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Originally Posted by walkinman221
I dont know about the coke gantry but the pipes you mention are part of the thirlmere pipeline which takes water from the lakes to manchester.(I used to work on the canal did 11 years worked everywhere from greenberfield to liverpool stanley flight)
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The coke ovens had been closed when I moved to Accrington, I got a job for a short while driving a tipper for Gilmartin, they had the yard where Greyhound car body repairs is now next to the old Moorfield pit, that was also closed before 1966.
There was hundreds of tons of coal which should have been made into coke and we had the job of taking it to Bank Hall, there it was loaded into railway trucks and taken to Padiham Power station. We actually passed the prower station on the way to Bank Hall.
It was during that time that one of the NCB chaps told me about the coke loading bridge but I never got to see it, maybe the pipe bridge replaced it.
Maybe some one will know.