h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

hi
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i live in yorkshire, and we have the "black satanic mills" now long gone.
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i did a guide on buildings in yorkshire, in and around the town center. the only one i got edited
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if you want to read it, is on my ps. its from the 1800,s.
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lke your building, all our mills, black dyke, salts and others are gone or just mueseums.
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i worked in the textile, in some of the satanic mills, from the age of 15, im now 62.
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jim

Hi jimcracker

Thanks for the note, but I should say that this story is really Waz's, not mine. It's her part of the world, and I only heard about the place though her. She wrote the piece based on my notes, and they were really only a prompt rather than a foundation.

It ties in with my own interest in steel, and the history of its volume manufacture.

If you're interested in a part of the same story that's nearer to Bradford, look up John Marshall at Holbeck near Leeds. Perhaps the most intriguing of his several ventures was the Temple Mill, built in an Egyptian style, with sheep grazing on the roof!
http://www.holbeckurbanvillage.co.uk/history/john-marshall-biography.htm

See you around

Pin

opps
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i thought i had replied to waz, and a message on waz ps to say i had replied.
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i worked in the steelmills in sheffield, tempered springs(making car springs) spear and jackson(making and redoing circular saw blades),and a few others in manchester, and barnsley
jim

Thanks Jim

I was away for a long weekend and saw a leaflet for Strutt's mill check this out http://www.belpernorthmill.org.uk/

Also claiming to be the forerunner of skyscrapers. Derbyshire it seems know how to look after their significant buildings.

hi
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im not on a pc till tomorrow, i cant acsess the internet in full on the cable email link.
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i,ll take a look tomorrow.
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i got sort of interested in buildings, because in 1985 to 1994, i was a printer for one of the largest architects, robinson,s partnership. at the time the largest job was meadowhall. and it was me who had to print thousands of plans for the new tower in garages replacing shell and other poles.
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ive only done one edited guide, one the town center buildings history from 1800,s.
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jim