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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,city,centre,West Yorkshire,England,cast,metal,pavement,drainage,inspection,ironwork,street,iron work,historic,furniture,sanitation,Yorkshire water,engineering,urban,infrastructure,public,health,history,heritage,Victorian,Edwardian,industrial,hidden,detail,details,old,trade name,local maker,iron foundry,lettering,municipal,sewerage,streetscape
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EJ120E - Close-up of a cast iron pavement grid or drainage cover in Briggate, Leeds, carrying the raised stock-photo/gotonysmith-Lettering.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>lettering C. Wooler & Son, Sanitary Engineers, Leeds . The black and white detail photograph shows rough worn metal, patterned anti-slip bars, weathered surface texture and historic maker's lettering, turning a small piece of street furniture into a record of local engineering, public health and infrastructure. The image is useful for editorial coverage of Leeds urban history, Victorian and Edwardian sanitation, drainage, cast iron manufacturing, street ironwork, public realm, city centre heritage and overlooked material evidence beneath pedestrians' feet. The wording sanitary engineers reflects a period when urban growth, sewers, water supply and public health improvements were central to civic life. Firms supplying grids, drains, covers, pipes and related metalwork helped make dense commercial streets safer, cleaner and more functional. Briggate is one of Leeds's best-known shopping and commercial streets, so the survival of this marked grid links modern retail and pedestrian life with the practical infrastructure of an industrial city. The photograph has strong stock value for themes around hidden heritage, local makers, engineering trades, iron foundries, drainage systems, urban archaeology, street furniture, utilities, conservation and public health history. The monochrome treatment emphasises the raised text, pitted metal, highlights, repeated rectangular tread pattern and worn surface, giving the image an abstract graphic quality as well as documentary interest. It can illustrate features on Leeds history, old trade names, city centre detail, pavements, drainage, sanitation, municipal improvement and the quiet survival of industrial craftsmanship in everyday streetscapes. With no wider street view visible, the image should be captioned from the readable lettering and supplied Briggate context rather than treated as a precise street-number location.
Briggate, Leeds city centre, Angel Inn Yd, Leeds LS1 6LN
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,NI,Northern Ireland,UK,centre,clock,towers,clocks,Belfast,that,leans,Victorian,clock tower,landmarks,historic,heritage,nineteenth,century,architecture,BT1 3FF,BT1,sandstone,Gothic Revival,style,urban,landmark,public,monument,building,famous,structure,engineering,subsidence,clockface,detail,blue sky,clouds,summer
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RFJ3A1 - This image shows the Albert Memorial Clock, one of Belfast's most recognisable landmarks, located in Queen's Square in the city centre. The Victorian-era clock tower was erected in the late nineteenth century as a memorial to Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, and is constructed from sandstone with Gothic Revival detailing.
The tower is famously known for its noticeable lean, caused by subsidence due to its foundations being built on reclaimed land close to the River Lagan. This characteristic tilt has become a defining feature of the structure and a point of local pride, often likened humorously to continental leaning towers.
The photograph appears to have been taken in bright summer conditions, with a vivid blue sky and scattered white clouds providing a clean backdrop that emphasises the vertical form of the tower and the ornate stone detailing. Strong sunlight highlights the clock face and sculptural elements set into the lower section of the tower.
Surrounded by modern apartment buildings and urban infrastructure, the Albert Clock stands as a visual link between Belfast's Victorian past and its contemporary cityscape. The image captures both the monument's architectural significance and its continued role as a focal point within the everyday life of the city.
Albert Memorial Clock, Queen's Square, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, BT1 3FF
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,English,cotton,spinning,sliver,textiles,cottonmill,industrial,industry,manufacturing,machinery,machine,fibre,fibers,yarnproduction,industrialrevolution,silver,can,cans,drafting,rollers,preparation,spinningprocess,millinterior,historic,heritage,preserved,museum,victorian,edwardian,analogue,mechanical,engineering,history
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R55JB5 - drawing frames (sometimes called draw frames) with sliver cans, as used in Lancashire cotton spinning mills in the late-19th and early-20th century.
What you're seeing
The thick, soft cotton strands looping down into the containers are sliver.
The tall cylindrical containers are sliver cans, used to store and transport the fibre between processes.
Above the cans is the drawing frame, with a line of drafting rollers that pull multiple slivers together and stretch them to improve uniformity.
What the drawing frame did
The drawing frame sat between carding and spinning and had three main jobs:
Combine several carded slivers into one
Draft (stretch) the fibres to make them finer
Straighten and equalise fibre alignment
The output was a smoother, more even sliver ready for:
further drawing stages, or
the roving (speed) frame, and then spinning
How to tell it's not a roving frame
This is a common point of confusion:
Drawing frame: sliver goes into cans (as shown here)
Roving (speed) frame: fibres are twisted and wound onto bobbin spindles, not cans
Because there is no twist and the material is collected loosely in cans, this is clearly a drawing frame.
Why this is classic Lancashire
Drawing frames were standard in mills across Oldham, Bolton, Blackburn, Burnley and Preston
Lancashire mills often used multiple drawing passages to achieve consistency at scale
Uniform sliver was essential for high-speed spinning on mules or ring frames
In short
This image shows cotton drawing frames feeding sliver into cans, a crucial intermediate stage in Lancashire's spinning process, responsible for fibre consistency, quality and productivity. This image shows a row of cotton drawing frames with sliver cans inside a Lancashire spinning mill, illustrating a key intermediate stage in the cotton manufacturing process. Drawing frames were used after carding to improve the uniformity, alignment and consistency of cotton fibres before they were spun into yarn.
Lancashire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,British,English,loom,textiles,weavingshed,factory,machinery,machine,yarn,warp,weft,cloth,fabric,production,engineering,mechanical,industrialrevolution,Lancs,loomroom,weavingroom,beltdrive,lineshaft,overheadshafts,steamage,victorian,edwardian,twentiethcentury,millinterior,historic,heritage,preserved,museum
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R55JBA - The large cylindrical beam wrapped with white yarn at the front is the warp beam, supplying thousands of parallel warp threads.
The machines are arranged in long, tightly packed rows, typical of weaving sheds rather than spinning rooms.
Overhead line-shafting and belt drives powered each loom individually.
The overall layout is wide, open and repetitive, designed for one weaver to supervise multiple looms.
This immediately distinguishes it from:
Spinning mules (which have moving carriages)
Ring frames (vertical spindles, no warp beam)
Carding or drawing machines (shorter, bulkier units)
What the loom did
A Lancashire power loom:
Took warp yarn from the beam
Inserted weft yarn across it (by shuttle in older looms)
Interlaced warp and weft to produce woven cloth
Wound the finished fabric onto a cloth roller
This was the final major stage of cotton manufacture, after carding, drawing and spinning.
Why this is classic Lancashire
Power looms dominated towns such as Burnley, Blackburn, Accrington, Chorley and Preston
Lancashire specialised in mass cotton weaving, often more than spinning
Sheds were built with:
North-light roofs for even daylight
Open floors to manage noise, heat and lint
A single weaver, often a woman, might operate four or more looms simultaneously
In short
This image shows Lancashire cotton power looms in a weaving shed, producing woven cloth from spun yarn.
It represents the end stage of the cotton process and one of the most recognisable interiors of Britain's industrial textile past. This image shows a row of historic cotton power looms inside a Lancashire weaving shed, a setting that became synonymous with mass textile production during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Power looms were used to weave spun cotton yarn into finished cloth by interlacing warp threads, drawn from the large beams visible in the foreground, with weft yarn carried across the loom.
The looms are arranged in long, uniform rows
Lancashire, North West England, United Kingdom
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,British,English,cardingmachine,textile,textiles,manufacturing,factory,spinning,fibre,fibers,engineering,mechanical,belt,pulleys,rollers,drums,Lancs,PlattBrothers,Oldham,Bolton,Blackburn,Burnley,Preston,northwestengland,britishindustry,heritage,historic,museum,preserved,victorian,edwardian,steamage,powertransmission,lineshaft,beltdrive
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R55JBG - The large central drum is the main carding cylinder, which rotates at speed.
The multiple small pulleys around the side are part of the belt-driven transmission, typical of Lancashire mills using line-shaft power from overhead shafts.
The wooden casing (often polished hardwood) is characteristic of British carding engines, both for protection and to reduce lint escape.
Surrounding rollers and covers would have worked with:
the licker-in (to open raw cotton),
worker and stripper rollers (to disentangle fibres),
and the doffer (to remove the aligned fibre web).
What it did in the cotton process
This machine sat early in the cotton production line:
Raw cotton arrived compressed and dirty
It was opened and cleaned (blow room machinery)
Carding engine aligned the fibres into a continuous web
The web was condensed into sliver, ready for drawing and spinning
Without carding, spinning simply did not work properly.
Why it's so Lancashire
Carding engines were ubiquitous in Lancashire mills (Oldham, Bolton, Blackburn, Burnley, Preston).
British makers such as Platt Brothers of Oldham dominated this machinery worldwide.
The heavy iron castings, belt drives, and polished woodwork are textbook North-West England mill engineering.
Rossendale, Lancashire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PMKE15 -
Queen Street Mill, Harle Syke, Briercliffe, Burnley BB10 2HX
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PMKE16 -
Queen Street Mill, Harle Syke, Briercliffe, Burnley BB10 2HX
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,textile,Lancs,England,UK,English,mills,Cottonopolis,manufacture,Mill,Burnley,history,tourism,steam,powered,weaving,mill,reed,cotton,factory,system,automation,machinery,Victorian,Briercliffe,BB10 2HX,Lancashire,Harle Syke,North West,NW,BB10,machines,engineering,standardisation
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PMKE1H - A reed is part of a weaving loom, and resembles a comb or a frame with many vertical slits. It is used to separate and space the warp threads, to guide the shuttle's motion across the loom, and to push the weft threads into place. In most floor looms with, the reed is securely held by the beater. Floor looms and mechanized looms both use a beater with a reed, whereas Inkle weaving and tablet weaving do not use reeds.
Modern reeds are made by placing flattened strips of wire (made of carbon or stainless steel) between two half round ribs of wood, and binding the whole together with tarred string.
Historically, reeds were made of reed or split cane. The split cane was then bound between ribs of wood in the same manner as wire is now.
In 1738, John Kay replaced split cane with flattened iron or brass wire, and the change was quickly adopted.
To make a reed, wire is flattened to a uniform thickness by passing it between rollers. The flat wire is then straightened, given rounded edges, and filed smooth. The final step is to cut the wire to the correct length and assemble. The tarred cord that binds the reed together is wrapped around each set of wooden ribs and between the dents to hold the ribs together and at the correct spacing.
The length of the metal wire varies depending on the type of fabric and the type of loom being used. For a machine-powered cotton loom, the metal wires are commonly 3.5 inches (89 mm) long. For hand-powered floor looms, around 4 inches (100 mm) is common.
Queen Street Mill, Harle Syke, Briercliffe, Burnley BB10 2HX
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PMKE3C - A reed is part of a weaving loom, and resembles a comb or a frame with many vertical slits. It is used to separate and space the warp threads, to guide the shuttle's motion across the loom, and to push the weft threads into place. In most floor looms with, the reed is securely held by the beater. Floor looms and mechanized looms both use a beater with a reed, whereas Inkle weaving and tablet weaving do not use reeds.
Modern reeds are made by placing flattened strips of wire (made of carbon or stainless steel) between two half round ribs of wood, and binding the whole together with tarred string.
Historically, reeds were made of reed or split cane. The split cane was then bound between ribs of wood in the same manner as wire is now.
In 1738, John Kay replaced split cane with flattened iron or brass wire, and the change was quickly adopted.
To make a reed, wire is flattened to a uniform thickness by passing it between rollers. The flat wire is then straightened, given rounded edges, and filed smooth. The final step is to cut the wire to the correct length and assemble. The tarred cord that binds the reed together is wrapped around each set of wooden ribs and between the dents to hold the ribs together and at the correct spacing.
The length of the metal wire varies depending on the type of fabric and the type of loom being used. For a machine-powered cotton loom, the metal wires are commonly 3.5 inches (89 mm) long. For hand-powered floor looms, around 4 inches (100 mm) is common.
Queen Street Mill, Harle Syke, Briercliffe, Burnley BB10 2HX
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Wales,welsh,Llangollen station,signal,signals,UK,system,transport,sign,board,Denbighshire,Cymru,British,Railways,infrastructure,engineering,safety,history,historic,heritage,platform,outside,box,signs,old-fashioned,old fashioned,Victorian,brick,wall,of,walls,glass,windows,construction,gorsaf
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRA4H5 -
Llangollen , North Wales, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Lancs,England,UK,tower,complex,site,summer,the,tourist,attraction,town,famous,traditional,circus,dungeon,eye,mini-golf,sea-life,Merlin Entertainments,Plc,Merlin,tourism,Grade I Listed,building,entertainment complex,James Maxwell,Charles Tuke,Fielding & Platt,Gloucester,Accrington bricks,Victorian,engineering,Norwegian ship Abana,Pavilion
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRG8X4 - Blackpool Tower is a tourist attraction in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, which was opened to the public on 14 May 1894. When it opened, Blackpool Tower was the tallest man made structure in the British Empire. Inspired by the Eiffel Tower in Paris, it is 518 feet (158 metres) tall and is the 125th-tallest freestanding tower in the world. Blackpool Tower is also the common name for the Tower Buildings, an entertainment complex in a red-brick three-storey block that comprises the tower, Tower Circus, the Tower Ballroom, and roof gardens, which was designated a Grade I listed building in 1973
The Blackpool Tower Company was founded by London-based Standard Contract & Debenture Corporation in 1890
it bought an aquarium on Central Promenade with the intention of building a replica Eiffel Tower on the site. John Bickerstaffe, a former mayor of Blackpool, was asked to become chairman of the new company
Two Lancashire architects, James Maxwell and Charles Tuke, designed the tower. A new system of hydraulic riveting was used, based on the technology of Fielding & Platt of Gloucester. The total cost for the design and construction of the tower and buildings was about £290,000. Five million Accrington bricks, 3,478 long tons (3,534 t) of steel and 352 long tons (358 t) of cast iron were used to construct the tower and base
Promenade, Blackpool, Lancs, England, UK, FY1 4BJ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRG8XB - Blackpool Tower is a tourist attraction in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, which was opened to the public on 14 May 1894. When it opened, Blackpool Tower was the tallest man made structure in the British Empire. Inspired by the Eiffel Tower in Paris, it is 518 feet (158 metres) tall and is the 125th-tallest freestanding tower in the world. Blackpool Tower is also the common name for the Tower Buildings, an entertainment complex in a red-brick three-storey block that comprises the tower, Tower Circus, the Tower Ballroom, and roof gardens, which was designated a Grade I listed building in 1973
The Blackpool Tower Company was founded by London-based Standard Contract & Debenture Corporation in 1890
it bought an aquarium on Central Promenade with the intention of building a replica Eiffel Tower on the site. John Bickerstaffe, a former mayor of Blackpool, was asked to become chairman of the new company
Two Lancashire architects, James Maxwell and Charles Tuke, designed the tower. A new system of hydraulic riveting was used, based on the technology of Fielding & Platt of Gloucester. The total cost for the design and construction of the tower and buildings was about £290,000. Five million Accrington bricks, 3,478 long tons (3,534 t) of steel and 352 long tons (358 t) of cast iron were used to construct the tower and base
Promenade, Blackpool, Lancs, England, UK, FY1 4BJ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Herefordshire,Lanark,and,company,works,Wye river,footbridge,Wye,crossing,park,Lanarkshire,Scotland,made,in,crest,Dieu Et Mon Droit,Alexander Findlay & Company,engineers,engineering,Milton,Motherwell Bridge and Engineering Company,CultureNL,Victoria,Victorian,1897,grade II listed,building,NGR,SO5125339423,HR1 2NX,HR1,memorial,rescue,suicide,crime
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M07AC2 - Alexander Findlay founded his engineering firm in 1888. The site he chose was at Milton to the north of Motherwell, on land conveniently next to the railway.
The location of the Parkneuk Works also made sense because it had plenty of space, which was important because it was normal practice for steel structures to be initially assembled at the factory before being dismantled and transported to the client. People living in the north end of Motherwell would become used to seeing huge steel structures appear in the yards of both Findlay's and the nearby Motherwell Bridge and Engineering Company.
An early visitor to the Parkneuk Works was William Ewart Gladstone, former (and future) Prime Minister. - Built by Findlay of Motherwell. Concrete piers with ashlar cutwaters
semi-suspension central span
lattice-work towers and parapets
terracotta piers with cast-iron lamp columns. Erected by public subscription to mark Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.
Listing NGR: SO5125339423
Mill St, Hereford, Herefordshire, England, UK, HR1 2NX
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M07AC3 - Alexander Findlay founded his engineering firm in 1888. The site he chose was at Milton to the north of Motherwell, on land conveniently next to the railway.
The location of the Parkneuk Works also made sense because it had plenty of space, which was important because it was normal practice for steel structures to be initially assembled at the factory before being dismantled and transported to the client. People living in the north end of Motherwell would become used to seeing huge steel structures appear in the yards of both Findlay's and the nearby Motherwell Bridge and Engineering Company.
An early visitor to the Parkneuk Works was William Ewart Gladstone, former (and future) Prime Minister. - Built by Findlay of Motherwell. Concrete piers with ashlar cutwaters
semi-suspension central span
lattice-work towers and parapets
terracotta piers with cast-iron lamp columns. Erected by public subscription to mark Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.
Listing NGR: SO5125339423
Mill St, Hereford, Herefordshire, England, UK, HR1 2NX
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M07AC4 - Alexander Findlay founded his engineering firm in 1888. The site he chose was at Milton to the north of Motherwell, on land conveniently next to the railway.
The location of the Parkneuk Works also made sense because it had plenty of space, which was important because it was normal practice for steel structures to be initially assembled at the factory before being dismantled and transported to the client. People living in the north end of Motherwell would become used to seeing huge steel structures appear in the yards of both Findlay's and the nearby Motherwell Bridge and Engineering Company.
An early visitor to the Parkneuk Works was William Ewart Gladstone, former (and future) Prime Minister. - Built by Findlay of Motherwell. Concrete piers with ashlar cutwaters
semi-suspension central span
lattice-work towers and parapets
terracotta piers with cast-iron lamp columns. Erected by public subscription to mark Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.
Listing NGR: SO5125339423
Mill St, Hereford, Herefordshire, England, UK, HR1 2NX
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JH5D32 -
Broadheath, Bridgewater Canal, Altrincham, Trafford, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PCTAGW - Latchford is a suburb and electoral ward of Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is around one mile south-east of Warrington town centre and has a total resident population of 7,856. Latchford is a predominantly residential area, Latchford lies between the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal, and broadly consists of 19th century terraced housing and some open space. The canal is crossed here by a swing bridge, a high level road bridge and the now disused Latchford railway viaduct. Its name came from Anglo-Saxon Læccford = Boggy-stream ford.
Knutsford Road, Warrington, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BXPYHA -
Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BXPYHD -
Stamp End Works, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BXPYHH -
Cheshire, England, UK
