I first posted my photographs of Hatfield Colliery a few years back here, here and here. But I took quite a lot on the day and I sometimes dip back into them to process one that I didn’t bother with first time around. This is one of them and while it’s maybe not of the…
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#678 – Redcar steelworks at night
Recently, I’ve been going through the photographs I’ve taken of the Redcar steelworks on my various visits over a 10 year period before it was demolished, and I found a series of night photographs that I’d forgotten about. I’ve actually posted a couple of them before (a good few years ago), but it’s always good…
#677 – Anglesey Mining Headgear 2
This is the typology photograph I ended up with. It’s realistically only viewable side on from this side and although I could have wandered on site to get a slightly better view I’m not sure it would have been vastly superior and I like the inclusion of the greenery at the bottom. It’s a simple…
#676 – Anglesey Mining Headgear 1
This place had been on my list of places to photograph for my typology for a while but it’s a long drive and I’d relegated it to do ‘later’. But we booked our 2023 summer holiday in Anglesey so there was no excuse not to pay a visit! I’d visited the island previously in 2010…
#675 – Chatterley Whitfield 2
I took a number of photographs of this view, trying to find the composition that was ‘just right’. And that is both the benefit and curse of digital photography, each exposure costs £0 so you can click away, unlike with film where very exposure costs you anything from several pence to several pounds depending on…
#674 – Chatterley Whitfield 1
The crumbling Chatterley Whitfield Colliery is somewhere I’ve visited a couple of times on the annual Heritage Open Days and it’s a site I enjoy wandering round. They also open on some Saturdays so I decided to coincide a visit with a trip to the Foxfield Colliery. Unfortunately an email was sent out a few…
#673 – Foxfield Colliery Revisit 2
So while my primary reason for visiting was to get photographs for my typology, I did want to see a bit more of the site. Most of the original site is now a more modern industrial estate and yards, but as well as the two headgears and sidings, the railway also own a few smaller…
#672 – Foxfield Colliery Revisit 1
I first went to the Foxfield Railway in December 2011 for a photo charter involving a crane tank engine at the Foxfield Colliery. The colliery was a rare survivor – it had shut in the 1960’s but for reason that are unclear the site wasn’t levelled and the headgears (and some of the surface) buildings…
#671 – Astley Green revisited 3
A (belated) last photograph from Astley Green, maybe slightly influenced by the street photographer Saul Leiter. OK, very influenced – my influences are many and diverse, although there’s no evidence of Leiter ever taking a photograph of a coal mine! This was very much a chance photograph – I’d finished looking round and had retired…
#670 – Astley Green revisited 2
June 2024 saw a lot of changeable weather, and the day i visited alternated between sunshine and blue skies and dark clouds and rain. I’d taken a few photos of the headgear with an old railway crane in the foreground, as I liked the way the lattice structure on the boom complimented the lattice structure…
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