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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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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 15/02/2009 : 19:28
HAHAHA 200 QUID,he's lucky it didn't get smashed when the stack fell,he should be grateful if he gets a tenner for it,he should sell it you at hardcore price...
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swifty
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Posted - 15/02/2009 : 20:55
i know should be £4.50 a ton same as our crush now if its there long enough it will come down in price i asked a chap £350 for it at weekend and he seemed interested so you never know ,
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Bodger
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Posted - 15/02/2009 : 21:03
Idrank in Yates in Oldham & Blackpool, champagne on draught,
Stanley , met a lad tonight who knows Barlick ?, ,m he talked about a guy called Bob, who drinks in the Tory club, and smokes Pickeur cigars. do'es it ring a bell ?
"You can only make as well as you can measure"
Joseph Whitworth
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Stanley
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Posted - 16/02/2009 : 05:18
Sorry Bodge, no clue. Never been in the Con Club ever...
Stanley Challenger Graham
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 17/02/2009 : 20:34
Ive never liked Con clubs,the word "Con" always put me off,hehe,,,Heywood central Con club is now an Indian restaraunt,now you get what it says on the menu, ...
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victorjack
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Posted - 17/02/2009 : 20:45
With the anniversary of dad's passing near, I was reminded of my formative years just before I was handed the baton to carry on the trade both dad and his father had pursued. Just after world war 2 there was fierce competition in mill chimney renovations. Faulkners of Manchester were front runners having secured contracts with most of the cotton mills combines which left the other smaller steeplejack firms chasing up what remained available after Faulkners had took the lions share. One valuable lesson vested on my young shoulders I learnt was when I asked why he never drove to the nearby mill towns to look for work. Dad always rode on the top of a bus to Stockport, Rochdale , and Mossley etc. Dad told me he could see the chimneys better from an upstairs bus seat and he could look out for a dodgy lightening conductor rod or broken band. Dad did get his share of jobs and even when I was just 14yrs old, he would have me writing letters to all the mills locally by pen, and I did in fact bring a lot of work in by my letters which I had to craft myself in such a way ---the customers looked on them as written by a professional. Dad was ill and frail at just turned sixty. I still remember him stood at the bar in the Friendship Inn in Dukinfield. He would hold up his glass of bitter and say ---'look at the Vic----just like a jewel ! His memory was failing in his last years. He would shout from his bed to Mum ---'tell Viv to get up, we have to ladder the Queen Mill chimney today'. Mum would reply, our Vic's not here anymore you daft bugger'.
Do not think you can at all
By knocking on the window call
That child to hear you........
For long ago,the truth to say
He has grown up and gone away
And it is but a child of air
That lingers in the garden there.
Vic.
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swifty
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Posted - 17/02/2009 : 21:15
good to see youre still carrying on the family buissness, vic arse up head down .
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 17/02/2009 : 21:53
Vic,I've always wondered how many men Faulkners employed when they was at their peak??if anyone knows let us know....Rochdale must have been a hard town for work,nearly every area of the town had a steeplejack firm...
Swifty is that your machine parked up next to the old Mecca on Central drive in Blackpool or are you still at Blackburn...
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blokman
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Posted - 17/02/2009 : 22:43
Victor, very poignant memories there, I bet it seems only like yesterday....
Best wishes to you both.
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Stanley
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Posted - 18/02/2009 : 05:42
I got a call from ,y cousin Doreen in Bispham yesterday.... She said sh'd had a visit from a very big 'nice young man'.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 18/02/2009 : 11:18
Doreen is a very nice lady Stanley,I explained I was on a mission bearing gifts for Stanleys favourite cousin,she said she was your favourite because she was your only girl cousin,...
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moh
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Posted - 18/02/2009 : 15:13
Saw your scaffolding in Burnley today Tom - no sign of life though!! Which mill are you working on?
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victorjack
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Posted - 18/02/2009 : 15:18
Swifty, Tom and Blockman, thanks for your responses. Bob is the one to ask on Faulkners Tom. At a guess I would reckon Faulkners would have say just four crews of climbers with three to each crew making twelve in all plus a yard man. Bob may know more on this. On dad's bus trips to Rochdale he did secure work at Kerfooys in Bardsley by this ploy and also the chimney at Muschamp Taylors just farther up from there. He would of course carry on to Rochdale on the no 9 bus and enjoy a pint with Charlie Clayton and Bill Thompson before heading back. I framed your picture Blockman and it looks really great. Thanks for that.
The quickest way to double your money
is to fold over and put in back in your pocket.
Vic.
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victorjack
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Posted - 18/02/2009 : 15:29
Hi Stanley,
Congratulations on your book. Could you please tell me anyhing of this electronic publishing that seems to popular? I had an e mail from a firm who said they would publish one book for £20 as a trial with this new system. They said just send the pages on and they would do the rest. They let me view a sample on their website and the print did seem tiny but the whole thing looked neat. Should i give them a try do you think? Sorry to trouble you.
Vic.
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 18/02/2009 : 16:41
Moh,we was on early this morn and took a band of around the from oversail for repairs,its in the yard being done today,its the Oakmount mill chimney commonly known as Wiseman st mill on (you've guest it)Wiseman st...
Thanks for your info Vic,
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Steeplejacks Corner Part Four
