The Last Days of Autumn 2012

Just a bit of a wander around Barrow-in-Furness and surrounding area, admiring the myriad colours of Autumn.

Roose Road

Bell Tower at St. Luke's Church Roose Rd

Strand

Strand

Hollow Lane

 Abbey Road

 

Jubilee Bridge

West Lodge

Dalton Castle

Abbey Approach

Mill Beck

Barrow Park

Physalis- Chinese Lanterns, Barrow Park

Around the islands

A moody sky glowers over Morecambe Bay, early one morning              in October 2012

 

                      The Vita Nova , patiently waiting for the incoming tide

 

 Nature's tidal collage

                                             The skeleton of an old boat lies forgotten

 

                   Roa Island from the causeway                                    

                                      RNLI lifeboat station at Roa Island

                                               Ferry slipway. In summer you can sail across to Piel                                            Island, seen in the distance.

 

                            Piel Castle, seen from South Walney Nature Reserve

The remains of a wooden jetty in the foreground. Constructed in the 1870s, it was used for the loading of sand and gravel, then latterly by Walney Saltworks

 

       South Walney Nature Reserve is home to the most southerly Eider                         duck colony in Britain

Eider ducks startled into flight

 

They take refuge offshore, a safe distance away

 

 

                                                   The lighthouse at South Walney

 

http://www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/reserves/south-walney

 

 http://www.walney-island.com/salt_works_01.htm

Urban Decay

A walk around the Cavendish Dock area of Barrow

Cavendish Dock

The remains of Barrow Papermills

 

The remains of Barrow's industrial history can be seen all around the dock area

 

Roosecote Power Station

Walney Channel, with South Walney Nature Reserve in the distance.

 

Demolition in progress, clearing the former industrial area. Plans were in place to build a new waterfront business park and marina development. Work has currently ceased due to financial problems brought about by government cutbacks.

 

Nature vs. Man

           Politically opinionated vandals

Disused railway line near the former Rope Works

 

The remains of the former Rope Works, with the DDH behind

Amidst the chaos there is beauty. Piel Island meets the south end of Walney.

You can read something of the history of the mills here:

http://araftofapples.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/paper-counting.html

and of the power station here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosecote_Power_Station

Red Man's Way

Red Man's Way is a footpath which has been created on a former slag bank site. The area was previously the location of the Iron and Steelworks, which in the 1870s was the biggest Bessemer steel production plant in the world and employed over five thousand men. The processes involved in the industry often left the men covered in red dust, hence the name given to the footpath.

Walney Channel, the remains of the slagbank on the right, Black Combe in the distance

North Scale from the slagbank

Walney Airfield

A plane comes in to land at Walney Airfield

 

 

  All washed up

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

North End of Walney

Jubilee Bridge

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sandscale Haws with the Lake District hill in the background

Black Combe

Pillboxes on the shoreline

Thanks for visiting my blog, I hope you enjoyed the photos.