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I have noticed today that the Accrington heritage unit in the Arndale have a section all about the Nori. Very interesting especially the photo of the Nori football team in 1950s as my dad and his brother are on it.

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Hi, oh when were you in. I was there in the afternoon. Yep we do have some good stuff re NORI. If you want a copy of that photo, you only need to ask :-)

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Thanks for the offer but I think it was my photo you copied once. Just nice to see it on display.

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I assume Thwaites famous dray wagons artwork feature was made using nori brick.
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The famous Noris have been granted a new lease of life.

Famous Accrington brickworks set to reopen (From Lancashire Telegraph)

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That's wonderful news. I have read the article in the Telegraph but they are wrong saying the foundations of Blackpool Tower were Nori brick. The Tower was originally built with Huncoat brick which was a different firm. It was refaced with Nori in the late 50's.The firm which owned Nori had their works at Whinney Hill which was on a different site to Huncoat brick.

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Hi Mr Rowlf, that is very interesting to read. Could I perhaps print that off and display in the Museum in our Nori section?

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Nice idea but that wouldn't reverse the letters rather it would produce a mirror image. Try writing it and holding it in front of the mirror.

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I think the foundations of "The Empire State Building " were made from NORI bricks..

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Hi Atarah, You can if you like. I only know what my dad told me and he worked at Whinney Hill until he went into the Navy in WW2 and as there was a fire at that site during his absence he was put to work on the Clayton Nori site after the war. He spent 30 years working for the company. The North West Sound Archive at Clitheroe Castle have a CD of him talking about Huncoat in his childhood and he talks about the Nori on it too.

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As I understand it the bricks have been specified for the next generation of nuclear power stations, very good news

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I believe it was Thurston Smith who invented the famous NORI brick..

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Thurston, grand fellow. I once visited him at his home in CLM where he had built a large working model of the mill engine in the mill on Atlas st. He actually made some miniature Nori bricks from the original clay and fired them himself. Fantastic thing it was. I believe he also made a model brick pressing machine.

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There is such a (model) machine in the Market Hall. Maybe this chap made it. Howewver, the NORI was first made long befo
re his day.

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That machine was made by Thurston Smith. His photo is beside the machine.