The Scottish Event Campus on the banks of the Clyde in Glasgow, with a rather large reminder that the area used to be one of the city's largest docks before the SEC was built.
The hull of a diving bell barge at Newshot Island on the Clyde near Erskine. Built in 1852, it's one of two such vessels built to help deepen the Clyde so large ships could travel right into the heart of the city.
The diving bell was lowered to the seabed via a cut-out the stern, allowing workers to dig out areas which were too hard to be cleared by steam dredgers. Abandoned at Newshot Island at the start of the 20th Century, it's the oldest surviving diving bell vessel in the world.
The entrance to the Forth and Clyde Canal at Bowling. Designed by James Smeaton, this was the world's first sea-to-sea canal designed to shorten navigation times. Work began on it in 1768, but it wasn't finished until 1790. To mark its opening, a barrel of water was carried from the Firth of Forth and was emptied into the Firth of Clyde.
The former Barr and Stroud premises on Ashton Lane in the West End of Glasgow. Founded by Professors Archibald Barr and William Stroud in 1895, Barr and Stroud was a pioneering optical engineering firm who played a leading role in the development of modern optics. From these premises, they moved to a larger site in Annielsand in 1904.
Gasholders No. 1 and No. 2 at the Provan Gasworks in the northeast of Glasgow. Built for the Glasgow Corporation in 1903 by Barrowfield Iron Works Limited, they're the largest gasholders ever built in Scotland. They're also some of the only ones to survive to this day.
And in other news, here is a fresh story about #HeritageCrime#HeritageVandalism in our immediate neighbourhood. When they say that Wales is the playground of English tourism, it's not really logical, because you wouldn't treat a playground as a trash dump, would you?
Throughout the 1800s and early 1900s, Glasgow and its surrounding communities were home to a large and diverse range of brickworks, each of which stamped their own mark on their products. This sample from a small area of the foreshore below Dumbarton Castle gives you a fair idea of this diversity.
Uncharacteristically early Boxing Day trip across the Pennines to the National Trust's Quarry Bank, to get boy #1 there in time for his shift as a storyteller, and a good look inside the mill #IndustrialHeritage#Cheshire
Temple Gasworks Gasholder Number Five in the west of Glasgow at dawn this morning. Measuring 44.5m in height and 71m in diameter, it sits on top of a 15m deep underground tank. It was built in 1900 by the Barrowfield Ironworks Ltd for the Glasgow Corporation Gas Department. At its peak of operation, there were five gasholders at the Temple Gasworks, but only numbers four and five now remain.
The Finnieston Brass Foundry. A beautiful, fully functional building, and one of the last examples of Glasgow's industrial heritage architecture left in the local area. Built in the 19th Century, demolished in November 2023.
It's sad to see work has finally begun to demolish the old and rather beautiful Finnieston Brass Foundry. Built in the late 1800s, it's one of the last remnants of the area's industrial past.
Thanks to Govangal68 over on Twitter for pointing out.
The castle-like former Anchor Mills in Paisley. This is the last surviving mill building in a town who's history is intricatelly entwined with the fabric industry. It was Woodhouse and Morley and was built in 1886.
Morning all. It’s a wet day here in south #Wales, and I have some spare hours, so let’s see if I can do some #Train geeking. There’s an “Explore the Capital day-to-go ticket” only available from staff. Let’s see if I can find one. #Caerdydd#Cardiff#rail 1/n
#IndustrialHeritage alert! It’s the Melingriffith water pump, which once supplied water to the now redundant Merthyr-Cardiff canal 21/n
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The Class37 (originally known as the English Electric Type 3) is one of the best known diesels on Britain’s railways. It was a common sight on freight trains around South Wales.
This book contains well composed photos, often showing the trains along with lineside and infrastructure detail.
See our review: ‘Class 37s’ by Mark V. Pike from Key Books
Cart entrance to the former Kinning Park Colour Works on Milnpark Road in Glasgow, featuring the original 1890s doors and a fantastic polychromatic brickwork archway.