tarboat's photos

The decorative work around the doors on these 1891 built terraced houses on High Street in Winsford is unusual in that it mixes brickwork with carved stone pieces. It is a pity that the door has been changed.

The former Palais cinema in Belturbet is up for sale with permission to build a retail unit and eleven apartments on the site. I suspect that in the current economic climate it may well remain in its disused state for some time.

Evening glint on a pair of QJs climbing the Jinpeng section of the Jitong Railway with an eastbound freight.

Eglinton Silica Brick Co. Ltd. produced firebricks from the 1860s at Dundyvan Silica Brick Works near Coatbridge.

The Etna Works at Bathville near Armadale began operation in the 1860's and, among other fireclay products, produced a common building brick. The works were modernised in the 1950's, and new kilns built in the 1960's. Production of red common bricks continued into the 1990's

Fauldhead Colliery at Kirkconnel was easily the largest pit in Dumfriesshire. A brickworks was opened here in 1912 by Sanquhar & Kirkconnel Collieries Limited. The National Coal Board took over in 1947 and the works remained in production until a few years after the closure of the colliery in 1969.

Alex Frew & Co operated two brickworks to the east of Airdrie in Lanarkshire. Rawyards Brick Works commenced working in the late 19th century, whilst the Drumbathie Brickworks to the south of Rawyards was in production from the early 20th century. Production at this latter works ceased c1960.

Another trainload of peat arriving at the Edenderry power station in County Offaly.

The Shannon hydro-electric scheme was constructed between 1925 and 1929 to harness the power of the river where it underwent a fall of nearly 35 metres in the final stages of its route to tidal waters at Limerick. The civil engineering works were undertaken by the German company Siemens-Schuckertwerke and on completion the power station at Ardnacrusha was the largest hydro-electric generating plant in the world. Initially there were three vertical shaft Francis turbine generators installed and in 1934 a single vertical shaft Kalan turbine generator was added, giving a total output of 85mw from an average head of 28.5 metres.

Standard tank action past the derelict buildings at the Thomas Bolton copperworks at Froghall. I posted a similar view back in February but decided to process another of the shots in a less contrasty form.

Classic northlight roofing at what remains of the Thomas Bolton Copperworks at Froghall.

Built in 1906, the Carnegie Free Library in Shaw no longer dispenses books to an eager populace. Until recently it was in a derelict state, ut has now been converted to apartments.

Sack trucks inside the Hop Room at Robinson's Brewery in Stockport. All to be changed in the redevelopment of the brewhouse.

Extracting the heat from the wort for re-use in the next mash. These heat exchangers at Robinson's Brewery in Stockport are due to be replaced by a state of the art energy saving system in the current modernisation of the brewhouse with equipment supplied by German company Krones AG.

The sun is already low as an eastbound freight departs the loops at Shangdian at the summit of the Jinpeng section of the Jitong Railway. The angle of the shot hides the fact that this train is double-headed.

Portman Mansions on Chiltern Street, Marylebone has gables topped with a range of fierce and threatening terracotta beasts. The block was built between 1890 and 1900 by Henry Saxon Snell, an architect who usually specialised in workhouses and hospitals. Rather surprisingly it appears that the building is not listed.

The regular passenger services on the Tiefa Coal Railway offered plenty of opportunities for photography that could be planned, rather than the more chancy and opportunistic coal movements. Here SY 1751 tears up the bank from from Diaobingshan on an icy January morning.

At the side of the road from the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge across Seal Sands towards Hartlepool stands this pair of structures. They comprise (left) the generator/command bunker and (right) shelter of a WWII decoy site. Both buildings were originally covered with earth. The command bunker was connected to a Starfish Decoy some distance away across the marshes. This would have been lit to give the impression of burning buildings to lure bombers away from their intended targets along the Tees. The background features the Huntsman Tioxide, Greatham Works.