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Post by davefnd on Sept 5, 2008 19:52:21 GMT
Anyone remember around this area of various huts and what seemed to be living quarters of a work force. Date about 1950.What were they there for anyone with ideas.
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Post by danewiss on Sept 7, 2008 11:25:22 GMT
I have spoken with a friend who lived in close proximity to The Stone in the early 50s. He said that the area around the Stone was used by local units for forces training at this period of time.He felt that munitions were kept in a hut close by in order to avoid a regular but huge transportation for the exercises. He can relate that whilst playing at Robin Hood Stone he found (in the undergrowth) a live hand grenade which he proudly carried home and placed on the kitchen table !!! He was 4 at the time , the innocence of youth !!  |
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Post by davefnd on Sept 8, 2008 21:14:19 GMT
Thank you for that Danewiss I spent many happy hours playing up around that area and often wondered what the derelict huts had been. I think that there must have been notices restricting the area but as you say the innocence of youth thought the area wonderful for playing out their fantasies. Kind Regards Davefnd ex Albion player.
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Post by danewiss on Sept 9, 2008 10:09:16 GMT
Dave, based on the content of the thread, and like yourself having visited the Stone and it's environments as a youngster (when no cars were available and WALKING everywhere was the sport of the day!!) I decided that renewal of those memories was now necessary. I found this web site www.bradford.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/44758018-A73C-4E60-8D6D-9C92676C0BF9/0/BlackpotsandRivockPlantat.pdfAfter printing off the results, I set forth, jumped in the car and drove to the suggested car park.( Note no oxygen mask nor crampons ) You'll note that from the walk, description on the aforementioned web-site, there is a Baden Powell stone early on route. regrettably the inscription has eroded considerably since the photograph and sleuthing becomes part of the "fun". Inverted commas because the ground is well rutted , boggy, saturated in sheep droppings with the many perpetrators in close proximity (looked much as I imagine parts of Australia) plus the leavings of a diarrhea suffering bull !! One of the largest bulls I've seen for a while, again patrolling his territory . (This isn't bull sh*t believe me [animal wise anyway]) I digress, but after about 300 yards (don't know the metric equivalent!! sorry) and cresting the brow of the hill there it was in all it's memory provoking glory (exactly as the photograph and as I previously remembered) BTW a derelict stone hut is still visible along the designated trail but (what did I expect??) the ground here and towards the Robin Hood Stone has to be picked over carefully and in places could be classified as potentially ankle breaking Memories are made of this !! Thanks for raising the topic. |
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Post by danewiss on Sept 15, 2008 15:23:26 GMT
David, were you at Eastwood Junior School late 1940s, your name is familiar and your face is (still) readily brought to mind.
My e-mail address is on the members profile, if you would like to contact me.
In the Keighley Schools heading on the web-site, photographs 1 & 2 on the 6th row down, are of "our" era at Eastwood
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