tarboat's photos

The pink church at Hassall Green is a much loved corrugated iron gem.

An early frogless brick from this manufacturer The Cannon Street Brick Company operated from its central Hanley works during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. It appears in trade directories for 1912 but not 1921.

The Cannon Street Brick Company operated from its central Hanley works during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. It appears in trade directories for 1912 but not 1921.

Obverse of a Cannon Street brick. The Cannon Street Brick Company operated from its central Hanley works during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. It appears in trade directories for 1912 but not 1921.

I first thought that this brick must have been made at the Basford family's works at Dale Hall, Burslem, but now realise that is actually a product of Thomas Williams, Basford Tileries, Brick Kiln Lane, Hartshill. This is a reloaded image of another example which has Williams on the other side. Thanks to Capitol 203 for helping to sort this one out properly.

A cyclist dodges the trains on the level crossing outside the Fushun Special Steel plant.

A heavy load for the US (Davenport) built 62-020 at the Catici coal washery, Kakanj.

As requested by Eagle142. Somewhere under all that ice and snow is a lurcher. She didn't seem to be bothered at all. She is so well insulated that the ice stayed on until I took her indoors to melt all over the carpet. Photo courtesy of my niece Hannah.

Terracotta date plaques and fancy work over the windows on the Tomkinson Heating shop at the bottom of Buxton Rd, Macclesfield. The centre section and window have been omitted here. I would guess that this is made in Accrington and that the shop was at one time a Co-operative branch.

In response to Mangrove Rat's request for a picture of Niamh in the snow, here she is keeping an eye on tarboat slogging up a hill somewhere in Cheshire. Photo by Mrs Tarboat.

Jefferson is the latest addition to the Tarboat pack. Part hyena, part tiger, and very, very fast!

Terracotta gatepost tops on Victoria Rd, Macclesfield. Sadly the house has been demolished and the site awaits better times for the building industry. I would love to know where these tops were manufactured. The facing bricks are by the Randlay Brickworks at Stirchley in Shropshire, but I cannot find and evidence of that works producing this sort of decorative feature. I suspect that the tops are a product of one of the Accrington brickworks.

Terracotta gatepost tops on Victoria Rd, Macclesfield. Sadly the house has been demolished and the site awaits better times for the building industry. I would love to know where these tops were manufactured. The facing bricks are by the Randlay Brickworks at Stirchley in Shropshire, but I cannot find and evidence of that works producing this sort of decorative feature. I suspect that the tops are a product of one of the Accrington brickworks.

Lift tower at the rear of the1857 built Big Mill at Leek, fomerly part of the Wardle & Davenport Belle Vue Mills complex. This mill remains empty and derelict although there are plans for it to be to redeveloped as apartments.

An endangered scene. SY 1545 departs Zhengyang Colliery, on the Chengzihe system at Jixi, with a load of spoil. The large number of people working on track and signalling around the yard are preparing for the electrification of the line down to Dongcheng and up to Xinghua. A new substation was being built just out of shot to the left, and major trackwork improvements were also being made.

In the Arra Mountains of Tipperary are the Killaloe slate quarries. These quarries flourished in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but now stand idle and derelict. There is still some slate quarrying on a small scale at one of the quarries. In past times a lot of the finished slate was shipped out by barge from a pier on Lough Derg.

Ditcheat Manor departs Froghall and crosses the Churnet in the middle of the Bolton copperworks site.

61994 Moves onto its train at Cheddleton on a bright winter day.