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Lee
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I have come across a large group of photographs from the 50s most set in Barnoldswick All local people I think.
Does anybody know anything about this club.
I shall try to post some on the picture board
L Beckwith
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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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Posted - 06/06/2010 : 17:08
Kate send me any scans you want posting.
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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Posted - 07/06/2010 : 06:19
Eddie, unknown location
Eddie & Pete Watson at Brough
Eddie Spencer Cadwell Park
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
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GAK
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Posted - 07/06/2010 : 11:07
Hi Seren
The group at the black bull shows Bob and Mrs Steele (from the newsagents on Rainhall road). Once He turned up to a rally without navigator, and your Mum stood in. During the event, he was running late, and your Mum told him he was going to have to get his clog down. We had a good laugh about that.
As you can see, I'm no longer in Barlick, but thanks to this site, I do not feel to be too far away.
GAK (Gordon Kippax)
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seren
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Posted - 07/06/2010 : 13:05
GAK,nice to hear from you,you live in N Z mums brother, Harry Widdup has been living there for the last 50 years,dont ask which island all i know is,he lives in Matamata.
seren
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ixion
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Posted - 08/06/2010 : 13:43
Hi Seren,
Thanks for the photos. The unknown location could be Cadwell Park. Gak has answered some of the people on the group photo, however some more are left to right :- not sure about the lady but could be the wife of the next man who was,I think, Harry Schofield who had the motorcycle business in Colne. Then of course Jim and Ken Ashley, Mrs Harold Watson, Horace Twist (Blakeys builders), Bob Steele and his wife. Can't help about the badge except to say that Harold Watson had a major input re. the design.
There was a Barlick MC in the 1930s The one we are remembering was formed in 1953 in a small back room in the Fosters Arms with about a dozen of us present. It was preceded by the BRM Association which had reigned for a few years under th leadership of Jack Myers the manager of Timothy White and Taylors on Church Street but folded on his move to the Redcar branch.
I will think up some names for my next posting. I always think of your Dad as a gentleman and a good friend to all the lads.
Ixion
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seren
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Posted - 08/06/2010 : 19:01
Hello ixion,It's nice to have a bit more info about "The Club"i've been looking at the leathers my Dad had on,they were Uncle Harry's and his flying boots as well,the crash hats are very dangerous by todays standards.
I have been going through more of Dads things and have most of his raceing programes from the 50s.Do you remember Joyce and little Freda?,they were from Colne,Freda now lives in France and keeps in touch with Dianne by email.
Thanks for the kind words about Dad.
seren
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GAK
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Posted - 09/06/2010 : 15:24
Hi Seren
I heartily concur with Ixions reading of your Father. Many happy memories. I gather that he is no longer with us.
GAK
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seren
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Posted - 09/06/2010 : 18:53
Hello GAK and Ixion if your reading this,Dad passed away in April 2002,he was 84,it's times like these when i could do with him here to "pick his brains"he would have been in his element on this web site getting in touch with lost friends,but computers weren't the in thing in his time.
GAK i'm still laughing about my Mother being a navigator,she always said the only thing she could do was navigate herself to the bar!i bet Bob Steele took a while to get over the experience.
seren
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Dora
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Posted - 10/06/2010 : 21:39
Hello ,
Re B.DM C, I have spoken to Joe Haines, ( who will be 80 in Sept )and Pete Watson ( 76 ) about the motor club, they have a lot of fond memorys of Barlick, and the club. Sad to say that they dont have computers , so pen & ink .
Dora
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gus
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Posted - 11/06/2010 : 23:44
Seren, I was interested to see that you are a second cousin of Ray Pickering, Ray is a very good friend of mine, and i shall mention you to him.
Gus
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Posted - 11/06/2010 : 23:49
P.S. Seren, if you turbo search *Ray Pickering* this should throw you up some recent photos of your second cousin....
Gus
http://www.flickr.com/photos/angusbrennan/
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ixion
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Posted - 01/10/2010 : 14:12
I'm afraid that my promised intention of bringing up a few names has taken rather longer than anticipated. However here goes with a couple (literaly) to start with.
Myra and Tony Midgley. Myra was Secretary to the club and once, when I required a reference in order to join another motor club, refered to me as " a sober and upright member of the B & D MC. Not strictly true! Stanley Graham may remember Tony as I think he used to drive for Marton Dairy.
If the spirit moves I may mention others or perhaps it's all too long ago.
Ixion
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seren
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Posted - 01/10/2010 : 23:01
Ixion do these names ring a bell?Malcolm Newbould,Jim Holmes,Horace Stead,Bob Foulds,Ken Hunt(colne),Brian (chips)Moon,Ron Thackery,Bob Lord,Ces Hardy,Ronnie Bowker,i dont know if they were all in the 'Club'but they were always around No 10.
I have another photo with Myra on, maybe Stanley will be good enough to put it on for me?still not sure how to do it.
Yes it was a long time ago,but the they are my childhood memories,and watching grown men put bangers in my mothers bucket in the back yard and blowing it to kingdom come dont go away!we laughed about that for years.
Seren
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Stanley
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Posted - 02/10/2010 : 06:39
I remember Myra and Tony well! I talked to Myra when she found she had terminal cancer and I asked her how she was tackling it. She said she'd gone onto the whisky and would stay on it as she wanted to die a good colour! Typical Myra, she was a sparky lass.
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
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thomo
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Posted - 02/10/2010 : 19:08
Seren, Jim Holmes used to work at Watsons Garage and lived on Harrison St, and I think it was Brian Moon who set up a car parts shop in Barlick, they were all grand blokes and form a part of my memory that will always be held dear.
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Barnoldswick and district motor club
