Much of the church is Decorated, but the tower is post-Reformation Perpendicular.
March 1999
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Fujichrome 100 film.
Tags: English parish church blyth church grade 1 listed building st Mary & st martin nottinghamshire Blyth
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The tall tower dates from c.1540. The Nottinghamshire village is close to the border with Yorkshire, at the junction of the A1 and A614.
March 1999
Rollei 35 camera
Fujichrome 100 film.
Tags: English parish church Blyth church st mary & st martin grade 1 listed building nottinghamshire Blyth
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Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Goole is the furthest inland port in the United Kingdom, and is one of the busiest ports on the East Coast of England. The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway accelerated the development of the port of Goole, primarily for coal exports. Much of its historic trade was with Scandinavian and Baltic countries, notably for the import of pit props. Goole remains busy with North Sea trade, throughput averaging some 2 million t/a.
March 1999
Rollei 35 camera
Fujichrome 100 film.
Tags: Yorkshire coastal vessel shipping port of Goole docks Goole
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Google’s...No, Auto Spell Checker - I typed in Goole. Take 2: Goole’s twin water towers are major landmarks that can be seen from miles away across the flat landscape and are nicknamed ‘Salt’ and ‘Pepper’. The docks remained rail-connected in this scene, warranting the stabling of a Class 08 shunter, in this case 08 582. Well into British Railways days, the docks were once worked by diminutive Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway 0-4-0 saddle tanks that dated back to 1886.
08 582 began life in 1959 as D3749. It is no longer extant, having been withdrawn and scrapped by C. Booth of Rotherham in 2009.
Slimline Salt stood on its own for the first 40 years of its life until Pepper joined it in 1927.
March 1999
Rollei 35 camera
Fujichrome 100 film.
Tags: gronk d3749 08 582 salt & pepper water tower class 08 shunter diesel shunter yorkshire docks Goole
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Barge traffic has for long been a feature o Goole’s port activities, the Yorkshire inland port being connected with the Aire & Calder Navigation Canal, enabling transshipment to and from seagoing vessels. For a long a part of the port’s infrastructure has been these barge lifts, allowing bulk commodities to be tipped directly from a lighter into a vessel’s hold. The Victorian Gothic spire of St. Jon’s church (1843-1848) is also conspicuous, still with a liberal coating of soot.
March 1999
Rollei 35 camera
Fujichrome 100 film.
Tags: dockside cranes yorkshire port St. John’s goole barge lift barge docks Goole
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