tarboat's photos

Electric hauler on the loading point at Coal Mine No.3 in Yaojie, Gansu Province, China. In the distance through the murk can be seen a wagon being filled with coal.

Water Street bridge, Manchester. Until recently this carried the demonstration railway line at the Museum of Science and Industry but this has now been cut by the new Ordsall Curve line carried over the River Irwell by the new bridge in the background.

SY 1213 heads back towards the Didao washery from the power station branch whilst an unidentified SY waits on the line from the China National Railways interchange.

Nearing the top loading station on the Claughton aerial ropeway.

There isn't much terracotta to be found in Peterborough but the use of limestone in ornamentation is widespread and very effective. Matched with the cream coloured local brick it makes for attractive buildings such as this on Priestgate.

Advertising on water towers was normal on the South Australian Railways. This one is at Mingary west of Broken Hill. This was a crossing and watering point on the narrow gauge line which was finally converted to standard gauge in 1970.

Early morning train for Bristol awaits departure from Stockport on a cold morning. It wasn't very full.

A train of ore hoppers heading up to Tiger Camp on the Burma Mines Railway. The locomotive is a rare surviving product of Stoke-on-Trent builders Kerr Stuart, having been completed in 1914. The men on the buffer beam are the sanding apparatus.

Coal screens on a small drift mine in the desert near Yangchanwan, Guyaozi, Ningxia Autonomous Region.

The Uranium Mine at Radium Hill operated from 1954-1961 and on closure the associated town was abandoned and largely demolished. The remains of the ore bins and loading point close to the site of the shafts are probably the best surviving features of the mine itself.

On the night of Saturday 17th March Ray Mill at Stalybridge burned down. It was built for Ray Mills Ltd which was registered in 1907 with a capital of £100,000. Completed in 1908 it was electrically powered from the outset. In 1911 it was joined with the nearby Victor and Premier Mills under the name of Victor Mill Ltd. Ray Mill contained 66,528 ring spindles and over 9,000 doubling spindles when completed. Courtaulds took over the mills in the 1960s and cotton spinning ended in 1982. The mill continued in multiple occupation including warehousing.

A firebrick of unknown origin seen at Thorngreen Quarry kilns, East Allendale, Northumberland. Maybe a product of Ferens and Love of Cornsay Colliery in County Durham.

P & S Wood, Pump House Brick Works, West Bromwich.

A variation on a theme from Accrington.

This is possibly associated with William Palmer's Longport works which may have been on Davenport Street in Longport. The company was dissolved in 1955

Hancock's at Lane End was the last brickworks in Buckley. Established in 1792 by John Rigby and William Hancock. In 1956 it became the property of the Castle Firebrick Company and then Butterley Brick in 1971 Closure was announced in February 2003.

Made in Denny near Falkirk.

The brickworks on Mill Lane, Bredbury, Stockport, was established before 1872 and was possibly operated by a Richard Wilkinson at that time. By 1902 the proprietor was James Warburton. The works was demolished and the site cleared by 1910.