Bacup Miscellany: 2nd: Prose and Verse by Local Writers Past and Present

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Some of the slides shown then included the old Bacup Centre, old Boston Bridge, Bridge Street, Maden Memorial, Union Street, Market Street, Old Bull’s Head, Bacup’s coat of arms, Broadclough, Broadclough Plantation, Meadows Farm, and Tong Lane. Indeed the name ‘Bacup’ itself dates back to the early 13 th Century and evidence suggests that there were settlements here dating back to the early middle ages and the time of the Anglo-Saxons. Quite a bit of it was done during the summer, sat in the garden with a beer in one hand and a scalpel in the other. For many Americans, post-war prosperity realised the ‘American dream’ but the prosperity was not shared by all and significant problems at home and abroad challenged the extent to which the ‘American dream’ was a reality. Instead, I aim to attempt to create a grotty looking mill town filled with terraced houses, mills, etc.

Star Academies is one of the UK’s leading education providers with primary and secondary schools across the country. Not sure if it is the done thing or not, but where turnouts flow into one another, I have built them together to hopefully ensure better alignment. Her great-great uncle John Cook compiled some of the earliest entries into the slideshow repetoire, back in the 1890s. I also located a large enough length of flat board to enable me to begin construction of the pointwork for the station throat and began soldering.

The track into Platform 1 is shown as curving on past the edge of the platform itself on the print out but as this will be flexi-track, the print out of this part is irrelevant really; I just wanted to ensure that I had a decent enough curve into the platform.

Pupils learn how Britain evolved from a Catholic state to a Protestant one and developed from an absolute monarchy to a Republic and onto a constitutional monarchy.

Beyond the run-round on that side will be one carriage siding and that's it, plus as most traffic into that side of the station will be DMU's, it shouldn't be a problem. It shows a run-down and much-reduced in stature station a few months before closure (1966) with a Cravens DMU departing whilst a Black Five shunts the yard in a grotty mill town where most of the mills have closed. The format of the windows will be the same as the real pub but when you trim mounting card down to a 1mm column (for want of a better word), it's a bit flimsy so I'll use Plastikard. At the end of that sequence of lessons pupils are equipped to formulate their own answer to the enquiry.

A great deal of them seem to be of similar dimensions; two up-two down with one upstairs window at the front and two at the rear (one being smaller than the other). With this in mind I will send photos of the item to all overseas purchasers and won't dispatch until I have confirmation that you have seen it and okayed it, please ask for photographs of the item if you are not sure in UK. Our museum, displays various domestic and military artefacts and we also hold one of the oldest fossil collections in Lancashire, along with Blodwen our bronze age lady. You would not believe how tedious it was sticking the 500 plus tiny strips of Microstrip onto the glazing of the canopy roof, followed by a load more for the drainage channels on the non-glazed parts. In 2011, as a precursor to its centenary celebrations, the school marked 100 years since its foundation stones were laid.The second attempt, in 1985, to recognise along comprehensive lines and amalgamate the school with one of its neighbouring secondary modern schools came too late. The Industrial Revolution transformed Bacup in to a prosperous Mill Town, with many large cotton mills benefiting from the close proximity to the River Irwell, the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, and the growth of the regional railway network. The valance on the outside edge is Slaters embossed Plastikard (2mm planking, if I remember correctly).

As such (and as I am about to embark on firing up the jigsaw and visiting the woodyard for a supply of timber), with a few offcuts of wood and some old chipboard that I had laying around, I thought I would mock up the scenics a bit, with the trackbed raised, just to make sure it would look as I had hoped and also to work out the best location for the houses I've constructed so far. I originally intended to use Peco Code 75 throughout but I knew that it would always annoy me that it doesn't look quite right so I have bitten the bullet and am making my own pointwork (in OO, so still not right. The below photo shows the pointwork curving into the platform ends; still one more to do (the release from the far platform run-round and corresponding catch point or kick back siding).

Anyway, I thought I'd take a couple of shots with my iPhone (camera is still kaput) and ask whether what I am planning makes sense and also which layout of the houses looks better. Also, to determine the track plan, I had to know how wide the platforms would be and to do that, I had to know how wide the canopies would be.