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Wed 31 Jan 2024
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Community Diagnostic Clinic |
Dr Sharma |
Dr Thind. |
Afternoon called at the new Alimentary Solutions Community
Diagnostic Clinic - Whittle Branch. They are private health but
will be working with the National Health Service to try and get
the endoscopy backlog down. They were officially opened this
morning by the Mayor. Met the directors, Dr Sharma & Dr Thind.
Also Sarah the Service manager.
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Tue 30 Jan 2024
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St John's School students at Chorley Old Road, Whittle-le-Woods. |
Pupils from St John's Primary School at Moss Bridge.
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Pupils from St John's Primary School at the Millstone Monument. |
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Sat 27 Jan 2024
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Horwich Heritage Centre. |
I attended the Horwich Heritage Centre for the opening of the
Winter Hill Air Crash Exhibition by the Mayor of Horwich Cllr
David Grant. The Winter Hill air disaster occurred on Thu 27
February 1958 & I remember it well even though I was only a
schoolboy at the time. A Silver City Airways Bristol 170
Freighter on a charter flight from the Isle of Man to Manchester
crashed during heavy snow into Winter Hill. Thirty-five people
died and seven were injured, the cause was determined to be
navigational errors. The exhibition shows many photos and
newspaper reports of the time. The centre also has many other
exhibits especially relating to the Horwich Loco Works. The
exhibition is on until the 15th Feb 2024.
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Fri 25 Jan 2024
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Bus ride to Preston. |
Lancashire County Council building. |
Art frieze on the Harris Museum
building. |
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Thu 25 Jan 2024
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Heating boiler service by George of GR Gas. |
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Wed 24 Jan 2024
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Saturday's elbow wound has scabbed over nicely.
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Tue 23 Jan 2024
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Windy and rainy drive to Grange-over-Sands to do a gig for the
Grange Forum. |
Grange Forum. |
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Mon 22 Jan 2024
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Chorley Photographic Society this
evening. |
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Sun 21 Jan 2024
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Cleaned up elbow wound from last night's bike crash.
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Sat 20 Jan 2024
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Quercia landfill is now a mountain. |
Site of Clayton Hall.
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Clayton Hall around 1900. |
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Fri 19 Jan 2024
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11am met Paul O’Gorman of BBC Radio Lancashire to do some more
interviews for “Hidden Lancashire”. We started at the Cow Well
steps, then the new Whittle Surgery then via Watkin Road to the
Lower Kem Mill printworks site. |
Paul on Cow Well steps. |
Paul at the Lower Kem Mill site. |
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A bit of overnight snow looked rather nice as I wandered through
Whittle-le-Woods on my morning walk |
Kem Mill Ln / Chapel Fold. |
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Whittle & Clayton-le-Woods War
Memorial. |
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Thu 18 Jan 2024
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Today I said goodbye to my great friend Jack Brennan (1932 -
2024). Family and many friends turned out on a cold clear
morning at Hillside Church, Brinscall to attend the funeral &
celebrate the life of Jack. I posted some notes in early January
stating that Jack, age 91, contracted a chest infection before
Christmas and wasn’t able to recover. He died peacefully in his
sleep on Tue 2nd Jan 2024. Our friendship started almost 60
years ago with our common love of cycling. Jack’s passions were
also with his family, football and his beloved Blackburn Rovers.
He was one of Britain's top racing cyclists during the 1950s but
he rarely spoke of his epic rides. During the 1960s Jack worked
hard promoting cycle races & getting funding to run them. At the
service were family tributes that gave me more information about
the great family man, husband, father and grandfather he was.
Thanks Jack for being a good friend to so many people. |
Hillside Church, Brinscall. |
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Jack's bike with race number 65 in the 1958 Milk Race Tour of
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Jack's coffin with his treasured Blackburn Rovers scarf. |
Jack Brennan age 91 (1932 - 2024) |
Racing up a serious climb during one of Jack's many races. |
Jack's club record with Blackburn
Eagles Cycling Club.
50 miles in 2hr 4min 40sec, 7th Sep
1955. |
Jack and friend on tour. |
Audrey & Jack on holiday. |
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Mon 15 Jan 2024
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Congratulations to Wikipedia. The amazing on-line encyclopaedia
of almost everything is 23 years old today. Formally opened on
Mon 15th January 2001 "Wikipedia Day" |
Wikipedia Day |
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Aerial view of the Clayton Hall
landfill site. |
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Fri 12 Jan 2024
Last year I watched a trailer for the new film ‘The Beekeeper’.
It stars Jason Statham so I knew it would be a litany of
violence but the plotline intrigued me. Jason is a traditional
beekeeper who is close friends with an old lady who lets him use
her land and outbuildings for his hives and bees. The lady is
the financial custodian of a children's charity and when a virus
warning window popped up on her computer she was instructed to
phone a helpline number. The next part of the story concerns the
real life scamming of old and vulnerable people. It now became
personal for me, as a close family member was scammed a few
years ago and I found the bank unhelpful and obstructive as I
tried to sort the problem.
The old lady is skilfully tricked
into logging on and giving them access to her computer to sort
the problem. Once in, the scammer gets access to her pension and
$ 2 million dollar charity fund. They are a networked scamming
organisation and extract all her funds. When she sees all the
accounts are empty she is so upset she shoots herself.
Jason
finds her body and the FBI arrives. Jason’s real identity is a
retired ‘Beekeeper’ who are off-grid special agents trained to
protect the hive ‘government’. What follows is mostly
predictable but an interesting comparison of Police & Jason’s
methods.
FBI agent: We have laws to deal with this kind
of thing.
The Beekeeper: And when the laws don't work you
have me. |
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Visit to bootshop in Whalley. |
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Altberg boot. |
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Thu 11 Jan 2024
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Morning visit to Clowes Methodist
Church and Orrell Gentlemens Club
to give presentaiton. |
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Clowes Methodist Chuch Pemberton and original
drawings dated 1911 hanging on wall. |
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Wed 10 Jan 2024
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Visit to Radcliffe PROBUS to give
presentaion. |
Morning walk by Summerseat on way to Radcliffe. |
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Peel Tower above Ramsbottom. |
Munchmallows for tea! |
Some 1954 nostalgia.
Munchmallows for tea!
On with the
kettle. Out with the cups. We've got Munchmallows for tea! Lush
milk chocolate, crispy biscuit, the squashiest mallow ever.
Gosh, how we love Munchmallows!
Good, wholesome Munchmallows.
Mother trusts their tip-top quality, knows they're crammed with
energy-giving sugar. So come on children, gobble them up! 2½d |
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Sat 06 Jan 2024
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Sunset while walking off the moor. |
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The clear afternoon and low sun was ideal for taking an aerial
photo of the line of old lead mine bell shafts on Anglezarke
Moor north of the Manor House. On the way down I was treated to
a very nice sunset. There are similar lead mines near
Drinkwaters farm ruin near Great Hill. |
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The waning crescent Moon setting over
Whittle-le-Woods this morning. |
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Fri 05 Jan 2024
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A morning trip on the bus to Bolton. |
Bolton Town Hall |
2008 statue of Fred
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Fred Dibnah (1938 - 2004) |
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Thu 04 Jan 2024
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As the lights will soon be taken down I thought it would be nice
to take an aerial snap of the Christmas Tree on Waterhouse
Green, Whittle-le-Woods, Chorley, Lancs |
Waterhouse Green. |
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Tue 02 Jan 2024
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A rainy walk to Jack's old garden to take some photos of his
stone carvings. |
Jack's garden. |
Amazing carving. |
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Memorial to Rose. |
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Mon 01 Jan 2024
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New Year's Day camp on Hurst Hill, Anglezarke. |
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Chorley skyline from Hurst Hill. |
Chorley skyline fireworks. |
Winter Hill masts. |
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New Year's Day camp. |
Old lead mines on the walk out. |
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