Posted - 09/10/2009 : 16:56
Here's a boring picture for you:
It's the cast iron vaulting over the cross tunnel that koins the two railway tunnels now disused. The railway directors made an encaustic tiled fllor and held a banquet in 1871 to celebrate the completion of the second tunnel.
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk
I did a lot of Victorian dump research and dump digging in the early 1970s, commencing with local farm tips then the massive " Somme-like " municipal dumps such as Harrogate, Bury, Manchester etc.
In 1975 I became the Yorkshire Secretary of the British Bottle Collector's Club--strange that, as I am a proud Lancastrian!
I published my little book: COLLECTING QUACK CURES in February 1977, but sold the copyright to a south coast bottle club in 1978 who still own the copyright and won't allow re-printing.
I am currently collating information and photographs of early English pontilled medicine bottles, Victorian quack cure bottles and proprietory medicine bottles for a book the same format as our recently published books: FRED DIBNAH'S CHIMNEY DROPS and HISTORIC STEAM BOILER EXPLOSIONS--which we aim to publish in 2011.
Thanks for sending me Eddie Whiteside's wonderful " Chimney poem ". Eddie sends his thanks and best wishes too. It was most kind of you to have the poem published in the Tameside Recorder. As one keen scribbler to another, Keep writing Victor.
Thanks for the Todmorden pictures. My wife, Christine who has written a book about the pack horse bridges of Northern England: JAGGERMEN'S BRIDGES ON PACKHORSE TRAILS--is over the moon at seeing the picture of the bonny wee packhorse bridge in Beaumont Clough.
Christine's book will be published Spring 2010 by SLEDGEHAMMER ENGINEERING PRESS.
Posted - 12/10/2009 : 06:40
Bloody brilliant! Well done Tom, love the way that fear coincided with knocking the peg wood in. I shall be letting Daniel know about this! How big is the original file? Can I have a copy please?
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk
Posted - 12/10/2009 : 08:40
Stanley, when I play it, I am offered the chance to download it . Just hovering over the play arrow brings up a "download this video" panel. Don't think my sofware ia anything special. Ask a twelve year old to explain it! (or Pluggy) I always download what takes my fancy. It may not be on Youtube for ever.
Posted - 12/10/2009 : 17:02
Well done Tom, reading the ads. in the Sunday paper for Blackpool during October, "all drinks 99p", by eck tha can get langers for nowt.
Do any of our readers know anything about Sandford pottery, Dorset, scroll down abouut 1/2 way . just past the pic. of the electric motor removal, tale and pics of a chimney and its felling
Posted - 12/10/2009 : 22:31
Thanks everyone,stanley it was Daniels photobus that gave me the idea for this sort of thing,the clip is on facebook if you want to download it,i'll send you it as a file if you prefare Stanley.....Alan the photos are wonderful,they are nearly all Stanleys...
Steeplejacks Corner Part Four
