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| Loading coal at Crooke |
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| Photo: RON Item #: 4170 |
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Coal from local pits being loaded onto a canal barge at Crooke Pier early 1900's |
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| Comments by Ashley, 7th November 2008 |
| A real time capsule of history, Brilliant photo, I seriously doubt if anyone has any memories of this piece of Crooke's history. This photo has preserved it for us. |
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| Comments by Steven Buckley, 21st November 2008 |
| My father remembered this from being in his teens during the 1950's. I think it was used until about 1960 so there'll be quite a few people around who'll still remember it. |
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| Comments by Cyril, 27th April 2009 |
| I can remember this coal wagon tippler operating in the late fifties when I along with my brother and sister went for walks along the canal bank, I remember that the coal coming down the chute into the barge didn't half make a racket. Sometimes we got a lift back to Martland Mill on one of the barges if the bargee would let us on, and very often we'd end up black leaded with the coal dust. |
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| Comments by nephro, 2nd January 2010 |
| A apprentice electricians Me & Art helped to maintain the Pikrose winch that used to bring the empty wagons back up from the tippler. George Woosey was the electricien. 1954 onwards |
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Comments by christine jolley, 15th July 2010  |
| Gosh I remember this scene like it was yesterday in my memory!! used to play on this contraption as a kid and climed unerneath where there was a small square hole I was always Black with the coal good job our clothes in them days where not up to much!! Memomories Happy and Sad now xxx |
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| Comments by gil cunliffe, 7th September 2011 |
| remember going on barge from crooke to westwood power station with sid baldwin, his dad worked on the barges and we came back to crooke in his bedford van. great days. |
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