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Originally Posted by MovedtoBolton
There certainly was a lodge there, I remember that as it disappeared much more recently. The new estate "Foxwood Chase" is built on the site.
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I have only just spotted this post, the lodge referred too above was in fact two reservoirs, run by the Accrington water works board, (or so I have always been led to believe).
I think the borough is now linked in to the Hawswater pipeline to Manchester which runs through Huncoat and under what is now Foxwood Chase, It is in fact four large diameter pipes.
There was also a large flooded old shale quarry with a ginny wagon track alongside that carried shale from the new quarry by Kingsway to the aerial flight is it was known that carried the tubs of shale to the Redac brickyard.
I, along with other newly started workers aged 15-16 or so were sent with hammers to knock the ice from the ginny wagon tracks and trucks.That was when we had proper winter's. (By god I still remember the trudge up through the snow). Yours Taddy.