tarboat's photos

WD 90733 approaching Northwood on the Severn Valley Railway.

Bristol VRT - ECW WTU487W at the 2015 running day based at the Gladstone Pottery Museum.

Shaft kilns and hydrating plant at Tunstead Quarry in 2005.

The Stiles and Hart Brick Company was established in 1886 and is the only brick manufacturer in Massachusetts. The work is in the town of Bridgewater.

Building Materials Co. Ltd. prop. W.A. Bardell, Bawsey, Kings Lynn, Norfolk. Found at Nordelph in Norfolk. Thanks to Martyn Fretwell for identifying the maker.

This brick was found in a reclamation yard at Macclesfield. It has 'Clayton's Patent' on reverse. This brick was found in a reclamation yard at Macclesfield. It has 'Clayton's Patent' on reverse. Thanks to information from Frank Lawson I now know it is a product of Edwin Dusautoy & Co., Slack Lane, Uttoxeter Road, Derby.

WD 90733 is passing Sandy Lane on the Severn Valley Railway towards the end of a Martin Creese charter.

A freight working dashes along the ledge high on the mountainside on the approach to Devil's Gate on the Eritrea Railway.

Local people fill their containers at a spring close to the line above Arbaroba on the Eritrea Railway.

A few of the twelve cooling towers at Drax, Britain's largest power station.

Pequonnock River Bridge on Stratford Avenue, Bridgeport, Connecticut was built in 1975 as a replacement for a double span bascule bridge.

When wandering the countryside you happen upon all sorts of odd things in remote places. In this case it was half of the tank from a railway wagon which was being used as a water trough on a hillside above Miller's Dale. Just getting this here must have involved a lot of effort.

The only cement works in North Wales, the Padeswood plant has been in production since 1949. The large new kiln designed to burn old car tyres was constructed after the investment of 70m Euros in the business.

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 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.

Best viewed LARGE Whilst out and about tracing the course of the Denton Colliery Railway this train appeared close to the route of the line which closed in the late 1920s. Speculation was rife as to whether it was the Paddy train for the miners, but it appears that more likely it provides accommodation for the ponies! ;-)

The No.3 Mill in the Belgrave complex was built to the design of F. W. Dixon and Son in 1910. It was electrically powered from the start.Spinning ceased in 1960 after which it has been used for clothing production and later for the manufacture of foam, polyester and feathers for the furniture and clothing industries.

The Stafford Coal and Iron Co. Ltd. operated extensive collieries just south of Stoke-on-Trent. Stafford was one of the Great Fenton collieries which the company established in 1873 to obtain the blackstone ironstone and coal in the upper seams. The brickworks was situated north-east of the colliery towards Great Fenton and produced some very hard bricks. This example is a blue windowsill brick.

The Astley and Tyldesley Collieries Company was formed in 1900 to work the deep pits east of Leigh in Lancashire formerly owned by Samuel Jackson's Astley and Tyldesley Coal and Salt Company. The brickworks was situated at Nook Colliery where there was a large continuous kiln. Production ceased before the formation of the Brickworks Executive in 1963.