Victorian engineering architecture.

[Richard A Thackeray]

Get yourself over to this garden centre near Doncaster on Wednesdays and the first Sunday of the month - free admission!

I've been there a few times
They used to get (basically) free fuel, from local fitted-kitchen/furniture manufacturers, by taking all their off-cuts & the items they removed for replacement

Anderton boat lift, transfers boats from the River Weaver to the canal and vice versa. It's in regular use and quite a sight in operation.

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I've been up in that

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

@vernon

What about the Knowsthorpe Swing-Bridge, a really interesting piece, if only for its size?

http://secretleeds.com/viewtopic.php?t=670

http://www.lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk/Beeston jn Hunslet gds.htm

 

[Tim Hall]

Remember the Americans - after all they gave us the burger and bubblegum

What I'm looking for is someone who can contribute to what England has given to the world: culture, sophistication, genius. A little bit more than an 'ot dog, know what I mean?

 

[claudbutler]

Had to share this. This is the weir on the reservoir at Abbeystead, near Lancaster. Built in 1855, the engineers could have just built a straight weir but no, they built a stunning, perfect curved weir that channels the flow down into a smooth bowl and out of the bottom. Notice also the curved wall opposite, which has been given a completely unnecessary embellishment in the form of a strake below the parapet.

Abbeystead was the scene of a terrible gas explosion in May 1984 that killed 16 visitors who had come to the opening of the new pumping station.

Weir's frighten me, the same as dams and those big holes in the middle of a reservoir where the water goes when its full

 

[mybike]

Chalfont Viaduct.
Not the prettiest but I just love that it is just the right size to fit the M25 under it that came along 130 years later.


And I like peas.

I heard that 'slogan' referred to recently on a traffic announcement. Always means I'm nearing home when I see it, not so noticeable the other way.

 

[vernon]

@vernon

What about the Knowsthorpe Swing-Bridge, a really interesting piece, if only for its size?

http://secretleeds.com/viewtopic.php?t=670

http://www.lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk/Beeston jn Hunslet gds.htm

I've seen the remains but didn't realise that there was a swing bridge there I thought that it was only a missing bridge.

 

[fossyant]

Weir's frighten me, the same as dams and those big holes in the middle of a reservoir where the water goes when its full

Hell....

The Ladybower ones are called Devil's Plugholes !

 

[slowmotion]

Hell....

The Ladybower ones are called Devil's Plugholes !

I have a nightmare about them every few years. I have done ever since I was a child. It's something about being dragged down by irresistible forces or something.

 

[slowmotion]

Here are some more pictures of the Levant mine that @vernon mentioned.
http://www.cornishmineimages.co.uk/levant-mine-gallery/
It's well worth going there if you like this stuff. The guy who guided us round was a fantastic enthusiast.

The mine levels go far out under the sea, one of them less than forty feet from the sea bed, "40 Backs". The sea broke in one day and flooded the horizontal level. In order to locate the leak, they pumped a lot of flourescent dye into the flooded level and watched where it appeared on the surface of the water.

 

[Over The Hill]

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Another one is this , i keep seeing it on a warm up at a TT . It looks like its been messed about with over the years and i think the glass probably went all the way to the floor ?

Thanks. I refurbed and painted my windows last year - took a day each and there are 12 of them! 32 panes of glass in each. They are some sort of cast iron but oddly they hardly rust. Quite stylish and colourful for a Methodist Chapel, I have only seen quite plain windows in nearby chapels.

The door in your pic looks like it is a chunk of window chopped out of somewhere. Perhaps part of whatever had the fan window in?

 

[Spinney]

[QUOTE 4157327, member: 9609"]that is the stuff of nightmares[/QUOTE]
they make me think of a Victorian version of movie depictions of wormholes - sucked through a vortex into another world...

 

[Cuchilo]

Thanks. I refurbed and painted my windows last year - took a day each and there are 12 of them! 32 panes of glass in each. They are some sort of cast iron but oddly they hardly rust. Quite stylish and colourful for a Methodist Chapel, I have only seen quite plain windows in nearby chapels.

The door in your pic looks like it is a chunk of window chopped out of somewhere. Perhaps part of whatever had the fan window in?

I think you're right .
When was your place built ? The windows could be crittall .

 

[FrankCrank]

....those Victorians certainly knew their onions when it came to building stuff, a lasting legacy for sure.

Would love to get round to seeing some of the stuff posted here - managed to get to the Science Museum last trip, fascinating heritage indeed....

 

[JtB]

Originating from Stockport, for me it has to be Stockport viaduct, the UK's largest brick structure and at the time it was built, the world's largest viaduct.

 

[Nibor]

Had to share this. This is the weir on the reservoir at Abbeystead, near Lancaster. Built in 1855, the engineers could have just built a straight weir but no, they built a stunning, perfect curved weir that channels the flow down into a smooth bowl and out of the bottom. Notice also the curved wall opposite, which has been given a completely unnecessary embellishment in the form of a strake below the parapet.

Abbeystead was the scene of a terrible gas explosion in May 1984 that killed 16 visitors who had come to the opening of the new pumping station.

The curved wier would be much stronger against the water pressure than a straight one it is just good engineering which happens to be elegant and beautiful