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6 hours ago, Midnight said:

I'm going by knowing the location and the fact that the 2020 flood below Heaton Lodge was 11" higher than the previous record of Boxing day 2015 and trickling over the flood gates at Battyeford. Following the construction of the flood defences upstream the water now gets pushed downstream faster causing bigger floods below Brighouse especially when the Colne is also breaking records. If you have superior knowledge (and no doubt you will have) that future flooding will never reach current records I will agree with you. 

I think this post has it, nothing is sure up North, protect one town, the next one gets it, more rain, both get it, so what do we do  now...

Simple,  protect the local revenue centres stuff people and houses.

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35 minutes ago, IanD said:

There has been a lot more research conducted since then, and most of the scare stories have been thoroughly debunked. There is some weak and inconclusive evidence of increased cancer risk,

Do you remember how when mobile phones first came out we were all going to get cancer from them?   Things definitely move on over the decades.

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32 minutes ago, Tonka said:

Didn't they prove there were more cases of suicide and/or schitsofrenia if you live under power lines

I don't know, what I do know is that since the assertion was made I have been looking for evidence that it is detrimental.  The best I can find is that there is no evidence that it is.  It is difficult (impossible?) to scientifically prove a negative.

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11 hours ago, IanD said:

Or you could read the evidence...

...not one paper in a popular science magazine from 30 years ago.

 

"Living near high-voltage power lines raises children's risk of leukemia by 69%, a British study shows"

 

"That doesn't prove that power lines cause the deadly blood cancer, the study's authors are quick to point out. Despite 30 years of research, scientists still can't come up with a plausible reason why the weak magnetic fields near power lines might cause leukemia.

Gerald Draper, DPhil, director of the childhood cancer research group at Oxford University, led the study. Draper's team compared more than 29,000 children with cancer, including 9,700 children with leukemia, to age-, sex-, and birthplace-matched children without cancer. The children's birth homes were located on the power grids of England and Wales.

Compared with children who lived more than 600 meters from a high-voltage power line, those who lived within 200 meters of the power lines had a 69% greater risk of leukemia. Those living 200 to 600 meters from power lines had a 23% higher risk of leukemia. The findings appear in the June 4 [2005] issue of the British Medical Journal.*"

 

So they don't know why it's bad (or so difficult to spell), just that it is. As one who watched his father (who, incidentally, was a specialist radio-operator during the second WW and an amateur one for the rest of his, all-too-short life) die of leukaemia (and as one who has microwaved an egg...), to me proximity of powerful electro magnetic currents would, as I said, be a big no-no.

 

YVMV

 

 

 

*some evidence to read

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1 hour ago, Bacchus said:

 

"Living near high-voltage power lines raises children's risk of leukemia by 69%, a British study shows"

 

"That doesn't prove that power lines cause the deadly blood cancer, the study's authors are quick to point out. Despite 30 years of research, scientists still can't come up with a plausible reason why the weak magnetic fields near power lines might cause leukemia.

Gerald Draper, DPhil, director of the childhood cancer research group at Oxford University, led the study. Draper's team compared more than 29,000 children with cancer, including 9,700 children with leukemia, to age-, sex-, and birthplace-matched children without cancer. The children's birth homes were located on the power grids of England and Wales.

Compared with children who lived more than 600 meters from a high-voltage power line, those who lived within 200 meters of the power lines had a 69% greater risk of leukemia. Those living 200 to 600 meters from power lines had a 23% higher risk of leukemia. The findings appear in the June 4 [2005] issue of the British Medical Journal.*"

 

So they don't know why it's bad (or so difficult to spell), just that it is. As one who watched his father (who, incidentally, was a specialist radio-operator during the second WW and an amateur one for the rest of his, all-too-short life) die of leukaemia (and as one who has microwaved an egg...), to me proximity of powerful electro magnetic currents would, as I said, be a big no-no.

 

YVMV

 

 

 

*some evidence to read

And as I said, there have been many more recent papers (since the 17-year old one quoted) which have failed to confirm its findings. Correlation does not prove causation -- for example it's likely that living standards and income are slightly lower in houses under power lines because these are cheaper, and these factors correlate with poorer health which shows up in many areas.

 

The scientific consesnsus is that the health hazard from overhead power cables is somewhere between tiny and zero, certainly *way* smaller than all the other things we encounter in modern life -- or even non-modern ones, better not live in Cornwall where the cancer risk is significantly increased due to radon released from the granite there 😞

 

The "powerful electromagnetic currents" statement is a red herring, like the fact that being within a few feet of a 100kW radar transmitter melted a chocolate bar in somebody's pocket (true -- which indirectly lead to the microwave oven) means that 5G masts are dangerous. EM fields around a power line fall off with distance, the overhead cables carry about 100x more current (at about 100x higher voltage) than a typical mains cable in your house but are also about 100x further away, so the EM fields even right underneath them are similar to those from normal domestic mains cables, and are less if you're not directly underneath. If you were only a foot or two away from a 275kV cable things would be very different, long-term effects of EM fields would be the *least* of your worries 😉

 

If you want to wear a tin hat and say that EM fields of this magnitude are in any way dangerous -- against current scientific opinion -- you'd better move to an electric-free life somewhere remote.

 

If you want to say that the EM fields from the grid are dangerous but those from the mains in your house aren't, maybe you should use a seance to talk to that nice Mr. Maxwell and tell him he was wrong... 😉

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27 minutes ago, IanD said:

And as I said, there have been many more recent papers (since the 17-year old one quoted) which have failed to confirm its findings. Correlation does not prove causation -- for example it's likely that living standards and income are slightly lower in houses under power lines because these are cheaper, and these factors correlate with poorer health which shows up in many areas.

 

The scientific consesnsus is that the health hazard from overhead power cables is somewhere between tiny and zero, certainly *way* smaller than all the other things we encounter in modern life -- or even non-modern ones, better not live in Cornwall where the cancer risk is significantly increased due to radon released from the granite there 😞

 

The "powerful electromagnetic currents" statement is a red herring, like the fact that being within a few feet of a 100kW radar transmitter melted a chocolate bar in somebody's pocket (true -- which indirectly lead to the microwave oven) means that 5G masts are dangerous. EM fields around a power line fall off with distance, the overhead cables carry about 100x more current (at about 100x higher voltage) than a typical mains cable in your house but are also about 100x further away, so the EM fields even right underneath them are similar to those from normal domestic mains cables, and are less if you're not directly underneath. If you were only a foot or two away from a 275kV cable things would be very different, long-term effects of EM fields would be the *least* of your worries 😉

 

If you want to wear a tin hat and say that EM fields of this magnitude are in any way dangerous -- against current scientific opinion -- you'd better move to an electric-free life somewhere remote.

 

If you want to say that the EM fields from the grid are dangerous but those from the mains in your house aren't, maybe you should use a seance to talk to that nice Mr. Maxwell and tell him he was wrong... 😉

Is the fried chicken OK to eat 😋🤣🤣🤣

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6 minutes ago, Jon57 said:

Is the fried chicken OK to eat 😋🤣🤣🤣

How did it get fried, sitting on the power line? 😉

 

(two problems though -- birds sit on them all the time without getting fried (but they get nice warm feet), and a chicken would need abseiling gear to get up there...)

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11 minutes ago, IanD said:

How did it get fried, sitting on the power line? 😉

 

(two problems though -- birds sit on them all the time without getting fried (but they get nice warm feet), and a chicken would need abseiling gear to get up there...)

Sounds like it's a bit to much effort. Will try the fish shop instead. Any problems let me know 🐠🐠😋😁👍

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19 hours ago, Puffling said:

Yes, having done some walking on the canal around here I know those surroundings.

 

Am I also correct in seeing some bloody great HT electrical lines passing almost overhead? The non-ionising radiation from those percolating every room would not be audible like the traffic noise, but poses a health risk, even more so for young children.

allegedly?

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25 minutes ago, Mike Todd said:

allegedly?

Only alleged by those who believe similar unscientific evidence-free fearmongering about 5G masts and the like?

 

And fill their posts with buzzwords like "non-ionising radiation" (what type, exactly?) in the hope that nobody who actually *understands* this stuff points out the awkward facts?

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37 minutes ago, Tim Lewis said:

Great back to what this Post  is about Canalside properties

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2 minutes ago, Feeby100 said:

Great back to what this Post  is about Canalside properties

That house in Marsden is just plain weird, though I'm sure whoever built it like that thought it was a good idea...

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19 hours ago, Tim Lewis said:

 

Same price in Marsden

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

....but, unlike the last one, contrived and charmless, at least from the outside.

19 hours ago, Tim Lewis said:

 

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Fancy living in a bridge abutment?

 

 

 

Now that does appeal to the imagination - but traffic noise would surely be considerable. Is it s road- or railway-bridge?

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22 minutes ago, Athy said:

....but, unlike the last one, contrived and charmless, at least from the outside.

Now that does appeal to the imagination - but traffic noise would surely be considerable. Is it s road- or railway-bridge?

The noise from the cars/vans/lorries will be terrible :( Plus the exhaust fumes!!!

 

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8 hours ago, Hudds Lad said:

Living in a bridge abutment could possibly make you a bona fide troll.

 

I quite like it, though unsure where your parking would be.

It’s in the middle of a main traffic thoroughfare of Bath by the fire Station. It’s the A36 that joins the London Road. There’s usually queues both ways with traffic lights at the London Rd. Like many places with bridges the crossings are busy bottlenecks. This road serves traffic heading from South Wales Bristol Glos and possibly Worcs and Birmingham towards Warminster /the South coast /Salisbury /Bournemouth /Southampton way. As it’s traffic wise busy plus  Bath parking is pretty difficult. 
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I could imagine it doing well for an  Airbnb place though it’s a little walk from the station and the main shops

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