These pictures were taken at the main entrance to the former Kirkstall Forge in Leeds.Until 2002 the forge produced axles for heavy goods vehicles.
The site is a large one adjoining the Leeds-Liverpool canal and the River Aire.
It has been a forge since the early 12th century, about 900 years.
The forge was started by the monks of nearby Kirkstall Abbey, and survived the dissolution of the abbey by Henry VIII .
But apparently in 2002 some suited daleks from some college or other decided to shut the place down, and now it is being demolished.
Thanks boys.
Buy yourselves another mortgage, maybe a sports car if you're feeling a little mid-lifey.
And if the wife has left you, go and stay in Ireland at a gutted, sorry converted castle to 'find yourself'.
Don't mind us.
We'll just carry on struggling in the world you're turning to shit.
Sorry.
Chinese shit.
1 comment:
Indeed.
A nation of tens of millions of people can not all work for the government, or playing with the credit-money bubble, or even in "design".
Some people can be designers, but most people can not. And design,sooner or later, goes to where things are actually made anyway.
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