tarboat's photos

Limbs of heavy plant at the Hillhead quarry exhibition.

Large Prairie 4144 at Little Rock on the Severn Valley Railway.

The Station Hotel in Ellesmere Port now stands empty and awaiting its fate. This detail is from the extension built when the business was thriving in 1908.

The footrail of the Little Sherriff Colliery was owned by the Apedale Hall Colliery Co., Ltd. It was sunk in the 1980s to work the Winghay seam lying between the Watermills footrails and Silverdale Colliery. It closed in 1996.

Melton Ross limeworks grabbed through a train window. Three of the four Maerz kilns at work.

4wDM 'Morris' (works number 2028) was built at Motor Rail (Simplex) Works in Bedford in 1920 and started out at Exeley & Sons Ltd in Shropshire from new. In 1935 the original petrol engine was replaced by a modern diesel design then was sold that year to Davy Morris Works in Loughborough (hence the name), working there until withdrawal in the late 1980s. It is seen here arriving at Brownhills West on the Chasewater Railway during the Industrial Railway Society AGM day at the railway.

Torpedoes loading iron under the No.4 blast furnace at the Dillingen steelworks. The locomotive is Henschel DHG 500 C 31112 of 1965. Dillinger Hütte GTS specialises in the production of heavy plate. The company was founded in Founded in 1685 and is Germany's oldest joint stock corporation.

Grab crane on the wharf at Engis near Liège on the River Meuse. This facility is operated by plaster and plasterboard manufacturers N et B Knauf Et Cie S.C.S.

Large prairie 4144 departing towards Kidderminster past Bewdley South box on the Severn Valley Railway.

A large limekiln built by the Lowther Estate which stands close to Shap Beck quarry. It is in excellent condition.

The Shap Beck Quarry received a new plant in 1999 and since 2009 supplies around 650,000 tonnes of crushed kiln feed limestone from Shap Beck to Shap Fell processing plant nearby (Tata steel) and used in the large scale production of lime for steelmaking. The quarry also supplies around 300,000 to local and regional markets and has an on-site plant for making asphalt for road surfacing. There are 21 people employed directly and the quarry supports a further 30 jobs for drivers and contractors. The site extends to 118 hectares and is operated by the Hanson Aggregates division of the Heidelberg group.

The late evening train for Buxton had just one passenger arriving at the lonely Middlewood station on the branch from Stockport. I think I was pushing the limits of the mobile phone camera for this one.

Corder House at 21 Fawcett Street, Sunderland was built as a cafe and offices between 1889 and 1891. The architect was Frank Caws and the contractors David and John Rankin. The terracotta, as clearly marked, is by J C Edwards of Ruabon. Frank Caws had his own office in these buildings. It is listed Grade II.

Grain silos at Broken Hill in New South Wales. The grain must be brought from quite a distance as Broken Hill sits in the midst of semi-desert outback and I saw no sign of cultivation.

This morning I took a stroll up the hill to the Staffordshire Miners' memorial at Apedale. The wheel came from Annesley Colliery in Nottinghamshire.

Rolling bascule bridge in the dock complex at Dunkerque.

Welcome to Sutton Coldfield. The rear of the Gracechurch shopping centre presents a barren windswept vista with its concrete panelled car park above the acres of unrelieved brickwork. All I wanted to do was get back to the station at the top of the road.

This Quarry received a new plant in 1999 and since 2009 supplies around 650,000 tonnes of crushed kiln feed limestone from Shap Beck to Shap Fell processing plant nearby (Tata steel) and used in the large scale production of lime for steelmaking. The quarry also supplies around 300,000 to local and regional markets and has an on-site plant for making asphalt for road surfacing. There are 21 people employed directly and the quarry supports a further 30 jobs for drivers and contractors. The site extends to 118 hectares and is operated by the Hanson Aggregates division of the Heidelberg group.