buxton

Derbyshire Misc - 2024 Been a busy year for exploring new local stuff, most of it fairly underwhelming as often seems to be the case. File this lot under ‘local stuff for local people’. St Helen’s Street Marble Works, Derby A place I’ve always wanted to see inside and one I always had high...

This small water treatment works was built in 1957 to treat water from Stanley Moor reservoir. It's a typical small works using Alum as a coagulant, filtration and chlorine dosing. The reservoir was built on a geological fault-line causing problems with leakage and the capacity of the reservoir...

September 2024 Visited with @Mr Budge and @MotionlessMike, If you follow the river River Wye you will eventually reach Buxton's Pavilion Gardens, it is in these gardens that the river drops underground and travels beneath the town, their is little to see of the river, still only a small stream...

June 2018 The Visit Version 1: I embarked on a solitary adventure to this place on a delightful June day. The structure itself appeared rather petite, so my visit lasted only about 20 minutes. The water works facility is concealed from the bustling main road, located on a steep embankment...

History The town of Buxton sits on the edge of a plateau of limestone, and ever since the ancient times has been dug up and used for multiple purposes, such as in construction and agriculture. Limestone remains a useful resource to this day and is used in multiple industries, including in...

May 2021 I visited with @coolboyslim and @stranton on a post-lockdown tour of the Peak District, the church is a modern gothic style building, consisting of a chancel and nave. I'd attempted this one a number of years ago with no success, but as we were passing we decided to take a quick look...

A nice little explore, the inside to this building is much bigger than it looks from the outside! You can check out all my photos from this explore here on my Flickr. Background: Buxton pumping plant (also seen referenced as Stanley Moor Waterworks) was originally constructed by The Buxton...