tarboat's photos

The Worcester Hop Market and Hotel were built in 1900 to the design of local architect A B Rowe. This terracotta panel on Sansome Street is over the arched entrance to the warehouses associated with the market.

A short domed tower at Wimborne Minster.

Swanage does a good line in turrets and domes including this one which has excellent sea views.

Derelict house close to the road to Goldsitch Moss in the Staffordshore Moorlands end of the Peak National Park. The site is known as 'Sniddles'. Just look at the size of the flagstones used for roofing. Most of this roof has collapsed since I first recorded the building in 2009.

67 010 arrives at Shrewsbury from Holyhead and will continue to Cardiff. I was looking forward to my cooked breakfast in the restaurant car as we travelled through the Marches, and wasn't disappointed.

1922 built Glasgow tram No.22 arriving at the lower terminus of the Crich Tramway Museum. Coming out of service at Glasgow in 1960 this tram has been a regular performer for 54 seasons since 1964 and has runaround 46,000 miles in that time.

Harsco operated Kress slab carrier at Scunthorpe steelworks. These vehicles can carry up to 90 tonnes of steel slabs and stack them without the use of cranes. Through the use of onboard high-lift hydraulic tongs, any slabs can be handled directly from any surface without need for pallets or cranes. The tongs also allow the carrier operator to split and sort slab piles with ease.

Hunslet 3783 of 1953 posing as Holly Bank No.3, heads a short NCB mineral train along the causeway across the reservoir on the Chasewater Railway.

Coal silos for material brought from the stocking ground which will be fed via conveyor to the coke ovens at Scunthorpe Steelworks. I am unsure whether these are now being used to handle coke as the ovens are all shut down.

Clam Bridge at Wycoller is said by some to be more than 1000 years old, whilst others suggest it is more likely to date from the 16th century. The bridge, made from a single gritstone slab, is listed Grade II*. It was repaired in 1991, after being cracked in two by flooding in 1989-90.

Old industry remembered in this wall on Charlotte Street West in Macclesfield. The blocks are made from copper slag from the smelter that was operated in the town by Charles Roe's Macclesfield Copper Company in the later 18th century.

This bridge crosses the Swift River just before it enters the Saco River at Conway in New Hampshire. Constructed in 1869 it replaced the original structure that was destroyed in a flood in that year. It is 129 feet long and 21 feet wide. There are sixty-six covered bridges in New Hampshire and six of them are in the North Conway and the surrounding area. All were built in the 1800’s and all but two of them are still in operation. These bridges were covered to help protect the wooden structure from the weather.

Even in a small village there are opportunities to find interesting terracotta. This is a butcher's shop in Tattenhall, Cheshire, where I presume the terracotta came from one of the works around Ruabon. I like to think that the oval once contained images of pigs, cows and sheep! Sadly I fear that the business has now closed.

Intermittent earthen limekiln remains below Copy House at Wycoller. Limestone would have been collected from the nearby river or washed out of the boulder clay in the nearby hills by 'hushing' - releasing stored water from ponds and watercourses made above the valley slopes. There is no native limestone nearby but the clay can contain as much as 25% limestone brought by glacial ice from Craven district of Yorkshire.

On a typically wet Yorkshire day ex Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway 0-6-0 52322 hauls a permanent way train into the station at Embsay during a 30742 charters event.

Trans Pennine Trail bridge at Turnhole Clough in Trawden Forest. Getting the materials for this bridge to such a remote spot must have been challenging and I have doubt whether there will be resources to maintain the structure. The ramps down to the previous crossing can be seen in the background.

A Braithwaite modular tank at a farm in Taddington, Derbyshire. Water is scarce on the limestone uplands and it will be well worthwhile collecting the rain off the large sheds here. The Braithwaite company dates back to 1884 under the name of Braithwaite and Kirk at Crown Bridge Works, West Bromwich. Today the business continues as part of the Rowecord Group. www.braithwaite.co.uk/

Palmerston and Prince with a vintage set of coaches climbing towards Ddualt on the Festiniog Railway.