RaymondS57 Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 Hello everyone, I'm a newbie on here but I worked on The Leeds & Liverpool canal many moons ago when the good old BWB had it. I worked mainly at Barrowford Locks, but also on the Burnley section. I loved working on the canal and enjoyed watching the narrow boats progressing up and down the 7 locks at Barrowford. All the boat people were always very happy folk. I have had an interest in the roses and castles paintings on the many canal boats that use the canals for a long time - I think these colourful paintings are gorgeous. There is, perhaps, a little bit of the canals and boating in my ancestors' history. My cousin was a lock-keeper. He is now a well-known canal artist. So with all that in mind, I will be commenting when I see something that takes my interest, and most certainly it will! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchcrawler Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traveller Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 Welcome aboard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul's Nulife4-2 Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 Hi ya,& Welcome to the Fourm. Catch you on the boards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurie Booth Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 My Grandfather had a factory in Burnley on the Leeds & Liverpool canal and got done for stealing water from it to run his boilers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaymondS57 Posted June 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 Thankyou everyone you're all very kind, and thanks Laurie.Booth. I seem to recognise that factory from somewhere in Burnley, looked like a big operation, with lots of big pipes, chimney and machinery. What was the name of the factory/company? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightwatch Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 My Grandfather had a factory in Burnley on the Leeds & Liverpool canal and got done for stealing water from it to run his boilers. Laurie, is that you in the photos, or your granddad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurie Booth Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 Laurie, is that you in the photos, or your granddad? That is my father in the pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurie Booth Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 (edited) The company was called Ernshaw Bros. and Booth, trading as Nu-Lyne furniture. It employed 200 people and kept them all employed during the 1930's depression. Most were housed in Albert Street and had free medical insurance paid for by my grandfather. He paid the local doctor a shilling a week per employee. During the 1930's people used to line up at the factory gates asking for work. Edited June 27, 2014 by Laurie.Booth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurie Booth Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 Thankyou everyone you're all very kind, and thanks Laurie.Booth. I seem to recognise that factory from somewhere in Burnley, looked like a big operation, with lots of big pipes, chimney and machinery. What was the name of the factory/company? The big pipes are extractors to takes the wood shavings away from the machines to feed the boilers. At one time the boilers were used to generate electricity to feed the factory, but my grandfather was stopped from doing this as at the time only the government was allowed to make electricity. Now a days he would get an OBE for what he was doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bizzard Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 The big pipes are extractors to takes the wood shavings away from the machines to feed the boilers. At one time the boilers were used to generate electricity to feed the factory, but my grandfather was stopped from doing this as at the time only the government was allowed to make electricity. Now a days he would get an OBE for what he was doing. Or a piece OBECHE . And your dads highly polished shoes too. Great stuff Laurie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaymondS57 Posted June 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2014 Thankyou Laurie, great b/w photos, too. I remember that name Earnshaw brothers and Booth in Burnley. There were so many mills and factories in and around the town in the 50s and 6os, many located beside the L&L canal. Sadly, the demise of the cotton trade and other articles made in Lancashire (or Britain) for that matter, has all but gone now and many manufactores left ruined and derelict, or they have disappeared completly. Luckily the canal survives, though it is looking rather shabby nowadays. I understand there are only 5 men between Burnley and Barnoldswick sections to do maintenence jobs and, there are many jobs need doing, but that's another story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0atman Posted June 29, 2014 Report Share Posted June 29, 2014 I bet there are more than 5 admin people in the CRT offices supervising the few . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaymondS57 Posted June 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2014 Yes, indeed there may well be b0atman. Five men to do a whole canal section is just not enough, no wonder the locks are starting to rot away, but give these chaps from this new waterways charity a pat on the back because they're doing their best in very hard times (Hard Times was that a book by Charles Dickens?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Ambrose Posted June 30, 2014 Report Share Posted June 30, 2014 Yes, indeed there may well be b0atman. Five men to do a whole canal section is just not enough, no wonder the locks are starting to rot away, but give these chaps from this new waterways charity a pat on the back because they're doing their best in very hard times (Hard Times was that a book by Charles Dickens?).I've read Hard Times but don't recall any mention of canals.Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan de Enfield Posted June 30, 2014 Report Share Posted June 30, 2014 I've read Hard Times but don't recall any mention of canals. Phil But there is a potential link in "Oliver" where he asks for 'can I have more please Sir ?' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaymondS57 Posted June 30, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2014 Hahaha, have started something now have I not. No mention of canals in Hard Times by Dickens and 'not really' any mention in Oliver Twist. There is a waterway/canal in one of his books as I recall 'Our Mutual Friend'. So many titles to choose from and such great stories. Any more come to mind: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurie Booth Posted July 4, 2014 Report Share Posted July 4, 2014 Hahaha, have started something now have I not. No mention of canals in Hard Times by Dickens and 'not really' any mention in Oliver Twist. There is a waterway/canal in one of his books as I recall 'Our Mutual Friend'. So many titles to choose from and such great stories. Any more come to mind: Tom Brown's Schooldays mentions canals. As a youngster he wanted to go on the barges but his mum told him that the children on the barges had been kidnapped and were being taken to London to be sold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightwatch Posted July 4, 2014 Report Share Posted July 4, 2014 Laurie. I did know it was your granddad in the photo. My attempt at humour. Hope you didn't take me seriously. If you did then perhaps I have misjudged your own humour. Martyn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurie Booth Posted July 4, 2014 Report Share Posted July 4, 2014 Laurie. I did know it was your granddad in the photo. My attempt at humour. Hope you didn't take me seriously. If you did then perhaps I have misjudged your own humour. Martyn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaymondS57 Posted July 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2014 Yes Laurie I remember that in the film and book Tom Brown's Schooldays. What excellent films we had back in the 60s and 70s. Nothing can really match them these days. I remember a canal in the 2nd film of 'The Railway Children' and the canal was mentioned in the book by E.Nesbit. The 1970 film of the same name missed out the canal scene. Best wishes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaymondS57 Posted March 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 Hello everyone. Sorry I have been away doing lots and lots of stuff but nothing to do with Canals. But anyway I'm still breathing and hoping to carry on from where I left off, as it were. Meanwhile, has anything happened !! Watching Tim and Pru on 'Great Canal Journeys' has jolted me back in time. Have one or two photos of Barrowford new lock gates to upload. I should also say that my mother passed away last June at the age of 93. And its 'Mother's Day' today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLWP Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 Meanwhile, has anything happened !! Not so as you would notice Looking forward to your photos though Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loafer Posted March 7, 2016 Report Share Posted March 7, 2016 Hello everyone. Sorry I have been away doing lots and lots of stuff but nothing to do with Canals. But anyway I'm still breathing and hoping to carry on from where I left off, as it were. Meanwhile, has anything happened !! Watching Tim and Pru on 'Great Canal Journeys' has jolted me back in time. Have one or two photos of Barrowford new lock gates to upload. I should also say that my mother passed away last June at the age of 93. And its 'Mother's Day' today. That is the way that it should be. It would have been a LOT worse for your mother, if you had gone first. My deepest condolences, nevertheless. May you get over your loss quickly. Nothing is gained by making it last a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Ambrose Posted March 7, 2016 Report Share Posted March 7, 2016 (edited) That is the way that it should be. It would have been a LOT worse for your mother, if you had gone first. My deepest condolences, nevertheless. May you get over your loss quickly. Nothing is gained by making it last a long time. Quite right Loafer, I used to deliver milk to an old gal of 103 years of age who said her biggest regret in life was outliving her children. Last I heard of her she moved into a home aged 106.Phil Edited March 7, 2016 by Phil Ambrose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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