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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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swifty
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Posted - 28/08/2009 : 18:51
ive been at eccles for a month doin that pub started crushing today cellar to break out and crush i dont know about the woodnook stack but if i was a betting man id say mid oct hope so can have a bday party out of it  are you busy tom or just ticking over ?
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blokman
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Posted - 28/08/2009 : 19:26
Give us plenty of warning Swifty so we can arrange a viewing party....
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The Demo Man
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Posted - 29/08/2009 : 14:11
I've been having a clearout today and came across a magazine with an article about FD and his house going up for sale, it got me wondering, what did happen to his home in the end??
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swifty
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Posted - 29/08/2009 : 15:31
will do robin heard you were fine and dandy after op good news and hope all is well, titch someone did buy the house they was giving tours of the house on ebay bob and tom got tickets and did not invite anyone else he he  selfish i know how was the tour lads youve never said,
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 29/08/2009 : 15:42
Stanley,London Paris and New York is an interesting life,Burnley Milnrow andAccrington doesn't have the same appeal,hehe.
We are quite busy Swifty,we'll have to start plodding a bit quicker,hehe,we might sneak on woodnook one weekend and not tell anyone ...
Titch the house got sold and the new owner sold tickets on Ebay for guided tour,i was going to bid but it coincided with my payments too "porn uk" so i was skint,
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Stanley
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Posted - 29/08/2009 : 17:12
Tom, I had a tee-shirt made that said 'London. Paris. New York. Barnoldswick.' It's raised quite a few smiles and one or two conversations.
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
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The Demo Man
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Posted - 29/08/2009 : 17:42
Tom -  Cracking reply - surprised you can type with the wrist ache!!
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 29/08/2009 : 18:15
Stanley there was a guy at Liverpool cathedral who did a bit of scaffolding for the maintainence department,he made a board that said Tommy scaffolding London Paris and Bootle....
Glad you liked it Titch,if you spend enough with porn uk they send you a machine,but due too overuse by some of the customers they are all on 3 phase power supply,hehe...
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Stanley
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Posted - 30/08/2009 : 07:48
I like it Tom, Bootle fits even better than Barlick!
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
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The Demo Man
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Posted - 30/08/2009 : 11:18
That'll be your house then Tom? The one next to Blackpool Tower with the wind turbine in the back yard!!
I went to an HSE seminar once  and the talk was all about these shops in Bootle where some unscrupulous monkey had left the gas supply on and then sent in a load of lads to strip it out - poor sods you can imagine or you may know what happened next........the pics certainly made you think.
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Stanley
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Posted - 31/08/2009 : 07:52
I seem to remember a case where a gas main that had been taken out of service because of a leak was pressure tested afterwards with air without purging it..... Best one in Barlick was many years ago when a new six inch water main was laid in Cobden Street and pressure tested without putting restraints on in the trench. I think you can guess what happened! Nobody hurt but a lot of red faces and a big job cleaning up. Sod's Law I suppose, if it can happen it will happen.
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
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Tizer
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Posted - 02/09/2009 : 20:20
I've just been reading a web page about mining in Devon and Cornwall and it ends on arsenic with this mind-boggling fact: "It was in the 1870s that a handful of mines in the Tamar Valley mining district were producing over half of the world’s arsenic; the works at Wheal Anna Maria (part of Devon Great Consols) covered 3.2 hectares and had over 6,850 cubic metres of arsenic flues." That's a lot of arsenic flues!
Interestingly, in the early days of Cornish arsenic mining (early 1800s) most of the arsenic was going to Lancashire for the cotton industry's pigments and dyes.
The web page is very detailed on the Cornish mining industry:
http://www.cornish-mining.org.uk/story/earlymod.htm
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Bodger
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Posted - 02/09/2009 : 23:03
Russia dropping them,
http://ecteplostroy.ru/serv03_eng.php
who is the "jack" describing how to drop a stack ?
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Chimney-felling
"You can only make as well as you can measure"
Joseph Whitworth
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Posted - 03/09/2009 : 05:23
Stanley further to what can go wrong...a few years ago in the town where I was living a new bridge was built, it was a lift bridge,,all pretty and finished provincial/federal/local politicians present cause their gov paid the bill. Lifted the bridge to let first boat through and lo and behold all the ashphalt slid down into a pile so the bridge was closed for a while to allow repairs
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Stanley
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Posted - 03/09/2009 : 07:23
Herb, I like it! They should have used expanded mesh for a road bed, saves a lot of trouble. Bodge, good find, whoever he or she is they have got it right. They sound authentic and should be on SC!
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
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Steeplejacks Corner Part Four
