Friday, September 30, 2011

Happy Rosh Hashanah?

 Jews House is a medieval building traditionally used as a synagogue. Now part of it houses the Lincolnshire archaeological society.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Cotton Mill Road





Clearly this style of Sheffield road sign has been used for a long time (modern ones are made of metal)

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Worn with Use

in the steel finisher's workshop

Monday, September 12, 2011

Traces of Industry

for mixing the secret formula for the best crucible to make the best steel
Crucible with slag

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Environs

Pantry
Slate roofs
pottery furnaces
master bedroom
crucibles stacked outside
steam engine room, workshops, steel hammering, and worker's cottage

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Wheels

Clothes Press
Wheel in Action
Bellows to pump air into the furnaces in action propelled by the above wheel pistons
Steel Hammers
The large wooden mill wheel with the smaller metal wheel inside
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Ground down millstones reused as pavement
at the mill race

Friday, September 9, 2011

Steam Engine

This is at Abbeydale industrial Hamlet-a preserved turn of century steel factory

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Red

ok, I fell off the posting wagon-my dissertation sapping my will. Now the question I have for my readers/subscribers is whether you read this in a reader or something of the like and how annoying is it that I backdate posts for weeks at a time?