Sorry HE. I didn't realise that there was more than one photographer involved or I would have used the third person plural to refer to them.

Re photo of Printworks being built #40.  Mr Curious tells me that his Mum used to refer to this as the Lime House.

Mrs C

Hi tyke, the old boiler house and chimney were in the middle of the works yard until about the early 1930s. the coal going down between the houses of Bingswood on the railway waggons. the chimney became dangerous.

Subsequently a new boiler house and chimney were built on the other side of the little bridge to which you refer and as you say the railway lines extended. This was put on a topic on the C.P.A. previously but I can't find it.

george

WonderWhy

If you are going to copy and drop pictures into the threads, which you have just copied from another thread, then please have the courtesy to say so. In this case you have taken a picture that RSS recently posted in another thread and you have dropped it in as if it came from you.

Please will you also remove the wwwlink  from your posts.

Thank you.

Jon.

Another load of blethering nonsense from**. ( I see that this site treats *his* name as an obscenity, so the **s mean Last Word Larry of Kinmel Bay)

The lime heaped on the wharf side is there because it has been unloaded from railway wagons, and is for onward shipment by narrow boat.

As the narrow boat was not to hand for loading directly into, it will have been dropped onto the wharf side to avoid having to pay demurrage charges to the LMS railway. Demurrage was paid if you kept a wagon for longer than was thought necessary for unloading.

The lime house was for transhipping quick lime from railway wagons into narrow boats, and is enclosed to avoid the quick lime getting wet. It isn't clear whether there was a proper wagon tippler device in there which would have turned the wagon over to empty it (although I doubt this very much). Also, bottom-discharge wagons were quite rare on the railways in the 1920s and 30s, so it wold have just been somewhere dry where men with shovels would have shifted the quick lime through the side door of the wagon into the narrow boat waiting underneath.

I prefer not to respond to anything** writes, but felt it necessary to make this correction to avoid history being corrupted, should anyone use this site for research purposes.

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Robert/RSS thank you for emailing me today as to where you obtained the Poll Tax photo.  The information you supplied was very useful and the photographer is very grateful.

It is a great pity that the surrounding debate has been so unpleasant.   A great deal has been said by many people over the six days since the matter was raised and a great deal of it appears to have been said in anger.  People make mistakes with postings, the good, the bad and the ugly. The forum isn't always perfect and sometimes members push it too far, but it's at its best when people are debating points made in a civil, friendly and constructive manner.  It doesn't always need to end with a shoot-out/showdown.