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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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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
Barlick View
stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk
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DickTurnip
I stink of Marmite!!!!!!!!
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Posted - 29/10/2010 : 17:50
just a quick add-every single one of those chimneys has gone now...
The tower is 150ft tall.
Edited by - DickTurnip on 29/10/2010 5:51:53 PM
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swifty
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Posted - 29/10/2010 : 18:54
robin if its guinness and meat pies ,,,im in 
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AlanMc
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Posted - 29/10/2010 : 19:21
Bob,
What a lovely nostalgic picture for a chimney hugger like me. Keep on scouring the land for them cracking postcards.
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blokman
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Posted - 29/10/2010 : 20:18
All welcome but please don't heckle Alan........
Dave, might be able to rustle up a can or two guinness, bring your own pie...hahah...
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blokman
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Posted - 29/10/2010 : 20:24
As a feature for the front of the gallery, I am looking for a largish stone engine bed......anyone know of any cheap ones (Dave????)
The engine bed will have, and this is a question for Tom, the steel lifting device, just fits into a chiseled slot in top of the block, I seem to recall Tom posted a drawing of the device on here a while back??
But we will fix the lifting tool into the slot then have a shackle and a couple of lengths of chain projecting upwards with all the links welded together........thats the plan!!
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Bodger
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Posted - 29/10/2010 : 22:51
Blockman, i can tell thee of a engine base, it is at Gatehead pit near Victoria, Hepworth, there are large lumps of cut stone covered in black grease, and berfore they coverd the tip there was a great source of fossils. If anyone wants t o te find them plese ontact me
"You can only make as well as you can measure"
Joseph Whitworth
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blokman
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Posted - 29/10/2010 : 23:05
Cheers Bodge, to be honest am looking for them a bit closer to home but must admit the fact that they are covered in grease appeals, the local idiots would end up with a mucky arse!!
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Tizer
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Posted - 30/10/2010 : 11:37
Bodger, your mention of a source of fossils at the Hepworth pit got me looking on the Web. I didn't find anything much on the fossils but this link has some mining information about the area and on the third page there is a map superimposed on an aerial photo that might interest you.
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Bodger
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Posted - 30/10/2010 : 12:56
Tizer, that brought back memories, i used to live about 200yrdsfrom the top of the photograph, my father worked at the H I Co, as i did also, i started my apprenticeship there, ant the quarry & mines were my playground, a proper activity site for a young lad, i went down the Hazlehead collirey as a 9yr old in a tub, the workers thought i'd jump out but i did'nt, i don't know who was more scared when i reached the end of the tramway me or the miner collecting the empties
"You can only make as well as you can measure"
Joseph Whitworth
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swifty
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Posted - 30/10/2010 : 20:34
robin i have an odd one or two engine beds which arnt over big cheap as chips and i reckon they are called lewis pins for lifting i know g.gibsons at leeds sell em ,,give me a call and have a look at the stone overweekend if you want 07711992745,
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AlanMc
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Posted - 31/10/2010 : 00:08
Hello Bodge,
I used to visit Hepworths at Hazelhead to purchase ceramic ferrules used for protecting smoketube ends in the reversal chambers of gas-fired packaged boilers.
We also worked on the boilers at Wild Spur Mill, Jackson Bridge, aye and enjoyed a gallon ot two of the " Black velvet" in the local alehouse thereabouts.
Great days! 
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Bodger
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Posted - 31/10/2010 : 07:50
"You can only make as well as you can measure"
Joseph Whitworth
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Bodger
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Posted - 31/10/2010 : 08:00
AlanMac, not a Lancashire, but i thought you may like the Gothic appearance, it could be the cellar for Dantes Inferno
"You can only make as well as you can measure"
Joseph Whitworth
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AlanMc
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Posted - 31/10/2010 : 09:15
Wow! A Stirling Water-Tube Steam Boiler, and hand-fired by coal. Is it in the U.S.?
I recall there was at least one of these splendid, robustly constructed boilers at Yates & Duxbury's Paper Mill at Heap Bridge betwixt Heywood & Bury.
Coal would be delivered to the Boilerhouse by three 0-4-0 saddle tank steam locomotives; two Barclays and a Peckett that would collect the coal waggons at the B.R. sidings across Bury New Road.
Retubing these Stirlings as well as other types of Water-Tube boilers was an exacting science-involving threading in the specifically bent tubes, and then working in the tight confines of the Steam & Mud Drums expanding the tube ends.
All good stuff!
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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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Posted - 01/11/2010 : 06:50
Pic isn't showing on my system Bodge but if you click on the title you have a link to the original web page.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Steeplejacks Corner Part Four
