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Nebhunter
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 10/04/03
Posts: 1799
Loc: Frostbite Falls
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Moonrise thru the clouds. Konica - film - vari-focal lens at 35mm.
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Nebhunter
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 10/04/03
Posts: 1799
Loc: Frostbite Falls
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Pentax 67 - 90 lens - film. Quiet cemetary near West Lorne Ontario late 1800's to 1930.
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Nebhunter
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 10/04/03
Posts: 1799
Loc: Frostbite Falls
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Pentax 67 200mm Delta 100. Path in the woods - shadows on the trail.
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Allen
professor emeritus
Reged: 03/22/04
Posts: 694
Loc: Monroe, Georgia
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I haven't been around in far far too long.
Midnight, just as the moon is peeking out after the thunderstorm past.
From a walk earlier in the day:
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KennyJ
The British Flash
Reged: 04/27/03
Posts: 20139
Loc: Lancashire UK
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This is a scan of a black and white photo which I believe to have been taken in the 1960s.
The twin chimneys fascinated me from an early age , as through my bedroom window I could see approximately the top third of both of them above the trees of some local woodland .
They were built around 1934 and were at a large Courtaulds Rayon factory located at a place called Red Scar , Ribbleton , about 3 miles north north east of our house .
About 100 yards to their south west were two huge cooling towers ( not shown in the photo ).
I spent endless hours looking at them through my 35 x 60 spotting scope and 10 x 50 binoculars .
This I believe to be the only photo available on the entire internet of the two chimneys that shows their full height , which at 365 feet made them the tallest in Lancashire at a time when the county had hundreds of factory chimneys .
Due to their location they could be seen from many miles away and were a distinct Lancashire landmark until being demolished in the early 1980s .
The original photo , by the way , was very kindly sent to me several years ago by an elderly lady whose husband spent his entire working life at the factory .
She had happened to read a letter I'd written to a local newspaper in which I expressed a sense of continued mourning for their enforced disappearance and put out a request for any photos of them .
By a strange quirk of fete , one of my daughters' father in laws ( who sadly passed away earlier this year ) was the Policeman who gave the final signal for the demolition team to detonate the explosives that removed them .
I recently bought a book specifically because it featured a half page photo of the chimneys being demolished .
Kenny
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Nebhunter
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 10/04/03
Posts: 1799
Loc: Frostbite Falls
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You've been away too long - and I just got here!
Well captured series - enjoyed them very much.
Igor
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