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Category Archives: industrial heritage
Sandstone, ‘smooth as walnut turned on a lathe’
“Fine sandstone is quite silky, you get a crisp image, the maximum sculptural effect. With sandstone there’s no reflection of light to distort what you see.” Sky Higgins, sculptor. “Red St Bees’ is a fine-grained stone, dull red in colour… … Continue reading
Posted in coastal heritage, industrial heritage, quarries, sandstone, stones
Tagged Fleswick Bay, Sabellaria, sand, sandstone, sculpture, St Bees'
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Snippets 5: Angels, salt and shroud-pins
Pat Bull unlocked a peeling black door and showed me into a small brick-walled room. On the plain wooden table which almost filled the space were small polythene bags and boxes, labelled in black feltpen with numbers and letters. At … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology, coastal heritage, industrial heritage, Snippets
Tagged archaeology, grave-stones, Holme Cultram Abbey, saltpans, Solway Wetlands Landscape Partnership
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The design of the Solway: an aerial perspective, part 1
To understand how something works, you need to understand not only its design, but its interconnections and interactions with its surroundings. So it is with the Solway Firth. My ongoing fascination with the Firth’s ‘design’ is why I have recently … Continue reading
Posted in aerial views, coastal heritage, industrial heritage, ports
Tagged Carlisle Airport, Carlisle canal, gyroplane, Port Carlisle, River Eden, saltmarshes, Solway viaduct
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The volcanoes of Workington
The colours of pebbles on the shore range from grey and ochre through green to blue, and the eroded cliff is banded orange and purple and red, like a section through an old volcano. Pebbles are bubbled with cavities, though … Continue reading
Posted in coal, industrial heritage, slag-banks, The 'Energy Coast'
Tagged Bessemer, blast furnace, coal, limestone and haematite, Moss Bay, slag, Workington, Workington Haematite Iron Company Ltd
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