UE themed portraits/self-portraits - 2

[Hayman]

Those shots really take the biscuit

Thank you, Gromit!

At least Derelict Places seems not to require users to accept 'cookies'.

When employed by one of the delivery firms I once worked for, I made only a single visit to the MacVitie's factory in Harlesdon, north-west London. Hoping to see round the place, I never got beyond the chap on the gate. "Sign here" and go.

In an idle moment in October 2018, I dunked my bikkie and wrote this:

THE McVITIE OF FIFE. Scotland No 2.

There was a McVitie of Fife,
who took a wee lass for his wife.
Marie said, “Och, I’ll risk it”,
and baked him a biscuit.
It gave them an income for life.

 

[cogito]

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[Jondoe-264]

Oldies, but a few of my favourite drain 'portraits'. Air-quotes as more often than not having a person in shot serves well for the purpose of scale and so is rarely taken for portrait purposes. All three pics taken in what is a top contender for my absolute most adored section of London's sewer system, colloquially known as Paul's Pasta Steamer.

 

[Hayman]

Oldies, but a few of my favourite drain 'portraits'. Air-quotes as more often than not having a person in shot serves well for the purpose of scale and so is rarely taken for portrait purposes. All three pics taken in what is a top contender for my absolute most adored section of London's sewer system, colloquially known as Paul's Pasta Steamer.

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Oldies, but a few of my favourite drain 'portraits'. Air-quotes as more often than not having a person in shot serves well for the purpose of scale and so is rarely taken for portrait purposes. All three pics taken in what is a top contender for my absolute most adored section of London's sewer system, colloquially known as Paul's Pasta Steamer.

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The stepped method of sewer building - instead of a continuous gradient - seems to have
been done to get away from having to calculate the angle of drop over a given distance and ensure it was maintained. And the pic of the 'tall, thin sewer' shows how a good flow rate was possible even in low volume conditions - although building it would have been difficult. It reminded me of narrow but very tall excavations in tin mines, where the ore body was likewise vertically narrow but also tall.

 

[Cuban B.]

Coal and Longy:

 

[cogito]

Approaching the Shield Generator Bunker during winter on the forest moon of Endor.

 

[cogito]

Just out of shot: The top half of the cavern.

 

[cogito]

A better impression of the height of this chamber

 

[Cuban B.]

A few random shots from a wee while back:

 

[wolfism]

That's surely not Struanville Hospital getting hit yet again by the R. Crew?

 

[Echo Seven]

 

[UrbanX]

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil - Church of Thorns - July 2023

Theatre Repo - Italy - July 2023

 

[UrbanX]

'Beauty in Decay' - Green School - Italy - July '23

 

[UrbanX]

Villa Verboten

 

[ParysPerspective]

Currently in Belgium. First time exploring abroad!

 

[Hayman]

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Currently in Belgium. First time exploring abroad!

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Currently in Belgium. First time exploring abroad!

What was the building in Belgium used for? Why the great 'pit'?

 

[Sam Haltin]

What was the building in Belgium used for? Why the great 'pit'?

Looks like an abandoned power plant.

 

[Hayman]

Looks like an abandoned power plant.

Yes - that would make sense. Another Battersea - when industrial buildings had a touch of elegance about them.

 

[BikinGlynn]

Yes - that would make sense. Another Battersea - when industrial buildings had a touch of elegance about them.

its this place, prob is a power plant as steelworks often had their own power plant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mine_du_Gouffre

 

[Hayman]

its this place, prob is a power plant as steelworks often had their own power plant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mine_du_Gouffre

I recall, when passing through Liege by train in 1962, being aware of the heavy air pollution from the heavy industry; and Liege is not far from Chatelet.