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  • Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
  • ...as they're having an event there like they did last August ! I took a few prezzies for Jim Shipley - who wrote 'The Making Of The Railway Children' book . On the way home I called at Wycoller again - a strange little hamlet with a ruined hall dating from 1600 there...

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  • @philtube717
    @philtube717 2 года назад +3

    are you riding the lights this year mate great video

    • @StevesHornet900
      @StevesHornet900  2 года назад

      ....I'm not sure what's happening beyond October 1st when the huge rise in gas and electric bills comes into force - there's an online campaign to just cancel your direct debit and stuff them ....?!

    • @calderdale6795
      @calderdale6795 2 года назад

      Yes , I hope Steve does a Blackpool lights run through . It’s become an annual event we all look forward to.

  • @StevesHornet900
    @StevesHornet900  2 года назад +1

    ....at 1:07:35 ....the narrow lane into Wycoller . There wasn't a Blue Plaque where Jenny Agutter sat , on the ancient packhorse bridge...

  • @victoriahaworth2651
    @victoriahaworth2651 Год назад

    The picture at the end is that how it looked at the bottom of Queen street ? What year would it have been please?

    • @StevesHornet900
      @StevesHornet900  Год назад

      ...probably about 1910 I think....the huge Britannia mill was demolished and a dance hall went up in the roaring 20's.....but then it was converted into a swimming baths in the 1950's !

    • @victoriahaworth2651
      @victoriahaworth2651 Год назад

      @@StevesHornet900 thank you I worked in the Library and I didn’t know that . Great picture

    • @StevesHornet900
      @StevesHornet900  Год назад

      @@victoriahaworth2651 ....the library actually has....or had , a collection of old local postcards and for a fee they enlarge them into photographs - so I had 4 or so done and then framed them . One is of the Towngate , when there was an old pub from the early 1700's called The Queens ....or the Queens Head , which was later demolished and then the skating rink / billiards hall was built in it's place in 1911 !

    • @victoriahaworth2651
      @victoriahaworth2651 Год назад

      @@StevesHornet900 yes I was always too busy to look through them . Unless as you say they were requested . I was involved when the co op knocked the old library down and built the one that’s there now . It’s fascinating .

    • @StevesHornet900
      @StevesHornet900  Год назад

      @@victoriahaworth2651 ...do you know about 'Great Harwood Past And Present' on Facebook - he has hundreds of fascinating old photographs....but he adds a 'watermark' to every one of them !

  • @StevesHornet900
    @StevesHornet900  2 года назад

    ....at 1:18:30 ....what's this little room for ?

  • @bobtaylor5263
    @bobtaylor5263 2 года назад +1

    that was a kind gesture taking that guy those prezzies did you find out if he received them yet Steve

    • @StevesHornet900
      @StevesHornet900  2 года назад +1

      ...it's Jim Shipley - who's replied below , he volunteers at the KWVR to keep everything running smoothly and chatting to visitors .

    • @StevesHornet900
      @StevesHornet900  2 года назад

      ...oh dear - he seems to have deleted his comments ....?

  • @randompete2204
    @randompete2204 2 года назад +2

    1:27:00 BMW Albert turns right at a turn left only junction.

    • @StevesHornet900
      @StevesHornet900  2 года назад +1

      ...yes, I suppose it was ok as the road wasn't busy - but RUclips is full of collisions of vehicles in the wrong lane then swerving , so it'd be safer to just go round the roundabout instead of risking it.

  • @banditnev
    @banditnev 2 года назад

    Steve I reckon I have seen this one 1⃣ before!

    • @StevesHornet900
      @StevesHornet900  2 года назад +1

      ...my address was visible on the envelope ! When Derek showed his address on his video , his bike got nicked the day after !

    • @banditnev
      @banditnev 2 года назад

      @@StevesHornet900 Wow fair enough.