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Stanley
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Steeplejacks corner part four
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Stanley Challenger Graham
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swifty
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Posted - 02/01/2011 : 17:58
fair girth of pole that bob ,,happy new year to everyone ,,,,
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Stanley
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Posted - 03/01/2011 : 08:03
Looks like a steel one to me. How's the cleat fastened on?
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bob hulin
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Posted - 03/01/2011 : 20:50
 Back o'th Bank . Power Station Bolton, 1976.
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Stanley
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Posted - 04/01/2011 : 06:02
Nice one Bob. Weren't there some ugly power stations built in towns before the days of the mega-stations and the Grid!
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Bodger
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Posted - 04/01/2011 : 10:02
Stanley, a link to Armstrong Whitworth diesel engine of intriguing design, did it ever go into use ?
http://books.google.ie/books?id=hAEAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA74&dq=%22Armstrong+Whitworth%22&hl=en&ei=OO0iTYvrLsaYhQfo3KG3Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CE8Q6AEwCDgK#v=onepage&q=%22Armstrong%20Whitworth%22&f=true
"You can only make as well as you can measure"
Joseph Whitworth
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IndustrialInspirations
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Posted - 04/01/2011 : 12:32
Hi Everyone,
Was told to post this here...
We have been researching about Yayes & Duxbury Mill for the past few weeks but have found no actual pictures of the mill with the rolling stock. We have found on pic of the mill but it's not good as it was taken some distance away. And a few pictures of Annie the engine and her history once she was rescued and restored. Can anyone help please?
Phil and Nise
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bob hulin
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Posted - 04/01/2011 : 21:44
phil. try Bury Local History Society, i know they have stuff on Yates and Duxbury mill Bury. i got some pictures of them.  of Elton Cop drying chimney.
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bob hulin
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Posted - 04/01/2011 : 21:59
Stanley, some " ugly jacks" climbed Back o'th Bank . power station, i can tell u. the chimneys were lovely things . Bob Brogden loved um he dide'nt like anyone going near them.
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Stanley
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Posted - 05/01/2011 : 07:26
Bodge, never come across it. As far as I know the only successful opposed piston diesels were used in heavy marine practice. The usual reason for new ideas like this failing was unorthodox design meeting inertia in an industry already set up for conventional production, and subsequent costs.
Bob, isn't it funny how jacks regard some stacks as their own personal territory. I can remember how pleased Peter Tatham was when I went to him for help on Ellenroad chimney. The first thing he said was that it had always been his grandfather's stack. (He was ugly as well!)
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 05/01/2011 : 07:40
I remember Bob Brogden saying that the chimney at Cartridge st rope works,Heywood, was he's chimney,I also remember the engineer replying "well take the bloody thing home with ya then",hehe..
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bob hulin
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Posted - 05/01/2011 : 09:02
hehe, great stories. we've lost some great characters real people "Gone but not Forgotten"
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Stanley
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Posted - 05/01/2011 : 09:47
I remember telling the curator of a Scottish museum one day about Robert Aram collecting chimneys and he pursed his lips; "I foresee one insuperable problem, transport." I had to explain to him that with care and a big enough low loader you could shift them to anywhere you wanted. Problem is I think he believed me!
I've just remembered that when N&R dropped Jubilee chimney at Padiham one section remaied intact showing clearly how the brickies had chucked the bricks in anyhow under the skin and Robert persuaded Norman to try to lift it. It crumbled as soon as the strain came on it.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Bodger
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Posted - 05/01/2011 : 19:58
Stanley, a link to a 1945 film of life in the West Riding, anybody recognise the chimneys ?
http://www.timeimage.org.uk/
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Stanley
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Posted - 06/01/2011 : 06:32
Nice film Bodge and it blew away twenty minutes of my morning! Opening shots are Ilkley Moor and the valley towards Skipton. The industrial scenes ar heavy woolen district and I'd guess at Halifax or Huddersfield. Beyond that I can't help you, but a nice film, well worth watching.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Posted - 06/01/2011 : 13:42
What a good site Bodge. I can see myself spending a bit of time on there. I noticed that the narrator was a member of a Clarion Cycling Club according to the badge on the pocket of his blouson. They visited Bolton Abbey and Burnsall on their run as well as some good shots of skipton from the castle. Good stuff, will be revisiting.
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Steeplejacks Corner Part Five.
