FORGOTTEN CORNERS

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Internal lightning conductor inside Swabs chimney bottom. 1976. The liner wall extended to about 30ft high and the stack had internal lightning conductors. This was the only instance of this I ever found.
Long gone now of course......
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January 1976. The first attempt to get rid of a 340ft stack.....
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Butts chimney being demolished in 1980 by Peter Tatham and I think Tom Philips was helping him.....
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Higgy on that job Stanley :good:
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Clough Mill in 1963.
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George Howarth at the steam valve of the new Burnley Ironworks engine in Clough Mill in 1913. Newton reckoned this was his favourite engine in Barlick.
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