tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42926193003755479772024-03-21T10:04:21.071+00:00HAGS: History & Archaeology General StudiesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292619300375547977.post-77196344819035047732012-06-14T18:36:00.002+01:002012-07-17T19:56:43.430+01:00Ivegate in Colne<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ivegate is now a small lane leading along one side of St Bartholemew's churchyard. Nowadays it runs roughly north and becomes Argyle Street at some indeterminate point...the older maps show that it led towards the 'church well', downhill from the churchyard (lovely).<br /><br />Why's this of any importance? - it's in the name, Ive-gate. 'Gate' we're well used to in northern England, a good old Viking linguistic heirloom meaning a lane or street. But 'Ive'?<br /><br />So, go to Bing maps and search for Ivegate - you'll find that there are four. Colne, Foulridge (very nearby), Bradford and Leeds. It seems locally significant to this Lancashire - Yorkshire upland. One antiquarian writer was convinced of the reason for this:<br /><p:colorscheme colors="#ffffff,#000000,#808080,#000000,#bbe0e3,#333399,#009999,#99cc00"></p:colorscheme></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Ivegate was possibly called from a small chapel dedicated to the famous Saxon Saint Hiev, to whose immortal memory many such chapels or cells were erected in various places and parts of England bearing her august name”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">St Hieu or Hiev, a 7<span style="position: relative; top: -0.45em;">th</span> century abbess at Tadcaster….. or St Ive (as in St) Ives … or the 4<span style="position: relative; top: -0.45em;">th</span> century Irish ‘Ia’…or Greek slave ‘Ia’....all are contenders for the name Ive where it occurs across the UK.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It seems from this name that Colne was one of several locations where a pre-Norman English saint was venerated....and this supports a hypothesis that Colne had a focus for Christian religious practice before the building of the Norman church. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And probably some kind of village or settlement to go with it.</span></div>
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">February 2012 will see a <a href="http://www.lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/calendar/EventsNorthWest.php" target="_blank">month of LGBT events</a> and celebrations across the UK. Here in Lancashire the County <a href="http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/corporate/web/?siteid=4528&pageid=30539&e=e" target="_blank">Archives</a> have hit the ground running - booking in advance is essential to secure your place at workshops on 3rd February and 25th February. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you would like to book a place, or have any questions or queries, please contact Kathryn Rooke, on <span class="skype_pnh_print_container">01772 536795</span> or </span><a href="mailto:Kathryn.rooke@lancashire.gov.uk"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kathryn.rooke@lancashire.gov.uk</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span><br />
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'OUTING THE PAST: Identifying, Showcasing & Celebrating the Wealth of LGBT Evidence in every Archive'</strong>Archivists from Manchester, London and Preston will be sharing ideas of how to host a first celebration of LGBT History Month, where to find LGBT History, how to use it with school and volunteer groups and the collections at Hall-Carpenter Archives in London. (£3.00 per person)</span><br />
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'OUTING THE PAST 2!'</strong>A<strong> FREE</strong> event on Saturday 25 February for lectures, displays, 'Talking Heads' and more... <br />
From Polari to 'Impostresses', Lancaster Castle to Whittingham Hospital, our guest speakers Dr Colin Penny, Dr Paul Baker, Jeff Evans will be sharing their latest research with a day-long programme of talks. <br />
Once again, our 'Talking Heads' will also be sharing their own personal histories of life in Lancashire and there will be plenty to see from Lancashire's archives, not to mention plenty of refreshments courtesy of Lancashire County Council's LGBT Staff Network!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292619300375547977.post-17458243117745579712012-01-09T09:42:00.003+00:002012-01-09T09:55:04.264+00:00Snail water, the ultimate diet drink - read this and lose your appetite<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 18px;">I happened on this delightful concoction at the </span><b style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/corporate/web/?siteid=4528&pageid=30539" target="_blank">Lancashire Archives </a>. </b><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 18px;">in Preston. It is part of the collection made by </span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 18px;">Wilf Spencer</span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 18px;"><b> </b>who was Colne Librarian for decades at a time of accelerating change - the 1920s onwards. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 18px;">The recipe comes from what's described in the catalogue as book of <i>'</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><i>Cordial Waters, Simple Waters and Syrups'</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 18px;">. It doesn't have a date, but judging from the handwriting and spelling I'd say it was written down between 1800 and 1820-ish. Lancashire was a bit of a back-water even then, so the spelling and phraseology come from an earlier age. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 18px;">The snails are by no means the least of it. The recipe then calls for a quart of earthworms pounded to a mush, and</span><i style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 18px;"> <b>two handfuls of sheep or goose dung. </b></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">That's revolting. But two things spring immediately to my mind: firstly, many ancient remedies refer to the use of animal dung, even going back into ancient Egyptian times. Secondly, is this a manifestation of the ancient notion that if it's horrible it must drive out some other 'badness'?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 18px;">The broth is repeatedly fermented, boiled and distilled and a whole rack of herbs and spices are then added, and lastly - probably most importantly - it is recommended to be taken with sugar or lemon syrup ('syrup of sittern'). So like cough-sweets, the main flavour is going to be sweetness. Which will surely help to mask the snails, worms and dung. But in fairness, after all that boiling and distilling, hopefully any harmful bacteria have been killed off and sieved out. Hmm?</span><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal">Take a peck of garden snails wash them in a bowl of beer and put them in a Brass pan. Set them over a clear fire and Stir them as long as they make any noise then take 'em out and with a knife and a coarse cloth pick them and wipe away all the green froth from them very clean then in a stone mortar bruise shells and all take also a quart of earthworms slit 'em and scour them with salt and then wash and beat 'em in a stone Mortar then make your Pott very clean upon which you purpose to set your Still, take also 2 green handfuls of Angelico and 2 of saladine and lay them in the bottom and put upon them the snails and worms with sheeps dung and goose dung either of them 2 handfuls, then put in a quart of Rose Mary flowers also of Egrimony Barefoot & Red dock roots of the bark of Barbary of wood Sorrel of each of these 2 handfulls apiece, of Rue half an handful of fennygreek and Turmerick one Ounce, of saffron well dryed and powdered the weight of 6d then pour in 3 gallons of your Strongest Ale and cover your Pott and let it stand a day or 2 and one night at least close stopped in the place where you mean to put your fire under it in that morning before you put your fire under it put to them of good cloves beaten to powder one Ounce of harts horn 6 Ounces you must not stir it after you have put in the horn lest it go down to the bottom then still it up in an ordinary still but then it will not be so strong take water as long as there is any strength in it and mingle all together and stop it close and drink 4 spoonfulls of this water with Sugar in any great distemper of heat sweeten it with syrup of Sittern in stead of Sugar as in Feaver Small Pox or meazels it is good at the beginning of an Ague to take half an hour before the cold fitt comes. It is good for faintness and restoreth the spirits for Convulsions and for the Worms and the best thing that young Children can take for the wind is one Spoonfull all thereof being made sweet with Sugar when they be undrest in the afternoon for a bigger child two spoonful or more, and in all other cases it is best to take it going to bed for new born children keep of the middle sort neither of the Strongest nor of the Smallest of all it will be stronger if it be Stilled in a Glass still close luted but for want of that the other will serve</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292619300375547977.post-65763766230805080572012-01-04T12:43:00.001+00:002012-01-04T12:45:05.735+00:00Historypin<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This is a great tool for making sense of money in the past - so if you look at how much £1 in current money was worth in terms of purchasing power in the year 1270, there's your answer....£532.72. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Or, that 2 shillings and six pence that William Brown gets from his visiting aunt.....well, put it into the online machine and it comes out with a whopping £17.21 - no wonder he was so keen on impressing them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Cash amounts crop up again and again in studies of literature and history, and other than saying blandly that you got much more for a penny, it gets hard to flesh out the detail. This online tool will help and will give a more detailed picture of purchasing power in past times.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">There's a bit of a limit in that the calculations only go up to 2005 - but it's better than a guess.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Crumbs, I just calculated what my first pay packet would be worth now. No wonder I was so pleased.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292619300375547977.post-69960418369053521482011-11-29T09:22:00.000+00:002011-11-29T09:22:18.107+00:00British Newspaper Archive online<div class="separator" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHKzNzSyU3uNu9lIw8LgJ_N59tHdwChZcoHEhyaCEXivnav7TlopnenGO-C7duogLoTIMy9rrGIj4CkuD2oIIpqBwUZ5trMqxq7NtsXLmQsUsKb6E6TcPrC8KWaBI3RtS69eB6AId1hJU/s1600/bna.jpg" /></div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today the <b><a href="http://www1.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/" target="_blank">British Newspaper Archive</a> </b>opens its contents online. Good news!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Search national and local news from the early 18th century onwards without having to leave the comfort of your own laptop.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not all the archive has been scanned yet, so newer editions aren't available at the moment.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two brickbats though: </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firstly, it's subscription-only at present. Now the subs are as cheap as £6-7 for a two-day session, but....y'know. Maybe in time a deal will be struck like that between the ancestry websites and the libraries in the UK, allowing free use from a library computer.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Secondly, not all newspapers are here present. looking at God's own country ie Lancashire, the noble leaves of the Northern Daily Telegraph are absent, along with any of the Preston titles and many others. Whether this is a question of time, or whether present owners have refused permissions, remains to be seen.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqC53PhSwQ7vAU8TOX3xf7sQ-9LqN6Iytq77eGLDUUs-qY8MIxi433uJIoznG0pTV2FjjjPRAiTTs48X8Xn9VaC7R6_UeRVjQvq4oByRR3mzLrJohUT4gmFvf155-QIJXKTV4CgbkVny8/s1600/oldmaps.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqC53PhSwQ7vAU8TOX3xf7sQ-9LqN6Iytq77eGLDUUs-qY8MIxi433uJIoznG0pTV2FjjjPRAiTTs48X8Xn9VaC7R6_UeRVjQvq4oByRR3mzLrJohUT4gmFvf155-QIJXKTV4CgbkVny8/s320/oldmaps.gif" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">On a national basis try <a href="http://www.old-maps.co.uk/index.html" target="_blank"><strong>Old Maps</strong></a> from the <strong>Ordnance Survey. </strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial;">You can browse for free or buy high-quality copies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">It is a bit slow to respond - a combination of their server creaking and your bandwidth running low - but worth persevering.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">From <a href="http://www.old-maps.co.uk/index.html" target="_blank"><strong>Old Maps</strong></a> you can browse through time from the first OS survey (varies in time from 1840s to late 1800s) through to the recent past, <em>including the Soviet surveillance maps prepared in case they ever invaded!</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Local councils have responded in many different ways to this issue, from ignoring it to providing online free searchable databases. <strong>Lancashire County Council's Mario Map Database</strong> is an excellent example of the last approach.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinZO1ps2h2MdT-GvcsNLZfzcRc4EsiawsS4bvc3SdCOv0CxvtjUOAeVLyt0Nsuz9xrb9MgOXUWfTaAbNMGuSWkV5l8jd5JcvwCpJEUPtbXvJn0f03rEzcm1Mhwsn-nSuKvTfDFi7617G8/s1600/mario.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinZO1ps2h2MdT-GvcsNLZfzcRc4EsiawsS4bvc3SdCOv0CxvtjUOAeVLyt0Nsuz9xrb9MgOXUWfTaAbNMGuSWkV5l8jd5JcvwCpJEUPtbXvJn0f03rEzcm1Mhwsn-nSuKvTfDFi7617G8/s320/mario.gif" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Lancashire County website is a pain to navigate - too big, too many issues, moan grumble groan. So if you simply enter 'Mario Maps Lancashire' into a Google search, or even better <a href="http://mario.lancashire.gov.uk/agsmario/" target="_blank"><strong>click here</strong></a>, you'll get there quicker.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Or if you're a stickler for doing it yourself go to <a href="http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.lancashire.gov.uk</a> and click through, see you in a few weeks.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Intriguingly, Lancashire County Council has a separate web section with other old maps, some as early as the 14th century - <a href="http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/oldmap/index.asp" target="_blank"><strong>click here</strong></a> to check it out.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292619300375547977.post-59594654701393586242011-11-27T16:54:00.000+00:002011-11-27T16:54:30.918+00:00Going to Blackpool 1945<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1tgSI4YRyT2C1V5PuQvKbf6bRku6w0VEHl24PoyC86PZcG50Eq9aBui5S5hSsIcmB0ndPm9Ft3kyeGoquzy2xbqCcQyF-d1l2HK1IakfULVV3FztumsiIGEf61I7iSZR-45CjVM8Kwtg/s1600/Scan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1tgSI4YRyT2C1V5PuQvKbf6bRku6w0VEHl24PoyC86PZcG50Eq9aBui5S5hSsIcmB0ndPm9Ft3kyeGoquzy2xbqCcQyF-d1l2HK1IakfULVV3FztumsiIGEf61I7iSZR-45CjVM8Kwtg/s640/Scan.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>July 1945: </strong>peace has broken out and what's better, the mills have closed for a week and now workers could enjoy a week's holiday <em><strong>with pay.</strong></em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">This is fun to imagine as a widespread public services strike is imminent this coming Wednesday. Which I support wholeheartedly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Of course these workers were far more excited at a holiday than they were over the General Election. Nationally, this saw Winston Churchill off. Locally, it heralded the rise to fame of Barbara Castle, the second best leader the Labour Party never had (the first was John Smith, of course - peace be on his name).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Things you notice: leisure clothes had not yet been invented. People are dressed 'in their best'. Nobody is fat - thanks to cars not being invented and six years of wartime rationing following closely on a global depression.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292619300375547977.post-16016638515656050092011-11-27T10:05:00.000+00:002011-11-27T10:07:11.340+00:00Timothy Winters 2011: apologies to Charles Causely<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In August 2011 riots broke out in towns and cities across England. They appear to have been inspired by greed and nihilism. At this time I found myself reflecting on the how society has changed in my own brief lifetime, and especially how values have changed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Now don't get me wrong, values always change with time - otherwise we'd still be burning witches and heretics. But in many of the families I have encountered in recent years, through the processes of teaching, one overriding factor is obvious:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>There's a lack of grown-ups giving the kids a positive model of how to live a good life.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It struck me that Charles Causely 's language and metaphors would be different if he wrote his poem <a href="http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=124" target="_blank">Timothy Winters</a> this year.</span><br />
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Hungry, tired and late as a rule<br />
Can’t read on his own and won’t do goes-into’s<br />
The good kids snigger at Timothy Winters<br />
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His face is pasty, his moods go bang<br />
And his hairstyle’s that of the Croxie gang<br />
Gran’s note says his blazer is worn right through<br />
But his trainers gleam white and band-box new<br />
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In class young Timothy won’t sit down<br />
It’s gone way past just acting the clown<br />
He’ll stay around for his free school meal<br />
Then legs it down the shops to steal<br />
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His statement says he has ADHD<br />
But his mum says ‘that school’s picking on me’<br />
She’s flogged his Ritalin down the lane<br />
And Timothy’s running on empty again<br />
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He went into care but Gran got him back<br />
His mum does tricks for coke and crack<br />
Gran smokes weed with her vodka and lime<br />
His mum’s new boyfriend’s doing time<br />
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His social worker shrugs and sighs<br />
She knows the family, knows their lies<br />
And she knows social work’s got a bad name<br />
And that litigation’s a growing game<br />
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In school assembly we won’t forget<br />
To praise each child for challenges met<br />
Timothy watches, his view is dim<br />
He knew from the off they all hated him<br />
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So five more years of going bad<br />
And Timothy Winters’ll be a dad<br />
He’ll learn his kids to duck and scam<br />
And the cycle repeats ad nauseam<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lancashirecc/6240490765/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From Lancashire Archives Photo stream on Flicker</span></a> :<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Alway acknowledge this source - </strong></span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of my favourites is the <strong>Lancashire Archives </strong>who do a sterling job holding back the combined forces of mould, cockroaches, mice and local government indifference.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Look at the tiny tip of the iceberg of their collections <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lancashirecc/collections/72157627147058150/" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">'Sea-food for slimness and health' comes from a collection of glass slides from Fleetwood, showing the fishing industry in the early decades of the 20th century.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292619300375547977.post-51642958263690617872011-11-26T11:08:00.000+00:002011-11-26T11:15:53.414+00:00Good morning - all the fun of the fair<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh30WWuLSsfeRFbof1Sgszio9UhCXSCZqdF9Ne9NhbpkxU1t0lcOzTtx9wfw-dAHS5A3qeTybE_W4S3bUl6RzhM2tjnigdfUmVOKTXeNBvWPNf5kVQuCOkfUI3cyqkD1LE2969CA0W8yrM/s1600/Blackburn_market.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh30WWuLSsfeRFbof1Sgszio9UhCXSCZqdF9Ne9NhbpkxU1t0lcOzTtx9wfw-dAHS5A3qeTybE_W4S3bUl6RzhM2tjnigdfUmVOKTXeNBvWPNf5kVQuCOkfUI3cyqkD1LE2969CA0W8yrM/s320/Blackburn_market.gif" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This might be a canter down Memory Lane for some. It's a view of the annual Blackburn Fair taken around 1961.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's an unusual view in that it's in colour. Most of the photos of the time are black and white, but this one was quite cutting edge for it's time - it's a 36mm Kodak colour slide. Remember them? I recall the tiny plastic 'viewers' you could use for looking at them - like a cross between a peep-show and a tiny television - the slide was pressed into a slot in the top.</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody>
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