It’s a bit short notice as I’ve been a bit busy of late, but my next talk is on Tuesday 6th October at Burnley Camera Club. The venue is Sion Baptist Church, Church Street, Burnley, BB11 2DW, and it starts at 7.15 (doors open at 7).
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Lifting an Engine
Originally posted on Planes, Boats, Trains:
Title: Albuquerque, New Mexico. Lifting an engine to be carried to another part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad shops for wheeling Date: March 1943 Photographer: Jack Delano Source: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/owi2001022482/PP/
Talk at Darwen Camera Club 24th August 2015
For anyone in East Lancashire who is interested in my work, I will be giving my Mechanical Landscapes talk at Darwen Camera Club on Monday 24th August 2015. The meeting starts at 7.30 and the talk lasts about 90 minutes (ish). The club meet at Hollins Grove Church Hall, Hawkshaw Avenue, Darwen, BB3 1QZ http://www.darwencameraclub.org.uk
My new blog – Planes and Boats and Trains
I’ve accumulated an awful lot of photographs now from the Library of Congress, and while I’ve posted quite a lot over the past 18 months or so on here, I felt it time to do something a little different. To that end, and because wordpress blogs are free, I’ve set up another blog to run…
#415 – Leigh Spinners Mill Engine – The Giant Awakes………..
After years of service, the giant was no longer needed. Obsolete and old, it was given a spot of oil and the blankets were put on. The giant went to sleep, resting, and maybe mourning the loss of it’s twin next door, cut up by the scrapman after a boiler explosion ripped apart it’s lungs….
#413 – Pullman Car Works
This gigantic place was the centre of the Pullman Palace Car empire. Quite literally – the Pullman company built an entire town round the works, and called it Pullman. The town survives today, as does the Pullman brand but very little of the factory does. Google Streetview shows that just the central tower section (and…
#412 – Library of Congress Images – Ferris Ships, Western Marine & Salvage and the Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay
One of the problems with the LoC archive is the erratic key wording and classification. Some pictures are done well, some poorly, some not at all. So it can be pot luck what a search comes back with, and when you are looking for something else a picture may turn up by chance that is…
#406 – Shadows of the North Exhibition opens at Queen Street Mill, Burnley
I am pleased to announce that my Shadows of the North exhibition has moved to Queen Street Mill Textile Museum in Burnley, the last steam powered weaving shed in the world. This is the same exhibition that was up at Helmshore earlier this year, but reduced to 15 photographs due to space constraints. If I’m…
Follow me on Facebook!
My initial dip of the toe in the social media pool was in 2011 when I set up a Facebook page – and promptly did nothing with it. Four years on, I’ve decided that I need to do something with it, so this is the formal launch it never had four years ago! http://www.facebook.com/theviewfromthenorth My…
#360 – Important – thevoicefromthenorth is now blog.mechanicallandscapes.com!!!!
After 7 years online, I seem to have ended up with an inconsistent array of domains and styles, even though the content is largely similar. So with view to becoming more consistent, I’ve decided to rename the blog and change its address. In fact, if you read the blog posts actually on the blog and on…
