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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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AlanMc
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Posted - 24/10/2009 : 08:11
Tom,
Fantastic images-----well recorded.
I understand that the massive foundation stones were quarried at Cadshaw,high on the Bolton road overlooking Darwen, and teams of draught horses brought in from far and wide were used for the transportation.
Edited by - AlanMc on 24/10/2009 08:12:39 AM
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 24/10/2009 : 10:35
Hod carriers would be rendered useless on that job Stanley...
Alan,ive a feeling its one of those tales about the chimney,it was said that one huge stone was quarried and dragged down for the foundation,the official records of the chimney build are kept in a room off the staircase inside the stack,hehe ..
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Bodger
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Posted - 24/10/2009 : 11:01
Tom, brilliant pics, makes a landlubber appreciate what life is like above, The link is to a competitor to the India chimney, pg. 734
http://books.google.ie/books?id=oCkDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=true
Arguing wth an engineer is like wrestling with a pig, everybody gets dirty, but the pig loves it
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AlanMc
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Posted - 24/10/2009 : 15:24
Bodger,
Thanks for showing us the " Turkish" chimney in Salt Lake City-------wouldn't it have looked well adorning a Bradford woollen mill?
Have you any pictures of mill chimneys from Manchester, Connetticut?
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Edited by - AlanMc on 24/10/2009 6:38:04 PM
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bob hulin
" who's on it "
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Posted - 24/10/2009 : 22:22
Tom, great pic's of India mill. i'm sorry to tell you but you would'nt get me up there at any price.
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Tizer
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Posted - 25/10/2009 : 10:56
...but if you offered him pints of Guinness....
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swifty
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Posted - 25/10/2009 : 21:03
stanley youre right about the stone approx weight of about 120 lbs per square foot some hand ball lifting them up you bet pulleys double blocks you dont need a young un to tell you i know  but some may not bob youre not scared reallytom you looked so young on that stack im not so sure you got right year 2004 ish eh eh more like 1984 can see number plate on a mark 2 escort over your right shoulder ah ah
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 25/10/2009 : 23:00
Bob,I'll give ya a mint imperial if ya climb up and a roll up when you get back down,hehe.....Tize Guinness wouldnt entice Bob up,john willie lees bitter ,now thats different...
bet the horses looked forward to their hay when they'd finished a shift on that chimney,quite a few ton in just them 4 lower ledges,i got the year wrong Swifty,it was 2001 when that photo was taken of me swingin' about,i nearly got in trouble because i should have been in school,hahaha,
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Stanley
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Posted - 26/10/2009 : 05:39
Bit puzzled by the 'Turkish' chimney. 6 feet high?
Tom, the biggest problem the horses would have was controlling the weight because they always brought the stone downhill wherever possible. Jack Platt told me about the accidents with horses coming down Tubber Hill into Barlick. Very common for the wagons to get away with them despite scotched wheels.
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
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AlanMc
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Posted - 26/10/2009 : 08:30
The " Most Ornamental Smokestack in The World "--the " Turkish " chimney, Six feet high?
Shouldn't it be 60 feet?
Puzzling, but a bonny smokestack neverthless!
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Bodger
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Posted - 26/10/2009 : 13:22
A double use for a stack, pg.352.
http://books.google.ie/books?id=4igDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=true
Arguing wth an engineer is like wrestling with a pig, everybody gets dirty, but the pig loves it
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bob hulin
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Posted - 26/10/2009 : 21:08
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 26/10/2009 : 21:17
Darwen never changes Bob apart from the style of clothes on the washing line,brightly coloured shell suits these days,hehe
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bob hulin
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Posted - 26/10/2009 : 22:17
Tom, thers knout wrong with shell suits.
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bob hulin
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Posted - 26/10/2009 : 22:24
 old postcard .
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