tarboat's photos

Sutton road bridge over the River Hull. A Scherzer type rolling lift bridge, built in 1939 by the Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Co, with elegant Art Deco / Neo-Georgian style operating houses.

The Reading Room at Denver, near Downham Market in Norfolk, dates from 1903. The design is completely different from any other corrugated iron buildings that I have seen. It also has an add-on bin store.

During the later 19th century John Howard Ketley owned, or was the principal partner in, several undertakings, in connection with the manufacture of tiles and bricks, extracting the clay to make them, as well as calcining mine dust to make coal briquettes. He operated from a site at Knutton, alongside the North Staffordshire Railway line from Newcastle to Silverdale. From 1907 the tileries here later operated under the title Knutton Tileries Co Ltd until 1917 and then as Knutton Tileries Limited until the company was wound up in March 1936 after the business was acquired by G H Downing Co Ltd in 1932.

The Stanfield Colliery Company in Burslem appears as a brick manufacturer in the trade directories from 1872 to 1879. In 1872 the manager is listed as William Heath who was part owner in partnership with a Mr Norris from at least 1869 and later with Samuel and William Tellwright who were from the mid 1870s to become brickmakers in their own right at other locations. At the end of 1874 Heath and Tellwright sold their business and a limited company was formed with big ambitions but probably little yield, indeed it was in liquidation by September 1876. The collieries around Stanfield were badly affected by flooding in the 1880s and all closed as a consequence. Stanfield Colliery appears to have been abandoned in September 1885 and the brickworks is likely to have closed before then.

George Barnsley and Sons Ltd was founded in 1836. The firm specialised in manufacturing files and cutting tools for leather workers and shoe makers. In 1852 they moved to Cornish Works on Cornish Street in Sheffield. In 1944 the works was producing steel files, shoe and butchers knives. The works has been derelict for many years.

Kriegslok 33-064 shunts Sikulje mine not far from Tuzla in Bosnia-Herzegovina

These two massive telescopic gasholders in Sheffield have sadly now been demolished.

Gasholder at the Saarstahl steelworks in Völklingen.

This is the survivor of two banks of kilns on a site that was burning lime in the 18th century and continued until late in the 19th century.

Clear rules at the Monckton cokeworks.

Hope Construction Materials has unveiled 48 state-of-the-art cement carrying wagons, developed in partnership with VTG Rail UK. The wagons were manufactured by German company Feldbinder and have an enhanced capacity of 80 tonnes - more than twice the standard payload of 36 tonnes. This will increase the capacity of each train to 1,850 tonnes of cement, 500 tonnes more than previously.

Level crossing at the raw materials end of the Hope Cement Works.

This attractive terracotta building was completed in 1891 as the Leeds and County Liberal Club to the designs of local architects Chorley and Connon. Previously known as Quebec House, it was owned in the 1970s by Norwich Union and later became known as National Employers House. Since 2001 the building has been Quebecs, a boutique hotel of 45 rooms. It is listed Grade II.

Climbing hard on the Mount Washington Cog Railway. The black dots are falling char that has been thrown out by the locomotive.

Macclesfield gasholders under demolition. The 1884 holder has had the tank removed and work is being done in the well before the stanchions are taken down some time in October. When completed this will allow access to the more modern holder behind which will be cut up by Christmas. There was once another gasholder on the site but this was removed in the 1970s.

The Rockingham is a historic hotel building in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It was originally built in 1785 as a residence by Woodbury Langdon, prominent merchant and politician. Thomas Coburn converted it into a hotel in 1833. Frank Jones, who was, among other things, mayor of Portsmouth, a US Representative, and a brewer, bought it in 1870. After a fire in 1884, Jones rebuilt it extensively. The only significant part saved from Langdon's mansion was the dining room, which is now the Library Restaurant. The building incorporates lions, Jones's personal symbol, terracotta sculptures of the Four Seasons of Man, and busts of Jones and Langdon. It was a hotel until 1973 and is now condominiums. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

In 1860 H. C. F. Koch & Co. opened its first store in Greenwich Village, New York, selling dry goods and fancy goods, and in 1875 moved onto Sixth Avenue.In 1891 the business moved to Harlem after Henry Koch commissioned William H. Hume to design a grand new store. This was an extensive five storey, fireproof building in brick, stone and steel. In 1893 the store was enlarged and on September 24 an advertisement announced that the additions to and alterations in their magnificent establishment are now completed. A nearly seamless sixth floor provided another acre of floor space and ten new departments. The business continued until 1932 by which time the neighbourhood had greatly changed. Today the Koch building clings on whilst most of the adjacent commercial buildings have been demolished. Lots more about the business and building can be found here: daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/the-1891-koch-co-bldg-no-136-west-125th.html

Bestwood Colliery was closed in 1971 and today the headstocks and sheaves survive with the winding engines and house in the midst of a country park.