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So your grandpappy worked at the Barrow yard then J ;)

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No unfortunately not D:D

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Do you remember a chap called George Robinson who was manager in the 20s or 30s? Did he have any children? Just following a friend's family back and surprised to find the Robinsons came from Bedfordshire and the family went all over the place before settling in Clayton le Moors. George's father George and his brother Baldwin were called terra cotta modellers on the censuses. It must have been a skilled job. Marie

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Bedfordshire was another area big in brickmaking at one time. They could been following a trade around the country.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/work/e...s_herts_bucks/

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Thanks for your reply. You're quite right, Susie. In 1911 George Robinson senior's family evidently had enough of moving house and they all stayed in Clayton le Moors in Fielding Terrace while he worked on a job in Stoke. George Robinson junior, I am told, later became the manager at Nori and lived in a row of cottages near the house that was bombed in the war, Marie

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Agreed.

I think the copyright theory is sound... but as yet still unproven :(

I haven't managed to find any of those "iron whichever way you spell it" ads yet, but I'm still on the lookout. I wonder if there's a way to search for legal proceedings as to the copyright story - I don't have a date to work from or any idea how to go about it. Having said that, even if the copyright theory is true, maybe it was decided amicably away from the courts and so no records were kept.

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Hi

I am just seeing your post now. I'd love to hear more.

How do we do that?

M

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I used to work at Nori until they made me redundant. Up for sale now. Shame. Lots of families worked there in the past. Great place to work

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Sadly, this place is up for sale and no longer produced nori,s for years

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A rather nice Accrington Nori advert from 1938 that some of you might like to see.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/36844288@N00/14734167604/

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Amazing to see that advert from 1938. My Dad would be working at Whinney Hill then. He started in 1930 when he left school and while he was in the Navy during the war there was a fire there and it ceased producing for a while so when he was demobed in 1946 he was transferred to the Nori works in Clayton where he stayed until 1961. While he was there Blackpool Tower was refaced with best Nori brick. It was built originally from Huncoat brick I believe.The Houndshill shopping centre was built from best Nori too. Actually my house is Nori brick too and the garage. There has been some blue air a few times when hubby has tried to drill into it.

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i think same time as ici nobel ardeer expanded now abandoned was there yesterday as it only 25 mins away from my house

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these were used for the testing of dynamite :eek:

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Found this set of archived pics, if anyone's interested:
https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/610349...7629219958788/

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What is on the site of the old ICI nobel place cmonstanley?
I used to deliver Sulphuric acid there, they made explosive stuff.
Where about do you live?