Big engineering

[Rita_Poon]

Anderton boat lift.

Anderton Boat Lift - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

We've got loads of industrial relics from the canals in the northwest. I know a train/railway enthusiast that can reel off historic facts about Oldham like he's blinking his eyes. Also, this age of drone footage has reopened access to generations lost spaces and the industry that once thrived there.

 

[zebedee]

Anderton boat lift.

Anderton Boat Lift - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

We've got loads of industrial relics from the canals in the northwest. I know a train/railway enthusiast that can reel off historic facts about Oldham like he's blinking his eyes. Also, this age of drone footage has reopened access to generations lost spaces and the industry that once thrived there.

Just fascinates me. Without the canals be it motor powered boats or horse pulled the industrial revolution would have been massively hinderd with all the interlinking of the majority city's.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Just fascinates me. Without the canals be it motor powered boats or horse pulled the industrial revolution would have been massively hindered with all the interlinking of the majority city's.

It was the transporting of raw materials, barges pulled by horses moving coal around. Eventually we got the static engine and then the railways and the canal system was relegated. The age of steam overtook horsepower. Like ICE would supersede steam. We're in the electric age.
Horses, blacksmiths, stables, public highways and public houses. Environmentally, although coal was burned, it wasn't like the scale we've seen pollutants released since.

IM Power, Charleroi

Smardale Gill viaduct, Cumbria.

Train graveyard in an old quarry, somewhere in Cheshire apparently.

 

[Rita_Poon]

What a venue for the Copa Libertadores final - Estadio Monumental U, Lima, Capacity 80,093

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That is some complex. It looks it's age, how big are the mountains and with the right bins can you get a seat at altitude and watch for free?

 

[Cake]

That is some complex. It looks it's age, how big are the mountains and with the right bins can you get a seat at altitude and watch for free?

According to Wiki it was only built in 2000

 

[Rita_Poon]

According to Wiki it was only built in 2000

By who, the 'kin Egyptians?

 

[Cake]

By who, the 'kin Egyptians?

it looks newer on the telly (BBC Three)

 

[Kurt.]

Just fascinates me. Without the canals be it motor powered boats or horse pulled the industrial revolution would have been massively hinderd with all the interlinking of the majority city's.

Mrs K and I always say that when we retire we’d like to spend our time travelling the UK canal system on a long boat thing

 

[arch stanton]

Mrs K and I always say that when we retire we’d like to spend our time travelling the UK canal system on a long boat thing

have you got a big family to do the rowing?

 

[Rita_Poon]

@rylojr

Abandoned Ohio State Reformatory, Mansfield, Ohio.

 

[Kurt.]

have you got a big family to do the rowing?

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I’m trading in Hiking and Biking for Viking

 

[Rita_Poon]

I’m trading in Hiking and Biking for Viking

 

[rylojr]

@rylojr

Abandoned Ohio State Reformatory, Mansfield, Ohio.

Book? Magazine?

 

[Rita_Poon]

Book? Magazine?

Relive the Shawshank Redemption in Mansfield Ohio

Tour the Shawshank Trail in and around Mansfield OH. Visit the Mansfield Reformatory where Andy spent his prison time, the Shawshank Oak Tree where Red dug up the money next, the Trailways Bus Station where Red left to find Andy & the opening scene location at Malabar Farm State Park.

shawshanktrail.com

There's a lot of youtube fan/historian videos. Be warned, it has its history, it wasn't a pleasant place.

 

[matty1878]

@Rita_Poon you ever watched the abandoned engineering programme?

It’s great all the things around the world