This is were the fun begins Martin! The lamps which I played on were in Rishton, I could probably draw one, but I don't think I have a picture of one, I will...
1997
c k
kydds@...
Aug 1, 2001 8:22 am
Hi Ken, Did you live next door to Readetts. Top house before shelly Gardens? If I remember rightly Lucy & Jimmy Caine lived at one end of the row and I think...
1998
Ian Fairclough
ifinwig@...
Aug 1, 2001 5:57 pm
The lamps aren't very clear as I wasn't really bothered about them at the time but you can see a couple in the shot looking down Blackburn Rd in my pub page ...
1999
ken.hindle
ken.hindle@...
Aug 1, 2001 8:23 pm
Hi Everyone. To Pat & Sheila - No as far as I know I am not related to Morris Hindle. Or did he @ one time live in Princess St? Mr H.L. Baron owned the...
2000
JohnD
greatharwood@...
Aug 1, 2001 10:55 pm
Hi Kenneth Yes I missed the reunion - and the previous ones - my excuse for last year was 11 days in Sorrento. Was speaking with Brian Faud a month or so ago....
2001
JohnD
greatharwood@...
Aug 1, 2001 11:05 pm
Hi Pat, Not altogether sure which way you are approaching transferring your picture. If you are sending it as an attatchmentto an email, then you just click on...
2002
Noelene Eddleston
eddlest@...
Aug 2, 2001 6:08 am
We were in Great Harwood recently - have been researching the Eddleston Family Tree for some 10 years. Have traced David's family back to the mid 1600's. You...
2003
c k
kydds@...
Aug 2, 2001 9:06 am
This picture was scanned in from Louie Pollard's book @Great Harwood Gleanings' It isn't very clear but will give an idea of these lams, which were often to be...
2004
JohnD
greatharwood@...
Aug 2, 2001 9:15 am
Pretty sure Paul Wilkinson is the 3rd from the right on the picture....
2005
Pat and Sheila Welsh
bygum@...
Aug 2, 2001 11:02 am
Hi John. If you remember when the group was first started i wrote a explanation on how to post a photo in with your message after that neally every one did it...
2006
Pat and Sheila Welsh
bygum@...
Aug 2, 2001 11:54 am
Hi John. Have just been looking at the back files all most of all the photos have been move into the files except one , Go and take a look at file 42 there you...
2007
Ian Fairclough
ifinwig@...
Aug 2, 2001 12:13 pm
There were 21 mills at one time but it became 22 when Record Mill opened in 1919...
2008
JohnD
greatharwood@...
Aug 2, 2001 2:02 pm
Urgent Navigational Warning!!!!!!!!!!!! See below for reports that the depth of water outward bound from the Huncoat Coaling Station, has been reduced. Ships...
2009
Brian Shepherd
bshep@...
Aug 2, 2001 11:24 pm
Hi, I think the Boardmans lived in one of the large houses on Park Lane, upper end RH side, or it might have been off Brantfell Rd. I remember seeing one of...
2010
Donald Cunningham
cunny@...
Aug 3, 2001 3:19 am
Speaking of model airplanes, when I was in the ATC we had a spell of making model gliders and flew them somewhere up near the top rec. They were launched by...
2011
ccusouthend@...
Aug 3, 2001 8:09 am
How many mills remain standing, in 'Arrod? When we were kids, we used to clamber over the walls of Record Mill, mainly to get ball-bearings out of the...
2012
c k
kydds@...
Aug 3, 2001 12:15 pm
Maybe it was my Dad loosened the stones on the bridge when he fell off his bike and ended up in the canal! He still can't swim! He was cycling home on a dark...
2013
Ian Fairclough
ifinwig@...
Aug 3, 2001 3:57 pm
Albion Mill, Saw Mill, Palatine Mill, Waverledge Mill and Premier Mills 1, 2 and 3 are more or less complete. I haven't had a close look at Albert Mill yet but...
2014
Brian Shepherd
bshep@...
Aug 3, 2001 4:12 pm
I don't remember Record Mill operating as a mill since the 30's, I can't go earlier than that. I think Squires Farm should read Heywood Farm. Is Heywood Farm...
2015
Brian Shepherd
bshep@...
Aug 3, 2001 4:19 pm
Hi Donald, Not ramblings, just good recollections. I think you must have visited Tan House as Allsprings was occupied by displaced Polish people from during...
2016
Brian Shepherd
bshep@...
Aug 3, 2001 4:20 pm
Doesn't his collar needs a wash? BS...
2017
Ian Fairclough
ifinwig@...
Aug 3, 2001 4:58 pm
According to my books Record Mill, Empire Street, was the last textile mill built in Gt. Harwood. Construction was begun in 1914 by the Lower Darwen Investment...
2018
Brian Shepherd
bshep@...
Aug 3, 2001 8:30 pm
Correction. Heywood Farm should read Heymoor Farm. BS I don't remember Record Mill operating as a mill since the 30's, I can't go earlier than that. I think...
2019
JohnD
greatharwood@...
Aug 3, 2001 8:34 pm
Right you guys! Here is a game to pass the time this summer evening. Its called 'Being a German Bomber Navigator' The object is to attack the Record Mill. For...
2020
stl7018@...
Aug 4, 2001 1:58 am
Hi John, thanks for the link, cool site, seems there are only 2 gasometers still standing ? what is the "development at the corner of Park road and Balfour...
2021
ccusouthend@...
Aug 4, 2001 8:57 am
The farm I meant had its entrance lane right at the bottom of Harwood Lane, just before the last house on the left - all through my childhood, the farmer's...
2022
JohnD
greatharwood@...
Aug 4, 2001 9:58 am
For disbelieving members, I have checked with a normally impeccable source and the snippet of life in the 50's in the previous message i.e. shooting at cows...
2023
Brian Shepherd
bshep@...
Aug 4, 2001 3:15 pm
Sharples was our farmer too, he brought the milk round daily, married the lady from across Allsprings to us. A charming lady, Miss Taylor, a little different...
2024
Brian Shepherd
bshep@...
Aug 4, 2001 3:18 pm
Crows John, not cows! That is really stretching the story! BS...
2025
Diana Waddington
waddington.d@...
Aug 4, 2001 5:12 pm
Testing to see if the message comes through. Diane. Spain...
