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This brickworks was erected after 1892 on land adjacent to the railway goods yard at Wadsley Bridge. In 1898 Charles Keyworth was the proprietor of the New Patent Plastic Brick Company, Halifax Road, Wadsley Bridge, Sheffield. He disappears from the records after 1913 and in 1916, the New Patent Plastic Brick Company has Mrs. Elizabeth Brindley as proprietress. The works was redeveloped with two Hoffmann kilns soon after and seems to have continued until the mid 1960s.

The new gasworks at Whaley Bridge was erected in 1927 to replace an earlier works a short distance away that was too small to meet demand. Today a few buildings remain in industrial use, but the two gasholders have been removed. The stepped brickwork in the panels of the gable were repeated in other buildings on the site. Photos of the construction can be seen on three pages here: www.subn.org/whaleybridgehistory/hoerwichgas.html

WD 90733 passes Sandy Lane on the Severn Valley Railway at the end of a 2015 photo charter organised by 30742 Charters. It's always good to finish with a bit of glint.

This gasholder was erected at Carrickfergus gasworks in 1949 and is the sole survivor of the three that were once on the site. It is now preserved as part of the gasworks museum.

A pair of Virgin Pendelinos at the buffer stops in Euston Station. The concrete cavern is unattractive and does not encourage the traveller to linger.

The World War I Memorial Bridge is a vertical-lift bridge that carries U.S. Route 1 across the Piscataqua River between Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Badger's Island in Kittery, Maine. A large overhead plaque facing traffic on the bridge reads "Memorial to the Sailors and Soldiers of New Hampshire who gave their lives in the World War 1917-1919." The lift span can be fully opened to allow large commercial vessels to pass. During summer, the lift section remains partially elevated every half-hour between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. for about 15 minutes. This allows smaller commercial and recreational boat traffic. The bridge is currently the only one of the three Piscataqua River bridges with provisions for pedestrians and bicycles. This bridge replaced the original structure that was completed in 1923 and closed in 2011. The opening of the new bridge in August 2013 was reported in the local paper thus:- New Hampshire and Maine celebrated the opening of a new bridge Thursday that has become a steel symbol of their past cooperation and their commitment to future commerce. The $81.4 million Memorial Bridge between Portsmouth and Kittery, Maine, replaces one that was built in 1923 and closed in 2011. As she did 90 years ago at age 5, former Portsmouth mayor Eileen Foley did the ribbon-cutting honors, riding across the bridge in a golf cart with a bouquet of flowers on her lap. The crowd cheered as she cut the ribbon, then sang "God Bless America."

It may have been cold and snowy but the Tiefa Coal Railway kept on running as normal. SY 1767 is in control and hurrying a morning passenger service from the mines towards Diaobingshan

Fynney Bowers ran his corn business on Mill Street, Macclesfield, in the premises that are now Bonmarché opposite Queen Victoria Street and Lloyds Bank. He died in 1854 and the shop was continued by his son David Shaw Bowers.

Whitby harbour swing bridge, designed by J Mitchell Moncrieff and built by Heenan & Froude, opened in 1909. Each swinging span is 75ft long.

Early morning and consecutively numbered QJs 7038 and 7037 storm up the west side of the Jinpeng Pass on the Jitong Railway. I loved seeing such big steam in action on this line right into the 21st century.

The Leamington and Lillington brick works was off Campion Road in Leamington Spa and operated from the nineteenth century until the 1950s by which time the bricks were fired in a large Hoffmann kiln. Bricks from this works can be seen in the old library and art gallery in Leamington.

Hawkins Colliery was also known as Cannock Old Coppice Colliery and commenced working c1840. Joseph Hawkins took on the lease in 1869 and the colliery remained under the control of the Hawkins family until nationalisation in 1947. The company also opearted a brick and tile works with adjacent clay pit at Longhouse, adjacent to the Wyrley and Essington Canal. By the 1920s Henry Hawkins was advertising a wide range of products from the Longhouse Brick & Tile Works, Cannock. About 7 million bricks were made annually using clay mixed with mining spoil. The works continued in Hawkins' ownership after the colliery was nationalised and remains in production today under the Eternit name.

Sarn Brick & Pipe Works, Westbury, Shropshire. This works was established prior to 1890 using clay pits west of the Wattlesborough-Westbury road and connected by tramway. By 1954 large clay pits were being dug east of the road up to 1978.It was later known as Westbury Brick & Pipe Works

The works was located at Hayes Wood to the south-west of Halmer End. This brickyard was erected c1935 using second-hand machinery. It made only bricks and lasted until the 1970s.

The works was located at Hayes Wood to the south-west of Halmer End. This brickyard was erected c1935 using second-hand machinery. It made only bricks and lasted until the 1970s.

The construction of the Manchester Airport relief road between the A6 at Hazel Grove and the M56 near the airport requires a large bridge for the Stockport to Buxton railway to cross the new road. The bridge and its abutments had been erected in an adjacent field over the past few months and at Easter 2016 a four day possession was granted to get it all in. Good Friday saw the embankment removed entirely and around lunchtime on Saturday the big move commenced with the bridge and attached abutments jacked onto massive multi-axle self-propelled platforms running on steel plates. Within three hours it was in position for lowering onto prepared concrete pads outside the width of the original embankment, which is where it is seen here. The bridge was already filled with ballast ready for the tracks to be laid. The new embankment ends were to be laid in stone in 150mm layers, each rolled just once before the next layer is added. Trains were running again at 6.00am on Tuesday.

A bucket of shale arrives at the end of the ropeway at Claughton brickworks in May 2016. The works is currently mothballed but is likely to resume production as soon as demand picks up.

28 Lower Bridgeman Street, Bolton. The firm are listed at this address from 1938 to 1955. In 1916 Mary Gordon, cork importer, had premises at 46 Castle Street, and in 1927 the firm were at 31 Church Wharf. Now demolished.