tarboat's photos

Three limekilns at the Lhoist operated Rheinkalk Werk Hönnetal, Oberrödinghausen. One rotary kiln and a pair of Maerz type kilns. Around 200 people currently work in the quarry, kilns, processing plant, and in administration. Approximately 800,000 tons of quicklime and around 900,000 tons of unburnt limestone products are produced annually.

The Viterra grain silos at the port of Wallaroo on the Spencer Gulf are connected to this jetty by conveyors and can load ships with wheat or barley at 600 tonnes per hour.

Ruston & Hornsby 191658 of 1938 on the field railway at Apedale. This locomotive once operated on the system serving the Friden works DSF Refractories.

Letterhead for Ackers, Whitley and Company Limited, Bickershaw Collieries, Leigh, Lancashire. The signature is that of the manager F H Wilson. In 1931 the colliery employed 1,549 underground and 338 on the surface.

With temperatures hovering around -40C the opencast coal mine at Jalainur was filled with the exhaust steam from the fleet of SY class locomotives that worked there.

Abandoned light industrial premises dated 1903 in terracotta on Ludgate Hill in the Jewellery Quarter of Birmingham.

Appleby coke ovens at Scunthorpe steelworks. This battery comprised 66 Otto-Simon Carves ovens which were started in 1990. These were abandoned in 2023 leaving the works dependent on imported coke.

Sutton Manor Collieries Limited was floated in 1904 to bore for and work coal on the Sutton Manor Estate. Shaft sinking commenced in 1906 with No.1 shaft initially reaching 1824 feet and the No.2 shaft completed to 2342 feet. At the time of this lettter the colliery was working eight different seams. The shafts were later deepened and a further eight seams worked before closure in 1991.

Conveyor beneath the coal washing and screening area at Ayle Colliery. This is the last full-time colliery operating in England.

SY 0206 leads a train of acid tanks out of the yard at Baiyin Gongsi. This railway serves copper and lead mining and processing industries.

Disused building at the perimeter of the ArcelorMittal Steelworks at Differdange in Luxembourg. This works uses electric arc furnaces to produce beams, bars and heavy sections. It has a worldwide reputation for wide flange beams.

The Klondyke Works were built in 1899 in the village of Newhall in South Derbyshire with Bretby Brick & Stoneware Company being formed in 1909. Brick production ceased in the 1930s but the company carried on manufacturing stoneware items including sanitary ware and finally concentrated on stoneware pet bowls until final closure in 1995.

SY 0366 stands at the Sanjiazi colliery terminus of the Nanpiao Coal Railway having just arrived with the afternoon passenger service.

Viterra owned grain silos at Port Pirie on the Spencer Gulf in South Australia. The maximum loading capacity under the spouts is 800 tonnes per hour.

This building on Granby Street in Leicester dates from 1873. The upper storeys incorporate decoration in brick and stone with the buiding name in tiles. Sadly the street level has been greatly changed by a fast food takeaway business.

After services ended for the day this was the scene around the turntable at Wernigerode on the Harzquerbahn.

LNWR Coal Tank 1054 brings its train out of the yard at Rowsley South on Peak Rail.

The Adelphi MIll is one of the significant landmarks in Bollington and whilst the chimney was dismantled some years ago, the future of the building now seems secure. The mill was constructed alongside the Macclesfield Canal but water transport was almost immediately superseded by the Macclesfield Bollington and Marple Railway which ran behind the mill. It was constructed circa 1868 by Martin Swindells, a local cotton spinner who also owned Clarence Mill in Bollington, he built The Adelphi Mill for his two sons, hence the name 'Adelphi', which is Greek for brothers. The Mill, which was built adjacent to the Macclesfield Canal began life spinning cotton, but was soon converted to the production of fine silk. During the Second World War, spinning ceased in the Mill and all work was turned over to the production of parachutes. At the end of the sixties the Mill was bought by Britax for the production of webbing for motorcar seatbelts, this continued until the late eighties. The Mill was then sold and converted to offices and workshop uses.