tarboat's photos

An art school of 1880/1 designed by Silvanus Trevail and built by James Julian & Sons of Truro, remodelled and extended twice by Henry White FRIBA to provide a museum (1886/7) and a science school (1889). There are also mid-C20 additions and some later C20 alterations. It is listed Grade II.

Mounted troops demonstrating their skills at the Tracks to the Trenches event at Apedale. The troops attending the event incuded contingents representing the forces of Russia and Bosnia-Herzegovina as well as the usual suspects.

A water tower soars above the buildings close to the entrance at Scunthorpe steelworks.

The Bolton School of Art and Design on Hilden Street was originally built in 1901 as Pupil Teachers'Centre. The architects were Bradshaw and Gass of Bolton. The building incorporates some fine terracotta ornamentation including a pair of shield-bearing lions (lions sejeant) which bear great similarity to those supplied by Dennis of Ruabon on the Co-op drapery building near the town centre.

Eagley Mills, Eagley, Bolton were developed from the 18th century. This mill building, constructed in 1871, was burned out in 1886 and was rebuilt in 1887 as the present building, which is Grade II listed. It is built of brick in 5 storeys with stone banding and a slate roof and a rectangular floor plan of 14 by 6 bays. It was mainly used for finishing and winding until 1903, after which it carried out twisting and winding. In 2003 it was converted to residential accommodation and now has 64 apartments on four floors.

An overview of the lower level of the quarry exhibition at Hillhead in June. Great weather and a good time was had by all. A stitch of four images in Photoshop.

Sign of the times with the former Woolworths shop in Berwick-on-Tweed now offering bargains at low price.

Berwick’s second cinema opened for business at the start of February 1928. As its name suggested, The Theatre, at the upper end of Hide Hill, was designed to allow both film and stage performances and it also incorporated a café. A sound system was installed in Summer 1929. The last film was shown here in January 1969. The building was subsequently a nightclub and a bingo hall before being redeveloped to house a combination of a restaurant, a shop, and residential accommodation.

SY 1369 brings the empty coal wagons up from Zhenyang to Xinghua Colliery on the Jixi Coal Railway.

Tiled entry to a former shop of the Buttercup Dairy Company Ltd which at its peak had over 400 shops across Scotland. The corporate style was designed by James Davidson Cairns, an Edinburgh based architect. The image depicted on the tiles was taken from a painting which hung in the Leith headquarters of the firm. The original painting was by Edinburgh artist Tom Curr. The tiles were supplied by James Duncan Ltd who appear to have specified the designs which were then manufactured either by T. & R. Boote of Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent or Maw & Co of Jackfield, Shropshire. The Duncan company objectives included not only tile laying but also other building activities including plastering, slating, marble cutting and wood block flooring, together with fireplaces and kitchen ranges. Both the upper name panel and the pictorial panel are signed, with ‘J D Ltd’ below the picture and ‘J Duncan Ltd Glasgow’ in the upper panel.

Converted from a skating rink and opened in 1911 as the largest cinema in Edinburgh. Run jointly as a cinema and ballroom (Palais de Dance). Closed as a cinema in 1942. Later converted to a bingo/social club. Now demolished.

The Dunbar or Oxwellmains cement works was originally built by Blue Circle in 1963 with three kilns. It was rebuilt with a preheater tower and a single kiln which went into production in 1986. It became part of Lafarge Cement UK in 2001 and passed to Tarmac in 2013. More details here: www.cementkilns.co.uk/cement_kiln_dunbar.html

The Torness station has a capacity of 1,364 Mw based round 2 x Mwe generators. This was the last second generation nuclear station built in the UK having started construction in 1980 and commissioning in 1988. The design of the power station is identical to that at Heysham.

An interesting design of water tower at Scunthorpe steelworks.

Polychromatic brickwork with stone detailing on the market hall in Crewe.

Two storey corrugated iron house extension at Ardvasar on Skye. I understand that this was used by a local small business for many years as a workshop.

Lineup on the Komatsu stand at Hillhead Quarry Exhibition 2018. Sun and machines, brilliant!

High Chapel limekiln Dent. It is listed Grade II.