Double wall butressedchimney
Dean Greenwood felled this in 2006. "The west vale chimney , what a crying shame that was one of the best put together buildings ive ever come across....it defied logic , the top half was two bricks thick a row of backing stone then face stone with no cavity and then at half height a row of throughs revealed what you see in the photo (it looks so soft and easy to knock down but take my word it was one month of hard labour ....i lost a stone in weight..it was dam hot as well !! ) Under the row of throughs the construction changed to two course of brick a 1ft cavity then a row of backing tide into a row of face stone , to hold these two structures together there were 8 tying buttresses......jutting inward throughs came out of the stone
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Stanley
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