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VWS4755 © VW Selburn 2012 Please do not use this photo without my permission. Engineering is a fascinating subject and I love to see the structures built in its name. Photograph taken from the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth on Shootaboot 3 2012.
This shot was taken whilst out on a walk along the Coventry canal during the recent cold-spell (Jan 2010). This is a shot (from across the canal) of a disused and derilict factory.
Strange pipework in the sea at St Andrews, on East Sands beach. Only visible at low tide, and pretty clean all round! Also pictured here www.flickr.com/photos/90001203@N00/89321600
Pentax K1000, Ferrania Solaris ISO 200 colour film cross-processed in Ilford Ifotec DD-X (BW developer).
This building was the offices of Aiton & Co. (Pipeworks). Norah Aiton, the daughter of the company proprietor, co-operated in the design of the building with Betty Scott. It was extraordinary enough that this building was designed by a team of women in the year that it was, (1931), but that it was also the first industrial building of the Modernist Movement to be built in the United Kingdom makes it all the more so. Although of Scottish origin, Norah Aiton manages a mention in the Maxwell Craven book, Derbeians Of Distinction. There is a comprehensive feature on the building in the publication 'Industrial Architecture', published by The Twentieth Century Society.
Following quote taken from "Derby: In Old Photographs" collected by David Buxton, published by Alan Sutton Publishing Limited, Stroud, Gloucestershire (1992)
Aiton & Co. made headlines in 1931 when they commissioned new offices at Stores Road, the architects of this modern building were two young women, Betty Scott and Aiton's daughter, Norah. The design was well ahead of its time being built completely of concrete and steel with large areas of glass wall. The furniture included black lacquered desks and chromium-plated steel chairs, with floors covered in red lino.