Black smoke
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Allotment fires - I've seen quite a few, since I live right next to a large area of allotments.
They sometimes burn 'green wood', which is organic stuff that still has lots of sap in it - that's when it produces excessive smoke.
There was once such a fire only 25ft from my flat, which filled the stairwell with smoke.
I went out with a bucket of water and threw it on the oil drum he was using as a brazier next to the fence.
At the time I looked up the regulations about such fires, and found I had cause to complain to the local enviromental health dept.
I reasoned with the man who did it and he has not done it again since.
but that may be due to the arsonists who destroyed his buildings soon after - wasn't me, honest - just karma maybe
PS on second thoughts - that smoke is too black to be organic waste - I suspect he's burning old tyres, which is very naughty of him.
They sometimes burn 'green wood', which is organic stuff that still has lots of sap in it - that's when it produces excessive smoke.
There was once such a fire only 25ft from my flat, which filled the stairwell with smoke.
I went out with a bucket of water and threw it on the oil drum he was using as a brazier next to the fence.
At the time I looked up the regulations about such fires, and found I had cause to complain to the local enviromental health dept.
I reasoned with the man who did it and he has not done it again since.
but that may be due to the arsonists who destroyed his buildings soon after - wasn't me, honest - just karma maybe
PS on second thoughts - that smoke is too black to be organic waste - I suspect he's burning old tyres, which is very naughty of him.
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He wouldn't dare to burn more than one or two at a time or the fire brigade would be out.
Remember that tyre dump place at Altham that went up a few years back - roads were closed for hours.
It looks to be a remote location so the only person damaged was the person who did it- he must have breathed in some - serves him/her right
Glad there's no six discrimination with you Margaret
maybe the pope was visiting blackburn and dropped dead
keep an eye open for white smoke
I had an uncle and aunt who lived in Lyndhurst Ave, off Windsor Rd, and they were in Intack. Knuzden was on the other side of that estate from Blackburn Rd and the Redcap but the article says the pub's in Knuzden. Have they changed the boundaries? I'm confused. 
Oh hek West Ender ... don't start that one again .....
If you have got the time, try this :-
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f71/hyndburn-blackburn-boundaries-40552.html
If you have got the time, try this :-
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f71/hyndburn-blackburn-boundaries-40552.html
Oh! 
I don't know how I missed that thread, Kate, but after reading all the various maps and directions I will admit defeat. I'm just as confused as I was before.
Thinking back to the days when every bus had a conductor who, amongst other things, would shout out the names of the stops en route, they always shouted "Windsor Road" then, once past the traffic lights at the bottom of Shadsworth Rd, "Intack". Maybe Intack doesn't/didn't really start until after Shad but it was my relatives' address.
I don't know how I missed that thread, Kate, but after reading all the various maps and directions I will admit defeat. I'm just as confused as I was before.
Thinking back to the days when every bus had a conductor who, amongst other things, would shout out the names of the stops en route, they always shouted "Windsor Road" then, once past the traffic lights at the bottom of Shadsworth Rd, "Intack". Maybe Intack doesn't/didn't really start until after Shad but it was my relatives' address.
Is the Redcap pub not within the Rishton boundaries?
