Spire farm development

JoanR said:
Horses played an important part in the life of the town at one time. We got milk from one of the farms up Sandy Lane and it was delivered by horse and small cart. The driver was a man called Jim. My mother took a jug out to the cart, and Jim used a ladle to fill it from one of the large round containers. There was a small step on the back of the cart and he let us ride along on it for a short distance. That was the closest I came to a horse.

I didn't know Bullough's rented the field where the college is now, and I don't remember the horses. There was a high stone wall around the field.
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JoanR mentioned getting milk delivered from a farmer called Jim. I think that was my father. We used to live at West Farm. The horse was called "Paddy". I have a photo of him delivering milk as you described - if anyone is interested.
 
Ataylo, we moved to Cobham Road in the summer of 1946, and it is from then that I remember Jim delivering our milk with his horse and cart for several years. Does that fit in with when your father was doing it? I don't remember him delivering it on Barnfield St. where we were previously, although he might have.
I would like to see the photo.
 
JoanR my father moved to West Farm in 1946. I was born in 1949. I think we moved to bottled milk and aquired a van in the mid 50's. So it should fit in with your time frame. The photo was taken around 1951/2 because I'm in it but very young. It also shows 2 other children on the cart getting a ride as you described and I think it was taken in the street that ran parallel to Abbey st between Sandy Lane and Plantation St. Might have been Chapel St.
 

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It's a lovely photo of the time, and thanks for posting it, Ataylo. The milk cart is as I remember, with the large wheels and the curved rail at the side. Your father always wore that flat cap as well. I remember the switch to bottled milk, but couldn't say when it started.
 
Some of his posts did seem wild and irrational - obvious signs of a man under stress.

As for being a 'business man', I suppose the more you have to lose, the greater you feel the loss.

I do not condone domestic violence (heaven forbid, I have had some !).

There are too many psychopaths in our society, and they are the ones who tend to acquire wealth by trampling others down on their way up.
 
Apparently loads of police activity at the spire today was due to the police finding a cannabis farm in the bungalow attached to the main building:eek::eek:
 
Yes they were so was mr foy i think, thats why the fuzz were in attendance. They must have discovered the weed yesterday and removed it today, plenty of them to.
 
Does anyone here know anything about the Lamonts who lived at Heights farm, Accrington? We have some photos of the farm from our family who lived at Broad Oak Fold and later Lower Withams farm.
 
ataylo said:
JoanR mentioned getting milk delivered from a farmer called Jim. I think that was my father. We used to live at West Farm. The horse was called "Paddy". I have a photo of him delivering milk as you described - if anyone is interested.
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I remember a Jim Kemp at West Farm, Iused to help him hay making in the school holidays, during the last war he had a Belgium refugee staying at the farm he was called Jack de Younger, smoked woodbines like a factory chimney, he was about the same age as me. My father who used to visit WW1 graves in Belgium on a regular basis last saw Jack in the 80's he was working as a butcher in a shop.
Jim Kemp was also a partner in Kemp & Murreys butchers on the corner of Wellybob St & Nuttall St.
 
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