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Do I get a badge?

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No ... you get a tattoo on your ass ... And you reveal you are a member only when the moon is full.;)

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No,sorry,just a Tshirt :D

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That a new line from Lancs Dave? ;)

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Hi, I too was very curious about this metallic brick, so contacted the well respected local historian MR MIKE ROTHWELL. This is his answer - "Probably the Baxenden Metallic Brick Company Limited which operated at Cat Clough (near the present pet food shop) between 1896 and 1906. Brief details in Industrial Heritage, Haslingden & District, 2008, p 75" - so, hows about that! Good Mike!

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The Baxenden bricks had the name Baxenden on them:-
https://www.flickr.com/photos/28709338@N04/2707875856/

It is surprising how little we know about our industrial heritage and the products produced by our ancestors.

On our genealogy site, we have a demolished mill (Lower Mill, Rising Bridge) with close family ties but we have been unable to establish what the mill actually produced.

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Old Bricks:England 3 - A another tale about nori brick

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So IRON did become NORI! Retlaw was wrong- but also right.

What an interesting story, who'd a thout it?

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Spot on BOB - We may have just found the origins of our beloved NORI bricks.

All we need to do now is prove the existence (or myth) of Icky, 'The Bare Bummed Fire Bobby' who is reputed to have roamed Priestley Clough in search of lost souls and non streetwise orphans.

(Any connection with current media cases is purely intentional)

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I knew i`d read that story before, post #44 on this thread -
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...tml#post958073

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Yeh got a better memory n me, i'd read that and completely forgot.:eek::D

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Hey AMATEUR ... do your bloody homework. Everyone knows Icky was from Knuzden. And that info comes from an unimpeachable source ... My Gran;):D

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My information came from my Grandad who served in the war and did all kinds of really brave stuff, like cooking omelettes and making soup in the dark. His omelette soup is mentioned in the Lancashire Dialect Doomsday Book (available in all good bookstores and some bad ones too).

I may be amateur but I still have some of my own teeth.

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In the hierarchy of folk wisdom Grans outrank Grandads ... particularly when it comes to Icky, Jenny Greenteeth, and assorted boggarts.;)

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I didn't really rate my Gran as a soothsayer although she was a mean exponent of the twin tub, mangle and donkey stone.