Jon, I agree. I can't help feel that Buggyite must be a bit of an anorak, but also what a mine of information

Now just to prove the gap between my knowledge and Buggyite's I have a question. What is the fuel used by these wagons (or waggons)? It may be obvious but not to me.

Hello all

In last month's "Vintage Spirit" magazine, there was a photograph of New Mills Council's Aveling & Porter steam roller working in Whaley Bridge - presumably hired to Whaley Council who didn't have their own. It looks like its helping make new roads by some council houses, but I can't just place it (although Shallcross Avenue springs to mind)

Can any of you Whaley experts help place it please. Also help in dating it would be useful, as I was too tight to buy the magazine at WH Smiths in Buxton - the caption gave a year but just "Whaley Bridge" as the location!

buggyite attached the following image(s):

Having done a lot of looking back and forth between the photo, and google streetview for both locations (this doesn't half make one cross-eyed!), I am beginning to come down on the Jodrell Meadow side, too. The only issue I have is that the gap between the 2 pairs of semis on the photo looks more like the gap on Shallcross Avenue, but that just be down to the positioning of Google's camera car at the time of them taking their photos.

Now, does anyone know the date of when the council houses in both locations were completed?

And are the old WBUDC council minutes available for perusing somewhere, and if so, where and when?

(The minutes would presumably have an item about hiring New Mills' steam roller to make such and such a road)

Another intriguing thing about the photo is that it shows a welded repair to the chimney about a foot above the chimney base. My dad was told once that the New Mills roller was going somewhere, and the chimney "fell off", so we are wondering if this was the repair effected to be able to keep working. Certainly, the chimney that was fitted at the time New Mills sold it for preservation in 1971 was not a repaired one, so it must have had a new one after this trip to Whaley Bridge.

Hi R. S-S

I've got some friends on Caldene Terrace who haven't got a computer.  I've printed a few items from the Forum to show them and I'm sure they would love to see your photo of Caldene Terrace being built.

Thanks

Mrs C

Hi R. S-S

I've sent you an email this afternoon.

Mrs C

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I'll have half!

It’s been a long time since this thread was last used but I’ve just come across a photo that I think might have been taken in Whaley Bridge; if not certainly in this area.
I don’t know if these vehicles have been on the forum before as some photos seem to have gone.
I’m putting them on in the hope that Buggyite is still alive and well. If he is he will no doubt have something to say about them.

R. S-S

Sorry WKN,

I'm just not with it at the moment.
I will look through your web site later.

R. S-S

Good afternoon Buggyite,

As you know I have many photos in my collection; some I have bought at various places, some off the internet and some are from old glass plates.
I think this photo is from the glass plate collection and as such I am pretty certain it will have been taken somewhere locally.

If you remember sometime ago I put a picture of a toll house on the forum and I said it was part of my Bugsworth collection but I had no idea where it was. You solved the problem for me saying it was at the entrance to the Wire Mill.
I have since bought an old OS map of Buggy and the toll house is shown in exactly the position you said it was.
So I think the machines were here at one time. I’ll try to find out a bit more later on.

Who would have ever thought that there was an aeroplane in Whaley Bridge? But there was and I've got a photo of it and there is no doubt that it is Whaley.

So I am just trying to make the point that things do turn up in strange places and sometimes the last place you would expect.

R. S-S