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Barcelona, like other cities in urban Europe, was once a major industrial city full of factories. As economy has changed, nowadays most of those factories of the industrial revolution don’t exist anymore. When the city grew, they demolished the factories to make space for modern buildings, but often they have kept the chimneys as a reminder of the past. When you find a lone chimney among modern buildings, it’s the only remains of where there was once a factory.
Photo taken in Barcelona (Catalonia) by David Cardelús on Twitter.
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urbanrelics · 7 months
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FACTORY H
Factory H is one of three clustered buildings of the "Société Anonyme des Magazins à Grains d'Anvers" (SAMGA). SAMGA was founded in the mid-19th century for the storage, transhipment and trading of grains imported from America and Russia. Factory H can be found together with the other buildings (Factory F and Factory G) at the Amerikadok in the port of Antwerp.
Factory H is the second of these three buildings. The building was marked as architectural heritage. The remarkable grain silos were praised at home and abroad for their revolutionary techniques for treating grains.
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This particular building was erected in 1939, next to the original 1895 building. The building contains 115 silos. Together they can contain more than 27,000 tons of grain.
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Despite the buildings being included as architectural heritage, the Antwerp municipal council decided to demolish them. The buildings had to make way for the construction of the "Oosterweel" connection, the megalomaniac highway project of the ever-attention-hungry mayor of Antwerp. Demolition of the building started in the spring of 2020. As a result, another magnificent piece of industrial heritage disappeared.
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Sunset view of Factory H from the nearby offices of the Antwerp Port Authority. Factory H is the nearest building. Directly behind it is factory G, followed by the white tower of Factory F.
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michaelschreiner · 1 month
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Electricity
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kristo-flowers · 2 days
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Old gas holders on Tondelier site, Ghent, Belgium
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mirtapersonal · 5 months
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I took photos of these photos of slag heaps from Ostrava museum because I'd never seen something like that before and they look bizarre to me. If you come from an area with a mining heritage, you've probably seen a slag heap before...
There's one in Ostrava which still stands and not only that, but is like, *warm*. The thing is warm on the inside
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georgefairbrother · 6 months
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Areas that relied largely upon heavy industry, like the Northeast of England, were hit particularly hard by the Great Depression. On the southern bank of the River Tyne, Jarrow was just one of many industrial communities ravaged by unemployment, poverty, disease and starvation in the 1930s. Meanwhile, the National Coalition Government under Conservative Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, appeared to be looking the other way.
'One Nation' Conservatism had seen Baldwin steer the Tory ideology toward a much more compassionate, inclusive and interventionist position, at least in theory. Nineteenth Century Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli had contended that the divide between rich and poor had rendered Britain 'two nations', between which there was 'no intercourse and no sympathy'. 
In a speech in 1924, Baldwin said;
"…We stand for the union of those two nations of which Disraeli spoke two generations ago: union among our own people to make one nation of our own people at home which, if secured, nothing else matters in the world..."
According to Conservative Historian, Lord Alistair Lexden;
"…Tory policy was reshaped to advance the cause of 'One Nation'. Social reform became the Party’s dominant preoccupation for the first time in its history. The Conservative Party, Baldwin declared at the 1929 election, regards the prosperity of trade and industry, not as an end in itself, but as a means to improve the condition of the people…"
In 1986, a Jarrow resident during this period recalled to the BBC;
"…Pathetic. The Jarrow of those days was a filthy, dirty, fallen down consumptive area in which the infantile death rate was the highest in the country, and TB was a general condition…"
Jarrow Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson later wrote;
"…There was no work. No one had a job except a few railwaymen, officials, the workers in the co-operative stores, and a few workmen who went out of the town…The plain fact is that if people have to live and bear and bring up their children in bad houses on too little food, their resistance to disease is lowered and they die before they should…"
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Palmer’s Shipyard, the principal source of employment since 1851, had closed down in 1934. Government unemployment benefits in those days lasted six months, after which responsibility was handed to the Unemployment Assistance Board, from which any tangible support was difficult to access and ultimately far from adequate. Eligibility was also subject to the controversial Means Test, first introduced in 1931. This meant that the combined wages and assets of all members of the household were taken into account when deciding whether or not individual unemployment relief should be forthcoming. In the context of the time, this was particularly humiliating for unemployed men who saw it as their duty to be the family provider.
Facing indifference from Westminster, the local Borough Council initiated a non-partisan campaign to try to bring employment, in the form of a new steelworks, back to the area. Two hundred unemployed men, selected from a pool of around 1400 volunteers, would march more than 280 miles to London to petition the government to establish new industries.
The marchers set off at 11 am on October 5th, 1936. As The Manchester Guardian reported, it wasn’t a hunger march, but a protest march. This was an important distinction in the context of the time, as the hunger march movement was seen as a communist initiative, one short step away from revolution, and a movement from which the mainstream Labour Party was keen to keep its distance. The Guardian also pointed out that at that time, less than 15% of the eligible Jarrow workforce was actually in work.
The Manchester Guardian;
"…There is no political aspect to this march. It is simply the town of Jarrow saying send us work. In the ranks of the marchers are Labour men, Liberals, Tories, and one or two Communists, but you cannot tell who's who..."
"...With the marchers goes, prominently carried, the Jarrow petition for work, a huge book with about 12,000 signatures, which Miss Ellen Wilkinson, MP for Jarrow, is to present at the bar of the House of Commons on November 4th..."
One marcher later recalled to the BBC, in 1977;
"…The spirit of the men was such that we were expecting something. We were expecting to prove to the capital, at that time, that here’s men from Jarrow. The spirit they had shown all the way down…Here we are, we want work and we are going to put our case that we must have work for the benefit of our wives and children…"
The marchers reached London by the end of October. A rally was held in Hyde Park, followed subsequently by the official presentation of the petition to Parliament by Ellen Wilkinson MP. The government remained unmoved, and there proved to be little or no immediate effect on economic or industrial policy. The men returned home by train, courtesy of donated tickets.
According to the UK National Archives;
"...To add insult to injury, the Unemployment Assistance Board officials in Jarrow docked the dole of the marchers because they had not been available for work. After the Jarrow March the Cabinet resolved to convince organisers that marches were unhelpful and caused unnecessary hardship to those taking part..."
Other reports suggest that the Cabinet's attitude was more about deterring any future protest marches, rather than concern for the marchers' welfare. Even the Labour Party itself was, at best, lukewarm in its support. Ellen Wilkinson had addressed their Edinburgh conference on the issue of Jarrow, but had found the agenda dominated by discussions of the Spanish Civil War and issues surrounding rearmament. There was even criticism of the idea of the march itself, and the physical burden it placed on unemployed and starving men.
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Marcher Sam Rowland suggested that while the majority of politicians seemed unconcerned, public opinion was markedly different;
"…If the march achieved anything…it made the condition and lives of people a factor that should always be brought into consideration at the top level… and not left to work out their own salvation…"
The Guardian, BBC News and multiple other sources name the last surviving Jarrow Marcher as Con Shiels, who died in 2012, and who had felt that the march had made 'not one hap’orth of difference'.
For some additional context on this, @robbielewis has a fascinating article on Con Whalen, who passed away in 2003. He was the last surviving marcher who had completed the march in its entirety.
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https://www.tumblr.com/robbielewis/716998502772785152/cornelius-whalen-the-last-jarrow-marcher?source=share
The next general election was held nearly a decade later, in 1945, as World War Two was coming to an end. Memories of the Depression era National Government and the desperate times of the interwar years would be a key factor in the landslide victory for the Labour Party.
References include BBC News, Liverpool Echo, Manchester Guardian archives, Spartacus Educational, Lord Lexden (Official Historian of the Conservative Party) (Website), BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives (Ellen Wilkinson), BBC Witness -The Great Depression and The Jarrow March, BBC History-Referencing Ellen Wilkinson’s The Town that was Murdered
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richs-pics · 8 months
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Cloud passing over Grassington Moor lead mine
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totto70 · 3 months
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Winter city scenery
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sometimeslondon · 2 years
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Shad Thames with its historic bridges connecting the old warehouses which have now been converted into apartments, Bermondsey
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aneverydaything · 1 month
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Day 2060, 12 February 2024
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scotianostra · 1 year
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Granton Gas Holder.
A few more pics from my Sunday daunder.
At one time the gasworks were the biggest in Scotland and gas production continued on the site until 1987. The surviving holder dates back to 1898 and was designed by the architect Walter Herring.
Historic Scotland scuppered plans to demolish the structure by giving it a B Listed status, this meant it is "of special architectural or historic interest which are major examples of a particular period, style or building type."
Councillors recently gave the green light for the land around it to be cleared of overgrown vegetation around the waterfront landmark, clearing to make way for the post-industrial site’s redevelopment, soon becoming a public green space with areas for play, relaxation and art displays.
A central amphitheatre, ringed by trees and hedges, will be built in the holder with ‘flexible’ use to allow concerts and exhibitions there in the future, although further proposals will have to come forward to fully facilitate this.
The new park, which has now been granted planning permission, will serve an influx of new residents moving to the town, where over 3,000 sustainable homes are being built.
With councillors giving the go ahead this week, and the scheme shored up with £16m awarded from the levelling up fund last year, the project is set to pick up pace. Work to restore the instantly recognisable landmark has also been granted listed building consent. It is anticipated the new Gasholder Park will be ready to open to the public by early 2025.
Plans, drawn up by the council alongside Mclaughlin & Harvey and Tetra Tech, said bringing the site into public use will “help deliver one of the most sustainable new coastal towns in Scotland”.
They added: “Within the gasholder interior space, a peripheral ring walk will allow access from this main route around the edge of the guide frame, providing connectivity to the six activity spaces arranged around its edge.
I personally think it is great idea, we can't just keep building ne housing without any thoughts on the bairns that will grow up in the area having any real playground to pass the time in.
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Rec en transformació (“Rec in transformation”) by photographer Marc Vila, virtual exhibition on Museu de la Pell d’Igualada i Comarcal de l’Anoia (more photos in the link).
I have been lucky to live in first person the transformation of the Rec district, to see the tanneries where it looked like time had stopped since they shut down, and the transformation of these empty spaces into spaces full of life, working as a photographer for Rec.0 and also on a personal level collaborating with La Bastida del Rec.
He tingut la sort de viure en primera persona la transformació del barri del Rec, de poder veure adoberies on semblava que s’havia aturat el temps des que van tancar la porta i la transformació d’aquests espais buits en espais plens de vida, treballant com a fotògraf per Rec.0 i també a nivell més personal col·laborant amb La Bastida del Rec.
Rec is an industrial district of the city of Igualada (Central Catalonia). Most of its buildings date back to the industrial revolution and were used as tanneries and factories.
Over the last few decades, several institutions and local entities, academics, neighbours and activists have promoted the district’s rediscovery and made citizens aware of the need to protect extremely valuable architectural heritage that explains, like no other, the outstanding past and present of an enterprising city. Since then, the unceasing recovery of the heritage of old, unused factories has begun to fill them with life through new activities.
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michaelschreiner · 5 months
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Herbst
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kristo-flowers · 9 months
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Mine shaft towers of Winterslag, C-Mine, Genk, Belgium
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mirtapersonal · 5 months
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Landek Mining Museum at night. I went there to attend an art show opening
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ulthaddouk · 6 months
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Redundant Industrial Heritage in Britain: Snowdown Colliery an adaptive re-use exercise.
The images of this post are part of my dissertation entitled as written above and is an attempt to conciliate between the hostile built heritage and the environmental reclamation. The political speech of a nation’s lost industry, is displaying a major conundrum regarding collieries and other mining sites. Yet prosperous businesses involving local communities are able to set aside the environmental stakes of post mining site management and ownership economic concerns and other challenging phenomenons peculiar to the British culture. The aim of the study is to expose the relevant paradigm with a real case scenario, to discuss its successes and failures and to set a model of adaptive re-use in coherence with the conservation strategies of modern derelict heritage in a challenging environmental setting. It is also our responsibility, as architects, to revisit and think adaptive re-use of industrial redundant sites and disadvantaged areas like British collieries.
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