| wardle 12:14 - Mar 20 with 1144 views | PDIDDY |
i was working at wasp mill drive, strange name, anyone know the reason for it? |  |
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| wardle on 12:28 - Mar 20 with 1110 views | VespaDale |
Well was only a couple - 4 years ago a mill was knocked down where that new estate lies, i think it was called that? We're Littleboro so don't take interest in the Wardle numpties... 
You the 1 nicking my milk off doorsteps??? |  | | |
| wardle on 12:36 - Mar 20 with 1076 views | deeplishblue |
Is it near Matt BUZZBY Way? |  |
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| wardle on 12:42 - Mar 20 with 1053 views | dingdangblue |
Because Bee Factory Avenue was already taken. |  |
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| wardle on 12:48 - Mar 20 with 1044 views | mandale |
I've heard this term used in respect of American mill towns: for example, they'll refer to growing up in 'small Wasp mill towns' in Oregon, where WASP stands for 'White Anglo-Saxon Protestant'. The WASPs were immigrants of British Protestant origin, but who also had a lot money (and subsequently power) - much of it with roots in the industrial revolution and, I would guess, northern mill towns.
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| wardle on 16:40 - Mar 20 with 902 views | SuddenLad |
Definitely named after the Wasp Mill. The steam engine from the premises is preserved in a museum in Bolton.
It was removed in 1967, and I remember going there every Sunday with my Dad and a willing band of volunteers to painstakingly take the engine to bits to get it out. The mill was demolished some time after that.
http://www.nmes.org/wasp.html |  |
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| wardle on 17:01 - Mar 20 with 868 views | Yorkshire_Dale |
| wardle on 16:40 - Mar 20 by SuddenLad |
Definitely named after the Wasp Mill. The steam engine from the premises is preserved in a museum in Bolton.
It was removed in 1967, and I remember going there every Sunday with my Dad and a willing band of volunteers to painstakingly take the engine to bits to get it out. The mill was demolished some time after that.
http://www.nmes.org/wasp.html |
Nice piece of social history is that Suddz.........very interesting indeed.
I think there is an old mill engine in the Science Museum in Manchester that also hails from these parts. | | | |
| wardle on 17:27 - Mar 20 with 842 views | rochedale |
| wardle on 16:40 - Mar 20 by SuddenLad |
Definitely named after the Wasp Mill. The steam engine from the premises is preserved in a museum in Bolton.
It was removed in 1967, and I remember going there every Sunday with my Dad and a willing band of volunteers to painstakingly take the engine to bits to get it out. The mill was demolished some time after that.
http://www.nmes.org/wasp.html |
And then it was a pallet factory, if I have me bearings right, or was that cook street pallets? My dad used to work there. |  |
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