Farmland ruins

[Gator]

The bridge bottom left was the old Road before they built the reservoir

They must of took this pic on a Sunday, they've got their best bid and tucker on. Same bridge.

 

[llamedos]

Another view of Raghole, bottom left, @roscoe erf the houses across the Res' are where you stopped waiting for Ian.

 

[llamedos]

The bridge bottom left was the old Road before they built the reservoir
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They must of took this pic on a Sunday, they've got their best bid and tucker on. Same bridge.
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More recent view.

 

[llamedos]

Couple for @Lincs Lass

I was born in the house on the left that butts up to the field, as were my Dad, and his Dad, my G Grand dad moved there in 1870s

The top 2 pics are the same pub you see in the bottom picture, with the writing on the roof.

 

[foxbox]

Could go on for hours, got tons of stuff, but you'd soon get fed up

Maybe, I'll stick with it until then as there's nothing of that age undeveloped around our way so it's very interesting to see. My wife is from near Ripponden and I've spent a lot of time driving round up your way, unfortunately we didn't get out of the car to appreciate the scenery often enough though..

 

[Landyman]

Maybe, I'll stick with it until then as there's nothing of that age undeveloped around our way so it's very interesting to see. My wife is from near Ripponden and I've spent a lot of time driving round up your way, unfortunately we didn't get out of the car to appreciate the scenery often enough though..

Which part of ripponden ? Triangle , sowerby

 

[Gator]

One of the three local pubs in our village about half a mile from me the only one still left. The Bulls Head. Bloke in the middle couldn't stop a pig in a ginal, bad with rickets.

Water Works Inn, nearer still, house now, don't remember it as a pub. Locals with their trail dogs. Remember the gas lamp and the little lean to where the toilets. The other pub was at the back of our house in a row of houses. Was called the Blazing Rag, all gone now.

 

[GTB]

@GTB have you got any of nantymoch ?

I'll see what I can dig up on the internet. This area also has dozens of ruins, mainly farms but also a lot of disused lead mines.

 

[foxbox]

Which part of ripponden ? Triangle , sowerby

Barkisland actually, family originally from Oldham and ended up further up the M62. They're not farmers though which has advantages and disadvantages too!

 

[Gator]

Our local school, Carole was one of the last kids to go there

And her she is..............................Tin hat needed

 

[llamedos]

Oi plonker, that aint me!

 

[Landyman]

Barkisland actually, family originally from Oldham and ended up further up the M62. They're not farmers though which has advantages and disadvantages too!

Know it i lived in sowerby for a while across the valley

 

[Gator]

Oi plonker, that aint me!

Someones been feeding me bum information then

 

[Landyman]

Someones been feeding me bum information then

Carole is the pretty one (brownie points for me ) that one is alison

 

[Gator]

Oi plonker, that aint me!

Put mi tin hat away then

 

[Kidds]

Cellar in my house looks like them. House brick and better nick mind.

 

[Gator]

Carole is the pretty one (brownie points for me ) that one is alison

, Aye and she still looks like that

 

[Landyman]

Cellar in my house looks like them. House brick and better nick mind.

If i remember i will get some pics of ians cellers ( need to clear some evidence out first ) they are exactly the same

 

[roscoe erf]

Another view of Raghole, bottom left, @roscoe erf the houses across the Res' are where you stopped waiting for Ian.
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looks a lot different now

 

[Gator]

Gator Towers when it was a Fulling Mill. 1830, set up by James Leach. All gone but for the house on the left.

For those of you that dont know what Fulling is.

Fulling involves two processes, scouring and milling (thickening). Originally, fulling was carried out by pounding the woollen cloth with the fuller's feet, or hands, or a club. In Scottish Gaelic tradition, this process was accompanied by waulking songs, which women sang to set the pace. From the medieval period, however, fulling was often carried out in a water mill.

These processes are followed by stretching the cloth on great frames known as tenters, to which it is attached bytenterhooks. It is from this process that the phrase being on tenterhooks is derived, as meaning to be held in suspense. The area where the tenters were erected was known as a tenterground.

Scouring
In Roman times, fulling was conducted by slaves working the cloth while ankle deep in tubs of human urine. Urine was so important to the fulling business that it was taxed. Stale urine, known as wash, was a source of ammonium salts and assisted in cleansing and whitening the cloth.

By the medieval period, fuller's earth had been introduced for use in the process. This is a soft clay-like material occurring naturally as an impure hydrous aluminium silicate. It was used in conjunction with wash. More recently, soap has been used.

Thickening
The second function of fulling was to thicken cloth by matting the fibres together to give it strength and increase waterproofing (felting). This was vital in the case of woollens, made from carding wool, but not for worsted materials made from combing wool. After this stage, water was used to rinse out the foul-smelling liquor used during cleansing.

Felting of wool occurs upon hammering or other mechanical agitation because the microscopic barbs on the surface of wool fibres hook together, somewhat like Velcro.