Tag: architecture

Viaducts and Lifting Towers, Repurposed Railway Infrastructure

Viaducts and Lifting Towers, Repurposed Railway Infrastructure

Reading Time: 4 minutes Inspired, in part, by The High Line in New York there has been discussions about creating similar on Holbeck Viaduct for some years now. So far this has sadly not come to anything, but on a smaller scale the Monk Bridge Viaduct development has started 

Wymondham

Wymondham

Reading Time: 3 minutes It was nice, this time in Norfolk to get a chance to actually look around Wymondham, which is a very pretty little town. The flint and redbrick is very apparent, on the bridge over the River Tiffey, and the Walls around Wymondham Abbey. I loved 

Ely and a Plethora of Freight Trains

Ely and a Plethora of Freight Trains

Reading Time: 5 minutes I have said for a while I have not done enough photography for a while. The other day needed to travel down to Norfolk for some business needing doing, and being up and awake early had the options of killing time waiting to leave, or 

Halifax

Halifax

Reading Time: 4 minutes Rather randomly, one of the children, when asked where they might like to go for a day out was adamant that we should go to Halifax. I’ve nothing against Halifax, I quite like it as it has some very interesting buildings, but it seemed an 

Light Night and the Moon

Light Night and the Moon

Reading Time: 2 minutes …the main attraction (for me at least) this year was Luke Jerram’s “Museum of the Moon” – a 7 metre diameter accurately mapped spherical installation of The Moon, suspended over Leeds Dock…

We started out for a quick drink, then wandered down to the Docks joining a fairly steady stream.

Butterley Spillway Exhibition

Butterley Spillway Exhibition

Reading Time: < 1 minutes …one of my images will be featuring in an exhibition at A Month of Sundaes in Marsden, for the Save Butterley Spillway campaign which is trying to prevent Yorkshire Water from destroying this unique piece of Victorian architectural engineering…

Backstreets and Rooftops Part 4

Backstreets and Rooftops Part 4

Reading Time: 4 minutes For this final (for now) installment of Backstreets and Rooftops, I took myself deeper into the University Campus. I’ve been very inspired by this project, and hope to gather the absolute best of these (as I know I have posted many shots over these four 

Backstreets and Rooftops Part 3

Backstreets and Rooftops Part 3

Reading Time: 2 minutes Playing some more with the rootop idea, I have gone down into the LS2 and Little Woodhouse area this time – somewhere I have not really explored in so much detail. Theres more of the redbrick here.