. Maybe young 'uns hanging around the town centre will be complaining in 2046 about how badly behaved the youths are compared to when they were young! I once read (possibly here on OGFB) about a 19thC Barlick woman who was so drunk she had to be wheeled home in a barrow from Butts, and that this wasn't an unusual spectacle. |
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Posted - 16/06/2006 : 05:33
Memory is good Cally.... She lived in the little squatter's hut on Walmsgate and the story is in Ernie Robert's transcripts in the LTP.
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peteaharrison
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Posted - 31/03/2007 : 03:58
Just a quick 'Hi all'.....here's a photograph of the North Street/ Ivy Terrace kids taken in 1952(ish).....with the help of my brother John I can identify them all.....do you recognise yourself or anyone you know? (if the photo uploads properly it'll be a first for me!!)
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Edited by - peteaharrison on 31 March 2007 14:15:40
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Stanley
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Posted - 31/03/2007 : 06:20
Great pic Pete. Can you mail me a high res copy so I can put it in the BET please?
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Posted - 31/03/2007 : 16:23
Looking again, those were the days, the little girl on the right could go round with a pair of handcuffs without raising a single eyebrow.....
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mj.berry
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Posted - 31/03/2007 : 20:00
Wow Pete, what memories your photo brings back. Taken looking down North Street outside the Bracwell’s house, Dorothy in the cowgirl outfit at the back, myself (Margaret Aldersley) next to her and Sylvia (with the handcuffs) front right. The Bethesda Sunday School building (the tin hut) is in the background. Although some of the others look familiar the only one I can name is Michael Peckover in the middle and I think Neville Broughton is next to Dorothy at the back. It was a great area to grow up in and we had some great times charging around playing cowboys and Indians, motivated by the Saturday Matinees at the Majestic cinema
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peteaharrison
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Posted - 31/03/2007 : 20:58
Hi Magaret.....I recognised you - you lived just beyond the top of James Street? (my family moved South a year or so following the taking of the photo, so all my memories of Barlick are of that particular time) Do I recall picking and eating peas from your garden? (I think it was done legitimately!)....John and Peter (me with the hat) Harrison, standing in front of you, lived on the corner at 10 North Street. Yes, you spotted Dorothy and Sylvia Bracewell, Michael Peckover and Neville Broughton.
Good to hear from you Margaret...
Edited by - peteaharrison on 31 March 2007 20:58:44
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Stanley
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Posted - 01/04/2007 : 04:55
Who's the little lad in the pixie hood?
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mj.berry
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Posted - 01/04/2007 : 11:19
You are really testing my memory now! I can’t think who the lad in the Pixie hat is but is the small lad next to Sylvia, is that Barry Broughton? Our mothers all knew each other from before they were married, Pete, as your mother was always referred to as Joyce Green. All the mum’s in neighbourhood were very worried when you were in hospital all those months and I remember you moving down south but never knew where.
Has for the pea’s, Dad used to grow lots of veg. in the side garden but I don’t think any pea’s ever reached our dinner plates. There was also Mrs. Burrages gooseberries (next door to us), the apples and tomatoes at The Castle where yet another Broughton family lived and was there a plum tree at the bottom of Essie St?
We didn’t need a man made play area where we grew up as we had it all in our few streets. The waterfall at the bottom of forty steps, the woods with the beck and stickle backs. Back then, before Silent Night had all the tree’s felled (about 1954), it was complete with an island in the middle, a tree house den half way up the banking and a very boggy area before the beck disappeared under Clough Mill. We were told never to go near there, as the top was always slimy and there wasn’t any grid for safety before the culvert, but did that stop us. Then there was the scary building which was part of Ouzledale where the Ashby family lived, it had a deep pit and was very dark. Birds used to nest there and there were probably bats roosting, but we thought it must be haunted. Sadly that has now gone, the pit is filled in and the building in ruins.
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Late 40s early 50s - Nostalgic memories of Barlick
