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Pots

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 05:55:06 +0000

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A nice set of chimneypots on the Queen's Hotel on Marine Parade, Eastbourne, which opened in June 1880.

No.4

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 05:55:57 +0000

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A portrait of Dahuichang Limestone Railway No.4. at work taking the empty wagons back to the quarry. These locomotives were based around a Russian design and built in China at the Harbin Forest Machinery Plant between 1977 and 1985. This locomotive was probably built in 1983 and is now at the Ffestiniog Railway where it is being restored and regauged.

Lots of information about the restoration project here: c2project.org/index.php?page=home

78-92, Foregate Street

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 06:37:57 +0000

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This was built as Cooperative department store in 1904-1905 with a nice lantern and leaded dome at the corner with Love Street. The architects were Douglas and Minshull. It was extended in 1914 and converted 1980s to a range of shops. The design of the flat-roofed extension is said to have shocked the City Council Improvement Committee and the partial leaded glazing was the price paid for their approval. It is listed Grade II.

Stone mining

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:19:23 +0000

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The Cracken Edge Quarries were exploited for gritstone in the nineteenth century and probably earlier. The best stone became difficult to access by quarrying and was then exploited by mining under the existing quarry faces in the early twentieth century. This is a packwall and roadway in one of the mines. It is worth noting that the roof has, to an extent, become the floor.

Kiosk

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:48:13 +0000

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Alongside the Dee in Chester there are a couple of these little ice cream kiosks. Sadly this was not open when I visited.

Spoil train

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 05:13:08 +0000

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JS 8167 takes an empty spoil train into the pit at the Sandaoling opencast coal mine. Note the semaphore signal on the driving cabin at the rear for use when being pushed on the way out.

Limestone at dusk

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 06:48:08 +0000

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An early evening view over the Lhoist operated Hindlow Quarry. The steam is from the hydration plant adjacent to the two Maerz limekilns on the right.

Kirkgate Buildings

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:25:05 +0000

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Detail from Kirkgate Buildings in Huddersfield. This commercial building with ground-floor retail units and offices to the upper floors dates from c1883. The architect was William Henry Crossland with sculptural work by Italian sculptor Ceccardo Egidio Fucigna. The main entrance bay has a full-width round-arched opening with this figurative head keystone of a Greek god wearing a dragon/serpent-like headdress (possibly Heracles or Apollo). The building is listed grade II.

Gurney Slade

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:45:58 +0000

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Silos for powder and dust products at the Morris & Perry Ltd., Gurney Slade limestone quarry. This independent family owned company supplies asphalt, ready mix concrete and aggregates. I think that this section is operated by the Gurney Slade Lime & Stone Company Limited (a subsidiary of LKAB Minerals) a group engaged in the manufacture of ground limestone and fertilizer products, the recycling of limestone powders and mineral processing.

Grube Velsen

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 10:47:01 +0000

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The Velsen coal mine was sunk in 1899 and the Gustav II shaft was developed between 1913 and 1917. In 1965 the mine was amalgamated into the Warndt complex which finally closed in 2005 with this shaft then being partially filled. The surviving surface buildings and headgear of the Gustav II shaft are considered a "top-class ensemble" of the Saarland mining industry and are listed structures. Inside the winding house is preserved this original steam winding engine made at the Dingler works.

Kiln and Temple

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:06:47 +0000

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Grinlow above Buxton saw an extensive limeburning industry develop in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. By the second half of the latter century the kilns were leased by the Duke of Devonshire to the Brock family who continued to operate them until 1789. From then on into the first quarter of the nineteenth century the Duke appears to have managed the limeworks directly as part of his estates. The hill is covered in the remains of the industry and one of these 18th century earthen kilns is prominent in the foreground of this view. On average these kilns would have been operated for seven months each year.

In the background stands Grin Low Tower, or Solomon’s Temple as it is locally known, a distinctive landmark crowning the skyline above Buxton at 437m (1,434ft) above sea level. Built in 1896, I believe by out-of-work quarrymen and paid for by the Duke of Devonshire, (and restored in 1988), this Grade II-listed folly replaced the ruins of a previous tower which was built by Solomon Mycock, a local farmer and landowner, and after whom it is still named.

Lamp hut

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:42:34 +0000

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Corrugated iron lamp hut at Ropley on the Mid Hants Railway. A fireproof structure for storage of paraffin for signal and hand lamps in former days. There is some more nice rusty iron on the roof of the building in the background.

Canadian Pacific

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:01:47 +0000

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Merchant Navy Class locomotive 35005, Canadian Pacific, prepares for departure from Alresford on the Mid Hants Railway.

Bloom Street

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:51:15 +0000

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In 1901 The Manchester Corporation Bloom Street power station opened with eleven Babcock and Wilcox coal-fired boilers and four 1,800 kW Musgrave vertical engines driving Westinghouse generators. It was built to supplement the nearby Dickinson Street Electric Light Station because demand for electric lighting and the new electric tramways had grown too high. From 1911 onward, surplus steam was piped underground to heat local city-centre landmarks like the Palace Theatre and the Refuge Assurance Building. In 1953, oil-fired boilers replaced the original coal plant. The station officially ceased power generation and closed in 1985. Parts of the building now house an electricity substation. It is listed Grade II.

East over Jinpeng

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:26:44 +0000

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QJ 6828 running hard with an eastbound train near Biligou on the Jinpeng section of the Jitong Railway.

Swan

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:14:28 +0000

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The Swan with Two Necks, Chestergate, Macclesfield.

When wagons go bad

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:03:58 +0000

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The bones of a wooden-framed coal wagon lie on a siding next to the running line at Chasewater Heaths on the Chasewater Railway. The chassis and drawbar arrangements are all laid bare.

Longsdon tower

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 07:16:36 +0000

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This water tower at Longsdon in north Staffordshire is operated by Severn Trent Water.

Ventilation

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:10:14 +0000

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The fan house at Duke Pit in Whitehaven was built in a castellated style on the hillside above the harbour. It is a scheduled monument. The first installation in this building was an 8ft diameter 1836 fan wheel which moved 23,000 cubic feet of air per minute. This was the first attempt at mechanical ventyilation in the Whitehaven coalfield. In 1870 it was replaced by a 36ft diameter Guibal fan to move 70,000 cubic feet of air per minute.

Celsa

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 05:24:08 +0000

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Water tower at the Celsa steelworks in Cardiff. This is the site formerly operated by Allied Steel & Wire.