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This Is My Glasgow · @thisismyglasgow
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A juvenile heron taking advantage of Glasgow's industrial past by fishing in the lade for the now-ruined North Woodside Flint Mill on the River Kelvin.

#naturephotography #glasgowwildlife #glasgowhistory #riverlelvin #Heron #urbanwildlife #birds #industrialhistory #riverkelvin #glasgow

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This Is My Glasgow · @thisismyglasgow
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I've come across a few of these HOP access covers on the streets of Glasgow recently, and I've been struggling to find out what they were for.

My best guess is that they're part of an old hydraulic system which supplied high pressure (HP?) water for running lifts, presses and other machinery.

Cont./

#streetfurniture #pastglasgow #manholecovers #accesscovers #industrialhistory #glasgowhistory #glasgow

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Legendary Great Western engineer Sir Daniel Gooch was a good storyteller.

Combined with a straightforward and unfussy writing style, this results in a surprisingly accessible and entertaining autobiography for the modern reader.

Read our ‘Classic Review’:online: “Diaries of Sir Daniel Gooch, Baronet” by Daniel Gooch. Copies can ve downloaded free of charge!

booksontheline.com/?p=2127

#bookreview #railways #industrialhistory #eailwayhistory #autobiography

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Books on the Line · @booksontheline
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George Overton was responsible for building hundreds of miles of tramroad - including the Penydarren over which Trevithick’s 1804 locomotive ran.

He put his thoughts into a book - which despite the tile contains much about early railway!

Our review: 'A Description of the Faults or Dykes of the Mineral Basin of South Wales’ by George Overton

booksontheline.com/?p=2005

#Wales #industrialhistory #books #bookreview #penydarren

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📘 A obra "Celulose da Caima, 130 Anos. Inovação e Resiliência", da autoria de Jorge Custódio, que celebra o 130º aniversário da , reunindo informação histórica, arqueológica e documental das unidades fabris de Albergaria-a-Velha (extinta) e Constância-Sul, está disponível em 🔓:
caima.pt/livro/caima130.pdf

#caima #acessoaberto #histodons #industrialhistory #paperhistory #industrialarchaeology #portugal #industrialization #papel

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This was only one of a number of weirs along the Kelvin which provided power and water to a variety of different industries.

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This Is My Glasgow · @thisismyglasgow
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The weir for the North Woodside Flint Mill on the River Kelvin in Glasgow.

Built in 1846, the weir created a pool reaching up as far as Ha'penny Bridge. Water was drawn from this pool along a shallow channel before it passed through a tunnel under the mill and back into the Kelvin. A wheel reached down into this tunnel and was turned by the water flowing underneath to provide power for the mill.

#kelvinwalkway #industrialhistory #glasgowhistory #waterpower #flintmill #riverkelvin #glasgow

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I love it when I see an image of working people making it into the historical record. These men worked at the Bucyrus Casting Company in Crawford County, Ohio. This is from the OGS Archive collection.

#ohio #ohiohistory #bucyrus #bucyrusohio #industrialhistory #1930s #workingclass #labor #oldphotographs #oldpictures

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Ric Lander 🦊 · @ricjl
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It's 13 and a half years since the first Scottish Climate Camp took place at Mainshill Wood, Lanarkshire. Since then, half of the polluters the group targeted are gone. 😯⌛💥

#industrialhistory #socialhistory #fossilfuels #coal #climate

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You might not know who Luther Goddard was, but his methods contributed greatly to the American watchmaking industry of the 19th and 20th centuries. This is a webinar on Goddard I presented for the NAWCC in 2017. @histodons

vimeo.com/323543062?fbclid=IwA

#watchmaking #watchmaker #horology #industrialhistory #19thcentury #1800s #history

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Years ago I inherited a photo of the New Jersey Chain works where an ancestor of mine worked. I've researched the place and the people who worked there and wrote about it here: noel-poirier.com/2021/11/10/th

@histodons

#newjersey #florencenj #whitehillchainworks #ancestors #familyhistory #industrialhistory #newjerseyhistory #njhistory

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Tess Baxter · @tizzycanucci
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During 1920s, Vickers in Barrow-in-Furness formed partnership with American company to make powdered coal. Wouldn't need stoking, more akin to oil firing. Pneumosilicosis prevalent in coal miners - but seen as problem for workers later in life, 'acceptable' hazard. Idea wasn't a business success, and diesel dominated.
Original photo now in the Dock Museum archive.

#dockmuseum #heritagelotteryfund #heritagefunduk #cumbria #barrowinfurness #coal #archive #museum #industrialhistory #engineering

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