ewbank sweepers
 

They still produce the ewbank probably in china now though the factory was were asda is now.My mum worked in the sanding dept there.:)

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I remember that. I think my late husband´s mother worked there loads of years ago.

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http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...ton-41232.html tis n old thread here.

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We moved my Mum recently and she took her old ewbank sweeper with her.

teh carpet fitting lads were quite impressed with it... :D

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they even make battery powered ones now the wonders of modern technology

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Factory was in Electricity Street. My wife worked there for as while in the early days of our marriage. She suffered a miscarriage due to over-exerting herself whilst using a hand operated press. The management were very unsympathetic at the time and I have never forgiven them for it.

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Better still they make electric ones, there called hoovers or vacuum cleaners :rolleyes:


PS - both my parents worked there

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If I remember rightly "Ewbank" factory was on Hyndbun Rd,(where is Electricity St).

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I remember my grandma being so proud of her new ewbank,,,,no such things as hoovers in those days....it was the old stiff brush,,,

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We had a Ewbank too, but it never reached the bottom of the pile did it?
One of my jobs as a child was beating the dust out of the carpet (hung on the washing line) with a cane carpet beater.

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google maps uk - Google Maps

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I see some history of the Ewbank 5 days a week. :D

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As you come out of Asda & turn left into Hyndburn Rd, Electricy St is the next opening on your left.

Retlaw.

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Electricity street took you to the old power station which became the headquarters for gilbraiths commerials for many years

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Sorry but I left Accy for Australia in 1964 at which stage there wa no "Asda",I'm taxing the memory now but basically Hyndburn Rd was a Road that went from the bottom of Dill Hall Lane, Church (followed the River Stink") into Accrington, on the way was a lodge" on the left hand side near the Ewbank Factory and one on the left side near Hyndburn Park School. and the Tenement on the right hand side just before you got into Accrington.

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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

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Ah...the mist clears, and it makes sense.

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Thanks Neil , That's one less Christmas card to write , oh yes that's right I have never sent you one , best not start now .
Margaret , Neil has a desire to stalk me ha ha

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I'm sure he means well by it.
He is just making sure you come to no harm.

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Only Joking Margaret , I have known Neil for years ,lots because he is really old haha

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I was under the impression they were no longer made in England, but somewhere overseas? We have some old style ones in the Museum in the Arndale. Will check our information and see what information we have about them.

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Do you know about the original works, long burned down? Now occupied by Hyndburn Voluntary and |Community Resource Centre, and in between by the Primary School.

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bought one the other month :-)