Ash Pit

B and I went for a walk up to Egerton and back then Lunch together here by ourselves as Ro has gone to London for a match!!!

We came across this in a back alley.  It was part of an old building and We deciphered ASH PIT written on it.  Below is much more difficult to work out and I'm hoping some of you may have ideas!  I reckon the words BOLTON ....WORKS are at the end.  The building is long enough to have had 2 toilets  between the two ashpits in the days of toilets at the end of the garden!  only one of the ash pits has this white sign on it.
See Back Darwen Road on Google maps.  Sorry but link only gets you google maps!

Looking on the internet I found this: 
The Ashpits of Bolton and the Nightsoil Men  by John Foden
 The ashpit was between the toilets. These were emptied by the nightsoilsmen or muckmisers, and the ashpitmen or middenmen.
A good description of this can be found in a story called 'The Strange Singing at Night' in My Pal Spadger by Bill Naughton.
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The six men, three to each cart, were working in rhythm, with one man ahead opening the ashpit doors, and dragging out the ash-tubs, all ready for his two mates coming up behind, who would drag the pail out, empty it into the front cart and then replace it. The second pair of men would tip the contents of the ash tub into the second cart drawn by the grey horse known as Captain, and they would then shovel up the surplus ashes and replace the tub. Following on behind them was a man who swept up and shut the ashpit doors and generally made the back street tidy."




I've included an extra as I love the flowers and the pillar box topper to be found in Egerton!


The Pillar box is right next to a restaurant called    CIBO, an Italian Eatery.