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I did a two hour guided architectural walking tour of King's Cross & St Pancras last year & it was fascinating. Showed where the old coaling stations were and the stabling for the hundreds of horses in Victorian times. Plenty of pictures of coal there, which is becoming redundant in the UK. However, many developing countries are putting up hundreds of new coal generated power station each year....
And while it shows the benefit to our UK landscape of moving to a more service-based economy and leaving coal production to someone else, that's been done in reverse in the countries we've effectively outsourced manufacturing to.
The pictures of industrial China by Edward Burtynsky (and this film following him) had a powerful effect as it's very much the flipside of our lives and all our NIMBYism.
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Pictures of Britain';s changing industrial landscape on 09:34 - Feb 4 with 1227 views
Pictures of Britain';s changing industrial landscape on 08:19 - Feb 4 by Radlett_blue
I did a two hour guided architectural walking tour of King's Cross & St Pancras last year & it was fascinating. Showed where the old coaling stations were and the stabling for the hundreds of horses in Victorian times. Plenty of pictures of coal there, which is becoming redundant in the UK. However, many developing countries are putting up hundreds of new coal generated power station each year....
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Hasn't this government just given the go ahead for new open cast coal mines to be developed?
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Pictures of Britain's changing industrial landscape on 09:45 - Feb 4 with 1209 views
Excellent. So weird how people in those areas are annoyed frustrated and feel over-looked now by the ruling classes & metropolitan elites isnt it. Can't imagine why.
In the spirit of reconciliation and happiness at the end of the Banter Era (RIP) and as a result of promotion I have cleared out my ignore list. Look forwards to reading your posts!
Pictures of Britain's changing industrial landscape on 09:31 - Feb 4 by Darth_Koont
Very good.
And while it shows the benefit to our UK landscape of moving to a more service-based economy and leaving coal production to someone else, that's been done in reverse in the countries we've effectively outsourced manufacturing to.
The pictures of industrial China by Edward Burtynsky (and this film following him) had a powerful effect as it's very much the flipside of our lives and all our NIMBYism.
Fascinating. Thanks for posting.
In the spirit of reconciliation and happiness at the end of the Banter Era (RIP) and as a result of promotion I have cleared out my ignore list. Look forwards to reading your posts!
Remember as a child being driven up to Yorkshire along the A1, seeing the mines and slagheaps (not to mention the airbases with Vulcan bombers lined up). Remarkable how much the landscape has changed.
Mind you, living in Gloucestershire, we have the Forest of Dean. Formerly an dense area of mining and industry in the 19th and early 20th centuries, virtually all of that has gone and the area is blanketed by woodland with almost no sign left apart from placenames, former railway tracks (now cyclepaths), plus hummocks and the odd monument scattered throughout the area. Same is true around Radstock and north Somerset. Also, increasingly, in the Black Country.
Pictures of Britain's changing industrial landscape on 09:46 - Feb 4 by chicoazul
Fascinating. Thanks for posting.
No worries.
Yes, it's a truly great film. And although it's 15 years old and the Chinese have upped their game somewhat it still shows the unimaginable scale of world industry and its impact on the environment.
Given how industry is slipping away from our consciousness here in the UK, I don't think we really have any idea of how massive that is for a producer that supplies the global market. It's like seeing the Death Star for the first time.
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Pictures of Britain's changing industrial landscape on 11:03 - Feb 4 by Guthrum
Remember as a child being driven up to Yorkshire along the A1, seeing the mines and slagheaps (not to mention the airbases with Vulcan bombers lined up). Remarkable how much the landscape has changed.
Mind you, living in Gloucestershire, we have the Forest of Dean. Formerly an dense area of mining and industry in the 19th and early 20th centuries, virtually all of that has gone and the area is blanketed by woodland with almost no sign left apart from placenames, former railway tracks (now cyclepaths), plus hummocks and the odd monument scattered throughout the area. Same is true around Radstock and north Somerset. Also, increasingly, in the Black Country.
The way you describe the women of Doncaster is appalling!!
Pictures of Britain's changing industrial landscape on 11:03 - Feb 4 by Guthrum
Remember as a child being driven up to Yorkshire along the A1, seeing the mines and slagheaps (not to mention the airbases with Vulcan bombers lined up). Remarkable how much the landscape has changed.
Mind you, living in Gloucestershire, we have the Forest of Dean. Formerly an dense area of mining and industry in the 19th and early 20th centuries, virtually all of that has gone and the area is blanketed by woodland with almost no sign left apart from placenames, former railway tracks (now cyclepaths), plus hummocks and the odd monument scattered throughout the area. Same is true around Radstock and north Somerset. Also, increasingly, in the Black Country.
Times change. It's how we as a country adapt to them that matters.
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