EARLY WARNING SIREN

[mhoulden]

Might be an idea to avoid the Calder Valley tomorrow then: http://www.todmordennews.co.uk/news/loc ... -4596574In most places air raid sirens were a warning that the balloon was about to go up but around Hebden Bridge where I used to live they are used mainly as flood warnings. Could be interesting if people expected one and got the other.

[somme1916]

mhoulden wrote: Might be an idea to avoid the Calder Valley tomorrow then: http://www.todmordennews.co.uk/news/loc ... -4596574In most places air raid sirens were a warning that the balloon was about to go up but around Hebden Bridge where I used to live they are used mainly as flood warnings. Could be interesting if people expected one and got the other. Think I'd take the flood anyday.......

[jonleeds]

I ought to start a thread on this but here is goes anyway... Does anyone remember the mill / factory sirens that used to sound at the start and end of lunchtime to tell the workers it was time to either leave or go back to work? When I was a young lad growing up in Morley (which was full of mills at the time) I can remember there were at least 2 mills within earshot that had slightly different sounding sirens (i cant remember if they were referred to as sirens / buzzers or something else). The mills I remember having the sirens were the JAPA paper mill at the top of Churwell Hill and Springfield Mill, which was at the bottom of Springfield Lane, the street where I lived all through my childhood. I think the sirens were usually fixed to the top of the mills chimneys to echo the noise over a wide area as a lot of people would go home for their dinner and the noise of the siren told them they had about 5-10 minutes to get back for their shift. I dunno maybe it was more of a Morley / heavy woolen district thing? I'd love to hear a recording of what the old Morley mills ones sounded like. Does anyone else remember these sounds?