Update on the ruined cottage at Barley

[Barbara.H]

I wonder if the size/weight of it might suggest that it is not far from its original location.....

Maybe the witches magicked it there..  

Wonderful photos Maggie, thanks for posting them!

  Barbara

[Maggie.]

Well here you go then - whilst tracking down the pic of the maybe-font I found one of the farmhouse with a bit of glass possibly salvaged from Whalley Abbey after the henchmen of Henry had demolished it.  You'll have to look closely - bottom right hand window top of outer mullions.

[Janette]

One 'perhaps-maybe' font, with glove and someone's foot for scale (Jan put your glasses on )A similar one turned up a few years ago apparently and it now resides in the village church - not as a working font, more as an interesting artifact.

Thanks Maggie  

[Greensleeves]

There again, Maggie, that is a very handsome little building for a farmhouse.  Was the area particularly prosperous in the 16th/17th centuries?  People living at subsistence level generally just threw together hovels to live in, but that certainly isn't a hovel!

[tedscout]

Just bookmarking - thankyou for this fascinating journery

[Greensleeves]

Just noticed, it seems to have a date stone over its door - can't quite read it though.  15?2 is it?

[youngtug]

I would think a local museum would be very interested in that "maybe" font. And moving large objects is reasonably easy if you know what your doing,,and,, the reward is large enough.

[bishenbertie]

It's a pity that it cant be taken down and rebuilt elsewhere, a bit like they did with the buildings now at the Weald and Downland Museum in Sussex.

That would be a good idea.  Wish I lived nearer I would love to go there before its destroyed forever.

[bishenbertie]

Just noticed, it seems to have a date stone over its door - can't quite read it though.  15?2 is it?

I think it says 1532