Never seen you up here yet? I'm hoping Garindas description of you are correct though, I'd hate to mistaken you for just another common garden gnome. 
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Name the stream
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Doug said:I’ll pick up a few interested individuals on the way over, we can all have lunch on Tinks..
As a great man once said, "Antley Syke my A***" :engsmil:
Well Dougie dear where were you? I was going to let you buy our liquid lunch when you realised I was correct
Many thanks to Katex and her colleagues for allowing us to have a look at this display. It really is a fantastic display and when it goes back up in Ossy Mills I recommend anyone with even the slightest bit of interest in local history, to go along and take a look.
Heres the pics :
Bagpuss and Dougie you will now bow at the feet of me ... the knowledgable one!
Yeh you 2 ...Doug & Bagpuss 
i can definately say as i went with Tinks to see these maps & what Tinks says is legit, thanks Katex & her collegues for letting us take up their time to view them & for their hospitality
Ps like your sence of humour too we got such a welcome in reception pmsl!!!
i can definately say as i went with Tinks to see these maps & what Tinks says is legit, thanks Katex & her collegues for letting us take up their time to view them & for their hospitalityPs like your sence of humour too we got such a welcome in reception pmsl!!!
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She's wrote Antley Skye on that map with a biro this afternoon!!!!
Only joking, well done.
I remember looking at the same charts. They also had one which showed a prehistoric burial mound which is still visible on the horizon line of Ossy moors, if I remember correctly.
Only joking, well done.
I remember looking at the same charts. They also had one which showed a prehistoric burial mound which is still visible on the horizon line of Ossy moors, if I remember correctly.
Yeah,we saw that one Gary.They had some with some stone circles marked out to dating back to the 'Bronze Age'garinda said:She's wrote Antley Skye on that map with a biro this afternoon!!!!
Only joking, well done.
I remember looking at the same charts. They also had one which showed a prehistoric burial mound which is still visible on the horizon line of Ossy moors, if I remember correctly.
garinda said:She's wrote Antley Skye on that map with a biro this afternoon!!!!
Only joking, well done.
Can verify you would be joking, the excitement from these three when they found the name was mind boggling.
Loved every minute of this lunch hour in lovely company. Awakened my interest here, and will back back in the morning to give this display a good going over.
Thanks to Peter Hargreaves for getting them out for us and I loved the fact he loaned me the 130 year old key, with original Jacob's Lodge tag still attached for the sluice gates they put there to control the water flow.
garinda said:She's wrote Antley Skye on that map with a biro this afternoon!!!!
That did cross my mind the first time I saw it.
I have to say even though you have found the name I am still far from being convinced that Antley Syke ran from Jacobs Lodge all the way to Hyndburn Rd. I will study your maps and see if I agree but I guess it's up to me now to prove you wrong.
Bagpuss said:
Now that's not very nice is it!!
These are work done by the Ossy Civic Society and are covered in plastic. I couldn't alter them even if I had wanted to ..... which I didn't need to do cus I'm right, your wrong nah nah ner ner
Tinkerbelle said:Now that's not very nice is it!!
These are work done by the Ossy Civic Society and are covered in plastic. I couldn't alter them even if I had wanted to ..... which I didn't need to do cus I'm right, your wrong nah nah ner ner
And theres plenty of witnesses to verify that its in original entirity
Bagpuss said:
Oh ok lol! Well we'll all bow at Toms feet because he is the knowledgeable one
Right, I have this little theory.
You said Bagpuss that you think it's Springhil Clough, is the clough not just the wooded or areas with trees there and the Syke is the stream? I noticed a number of different Sykes and Cloughs on these maps today.
Does that make sense? What I'm trying to say is that we are actually both right ...... Springhill Clough is the wooded area that Antley Syke stream runs through.
You said Bagpuss that you think it's Springhil Clough, is the clough not just the wooded or areas with trees there and the Syke is the stream? I noticed a number of different Sykes and Cloughs on these maps today.
Does that make sense? What I'm trying to say is that we are actually both right ...... Springhill Clough is the wooded area that Antley Syke stream runs through.
I concede with good grace. (Not happy, you bloody fairy) I stand by the fact that I have peed in the thing on many, many occasions and never once called it or knew it by the name of Antley Syke.
Kate, darling, sweet angle of womanhood. Could you find out for me if there are any full scans or copies of the maps in question? I would love to be able to look over them at my leisure. Good work Kate.
Nice to see that some old place names, details, and farmsteads have survived the passage of time.
Kate, darling, sweet angle of womanhood. Could you find out for me if there are any full scans or copies of the maps in question? I would love to be able to look over them at my leisure. Good work Kate.
Nice to see that some old place names, details, and farmsteads have survived the passage of time.
That's very good of you but it's begining to look as though I am wrong. What we knew as Springhill Clough will always be that as it was a name we made up, I doubt you would find that on any map. I really did think that Antley Syke began somewhere near Ossy Mills and from there to Jacobs Lodge had a different name.
Doug said:
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They are really interesting Doug I could have spent all day looking at them but it was Katex's dinner hour which she kindly gave up for us.
Doug said:
Right, so is a Syke a Lancashire term for a stream do you think?