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Ralph Bracewell does ring a bell in the old subconcious, but I just cannot bring him or the family to mind, maybe with a little prompting from this forum the memory's will return.

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The ariel flight crossed over Burnley Road and had a net under it to protect the cars etc from falling clay. I think it supplied Clay from the Quarries on the coppice to the Huncoat Brick works. Known as "Redac Bricks" I think

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Hi, if you look back to the start of this thread it tells you all about the aerial flight, Redac, etc. Yours Taddy

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Did R.Bracewell used to be in haulage etc.?

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No - that's a different family. Ralph has a sister, Amy and a brother whose name I have forgotten.

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Hi Taddy, I've just read this post. I'm trying to find a picture of Redac. My Dad, Auntie & Grandad worked there. Maybe yuo knew them. Dad was Reg Barnes (a foreman I think who may have worked nights& lived on Yorkshire Street until 1964). Auntie was Mary Haworth & Grandad was Joseph Tierney. Thanks, Alison Conboy (nee Barnes).

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Hello Alison,I have only just spotted your post, I don't use this Bill Gate's contraption to often, the predictive text does my head in.
As to your question, yes I do have an arial photograph of the Redac Brickworks the photo also shows the old railway viaduct that carried the coal from Broad Meadows Colliery, (Huncoat Pit), to Altham Coke Works.
As for Reg, I worked under him and Billy Middleton from 1963 until 1965 until I was trained as one of the three forklift truck drivers employed by Redac.
If you would like a copy of the above mentioned photo please P.M. me
Stay happy as ever, Your's Taddy
P.S. did you by any chance once live on Burnley Lane in the village ?

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I can remember very vividly the "Cable Cars" going across Burnley Road. To my knowledge they were used for taking material to the NORI brick works.

Cheers

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The cable cars, IE. the arial flight that ran across Burnlley Road fed the "REDAC"
brickyard, not the Nori, I have a photograph of the flight with the name "Redac"
emblazened on both sides.
The Nori, Enfield and Whinney hill brickyards had their own quarries on Whinney Hill, the Whinney Hill, or "Plastic", as it used to be known as is still in operation.
Your's, TADDY.

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I have been re-perusing this and I think that Ralph and Amy's mother was always known affectionatly as "Irish Ellen"; I have no doubt that Amy can put me right on that.Also I think that Ralph may have attended Woodnook School;
Again I could stand to be corrected.
Your's Taddy.

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Hi Taddy,
I stand corrected, it was indeed REDAC.

Thanks & Cheers

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No problem, I remember the flight well, as a fifteen or sixteen year old along with others of the same age, we had to clear the guard netting under it if the spillage from the tubs became a danger to folk underneath. No health and safety rules in those day's.
All the best, Your's, Taddy.

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I was in the Accy Mall Heritage Centre today and had a great chat with 'Attarah' who is a fount of local knowledge and a truly lovely lady!
We talked about lots of stuff and as I was brought up on Within Grove I too remember the Aerial Cable System over Burnley Road. It traversed the road just before the St Augustine's Vicarage, which was the next house on the right, as you head towards The Griffin's Head pub.:drink:
I too remember the triangle of rail track and tipper trucks at the quarry and the one at the end of the Cableway near to the REDAC works:signntme:
at the bottom of the football pitch on the spoil hill, used now by Huncoat United FC.:wave:

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The one at the Redac end of the cableway was known as the "Angle Station", I have climbed up it more times then I care to remember; when one of the buckets wheels became detached from the ropeway someone had to go up with a sledge hammer in order to knock the said tub off. The biggest bind was that it nearly always happened in the thick of winter.

Your's Taddy.

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Hi Taddy, thanks for your reply. I would love a copy of the photo. Would you be able to send it as an email attachment? My Mum, Dad, sisters Linda, Susan & Geoff lived in the bottom house on Yorkshire Street until just before I was born in Feb 1964. We moves to Langdale Close, on the estate for my arrival because there wasn't any room left for a cot at Yorkshire St. Don't know a lot about Redac except that I spent my early years playing in the piles of bricks and sliding down the slope of the quarry & pond that was nect to Fish Lane. I did go to school in the village though. Unfortunately my Dad died in 1972 so I didn't get many years with him. If you can send the pic via email my address is:- [email protected]. Many thanks, Alison.