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14 November 2018
Fighting its way through the buddleia and other undergrowth, 165101 heads up towards Haversham bank before reversing into Wolverton works after arrival from Reading.
The largest steel works in northern China and one of it's greatest air polluters, it was closed down after 89 years in time for the Olympic games. There are plans to open the blast furnace building to the public as part of a museum tour.
In early 1979, Chiswick was a good place to capture on film the many RT trainers that were still active and were outnumbering the last few hanging on in passenger service. And whilst waiting for an RT to come along, service buses passed by and some of these were of interest. RM 32 was just a few weeks out of overhaul when I took this picture on 1 March 1979. It was one of many `bonnet numbers` released from the `float` system at Aldenham Works towards the end of 1978 which in some cases meant the reappearance of certain RM numbers that had disappeared for a few years to exist on paper only.
Newman Brothers at The Coffin Works is a heritage attraction located on the edge of the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham. This grade II* listed factory and its contents tells the story of Newman Brothers, Birmingham’s last coffin-furniture factory who operated from their Fleet Street premises for over 100 years until 1998 when workers laid down their equipment, and walked out of the building for the very last time, leaving everything, including personal belongings behind.
United Counties Bristol MW/ECW 203 is off to an event around 1963. Being winter, it may well have been a pantomime or ice show in London. I have had this picture on one of our local Facebook pages and it appears to be at Vauxhall Motors in Dunstable. The little lad in the duffle coat and Rupert Bear trousers could almost have been me!
Scanned from a negative taken by Bruce Turvey, now in my collection.
On the ground floor of what felt like one of the most dangerous locations I have been to. Most of the shots are high up on rusty metal walkways that feel like they could drop at any minute, fortunately this was taken as we left and was back down on the relative safety of lowest level again.
RM 1368 in cut down `single deck` form following an arson attack was used by Research & Development for trying out new projects and modifications out on the road - hence the trade plates. This picture taken on 12 September 1979 also shows what looks to be a new Metrobus inside the Experimental Shop.
I doubt I realised at the time of taking this picture at Chiswick on 31 October 1979 that I`ve captured three buses that each have examples of a colour that shouldn`t be there. RCL 2219 has red light surrounds, RT 3232 shows proof of its former green identity having lost the bonnet plate and whichever RMC it is has a red running number plate which is unexpected.
The RT must have been one of the last in use as a driver trainer but its days with LT were almost at an end as it was bought by Ensign before the year was out.
Not getting out a great deal lately, this is simply a pathway around the outskirts of my workplace. Admittedly better than most peoples around work .
Class 40 number 40039 in the process of being cut-up during July 1976. The work had probably been completed by 31/08/76.
The Clairton Coke Works is located 20 miles south of Pittsburgh on 392 acres along 3.3 miles of the west bank of the Monongahela River. The plant was built in 1901 by the St. Clair Steel Company and acquired by U. S. Steel in 1904. The largest coke manufacturing facility in the United States, Clairton Plant operates nine coke oven batteries and produces approximately 4.7 million tons of coke annually.
These 2 bottle kilns in Longton were built in the late 19th century as part of the Commerce Works pottery. The pottery was run by the Chetham family from 1796 - 1869 and then taken over by H.J Aynsley in 1873. Final closure came in the 1990s and the site has stood derelict since. The building is listed Grade II but I doubt that will save it.
and Elk is one of those .. far too clever for her own good and takes a firm opinion on what she does and doesn't like.
Things she doesn't like include (in order):
Bicycles (she'll disappear off the face of the earth if she sees one)
Alsatians (harks back to puppyhood)
Other dogs
Mist (unfortunate but at least she'll mostly just grumble)
Bin bags
Vacumn Cleaner
Things she likes (in order):
The Cat (although this is more of an obsession)
The Walk
The Mummy
The Ball
The Stick
The Dinner
Things she hasn't quite made her mind up on:
The Paddy
Other People
The complex of 18th and 19th century ironworks operated by the Fussell family in Somerset is a wonderful place to explore.
Alstoms 08629 pulls 456017 out of the works at Wolverton in its then new Southern colours on 13th February 2007,i then dragged it to selhurst depot with 47811 as 5Z18.
By Archibald Thomson, 1885. 3-storey engineering workshop and foundry incorporating earlier remains. Red brick with coursed and squared rubble walls up to 1st floor level to Tower Street. 5-bay; 3 bays to right gabled and 3-storey with large rectangular and smaller secondary doorway; single segmental-arched windows above. 2 bays to left 2-storey (truncated after fire) with secondary door and segmental-arched windows.
Originally built for Messrs John Cran & Co. Good example of medium sized engineering workshop with interesting layout and original construction and retaining machinery, contributing well to the streetscape. A fire in the post-war years destroyed top storey of workshop.
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This shot was taken today at Gas Works Park in Seattle, WA. Went around the Seattle area today trying to get shots of all the different places and I felt like today was the day to get married because everywhere I went there was a wedding party where I wanted to take shots...
Camera:
Canon 450d (Xsi)
Canon EF 18-200
Processing:
3 shot hdr (-1,0,1)
Photomatix: Tonemapped with Details Enhancer Sliders
Topaz Detail 2: Very Minor Detail work
Photoshop CS4: Rotate Image, Crop, Rotate, Vignette, Drop Shadow
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