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The firebox has been burned out over the years. There is virtually no mortar left between the bricks.
An Abstract image of a brick wall taken on the Blackpool promenade, Lancashire, England.
The images in this series were inspired by Mishka Henner's 'No Man's Land', a series created using Google Maps randomly taken images on the roadside. This series is created in the same way by photographing from the window of my car while driving around my local area. However, I added my own personal touch by zooming in and positioning the camera to get abstract style images and this is the result. I believe this concept is what truly has made these images rather different if not unique. This series also shows how our streets that we walk along every day can be made into art if you just take the time to look at it in a different way. It showcases the natural beauty of our manmade structures and local wildlife amongst it that we often take for granted.
Please comment and critique because I would always love and appreciate feedback to improve my photography.
At Blackley clay and shale have been mined and quarried from the mid 19th century and in the twentieth century became the home of "Wilkinsons of Elland" who stamped that proud boast on all their bricks. This brickworks closed in 1985.
The quarry has now became a landfill site but luckily a few buildings from the Blackley Mine have survived.
From 'on the trail' ..
over 3 feet of snow between this building and me,
kneeling in the snow and hoping for the best my digital zoom could do,
snowing heavy.
Apparently, I have an interest in old walls, especially adobe, wooden eaves, roof tiles, bright-colored paint (in this case, just white), peeling plaster, and bricked-up windows. These are things I see in Mexico, and I often photograph them. Are they "picturesque? To me, yes. (overcast day, edited to brighten)
Ecuandureo, Michoacan, Mexico, 2013-03-14
Lumley Brick Company was beside the Lumley 6th pit from 1870s to 1938. Early firebricks were marked Lumley with the outline of a fortified tower to represent Lumley Castle. Also produced enamel bricks glazed dark green, deep yellow, cream, and coffee brown. Clay came from the Low Main and 5/4 seams. Bricks were burnt in 6 circular downdraught kilns.
In 1937 Lumley Brickworks ltd. re-opened an old brickwork and the fields next to it were opencast for shale. 2 Fawcett machine presses made engineering and facing bricks which were burned in 8 Newcastle kilns. In 1944 the Fawcett machines were preplaced by 2 Bradley and Craven presses. By 1950 there was 18 back to back Newcastle type kilns in 2 sets rows of 9. These were converted into a continuous kiln. an oil-fired tunnel kiln was built in 1960. This was converted to gas in 1977 and the continuous kiln was disused. From 1980 bricks were made on a Spengler machine.
Brick-Blister.
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Day 53 Building Materials - Brick
Look up, look waaaaayyyyy up!
I call this one "Up Close & Personal With A Smoke Stack".
This picture is taking part in the 2009 Photo Challenge Group.
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This year's Brick Fiesta was a bit underwhelming compared to the last two, and I didn't exactly help matters by hardly building all year. But had a good time hanging out with Steve.
Found: Cwm Lickey, Pontypool, near the coal levels. There were hundreds of bricks scattered and dug in for hard standing, the purpose of which is unclear. Bricks were predominantly Star Newport, although there were Star Caerleon and Star Cwmbran. All appeared to be seconds or rejects, including a few "Siamese twin" bricks, fused in the kiln.
This is the first time I have seen any Star brick with reversed letters in the die.
A possible explanation for the Star "debris" at this site: a Torfaen County Borough Council guided walk leaflet gives the location of where these bricks are as where Star Brick "in the Mid 1950s produced the very first breeze blocks from waste or spoil from the mines of Blaendare". It appears that a temporary site was set up to produce breeze blocks, possibly experimentally. The site is right up against the slag tips, but there is no evidence of any permanent building. Certainly the works would have had a ready supply of reject bricks to creat a hard standing and firm up the access path.