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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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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 25/03/2009 : 19:44
Stanley ,great shot ,what a great lump of brick ...
Al,Elderbury must love sulphur,i know that soot is good for your roses,my grandad swore by soot and nag shit,he didnt call it "horse manure"as he couldn't spell it,hehe...
Hahaha,nice one Swifty....Hope your keepin' that hungry crusher going in Blackpool,if theres anymore hardcore tipped on the prom for the sea defence we'll be able to walk to Dublin ..
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swifty
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Posted - 25/03/2009 : 20:04
that would not be a bad thing by the time we walked there we would be ready for a few guinness, crushing is 50% through sick of bowling balls and skittles i can tell you do they need a high reach to lift that crane just to return the favour , were are you (cant really say working p c brigade ),but working at present .local, dont forget call in when passing not been good with m,55 shut at end followed diversion through posh end of blackpool near queen vic hospital ,nice
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 25/03/2009 : 20:42
Just been messing about with LC tests and similar work,getting them out of the way before the mad rush and good weather, we're fair weather workers,its quite nice round park drive,Brian London still lives there i think,and that Nolan sister that cant iceskate,hehe
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Stanley
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Posted - 26/03/2009 : 07:17
I've got some more scans of the flues at Swabs, I might even post a few if you don't mind some repeats.....
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bob hulin
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Posted - 26/03/2009 : 12:04
 1927, indenture. mrs, Ann Smethurst. -to mr. Frank Hindley " steeplejack" of 11 Hughes road Bolton. been looking on the 1911census household transcripts. frank Hindley was 16 years old. and liveing at 6 nuttall terrace wentworth Bolton. his dad was john Hindley. aged 54, and he was a master Steeplejack.
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 26/03/2009 : 22:13
I dont mind repeats Stanley,cant be as bad as the telly..
Master steeplejack John Hindley, he must have had a jack firm in Bolton,ive never heard of them,Fred Mills must have made them disappear,hehe,abracadabra,just like that!..
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Stanley
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Posted - 27/03/2009 : 09:48
This was one of the dampers in the main flue under the road. Everything was crumbling, you can see how settlement has broken the damper frame. The flue was wet and the dust in the main flue was mainly oil-fired soot, the burners must have been badly adjusted, it was greasy and horrible and stuck to everything.
This is in the bottom of the flue. I was sat on top of the cruciform wall that divided the flue bottom into four. Each quarter had its own flue coming in from branches on the main flue. The flue dust was so deep we had to go back to the boiler house and get planks and ladders to lay on top of the dust. What grabbed me was the size of the chimney bottom, remember this is only half of one quarter and you can get the scale from the ladder. I forget now what I measured it at but it was nearer 40 feet than thirty. Biggest chimney bottom I ever went into....
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 27/03/2009 : 11:49
They were a mess Stanley,you could be right with your calculations for the diametre depending on how deep down you was,the measurments that Alan posted says the foundation was 38ft below ground level when it was built,but this could have altered if the ground level had been raised over the years so it could have been deeper at the time you was there,according to your photo of the stack during demo it was 30ft diameter above ground level,but you could have been nearly 50ft down from that....Wonder if Robert regrets not buying it,hehe...
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Stanley
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Posted - 27/03/2009 : 16:31
I think he grew to regard it as a lucky escape. He could have had it and the land for a tenner and was thinking about having it but Peter and I took him into the pub next door and bent his ear for about half an hour. He ended up promising not to do it.....
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 27/03/2009 : 21:39
Here's a photo of Swifty working v ery hard,hehe
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Stanley
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Posted - 28/03/2009 : 06:57
I love watching back hoes working when it's a good driver. I spent hpours watching Big John with that big Liebherr at Ellenroad. Norman Sutcliffe once told me that N&R were the first firm round here to process a building using nothing but back hoes. He said they used to pick the beams and big scrap with cranes or a winch and wire. I liked the way john picked the big beams and straightened them so the fitted in the big tipper box. Later, when they had a lot of money to spend to avoid paying tax they got a big pecker and shears for the Liebherr. They were doing a lot for British Coal at the time dropping colliery headgears in the Midlands and Yorkshire. I first saw them use them at Holcrofts while I was stealing the Whitelees engine.
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bob hulin
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Posted - 28/03/2009 : 10:46
 "COLNE LANCASHIRE" 1940s VIEW. Tom. so they was two master steeplejacks in Bolton. hehe.
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bob hulin
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Posted - 28/03/2009 : 11:24
 THREE STEEPLEJACKS WHO RE-POINTED THE TOP 60FT, OF THE 210FT, CHIMNEY, AT THE GLORY MILL WOODBURN GREEN 1952. [Can you name any of the men?.
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Posted - 28/03/2009 : 12:50
Bob, lovely photos. You've named the second one "Woodburn Green". Do you mean Wooburn Green near High Wycombe? There are paper mills there and Glory Mill sounds a familar name.
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bob hulin
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Posted - 28/03/2009 : 13:09
Tizer, i did mean wooburn Green. cheers.
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