What happened to the cycling track?
i worked on the jnk and m6 in1971-3 as a auto electrician maintaning the trucks nd plant for douglas plant.i worked day and night. the money was very good but not a lot of it, one day being exhausted i went to thr loo and slept 24 hour in there lol.what a great job and gang of blokes.Pedrocut, my husband was just telling me about the Irish workers when I opened your post. Really interesting, thank you.
and it wasl full of rabbits, too we had a field day as kids catching and floging them .you could cut through and come out in aston church rdThere was an enormous sewage farm to the east of Salford Bridge, where sewage was spread on fields. this was developed from 1865. The purchase of esome of the land is mentioned in the 150 years thread recently. When treatment methods improved and bacterial filtration was introduced in 1898, the area was considerably reduced.
A Hillman Imp?Keith Berry took photos from underneath Spaghetti Junction not long after it was built and this was one of them.
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nice parking.Keith Berry took photos from underneath Spaghetti Junction not long after it was built and this was one of them.
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Or Austin 1100?A Hillman Imp?
BOB
Thanks Everyone, that sounds more likely to be muck doesn't it? I'd forgotten about the sewage farm and yet my Gt Uncle Edward worked there in the early part of the 20thC. He died from typhoid caught there. He was only in his 20's and left a widow and small daughter.
i remember the farmThe sewage farm was where Gravelly Industrial Park is now. I think it was called the Tame and Rea Drainage Board. It has a narrow-gauge railway.
There is a row of houses on Standard Way that were known at the Drainage Board Cottages.
They did away with this site after building a huge sewer pipe along Tyburn Road to Minworth in the 1960’s
The Medical Officer’s Report for 1898 stated that “in the June quarter two cases of Diphtheria (one fatal) were notified. In the one case (non-fatal) the origin of the disease could not be discovered, but the other occurred at Tyburn on the edge of the Sewage Farm, in one of the cottages belonging to the Drainage Board. This, I have no doubt, was due to the condition of this part of the Farm, which for many months was in a very unsatisfactory state. In the September quarter, five cases, two fatal, were reported, and four of these were in close propinquity to the Sewage Farm, and I have little doubt that they were due to its insanitary condition.”
Is this the Sewage Farm shown on the 1889 OS Map below ?
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Question: what is an enumerator box?I like the enumerator's box, looks like a newspaper stand. I wonder if he was asked for the latest Evening Mail !
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Source : British Newspaper Archive
Ah! Now I understand, thank you!Hi Richard. I assumed the man standing in the box was the traffic enumerator. He looks to me like he's holding a clip board. The 'box' looks like a newspaper sellers shed.
If I remember, coming down Litchfield Rd from Six Ways, that would be on your right?