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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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Posted - 25/05/2009 : 12:09
A boat waiting alongside on the River Parrett to be loaded with bricks and tiles from Chilton Trinity Brickyard, Bridgwater, Somerset (from `Bridgwater and the River Parrett in Old Photographs' by Rod Fitzhugh, 1993, Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd, Stroud).
I guess the chimney and long, low building are the brickyard, but what are those two towers to the left of the picture which are like look-out posts? Is that construction typical of any industry? The Bridgwater brickyards made bricks, tiles and Bath bricks. The Bath bricks are the ones our mothers used to `stone' the front door steps and they were made from silt taken from the River Parrett. As well as the UK market they were exported worldwide, even to China, until modern cleaning materials took over. I wonder if these towers were anything to do with making the Bath bricks? I asked one local man who has knowledge of the brick industry but he didn't know what they were. The photo is not dated but the boat was built in 1901, motorized in 1927 and finally out of use in 1960.
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Posted - 25/05/2009 : 12:25
 Click for a bigger picture!
One for Alan McEwen! A portable Marshall boiler at the Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum, Somerset (picture from the Museum's leaflet). This boiler is used to power the engines running at the museum on `steam days'. All the old timber locally find it's way to this boiler.
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bob hulin
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Posted - 25/05/2009 : 15:39
Stanley, i found this in one of my books. JOHN SHAW CHALLENGER, sapper 98342. 157th field company, royal engineers. died at N0.2 casualty clearing station, france, 1st feb 1917, aged35 years. worked as a cabinet maker for walker's, stamford street , ashton under lyne, organist and choirmaster at foundry street primitive methodists . lived at 194 king street dukinfield. he left a widow and two children.
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bob hulin
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Posted - 25/05/2009 : 17:35
Stanley, some names for your Dukinfield footballers. 1910 -11. Robert Dillon. 73 pickford lane. Frank Thorpe .Town lane. Arthur meek. Town lane. all from Dukinfield.  PS. Robert Dillon. was killed in action. on 7th july 1916.
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bob hulin
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Posted - 25/05/2009 : 17:58
Dale, - Rockdrill. thanks for the infomation on the Thomas Hardy monumount. it's got to be the one. cheers
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bob hulin
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Posted - 25/05/2009 : 18:04
 Tom, i'm back from cornwall i'm glad to be back in manchester .
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Posted - 25/05/2009 : 19:20
Its always good to get back home Bob,when you've been to a dump like St Ives,hehe,How were the boozers down there,they used to be very good,there was always a retired fisherman in the pub telling far fetched tales of his life at sea... ...
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Posted - 25/05/2009 : 22:26
Tizer,
I would guess the square brick stacks would serve small kilns used for firing the bricks etc.
Marshall's of Gainsborough built significant numbers of portable boilers. I have a Ransome's portable in my yard; I purchased it from a blacksmith near St. Davids in South-west Wales back in 1987 with the intention of using it to provide steam for Farling Top Steam Engine House. Due to a number of factors I never got round to using it. Instead I used a wood-fired Verticle Cross-tube which worked originally in a large laundry in Macclesfield. We still have this boiler although it has not been steamed since August 2000 when it was featured on the " Scrapheap Challenge ".
In years past I have re-fireboxed and retubed a few Marshall Portables that operated as mobile steam plant mounted on the back of lorries,the owners being Byworth Boilers of Keighley.
Halcyon days!
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victorjack
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Posted - 25/05/2009 : 22:46
Interesting Alan. I used to do the chimney stacks at both Joe Adamsons in Hyde and Daniel Adamsons in Dukinfied. They were noisy workplaces of course but the huge boilers being transported from the works were a fascinating sight. I pointed the canal side of the Range boiler works some years ago but saw nothing as huge leave there as the adamson boilers. What type of bioilers did Range Boilers turn out at their Stalybridge works?
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Stanley
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Posted - 26/05/2009 : 06:22
Vic, another name for you. My uncle Tom Challenger sang with the local choral societies when he lived in Dukinfield. After the war he moved to Huddersfield and sang with the Huddersfield Choral and then the Gilbert and Sullivan. Then he decided he liked crown green bowling better than singing.....
Bob thanks for the info about me grandad, that's the bloke. Nice to know some of the names of the footballers.....
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Stanley
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Posted - 26/05/2009 : 06:58
PS Bob, in case you're interested. JSC wife was Margaret, his two daughters were Doreen and Mary. Mary, the eldest was my mother.
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Posted - 26/05/2009 : 08:05
Vic, in my time of knowing Range Boilers,1950s, they were well known for making copper domestic hot water cylinders, maybe this was a spin off from domestic boilers.
Re Jo. Adamsons, i served my apprenticeship next door at Maiden &co, Alexander St. screwing machine makers, i recall several times boilers leaving Adamsons and getting jammed on the railway bridge, they had to unfasten the boiler, jack & pack it up to clear the parapets, Pickfords were the main movers, although Walter Denton, Manchester Rd. Hyde, still operated traction engines
Happy Days, Tony
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Joseph Whitworth
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Posted - 26/05/2009 : 09:55
Hello Victor,
I have read your wondrous book "THERE WAS A TIME" which I enjoyed immensely.
Your prefaced words, I thought were striking and most apt.
"I wrote in my book of many outstanding people I worked with in one of the most hazardous of occupations and it was a privilege to know them."
For only a man who passionately cares about others, carries these thoughts; a very brave man like yourself Victor, a man who has experienced some of life's uplifting moments, but who has also endured those terrible, dark and sombre, tragic happenings and can climb out of the pit more knowledgeable, more kindly and extremely cheerful. I applaud you, mate.
Your delightfully, descriptve piece of when at 14 you started earning a wage at grocers, Birtwistle and Sheard, I found highly nostalgic, and the vertigo-inducing tale of how you cleaned out and painted the gutters on a five storey cotton mill, whilst being held by the ankles by your brother Norman; the tragic story of Ashworth's mill chimney cap-stones, that upon disintegrating claimed the life of one of your workmates, and almost took your own; and the amazing tale of boldness of your Grandfather Albert, who fell off a 300 foot cotton mill chimney and landed into the canal: and survived; but was later tragically killed by a mugger in Detroit.
A most splendid work of the eloquent recording of just a few chapters of your life .... and I together with many others look forward to enjoying more in the future.
Best Wishes,
Alan McEwen
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Edited by - AlanMc on 27/05/2009 5:32:35 PM
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Posted - 26/05/2009 : 10:27
Alan, I hope you won't mind but I have copied your post about Vic's book and pasted it into the reviews section on Vic's Lulu page:
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/there-was-a-time/6897548
[The price shown for Vic's book on that page is £8.50 but that's without Lulu's high postage charge, which is why we directed you to Vic to buy a book more cheaply.]
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Posted - 26/05/2009 : 11:32
Here is my take on the photo that Bob posted of Stockport Viaduct, slight artistic licence applied.....
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Steeplejacks Corner Part Four
