Accrington Bricks

No Malibu they weren't pulling your leg as Cazzer said it's the most famous building built with Accy Nori brick
 
I ahve also heard that NORI was meant to be IRON but the mould was the wrong way around...

At the risk of half the messageboard getting upset at me disputing this :)

If the moulds wrong then how come the word Accrington is the right way around?

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I went to Tucson, Arizona in January and i saw Paul McCartney's house he has out there, and i was told that he had the Nori shipped in to build it!
 
"I went to Tucson, Arizona in January and i saw Paul McCartney's house he has out there, and i was told that he had the Nori shipped in to build it! "

When we move I will have to check that out since we will be in Sierra Vista.
 
I have a picture of Nori brickworks (which I have sent to Roy) and I also have a picture of the cable car system, but .. dont know how to attach photos to my emails.  Sorry
 
Think the mistake people refer to is the sign on the chimney.

Emailed the firm a couple of times a while ago, to see if if they could clarify anything, and let us know the true history. Didn't get any replies unfortunately.

Could of course have been a very good marketing ploy!

It is after all one of the discussion points when outsiders are talking about Accy.

And over the years the company has never let us know what is legend or fact. Wonder why?  :)
 
Buckets which went across Burnley Road

And here is a view of the buckets which many people remember, the name REDAC springs to mind.
 
Chris 7464.  I used to work at Redac and dont know about the tunnels belonging to the brickworks. I think they could have been part of the pit that was just up the road from the brickworks off Station Road.  It is well known that Huncoat is built on many old coal seams.  

Dave what was your dad called maybe I remember him.
 
I used to go regularly to the Quarry which was just off the King's Highway. My father used to repair the buckets and together with a team of maintenance fitters they would scale the pylons which used to carry the steel cables. As a matter of interest does anyone remember the small narrow gauge railways that used to run across Whinney Hill bottom.
 
Was reading the other day that Karate experts in Japan are going to try and break Accrington Engineering bricks, I say good luck to um:rolleyes:
 
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