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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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Tizer
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Posted - 17/07/2009 : 11:31
Just thinking of swimming baths and all the `facilities' that worked off steam reminds me of a TV programme I saw recently. The TV man was on one of those gigantic US aircraft carriers and he pointed out that all those F16 Tomcat jet fighters fired from the carrier's catapult get into the sky courtesy of steam! They should do a TV programme telling people about all the things that work on steam even though most people wouldn't know it.
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Posted - 17/07/2009 : 11:45
Edited by - AlanMc on 17/07/2009 11:46:33 AM
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 17/07/2009 : 11:54
Rochdale swimming baths used to get the water heated from the incinerator next door,until the council in the infinate wisdom dicided to demolish it in the 70s and build a brand new plant..
Tize,you should write a letter to the BBC,there should be some more interesting veiwing on the box..
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AlanMc
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Posted - 17/07/2009 : 13:29
Hello Tizer,
I have been trying to contact you by your Personal Message Box, which cannot receive more due to it being chock-ful.
Could you please clear your box.
Alan.
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Bodger
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Posted - 17/07/2009 : 15:03
Interesting pics of northern England, note each thumb nail has a series of pics
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fray_bentos/sets/72157594155559143/
"You can only make as well as you can measure"
Joseph Whitworth
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Posted - 17/07/2009 : 16:51
Bodger,
Thanks for pointing us to the Fray Bentos site.
I have just spent a thoroughly nostalgic and captivating hour viewing the 92 images on the site.
What an accomplished monochrome photographer!!
I owe you a jar o' two of the Black Velvet.
www.sledgehammeregineeringpress.co.uk
Edited by - AlanMc on 17/07/2009 4:52:43 PM
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Tizer
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Posted - 17/07/2009 : 17:08
Hello Alan, thanks for pointing that out. I thought that in forums, when your inbox got full the software would just dump the oldest messages to make way for the new ones if you didn't delete them. I've dumped everything from the box and given it a good scrubbing out, polishing and a coat of red lead (you have to please these boiler men, you know!).
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bob hulin
" its going leg it "
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Posted - 17/07/2009 : 21:50
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Bodger
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Posted - 17/07/2009 : 21:57
Tizer, would you not use a "donkey stone" to enhance it ?
by the way i see we have two bodgers, could be confusing, the original bodger
"You can only make as well as you can measure"
Joseph Whitworth
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Stanley
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Posted - 18/07/2009 : 06:27
Tiz, we still live in the Age of Steam. The only difference is how we make it.
I like the simple scaffolding for the clock face and all made of timber. I'll bet those ladders swayed a bit if you got a rhythm going!
Stanley Challenger Graham
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AlanMc
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Posted - 18/07/2009 : 20:34
Tizer, Please have a gander in your P.M.box.
Cheers.
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bob hulin
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Posted - 18/07/2009 : 21:38
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Posted - 18/07/2009 : 21:53
That picture reminds me of the elevated section of the M4 at Chiswick.......
When it was built , the Minister of Transport was one Ernest Marples.....
When you drove on the A4 underneath the supports , every now and then there was a sign saying "Built by Marples Ridgeway and Co."....Mmmmm!
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 18/07/2009 : 23:46
Bob,our kids doing realy well for himself in Canada,hehe...bonny ladders
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Stanley
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Posted - 19/07/2009 : 06:18
I was looking at the legs, they seem a but long for Lancashire system but what the hell do I know about it. It would have been nice to see the top ends to see how they joined.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Steeplejacks Corner Part Four
