The scene of the crime....I've just spotted the photo of the Old Police Station on the corner of North Street and Manchester Road, where the unfortunate Carrington lad (not sure which one of them it was) caught some 'hot lead' in his shoulder 50 odd years ago.....as mentioned in my post of the 5th December.    That's a heck of wide-angle lens you were using Ringo!

Pete 

You're very patient gentlemen......however, though I have successfully (with your assistance) submitted one or two photos which appear together with their URLs, when I attempt to use one of them in 'Edit Profile' by pasting it's URL in the appropriate box, the photo doesn't appear in my profile....probably not a bad thing! I have noticed that the box doesn't show the last few characters of the URL I have pasted.....could it be that it's too long for this function?

It could be that you have 'spaces' in the file name of the photo.

I was told of that possible problem, and yes there are spaces, but felt that as the file had loaded to your site okay, transferring to my profile would not be a problem....though perhaps there is a failure in that assumption.   I would mention that I have tried using other existing photos on the site to attach to my profile...as a test.   They didn't work either.  On every occasion that I've tried to attach a photo I have received the message telling me that the change has been made.  Before I give up I'll try renaming the file with no spaces and send it again, though I am not happy about cluttering up your servers with my stuff.

Pete     

In answer to a PM, Doc wrote:   I've sorted your profile picture for you, you were right, the total url is to long for the profile field - a known issue.   TTFN - Doc.

So it's sorted, thanks....my profile now shows me with a huge wide smile....

Pete

My mum and dad Joyce and Frank Harrison were in the Barnoldswick Choral Society in the 1930s (I think that's where they first met)

I believe that the photo of my dad is from a production of "The Maid of the Mountains".

I was recently doing a 'Google' to see if I could find any reference to the Choral Society, and came across Stan's interview with former bandsman Arthur Entwistle at Hey Farm in 1978, in which Arthur mentions that the Choral Society's productions were at the Palace Theatre.   I can recall my parents talking about a couple of other members....one was Jack Wilde (on the occasion of my parents marriage he was my father's Best-man), the other Jack Widdup (who became Regsitrar of births, deaths and marriages in Yeovil, Somerset - where I now live).

I can remember going to the 'New Ship".....Calf Hall Road?....in about 1951 to see a production of "The Student Prince" and at another time watching what was probably a pantomime, in which one of the characters - who was a large adult male dressed as a little toddler - shrieked very loudly (and of course innocently) "I want to sleep with Sissy"....which, as a kid, I thought was hilariously funny...how strange that one remembers a few words with little significance that were spoken so many years ago!

I wonder if there is any more information available regarding the Barlick Choral Society?

Pete

pete, your parents joyce and frank,they're not related to my grandparents joyce and fred harrison,are they?

lived at 71 rainhall road until about 1981

my grandfathers mother minnie lived at 20 clayton street most of her life

Michael....I don't think there is a family connection.  My paternal grandparents were both born in, and lived in, Bentham where my father Frank was also born.  I'm unsure as to precisely when they moved to Barlick....firstly in Park Avenue, and then Park Road.   Actually that has moved me to concentrate my mind and correct the earlier remark that my parents perhaps met as members of the Barlick Choral Society.....they would have been neighbours in Park Avenue where the Green family, my mum's folks, also lived.

Pete

I can't believe how little interest I see in this topic other than Pete getting his pictures in, is no one interested in the real history of Barlick? or is everyone too young or too old to remember?

On other topics I see reference to things like Savage"s green grocers.. does anyone remember near panic in town was when word spread that there were oranges from Israel or apples from Canada or bananas from where ever at Savages and all the women RAN to stand in line?  Does anyone remember where they were when Kennedy was assasinated?  who cares?  If you were in Barlick where were you when the war was over? to me thats more important!! Where were you if your old enough to remember or where were your parents?  Did you ever pick up coal from the train tracks across from the Coop?  or hunt rabbits on the golf course for your Sunday dinner?  Times were rough but you know we never complained, maybe because we did not even realize how tough they were and we had fun in many ways.  The young people today have no idea what rough is and so we have a whole batch of new problems.  If you touch a kid today you may be charged, when I went to school in Barlick, Skipton and Nelson we got slapped many times in many ways and we had respect for authority and others.   We tend to blame single mothers etc. for the cause of a lot of problems, but hey I really did not meet my father until he got out in 1947 from Burma  and I was 7 years old, and he had no interest in family, would rather go next door to the Legion and hang with the boys,  because the shrinks were not there to meet him as we see with Viet Nam vets etc.  Pete, Christian lets's talk more of the "real" history in the 40's & 50's, I left in 1950 to move to Nelson, then in 1953 to Montreal when my parents went to Rolls Royce there, I still have great memories of Barlick love to hear more.

Hi

If you went to Rainhall Road School, I am surprised that you didn't know that the Shoe was used  in the Barlick Gala by the school, I can't remember what year, so you may have left by then.  I remember being on the float, with Miss Riding dressed as the old woman.

Bossyboots....thanks for clarifying that.   As the Shoe seems to have been around for quite a while - Nolic remembers seeing it in the mid 1950s and I'd guess that I saw it in 52/53 - I bet that at some stage it was photographed.  

That isn't one of my very few recollections from Rainhall Road Schooldays....though I do remember Santa Claus coming to school - probably the Christmas of 1951 - and I remember thinking that his voice sounded rather familiar.       I later found out that he was actually a 'stand-in' Santa and was my uncle Keith Green. 

Pete