{"id":12803,"date":"2021-12-07T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=12803"},"modified":"2021-12-05T09:36:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T09:36:31","slug":"industrial-archaeology-gloucestershire-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=12803","title":{"rendered":"Industrial Archaeology: Gloucestershire, 1988"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Lock gates, Lydney Harbour, 1988 88-7a-62<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some time in 1977 I visited Kew Bridge Engines in Green Dragon Lane, Brentford and was greatly impressed by the huge beam engines there, once used to pump water to the top of the tower. I had joined a local camera club, and they were running a photographic competition in conjunction with the site and allowed us free access. One of my pictures<\/a> ended up with the second prize (rather to the surprise and disgust of many club members as I wasn’t really a ‘club photographer’) and also got printed in Amateur Photographer. You can see this and many other pictures on my web site London’s Industrial Heritage<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blast furnace, Gunns Mills, Flaxley, Forest of Dean, 1988 88-7b-63<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But it was there, either on that visit or a later one when I took my young sons and friends to Kew Bridge Engines for a birthday treat that I picked up a leaflet about the Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society, and I’ve been a member ever since. Though none of us to this day know how to pronounce GLIAS. And as I say on the web site set up for me by one of those two young boys 25 years on, \u201cI’m not really an industrial archaeologist, but over the last twenty-five years I’ve photographed many things that interest industrial archaeologists<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gloucester Docks, 1988 88-7b-65<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At least one of those boys came with me on a coach trip organised by GLIAS in June 1988 to Gloucestershire where we visited Lydney Harbour, Gunns Mills at Flaxley in the Forest of Dean, Gloucester Docks, the Old Sharpness Canal entrance and Sharpness Docks. It was a long day out, and we arrived back in London only just in time to run for the last train to Staines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Old Sharpness Canal entrance, 1988 88-7b-21<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The weather wasn’t ideal, with some quite heavy rain at times, but I still took around a hundred pictures, and there are 29 of them in my album ‘GLIAS trip, Gloucestershire, 1988<\/a>‘ some perhaps more interesting for their IA content than as photographs. I can’t tell you a great deal about the industrial archaeology, but I think some make interesting photographs, and others are welcome to make more technical comments either here or better on the album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Old Sharpness Canal entrance, 1988 88-7b-24<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sharpness Docks, 1988 88-7c-51<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sharpness Docks, 1988 88-7b-16<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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