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Seen on Ball Street in Sheffield..

Seen on Ball Street in Sheffield..

Kelham Island, Sheffield

Transpora North West 1296 is seen in Poulton with a service on route 24 to Blackpool. 26/06/2024

Here in Owosso, Michigan, was the former D.M. Christian Department Store, described here as a "massive [...] commercial building that incorporates several late 19th-century buildings with a unified façade," including a first floor covered in "EIFS or other smooth stucco-like finish," which was applied to the building no earlier than 1979.

According to Google Streetview, the salmon paint was applied sometime between October 2018 and September 2019, covering up a light brown paint. How I do cherish these detailed memories.

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In downtown Owosso, Michigan, on June 28th, 2020, outside 114-122 W Main St at the northeast corner of West Main Street (Highway M-21) and North Ball Street, a "contributing property" in the Owosso Downtown Historic District, 14000126 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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In downtown Owosso, Michigan, on June 28th, 2020, on the west side of North Ball Street, north of West Main Street.

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In downtown Owosso, Michigan, on March 3rd, 2024, a view of the west elevation of the north end of the "Grow Block" at the northeast corner of North Ball Street and West Exchange Street, a "contributing property" in the Owosso Downtown Historic District, 14000126 on the National Register of Historic Places.

According to the historic district's documentation, the first floor of this part of the building was built between 1894 and 1900, as an extension of the original building, which was built in 1890. The second floor of the extension was added between 1900 and 1908. The building was occupied by a Montgomery Ward store from approximately 1930 to 1980.

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A former door was siding now.

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In downtown Owosso, Michigan, on March 3rd, 2024, an addition to 201 W Main St at 102 S Ball St (built between 1915 and 1930, a "contributing property" in the Owosso Downtown Historic District, 14000126 on the National Register of Historic Places) on the west side of South Ball Street, south of West Main Street.

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This row of houses as arisen out of the ashes of the old Laundry building that was lost in a serious fire a few years ago.

The River Don at a very high level at Kelham Island after Storm Christoph. Wednesday 20th January 2021

A series of pictures to follow now that this year has got underway and the Lock-down is 3 weeks old and set to continue for at least another 3. This series will look back to the date, as near as can be managed, to the date the pictures are posted. This set of 3 were taken on an amble around the Parkwood Springs area of north-west Sheffield where now, as has been reported, the site will come under development for a new Sports facility. Some of the shots were featured in the Landscape video, up-loaded in April of last year, see-
www.flickr.com/photos/vinc2020/49796455413/
when the UK went under its 1st Corona Virus Lock-down and we are now in the third and things look much grimmer than they did back then. With lineside photography not that easy to do at present through lack of interesting traction, lack of will and concerns over mixing and distancing, the series presented here will just be a hark back 1 year to what was available before the traumatic events full unfolded in 2020. Not least among these events was the ousting of one of the most odious characters in the USA, which saw an end to his 4-year reign of tyranny and a new, more competent President elected in November and inaugurated last week.
In the left picture, the view is almost directly north towards Shirecliffe with the massive gates of the 'Ski Village' area closed and locked with the bed of the Ski Slope itself, visible in the background. Apart from odd heaps of old detritus from the Ski Slope installation, the area is now over-grown and the closed gates haven't prevented the fly-tipping of large piles of rubbish, piles being dumped at various places on the site over the years. A series of fires were also set which ultimately destroyed the place, the main building being destroyed by fire in April, 2012. Various pieces of equipment were stolen and there were more fires after the initial one with a grass fire on adjacent land sweeping through the place in September, 2018, see-
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_Ski_Village
Some idea of a small portion of the material fly-tipped on the site can be seen in the centre and right pictures and this is in addition to a large amount of old, very large tyres, caravans at one stage and other more noxious materials all of which will one day have to be cleaned up by someone...
MAybe not the best example of how to start the new year with a look back 12 months, but this matched the date, so there we are..

* The ones that got away, and away again. A 9min 50 sec 152Mby MP4 video, with 12 sections from various locations with pictures selected which haven't made it to Flickr and which have been 'hanging about' for a good many months, in their respective directories, awaiting something to be 'done'... this video I hope will be of interest in the current crisis with the Covid-19 virus. An appropriate and very suitable piece of music, by 'Epicuros', accompanies the 146 shots.

** NB: As this is longer than the fixed 3 minute viewing in the Flickr interface, the Video must be downloaded to the desktop to see the full length.
** Right-click on the down-arrow option, the last of the three options to the lower right of the video frame. Select 'Save-As' and view...

** It has just come to my notice (10/12/23) that the Download option below and to the right of the media _does not_ allow you to download the full version, only the 3 minutes available here. So, I am going to try and 'fix' this for all videos lasting more than 3 minutes, this is the link to obtain the full version shown here-
www.flickr.tightfitz.com/Video/Lock-Down_2020_A_Landscap...

1. Aldwarke Burngreave Templeborough Wath Dropping Well. First stop Aldwarke and a very great contrast in technology here. For around 18 months I owned a Nissan 380Z, high performance sports car with just enough room for two. The 'boot' had a sign on the lid, instructing the user on how to load their golf clubs! a suitcase was out of the question, just about. At 22-25 m.p.g, the tank cost just over £100 to fill, around 80 gallons and the road tax was the highest at over £500/year. Interestingly this, my next car a Honda CRV and the present Suzuki, were all around the same insurance, £250 ish/year fully comprehensive. Obviously 'old gits' weren't deemed a risk when driving a car which had a top speed of 250m.p.h on the clock. Behind, shunting wagons in the Aldwarke U.E.S. steel yard is then, Sept 17th 2012, a TATA Steel shunter, No.53, with a haul of coiled wire ready to make up a working out of the works later. Next in sequence but 3 years later, a shot of the new Tesco site at Wicker, looking towards the Spittal Hill Tunnel area and the awnings along the side of the site and the derelict buildings in the background being 'attended too', well, some of them. Back 2 years in time and at the site, in Rotherham, of the almost complete New York Stadium, the new home of the Rotherham United Football Club. The River Don is just at left and the building, now being demolished is the old 'Guest & Chrimes' building, replete with much asbestos and once, Grade II listed. Moving on 5 years and driving past the new development at Templeborough, this is the form of the 2nd Biomass Power Station being built right next to the GCR and Midland line through the area where they intersect at Ickles; the new River Don bridge can be seen on the right, replacing a long-standing, single carriageway, blue structure which succumbed during the development. The next pair of shots were taken in July 2012 on a jaunt to discover remnants of artifacts in the Wath Yard area and in fact these two shots were taken at the old GCR's Wath Central Station site, with now very little to show the huge hive of activity which once existed here. The Station was opened in 1851 and closed as long ago as 1959. The final location, another old GC line trackbed, this time from the Dropping Well Colliery to the north of Rotherham, near Kimberworth Park. The area of the colliery is now, not surprisingly, a housing estate and the on the opposite side of Dropping Well Road is its namesake's Golf Course. The steeply-graded line ran from the colliery at the junctions of Wortley and Dropping Well Road, south to join the GCR's Blackburn Valley line at a north-facing junction, at Grange Lane; the track-bed would have gone under the M1 motorway to achieve this and the formation can still be seen on the OS map. These last 3 pictures in this section show the diminutive railway bridge carrying the single track mineral line, which crossed a footpath onto what is now the golf course and the view along the bridge looking north with the colliery area over at top right, with its 1970s housing estate peeking through the trees in these early April shots from 2012. The last shot, now looks south towards the M1 in the distance through the trees, and it is clear what the grade would have looked like to a coal-train driver as the land fell away from around 120m here, down to 50m at the junction at Grange Lane, around 1km away.

2. Oughtibridge Paper Mill site - cleared. The large site of the Oughtibridge Paper Mill was cleared by last July, 2019, and as part of the proposal to build upto 300 new houses, within a few metres in height from the course of the River Don, a new road-bridge was put in, the second such in the Upper Don Vally here, in the last year. The other bridge is at a similar development at Deepcar, below the GCR's old Deepcar Station building and it too is to receive a large number of new housing types covering that derelict land and the land released by the move of the old Sewage Works facility from there, to the new one at Morehall. The Don Valley has thus received two new road bridges in the last 18 months or so based on new housing requiring access to old derelict, and now cleared, industrial land. As these 5 pictures show, the Oughtibridge site is clear, the old bridge is still extant a little to the south if the old one and the contractors have left and the site is fenced off. I can not see, in these times in early 2020 with the spread of the Corona Virus and this country and many others, in total 'Lock-Down', and the economic down-turn which is forecast due to this, that this site will be developed in anywhere like the near future. And, I may ask, what about the River Don flooding, there appears no concession to prevention of this, as it did dramatically in July, 2007, as later, the Global Climate Crisis will have to be addressed and this after the Global Covid-19 pandemic crisis is over, which is currently affecting, globally, 2,267,744 people with 155,175 deaths...

3. Moorgate Cemetery & Janet's Grave & Boston Castle Views. Sadly, I once had two sisters, one who died in tragic circumstances before I was born and the second, in 1990 from ovarian cancer. The first shot in this short sequence shows her commemorative marble stone in Moorgate Cemetery, adorned with some flowers on the day I visited in July last year. The old Victorian Moorgate Cemetery, was opened in 1842 by business men for the sum of £499, see-
moorgatecemetery.org.uk/19th-century/
and consisted of 3 acres of land at the side of Boston Castle, another prominent Rotherham landmark. Walking through the grounds and to the hill overlooking the Rother Valley, the following scenes reveal themselves. The four next shots show the views directly to the west with the Templeborough Biomass works prominent to the upper left of centre. To the right in the next shot, a view towards Centenary Park and the GCR's line through it with the old Millmoor football stadium at the left edge of the picture and Kepples Column standing on the horizon above it to the left. The 3rd shot swings round to the south-west and towards the Scandinavian Steelworks along the Rother Valley and the centre of Sheffield in the distance. The 4th shot, zooms in to the railway interest surrounding the Masbrough Freight Depot area where various pieces of freight hardware can be seen- a set of 'Hoods' or 'Pig Pens' on the left and stacked containers occupying almost the whole of the central section of the shot. In the background the Tinsley Viaduct with the M1 on top and to to the right, the orange/black building is the Tinsley Biomass Works with the Magna Science Adventure Centre in front of it. And finally in this section, a shot of the newly refurbished 'Boston Castle' which apparently was thought to have something to do with the 'Boston Tea PArty' but in fact although being built around the same time, it has nothing to do with it at all. Well worth a visit, see-
bostoncastle-rotherham.co.uk/

4. Fraisthorpe Beach WWII Relics & 'She Sells Sea Shells' at Bridlington. The east coast in Yorkshire has much to commend itself and the beaches around Bridlington are now some of the cleanest in the country and with much to see, including of course, relics from World War II in the form of various section of defence installations, now slowly being dismantled by the relentless tides. In the the background, the 'new kids on the block', wind turbines are springing up everywhere and if this subsequently means no more Nuclear Power Stations, so much the better. There are however, mixed views about the impact they have on the Landscape, but at least you can visit the surrounding areas close by, something I wouldn't recommend trying at a Nuclear Power installation. On the day of this walk, 10th October, 2019, there was a large presence of crab claws with elastic bands around them, dozens of them, presumably washed back in from the shell fishing boats which now work out of Bridlington; there was even a dinosaur in the haul!

5. Tinsley Shepcote Lane & Canal views. Ten days later and I was back in the local area photographing the scene around Tinsley South Junction whilst awaiting the arrival of a GBRf light engine working which, from what we could gather, was a prelude to using Tinsley Yard as a Newell & Wright Container Port, whilst rail replacement work was underway at their depot at Masbrough. The first 13 of the 21 shots shows the 'secluded' area between the Shepcote Lane curve up to Tinsley Yard, from line line running along the Lower Don Valley from Tinsley East Junction. Hidden away at this time of year, amongst the slightly yellowing leaves, the sign board for Tinsley South Junction can be seen, the main line behind it running to Woodburn Junction and the line in front, up-grade, to the north-west corner of Tinsley Yard. The large Sheffield Road over-bridge stands prominent in the background. The small building at the side of the track is a remnant from better days when the area on this side was a Goods Yard, full of sidings and with a small goods shed at the end, this is what can be seen in the pictures, though all signs of connection with the running line, has long gone. From the 1955 OS map there looks also to have been a 'Ramp' beyond the Goods Shed, possibly for pushing wagons up to off-load cargo/coal etc onto the back of trucks; there is no sign anywhere of a road connection here though and this are is completely cut-off from access by vehicles, something which may have ensured its lack of development! Woodburn Junction's Signal W0208 can be seen for the approach back onto the main line and this is very useful to see operating on the track diagram, as a means of indicating where workings have got to when exiting the Yard; the state of the vegetation, even in late October, leaves much of the infra-structure hidden from view, though hopefully, not for the drivers. The Shepcote Lane canal over-bridge can be seen at the very end of this section of the Tinsley flight of locks and there are videos on Flickr showing this bridge being crossed, here, related to the GBRf moves on this day-
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/48957284737/
and from December, 2014, a real treat, here-
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/15790328909/
On the banks of the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation, the two small buildings, now graffiti'd were once part of the old Tinsley Station, the area looking rather sylvan in its settings this, just before the next 4 shots showing some of the colourful freight traffic, on the motorway in this instance, although a loco, the one in the video above, does pass by to provide 'proper interest'. The H.G.V.'s were amongst about 20 I took shots of, just due to the colourful nature of the Container sides. The ones shown here are 'Truswell Haulage', 'GreenFlag', 'Emsley Crane Hire', 'Marks & Spencer', 'Sky Blue Trucks?', 'Smeets', & 'DHL'. Adding rail traction interest, here and in the video above was GBRf, class 66, 66777, 'Annette' on the 0Z23, Thrybergh Junction (not Roberts Road) to Tinsley Yard(GBRf), light engine route learner in preparation for using the south-east section of Tinsley Yard as a Container Terminal. Under the lower deck of the Tinsley Viaduct, the Sheffield Tram/Train line from Parkgate may be seen as it approaches heads towards the main part of the Supertram network at Tinsley Meadowhall tram stop; beyond, between the two decks of the viaduct, is the Tinsley Biomass Works. The last four shots show the locale in the are of the Tinsley Station site with a Sheffield Supertram heading towards the camera whilst heading away, is one of the Tram/trains heading for the terminus at Sheffield Cathedral; this land once occupied by GCR metals. In the foreground, another signal in the area, Woodburn's W0205 signal and also useful on the track diagram for spotting moves along into the Yard, or along the main-line to Woodburn Junction; the deciding element being the 'feather', unlit here, atop the signal for the divergence, up-grade, into the Yard at Shepcote Lane Junction. In the same location, the end of Sheffield Road from Rotherham, as it approaches the large Tinsley roundabout at the southern end of Junction 34, and the usual mess associated with derelict land. A row of houses once stood here but they were demolished in the years since I photographed them on 10th June, 2008; now its advertising awnings attempting to hide the mess some folk feel in the need to just dump anywhere...

6. Tinsley Yard refurbishment for container traffic & DMU & Toyon Berry at Woolley Wood. The height of the activity at what turned out to be a temporary Container Terminal for Newell & Wright, though I was told in the middle of operations it was to be permanent.. Here its 30th October after the light engine moves ran a week ago with GBRf 66777 and now the place is received around 4 in-bound and 4 out-bound services a day, freeing up Masbrough whilst long-overdue track-relaying is taking place on the main and into the terminal. Even is these shots its clear what a muddy place this is for this type of operation and the 7 pictures show the state of the ground looking to the south, in the first shot and then the north in the second. The entry for off and on-loading is the dirt road on the right, passing the N&W office which has been equipped with generator and telephone and some floodlighting. The exit road was to be the old dive-under at far left but it didn't take long for this to collapse and which meant some remedial work had to be undertaken to make it more robust; the large pile of dirt was part of this and the depth of lorry tracks in the mud is easy to see. In the second shot, the concrete blocks mark the line of the in-bound road on the left and on the right, the Container wagons access right of centre, with a long rake of parked up redundant flat-bed wagons which have been shunted up the stub of the Yard' through line. The 3rd shots shows the in-filling has begun but it looks like they have their work cut-out for them and .. in a very short time, the rains began and flooded the whole area around Rotherham and as far as here... the worse rain for a long time, though, it turned out not to be the last! The 4th shot shows the remnant of Tinsley Yard at right with one of the two large M&S aircraft hangar-type buildings dominant at centre. The last shots show the work on-going to try and provide a better road surface for the out-bound traffic and a road-roller is busy compacting material to establish a good surface with following, on the same day, the pile of muck awaiting laying into the soft ground of the exit road under Wood Lane bridge. Autumn is underway as evidenced in the last shot with the road-roller doing its best, Autumn colours are evident and the heavy rain isn't far off! Last shot was on the following day when the sun managed to illuminate the Toyon Berries at the side of the Blackburn Valley line at Woolley Wood where a Northern DMU class 153, 153332, heads south towards Sheffield on the 1Y17 service to Nottingham via Sheffield.

7. Miscel. shots, Masbrough, Orgreave and Class 20s, 20312 & 20302, at Neepsend on the RHTT in early November, 2013. Some 'stuff' which was going on in 2016 with two views from the area near Masbrough once occupied by the 'Tivoli' cinema, one of a handful which were once available in Rotherham, the others being the 'Essoldo', the 'Odeon' and 'Hippodrome'; the 'Tivoli' was finally demolished in 1989 after closing as a cinema on 31st January 1959 with the final films being Alan Ladd in 'The Proud Rebel' and Dean Jones in 'Handle With Care', see-
cinematreasures.org/theaters/25863
The intervening shots between these two, were taken on the the old Orgreave Coking plant site, a large part of which, on the northern side was being redeveloped for the Waverley Housing Estate of around 4000 houses of one sort or another, the shots here being from March, 2016. Finally, over at Parkwood Springs in 2013, and 3 years before this working was finally withdrawn from the Stocksbridge branch line, the final operation being in October/November 2016, the RHTT set can be seen heading up-grade through the old Neepsend Station site. This is the Rail Head Treatment Train, with Direct Rail Services, class 20s, 20312 & 20302 at the rear on the 3S13, Sheffield to Stocksbridge Works and in about 40 minutes it will have reversed and return as 3S14, Stocksbridge Works to York Thrall Europa with 20302 then leading. The last shot is of the set motoring up-grade towards Owlerton, Wadsley Bridge, Wharncliffe Wood and finally Deepcar for the reversal just outside the MS&LR's Deepcar Station, now a private residence of course.; the terrain speaks for itself. By 2017, the 'Citrus LandRover' had taken over these duties, see-
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/43893626960/
taken on 31st October in the same location and-
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/43893627790/
taken in Wharncliffe Wood about 40 minutes after the first one during the 2nd year of operation. I had no inkling in 2017, how this set was running and on what days... that information was obtained at the Wadsley branch of Sainsburys the following year, when I happened on two track-workers buying some lunch and quizzed them about the 'SandRover'. They were most obliging and obtained the details from the appropriate person at Blast Lane at the Wicker, the centre for Network Rail Track operations in the area.!

8. Flooding at Morehall & Oughtibridge. As mentioned above, in the section on the Container Terminal operations at Tinsley, although conditions there weren't perfect in late October 2019, about 10 days later, they got a whole lot worse. These 9 shots show the vast amount of rain which fell just after the 1st week in November, with all the local reservoirs now full and over-brimming, the first shot showing the over-flow at Morehall. This like Broomhead, its feeder water, and just to the north at Stocksbridge, Underbank, Midhope and Langsett with Scout Dyke, Royd Moor and Ingbirchworth further north still, but which all flow into the River Don when they are full; and there's Winscar at the Don's head at Dunford Bridge! So one can imagine the calamity which can happen during prolonged heavy rain which occured during the British Summer, July, of 2007. At this time it was not nearly as bad but the increase in reservoir water levels caused the Don to flood in certain places and unfortunately one of the worst areas hit locally, was that around Rotherham Central Station. This is significant due to the fact that the diverted container traffic into and out of Tinsley Yard, from the temporary Newell & Wright operation, ran along the Lower Don Vally line, though Kilnhurst, Rotherham Central and Tinsley and into the Yard. After suspending operations at the Yard due to the problems with the road mentioned earlier, workings recommenced on 6th November with the 1st container load from the London Gateway, see video here-
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/49024523378/
but this only lasted two days, as the heavy flooding which ensued after the 6th November, resulted in the weekend working on the 9th November, getting stuck at Kilnhurst, as Rotherham Central reverted back to its old function, a canal bed, and the station was flooded up to the platforms, stopping all moves from the north along the GCR line though Tinsley and into the Yard... These next pictures show some of the local mayhem cause near where I live, on the north-west side of Sheffield, close to Oughtibridge. A flooded road with 'Satsuma' Ford doing a three-point turn, the water coming out of a local care home and flowing straight down hill to the River at the bridge crossing. Subsequent pictures show the impact of the water as it flows down-hill towards the river, with local residents sand-bagging entrances to keep the water at bay. The 'spate' of the river can be seen in at the Oughtibridge bridge with a golden labrador dog at the side of the river whose chances I wouldn't fancy if it fell in... Doncaster wouldn't be that far away the speed the river was flowing...Oughtibridge Park, right next to the river was flooded and at right, a sign for the French Folk who once raced through here, this is 'Cote d'Oughtibridge' for the Tour-de-France which occured in 2014, see-
www.flickr.com/photos/imarch1/49525415943/
The final shot shows water flowing downhill out of the premises of a local care home, lets hope the residents had boats and water-wings...

9. Flickr 2019 - Best Shots. I prepared last years entries over a few weeks and ended up with a selection of around 50, narrowing them finally to these 10 shots. Unfortunately, I had miss-read the date for the last day for the entries and missed it by just a few hours... the ten are,
* the Bridlington 'Pepper Pot', now long out-of-use and not open to the public,
* 'Tornado' crossing the Norfolk Bridge over the River Don at Attercliffe in Sheffield,
* Puffins & Kittiwakes at the Bempton Cliff Bird Sanctuary to the north of Bridlington,
* Kite Flying Extravaganza on the cliffs at Sewerby Park, Bridlington,
* 'Graffiti artist 'Mufasa' on an awning board at a redevelopment site on Egerton Street, Broomfield, Sheffield
* Same location and more development work proceeding with the remnant of the old buildings in the area which haven't been protected ...
* The 'Old Park Rolling Mill' on Club Mill Road. The business rolled Sheffield Plate and silver for other manufacturers and closed in the 1950s. The site, although derelict is still worth a visit, if only for the colourful graffiti...
* Colourful Fibre Optic data cabinets near the River Don on Ball Street, Neepsend.
* 'Ancient Wisdom' now prevails on Parkwood Road, this was taken at a point just north of its junction with Sandbed Road and looks a little out-of-place, though interesting to see...
* This interesting character, with dog, and earphones, passed by opposite the large Station Hotel next to where the Midland's Parkgate Station used to be, just behind the pub; long gone of course. Crossing over the road bridge in the background, a lunchtime convoy of 5 DBS locos, 66117, 67020, 66140, 66112, & 66086 on the lunchtime, 0F54, Belmont Down Yard to Toton North Yard light engines return working.

10. Re-visiting Club Mill Road, Sandbed Rd., following once more the foot-steps of Adrian Wynn and to finish this section, the on-going redevelopment in the Netherthorpe and Shalesmoor areas. By the start of the year, with some fine weather in late January and not much else going on before making extensive changes to how my Flickr presence was represented, another visit was undertaken to chart the shots taken by Adrian Wynn, over the last decade or so. The subsequent changes to the Flickr material was to entail moving almost 1800 pictures from the standard account to two Archive sites, leaving the newest 995 shots on the old 'Views in Camera' site-
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku
and then starting out anew with 'Views in Camera, 2020', this one, which now has 60 images so far, starting from the 1st January. Much of the very oldest and little viewed material, around a 1000 shots, was removed altogether, there has been some casualties I have noticed but I now feel I am more in control of the state of matters, than what was a amounting to almost 6000 pictures and videos, all sat in the same contiguous place. So, from the path which takes the walker up to Wardsend Cemetery at Owlerton, and close to the old site of Coopers Scrapyard, still in use as such though not owned by Coopers anymore, the path extends along the side of the River Don, all the way along to Neepsend. Some of this material has been seen before, see 'The Adrian Wynn Landscape Collection, Re-Visit, Part I', here-
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/49182445076/
and, Part II', here-
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/49187093212/
The first 20, taken on January 22nd this year, in this set of 37 shots show much more detailed aspects of this area and right along to and inside of, the old 'Sheffield Ski Slop', itself now planned for massive renovation after a tragic few years after a fire which left the site derelict and used, in some part, as a refuse dumping space; no surprise there! The latter 17, taken on the following day, the day before the big Flickr presence changes commenced, show new development in the area surrounding the 'Daniel Doncaster & Sons', Cementation Furnace, some information relating to this-
'...This is the last remaining intact example which was built in 1848 and was last fired in 1951', further 'it is the only example of its type and was built by Daniel Doncaster & Sons and used a process developed by the Germans in the 1600s and used a technique of placing wrought iron with charcoal in large stone chests sealed with 'piecrust' or 'wheelswarf', a sludge of sandstone & steel dust, and firing the whole lot up to red heat for a total period of around two weeks. The wrought iron would absorb the carbon and be turned into steel; the iron never becoming molten but just soft. The impurities would form bubbles of gas and created blisters on the surface and it is for this reason that the material was called 'Blister Steel'...
The area is replete with well executed Graffiti of one sort or another and there are 'spooky' pieces inside buildings which have been fenced off due to the presence of Asbestos in the building's structure. The 4th shot in this sequence shows the Furnace now being dwarfed by surrounding development with an old chimney stack at Kelham Island over on the far left and standing on the hill in the right background, the 'Seventh-Day Adventist' church at 67, Andover Street in Burngreave; quite an impressive looking building. A further shot with the furnace on the right and a university building on the left has the area of the Ski Slope in the background, the Stocksbridge branch line to the steelworks also passes through this picture behind all the buildings at the foot of the hill. The derelict looking land in the foreground is under significant redevelopment and when finished the whole of the area around the Doncaster Cementation Furnace will be full of buildings which dwarf the last intact Blister Steel relics in the country.. hope its safe! Once the derelict industrial buildings have gone, sone have been kept and refurbished I hasten to add, this whole area will take on a completely different fell, one which I am sure Adrian will almost certainly not have approved of!

11. Carnaby Airfield History. The old airfield at Carnaby was used in the 2nd World War to accommodate crippled aircraft which were having to make an emergency landing. The small 'park' on the main Bridlington to Driffield road, at Carnaby, tells an amazing story of one such operation where a member of the crew fell through a hole in the aircraft after it had been shot at when flying back from a bombing raid off the coast of Norway in April, 1945. He was saved by his parachute harness D-Ring which got snagged under the aircraft, the D-Rind was found to have elongated by 50% when they finally touched down at Carnaby, out-of-fuel but with the help of the 'FIDO' lighting system at the airfield; their own HS2 Navigation system having been destroyed by the flack. The story of Sgt. Smith is shown in the 4th picture here. The airfield has long been-redeveloped into a very linear, and long, industrial estate.
Some information from Wikipedia-
'...RAF Carnaby opened in March 1944 under the control of No. 4 Group Royal Air Force. Unlike most RAF airfields, there was a single runway, five times the width of a standard runway and 9,000ft (2,700m) long, lying approximately east-west to enable bombers crossing the coast an easier landing. Two similar airfields were either constructed or further developed along the east coast of England, at Manston and Woodbridge, all three providing an emergency option for wartime bomber crews. The three airfields were developed to the same pattern, Woodbridge being the first to open in November 1943. The runway at Manston was brought into operation in April 1944...
Full article-
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Carnaby
The last shot shows what the main Carnaby Village shopping centre looked like, in the 1940s and 1950s, all facilities provided.

12. Canal Basin refurbishment of bed at the Wicker. I had over-looked doing anything with the 18 shots in this last section, all taken on a walk back along the canal, from Attercliffe to the Victoria Quays Canal Basin, on 2nd March this year, just 3 weeks before all hell broke loose due to the CoronaVirus-19 country-wide 'Lock-Down'; it was extended a further 3 weeks at the beginning of this week, though there appears to have been no formal government announcement to this effect; another cock-up. Major work, at the end of the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation, was in progress in the Canal BAsin at Victoria Quays with only the end section full of water and being used as a 'boat-park', which for the duration of the work, were stranded there. The first shot shows the extent of the work with it commencing just before the A61 ring-road connecting the town centre to the Sheffield Parkway; the A61 bridge prominent in this shot. The canal water are lapping at the barrier in the right-hand corner and the barrier isn't keeping all the water out, heavy duty pumps being in action as well, pumping the seepage back to the canal, see later. The whole of the, presumably, 'puddle-clay', bed is being replaced, a fortified roadway has been installed from the bank and the stranded barges can be seen in the distance. The other 8 shots in the first part of this section show-

* The fortified dirt road-way onto the site from the Wharf building side. The Sheffield Victoria Hotel is in the right background and St. Pauls Tower is at left

* Looking back along the canal formation under the A61 ring-road bridge with the last boat on the canal formation at the barrier being the blue, 'L.B. Hardfeet' passenger cruiser and seen in action here-
www.flickr.com/photos/imarch2/49564493088/
The tall, square chimney is at the side of the old Sheffield Victoria Station railway formation, whose single line to Stocksbridge passes over the canal on the bridge just under the blue-fenced, A61 ring-road bridge.

* The extent of the dirt-road fortification can be seen, taking the excavator traffic on and off the site to the Wharf Street area of the Quays. A large floating blue-platform has been moored to its left; now at rest on the old canal bed.

* The other end of the business shows the blockage with the pound behind it for the temporarily marooned barges and boats next to the Wharf at the far end. This pound is also leaking somewhat and pumps are keeping the water flowing back to the pound behind the wall of thick liner and aggregate topping. A classic blue Morris 1000 van stands next to the show on the right and behind, the 'Best Western Hotel with the refurbished Wharf building to its left.

* In the background, the railway formation on the old Sheffield Victoria site, in front, the square chimney stack still extant from 'the olden days' and right in front of that, the blue-fenced A61 ring-road bridge. This view looks directly east over the nearer pound with its barrier, to beyond the fortified dirt-road access and in the distance, just under the road-bridge, the other wall holding back the full might of the canal water. The yellow-topped barge on the left has a 'NO RUBBISH' sign on its deck and just behind it in the 'hold', is a pile of rubbish! The square chimney may well have been part of the old Effingham Stree Iron & Steel works which were close to it on the left.

* Looking over the site towards the 'Capita' building at the end of the Sheffield Parkway, the 'Veolia' recycling centre & chimney is next to that on the left and the two blue-brick pillars at the side of the canal are adorned with water birds and the years, '1819' on the nearer one and '2019' on the one behind, so a 200 year celebration, re-doing the 'Tinsley Canal, S&SYN, bed.

* The final shot in this first part of the last section shows the boats moored up at the Wharf-end of the canal. Some information about the local businesses in the Victoria Quays area-
'...As well as local businesses including CMS (International Law Firm) and Servelec (UK headquartered technology group) there is Victoria Junction Café and sandwich shop, Livingwell gym, Hilton hotel, Narrowboat moorings, a brokerage and chandlery service (C.V. Marine) & two wide beam hotel boats (Houseboathotels, Sheffield) providing hotel accommodation on the water. Newcomers include; Born & Raise who joined the premises in 2015 as a Marketing Agency and most recently Ovo Spaces an award-winning specialist interior design and fit-out company, who now own both Terminal 1 for their offices and Terminal 2 as a unique event space, available to hire for conferences, meetings and more. In early 2015 Sheffield Creative Agency 'We Are' purchased 3,500 sq.ft of office space on the ground floor of the Grade II-listed Grain and Terminal Building which had been vacant for 20 years...'
The canal-bed refurbishment work was set to complete by the 31st March, having begun on the 6th January.

The second set of shots in this section show the canal, walking back towards Attercliffe, just a short way, and some of the local 'features' which make this an endearing place to be. Some more barges are moored up along the canal bank and a boat is in the dry dock at the 'Finesse Boatyard. Another sky-blur craft lies to the left, 'Salty' and the narrow Cadman Street bridge is just around the corner and in the next picture it is seen with some canal-side colourful artistry. Some trains at last, this,here, in the form of a Northern Rail class 150, on the 1Y15, Leeds to Nottingham service seen passing a few old canal-side derelict, on the left, buildings. The next shot shows some more artistry on the wall of the building just under Cadman Street. I scanned the bar-code and got the word 'Affix' which is the word appearing above in large letters, still no the wiser. A few minutes later and the next traction delight comes rattling along, this time in the form of the more brightly coloured livery of a class 185 TPE unit, this one, number readable miraculously, is 185109 and its the 1B75, Cleethorpes to Manchester Airport service, about to pull into Sheffield Midland. On the left a building with a more striking gable-end than is normal in these parts, this artistry something to do with Sheffield United as both the name 'Bramall Lane' and the club's insignia are present in the artwork; I know nothing... Up in the real word of roads and works, right next to the CAdman Street canal bridge is the well known, 'Sipelia Works', now in the hands of 'Emmaus' who are very active in supporting homeless people well, they were, until the whole operation shut on March 23rd due to the Covid-19 'Lock-Down'; what do the homeless do now. Some information about its past history-
'...Sipelia Works on Cadman Street is closely tied to the history of steel making and the cutlery trade of the 19th and 20th centuries. Built for Eyre, Ward & Co. between 1850 and 1855 it represents not only the industrialisation of Sheffield , but also the development of a city, the growth of the nations in North and South America and the movement from rural to urban life....', Further-
'...B & J SIPPEL LTD, Sheffield. Sipelia Cutlery Works, Cadman Street/Blast Lane, Sheffield. Founded in the 1930s by Benno (died 1946) and J. Sippel, two Jewish brothers relocated from Germany to Sheffield in 1931. The factory was still active in the 1950s (closed c. 1960/1970)...'
See also the Emmaus website which provides some further information about the building-
www.emmaus-sheffield.org.uk/sipelia-works
It was Grade II listed on 13th June, 1988 and, quite rightly so. The final traction shot, taken at the same bridge, now in gathering dark cloud, with sun lighting up the yellow front panel, is a Northern class 144, also heading into Sheffield on the 2R25 service from Adwick, the low mid-day sun is helping with the colourful surrounds again, particularly on that football club related gable-end. The blue gable-ends of the building showing in front of the D.M.U. on the left-hand canal bank, are those of 'Taylor Forgings Canalloy Steels Ltd', on Bernard Road and the building on the right now looks to be derelict and unused. With heavy clouds rolling in and a shot from the Cadman Street bridge looking directly east with the 'Veolia Recycling Centre' and its tall white chimney standing prominent on the right and all the other elements mentioned in the last few shots, now darkly visible, its time to depart the area and, show one last shot.
This was taken in an ad-hoc way on the way back home and shows an advertising awning I had seen a few days before and took a quick snap on the phone as a reminder, but now, with the proper camera to hand, with focus and exposure set, I had only to hope that the traffic lights at the BnQ store on Penistone Road would be at red so I could compose the shot calmly without being a traffic hazard. Fortunately, the tail-back of stationary traffic was just long enough to place me right in front of the hoarding and with a Mercedes Smart Car at the left, adding that bit extra Va-va-voom!! I still think the poster is amusing and well designed.. and seems to fit right in, in this environment, maybe you had to be there !!!

This was taken a year after the Sheffield Floods. You can still see the piled up debris

Alfred Beckett & Sons Ltd: Steel, Saw and File Works. One of my favourite buildings in Kelham Island, though it's no longer a steel, saw and file works sadly.

Kelham Weir on the River Don from Ball Street Bridge in Kelham Island, Sheffield.

Old steelworks at Cornish Place now converted into modern apartments.

Neepsend Sheffield; the bridge over the River Don and the old Beckett factory.

Neepsend Sheffield; the bridge over the River Don and the old Beckett factory.