Hi, I'm new to this site but came across the query for Treacle Delph when searching for something else. I am originally from Golcar, having lived at Clay Well and Ley Moor Road. My Mother's side of the family have lived in the area as far back as I can trace. As some of my great aunts and uncles could only spoke in dialect I am well aware that the spelling and pronunciation of many places in Golcar are not what always what they might seem. Sadly an awful lot of the local place names have long since disappeared through changes in both political and Church boundaries. Whilst others have been subsumed through later developments using different names for the same area, the area by the Walker's Arms pub in, what is now known as Parkwood, used to be known as Ley Moor Gate. So, Treacle Delph or, as it was pronounced, Trayckle Delf. Where was it? To my recollection a chap called Oliver Haigh lived there and it was a cluster of houses across the road from Scape Goat Hill Baptist Chapel burial grounds on the south side of Taylor Lane, and to the east of the top of Th'owd Loyn (Old Lane). Whilst I believe Dunkirk was the smallholding further down Old Lane. Taylor Lane did not originally go much further down towards Pike Law than the Old Band Room - reference: "Map of the Inclosure Act of Golcar, 1823". So most foot traffic of the time cut down Th'owd Loyn to Swallow Lane, in fact, all the properties that can currently be seen on Taylor Lane on Google Earth to the east of the Band Room have been built within my lifetime. I realise that memories are fallible and that I may have got the location wrong, but I hope to clarify it with one of my relatives in the next month or so. I'll re-post when I find out.
Regards,
fringe