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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 - 26/10/2009 : 22:42
Bob,Shell suits melt and stick to your legs if your using oxy propane,so do fish net nylons,whoops,hehe
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Stanley
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Posted - 27/10/2009 : 05:51
Bob, the washing lines across the street remind me of my childhood. Big problem for the coalmen, they didn't bother trying to deliver on a Monday. There are still hooks in the stonework of houses in Barlick that were used for lines across the street.
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk |
Tizer
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Posted - 27/10/2009 : 16:40
Bob, I like the Darwen omnibus postcard. I know where the bus was going TO, but where was it coming FROM? Sangatte, Calais?
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AlanMc
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Posted - 27/10/2009 : 17:40
Bob,
Your delightful postcard reminds me of the last bus leaving Colne bus station late on a Saturday night chock-ful of well-oiled, warlike characters.
Keep 'em coming.  
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Bodger
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Posted - 27/10/2009 : 19:53
A Jack pruning a 120ft. bush, pg.89
http://books.google.ie/books?id=mCgDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=true
Alan Mac, i bet you wish you could rivet like these guys , pgs. 403 - 7
http://books.google.ie/books?id=yiQDAAAAMBAJ&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
bodger
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AlanMc
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Posted - 27/10/2009 : 20:22
Bodger,
When cutting off rivet heads either with a short-shafted sledgehammer and side-set, or with the extremely powerful and deadly dangerous McDonald pneumatic rivet busting gun---we would set up protective barriers of wet sacking which were most effective. Back in the early 1960s a workmate of mine lost an eye due to flying rivets being driven out of the front end plate of a Lancashire boiler.
All deadly stuff.
Thanks for posting the interesting snippet.
Happy Steamings
ALAN.
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AlanMc
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Posted - 28/10/2009 : 20:29
Chaps,
I am seeking a book on the History of the famous Sheffield scrapmetal firm: T.W. Ward. Wards published their own potted history book titled: 75 YEARS OF SERVICE. I've tried Abe books and Amazon in vain.
I am also seeking details of other scrapmetal dealers who started out with perhaps nothing but a hand-cart and ended up extremely wealthy.
This also applies to British firms involved in dismantling and scrapping large industrial structures such as---Bridges, Cranes, Iron & Steel-framed Buildings,Gasworks Plant as well as Ships, Railway Locomotives and Rolling Stock; Old Commercial Vehicles etc. I also require photographs.
Cheers.
Alan .
www.sledgehammerengineeringpress.co.uk
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Stanley
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Posted - 29/10/2009 : 05:38
Here's a pic for the Norman watchers.
Norman Sutcliffe motivating one of his workers during the demolition of Bancroft Shed in 1979.
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
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swifty
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Posted - 30/10/2009 : 18:00
no hard hats or a viz vest in sight them were days , a lot of cast in them pillars do you the wereabouts of it?
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bob hulin
" who's on it "
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Posted - 30/10/2009 : 18:13
smashing pic's Stanley. Swifty. keep your eyes of the scrap.
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swifty
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Posted - 30/10/2009 : 19:11
bob its scrap that pays the wages ,  you dont see many poor scrap men do you one on secret millionaire tother week went to blackpool and left donnas dream house about 55k all together ,no ones noticed he knicked owd tower he he ,how is it on coast tom lad mr w was at woodnook tother day so i heard ,hes keen on it ,
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bob hulin
" who's on it "
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Posted - 30/10/2009 : 20:38
 Swifty's post card collection,
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Stanley
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Posted - 31/10/2009 : 04:31
Looks like an eviction Bob. Swifty, it was Bancroft shed at Barlick, the one I used to run. I'll find you another pic of where the scrap went. No hard hats or protective clothing there either!.
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
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Stanley
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Posted - 31/10/2009 : 04:43
Pouring Bancroft scrap at Ouzledale foundry to make Firemaster grates, Note the lad is wearing a hard hat!
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk |
AlanMc
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Posted - 31/10/2009 : 07:49
Stanley,
Did you receive my email?
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Steeplejacks Corner Part Four
