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Old 21-04-2017, 20:00   #31
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The boarder there is the river Calder, and not the same Calder that goes through Whalley from Burnley way.
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Old 21-04-2017, 20:11   #32
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The boarder there is the river Calder, and not the same Calder that goes through Whalley from Burnley way.
Not since 1888. Then the border was changed to follow the Todmorden Boundary.

It is the Walsden water which flows under the town hall and it joins the Calder behind the market.

That is fact.

Bye the way I said I was born and bred in Todmorden 88 years ago. It was 78 years ago, it was a slip of the finger.
It's changed a lot but still a nice place to live.
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Old 21-04-2017, 20:29   #33
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Not since 1888. Then the border was changed to follow the Todmorden Boundary.

It is the Walsden water which flows under the town hall and it joins the Calder behind the market.

That is fact.

Bye the way I said I was born and bred in Todmorden 88 years ago. It was 78 years ago, it was a slip of the finger.
It's changed a lot but still a nice place to live.
The historic boundaries are the real ones like the Mersey for Lancs/Cheshire. It doesn't matter how politicians and quangos divide it up afterwards, after the cricket counties were formed nothing counts.
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Old 22-04-2017, 08:29   #34
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[QUOTE=TodmordenBoro;. been for a look at The Transporter Bridge.... not as good as the one in Middlesbrough obviously.

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there,s only one transporter bridge. port clarance to middlesbrough.
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Old 22-04-2017, 10:49   #35
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Its quite a structure....

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Old 22-04-2017, 11:38   #36
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You might think I've gone insane but before the M62 was built we used to regularly drive from Leeds to Accrington and back through Todmorden. I have these recollections that there used to be a spaceship permanently parked on some wasteland (on the left as we drove from Leeds). Is that right?
Yes you are right, It was a house made in the local plastics factory. It belonged to Pat Pheonix (Elsie Tanner) it was on the land across from Temperly pipes and then it disappeared. I would love to know what happened to it.

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Old 22-04-2017, 14:56   #37
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Yes you are right, It was a house made in the local plastics factory. It belonged to Pat Pheonix (Elsie Tanner) it was on the land across from Temperly pipes and then it disappeared. I would love to know what happened to it.

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There were a few of the Futuro houses made by Waterside Plastics. I believe one or two are still in existance. I cant remember the one opposite Temperley pipes though and I used to use the road over to Bacup a lot. Probably old age creeping up on me.
I worked for a local engineering company and we did a few jobs repairing machinery at all the three Temperley pipe works on Bacup road.
I remember the plastic house being moved from the Waterside factory to The front of Abraham Ormerod medical centre on Burnley road. It was about 1970.
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Old 24-04-2017, 00:55   #38
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Seems like you really had a good time mate! cool!
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