Woodnook mill. - Page 14

katex · 17-12-2009, 18:28

All brilliant stuff from our members ... love it.

Hey John, made the front page of our local paper ... fame is yours ...

Watched the Hapton one too on the Telegraph site .. that was one heck of a construction eh ?

TacTZilla · 17-12-2009, 19:50

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Originally Posted by John Warburton

Hi TactZilla, great footage any chance of a copy i was that busy i hadn't time to set my camera. just watched it and it does look like you had the best spot to film. John

Have sent you a private message John.

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LYNX1 · 17-12-2009, 20:27

Some cracking work been done, shame I don't live there anymore, my old house had a cracking view, other side of the old railway line.......but you lot have come through........great stuff

John Warburton · 17-12-2009, 21:11

Big thankyou to TacTZilla, and glad you enjoyed the Hapton Chimney Katex, speak to you all soon John

katex · 17-12-2009, 21:39

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Originally Posted by Atarah

And the last few ....

and the one still standing on Victoria Street.

Seemingly, this was part of Higham's Mill Atarah at one time, for one of their boilers.

Morecambe Ex Pat · 18-12-2009, 07:26

Which mill had the tallest chimney in Hyndburn?

katex · 18-12-2009, 08:47

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Originally Posted by Morecambe Ex Pat

Which mill had the tallest chimney in Hyndburn?

Eeew good question Morecambe ... sea level or ground level ? ...

Morecambe Ex Pat · 18-12-2009, 12:27

I was thinking about the height above ground level but what dictated the height each one had to be.

Retlaw · 18-12-2009, 14:12

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Originally Posted by Morecambe Ex Pat

I was thinking about the height above ground level but what dictated the height each one had to be.

The tallest chimney I've ever climbed was a 200 footer, at a mill in Heapy Clough Chorley.

The two tallest in Acc would probably be Broad Oak Print Works and Bulloughs. Broad Oak had 6 Lancashire boilers and generated their own electricity.
The bricks used in chimneys are not your common house brick, they were moulded to curve in the diameter of the chimney, starting with the largest diam at the bottom, sometimes 12 or more rows at the bottom, tapering as it went up to 6 rows at the top. 1/2 million bricks.

I worked with Fred Cooper a steeplejack from Blackburn, he could do a five foot rise in a day, two of us stacking bricks and mortar at the 4 corners on the platform while he laid the bricks, and you had to work hard to keep up with him, two more blokes at the bottom loading bricks and mortar on the hoist, operated by Bill Seed, and two more blokes mixing mortar and unloading the bricks from the lorries.
When that was done it was back to Fred's workshop to make the steel bands for the top 50 ft
all the diameters of the chimneys he ever worked on were marked out on the loft floor, and we put the steel plate through the rollers on the bending machine till it had the right curve, then drill the ends for the bolts and then bend the ends to the right angle to join up and pull tight on the chimney at the right place.
Then back to the chimney a week later, after the mortar had chance to set, and fit the bands in place, then give them a final coat of red lead paint

Retlaw.

katex · 18-12-2009, 16:33

That's really interesting Retlaw ...

Seems the mill that I was talking about that is like Woodnook was India Mill at Darwen ... no, not on the outside (although is red brick at the back) .. the windows and some of the internal design.
Now, that is some chimney, isn't it.

Seems that the middle ledge is wide enough to get a horse and cart around it !

Think John Warburton maintains this too ?

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Retlaw · 18-12-2009, 17:53

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Originally Posted by katex

That's really interesting Retlaw ...

Seems the mill that I was talking about that is like Woodnook was India Mill at Darwen ... no, not on the outside (although is red brick at the back) .. the windows and some of the internal design.
Now, that is some chimney, isn't it.

Seems that the middle ledge is wide enough to get a horse and cart around it !
It will be a very little horse and cart, might get stuck on the corners, YOU could probably push a pram round it.
Think John Warburton maintains this too ?

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Retlaw.

katex · 18-12-2009, 18:22

"Seems that the middle ledge is wide enough to get a horse and cart around it !
It will be a very little horse and cart, might get stuck on the corners, YOU could probably push a pram round it."

Well, that was what I was told by a builder friend of mine who was in touch with the steeplejack who told him this ...

Oh No !! why am I in blue now like Retlaw, horror of horrors ..

Atarah · 19-12-2009, 14:01

HEY RETLAW! Where the flippin' eck you been? GLAD YOU ARE BACK WITH US!! Happy Christmas to you!

Retlaw · 19-12-2009, 14:51

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Originally Posted by Atarah

HEY RETLAW! Where the flippin' eck you been? GLAD YOU ARE BACK WITH US!! Happy Christmas to you!

Christmas again already, that means library's shut for best part of week, all because of some mythical being whos existence has never been proved.

Retlaw.

cashman · 19-12-2009, 15:01

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Originally Posted by Retlaw

Christmas again already, that means library's shut for best part of week, all because of some mythical being whos existence has never been proved.

Retlaw.

i dispute that as i once told me daughter i used to play darts wi him in the Black Horse n being 5 yrs old at the time she bought it.