OK so now for the quiz ... drum roll
The answer was ...
The old mounting block outside 'Abbeystead' (the house) on Raikes Road.
In 1st place ... James
In 2nd place ... Mike
In 3rd place ... Brian
Just for fun ...
free tank game
A
Tuesday 28 April 2009
Stannah Hill Farm ...
James posted on last nights quiz about his relatives at Stanah Hill Farm being Championship Lancashire cheese makers. Now here's the thing .. if he hadn't of bothered to come on here and post, that information would be lost. So if anybody is reading this and has any information .. even if they think it is not much PLEASE get in touch. It may not appear on the site straight away but I have files of information and they do eventually come together like a big jigsaw puzzle.
OK so now for the quiz ... drum roll
The answer was ...
The old mounting block outside 'Abbeystead' (the house) on Raikes Road.
In 1st place ... James
In 2nd place ... Mike
In 3rd place ... Brian
Just for fun ...
free tank game
A
OK so now for the quiz ... drum roll
The answer was ...
The old mounting block outside 'Abbeystead' (the house) on Raikes Road.
In 1st place ... James
In 2nd place ... Mike
In 3rd place ... Brian
Just for fun ...
free tank game
A
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Purely by coincidence (because I wrote it ages ago) those steps feature in the blog I'll be posting tomorrow. It looks from your photograph as though the 'niche' underneath them (presumably where the milk bottles were kept) has been filled in since I was last there.
ReplyDeletemilk bottles what are they then, having said that there is still a milk float doing the rounds around here.
ReplyDeleteIt must be because they have a use that those lovely pieces of stone aren't upended with gates swinging from them!
ReplyDeleteHi Brian
ReplyDeleteI didn't realise it was quite so old until I got up close so I hope you have some info on the building and will look forward to it.
No bottles in those days it was a horse drawn milk float with a Churn and ladle your jug was filled direct from the churn. still being delivered like that well into the 1940s I remember Mrs Harts dairy on the corner of Poulton square and Queen square delivering milk with a hand cart in the late 1940s
ReplyDeleteNot round here I know but we used to spend all summer in the Lakes on a farm and we were delivering milk in churns even in the 1970's. As kids we used to sit in the back of the van with the doors open swinging our legs as it zoomed round for us to jump out with the churns.
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine how many health and saftey rules we were breaking .. makes me feel proud :-D
James is absolutely right. Back in the day milk churns had special ledges built onto the tops of walls for ease of loading and unloading into carts. There's a mock up of one in the Fylde Country Life Museum if memory serves.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately I didn't write much about the cottage itself. I don't know much about it, to be honest. Might do some investigation at some point. For the blog I just mentioned that the steps were originally used in the mounting of horses. (You know, I've just rewritten those last four words five different ways now and they still don't sound any better.)
No probs .. I didn't want to start asking questions and steal your thunder for tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteWith the building being cobble built if it is contemporary with the other ones in Thornton it would be 1675 - 1758 ish. All the buildings around it are of a much later date and it doesn't seem grand enough the have a mounting block of its own. It looks a bit like a stable block to a larger house. Anybody know of anything near there which would fit.
Think I need to do some digging on this one.
There isn't anything specific mentioned on any of the censuses with any entries round Rakes just relating to agriculture so it might just be an outbuilding of Rakes Farm.
ReplyDeleteThe Pilling Pig ( Preston /Knot end railway,the 5am train was known as the milk run) used to stop in the middle of nowere,to pick up milk churns from the farms along the track, farmers used to put them on wooden trestels and the guards van would pick up the full churns and leave the empty ones from the previous day I can remember it running.Re the mounting Block used it a few times myself when working on the farm during WW2 only place were I could get on the
ReplyDeleteShires back, they bred em big in those days
Ah .. now you see I was looking at the mounting block as a luxury feature whereas in fact it could be just a necessity. I never thought about all the Shire Horses around here.
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