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For the challenge theme: 'to show something or someone that played a role in your day - in monochrome'. I got a scrap note for this piece of aluminium pipework from the scrap metal skip at work and brought it home, since I can use some of the chunky bits.
The rear of Silver Street, Doncaster. Pipework, Added Air Conditioning units, extended buildings and patchwork brickwork are the main features of this very industrial looking scene.
The front face is the nightlife centre of the Town all glass doors and welcoming lighting - this is the business end!
The Foss Island Railway was a 1.5 mile branch line in York, which was built to serve the city's world famous confectionery company, Rowntree Mackintosh.
The railway, opened in 1895, branched off northward from the York-Scarborough line and curved clockwise round the city towards the immense factory. The company initially used just a single locomotive which was replaced shortly after use of the line began, by a saddle tank bought from Manchester. Two further engines were added between 1909 and 1915 as business flourished on the line.
A connection with the Derwent Valley Light Railway had been built by this time.
and in 1927 a single platform station was built close to the Rowntree plant, at Haxby Road, for workers commuting from further afield, notably Doncaster and Selby.
As business boomed to even bigger proportions, a fourth loco joined the fleet in 1943. Sadly this end up being quite short lived as diesels took over in 1959, displacing all four steam engines to the scrappers.
DMUS were used to convey the commuters and visitors to the factory while an abundance of diesel locos, notably class 31 and 45 dealt with goods.
The Derwent Valley connection closed in 1981, although the Foss Island line continued running until 1988,The line and the station were both closed and the track was lifted four years after.
The Foss Island railway today is a Sustrans cycle route, taking riders and walkers a pleasant 1.5 mile journey round the city.
The trackbed diverges from the LNER Scarborough line, a mile north east of York station. The NCN joins from Wigginton Road, and passes under several impressive bridges along its way. Features to look out for are the overgrown remains of the platform, a huge curving retaining wall, a nature reserve and a new steel bridge across the street at Huntington Road. There are also a handsome collection of sculptures and benches scattered along the route of the line, made from steel pipe that was formerly part of the factory.
Although the Rowntree line ends at Layerthorpe, the Sustrans path has since been extended - it now continues along the Derwent Valley railway for a further two miles to Metcalfe Lane, Osbaldwick, terminating alongside a recent housing development.
York Rowntree line Foss Island disused railway trackbed confectionery industry closed cycle path footpath Sustrans National Cycle Network goods 1895 closed 1988
The Pipeworks in Broseley, Shropshire, still exists. It is part of the Ironbridge Gorge Museums, it is one of the Ironbridge Museums.
A novelty card published by Bamforth & Co. Ltd. of Holmfirth and New York. It was posted in Blackpool on the 11th. April 1936 to:
Mrs. Blakeley,
20, Buckingham Avenue,
Sefton Park,
Liverpool.
The message on the other side of the card was as follows:
"Dear Mother,
We went to the Winter Gardens last night
and had a great time. One dance lasted
three quarters of an hour and I was dead
beat at the end of it.
Love Mary".
The Winter Gardens is a large entertainment complex in the town centre of Blackpool. It contains 12 different venues, including a theatre, ballroom and conference facilities. It was opened in 1878, and is a Grade II* listed building.
The Winter Gardens have hosted the annual conferences for all 3 major British political parties. Every Prime Minister since WWII has addressed an audience at the venue.
The Empress Ballroom was built in 1896. With a floor area of 12,500 square feet (1,160 sq. metres), the ballroom was one of the largest in the world. It was requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1918 for military use during the Great War, before being handed back at the end of hostilities. The ballroom was re-floored in 1934.
Acts such as Pet Shop Boys, The Beatles, Queen, Oasis, Radiohead and Slash have performed in the ballroom.
It also housed a Wurlitzer Organ, with much of the pipework coming from the original Blackpool Tower organ. It was played for many years by Horace Finch but was removed in 1969, eventually being broken up. A new Wurlitzer organ is currently being installed in the Empress Ballroom - the original console has survived and will hopefully be incorporated.
Held on the paved grounds inside the Pipeworks market complex, which are soon to be demolished to make way for another large business, car enthusiasts from around the area gather together and present a snapshot to the locals and shopping public with what we regard as our own form of art and culture.
While this show is small in statue, it’s band of loyal followers with their diversity of classic and unique rides sees that it gives a great insight to a public audience who wouldn’t normally have the opportunity to view this scene, a chance to take in the restored and modified car scene in all its glory.
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The pipework in the Borders Distillery, Hawick through the window with my the reflection of my bored wife patiently(?) waiting for me.
The Crossness Pumping Station was part of the London Main Drainage scheme planned for the Metropolitan Board of Works by their Chief Engineer, Joseph Bazalgette (1819-91). It was opened by HRH the Prince of Wales on the 4th August 1865. The design of the building is often attributed to Bazalgette but is probably by Charles H. Driver (1832-1900). The contractor was William Webster who was also responsible for other major public works in London. The buildings were designed in a 19th century eclectic style that originated in Germany and is known as "Rundbogenstil" (round arched style). The bricks are "Suffolk Whites" with black and red bricks used in the arches.
The four rotative beam engines are each 71 feet long, 75 feet high, 19 feet 6 inches wide and are the largest of their type in the world. Their original single-cylinder engines were built by James Watt & Co., Birmingham. They were converted into triple-expansion engines between 1900-1901, by Benjamin Goodfellow, Hyde, Cheshire. The engines were named "Victoria", "Prince Consort", "Albert Edward" and "Alexandra". Prince Consort was steamed again in 2003 and formally started by HRH the Prince of Wales in the same year.
This one's for Bright Tal. I don't know why, but I thought of her as soon as the scene hit my eyeballs and I felt compelled to capture it. Actually, I do know why... it's because it's a high contrast, glowing duotone of pipework and wall!
Tal is touring Europe at the moment. Bon voyage and best wishes to you as you go...
This scene is the actually the ceiling of a toilet cubicle in the grounds of the Matrimandir temple of Auroville. We were about to go into the Inner Chamber of the temple...
Auroville, south India, Journey to the East set
Needs pipework repairing so is currently in one of the workshops at the Bala Lake railway . Photo taken 31/05/23
Fully rebuilt forged engine, custom pipework, radiator, intercooler and other parts. The car also started life as a 1993 GTO with popup lights. We have done a full 99 conversion with all original Mitsubishi parts, which include replacing the complete front end assembly from the inner wings forward.
Internally, the most conspicuous feature of Bispham Methodist Chapel is the decorative pipework of the two manual and pedal organ. Further particulars of the instrument, which was installed here by Charles H Whiteley & Co of Chester in 1923 but is believed to date from around 1890, can be found in Appendix 3 to David Lithgoe's “A House Nigh Unto Heaven” (Bispham Methodist Church, 1994) and at www.npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=D07969. There are also some fine examples of stained-glass and a baptismal font commemorating former members of the congregation. The pulpit fall from the former Primitive Methodist Chapel at Crawford is displayed in a frame on the south wall by the exit. The overall effect is rather spoiled by the bare CFL lightbulbs and suspended ceiling - a necessary alternative, in 1986, to the expense of restoring the plaster original. Various schemes for a reordering of the interior, which would see the fixed pews replaced by chairs and other changes to improve accessibility, are currently under discussion.
The main photograph above was taken on 18 June 2022. Also included on the left, from top-
the earliest known photograph of the interior, dating from around 1912;
chapel interior in 1982, prior to installation of the suspended ceiling;
the interior south wall on 18 June 2022, looking out through the partially-opened porch door;
schematic of proposed reordering, December 2021-January 2022.