S-O-L-T-R-O-N

[hlb]

Sabden's Outstanding, Licorice and Treacle. Restores Orifices, Nationwide. This was an early name for Sabden Treacle mines. But not the first name.
It was and has always been known localy as Sabden Treacle Mines. It was Henry The Eight, because of his upset with the Catholic church. Grumbling about the Devorces and beheadings and things, and the Pope that caused the changes in Legislation. And renamed the once renowmed. Sabden treacle mines. (You can look it up in a search engine). Matt did.
Government resources- Sabden Treacle Mines. Whaley Abbey. Etc.
Now Henry Burnt Whaley Abbey to the ground, but not Sabden treacle mine. Cos it was underground and he couldn't. And getting back to the plot. All the treacle ore especially in emergency, was delivered. Not by Intercity Express but by the witches on Pendle hill, ( Look up Pendle hill witches) on there broom 45 sticks. Mr Broom moved to Norwich some time latter and started to make boats. The market for broom sticks in Lancashire having gone flatt. The winds over Pendle Hill being very favourable to lift, giving the Witches on broom sticks a massive advantage on delivering treacle ore to the port of Fleetwood, about fourty miles away on the coast.
Treacle ore was very important in those days. Before Tate and Lyle took them over. So thats why they only make S_O_L_T_R_O_N. Today. And staying with tradition, only bauld men can work in the mine cos they let the men down on sucker. (Cos the hair would not make it work). For the dumbies!! Any more information required on the wonders of Sabden Treacle Mines Or Soltron. Please refer to me or. www.government resources.co.uk

Haydn

 

[ToMo]

Feel better now?...or would you like me to send you some cornish marmite?...(cos it's what it is really!)
TôMö

 

[rich]

www.solpower. check it out, they seem to know all about it!

rich

 

[hlb]

Well that dont work. Try. www.sabden.treacle.mines.co.uk
Doubt if that will work any beter. But anyway Matt found it. Ask Him.

Haydn

 

[hlb]

Sabden treacle mines have become very specialised these days cos there's not the same market in treacle toffee. So they make extracts. Special things that make makup stick to womens faces. And industrial glue. Also. Uplift bra's. And special treacle stuff for sticking in tits to enhance them by.
All very scintiic is Sabden Treacle Mines. These days they Call it. T.I.R Tit research I think but could be wrong.

Haydn

 

[longjohnsilver]

Piccie

Like your piccie Haydn, Who was the snapper???

 

[KevB]

? <NM>

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[hlb]

Sabden


Many people, living in Lancashire, during the first forty years of the 20th century, knew about the Sabden treacle mines. Above Sabden village, where the road winds over the Nick of Pendle, on both sides of the road there are signs of excavations. These mounds of earth looking very much part of the moorland, are supposedly the original sites of the entrances to the SABDEN TREACLE MINES.



Those curious to know, what happened to the mines, were told stories about treacle eating boggarts and that the area was best avoided in the hours of darkness. Most regarded these stories as huge jokes and anyone who believed that you could dig treacle out of the ground, were just plain daft. This is exactly what the P.I.E. agents (the Treacle Miners' Secret Army) wanted the curious to believe. The stories of treacle eating boggarts have continued to this day and Bill Dewhurst in the 1980's became the Managing Directors of Sabden Treacle Mines Ltd.



He created a tourist centre, attracting visitors from the UK and overseas to visit the 'mine' and see the parkin cake weavers, the black pudding benders as well as great treacle eating boggarts. It was a these boggarts that first worked the mines, eating drips of treacle and keeping the floors tidy. Bill based his 'Treacle Mine' enterprise on an old legend that went back to medieval times when Pendle Hill was famous for its witches. Bill Dewhurst found that places where treacle mine traditions exist were also sites of holy wells.



A children's T.V. series appeared on I.T.V. in 1996, it was based on the Sabden Treacle Mine. It's signature tune included these words:- "We are the treacle people, we seek treacle high and low; we are the treacle people we all live in Giggle Row; WILLY WISWELL saved the day; Treacle Tracker found our way; for as we seek the treacle far below - down the mines we go. We are the treacle people, we seek treacle high and low".



There were many adventures for the 'Treacle People' of Sabden. Silas Mitton was the owner of the mine. Not only did the treacle bring fame for the village and prosperity for some of the villagers, but it brought disasters too. Experiments in the Treacle Mine Laboratory met with disasters; one of the workers, Rosie falls into a vat of treacle; the mine professor causes an explosion during one of his experiments, releasing invisible treacle vapour in the air, which settles on the village of Sabden causing a really sticky mess. Then at the ginger beer plant (a by-product of the treacle mine) the ginger beer bottling machine is put into reverse and there is a spectacular explosion, which brings more work for Police Constable Nick Pendle. However the 'Pakin' production at the village shop continues to thrive and the village life is full of excitement from one year to the next.





News Flash :-The Sabden P.I..E agents developed their own Ginger Beer Gas Balloon from which they intended to fly over Pendle Hill and pass through the Trough of Bowland in a mock raid against the Treacle Miners of Halton near Lancaster.


Unfortunately the Ginger Beer Gas was unstable and on reaching the summit of Pendle, the balloon exploded, luckily they were only a few feet above the ground and the three agents in the 'basket' were shaken but not stirred.



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Haydn

 

[ToMo]

Oh dear now the Piskies have got him!...I knew it was a mistake to let him land on Cornish soil the other week!
TôMö

 

[david_e]

I thought he was supposed to be in Blackpool. Do you think he got to Sabden by navigating up the the river Ribble?

 

[david_e]

Sabden

Is this your main berth Haydn? Amongst the pubs you visit do you get to the Hark to Bounty and what is it like these days, was last there over 20 years ago.

 

[hlb]

Re: Sabden

Heared the name Hark to Bounty, but cant remember where it is, or what town it's in. Maybe there's more than one.
Cant see there being a pub by that name in Sabden though cos theres no sea. Thats why they send the treacle to Fleetwood, yer daft bugger.

I'll get my mate, who works on the sucker crane, to get them to do a special strong brew of Soltron. And speed up that boat of Long John's.

Haydn

 

[david_e]

got it

..knew if I thought about it long enough it would come back.

http://www.hark-to-bounty.co.uk/

might go for lunch next week-end en route to the lakes to look at some boats.

 

[hlb]

Re: got it

But thats in Sladeburn and nothing to do with Treacle Mines.
And nothing to do with the sea either. It's named after some ones bloody dog!!

Haydn

 

[david_e]

..it\'s called lateral thinking

..it's a pub, and it's good, and it's not a million miles from Sabden, what more do you need to make the connection? (i am taking the lead from your bio which says "any pub in lancashire")

 

[hlb]

Re: ..it\'s called lateral thinking

Well I suppose thats Ok then.

Haydn

 

[david_e]

Re: ..it\'s called lateral thinking

After all that I have just remembered that I can't go for a nice sunday lunch because it is short one's 10th b/day on Sunday so he and half a dozen of his mates are having a riot at a new museum spot called Magna. Ex steel works in Rotherham.