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Bookishwonder
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Library systems bod, local history, industrial history, printed ephemera. South Yorkshire wanderer.
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Most a few years ago. Currently Yorkshire Water are doing a lot of sewer work in Jump Valley do may not be super photogenic.
Jump sign, Cemetery Road St George's Church, Jump, named in acknowledgement of George Dawes, major employer and landowner in the village. Row of shops at Jump, including the famous Percy Turner pie shop. The naming stone uses 'Woodlands' reflecting a failed turn of the century attempt to rename the 'notorious Jump' by local property owners Flying Dutchman (now under different management and repainted).
December 30, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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Members of the best club in town? The Sheffield District Rollers' & Tilters' Association (20th Century trade association) #Sheffield #steel #industrialhistory
List of members of the Sheffield District Rollers' & Tilters' Association, a mid-20th Cent trade association of the iron and steel trades.
November 24, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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Elsecar in the (melting) snow #NotQuiteSnowmageddon #November #WinterCame
Rail cleaning train (loco on each end with compressed tanks blasting the rail) rockets through Elsecar Railway 19/11/24 Descending through a winter wonderland of melting snow, Elsecar station 19/11/24 Melty-white wonders await. Elsecar Station 19/11/24
November 19, 2024 at 8:33 AM
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Tokenism, technology and trade. The 2nd electric vehicle exported from Messrs Immisch & Co., Kentish Town, London to Abdul Hamid II's court in the Ottoman Empire, in 1890. Copying the underpowered 'original' of Magnus Volk in Brighton of 1887. #EV
Engraving of an Immisch Electric vehicle a very early 1890 battery powered three-wheeled dogcart. All soid cartwheels. Front wheel, free-pivoting, steered by a 'tiller', two fixed rear wheels, although their shared axle appears to have a crude differential. Wood engraving by John Swain published in The Engineer journal, from photograph of Magnus Volk and two young family members in an electric dogcart built in Brighton in 1887.
November 16, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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Nostalgia from native lands. Gentle teasing of #Darfield from a local autograph book a century ago. No pit and no trains now, but new literary light and poetic love is daily sprinkled in the morning strolls of @imcmillan.bsky.social
Sing a song of Darfield, a song of Darfield Main, See the soot and sewage from the Darfield Urban Drain; If you've been there once, you never will again, When the water's overflowing, and you've missed the only train A.R.H. 18/3/1924
November 16, 2024 at 9:25 AM
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Some light and darkness in South Yorkshire to start with.
Oddly satisfying evening skyline of Sheffield from the Sheffield station tram stop. Station lights peek out beneath a dark canopy at the bottom. Then silhouettes of unlovely buildings punctuated by oblong lights. All beneath a blue-purple sky. Daytime street scene in the South Yorkshire town of Hoyland. Cream painted late Victorian stone and brick buildings, with modern signs and shutters. Car park and bollards to the right, double yellow lines running down the road and a glimpse of the green tree-topped hillside of Wentworth beyond. Autumnal tree colours, brown. orange yellow and green, and long shadows left to right from an avenues of trees and departing visitors walking along the path away from Wentworth Woodhouse. The last blast of bright low sunlight raking across the parklands beneath darkening grey clouds. Landscaped earth beneath the pond bridge at Wentworth. Newly-moved but dry grey mud bank, seeded but still sterile, forming a new embankment, appearing to 'beach' the bridge.
November 15, 2024 at 8:01 AM