The power station was closed 25 years ago, but like Thorpe Marsh, the cooling towers have been left standing because, well just because. I was only going past here because my sat nav diverted me round a crash on the A50, and I didn’t have time to circumnavigate the fence to find a way in,…
Author: Andy
#666 – Scottish typology images
Two different headgears, five minutes apart. Barony is much easier to photograph, its sheer size make it relatively easy to photograph, although to get far enough away means you have to shoot from the south and wander into some undergrowth. But it stands in splendid isolation apart from various boards explaining the history and what…
#665 – Highhouse Colliery
If you turn right when you leave the Barony A Frame, and drive less than 5 minutes down Barony Road, you will find the Highhouse colliery headgear tucked away in the corner of a small industrial estate in Auchinleck. It’s not in great condition and it’s one of the smaller headgears I’ve seen, probably a…
#664 – Barony A-Frame 2
The A-frame is apparently 180 feet high, and it’s certainly a big old thing. But with the demolition of the car hall underneath it it looks weirdly top heavy, almost alien like. So I’ve decided to accentuate this by using a 14-30 lens. The view from underneath is unusual to say the least. I’ve taken…
#663 – Barony A-Frame 1
Barony Colliery, to the west of Auchinleck in Ayrshire was the last of the pits in the west of Scotland to close. It consisted of a number of shafts, although 1 and 2 were closed in the 1960’s, but all that survives is the headgear of No.3 shaft, more commonly known as the Barony A-Frame….
#662 – Taylor’s Bell Foundry 2
The initial job for the foundry men was removing the slag from the furnace before they turned up the heat again and returned to their chairs in front of the heater at the other end. Not long after, they returned to the furnace, tuned off the heat and began to pour the molten iron into…
#661 – Taylor’s Bell Foundry 1
John Taylor’s bell foundry is somewhere I’d been aware of for some time, and when I found out that they did tours and allowed visitors to watch the casting, I started to keep an eye out for when I could go along for a look. Two years passed, before I actually booked on as 2024…
#660 – Middleport Flour Mill, Stoke
I took a wander round the Middleport area as I wanted to photograph the bottle kilns at Furlong Mills (not the easiest things to photograph and they’re not very interesting photos), but a tall brick chimney nearby piqued my interest. Turns out it was the Middleport pottery, which I didn’t have the time to go…
#659 – Price and Kensington Bottle kiln
Stoke is somewhere I only ever drive through on the A50 while trying to get somewhere else. Other than a couple of visits to Chatterley Whitfield Colliery on the outskirts, I’ve never had cause to stop and explore. But as I was heading down to the East Midlands and had some time to spare, I…
#658 – Ratcliffe Power Station 2
It’s possible to see the cooling towers from the south and the west, so I had a quick look round to get a few different perspectives. There are eight in total, neatly arranged in two rows of four. I found that the most interesting composition was the one above, with the sun over my shoulder…
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