Sunflowers

in Bamfurlong

Link

Sunflowers and a big pile of sh*t

A composting site, with a wind sock ?

I grew up around there, and they only grew barley in those fields, but those sunflowers look nice, and as Brexit kicks in, and we are released from the C.A.P. of the EU (Common Agricultural Policy) farming will change considerably in this country, with different crops being grown

So it's a poo processing site

No not poo, just the muck from our green waste bins.

Oh I see, well it must stink because of the use of a wind sock

it sure does Tommy

Yes there is a stink, but its no worse than the Eddie Stobbarts lorry that had just brought a new load through the streets of Ashton.

not too crash hot when the washing smells of it
spectacular flowers tho'

They are suppose to stop work when the wind is blowing towards folks washing

In the 1960s just across the field from that compost heap, going towards Platt Wazz, behind the bungalows there was a tip, and it was quite a big tip too, and Abram Urban District Council (A.U.D.C) bin wagons, would be going down the pad all day long to dump their rubbish on that tip

TTS,
Where exactly is this. Use the Bamfurlong Hotel, the Bryn Hall and Jolly Jacks to guide me or the Mission ( just remembered that)

tek it from me Mick,they don't

Broady

Go on to Google Maps or Google Earth or whatever you use to look at the Earth, and look at the school in the middle of Bamfurlong, 'Abram and Bryn Gates County Primary Skool' as it was called in the 1960s when I went there, and straight opposite it at the side of the Zebra Crossing, there is a path which runs off at a diagonal in between the bungalows, and that is the Pad, and it is a fublic pootpath, and directly behind the bungalows you can see a pentagon shaped area of rough land, and that is where the tip was, and just look how close it was to those bungalows.

The Pad used to run past the tip on its left side and then across to a pond, where it met the path which came down from the top of Bamfurlong, and along a street which was demolished before my time which was called Cross Street, and it ran parallel to the railway line.

Rather strangely the Pad has now been ploughed into the field, along where it ran across in between two fields to the pond, which I can't understand, because to the left of the entrance to the pad there are four bungalows, but during the 1960s there were only three bungalows, and that fourth bungalow was built in the late 1970s early 80s and the owner of that bungalow blocked off the Pad, because he owns the land upon which the Pad runs, and the locals kicked up a fuss about it, and it went up to the main mon in the Government who decides things about public rights of way, and that officer ruled in favour of the locals, and ordered the bungalow owner to reopen the Pad, because it is a public right of way.

The pond was called the Razzor, and folk used to fish it ...

Thanks. Would that be near Jack Jones’s bungalow. Will check out Google shortly.

Broady

Jack Jones ?

The only Jones I knew, was a Jones who lived in the very end bungalow next to the Mission Church, and he was the Jones of 'Speakman & Jones' the builders, who built those bungalows in 1960

A few years ago In the Higher Ince on Ince Bar, on one of the walls at the traffic lights, a very faded painted on sign was uncovered, when some work was being done to a building, and the sign read "Speakman & Jones Builders" as though they had their yard in Higher Ince

The very guy. A lovely man.

I only very vaguely remember him, I knew his son, and spent some time in his house, and he must have had a few bob, because he had a colour telly, before the end of the 1960s and the first TV program I ever watched in colour I watched in his bungalow, and it was an episode of The Dustbinmen, and that would have been in 1970 although I had already seen colour tellys in TV shop windows

This is not Bamfurlong, it's Bryn, Ashton in Makerfield. Always has been, always will be.
It belongs to a friend of mine.

What is it that belongs to your friend?

More or less everything that's there.

Except, of course, the police station!

So from Jolly’s down towards Bryn. Is that Crippens or similar?

Jolly what? It's the old Gerard estate. It's called Bryn Park. It starts at Wigan Road and finishes at Bolton Road. The track through it is Landgate Lane, and Bryn Gates Lane. I think the section that was owned by Crippens is now owned by Stuart Lillis, his dad might have bought it off the coal authority. The farmland is Stuart Baldwins, as is the flowers, and the smell !

We used to call it Crippens Lane from Bamfurlong to the cottages, however old maps say it is Bryn Gates Lane up to around Bryn Hall and towards the railway line and bridge, after that it is Landgate Lane, but now it is Bryn Gates Lane from Bamfurlong, and then past where the Jolly Jacks was and then all the way to the Dovedale Road junction at Landgate, Langate Lane is now just the very short road from that junction to the main road, which is Wigan Road

The old folk, and some not so old, still call Wigan Road "Park Lane", as it used to be named, after Bryn Park.
As Bryn Park was a 'gated' estate, Land Gate was at one end, and Bryn Gates was at the other end.

As of Landgate Lane, the only 'adopted' part is from Dovedale Road to Wigan Road. The rest of it is still Landgate Lane, only it's privately owned and maintained.

Tonker, Jolly Jacks (Bryn Gates D.S.A.S.) was where they built the police station. Is Stuart Lillis Bert’s son?

Yes,I know where Jolly Jacks used to be,but I don't know Stuart's dad's name. I believe he had lorries and machines etc. Golborne maybe?

The Sunflowers video is still up and running