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huber coal breaker. ashley, PA. in operation from 1939 to 1976. coal breaker w/ a power plant. the breaker is 11 stories tall at 134 ft.
Typical along our shoreline. Even with no wave action, a swell will occasionally erupt and slam into the rocks.
Faces of San Francisco’s Bay to Breakers, May 15th, 2016. Участники Ежегодного 12 км Забега в Сан Франциско, Калифорния.
huber coal breaker. ashley, PA. in operation from 1939 to 1976. coal breaker w/ a power plant. the breaker is 11 stories tall at 134 ft. a machine in the power plant second floor.
Breakers Pub raised £405.30 for the charity Laserfair in May, 1990. In the picture were, from left - Jenny Stewart, Helen Cargill and Christine McKay are presenting the money to Brenda Ross, seated. (Photograph - Stan Mackie)
The Old St. Nicholas coal Breaker, located just outside of Mahanoy City, was constructed in 1930 it was the largest coal breaker in the world
At 179 yards, Batley Carr tunnel, Dewsbury is fairly short, and has been closed to all traffic since 1965. It opened in 1880 and was one of three routes the express trains from Kings Cross to Bradford took.
Today, the southern portal is all that is left; the northern one disappeared and the tunnel partly backfilled.
Access to the tunnel is through a breakers yard.
For half of the tunnel, the floor has been raised by a couple of metres and levelled off. Slightly dodgy pictures as I only had 10 minutes...
The tunnel has been walled up just beyond the open airshaft, although tiny gaps can be seen around the edge. Todays regret was not trying to see beyond the wall.
The Breakers is the grandest of Newport's summer "cottages" and a symbol of the Vanderbilt family's social and financial preeminence in turn of the century America.
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) established the family fortune in steamships and later in the New York Central Railroad, which was a pivotal development in the industrial growth of the nation during the late 19th century.
The Commodore's grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, became Chairman and President of the New York Central Railroad system in 1885, and purchased a wooden house called The Breakers in Newport during that same year. In 1893, he commissioned architect Richard Morris Hunt to design a villa to replace the earlier wood-framed house which was destroyed by fire the previous year. Hunt directed an international team of craftsmen and artisans to create a 70 room Italian Renaissance- style palazzo inspired by the 16th century palaces of Genoa and Turin. Allard and Sons of Paris assisted Hunt with furnishings and fixtures, Austro-American sculptor Karl Bitter designed relief sculpture, and Boston architect Ogden Codman decorated the family quarters.
The Vanderbilts had seven children. Their youngest daughter, Gladys, who married Count Laszlo Szechenyi of Hungary, inherited the house on her mother's death in 1934. An ardent supporter of The Preservation Society of Newport County, she opened The Breakers in 1948 to raise funds for the Society. In 1972, the Preservation Society purchased the house from her heirs. Today, the house is designated a National Historic Landmark.