Your bike in front of...... Old Industry

[wiggydiggy]

Couldn't find a good existing thread so.....

This is a 30 ton Rolling Mill Flywheel from Low Moor Iron Works nr Bradford. It serves as a monument to the works that originally closed in the 1920s and the continuation works which sprang out of the ashes finally closed in 1971.

It's quite large!


Note the plaque says Steel Works but I believe it was originally started as and known as an Iron Works.

 

[Oldhippy]

Excellent new photo opportunities.

 

[Sallar55]

Barium sulphate mine

 

[Sallar55]

Wanlockhead mine

 

[Sallar55]

Beam engine.

 

[FrothNinja]

Foulridge Tunnel vent. The Leeds & Liverpool Canal was a business success model for a century or so before the naughty polluting railway took over. Road haulage finally killed it for it's original purpose half a century ago but it lives again as a recreational resource.

 

[FrothNinja]

Near Grey Friars, Shrewsbury - old mill on the other side of the Severn converted into something expensive but the chimney doesn't look like its been turned into flats yet

 

[Dogtrousers]

Shortlands Water Works. MBIFO part of the original steam engine installed in 1873

 

[tyred]

An 18th century warehouse along the quay, more recently used as a bottling store for locally produced soft drinks. This is part of a large complex which included a flour mill and a flax mill around the corner out of sight. Sadly most of these buildings are derelict and fallen in.

 

[sheddy]

Ashleworth Tithe Barn, on the bank of the Severn River - used for threshing and storage of grain.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Few pictures here from the Calder Hebble Navigation and the dry Halifax Branch.

This is Woodside Flour Mills in Elland, once one of the largest mills in Yorkshire.



And one of it in use, not sure on date.


A disused lock and a bridge on the dried Halifax branch.



And a bonus Bradley Viaduct on the old Newtown Goods Midland Railway. This runs between Huddersfield and Mirfield though the Huddersfield end can be a bit grim!

 

[biggs682]

Higham Ferrer's and Rushden water company building that looks to have been erected at Sywell reservoir in the 1950's .

 

[Sallar55]

Might be a old lime quarry.

 

[skudupnorth]

Pashley at Worsley Delph near the opening to the mines where canal barges went underground

 

[skudupnorth]

Crane along the Bridgewater canal at Worsley and the gates of the Lancashire Mining Museum at Astley