tarboat's photos
Platelayers' hut
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A colourful platelayers' hut on the Manchester Ship Canal railways at Manisty, Ellesmere Port. I am unsure about the need for the fire buckets at his location.
Bascule
London Electric Firm
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This cast pulley is on the side of the continuous brick kiln at Prestongrange. A close look shows the frayed end of a steel cable and I can only assume that it was associated with raising and lowering a damper on the kiln. The London Electric Firm was established in Croydon in 1904 and specialised in winches, wire ropes, guide pulleys and lowering gear.
Water and grain
Steam leak
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Emerging from clouds of leaking steam 126-014 built by MAVAG, Budapest, in 1899 shunts the yard at the Resavica colliery in Serbia. The shunter wisely stayed upwind!
Shaft kilns
Lifeboat Station
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The St Abbs lifeboat was established in 1911 and withdrawn by the RNLI in 2015. Since then an independent lifeboat has been put in place following a contribution of £260,000 by Thomas Tunnock & Sons Ltd. The boathouse is leased to the lifeboat charity by the St Abbs Harbour Trustees.
Cement manufacture
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Cement plant under construction at Tunstead Quarry. This modern plant replaced life expired kilns on the site.
Punch Hotel
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The Punch Hotel in Hull first appeared in 1846 and was subject to rebuilding with an ornate terracotta frontage in 1895-96.In January 1898, the new frontage was criticised for scaring horses riding into the city.
Waterworks Offices
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Former Grimsby Waterworks offices, dated 1896. Hewins and Colson, architects; Hewins and Goodhand, builders. Listed Grade II.
Mondi Mill
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There has been a paper mill on this site in Ramsbottom since James and Samuel Broadbent Ingham built one here in the 1850s. This is its last form as it was already recently closed when I took this photo in 2009 and the majority of the site has since been cleared.
Arniston Lime Works
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Limekiln remains at the site of the nineteenth century Arniston Lime Works in Midlothian. Map evidence suggests that this kiln was in use during the 1850s.
A message from the natives
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Seen from the Forth & Clyde Canal at Camelon, which is a district of Falkirk. The locals were unfailingly friendly whilst I was there.
Thrislington Quarry
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Tarmac operates the Thrislington Quarry which opened in 1954. It extracts and processes around one million tonnes of limestone and sand aggregate each year. I am unsure whether this fixed plant is still in use or if the production is now processed with mobile plant within the quarry.
Passenger Assistance
Foul Clough shaft
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Long disused shaft of the Foul Clough colliery up on the moors above Walsden. In 1854 this colliery was operated by John and Reuben Haigh.
Bents Quarry
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Bents Quarry kiln, Tweeddale West, Scottish Borders. A single kiln with three draw tunnels in an ancient quarry. The site is a scheduled monument for its limeburning interest.
Lanstroper Egg
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This water tower was designed in 1904/05 by the company August Klonne in Dortmund for the Municipal Gas and Water Works Unna. Until 1980 it was used for the water supply of Lanstrop, Derne, Mengede, Brambauer and parts of the city Lunen.
The "Lanstroper Egg" has a height of over 18 metres, a diameter of 14 metres and a capacity of 2,000 cubic metres of water. The whole tower is 60 metres high.
