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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
Barlick View
stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk
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bob hulin
" its going leg it "
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Posted - 02/07/2010 : 17:04
 postcard from 1915.
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bob hulin
" its going leg it "
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Posted - 02/07/2010 : 17:06
 postcard oldham 1915.
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AlanMc
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Posted - 02/07/2010 : 18:02
Bob,
What fantastic picture postcards. These evocative images make me yearn f'ert good owd days of my youth in Middleton,Oldham & Rochdale wandering around thowd mills. What vistas!!
The only view I have from my living room windows is of a Pennine clough,rocky fells and high moorland dotted with countless sheep!
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Bodger
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Posted - 03/07/2010 : 08:44
Alan, do'nt forget a glass or two of "red biddy" from Yates's Wine Lodge
"You can only make as well as you can measure"
Joseph Whitworth
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tripps
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Posted - 03/07/2010 : 10:53
I've just got a book called Cotton Mills of Oldham. Got lucky on ebay. Just the names brought back memories of a long time ago. I didn't know, but at the peak (in 1913) there were 337 mils in the town. There is a gazetteer of all the mills.
Gorse Mill:
Gorse Street Chadderton.
Architect: PS Scott. Spindlage (1915) 100,224. Asa Lees. Engine - Urmson and Thompson 1600HP.
Built in 1908, by The Gorse Mill Ltd. and occupied later by Egyptian Mills Ltd.
Ceased production in 1959 , later used as a mail order warehouse by GUS Ltd. Now occupied by Cascade Electronics.
There was also a Gorse No2 Mill built 1914, and used for aircraft manufacture during WW1. Went to cotton spinning in 1919, when it was renamed Ace Mill.
Hope they don't mind me borrowing the data. Might sell a few more perhaps?
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 03/07/2010 : 12:58
Don mill was in Middleton,I think it was a P.S Scott mill because of the trade mark 2 stringcoarses on the chimney below the head...
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Stanley
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Posted - 03/07/2010 : 16:37
Spot on Lads and thanks Bob for the images, great stuff' I used to like to see them at night in winter when moonlight shift was running, they looked like ocean liners. Ross was very fine. Nice puther from Gorse stack....
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
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swifty
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Posted - 03/07/2010 : 17:17
robin just before you get into bacup on the right hand side its only little,,,
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blokman
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Posted - 03/07/2010 : 21:14
Cheers Dave, you mean just before Valley refrigeration??
Think I know the one, if I'm not mistaken, it is the stack that had a bad lean in it before it was lowered, if it is that one then it features in the BW photo that Stanley posted a while back.....
Any chance of digging it out Stanley?
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 03/07/2010 : 21:25
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blokman
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Posted - 03/07/2010 : 22:45
Thats the one Tom, thanks for that, nothing happened at Grane Mill yet......or has it?
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Stanley
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Posted - 04/07/2010 : 06:27
Thanks for saving me the trouble Tom. Now what did that remind me of when I snapped it....
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
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AlanMc
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Posted - 04/07/2010 : 16:46
Some examples of my large collection of cast-iron Railway and Industrial Notices which I have been collecting for over 40 years.
Copyright Alan McEwen Industrial Heritage Collection
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AlanMc
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Posted - 04/07/2010 : 16:56
Don't the colourful bedding plants and the Railwayana compliment each other?
The collections are well guarded 24/7 by two hungry, ferocious Rottweilers, an ex-Police Alsatian and a war-like Master Boilermaker.
Copyright Alan McEwen's Industrial Heritage Collection.
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swifty
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Posted - 04/07/2010 : 21:24
thats the one tom someone should take a pic of the demo work ,,
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