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  2. Chimney sweep - Wikipedia

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    A chimney sweep in Wexford, Ireland in 1850. A chimney sweep is a person who inspects then clears soot and creosote from chimneys. The chimney uses the pressure difference caused by a hot column of gas to create a draught and draw air over the hot coals or wood enabling continued combustion. Chimneys may be straight or contain many changes of ...

  3. File:Cox's Stack, Dundee.jpg - Wikipedia

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    This chimney is 282 feet high and built in 1864 in the campanile style and was included in a large linen mill in the village of Lochee. Not long after the new route of a railway including two new stations for Lochee were opened to accommodate about 6000 workers on triple shifts.

  4. Fred Dibnah - Wikipedia

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    Beneath the chimney, an engine room contained an 1854 single-cylinder steam engine in poor condition. Dibnah repaired the chimney and several weeks later was asked to repair the engine, which he dismantled during the winter of 1988/89 and took back to Bolton. [50] With his assistant Neil Carney, he spent six months repairing the engine.

  5. Chimney fire - Wikipedia

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    Regular chimney sweeping removes creosote and prevents fires in the chimney. Steps to prevent this buildup of deposits include only running appliances hot during the initial ignition phase regularly, only building short and hotter fires, regular cleaning of flues using a chimney sweep, and only using internal chimney structures where possible versus a chimney attached to an external wall.

  6. Category:Chimney sweeps - Wikipedia

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    Articles relating to chimney sweeps, persons who clear ash and soot from chimneys. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. W.

  7. The Broons - Wikipedia

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    Ken H. Harrison's The Broons (8 March 1992). The Broons (English: The Browns) is a comic strip in Scots published in the weekly Scottish newspaper The Sunday Post.It features the Brown (Broon) family, who live in a tenement flat at 10 Glebe Street (since the late 1990s) in the fictional Scottish town of Auchentogle or Auchenshoogle.

  8. Chimney Sweepers Act 1875 - Wikipedia

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    The Chimney Sweepers Act 1875 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that superseded the Chimney Sweepers and Chimneys Regulation Act 1840 passed to try to stop child labour. The bills, proposed by Lord Shaftesbury , were triggered by the death of twelve-year-old George Brewster, whose master had caused him to climb and clean the ...

  9. National Chimney Sweep Guild - Wikipedia

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    The National Chimney Sweep Guild (NCSG) is a non-profit trade association for chimney sweeps and chimney and venting manufacturers in the United States and Canada. Based in Plainfield, Indiana , it has approximately 1,100 member companies.

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