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Conall MacCoille, Chief Economist, Davy (left) with Tom Parlon, Director General, Construction Federation Industry (CIF) and Jeanette Mair, Economic & Research Director (CIF), pictured in Davys Offices in Dawson Street, Dublin at the Construction Industry Federation’s first construction industry economic outlook hosted by Davys voicing the underlying challenges facing the sector that could impact on its ability to deliver essential housing and infrastructure activity in the next decade.
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The lift took us up into cloud and for the first part of the walk through the boulder field, it was swirling around us.
Crevasses on the Fee Glacier at an altitude of around 3400m.
Canon EOS 5D Mark III | Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin, no. 4152/1, 1929-1930. Photo: Fayer, Vienna.
Pretty Fee Malten (1911 - 2005) was a popular German film star in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s. She portrayed uncomplicated, gay girls in several silent and early sound films, until her budding career was broken off by the rise of Adolph Hitler.
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Miserere . Psaum51
"..Miserere mei, Deus, secundum magnam misericordiam tuam.."
30 sept 2011
Elle Mills, World Fair
This picture is of the World Fair in Knoxville Tennessee, in 1982. Carnivals, Festivals, and Fairs have seemed to always be apart of American tradition. They seem to cross the line of color, class, and status, by allowing everyone an opportunity to enjoy themselves. “1876 Centennial Exposition filled Philadelphia’s Fairmont Park with a spectacular building that not only drew 9.9 million people to celebrate the nation’s emergence as an industrial power, but also advertised the notion of seeing the rest of America.” In 1893 Chicago hosted the World Fair. It drew in 27 million visitors. It was very popular because it was almost seen as a substitute for travel since they had collected and displayed things from all over the world. Natural Wonders were remade into miniatures versions, so that people could experience them. From the fair they could also get postcards, which were only recently okayed by the postmaster, and other souvenirs of their trip. This is also where commercialized souvenirs and guide books first began to sell. These souvenirs also sold others on the fair as a future destination for mid nineteenth century travelers. In 1888 George Eastman developed a cheaper and simpler way to make pictures and prove to people that you had actually been to the place you said. For the fair you had to pay a small fee for bringing your camera. Not only did the fair bring in tourist, but the city did as well. People who lived in the country wanted a taste of the city life. They wanted to come explore the buildings and different amusements in the city. In the 1890s the cost of the bicycle dropped allowing people access to local tourism. This trend helped to spring up local museums and historic foundations. In the 1920s the wealthy and upper middle class started traveling outside of the United States. They traveled abroad on new luxury steamboats. In 1927 there was a new southern route which allowed for travel around the world. The World Fair was more or less for the working class people who could not venture out to see the sights the fair had replicated. Later, bus systems like Grey Hound were developed because they were more flexible then trains at getting people to different destinations. Busses also helped smaller towns along the route gain tourist dollars from the bus stops. When cars became cheap enough for a family to buy, they were usually the main source of travel for Americans, and fairs were easily accessible.
Cindy S. Aron, "The American Amusement Park Industry: A Histroy of Technology and Thrills." _ The Business History Review_v.66 no.2 (Summer 1992): 380-381.
Hayden Ramsay, _Reclaiming Leisrue Are, Sport and Philosophy_ (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 102-124.
Gary S. Cross, “World Fair.” _Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America_ v.2 (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004): 372-373.
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When she was a child my mother, who is now 97, lived and went to school not far from Salthill which was at the time a very popular holiday destination.
As I have never liked Irish seaside resorts and as my mother has always described Salthill as similar to Bray I never bothered visiting until this week. While my mother’s description is accurate to some degree I would describe it as being more attractive than Bray. Unfortunately I rained for the duration of my visit and because of the overcast sky my photographs are less colourful than I would have liked.
Salthill is a seaside area in the City of Galway in the west of Ireland. Lying within the townland of Lenaboy, it attracts many tourists all year round. There is a 2 km long promenade, locally known as the Prom, overlooking Galway Bay with bars, restaurants and hotels.
Salthill was, until 2007, home to one of the biggest non-fee paying air shows in Galway, the Salthill Air Show, which took place in June over Galway Bay. The show annually attracted over 100,000 people and generated over €1m in revenue.
I got the 401 bus from Eyre to Salthill Promenade - there is a bus every twenty minutes. To the best of my knowledge the bus fare is Euro 1.80 each way but as I have a travel pass I did not have to pay.
Dr. Civin maintains a full time, private care, fee-for-service practice in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, focusing on restorative and cosmetic dentistry.
PORTO ALEGRE, RS, BRASIL, 10.01.13: Fundação de Economia e Estatística (FEE) divulga desempenho das exportações do Estado em dezembro. Na foto, o economista Bruno Caldas (esq.) e o supervisor do Centro de Informações Estatísticas (CIE) Juarez Meneghetti (dir.). Foto: Laura Guerra/Especial Palácio Piratini
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Chaque automne, dans la région de Chelsea et de Wakefield, nous pouvons visiter les ateliers des Artistes dans leur milieu. Cette année, j'ai découvert l'artiste Russ Zietz. Il utilise plusieurs techniques et différents types de matériaux pour créer des oeuvres originales.
Exposant ses oeuvres à l'extérieur de son atelier, avec sa permission, je les ai photographiées. J'ai donc voulu mettre en valeur le fruit de son travail exceptionnel. Pour relever ce défi, j'ai tenté de maîtriser l'éclairage à l'aide d'un flash déporté et monté d'un PowerSnoot de Gary Fong. Lors du traitement numérique, j'ai conservé l'aspect original de l'oeuvre mais j'ai apporté de petits changements au décor. Merci à ce grand artiste de Wakefield. Avec votre outil de recherche, vous trouverez facilement son site internet en inscrivant tout simplement son nom.
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Each fall, in the area of Chelsea and Wakefield, we can visit the studios of several artists in their environment. This year, I discovered the artist Russ Zietz. He uses several techniques and different materials to create original works.
With his permission, I photographed his work outside of the studio. I wanted to highlight his outstanding work. To meet this challenge, I tried to control the lighting, using a remote flash and mounted a Gary fong PowerSnoot. As for digital processing, I kept the original look of the work but made slight changes to the background. Thanks to this great artist of Wakefield.
Using your search engine, you can easily find his website by entering his name.
'Views in Camera, 2017'; Photographs taken around the Sheffield area in the last year, Part II - 223Mby MP4 video
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Well, the Xmas and New Year festivities are over, we managed just one day of snow, last Friday, the 29th December and since then, bad weather has arrived in the form of 'Storm Eleanor' prevails and we have had a couple of days of heavy rain and high winds, for the UK that is. As my end-of-year Flickr 'Xmas Card', this time around its the second part of the 'Views in Camera' piece, the last was uploaded on August 31st and the scene commenced at a cold and wet Woodhead Tunnel portal, last January, see-
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/36942529635/
This, follow-up set, is an eclectic miscellany of shots taken between the end of August last year near, after the last video was finished and this one commences in an area just north-east of the centre of the city of Sheffield, close to the River Don in Neepsend, Shalesmoor and Millsands, commencing 3rd September, through to late October last year. The bulk of the 2nd half of the video was shot in the Millsands area of Sheffield on one late, sunny Sunday morning on 15th October and, like much of Sheffield, this area has seen a large down-turn in the once thriving heavy industries over the last 30 or so years. Some of these buildings are still in use, others have been re-used/purposed, and others demolished so this set of pictures is an attempt to grab a a record of what's left, before it goes forever. An earlier review of the desperate scene in Sheffield from the early 1980s to 1990s can be found in Adrian Wynn's great book on the subject, 'A View of Sheffield', published by Pickard Communications in 2007 and is highly recommended for a good view of what the changing scene was like in those days. In addition, Berris Conolly, another local photographer, has two books out, 'River Don, Seventeen Bridges' from views in 1989 & 2009 and 'Sheffield Photographs 1988-2008', published in 2008, see-
The video is in approximately 10 sections and is in chronological order of the 66 images taken and whilst there is some reference to the railways in this second video, most of the material is related, post the 1980s and 1990s changes, with what is still left to photograph from those times. As such this was series was prompted by the book indicated above, Adrian Wynn's book on Sheffield, from pictures taken in the late 1980s and early 1990s and theses provided a location for some of the shots here, to see for myself, how much things had changed over the past 30 years. I was thinking today, whilst gearing up to prepare this narrative, that Adrian has captured some very good historical records of the area which can be seen in the video; this not only being just a record but containing very pointed and stark political comment on those times.
1. Langsett Road. The very first shot can be found in Adrian's book with what was then, a boarded up derelict building next to the Masons Arms with the first of the three boards seen in his shot declaring- 'For Thou Can not Worship Both Money and The Lord. Evil Thatcher. Pension Snatcher' and on the third board, off to the right, 'For God's Sake, Vote Labour'. As the photograph shows here, the area to the right of the Mason's Arms has now been re-developed though the pub is still in the same style, if not in livery. Another obvious change in this, when compared to Adrian's shot in 1990, the 'wires are up', as the Sheffield SuperTram now plies this route along Langsett Road. The red brick section of the building on the right was where the first painted caption declared the choices between money and the Lord...
2. Burgoyne Road. These shots were taken whilst moving south-east along Langsett Road and this is another of the pictures which features in Adrian's book. The site is now bereft of the St. Bartholomew's Church which at the time of the 1989 picture was stood at the bottom of the road with, behind it then, the towering edifice of one of the Neepsend gas holders with folk atop the then popular 'Sheffield Ski Slope' visible. The church at that time was in the process of being demolished and so the gas holder was easy to see; since then, a year or so ago, that gasholder has now also been demolished and the Sheffield Ski Slope has also gone, gutted by fire a few years ago; the land is currently being considered for redevelopment into another sports facility. As a tribute to the old church, on the left at the side of the white Mercedes hatchback, stands the St. Bartholomew's Church centre.
3. Love Street. Moving towards the River Don and an area centred on one of Adrian's pictures taken on 'Love St', the street itself still extant and still with many old buildings around it, though from the look of some of them now; their time must be coming soon. The John & Matthew Woollens building can be seen in the third shot on the right, 'Bone Cutters' by all accounts but that went out of business as long ago as 1874 after which it became a Signage business run by one of the Woollens family, Edwin James, from Rotherham. The 2nd of the 3 'Love St' pictures shows the one most corresponding to Adrian's shot of the 'Cherry Flan' cafe which stood on the corner where the railings mark the edge of the car park. In his picture from 1992 and in this one, the still extant and thriving, Sheffield Workhouse, now called 'Mayfair Court', with many a flat up for sale within... also known as 'the Doss House' it was built in 1908 for single, down-and-out men... Also in the 2nd picture, some 'wag', has put up a poster for 'The Lady Boys' from Bangkok, appearing in Sheffield from time-to-time, this for two weeks at the end of November, 2015. To the left of the 'Lady Boys' sign is the land once occupied by the Britannia Works which were off to the left of the 'Cherry Flan' in Adrian's picture but the works are featured elsewhere in his book. The last shot of the 3, looks back along 'Lurve Street' and shows the 'new builds' which have gone up here-abouts behind the old 'Woollens Signs' building.
4. Well Meadow Street. Another series of shots prompted by one of Adrian's pictures, this time its the area around Well Meadow Street and this has changed, and is still changing, significantly. Adrian's picture in 1992, had its own pastel, colourful feal to it, taken in flat light and the 1st picture here, of a set of 9, reflects less of that feel but at least the buildings are being renovated and the view, apart from the 'yellow' roller door in the earlier picture, is pretty much the same; the roller door was at the bottom of the road where now palisade fence has been erected. Already on the lower right, some of the buildings have been let out with the area at the top of the street having been redeveloped into flats. The houses on the left which were actually derelict by 1992 with the windows boarded up, are finally being renovated; its good to see this happening where its still possible to retain the old history of the place. The second shot shows a closer view where the yellow roller door into the works of Samuel Peace & Sons Ltd. once stood, the area has now been opened out though the fence is a rather ugly replacement. The 3rd, 4th & 5th shots show the view up Well Meadow Street, which here runs parallel to Netherthorpe Road, and looks towards the new student accommodation near the large intersection at Western Bank and the University of Sheffield. The 6th shot looks back along the full length of the redevelopment with more graffiti'd hoardings up on the left, in preparation for more land to be given over to student accommodation and such like. In the 7th shot, the wooden canvasses erected around derelict land along Brownell Street, are an ideal location for the graffiti artists to have a field-day with their tagging and in some respects it does brighten up an otherwise glum area. The last 2 in the set of 9 at this location look back from the other side of the palisade fence seen earlier, and now on the site of the old Samuel Peace & Sons Ltd. Steel & File manufacturers; the University Arts Tower is in the background looking up Meadow Well Street once more. The final shot, to confirm where we are, with the presence of the camera, and me I guess, attracting some suspicion from the owners of the 'Hot Chilli' food establishment, who were clearly concerned about what was going on, until I explained what it was all about, and showed them, a copy of Adrian's 'A View of Sheffield', which resulted in them being highly interested in same picture from 1992. A link to more information about this important area and its conservation, can be found here-
www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/topic/7358-well-meadow-...
5. Cornish Street. In the same year, Adrian photographed the area closer to the River Don and the next 4 shots show the current scene along Cornish Street, Neepsend, it too not having changed much in layout since the earlier picture from 1992. There has however, been a good deal of 'tidying up' undertaken when compared to the derelict scene which pervaded many places in Sheffield in the 1980s and early 1990s. Serendipitously again, as walking along the street to find the same view as the earlier picture, and some 'interest' came along in the form of 'woman and child on bike', peddling along away from the river behind us, with the George Barnsley & Sons works, 'the world’s largest producer of files and cutting tools for the shoemaking industry', over on the right. Again, in Adrian's 1992 picture, the building was already in a sorry looking state with windows on the ground floor boarded up and the street and pavements looking worse than they do here. The house ahead of the cyclist at that time was also boarded up but now it has been re-opened and that area, right next to the river is looking, once more, to be on the up-and-up. The chimney stack in the background is now part of Cornish Place and from Wikipedia-
'...The building was formerly the factory of James Dixon & Sons, a Britannia metal, Sheffield plate and Cutlery manufacturer. In the late 1990s the disused building was cleaned and converted into apartments, it is regarded as the most impressive cutlery works that still stands in Sheffield[1] and rivals the cotton mills of Lancashire and the West Riding in terms of architectural quality and heritage. The most impressive parts of the building are the east and west ranges which have Grade II* listed status while the rest of the works have the lower Grade II rating. The 'Cornish' in the buildings name is thought to derive from the manufacture of Britannia metal which is made up of 93% tin which came from Cornwall...'
Moving around the corner and the state of the main building can be seen in the next 3 of the 4 pictures taken here. There are also further details about George Barnsley & Sons', here-
www.bcd-urbex.com/george-barnsley-sons-cornish-works-shef...
and here-
www.aworldinruins.co.uk/george-barnsley--sons
6. Bardwell Street. Not far away, and venturing closer to the railway in this part of the town, the next 5 pictures are centred around the Bardwell Street area and this road passes along under the MSLR's line form Sheffield Victoria, via Woodhead, to Manchester Piccadilly or, it did once! The first of the 5 pictures shows the well graffiti'd building which was once occupied by the Cannon Brewery and is now set to become ... more student accommodation; though the process seems a little slow. The next shot of the 5 reflects the one most closely resembling Adrian Wynn's shot, one of the oldest in his book and taken in 1982 and in his shot, being 1982, the Woodhead line is electric overheads are still present, complete with cables, but not for very much longer. Some of the buildings along Bardwell Street have also been demolished so it was difficult to get this shot exactly correct, the two camera lenses were also of somewhat differing focal length. The older picture was taken with at a wider focal length with the camera further along the road towards the railway over-bridge; this I didn't do as all the detail would then have been missed out due to the demolition of the buildings on the left in the present picture. There are still lots of identifiable features between 1982 and this, taken in October last year, 35 years apart, the arch of the MSLR's railway bridge being just visible at the end of the wall of the building on the right. The line formation is now of course overgrown with birch trees along its sides, but with the single line to Deepcar still present and in use, carrying the nightly steel train from the Aldwarke steelworks for rolling at Stocksbridge Works. Graffiti tag'ers have been out and about again, festooning the derelict parts of buildings with their bright artwork and with the 'House Skate Park', just around the corner near the black car, opposite the old Canon Brewery building, the Skating building also suitably decorated, see the shots in the end-of-last-year video, here-
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/24276897661/
and the last of the 5 pictures in this series. The last two pictures of the 5 are taken from close to the indoor, 'House Skate Park' at the end of Bardwell Street and the line of the MSLR's Woodhead route can be clearly seen, being demarked by the line of tree-growth, marching up the 1-in-100 slope to the left and up towards Woodhead Tunnel. The panorama in the last of the 5 shots shows the end of Bardwell Street, now Road of course, in Neepsend with House Skate Park on the right, with its colourful outside adornments and yet more derelict buildings on the left. It seems devastating removal of old industry in and around Sheffield has left a nightmare of a problem for the planners to find a new use for, particularly the vast spaces of land these firms once used to occupy on the periphery of the town and closer to the centre, old Victorian buildings which also be dealt with, in one way or another; usually by demolition and re-use.
7. Burnaby Street. Another five shots taken on the bank up to Walkley and once more reflecting a shot taken by Adrian in his book 'A View of Sheffield - pictures from 1982-1992', this one taken in 1982 on Burnaby Street when much of this area was being re-developed on a grand scale to renew time-expired, and unwanted, 1960s housing. It took a while to try and get the angle exactly correct with respect to the 1982 which features, along with a single house being demolished in the centre foreground, the still extant U-shaped block of flats at Regent Court, painted white and right next to the River Loxley which flows into the River Don at Hillsborough. From the angle of the shadow of the northern-most, left, section of the 'U' shaped structure, I walked along the top of the bank until the angle matched and these 5 shots show the change in fortunes of the whole area since Adrian took his picture in 1982. The scene in the background of the 5 pictures looks over northwards towards Owlerton and Wadsley Bridge and the line of the Woodhead Route, the Stocksbridge Branch as it now exists. The 3rd and 4th of the five pictures is clearly getting closer but in Adrian's shot, the end of the U-shaped building has its 'top' facing the camera so clearly this shot isn't quite far enough along to the north. These pictures pan around to the north-east a little and reveal the hill rising to the Ski Slop area on the far right at Parkwood Springs but still the angle isn't quite right. The last of the shots, in my view, is just about spot-on. The end of the white Regent Court building is now facing directly towards the camera and at a realistically good angle down the bank towards the building; the re is even a somewhat similar house in the centre foreground, not in the process of being demolished, which doesn't look unlike the style of the one in the 1982 picture. This last picture was taken on the steps leading down to Hammerton Close from Lonsdale Lane withing spitting distance of Burnaby Street. The woodland in the left background of this picture are on the outliers of Beeley and Great Hollins Wood which runs on the north side of the Stocksbridge branch line through Middlewood and Oughtibridge and on through Wharncliffe Side to Deepcar and the exchange sidings at Ellen Wood which allows steel stock to be taken into the Samuel Fox steelworks at Stocksbridge.
8. Graffiti Millsands Area. Another derelict site on a fast-filling out area right next to the river at Millsands, a colourful extravaganza of graffiti tagging art which will be liked and hated in equal measure. This is a series of 18 shots taken at the derelict building site which sat amidst a plethora of old industrial businesses which were also festooned about the Sheffield area.. Here, this site was in and surrounded by- the Eclipse Patent Roof Glazing Works, the Don Confectionary Works, Millsands Forge & Rolling Mills, next to the river of course, and the Eclipse Lantern Works; Eclipse being, I guess the outfit that still makes hack saw blades. The artworks/tags here are set about a site which at this time during the middle of October, was still resplendent with Buddleia and other vegetation which, along with the still extant signage form past uses and the red brickwork, all conspired to make a garden scene with the paraphernalia of Sheffield's continued re-development, rising in the background. And this can be seen to good effect in the last shot in the series of 18 where a local heads towards the river with the old Eclipse Lantern Works behind her to the left and the Eclipse Glazing works off on the far left; the Lantern Works have now been partly taken over by car rental firm, EuropCar. I enjoyed photographing this area and liked the feel which was brought about by the combination of all the elements, old and new, constructed or natural and with the added bonus of reminders of past 'do's and dont's'...
9. The River Don Area. From the Graffiti on Bridge St. to the River at Millsands and yet more iconic buildings, with the odd hark back to the past once again, taken from Adrian Wynn's book. Almost the last picture in that book, taken looking towards the old Bridgehouses Goods depot, see-
www.disused-stations.org.uk/s/sheffield_bridgehouses/
west of the then closed Sheffield Victoria Station, is somewhat reflected in the 1st of the set of 18 pictures here, taken walking along the riverside and back. This first of 3, rendered in B/W, showing the Aizlewood Mill, with the Victoria Station site in the background, shows the changes in just over 30 years, the most noted changes being the closure of Victoria Station and the complete removal of the Bridgehouses Goods Depot, part of one of the goods depot buildings pokes into the picture of Adrian's, taken in 1986; the land on which the Goods Depot was located is still up for sale. The 2nd of the 3 shots shows a wider view along the river with, in turn, the Harlequin Public House, which the GCRS uses for their Sheffield meetings, the Aizlewood Mill and beyond that, the 'New Testament Church of God' building. At far left, the green bridge, installed when the Sheffield ring road was built, carries the now single line through the Victoria Station site, up to Deepcar; a set of arches which comprise the Wicker Arches, march off towards the right from the bridge. The last of the first three in the set of 18, is a close up of the old and new bridges, the older one carrying the lines to the north-west and just above this bridge deck is the northern portal of the Spittal Hill Tunnel, see-
www.flickr.com/photos/134774261@N07/33357890945
which carried 'Fiery Jack', the shunting locomotive with its 4 wagons between the Midland's Wicker Station, off to the right near the tall background building, and at this end, connecting with the MSLR's line to Manchester. The 1986 picture in Adrian Wynn's book, due to the complete lack of vegetation around the station site in those days, clearly shows the western portal of the tunnel, just under the Bridgehouses Goods building awning. After this, further views along the river from Nursery St., a close-up of the splendid Aizlewood Mill followed by Riverside House and then a view looking towards the railway bridge over the main road at Wicker. Following on from that, a short tour of the splendid structures which stand at the side of the River Don and the Upper Don Walk; the first showing the scene crossing Blonk St. bridge and looking towards Lady's Bridge and West Bar with the Exchange Brewery, occupied by the Tennant Brothers at one stage and with, in the 1960s and 1970s, that distinctive odour of fermenting hops, pervading the air in this area. Looking the other way, east towards Attercliffe and in the background on the arches, the Midland Main line passes over the River Don with the red-brick Victoria Hotel just beyond the white pedestrian bridge. A B/W rendition follows showing the scene looking past the Holiday Inn Express and the road up to the old Victoria Station site which is now blocked from view, taken in August 2017. Immediately following this shot, a very similar shot taken on my old Praktika film camera during the Sheffield Rag week 'goings on' in mid-September, 1968; the whole of the area then was open to view up to the Victoria Station site with Victoria Station Road running along the back beneath the series of black poster awnings; only the far left one having anything pasted on it... maybe 'SAVE OUR STATION'! The Effingham St gasometer is in the background and the square chimney close to the station site can be seen and this artifact is still in-situ today. The general state and mess the River Don was in at this time can be easily seen and its not clear to me whether it was a good idea wallowing around in the filth that was terms a river; much has changed since this time of course and now the River Don is 'clear as a bell'. The means of access, for those in the 'Rag Week Boat Race', can be seen and as I recall, this was my last picture here before heading off and delivering the goods, i.e. all the money I had collected for the 1968 Rag Week Magazine, full of useful venue information, advertising and to be frank, shear filth in terms of the cartoon jokes! Moving back along Castlegate now at the other side of the river and the splendid buildings on the eastern side of the river come into view, this glorious red/grey brick edifice at either side of Lady's Bridge was
Castle House but is now, partly, 'Cut Price Carpets' complete with 21st century appendage, a satellite dish; neglecting that, didn't the Victorians do well! The weir at Lady's Bridge is next, looking back towards the Victoria Station site and this one, for me, is very appealing in its colour and grandeur. Now on the opposite side of the river to earlier, some of the less impressive structures, still extant, one with square chimney, a soupçon of graffiti and green metal window frames. The 'New Testament Church of God Family Life Centre' now occupies a building not far from its rather impressive church, with two folk sat chatting over 'stuff' alongside the slowly flowing water of the Don; a beautiful scene. And, lastly is this almost final set, the camera now points once more across the river to the Aizlewood Mill on the right and the The Harlequin Freehouse on the left and under normal circumstance, that's where I would have headed next except there was a further shot I thought it worthwhile attempting to take to complete this second series of the 'Views in Camera'.
10. Rutland Road. Parkwood Springs. Unfortunately, the shot I had anticipated taking, from the site of the old Neepsend Engine Shed just off Rutland Road, which in the past had been easily accessible by walking across a piece of open ground, had now been completely taken over by a new-build industrial building and not only that, the space was all nicely palisaded off, the building occupying the whole of the space. This was just behind the camera in this final shot and, as luck would have it, on the other side of the road, 'there's a picture there', flashed straight into mind as a building on Botsford St., just a 'stones-throw' north of the M.S.L.R.'s now single line formation to Deepcar, was in view and with suitable brick-work, graffiti and blue van, probably makes a better picture than the rather mundane one I was thinking of showing just a set of rails disappearing towards the Sheffield Victoria site! Some heavy gradient filtering required in this one as the sun continued in full throttle and the shadows split the scene in half still, a worthy piece to end this 2nd of the 'Views in Camera' Video...
Although I have used as reference, 'A View of Sheffield, pictures 1982-1992' and this has been useful, there are many more images from this period in Adrian's book which speaks of the enormous changes which were taking places in Sheffield in the 1980s and 1990s and I can only recommend this for further viewing; the half dozen or so 'Then' pictures which I have used as reference, reflecting on a small portion of that 35 years ago vista.
A very Happy New Year to all interested views, many thanks for the comments and information provided over the last year, appreciate it all and am looking forward to a new, but maybe differently-accented, 2018...
E.& O.E.