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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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Stanley
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Posted - 05/10/2009 : 07:59
The flag stones with the holes in them are almost certainly the base stones for the pot tippler toilets. I might have a pic....
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
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Stanley
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Posted - 05/10/2009 : 08:10
Two flags have been used here for a tippler. A single flag with one hole was used for a WC pedestal. Only used in outside toilets of course so by the 1930s they would not be needed as lavatories were put inside the house.
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
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Bodger
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Posted - 05/10/2009 : 22:10
Stanley, i wonder if he was related the engineering Pikles ?
http://books.google.ie/books?id=MgsAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA48&dq=barnoldswick++Pickles&lr=&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=barnoldswick%20%20Pickles&f=false
Bracewell, millowner doing his own thing !!
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=661bAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA3-PA16&dq=%22+Barnoldswick+mills%22&lr=&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false
page 5, was this a true story about the twins ?
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WO0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA5&dq=%22+Barnoldswick+mills%22&lr=&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Arguing wth an engineer is like wrestling with a pig, everybody gets dirty, but the pig loves it
bodger
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Stanley
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Posted - 06/10/2009 : 08:26
The Pickles reference is before the Lothersdale Pickles came into Kelbrook. May have been a distant relation but not the engineering branch. The Bracewells got quite a few mentions by the Factory Inspectorate both in Earby and Barlick. They were always pushing the boundaries. The twins reference looks suspect to me, never heard of it and the publication appears to be US and something like the National Enquirer.
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
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Bodger
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Posted - 06/10/2009 : 23:21
Tizer, how about a few of these on't moors roun Barlick?
http://books.google.ie/books?id=CVy6Nh57MdMC&pg=PA43&dq=mill+chimney+repairs&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Did he use ladders, or just the irons ?
http://books.google.ie/books?id=efs0AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA350&dq=mill+chimney+repairs&lr=&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=mill%20chimney%20repairs&f=false
Who would you get to drop this, a steeple jack or a lumber jack
http://books.google.ie/books?id=K98DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA892&dq=mill+chimney+repairs&lr=&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=mill%20chimney%20repairs&f=false
Arguing wth an engineer is like wrestling with a pig, everybody gets dirty, but the pig loves it
bodger
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colsack
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Posted - 07/10/2009 : 18:03
Couldn't be dropped Bodger, easiest way would be to ball the brickwork down and fell the tree afterwards, or i suppose you could hang a chair from the branches and attack the brickwork from there. Any more ideas?
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Posted - 07/10/2009 : 22:23
Lads,
Has anyone of you ever discovered antique bottles in the ruins of demolished chimneys, in the cellars of old buildings; or for those lads that operate mechanical excavators when digging bloody great holes?
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 07/10/2009 : 22:55
Col,i'd leave it because it looks pretty,hehe
Alan we once found a pop bottle in a pudlock hole in a chimney at Longridge Preston in 1985,the hole was bricked up when the scaffold was stripped out when it was built around 1860,wegave it the manager a guy called jack Swarbrick....lots of clay pipes,spent matches,neckerchiefs,once found pie chips and gravy that had been there for 3 mins so i ate it,hehe
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Posted - 07/10/2009 : 23:24
Tom,
In 1977, I researched and wrote a small book for bottle collectors titled:
COLLECTING QUACK CURES. The book was basically about Victorian bottles embossed with the word---" cure ", and the scant histories of the " Quack Doctors " who marketed these nostrums to a gullible public. I wonder if any of this site's followers have ever found any of these cure bottles: Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root, Kidney,Liver and Bladder Cure; Warner's Safe Cure; George Handyside's Consumption Cure; The Druid Cure-Extract of Mistletoe, A. H. Holden's Tommy Bottle.
Keep your eyes peeled & HappyDigging.
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Stanley
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Posted - 08/10/2009 : 07:27
'Pie chips and gravy'! You don't mend with time do you Tom.
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 08/10/2009 : 17:17
Iam beyond repair Stanley,i either have bad bad days or good bad days,hehe..
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swifty
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Posted - 08/10/2009 : 19:32
stanley it had only been there 3 mins ,once saw two tramps in bacup (i know that wont be hard to belive but bare with me) walking up burnley road every bin they came across routed in it for any scraps of food after about 3 bins bingo a dirty sweaty kebab , the biggest tramp tucked straight in like a man possesed the skinny tramp refusing to have any kebab ,after fat tramp finished his feast wiped his lips and set off towards deerplay its a fair old climb so was heavy panting near wier hotel leaning on fence trying to get his breath when all a sudden baaaaaarf up come kebab ,skinny tramp straight into his mates sick what on earth r u doin screamed fat lad ,well i dont like cold kebab, do i ,
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Posted - 08/10/2009 : 19:50
" bare with me" - sounds like the sign over the gate of the nudists' club, Swifty.
Alan, my dad's house in this Somerset village has bottles buried in the back garden. There used to be an old cottage on the site and they just chucked everything in the garden in those days, right up to the 1950s. We dug a hole to plant a bush and up came Castrol bottles and medicine bottles.
Why don't you send a copy of that 1977 book to Shire Publications and ask them if they'd be inetrested in doing a reprint or new edition of it. They do hundreds of small format books of about 30-40 pages with a colour cover and black & white photos plus text inside. There's an example here:
http://www.shirebooks.co.uk/store/Scent-Bottles_9780852639092
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Stanley
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Posted - 09/10/2009 : 08:17
Swifty, that was disgusting! I shall report you to Belle!
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
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Bodger
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Posted - 09/10/2009 : 13:46
A nice write up mentioning "Our Vic."
http://www.rochdaleobserver.co.uk/community/nostalgia/s/530/530766_jack_of_tall_trade__and_masterful_too.html
Nostalgia for some of the older readers.
http://www.charlestownhistory.org.uk/whitely.html
Arguing wth an engineer is like wrestling with a pig, everybody gets dirty, but the pig loves it
bodger
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