Talk:Radcliffe, Greater Manchester

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[edit] Radcliffe Power Station

"The town also had its own electricity power station, Radcliffe Power Station."

It was actually quite common in 1905 for each town to have its own power station. Radcliffe Power Station was privately owned by Lancashire Electric Power Company which supplied an area North East of Manchester whereas many of the surrounding towns had power stations operated by the local authority - Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale etc. --jmb 08:07, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
Yes, there were also small stations in Kearsley, Agecroft, Barton, Carrington, etc. Not many people currently resident in Radcliffe would have known that a power station existed, or where it was, as the location is now accessible only by foot or off-road vehicle. BTW, if you have any more info, please do add to the power station page. I see you've already added, which is great! I've been trying to find a picture of the station for ages without success. Parrot of Doom 19:14, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
I recommend that book if you can find a copy, there is a lot on the history of electricity generation around Manchester, I will see if i can add a few more details from it. I don't think there was a picture of Radcliffe Power Station and would near to clear copyright anyway before it could be used. It might be worth asking a local paper if they have one you can use, they will often allow use for non-profit purposes. --jmb 21:43, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
Problem would be that you can't specify 'non-profit' when putting an image on Wiki, it has to be available for anyone to use for any reason... I bet someone somewhere has a pic though. They always do. In a loft somewhere, or a mouldy old suitcase Parrot of Doom 23:46, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
And most of the commercial encyclopaedia type sites seem to just mirror Wikipedia and add adverts. --jmb 00:28, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
I've found a good site to look at is Geograph - most of the images are under a CC licence, and you can copy the images directly across to Wiki, not forgetting attribution though. Parrot of Doom 10:09, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
I have noticed that a lot of images from GEOGRAPH are being used on Wikipedia but I always understood that the copyright of images posted to GEOGRAPH was held by the photographer and permission would be sought for use? I have seen several of mine appear on Wikipedia without any permission being requested.--jmb 10:34, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
When you see an image on Geograph, look at the licence - most say that you may use or reproduce the image for whatever purpose, so long as you attribute the author and show the source. Heres an example I've used for the Wet Earth Colliery page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wet_Earth_Colliery_Wheel_Pit.jpg if you click the source link, then click the licence link under the image on the Geograph page, you can see that such use is allowed. WikiMedia even has a little utility to simplify copying images across IIRC. Geograph and licences are a good way of sourcing images for articles without any images. You can do the same with Flickr, most people don't licence their images (which means you can't use them) but if you ask the photographer nicely, they'll usually change the image licence on Flickr to allow useage on Wiki. Parrot of Doom 17:12, 23 September 2007 (UTC)