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[OwlHoot]

I was doing a charity abseil from the Piccadilly hotel in Manchester one day and saw a headline in the Manchester Evening News while zooming past a second floor window. ...

FTFY

[ThomasSoerensen]

That reminds me of a maths teacher at my old school, a Mr Jones.

Mr Jones had a plane spotting club as his house was on the flightpath – young teenage boys regularly met at his house. Even in those days I felt something was odd – all the teachers knew about it and had similar views I think.

He just took me for maths, but I remember the type of lads in the club – loners, vulnerable types.

He was also my sisters form tutor in later years. Fortunately he just had a thing for boys.

I was doing a charity abseil from the Piccadilly hotel in Manchester one day and read the Manchester Evening News while passing the time. A Mr Jones from my school had been imprisoned on counts of paedophilia from all those years ago.

sure sure

[Sysman]

It's a shame that too many people don't see the value of old industrial buildings, especially like that one. Lots of people want to preserve twee little village cottages with their creaking old beams and ' olde worlde charms', but there are fabulous modern industrial buildings that deserve to be looked after and used instead of demolished. It just takes a little imagination to see through the muck and vandalism and recognise the beauty of them.

I was once bemoaning this to my accountant and he explained in in tax terms. It isn't just the VAT payable on renovating old buildings (new buildings were VAT free), but tax relief as well.

West Yorkshire used to have some wonderful industrial architecture, much of it left empty over the years.

[Wilmslow]

That reminds me of a maths teacher at my old school, a Mr Jones.

Mr Jones had a plane spotting club as his house was on the flightpath – young teenage boys regularly met at his house. Even in those days I felt something was odd – all the teachers knew about it and had similar views I think.

He just took me for maths, but I remember the type of lads in the club – loners, vulnerable types.

He was also my sisters form tutor in later years. Fortunately he just had a thing for boys.

I was doing a charity abseil from the Piccadilly hotel in Manchester one day and read the Manchester Evening News while passing the time. A Mr Jones from my school had been imprisoned on counts of paedophilia from all those years ago.

[Freamon]

As I clambered out of the duct into the dark corridor, I could hear noises coming from one of the classrooms. I recognised the voices, one of them was Mr J.
I didn’t know what was happening, I was too young I guess, but I knew something wasn’t right, something strange was going on in there, dangerous maybe.

So I kept my gob shut , and beat a hasty.
I never went back.

You are Leo Colston AICMFP.

[Mich the Tester]

thats a good tradition nick

keep it going by taking your own to see queen victorias willy, in Liverpool . Get the angle just right....

Wow, she's got a holy hand grenade too!

[EternalOptimist]

It stopped production in 1970 (Walls had bought the brand and moved production elsewhere), and I believe they pulled it down around 1980, by which time it had been pretty comprehensively trashed. Merseyside as a whole wasn't getting much in the way of inward investment at that time...

Sometimes, when we went over to see my grandmother in Waterloo of a Sunday afternoon in the 1960s, my Dad would make a detour via that factory just because us kids loved to see the pig carrying the sausage

thats a good tradition nick

keep it going by taking your own to see queen victorias willy, in Liverpool . Get the angle just right....

[Mich the Tester]

It stopped production in 1970 (Walls had bought the brand and moved production elsewhere), and I believe they pulled it down around 1980, by which time it had been pretty comprehensively trashed. Merseyside as a whole wasn't getting much in the way of inward investment at that time...

Sometimes, when we went over to see my grandmother in Waterloo of a Sunday afternoon in the 1960s, my Dad would make a detour via that factory just because us kids loved to see the pig carrying the sausage

It's a shame that too many people don't see the value of old industrial buildings, especially like that one. Lots of people want to preserve twee little village cottages with their creaking old beams and ' olde worlde charms', but there are fabulous modern industrial buildings that deserve to be looked after and used instead of demolished. It just takes a little imagination to see through the muck and vandalism and recognise the beauty of them.

[NickFitz]

Rather a shame to see industrial heritage being destroyed; that kind of building would make a fabulous complex for restaurants and even an art gallery, what with so much light from the huge windows. Very stylish building imho. But then, restaurants and art galleries in Bootle? Hmmm...

Or maybe I just see beauty where others see a wrecked old factory.

It stopped production in 1970 (Walls had bought the brand and moved production elsewhere), and I believe they pulled it down around 1980, by which time it had been pretty comprehensively trashed. Merseyside as a whole wasn't getting much in the way of inward investment at that time...

Sometimes, when we went over to see my grandmother in Waterloo of a Sunday afternoon in the 1960s, my Dad would make a detour via that factory just because us kids loved to see the pig carrying the sausage

[Mich the Tester]

Rather a shame to see industrial heritage being destroyed; that kind of building would make a fabulous complex for restaurants and even an art gallery, what with so much light from the huge windows. Very stylish building imho. But then, restaurants and art galleries in Bootle? Hmmm...

Or maybe I just see beauty where others see a wrecked old factory.

[EternalOptimist]

you have the correct road, but the wrong shop

the one with the tank was just to the left of here, the sausage factory to the right.

dead ahead is the litherland lift bridge, on the left is the red lion, and an undertakers(parrs ?) is just visible on the right

[NickFitz]

it was by the old lift bridge, on the 28 bus route.

there was a post office just about where that photo was taken from, and one day I saw an airfix tiger tank in the window, i think it was five bob.

it took me two weeks to save up and I walked, about four miles from Netherton

must have been about nine or ten

Was this the place?



EDIT: Ah, here's a pic of the sausage factory just before it was demolished - IIRC the pig occupied that rectangle on the left of the second floor:

[Doggy Styles]

Sefton? Wasn't the Brook House boozer around there somewhere EO? Or am I thinking of the Aigburth Arms?

I paid my respects to Bacchus a few times round that way.

[EternalOptimist]

Hey EO, do you remember the Richmond Sausage Factory? It had that giant pig on the front, carrying a sausage over its shoulder:



Can't find a picture of it with the pig in situ but here's somebody's (not very good) Photoshop job:

it was by the old lift bridge, on the 28 bus route.

there was a post office just about where that photo was taken from, and one day I saw an airfix tiger tank in the window, i think it was five bob.

it took me two weeks to save up and I walked, about four miles from Netherton

must have been about nine or ten

[NickFitz]

Hey EO, do you remember the Richmond Sausage Factory? It had that giant pig on the front, carrying a sausage over its shoulder:



Can't find a picture of it with the pig in situ but here's somebody's (not very good) Photoshop job: