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Forum: Heritage and History 28-01-2009, 17:06

Replies: 38 old Fire Station on Manchester Road Views: 4,981 Posted By Retlaw Re: old Fire Station on Manchester Road Its known as blue asbestos, long fibers like minature needles, float in air, and when inhaled can penetrate the lung wall, the little beggars can lie dormant for over 40 years. Then the other two...

Forum: Heritage and History 28-01-2009, 11:59

Replies: 38 old Fire Station on Manchester Road Views: 4,981 Posted By Retlaw Re: old Fire Station on Manchester Road All those pipes that run in the tunnel under the front of the fire station, were covered in the old fashioned lagging, painted red, so that could be asbestos, now got me wondering about the number of...

Forum: Heritage and History 27-01-2009, 20:19

Replies: 38 old Fire Station on Manchester Road Views: 4,981 Posted By Retlaw Re: old Fire Station on Manchester Road Don't worry about the floor boards, its a tiled floor on concrete, just don't go near the front doors that are now being replaced with double glazing. Under there there is a 3 foot square tunnel...

Forum: Heritage and History 27-01-2009, 19:47

Replies: 38 old Fire Station on Manchester Road Views: 4,981 Posted By Retlaw Re: old Fire Station on Manchester Road Katey A full survey, with Lancs County Council holding all the cards, you must be joking, they are the ones that kept doing the bodge up jobs, do you think they would open all their files. One...

Forum: Heritage and History 27-01-2009, 19:31

Replies: 38 old Fire Station on Manchester Road Views: 4,981 Posted By Retlaw Re: old Fire Station on Manchester Road Katey Every so often I go down to the old Station, to see whats going on. I worked & lived in that building for 30 years. When I first started it was a 56 hour week 3 days, 9am - 6pm then 3 nights,...

Forum: Heritage and History 27-01-2009, 19:19

Replies: 38 old Fire Station on Manchester Road Views: 4,981 Posted By Retlaw Re: old Fire Station on Manchester Road When I worked there all the parking spaces were clearly defined, the cops had theirs, weights and measures had theirs & the rest was fire brigade. The history of the site where the cop shop, fire...

Forum: Heritage and History 27-01-2009, 13:07

Replies: 38 old Fire Station on Manchester Road Views: 4,981 Posted By Retlaw Re: old Fire Station on Manchester Road Just called in the Old Fire Station, and asked them what they were doing, they said they were turning it into a resturant, replacing the doors with double glazed units. I said is that what all the...

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