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West Ender · 19-02-2006, 21:41

I'm presuming it's long gone but who remembers the air-raid siren that Blythe's Chemical works used to sound at 1 p.m. every day? It must have been to call the workers back to work after their lunch break but, when I was a child who went home from school for lunch, it was my signal to get my coat on and head to the 267 Ribble bus stop.

I used to hate it on Tuesdays when the Beano and Dandy were delivered. I would eat my meat and potato hash (it was always hash on Tuesdays, made with the last of the Sunday joint) as fast as I could then settle down to read the comics. That damned siren would go off and my mother would say "One o'clock, time to go", before I'd got much further than Keyhole Kate.

We could hear it loud and clear in West End so how far did the sound travel in the other direction? Were there any other factories that had anything similar?

19-02-2006, 21:41	#1
West Ender Passed away 25-11-09 Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Lymm, Cheshire Posts: 2,674 Blog Entries: 147 Liked: 2 times Rep Power: 191	One o'clock siren I'm presuming it's long gone but who remembers the air-raid siren that Blythe's Chemical works used to sound at 1 p.m. every day? It must have been to call the workers back to work after their lunch break but, when I was a child who went home from school for lunch, it was my signal to get my coat on and head to the 267 Ribble bus stop. I used to hate it on Tuesdays when the Beano and Dandy were delivered. I would eat my meat and potato hash (it was always hash on Tuesdays, made with the last of the Sunday joint) as fast as I could then settle down to read the comics. That damned siren would go off and my mother would say "One o'clock, time to go", before I'd got much further than Keyhole Kate. We could hear it loud and clear in West End so how far did the sound travel in the other direction? Were there any other factories that had anything similar? __________________ * Some cinemas let the flying monkeys in............and some don't.