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13-02-2015, 16:42
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Re: accrington metallic brick
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13-02-2015, 16:47
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Re: accrington metallic brick
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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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13-02-2015, 16:56
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Re: accrington metallic brick
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No,sorry,just a Tshirt
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13-02-2015, 20:27
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Re: accrington metallic brick
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That a new line from Lancs Dave?
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13-02-2015, 22:01
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Re: accrington metallic brick
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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14-02-2015, 06:26
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Re: accrington metallic brick
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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14-02-2015, 16:20
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Re: accrington metallic brick
Old Bricks:England 3 - A another tale about nori brick
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14-02-2015, 16:58
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Re: accrington metallic 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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14-02-2015, 19:28
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Re: accrington metallic brick
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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14-02-2015, 19:56
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Re: accrington metallic 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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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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15-02-2015, 12:28
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Re: accrington metallic brick
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Yeh got a better memory n me, i'd read that and completely forgot.
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15-02-2015, 14:19
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Re: accrington metallic brick
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Originally Posted by Morecambe Ex Pat
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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Hey AMATEUR ... do your bloody homework. Everyone knows Icky was from Knuzden. And that info comes from an unimpeachable source ... My Gran
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16-02-2015, 08:22
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Re: accrington metallic brick
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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16-02-2015, 12:45
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Re: accrington metallic brick
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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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16-02-2015, 18:50
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Re: accrington metallic brick
I didn't really rate my Gran as a soothsayer although she was a mean exponent of the twin tub, mangle and donkey stone.
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