"Dear_reader" 20-Aug Enjoy! (With acks and thanks to the OP) - "PG Wodehouse - Code of the Woosters.par2" yEnc (1/1)Ĭollection size: 260.56 MB, parts available: 702 / 702 "Dear_reader" 20-Aug Enjoy! (With acks and thanks to the OP) - "PG Wodehouse - Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit.par2" yEnc (1/1)Ĭollection size: 213.25 MB, parts available: 576 / 576 "Dear_reader" 20-Aug Enjoy! (With acks and thanks to the OP) - "PG Wodehouse - Right Ho Jeeves.par2" yEnc (1/1)Ĭollection size: 377.28 MB, parts available: 1015 / 1015 "Dear_reader" 20-Aug Enjoy! (With acks and thanks to the OP) - "PG Wodehouse - Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves.par2" yEnc (1/1)Ĭollection size: 252.58 MB, parts available: 681 / 681 "Dear_reader" 20-Aug Enjoy! (With acks and thanks to the OP) - "PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves.par2" yEnc (1/1)Ĭollection size: 314.01 MB, parts available: 846 / 846 Subject Poster Date Enjoy! (With acks and thanks to the OP) - "PG Wodehouse - What Ho Jeeves - Joy In The Morning.par2" yEnc (1/1)Ĭollection size: 296.24 MB, parts available: 799 / 799 Results Apply filter: only show collections - only show posts with NFO watchlist - disclaimer - browse newsgroups Newsgroup .bbc.highspeed The fire brigade had come to let him down and unfortunately he slipped through the sling and died.Browse newsgroup .bbc.highspeedī basic search - advanced search - F.A.Q.
I asked why the fire brigade were there and was told that a man had fallen off the scaffold while they were erecting the towers. One day I went to the gate office for tea mugs. He was an amazing man."Ĭharles Bowser was a 16-year-old joiner's apprentice on the site in 1936. "I was employed by CH Gillam & Son, carpenters and joiners. Mr Gill had his armchair carried up on to the operating floor on the turbine hall and he sat in it like it was a throne, with his bowler hat on and his hands in his waistcoat directing operations. You wouldn't dream of speaking to the foreman unless you had something to say.
"Mr Gill the foreman wouldn't let us call the fitters by their first names, it had to be Mr Smee, Mr Hadfield and so on. I was stopped from wearing I studs in my boots as a lad because the turbine hall floor was washed and polished every day. It was wonderful - but very Victorian in the attitudes. "I started as an apprentice in 1952 and stayed there for 24 years. Gordon Sykes from Jordanthorpe phoned Rony with his memories of working at Blackburn Meadows. Jennifer, Tom and Lewis came to speak to Rony Robinson in January 2009 to appeal for people's memories of Blackburn Meadows Power Station. Tinsley Towers were demolished on 24th August 2008 The Echoes of Blackburn Meadows team want to gather memories from people who used to work at Blackburn Meadows or live nearby. a kind of Radio Blackburn Meadows! Your memories He's installing FM transmitters around the walk so that you'll be able to listen to bits of audio histories as you walk around. Tom Dixon works on the artistic side of the project and is also the project's technician. I've been hearing about to the wares of Wigfalls, or Wiggie's as it was better known, which was where electrical appliances could be hired or purchased. Most inspiring of all has been listening to narratives first hand about what it was like to be inside of one of the most technologically advanced power stations in the country during the mid-twentieth century." I've been hearing tales of Tinsley's infamous purple rain, a result of the air pollution from Blackburn Meadows and the culprit for soiling clean washing as it hung out to dry. "Over the recent weeks, I've been busy interviewing the old boys at the power station.
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