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staffordshirechina
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14 years ago

#41

No, Peak Park Authority.

AR
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#42

I've just heard that the application was unanimously refused by the planning committe yesterday, and some of them were quite critical of it, the person who informed me mentioned the phrase "more holes in it than a swiss cheese" was used by one councillor....

Follow the horses, Johnny my laddie, follow the horses canny lad-oh!

Vanoord
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14 years ago

#43

Well, there's good news from one aspect - but the destruction of the Powerhouse can't be reversed, so it's a pretty poor outcome overall.

Hello again darkness, my old friend...

AR
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14 years ago

#44

There are still two other buildings in the BLF style on site, plus the kilns with the huge "A" buttresses, and EH have said they still consider the group to be of national importance so we may yet see statutory protection.

Follow the horses, Johnny my laddie, follow the horses canny lad-oh!

sougher
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14 years ago

#45

AR - which of the buildings was the Power House please? I know that there are quite a few photos on the website, but I can't find which one it was.

Thanks.

Vanoord
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14 years ago

#46

This one:

🔗Ashwood-Dale-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-54240[linkphoto]Ashwood-Dale-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-54240[/linkphoto][/link]

ie, the one that you'd really, really not want to be lost.

If the others has been flattened and this one kept, it would have been just about acceptable. To have lost this one is a disaster.

Hello again darkness, my old friend...

AR
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14 years ago

#47

It was as far as we know the last one bearing the BLF mark, and in a strange echo of the Egyptian temples they were modelled on, the chiselled-out initials of the former manager Thomas Ryan - like a disgraced Pharaoh, it seems the company tried to erase the memory of him after he left to a rival!

Now needlessly demolished, a victim to greed....

Follow the horses, Johnny my laddie, follow the horses canny lad-oh!

sougher
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14 years ago

#48

How sad 😞

AR
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14 years ago

#49

This photo of Iclok's clearly shows the removed initials:
🔗Ashwood-Dale-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-54230[linkphoto]Ashwood-Dale-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-54230[/linkphoto][/link]

Follow the horses, Johnny my laddie, follow the horses canny lad-oh!

sougher
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14 years ago

#50

Another website to view photographs of the five Cowdale buildings that needed listing is:-

http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?=5390

Looking at the interior photos taken of the Power House, it didn't seem to be that unsafe!

AR
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14 years ago

#51

Sougher, you missed a letter out of that link - this one should work
http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=5390

Follow the horses, Johnny my laddie, follow the horses canny lad-oh!

AR
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14 years ago

#52

I've just been told that EH have now scheduled the remaining structures on the site, so even though the "jewel in the crown" has gone, the two other BLF buildings and the butressed kilns have statutory protection.

Follow the horses, Johnny my laddie, follow the horses canny lad-oh!