General Photo Thread

[MK83]

Back in the day they dragged them onto the marsh to cut them up and reclaim bits...somewhat smaller scale than in India these days. More bits and pieces on the opposite side of the Wyre but for some reason doesn't get all the photographers like this side and Skippool.
Good to see them in B&W as it stops the mistyness in the background being over-powering.

I thought they looked well suited to black and white shots. One of the great things about this hobby is all the cool stuff you find while your looking for urbex's. Its interesting that they where dragged there intentionaly for breaking.

 

[HughieD]

Former rail bridge which took the Harlaxton Iron Quarry line under Gorse Lane. The quarry workings were spread over four square miles to the east and south East of Denton village and south of Harlaxton. The line connected to BR at Casthorpe exchange sidings on the LNER Denton Branch. The quarries first opened in 1941 and the bridge bears the date 1954. The quarries closed circa 1976 and the line was lifted and this Brutalist concrete bridge back-filled shortly after.

 

[Mikeymutt]

A few random places from between five and seven years ago. Wonder how many are still there. I know several are demolished, burnt or redeveloped.

Norfolk car graveyard

Stobhill hospital

RAF Church Fenton

Sandwell college

The royalty

The Prudential

Scottish cottage

Haperbury hospital

Seafield hospital.

Sevs

Dysons

Gedney station

Shredded wheat

RAE Thurleigh

Fletchers

Lostock

 

[mookster]

Popped into a little local spot I'd neglected to bother with until today, there was some sort of pikey/metal scrapping/hoarding operation going on in here until 2014, which explains the multitude of fridges left behind. The only structure is a large garage type building filled with household rubbish and a ride on mower...

'Mount Fridgemore'....

 

[westernsultan]

Colne Valley Railway in 2013

 

[tigger]

Rather wet day out but during an almost dry spell walked past a pleasant vista

Not far away one for the residential carp fans

 

[MotionlessMike]

Some beer mats

Some buses

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[albino-jay]

Some buses

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Buxton Raceway? Sure they’re the one’s some kids were smashing up and tryna chuck stones into my pint​

 

[MotionlessMike]

Buxton Raceway? Sure they’re the one’s some kids were smashing up and tryna chuck stones into my pint​

Yeah, I asked Matt the promoter for a gander, he looked at me gone out until I told him I'm 'one of those weirdos who likes old buses'

 

[Lenston]

 

[Knight Rider]

Just a couple shots of the Harvester and Forwarder working in very gloomy snowy conditions. Not far from the old railway village of Riccarton Junction, which has nothing left but the platform and electrics house.

 

[westernsultan]

Yeah, I asked Matt the promoter for a gander, he looked at me gone out until I told him I'm 'one of those weirdos who likes old buses'

St Helens in 2012

 

[Mikeymutt]

Drove up a long farm track got to the end and saw this old house were I had to turn around. So quickly got out and took a few shots as was there anyway. More to look in the sheds. Which housed a nice circular saw.

 

[westernsultan]

This is the Kennedy memorial in Floodgate Street, Birmingham. To the right are the roadworks for the Eastside WM metro extension.

The mosaic was originally erected on St Chad's Circus , outside the City's Roman Catholic St Chad's Cathedral, in July 1968, at a cost of £5,000. When the road system was redeveloped in 2007 the mosaic was demolished. Key features, including the heads of some of the main figures, were retrieved and retained by Kenneth Budd's son Oliver. In 2012 it was re-created using new materials. The new mosaic was erected in January 2013, in the city's Irish Quarter, on Floodgate Street in Digbeth, in reworked form, including the controversial addition of a new face, that of former Lord Mayor of Birmingham Mike Nangle, the city's first Irish Lord Mayor. The work was overseen by Budd's son, Oliver, who worked from his father's original drawings. The retained sections were not used as the colours had faded and would not match the new Smalti mosaic tiles. A formal unveiling took place on 23 February 2013.

 

[westernsultan]

Didcot in 2021

Pooleys were a firm of mechanical engineers, founded in Liverpool in the 18th century. They started to make platform scales c1835. Their main office was at the Albion Foundry, Liverpool until c1890 (before 1907), when it moved to John Bright Street, Birmingham. In 1913 the firm became part of the Avery organisation, but continued as a separate firm. The firm was responsible for supplying and maintaining the weights and scales of many railway companies. Complete history at https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Henry_Pooley_and_Son