01-10-2011, 22:31
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Re: F.steiner & co, turkey red dyeworks.
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Originally Posted by rivetlad
Can anyone recall the 250 foot octagonal brick chimney serving Steiner's dyehouse being dropped circa 1955/56?
This chimney was evidentally monumental in size, the huge octagonal shaft rising up from a massively constructed stone plinth of square dimensions.
Any information and particularly a photograph would be of immense interest.
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Thats one of the two chimneys around here I never got to climb, it may have been dropped by my old mate Fred Cooper of Blackburn, the last chimney I helped him with was Rishton Paper Mill, we put fresh bands on the top third of it, circa 1970's.
Retlaw.
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