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Pipework and reeds at the rear of the Boots manufacturing plant at Beeston, Nottingham. Viewed across the Beeston and Nottingham Canal.
Most of my railway Flickr contacts will know of Sheerness Steel but maybe not all of you will have been. So a set of shots of the now closed works. I have a thing for pipework as you can see.
Close-up of the firebox and left cab front of BR Standard 9F No.92203 'Black Prince', with much of the locomotive's pipework clearly in frame. Taken at Sheringham on 31st August 2019.
Most of my railway Flickr contacts will know of Sheerness Steel but maybe not all of you will have been. So a set of shots of the now closed works.
I'm making my fz20 do something useful by recording all this building activity in case there is an argument about who did what damage when ... boring! ... but I love pictures of workmen and their machines, so I'm editing the more promising shots into flickr material
These three are a little apprehensive about how it's all going to fit into the space
Most of my railway Flickr contacts will know of Sheerness Steel but maybe not all of you will have been. So a set of shots of the now closed works.
Kempton Steam Museum and Railway at Kempton Park Water Works. www.kemptonsteam.org/ Kempton, Middlesex. Saturday 26 April 2014
Aradale was built in 1863 and closed in 1993, it was a little town of it’s own, housing a piggery, petrol station, fire station, live in staff buildings, laundromats and much more.
As like most other buildings built in this era the design was European. Aradale was built for and housed the “insane”, being a term loosely used for anyone who suffered any form of malaise, depression, uncertainty of life and also very sadly, the mentally disabled or as was once known “retarded”.
Back in the 1800’s we must remember that there was no diagnosis for depression and also the now known illnesses of bi-polar, schizophrenia, borderline personality and so on. There were also no drugs to treat any type of mental illness and often the doctors and nurses would resort to very strange treatments which are now considered (and rightly so) barbaric.
With a 85% mortality rate Aradale was known as the place to go and die. Common treatments applied were the use of the now out-dated Lobotomy operation and also ECT (electro convulsive therapy). No doubt in the later years insulin induced coma therapy would have also been applied as has been reported in many psychicatric institutions within Victoria. These treatments are well reported to be nothing less than destructive.
Since the closure of Aradale, NMIT has taken over the ownership and currently use the land and a few smaller buildings for a lavendar farm, and the police use the land for training. At one stage they did want to turn this beautiful building into a full resort with golf course and more but it fell through. It is a shame to see such a stunning building go into such a state of disrepair, the history all gone and not one thing left to show us all just how lucky we are today.
Unfortunately I am not to great at taking photo’s and only got a few “decent” ones.
Most of my railway Flickr contacts will know of Sheerness Steel but maybe not all of you will have been. So a set of shots of the now closed works. I have a thing for pipework as you can see.
The pipework being laid to culvert the Pudzeoch. The canal was subsequently filled in. This area is currently under excavation (06/10/2012) because of a collapse in the culvert.
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An early start and a non eventful explore around this old abandoned tyre factory.