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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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Zeke
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Posted - 18/05/2011 : 15:22
No need to apologize my friend. We saw the "Tommy Steele Story" at the Majestic theater in Barlick. All of us snot nosed kids crammed up the entire front row seats for the early afternoon matinee. I think the price of admission was 6 pence at that time.
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I was convinced that Zeke was out with his dates for The Tommy Steele Story until I checked and found it correct. I'd have put it a couple of years later. Apologies Zeke.
In checking Tommy's bio on Wiki, it brought to mind the songs of that era played on the radio by Uncle Mac on a Saturday morning. Have a look at the link and I'll bet some of the songs and artists listed bring back memories. How did I ever forget such classics as "Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzellen Bogen by the Sea" by Max Bygraves, "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" by the Chipmunks and "The Whistling Gypsy Rover" by Elton Hayes. They don't write them like that any more ... thankfully!! Nolic
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barlickrog
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Posted - 18/05/2011 : 17:08
Zeke I may well have found you a lead in your search for the Rogan family. i have found an old Barnoldswick official town guide from i think 1994, in it it lists under Radio & Broadcasting a Mr L G Rogan of 19 Fenton Ave with a phone # of 812288 i doubt that is still the address or # but it gives you a start to track one of the family down, He was the go to guy for Rolls Royce Amateur Radio Club I remember Linden fron West Craven High and he is possibly in his late 50s i would think. So Zeke seek and you shall find, best of luck.
Sandy so sorry to hear about Keith 53 is no age at all but i will always remember him as a genuine nice guy along with Kevin.also. You have brought up some names from the past do you remember the Grave brothers Ray, Glen and Barry last time i saw Barry he had pub in Earby and Colin and Jean Sanderson. and do you recall a girl called Margaret Earnshaw she may well have gone to school with you
Barlick Rog
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Phil
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Posted - 18/05/2011 : 17:29
Glen still lives on Parker Street, Barrie was still down Earby but he has been out of the pub for some years and Ray is over in Canada near Toronto.
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Buzz Lightyear
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Posted - 18/05/2011 : 21:44
I think the broadcasting bloke off Fenton Avenue was Mr Logan, not Mr Rogan. His son Steven is still about , regular down at Barlick Town.
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Zeke
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Posted - 19/05/2011 : 16:40
Barlick Rog, thanks. The head of the Rogan family I knew in Barlick,1950s, was Donald Rogan and his wife Madge. They had 4 children: Kenneth, Gloria, Jean, Linden and Gary.
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Zeke I may well have found you a lead in your search for the Rogan family. i have found an old Barnoldswick official town guide from i think 1994, in it it lists under Radio & Broadcasting a Mr L G Rogan of 19 Fenton Ave with a phone # of 812288 i doubt that is still the address or # but it gives you a start to track one of the family down, He was the go to guy for Rolls Royce Amateur Radio Club I remember Linden fron West Craven High and he is possibly in his late 50s i would think. So Zeke seek and you shall find, best of luck.
Barlick Rog
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panbiker
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Posted - 19/05/2011 : 16:56
Ditto what Buz says, Les was a friend of mine and he is correct in saying was associated with the RR Amateur Radio Club, a mutual interest of mine, he was Secretary of the club and held the Callsign G4ILG. He was also heavily involved with the RR bowling club and a very good player himself along with his wife Doris. Les came to Barlick as an engineer during the war and was originally billited in the married quarters at the Welare Centre now RR Sports and Social Club complex discussed at length elsewhere on the site.
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Posted - 21/05/2011 : 18:30
Roger, Re- Colin ( Sambo) and Jean Sanderson, Colin lives over at Blackpool I believe, he shows his face now and again in Barlick. Sadly Jean died a lot of years ago, Heart attack I believe, she was such a lovely lass, with many friends in Barlick, her death was a real shock. The girl on the left of the photo is Jean Sanderson, next holding the baby is my sister in-law Sheila Redman, and my wife Mary.this photo is forty one years old ...
Gus
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Stanley
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Posted - 22/05/2011 : 06:06
AAHH, the days of big hair and short skirts! Isn't it great how a pic can instantly bring back a lost era.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Posted - 22/05/2011 : 06:47
Gus. You are the man with the pics can anybody escape your camera................I remember working with Colin and Jean's dad Tom at Armaboard , talk about a guy with a dry sense of humour, you had to have humour to work there what an awfull place.
You have a photo of the goods yard at the Barlick railway station how long is it since it was converted into tha green ???? must have been early mid seventies.
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Posted - 22/05/2011 : 12:43
Roger it has took quite a number of years for the "New Village Green " to be developed. The area has just been granted Village Green Status from L.C.C.but i think you are correct in the assumption that it was the early to mid seventies, that the area was developed into what it is to-day. The only real changes are the road through from Fern lea avenue, towards Skipton road, and the building of the Cravenside care home.
 
Gus
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Posted - 22/05/2011 : 16:47
Must admit when I saw the new development on Google Earth I was taken aback! I remember the old railway goods sidings and the view of the buffers from the 'co-op corner' where I used to catch the Skipton bus. There was quite a slope up to the buffers if I recall, it must have been quite a job to level it all. It is all a great improvement though, and I also like the new road linking Gisburn Rd and Fernlea Ave. The town square is very nice too, wasn't it the co-op buildings that used to occupy that spot? I'm sure I bought my hubby, (then boyfriend) some cufflinks from a gents' outfitters thereabouts. (he's still got them!)
Regards, Sandy
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Posted - 22/05/2011 : 19:33
The town square is indeed where the main Co-op building used to stand on Albert Road. The datestone for the building is amalgamated into the stonework at the back of the square. Queen Victorias fountain which was originally on Church Street at Top of Butts was relocated to Letcliffe Park as it suffered a few collisions in it's original location. When the square was created the fountain was relocated again from the park to it's present position at the front centre of the square, could do with a bit of recycled water though to set it off properly instead of just using it as a planter. Cenotaph from Letcliffe was relocated to it's present position at the station side of where the level crossing used to be.
That triggers another memory, the level crossing was always closed when my sister Jenny and myself were coming home from the Saturday afternoon pictures (for me) and Bop Club (for my big sister). We never minded waiting for the shunting as we always had six pennorth of chips (with scraps and loads of salt and vinegar) from the chippy on Albert Road. My dad worked in the building trade and worked until Saturday dinner, he called at Jack Bennets butchers for the weekend meat on his way home and then a good wash in the kitchen sink, out of his overalls and a bit of dinner and on to the coach for the match if Burnley were at home. We sometimes met him off the coach on the way home. My mums only interest in football was marking the pools ever hoping for eight draws! Football results were always on as we all arrived home.
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Posted - 23/05/2011 : 01:09
Thanks for the info Ian, haven't been back to Barlick since Mum died in 1978, so obviously a lot of changes have been made since then. I can remember a pet shop on Frank St., and the OAP centre further up where my Granny used to go. Also the Cricket Club was at the top on the opposite side, is it still there? My parents used to be members. When my Dad died suddenly in '74, Mum eventually moved from Parker St. to a smaller house on Clarence St. She kept the membership of the club going, so that when me and hubby came over from Skipton to visit, we could spend Saturday nights there with my brothers and their wives and friends of Mum and my late Dad. We had some great times there, having a few drinks, dancing and talking etc. I'm sure it helped us through the loss of Dad.
Sorry Ian, I've just realised how late it is, I feel as though I could go on for ever, I've so many memories. Don't want to come across as boring or to 'hog the limelight' etc., so I'll try to restrain myself to some extent. What I will say though is that finding this site has been the best thing that has happened to me in a long while and I thankyou all !!
Kind regards. Sandy.
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Posted - 23/05/2011 : 09:11
Posting stuff like this is what makes the site function Sandy so no need to aplogise. Unfortunately the Cricket Club on Frank Street is no longer with us. The club occupied the top floor of the GMB Rooms (originaly known locally as the Weavers Union) or the rooms just as "The Weavers" These rooms were where the local Labour Party used to have their meetings back when I was secretary in the 80's and 90's. I still have one of the folding utility chairs that used to be stacked around the walls and lined up for the monthly meetings which sometimes had 20 or 30 people attending on a regular basis. Anyway the building is now the Post Office. I often ponder when I am cueing that a great deal of my spare time was spent in that building during one period of my life. I can picture the layout as if it were yesterday, the tills are where the small back kitchen was and the offices that ran down the side as you enterd the building have been opened up to make one big space. I used to have my offset litho printer in the front office there and spent many a night till well after midnight printing leaflets for distribution during various election campaigns. The rooms all had the original furniture in from the 1930's. There was a huge board table in the room I had the printer in. It was very usefull for stacking my unboxed and "knocked up"paper on ready for the print run. I wionder what happened to it all when the GMB sold the building? I know we passed our printing assets on to another branch in the constituency.
The 1960's "Post Office Buildings" on Fernlea Avenue is now a bookmakers, the other shops that used to be in the block (Button Shop and Donal Fodens sports shop) have gone and been replaced by the Council Offices and TIC. The location of the old button shop is currently vacant.
Edited by - panbiker on 23/05/2011 09:12:03
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thomo
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Posted - 23/05/2011 : 10:56
The Tacklers Club over the weavers rooms, with a big mural of Rainhall Rocks Bridge painted on one wall.
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