tarboat's photos

Corrugated iron is to the fore on these cattle sheds below Grin Low in Buxton. I particularly like the use of a fold down sheet to allow light and ventilation.

Troops from Bosnia-Herzegovina representing the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the Tracks to the Trenches event at Apedale.

The original cinema on this site in Southall was the Paragon Palace of 1912 which was taken over by the United Picture Theatres Ltd. chain in around 1928, with the view to demolish it and build a brand new cinema. Architect George Coles was appointed the circuit’s architect and UPT gave him the commission to design the first new cinema for the circuit (all the other cinemas were takeovers of older cinemas and theatres). The Palace Cinema was built in 1929 on an enlarged site of the former Paragon Palace Cinema, and it opened on 30th November 1929. Unfortunately, UPT overstretched their finances and the company were taken over by the Gaumont British Theatres Ltd. chain in April 1930 and they operated the Palace Cinema from July 1930. The cinema’s style in the form of a Chinese temple is unique in Britain. Its exotic tiled exterior with a red pagoda roof complete with dragons have long made the cinema a well-loved local landmark. Inside the building, the Chinese style continues, but a little more restrained. The terracotta faience and decorative features are the work of the Hathern Station Brick and Terra Cotta Company. It is listed Grade II*. After a number of owners and names it closed as the Liberty Cinema in 1982 and was converted to an indoor market. In 2001 it reopened as a three screen cinema but this failed in 2010 and was converted back to a market.

The site of the former tramsheds and power station at Glossop has for many years been a chemical works. Today it is operated by Plater Production providing specialist drying services to the chemical industry. They manufacture a wide range of products including de-icers, acetates, formates, propionates, lactates and chrome chemicals.

Another photo of the Foden 4 ton capacity wagon on demonstration during 1918 and seen in the yard of George Fryer's joinery works in Hazel Grove. It appears that Fryer did not purchase the wagon and it was sold to a business in Barmouth at the beginning of 1919. George Fryer never had a brickworks in Hazel Grove although he did operate brickworks at Tenement Lane, Bramhall and also in adjacent Adswood. They say the camera cannot lie, but this image could certainly be misleading.

SY 0973 charges uphill towards Xiamiaoxi with a morning passenger service on the Nanpiao Coal Railway.

Northern Power Station was located in the locality of Port Paterson in the Australian state of South Australia about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) south of the city centre of Port Augusta. It was coal powered with two 260 MW steam turbines that generated a total of 520 MW of electricity. It was operated and maintained by Alinta Energy and was commissioned in 1985. The plant ceased electricity production in May 2016 and has subsequently been demolished. This, and the adjacent Playford B power station received coal by rail from the Leigh Creek Coal Mine, 280 km to the north and drew cooling water from Spencer Gulf, returning it to the sea at an elevated temperature

The Drypool bridge over the River Hull is a Scherzer lifting bridge and was designed by W. Morris, the Hull City Engineer. It was fabricated in Hull, being completed in March 1961.

Cooling tower at the disused Thorpe Marsh power station. Now demolished.

Disused limekiln at Storrs Common near Ingleton in North Yorkshire.

The Hesketh shaft at Chatterley Whitfield Colliery was the last to be sunk on the site (1914-1917) and the deepest at 640 yards.

Daniel Platt & Sons, Brownhills Tileries, Tunstall. Platt moved into the long established tilery in 1896 and the firm remained there until closure as Daniel Platt & Sons Ltd in 1896.

The Bentley Tileries was a relatively late development, being established close to the main line railway at Longbridge Hayes in the 1930s. In 1937 the OS map shows this as the "New Brick Works".The works produced red floor quarries, pavers, tiles / garden & creasing tiles, air bricks, roof tiles. It was closed and the site cleared by 1968.

This paving brick is a product of Garrett Brothers who traded from their Brownhills Tileries in Tunstall and appear in the trade directories between 1861 and 1865.

The water tower at Cardiff Central Station served steam locomotives whilst alongside is the latest bi-modal offering from Great Western Railway. The decoration on the tower is a recent addition.

Railway water tower alongside Cardiff Central Station.

One of several intermittent kilns on this high ground on the Staffordshire Moorlands. Limestone was quarried in long trenches where stone of suitable quality outcropped.

Advertising charabanc trips on the former Trelawny Garage in Penzance.