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Stanley
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This is a continuation of Steeplejack's Next Corner. Click on this link for the older topic:
Jacks Corner Part 3
Stanley Challenger Graham
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stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk
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swifty
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Posted - 24/07/2010 : 21:38
stanley speakin of accrington bricks, the lads at work have just picked and cleaned 90 pallets of em out of church built in 1904 obviously not noris but still accringtons ,,,,  good reclaimers ,,,,,
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Stanley
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Posted - 25/07/2010 : 05:26
The building you called the lodge held the time office, general office and boardroom. I saved the stained glass out of it and I think the Trust have just refurbished it.
Swifty, al lot of plastic faced bricks were made by other firms than Nori. Newhey Brick Works made a very good plastic faced brick after about 1900 and these were used to extend the boiler house at Ellenroad when it was reboilered after WW1. They also made chimney brick as well. Mons Mill chimney was Newhey chimney brick. I don't think Newhey ever got into making the more ornate terra-cotta mouldings though.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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colsack
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Posted - 25/07/2010 : 12:23
Hi all, found these old film clips about steeplejack training, worth a look.
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=1918
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=71135
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swifty
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Posted - 25/07/2010 : 13:51
yes youre correct there is some brownhill plastics mixed in as well
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Posted - 25/07/2010 : 14:36
Stanley,
Thats interesting, when I was putting new machnery in Ellenroad in the sixties, the mill workers didnt clock in. Their jobbers marked them present on their respective sets.
I suppose at some time either before then or after clocking in must have been introduced.
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Tizer
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Posted - 29/07/2010 : 10:34
While reading a forum on photography I saw a post with the photo shown below. It was there to accompany a discussion on photo technique and there was no mention where the harbour and buildings are located. The chimney looked interesting and the building below it is called "The Pumphouse". The forum is mainly American but there are some Brits on it but I've no idea where the poster lives. I tried googling The Pumphouse but didn't find anything suitable.
Edited by - Tizer on 29/07/2010 10:35:38
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Posted - 29/07/2010 : 12:53
It's Liverpool. Put the postcode L3 4AN into Google Maps and you can then Street View it...
Big Kev
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Stanley
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Posted - 29/07/2010 : 16:57
Tiz, lots of docks and some cities had hydraulic mains that were used to power cranes, lifts hoists etc. There was a big system at Grimsby as well but that also had an accumulator tower so small quantities of water under pressure were available at night.
Robert, when I said Time Office I meant the wages and accounting department. Sorry if I misled you.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Posted - 29/07/2010 : 19:04
Tizer,
I posted details of The Pumphouse Chimney etc, some time ago.
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Posted - 29/07/2010 : 19:28
A search of the site for Pumphouse Chimney only brings up this reference to it. Where did you post it?
Big Kev
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Posted - 29/07/2010 : 19:43
Alan, not sure but maybe three words, grandma sucking eggs ?, Wlm. Fairbairn's theory
http://books.google.ie/books?id=kZgAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA29&dq=boiler+accidents&hl=en&ei=i8RRTNr3CJOG4Qbq3rCdAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=boiler%20accidents&f=true
another fom Mr. Stephenson
http://books.google.ie/books?id=0O03AAAAMAAJ&dq=boiler%20accidents&pg=PA249#v=onepage&q=boiler%20accidents&f=true
Low presssure, no problems
http://books.google.ie/books?id=3RAFAAAAQAAJ&dq=boiler%20accidents&pg=PA373#v=onepage&q=boiler%20accidents&f=true
and you probably have read this ?
http://books.google.ie/books?id=ZCcAAAAAMAAJ&dq=boiler%20accidents&pg=PA72#v=onepage&q=boiler%20accidents&f=true
"You can only make as well as you can measure"
Joseph Whitworth
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Tizer
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Posted - 29/07/2010 : 20:16
Thanks everyone for identifying the Pump House - it's a bit embarrassing because I spent 7 years in Liverpool in the 1970s but my excuse was that in those days no-one was interested in an old pump house! Most of the people in the photography forum seem to be US or Canadians so I thought it was going to be over there. Glad to know it's `ours'.
Kev, Street View was a great idea - as well as pinpointing the pump house I was able to follow the tracks to my old haunts of the 1970s!
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Stanley
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Posted - 30/07/2010 : 06:32
Tiz, you might like this:
http://www.allertonoak.com/merseySights/CentralLiverpoolSD.html
There's a short piece on hydraulic mains and the Pump House. See Tower Bridge as well, that is hydraulic powered. Used to be steam engines but now electric pumps.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Tizer
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Posted - 30/07/2010 : 10:15
Alan, I eventually found your photo of the Pumphouse on this page - click here.
Stanley, that's a very interesting web site on Liverpool docks. Mrs Tiz and I met when we were both working at an edible oil refinery on the Dock Road in the early 1970s - very romantic! In those days I took the river and docks for granted, it was a good place to eat your lunchtime butties and watch the ships as long as you kept out of the way of the lorries and cranes!
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Stanley
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Posted - 30/07/2010 : 17:18
I spent far too much time in the 1960s on the Docks Road queuing to get onto the wharf to unload. It was the last days before containerisation killed the old docks and what a good job! It was nothing unusual to wait three days.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Steeplejacks Corner Part Four
