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chinatown
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Just some of things I remember - trying to recall even more of.
Annual Barlick Gala, not that long gone but used to be the best anywhere around, I remember processing in it a few times with the Band, then there used to be three of four bands in the parade so we could get a break whilst another played
We used to stand as a family at the bottom of Gisburn street on Gisburn Road.
Roll Royce Gala, again another annual event with the cars and engines on display, loads of rides for the kids, and a rocket train powered by a motorcyle engine, as a first year apprentice at Rolls we had to maintain the engine for the next year, the favoured few got to drive it on the day as well.
Rolls Royce kids Christmas parties
Rolls Royce swimming club going to Colne baths on tuesday night, a guy called Ben(?) taking and looking after us all - and then annually a trip to Blackpool Pleasure Beach
St Josephs Cubs and Scouts prior to them being amalgamated into 1st West Craven
Bonfire night on Victory park - a huge bonfire next to Park Rovers ground, and then fireworks on the Park Rovers, I remember seemingly hundreds of people walking across the park to get to it.
Wednesday afternoons (?) (and occasionally Saturday Mornings) watching the steam coming out of the test beds at Rolls Royce and the scream of the engines being tested.
The steam Engine coming into barlick with the grammer school kids getting a choice of going to school at Skipton on the train or bus - 3 buses to Skipton and 1 bus to Colne to Fishermore
10:0-clock Saturday morning the fire station siren going off, my dad being a fireman also had a bell at home to raise the alarm, my mum standing on a buffet with a cushion to quiten it so not to wake up the baby!
The queues going into harry towns office on railway street to pay for the coal - something to do with harry town so I believe!
Saturday afternoon, barlick as dead as a church mouse.
Wakes weeks, barlick dead as a church mouse.
Watching wrestling matches in the Palace
Saturday afternoon maternies at the Majestic
Getting clouted when I got home because I had done something - strange bad news seemed to travel even faster then without technology.
Watching the Panto's at the old Ship
Practising with Barlick Band in a club behind the houses on Church Street, (now demolished and a car park is there)
The world being circled around Gisburn Street, St Josephs school and Church, Father Monigham. Father Moriaty, Mr and Mrs Worthington at School
(Was there life outside Barlick)
Being told all Colners lived toer brush!
Going to secondary school at Colne and being told all barlickers lived toer brush!
More I think the more that comes back - maybe I should think about writing more of it down!
Chinatown
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Sandy46
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Posted - 23/05/2011 : 16:39
So many changes! (good job we've got our memories, eh?) I remember getting my first proper school satchel from Foden's and feeling really grown up. ( I must have been all of 11 yrs!) Guess I'm due another trip on Google earth to take a closer look at Barlick town centre.
Cheers, Sandy.
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Stanley
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Posted - 25/05/2011 : 06:24
Ian, I remember buying a famous make fishing bag in Fodens for a tenner, he apologised for the price, saw the same bag on 7th Avenue in NY a month later priced at $140. Those were the days! I still have it, badly battered and chewed by dogs but still a useful bag!
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Buzz Lightyear
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Posted - 25/05/2011 : 07:13
I bought a Mamod Traction Engine from Donald, still have it !
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Posted - 25/05/2011 : 08:30
Nice chap was Donald, bought my first two piece solid fibre glass fishing rod from him and have been hooked ever since. He always had time for conversation on your chosen sport. I never ceased to be amazed at how much stuff he managed to get into that shop and window area. Not much room to swing a cat at the customer side of the counter but he always seemed to have what you wanted or it was no trouble to get it.
For me, Donald Fodens, Paragon Library and Pilkingtons were all you needed as a lad in the 50's and 60's. You could get everything you could possibly desire for any passion, sport or pastime from one of the three.
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Posted - 25/05/2011 : 12:29
Panny agree with your list of suppliers for lads in the '60's. I would add Seven Stars tap room. Nolic
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Buzz Lightyear
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Posted - 25/05/2011 : 13:33
And Slaters for Hornby Dublo Three Rail !!
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panbiker
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Posted - 25/05/2011 : 15:27
quote:
Another wrote:
I would add Seven Stars tap room. Nolic
Agreed, used to win the gallon of ale regularly for best score on the pinball machine which at the time still took tanners.
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Callunna
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Posted - 25/05/2011 : 15:30
quote:
panbiker wrote:
For me, Donald Fodens, Paragon Library and Pilkingtons were all you needed as a lad in the 50's and 60's.... and as a lass! I loved those shops too - magical memories.
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Posted - 25/05/2011 : 15:46
The glue you could buy to stick the Airforce kits together with and the dope to shrink the tissue on your gliders wings were potent to say the least. I think they are all banned now in case we damage the kids!
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chinatown
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Posted - 25/05/2011 : 15:56
The Salvation Army headquarters above the block where 'Jims' hairdressers was, and a greengrocers as well. I remember during the summer they had 'holiday clubs' and one year took a whole bus load of us to Southport onto the beach opposite the pleasure beach, the rallying point was the flag they planted in the beach.
Looking now up skipton road they are now calling the area a 'village green', when before at the junction there were wopping bill boards and a huge coal yard covering the whole area up to railway street.
parts of me keeps remembering how it used to be which gives me a longing to go back - but somehow it wouldnt be the same. This is brought home when I see where some of the other posters are posting from and where there families are now.
Another pub closed (the commercial - oh sorry the barlick) the seven stars is a funeral place, the ivory hall is now just history, and that is just the start there are a lot of 'watering holes' now gone, and with them the characters that made them
Chinatown
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Sandy46
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Posted - 25/05/2011 : 16:12
Anyone remember 'Barmy Mick's' in the '60's? I think he started off with a stall in one of the streets behind Church St. he then moved into the old 'Palace' cinema building. He sold all manner of things, some 'tat', granted, but you could get a bargain if you looked carefully. I bought some jumbo sized spikey hair rollers from there when I was about 15, and oh, the torture when wearing them!!
Sandy.
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Posted - 25/05/2011 : 16:23
Chinatown, just read your post. The Commercial (Barlick) and Seven Stars gone??? I also noticed on Google Earth that the Railway was up for sale! This is such a crying shame! If I remember correctly, in my teens, Barlick had only 7 pubs anyway! (not counting clubs etc.) Poor old Barlick, it's becoming a virtual desert! How very, very sad.
Sandy
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Posted - 25/05/2011 : 18:15
Barmy Mick had a stall on Nelson's "Open Market " for years......
(wonder what his real name was , and whether he was as well off as rumoured !)
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Posted - 25/05/2011 : 22:14
My brother and I worked for Barmy Mick at the Palace when he turned it into a supermarket, I believe his real name was Mick Turner, and he died not so many years ago at Blackpool.
Gus
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Posted - 25/05/2011 : 23:36
Thanks Gus !
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