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can anyone help me i am tearing my hair out!
i am after information about huncoat power station doeas any1 no when it first opened?also when did hyndburn borough council buy the land.all i know is that the houses before the bungalows that are on station road now the power station workers used to live in them.does any1 know.please help or point me in the right direction

thanks:mad:

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Dead on Willow it was the early 50s, we had lodgers from Simon Carves who did a lot of the steelwork. Many of the people who worked on it stayed in Accrington and have families here.

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Again i've only just stumbled on this thread and I have never seen a question better answered just for reference simon carves supplied and built the 5 boilers
tony

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In 1949 Lang Bridges did a lot of work for Simon Carves of Cheadle Heath Stockport. I made some of the wood patterns for the cast iron work that went into building the power plants that ran the generators.
Retlaw.

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Have done some photos this morning will post a link later

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Photos here, will put them on Accrington Web later

Huncoat Power Station, Lancashire | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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Huncoat power station construction began in 1950 and was finished, and opened in 1956.My dad worked there for over 30 years more or less up to its closure then he moved to padiham powerstation until retirement.

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Thanks for the photos wadey, but what are they doing with the site?

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My dad worked at Huncoat power station in the 60s ... I think he worked in the stores ... not sure about that, 'cause it was at a time that my dad and I were not getting along.

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No idea and yet it's links to the motorway network are superb, don't know who owns it

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What was his name my dad might know him?

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ask Eddie Quigliotti or whatever his name was, hes gonna give it some big time.:D;)

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I some kind of ski slope thing wasnt it?:eek:

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When I was an apprentice at Lang Bridges, we made a lot of patterns & castings for Simon Carves, Cheadle Heath, Stockport.
I put that name on many a pattern.
They were mainly for the coal crushing plant to feed the boilers.
That would be in the early 1950's.
Retlaw.
Just reread the thread, and I've already quoted on it once

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yeh but suppose the shortage of snow prevented it.:D

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George Slater ... died 2003.

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Ah mi old sparing partners back, welcome home cashy, Stanley have missed you:D:D:D

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Even using my old camera I cannot upload any photos, any ideas?

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He knows the name ,did he move to ireland by any chance?

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There is a 'glitch' which Mick has mentioned a few times in the photo comp. threads . Waiting for Roy to take a look at it.

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Yes he did. Back in about '68 I think. I didn't know too much about the move. We didn't communicate all that well.

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would that be canadian fer- couldn't stand one another?:D;)

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Close ... and you get the cigar:D I think that the modern buzz words are: we had issues;) But, hey, it seems like dysfunctional relationships are becoming the norm ... maybe I was, or we were, just ahead of our time.

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Yes my dad did remember him ,he said he was somewhat of a character which as you know can mean many things anyway thx.:)

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Thanks

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We have issues, oh ya I know like the one's between Mancie and myself Eric:D

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Really! Hadn't realized that you two were realted:eek::D

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Or even related;)

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Did you not ? Someone said they were Tweedle Dum & Tweedle Dee allegedly . :eek: :D As to who's who ? :s_aim1:

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Hi,
hyndburn borough council have never bought the land- the company that own the power station and the land won't sell it to them due to conflicts of interest - do lots of digging on the net and there is loads of info about current owners etc .