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Haggs Lodge is still there and The asda covers the old Ewbank site.

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Have been on holiday in Scotland and popped into a little private museum in Dalbeattie full of amazing treasures.
These were two of them :

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Katex, that is a picture of the self same model my sister in law(out in Oz) used up until her death a couple of years ago. I am not sure if it went out to Oz when they emigrated in 1949......but when we were staying at her home in Corowa in the 1980's she brought it out of the cupboard to pick up the crumbs after an afternon tea with her neighbours and us.
When she moved from Corowa to Wodonga into a newly refurbished home.....she took it with her. I can't imagine that her daughter has kept it, but I quietly hope she has.

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my wife barbara pettifer worked at ubank for many years starting in the sanding department and finished driving afork lift k pettifer

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Only just noticed this, The Entrance to the Ewbank was at the bottom of Oxford Street, across the road from the Union Inn, was no way in on Electricity Street, the end of the factory was yon. Spent quite a bit of time in the union at dinners when i worked yon, The landlords daughter had a bearing on me choice of pub.:D

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ewbank was where asda is located

i know this for sure because i used to play there amongst teh asbestos they used to leave laying around the place and was once captured by security and held in the office inside teh factor until collected lol

there were tow huge coal bunkers at teh rear of the building they must have thought we were trying to steal coal but we were merely lighting fires in the overgrown area making asbestos explode

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my wife barbara pettifer worked at ewbank from the sixties in the sanding dept and then went on to driving the fork lift for many many years

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You've already stated that on post 19

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My wife barbara drove the large fork lift for six or seven years in the sixties

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ewbank are still made in Burnley Lancashire , I recently bought one from ebay a few months ago ,and is was on the box Burnley England

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After you used it, did it smell of burning beryllium oxide? :rolleyes:

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Ewbank were taken over by Prestige Group (Burnley), in the late '50s but they continued operating in Accrington into the late '60s or so.

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I thought that Ewbank Sweepers were unpowered...no motor, so it would be unlikely that you would smell the (burning)electrical insulator beryllium oxide Neil.
Unless this was a tongue in cheek comment. Sometimes it is hard to tell when it is a tongue in cheek comment.

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My Grandmother used to work at Ewbank in Accrington.

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It was a joke with someone I've known a long time,

too long :D