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Hello, I'm Trappedinburnley. Of course I have a real name, which should we ever meet in person I'd be happy to share with you, but here I keep it to myself. If had spent any time thinking about it, I would have chosen differently, so at the start of 2018 I adopted TiB chat as my signature and I may change my username to TiB in the future.
I made my first edit on 10th May 2010 and created my first article the same day. Unsurprisingly given my choice of username I initially focused my editing on the Burnley article and although I've not done much with it since 2014, subjects with relevance to the local area remain my primary focus. My 1000th edit was to Hameldon Community College on 26th January 2011. I also made some small contributions to Malkin Tower, which made FA in October 2013 and was TFA on the Main Page that Halloween.
I edited my 1000th Wikipedia page on 12th November 2017. I did considerably more to Burnley Embankment shortly after it was created, unaware at the time that it was a DYK candidate. It proved unexpectedly popular when it went live on 3rd December 2019 with 29,761 views, becoming one of the all-time DYK page view leaders. And I didn't even get a credit. 
A biographical article about a new BBC Radio 1 DJ, I started with a few hours work on a 2018 bank holiday weekend, became the ninth most viewed article on (EN) Wikipedia on 16th October 2020, when a new series of I'm a Celebrity... started and over 250,000 people wondered who is Jordan North? The article scraped into the Top 25 for that week and peaked at just under 1.1 million views over 30 days!
Pages I started
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edit- Angels (nightclub)
- Browsholme Hall
- Burnley Council elections
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Pages I've done a bit of work on
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Pages I'm working on
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Pages that could be created
edit- Antiques Master - BBC Antiques based quiz recorded at Towneley Hall [1]
- Hameldon Hill Wind Farm - RWE npower renewables 4.5 megawatt (MW) wind farm [2] [3]
- Riley Leisure - Snooker equipment manufacturer [4] [5] [6]
- Burnley Crown Court
- Forest of Blackburnshire in the Honor of Clitheroe, containing:
- List of Scheduled Monuments in Lancashire
- Richard de Malbis - Norman
- Henry Halliwell - Classical Scolar [7][8]
- Christopher Towneley - Librarian [9]
- Air Commodore Robert Parker Musgrave Whitham (1895-23 March 1943) CB OBE MC, Royal Flying Corps pilot in WWI, transferring to the RAF on its formation in 1918. At the start of WWII he was ranked Group captain and Deputy Director of War Organisation at the Air Ministry. He was gazetted and became Director General in 1941 and promoted to Air Commodore then acting AV-M in 42. He was killed in 1943 when the transport aircraft in which he was returning from the Middle East was shot down over the Bay of Biscay.[10] [11] Douglas Evill Northumberland Fusiliers No. 16 Squadron RAF
- Haweswater Aqueduct (currently redirect) The aqueduct carries water from Haweswater Reservoir in the Lake District to Heaton Park Reservoir in northern Manchester and onward to the Audenshaw Reservoirs, a total distance of about 83 miles (134 km) (about 72 miles to Heaton Park). The aqueduct was constructed between 1935 and 1955 utilising tunnels under areas of high ground connected by buried pipelines.[12] The tunnels are about 2m by 2m in section, and the water flow is by gravity. Between Haweswater and Manchester the route of the aqueduct only deviates from a straight line by less than 0.6 miles (1 km).[13][14] Its route follows the line of Longsleddale and crosses Stockdale Beck by a pipe bridge,[15] heading to the water treatment works at Watchgate north of Kendal. A pipe bridge crosses the River Lune just south of the A65 bridge at Kirkby Lonsdale. The over 10-mile (16 km) long Bowland Forest tunnel, is the aqueduct's longest. Beginning in the valley of the River Hindburn at Lower Houses in Wray with Botton parish, it passes under White Hill to emerge in the Hodder valley, west of Newton-in-Bowland. After crossing the river via another pipe bridge, at Upper Bonstone Wood, the Marl Hill tunnel heads south towards Colthurst in Bashall Eaves. More pipe bridges are visible in east Lancashire, as it first crosses the River Ribble to the west of Clitheroe. Then after skirting around the eastern side of Whalley, near Martholme it passes over Sabden Brook, the River Calder, and Hyndburn Brook. To the east of Clayton-Le-Moors another bridge is used to cross the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. At Huncoat, the 5.3-mile (9 km) Haslingden tunnel takes it under Hameldon Hill to Rawtenstall,[16] where it passes under the River Irwell and the 6-mile (10 km) Walmersley Tunnel then takes it to Gipsy Brook near Bury.[17] (combined these last two are also known as the Rossendale tunnel) Thirlmere Aqueduct, Siphon, United Utilities, Cementation Company
- ^ BBC2 Programmes
- ^ RWE npower renewables Accessed 2011
- ^ Archaeology data service
- ^ EABA Accessed 2011
- ^ Riley Website
- ^ Norman Clare's Billiard & Snooker Heritage Collection
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Bennett, Walter (1949), The History of Burnley, vol. 3, Burnley Corporation, pp. 329–330, OCLC 220326580
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ "WHITHAM, Air Cdre (Temp. Air Vice-Marshal) Robert Parker Musgrave". Who's Who. A & C Black, Oxford University Press. November 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
- ^ "Air Vice Marshal R P M Whitham". Air of Authority — A History of the RAF Organisation. www.rafweb.org. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ^ Tatham History
- ^ "Haweswater Aqueduct". Engineering Timelines. Archived from the original on 25 July 2018. Retrieved 11 June 2013.
- ^ Civil Engineering Heritage: Northern England
- ^ "Haweswater Aqueduct". Old Cumbria Gazetteer. Portsmouth University, Geography Department. Retrieved 11 June 2013.
- ^ Lancs Telegraph
- ^ Meccano Magazine (1955)
Articles about Burnley
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