Furness Vale Station - a 3D model.

 

It was never an uplifting experience waiting for a train at the village station. There was, however, a waiting room with a blazing coal fire, popping gas lamps and artistic travel posters to look at. Irene was there behind her little window, ready to sell you a return to Stockport or to report on how late the train would be. A porter might be sweeping the platform or tending the geraniums and fellow passengers sitting on the bench seats were all too ready for a gossip.

As with so many small stations, all this has been swept away and we are left with small glazed shelters which offer little respite from the weather and only a few small perches on which to rest.

In wishing to re-create the original station, I might have chosen to build a physical model. This would have been very time consuming and would have presented storage problems. Choosing a Google Sketchup model may be second best but it did allow me to  represent our local station as it appeared in the early 1960's.

The images below are from the digital model and are followed by a link to an animated walk through.

 

 

Below is a link to the YouTube video of the model:

http://youtu.be/-hbF5t0zMow

Mrs Cope's Shop

 

Mrs Cope stands outside of her shop which was attached to the Navigation Inn at Bugsworth, Derbyshire, 1935

Read the full story of her family's local businesses and of life in a Derbyshire village: https://furnesshistory.blogspot.com/p/the-cope-family-ventures-in-buxworth.html

Christmas day visitors to Yeardsley Lane

 

Furness Vale Station

The following drawings are from the collection of a local railway enthusiast, Peter Helps who kindly loaned us the originals. These represent the schedules for positioning display and poster boards on the station as designated by British Railways. The drawings are undated.

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Water For The Printworks

 Furness Vale Printworks once had several mill ponds fed by a mill lade from the River Goyt. These appear in a number of our archive photographs but as several have now been filled, it is not easy to identify them.

Peter Gorry, who is familiar with the locality has been comparing these pictures with historic maps and these are his findings.

 Your blogspot: Thursday, 3 January 2013 Furness Vale Printworks has some great photos. The 5th one has a caption:

"The mill lodges viewed from station road. These have long since been filled in and little sign remains of them."

 I’m certain this is actually the view from the back gardens of Lakeview cottages (old Furness Row, adjacent to the canal). Direction shown on 1898 map below. The house at the very left of the picture is 1 Bank View (current owners of the industrial park). You can see it clearly in picture 3 in the same set (woman on Bank view, and the middle millpond to her right. The very far millponds are no longer there (now Trident Foam) but the two closest ones are in the grounds of Lakeview House. Although the nearest pond has been substantially filled in the middle one is still complete and can be seen as you drive down Calico lane. Both 1 and 3 Bank View look directly along its length.