huncoat power station

wellbeing · 14-11-2006, 13:42

can anyone help me i am tearing my hair out!
i am after information about huncoat power station doeas any1 no when it first opened?also when did hyndburn borough council buy the land.all i know is that the houses before the bungalows that are on station road now the power station workers used to live in them.does any1 know.please help or point me in the right direction

thanks

WillowTheWhisp · 14-11-2006, 15:36

Does this help?

Ianto.W. · 20-11-2006, 14:28

Dead on Willow it was the early 50s, we had lodgers from Simon Carves who did a lot of the steelwork. Many of the people who worked on it stayed in Accrington and have families here.

Tony Ireland · 24-01-2008, 14:22

Again i've only just stumbled on this thread and I have never seen a question better answered just for reference simon carves supplied and built the 5 boilers
tony

Retlaw · 24-01-2008, 14:37

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Originally Posted by wellbeing

can anyone help me i am tearing my hair out!
i am after information about huncoat power station doeas any1 no when it first opened?also when did hyndburn borough council buy the land.all i know is that the houses before the bungalows that are on station road now the power station workers used to live in them.does any1 know.please help or point me in the right direction

thanks

In 1949 Lang Bridges did a lot of work for Simon Carves of Cheadle Heath Stockport. I made some of the wood patterns for the cast iron work that went into building the power plants that ran the generators.
Retlaw.

wadey · 19-01-2011, 13:38

Have done some photos this morning will post a link later

wadey · 19-01-2011, 14:27

Photos here, will put them on Accrington Web later

Huncoat Power Station, Lancashire | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

walkinman221 · 19-01-2011, 17:41

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Originally Posted by wellbeing

can anyone help me i am tearing my hair out!
i am after information about huncoat power station doeas any1 no when it first opened?also when did hyndburn borough council buy the land.all i know is that the houses before the bungalows that are on station road now the power station workers used to live in them.does any1 know.please help or point me in the right direction

thanks

Huncoat power station construction began in 1950 and was finished, and opened in 1956.My dad worked there for over 30 years more or less up to its closure then he moved to padiham powerstation until retirement.

jaysay · 19-01-2011, 18:48

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Originally Posted by wadey

Photos here, will put them on Accrington Web later

Huncoat Power Station, Lancashire | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Thanks for the photos wadey, but what are they doing with the site?

Eric · 19-01-2011, 19:24

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Originally Posted by walkinman221

Huncoat power station construction began in 1950 and was finished, and opened in 1956.My dad worked there for over 30 years more or less up to its closure then he moved to padiham powerstation until retirement.

My dad worked at Huncoat power station in the 60s ... I think he worked in the stores ... not sure about that, 'cause it was at a time that my dad and I were not getting along.

wadey · 19-01-2011, 20:26

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Thanks for the photos wadey, but what are they doing with the site?

No idea and yet it's links to the motorway network are superb, don't know who owns it

walkinman221 · 19-01-2011, 20:26

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Originally Posted by Eric

My dad worked at Huncoat power station in the 60s ... I think he worked in the stores ... not sure about that, 'cause it was at a time that my dad and I were not getting along.

What was his name my dad might know him?

cashman · 19-01-2011, 21:12

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Thanks for the photos wadey, but what are they doing with the site?

ask Eddie Quigliotti or whatever his name was, hes gonna give it some big time.

walkinman221 · 19-01-2011, 21:14

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Originally Posted by cashman

ask Eddie Quigliotti or whatever his name was, hes gonna give it some big time.

I some kind of ski slope thing wasnt it?

Retlaw · 19-01-2011, 23:31

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Originally Posted by Ianto.W.

Dead on Willow it was the early 50s, we had lodgers from Simon Carves who did a lot of the steelwork. Many of the people who worked on it stayed in Accrington and have families here.

When I was an apprentice at Lang Bridges, we made a lot of patterns & castings for Simon Carves, Cheadle Heath, Stockport.
I put that name on many a pattern.
They were mainly for the coal crushing plant to feed the boilers.
That would be in the early 1950's.
Retlaw.
Just reread the thread, and I've already quoted on it once