Woodnook mill.

[Bernard Dawson]

Originally Posted by Atarah

And a few more from today. Before we know it, the proposed houses will be built and lived in!

You never know. Watch for those pigs flying about

[Atarah]

A ha! Me thinks you know something .......... Go on, tell!

[Bernard Dawson]

Originally Posted by Atarah

A ha! Me thinks you know something .......... Go on, tell!

I know it's got Planning Permission for Housing. I sat on the committee when it came up. The developers had been in a lot of discussion with the Council planners on the number of houses on that site.

There's not a lot of money about I know, but I would think that it's a decent site for housing, and they would probably sell quite well

Don't lay at my door though, if nowt happens for awhile.

[Retlaw]

Re Highams Mill.
For those who keep asking where's such and such.
I've put some names on Atarah's picture and then you can see where places are in relation to Highams Mill.

Retlaw

[katex]

Originally Posted by Bernard Dawson

There's not a lot of money about I know, but I would think that it's a decent site for housing, and they would probably sell quite well

Don't lay at my door though, if nowt happens for awhile.

I do not think though, Bernard, that the owners would have demolished Woodnook without an assurance of funding from the banks for a new build.

[katex]

Originally Posted by Retlaw

Re Highams Mill.
For those who keep asking where's such and such.
I've put some names on Atarah's picture and then you can see where places are in relation to Highams Mill.

Retlaw

'Owd Coop' ..

[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by katex

'Owd Coop' ..

Yep got it in one Medusa.
Owd Co-op or Thowd Co-op
kall id wad tha wants

At least it shows thas luked ad id un red it,
not like sum, us stil ax daft questuns evun after
theyv bin anserd. Dusti like them culurs

Retlaw.

[katex]

Originally Posted by Retlaw

Dusti like them culurs

Retlaw.

Oh aye lad,
I luvs thee pink,
Showing th'owd Co-op but wear's River Stink ?

Not on this map .. ah'll be bownd,
Just Woodnook watters,
dahn Priestley Cluf.

Tha's wrong wi' Higham's Mill,
Bin called Woodnuck neah for many a wile.
Tha's fergiven tho .. 'cos .. I ..
Just luvs thi style. x

[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by katex

Oh aye lad,
I luvs thee pink,
Showing th'owd Co-op but wear's River Stink ?
River Stinks a gud aif mile off.
Not on this map .. ah'll be bownd,
Just Woodnook watters,
dahn Priestley Cluf.

Tha's wrong wi' Higham's Mill,
Bin called Woodnuck neah for many a wile.
Tha's fergiven tho .. 'cos .. I ..
Just luvs thi style. x

Id wur calls Iams mill wen a wur a lad,
owd Tum Iam wert gaffer,
ids bi calld allsuerts sin then, bud as am
owder than thee its Iams Mill.
Un dorned gi cheek tu the elders, or thal
gu across me knee an ged pasted wit slipper.
Like thy faythur shud a dun.

Retlaw.

[cashman]

everyone called it Highams Mill, mid 60s when i did a short spell yon.

[katex]

Originally Posted by cashman

everyone called it Highams Mill, mid 60s when i did a short spell yon.

Yeh, but it still belonged to Highams then Cashy. Think the Enfield Group bought it around 81/82 .. well, summat like that anyway.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by katex

Yeh, but it still belonged to Highams then Cashy. Think the Enfield Group bought it around 81/82 .. well, summat like that anyway.

Never knew that Kate, worked fer Enfield up ossy late 60s. in fact bumped into one of the owd tacklers t'other day.

[Bernard Dawson]

Originally Posted by katex

I do not think though, Bernard, that the owners would have demolished Woodnook without an assurance of funding from the banks for a new build.

You would have thought so Kate. I would have thought also that people who live around there would want the site developed sooner rather than later.

It will certainly look different up there when those houses are built.

[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by katex

Yeh, but it still belonged to Highams then Cashy. Think the Enfield Group bought it around 81/82 .. well, summat like that anyway.

So what its akin to changing names on pubs,
Hargreaves in Manchester Rd is still refered to
as Hargreaves, no matter what name they put oer door. Highams's is still Highams's no matter what tha ses, so bi teld wil ti.


Retlaw

[Margaret Pilkington]

It will always be Highams mill to me........and the big old red brick mill was Warburtons.