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| James |
It's all very sad!Times like this you feel like crying! (Not cos I got kicked in the knackers THREE times today )
Right, Marshalls got knocked down... Tescos built. Marshalls knocked down... Marshalls Yard built. Marshalls got knocked down... 102 houses being built Wefco (used to be Marshalls) - make boilers in the old Marshall building... gone into administation - will be being knocked down shortly Roses (where the chocolate is named after!!)... demolished long ago Baines motorbikes and cars... demolished (a little bit still stands) THEN Yesterday I were saying to dad, how I would LOVE a job in Edlingtons. They are a company who have a big old Victorian factory, and make rollers, graders etc etc. He said he knows the bloke who owns it (It's one of the last companies in Britain to be owned by the same family from the start - 188?). He said the floor is all cobbled, there is all archways and all the stuff I love. He said he would ask to get me a look around. THEN He says to me today... the work is destined to be demolished. It's the open day on Saturday, where if you want to see if before it is flattened, this is your last chance. The company is still in business, just moving place like. To add insult to injury, they are knocking down this beautiful building, to build a... ROUNDABOUT It's apsoloutely sickening! Saturday morning, I'm off for a look around, then I'm off to MArshalls. Urgh....   
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| johnreid |
As Joni Mitchell says, "They paved paradise And put up a parking lot", and they all call it progress. | ||||
| James |
Aye! Bloody progress! The whole world is in decline mate I tell ya.
I blame Thatcher for most of the industrial demise in Great Britain
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| steamyjim |
Aye I dont like progress
To be honest id rather live 150 years ago when Britain was the greatest country, but sadly shall never happen again
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| andysleigh |
whats the world coming to
be sure to take some good pics |
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| James |
But guess who is buying one of these:
http://www.edlington.com/Victorian_Columns/victorian_columns.html |
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| andysleigh |
you!?
a bit more strenth to hold up your ever growing number of mamods |
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| James |
Aye lad! Me! | ||||
| steamyjim |
I WANT ONE! | ||||
| James |
Postage might cost a bit 
I might be getting 2 
Must...sell...Wilesco...Traktor!!!! |
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| steamyjim |
How much? | ||||
| James |
What the columns?
Well it says £50 a piece, but I'll buy them in guineas (seems fitting, Victorian and all that ) andcos dad knows them... I might get them cheaper!!
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| Atticman |
Are the columns for your collection, Summer House or sheep pen James? | ||||
| James |
LMAO that were rate funny, because I know you're a fairly new member, and you already know I prattle on about me sheep 
High 5
Well.. I wanted to make the barn with them, having these as uprights and Marshalls roof trusses as cross beams. Alas, me old man has already submitted the planning! 
Would have looked quite beatiful!
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| Cranko |
You should buy them all James and build the Lincolnshire Stone henge
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| James |
LMAO!
I might end up with them, dunno, depends what deal we strike on saturday. It's just so bloody sad
At least I'll get some pictures! |
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| johnreid |
As opposed to Steeplejacking or Sheep Farming, I think James will end up in the Antique business, well he might keep a few old sheep behind the Antique Shop.
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| James |
LMAO!
I just have a passion for our industrial past, and I can't believe how ruthless people are being by just wiping it out!! I say it again, I'll do whatever it takes to keep Gainsborough's heritage alive! If I have to open a museum when I'm older I will! People need to know that once upon a time Gainsborough was a bloody super power, not just a run down crap whole full of chavs and young mothers! |
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| steamyjim |
So true James, so true
We have a rich industrial past but people are embarrassed of it. Not to mention all of the environmetalists saying OOOOH THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION SHOULD NEVER OF HAPPENED!! Utter rubbish i say if we didnt have the industrial revolution we wouldn't have anything we have now. Its something we as a nation did for the world we transformed the world and we should be proud of it. Even if it has risen our global temperature by a few degrees!!!!!! |
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| James |
I hate the words "global warming" and "pollution". It's a load of shite! It's a load of gay boys with nowt better to do than file their nails and moan about people that worked. | ||||
| steamyjim |
Aye very true
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| steamyjim |
If we hadnt of had the industrial revolution we wouldnt have the technology to find out about global warming.
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| toxx |
... selling England by the Pound!
Cheers, Tom |
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| toxx |
... too right! And what did the people do before there was Penicillin? They died. Greetz, Tom
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| James |
The industrial revolution were a bloody marvelous thing, and people should appreciate it like! | ||||
| steamyjim |
If i ever say anything like that again... could you read it whislt listeing to this. Greatly improves the effect
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| steamyjim |
OOH YES the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THYgeETrkPs |
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| steamyjim |
SO TRUE SO TRUE!! And thanks to Fred Dibnah many more people appreciate but many people still think of it as the bad old days. A terrible shame
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| steamyjim |
Im actually very patriotic
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| toxx |
... and right you are, mate!
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| steamyjim |
I didnt realise I was until recently when I thought what a great country Britain used to be but look at us now
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| toxx |
... goin' to work (I can actually walk there, is practically jussarounacorner) I pass 5 Doner Kepab shacks, 5 "halil" call centers and one 'islamic sports and cultural center', situated in a run-don 1900's building. If I use the bus to get to work (like on a stormy, snowy day as today), it's hard to hear a German word.
Ta, that's the way it is. Says Tom and wonders 
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| steamyjim |
Your Austrian. Im not good at geography but is it a differant country? Is there an Austrian language? |
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| toxx |
... oh, my dear friend! It's like with Britain and the US, Australia, Britain AND the US, France and Quebec, Canada and Britain and ... The only thing that seperates Germany and Austria is the language.
We all speak German, though, ... kind of. And love/hate each other ... depending on whose football team wins.
Greetz, Tom |
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| James |
Ooooh yes.
Land of Hope & Glory Great song
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| toxx |
... aye, Jim!
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| James |
Proud to be British
Formerly the greatest country in the world
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| Andy |
i we were the best country now day we can't make anything all has to come from abroed | ||||
| James |
Ummm we still have the skills to do it like, just we don't put them skills into practice on such a grand scale like we used to
If I have to sell some of me Mamods and all that sort of thing to fund the rescuing of lumps of iron and all that out the Marshalls and Edlingtons factories, I bloody well will! I can replace Mamods, I can't replace our heritage
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| Wallace |
Sorry to hear they are doing that James.
I can't understand it 
How old is the Marshalls factory? |
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| James |
Marshalls about 1820/1830 I reckon! | ||||
| steamyjim |
Aye Land of Hope and Glory... always gets me
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| James |
LMAO lad! Stop tekkin 'piss!
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| Rob |
as fred said "i dont think we can make a bean tin now". my coach says im in a time warp, because of the hobbys i have and the music i listern to.
Rob |
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| James |
What music do you listen to mate? | ||||
| Rob |
all sorts: the clash, sex pistols, the buzzcocks, the ramones, the cramps, deep purple, led zeppelin and my favorite at the moment, KISS. is anyone else like me?
Rob |
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| James |
Lancashire Hotpots, Five Penny Piece, Wurzels, Glenn Miller, Vera Lynn, George Formby.... thought not
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