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• This was followed by a level stretch of grassy scree which leads to the crux, a steep shallow chimney, well marked by crampon scratches.
• Celebrity steeplejack Fred Dibnah was supposed to end his days of felling factory chimneys with the demolition of the 175-ft Park Mill chimney in Royton yesterday.
• More than 30 elaborate scarecrows are peering from hedgerows, fields and chimney pots, as part of the annual scarecrow competition.
• The chimney, usually of lath and plaster, ending overhead in a cone and funnel for the smoke, was so roomy in old cottages as to accommodate almost the whole family sitting around the fire of logs piled in the reredosse in the middle, and there they carried on their winter's work. The Life of Thomas Telford
• Pott suggested that chimney soot contained carcinogens that could cause the growth of the warts seen in scrotal cancer.
• But for all its glories, Victorian was also a time of grinding hard work, belching mill chimneys and the sort of poverty scarcely imaginable today.
• If the house is fairly tight, the simplest route for makeup air to enter the structure is often the unused fireplace chimney.
• Reduced to half its original height, the industrial chimney serves as structural support for the roof and emergency exit footbridge.
• From the church gardens there are views over the terraced roofs and chimneys of the city. Collins Traveller - The Algarve
• The tunnel would be well - ventilated if tall chimneys were built above sea - level.