tarboat's photos

Another of the sculptures on the new bridge on Marbury Lane in the Northwich Community Woodlands.

A different perspective on the massive Tunstead quarry and cement works of Buxton Lime Industries. This is an evening view taken from the Ashbourne road close to the Dowlow Quarries.

The six sail Heage windmill is an excellent example of local preservation. The enthusiastic group that run the mill provide informative guided tours on Sundays throughout the summer. To see the sails moving round in the breeze was an inspiring sight.

Female Migrant Hawker (Aeshna mixta) at Newchurch Common, Cheshire, UK.

Wonderful detail on the new bridge on Marbury Lane in the Northwich Community Woodlands.

The Tunstead Quarry of Buxton Lime Industries (Tarmac) has so many different possibilities for different photographs. Prominent in the centre of this view is a rotary lime kiln.

The terminal warehouse at Whaley Bridge on the Peak Forest Canal provided facilities for interchange between canal and the Cromford and High Peak Railway. The building was extended in the early twentieth century but today stands looking rather forlorn.

A prominent landmark in Ellesmere Port is this concrete water tower at the Bridgewater paper mill. This example is only slightly disfigured by the mobile phone aerials that have been attached to almost every high structure in Britain.

Output from the washing plant at the Maes-y-Droell Quarry of J Stoddard & Son at Llanarmon, Denbighshire.

Castner Kellner works at Runcorn produces a range of chemicals, especially chlorine and caustic soda.

Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas) nectaring on Creeping Thistle.

The first Migrant Hawker (Aeshna mixta) that I have seen this year was this female that posed obligingly in the gorse of Newchurch Common, Cheshire.

This engine house once provided electric power for the pumps on Taylor's shaft and elsewhere on the Hendre lead mine. It was erected in 1917 and has laid derelict for many years.

Abandoned since 1983 the Pleasley Colliery site is still impressive.

Electromagnet in the disused Beans Foundry at Tipton

The company's original name was Campbell Brickworks and was built adjacent to the now defunct Campbell colliery. Following successive Nationalisation and De-nationalisation programmes involving both the Coal Board and the British Steel Corporation it was sold by BSC to a private company, Innes Lee Industries, in 1971. In 1988 Innes Lee sold their brickworks to Tarmac Building Materials, who ran the site for four years before its closure in 1992. The company was then purchased by the present owners in May 1993, and reopened as Phoenix Brick Company Limited. The kilns are fired on methane extracted from landfill in the old claypits.

The remains of the barracks and dressing shelters high up above Cwm Pennant at Prince of Wales Quarry.

Derelict barracks and dressing shelters on two levels of Prince of Wales Quarry give a somewhat prehistoric feel to the place.