https://www.snapsurveys.com/wh/s.asp?k=145468801829 I recognise that not everyone lives in Lancashire, and may not necessarily be interested in industrial heritage, but our museum service is under threat and the future of both Queen Street Textile Mill Museum and Helmshore Mills museum is uncertain. My Shadows of the North exhibition has been shown in both these museums…
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#429 – Grafters Exhibition at People’s History Museum
On over the summer at the People’s History Museum in Manchester is a new exhibition, Grafters. The subtitle is ‘Industrial Society in Image and Word’ and it is curated by Ian Beesley with some accompanying poems by Ian MacMillan (who has previously provided poems for some of Beesley’s books). The exhibition is split into 8 distinct…
Mechanical Landscapes Talk in Burnley, 6th October 2015
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).
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
USS Iowa at Brooklyn Naval Yard
Originally posted on Planes, Boats, Trains:
Title: U.S.S. Iowa in dry dock, Brooklyn Navy Yard Date: 1901? Photographer: Detroit Publishing Company Source: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/det1994013759/PP/
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…
