2011 - The Final Two Months
My last entry concluded October with a Sunday trip to Derbyshire but I have kept up the pace and feel it is time to close out the old year with a blog.
November started with a Saturday afternoon visit to the Forge Mill needle museum in Redditch - a site visited only once before and never photographed. This was adequately addressed - 
. The following day was a trip to Derbyshire with my sister and was pretty but largely non-industrial - 
On the 9th of November work was interrupted by a false fire alarm and the opportunity to photograph fire engines - 
After that excitement we spent the weekend of 12th and 13th with friends in a caravan in Wales. A few appropriate photographs were garnered - 
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On the 18th of November I was honoured to attend an Engineering Heritage Award ceremony at the Alstom works in Rugby where the Institute of Mechanical Engineers gave an award to an important reciprocating steam engine - 
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Sunday the 20th saw the last open day at the British Engineerium in Hove for some time to come. It was decided that a trip was essential and the round trip was more or less 400 miles. Nonetheless, it was well worth it - 
The 26th and 27th of November were spent in Devon and a few mills were photographed - 
, including my first PotY shortlisting for a few weeks - 
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The first weekend of December saw a Sunday with a couple of the usual gang and we collected Ashley Dace from his accommodation to act as our guide for the morning. Various industrial landscapes were snapped in Leicester before a steam special was caught passing through Thurmaston. The afternoon was spent at Abbey Pumping Station, which was in steam - 
. I was surprised to get another couple of PotY shortlistings out of the day - 
Sunday the 18th was another day out with old friends and this time Ashley was picked up in Loughborough so that we could take shots of the Brush works, Taylor's Bell Foundry and the venerable beam engine at the University - 
. Next up was a visit to Pleasley Colliery for my friend Nigel who hadn't been before and i picked up possibly my last PotY shortlisting of the year - 
. The day was finished with a trip to Nottingham Industrial Museum at Wollaton Park so that I could get some photos for my beam engine gallery - 
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The final week of 2011 was spent in Devon and a few assorted places were visited and photographed for the record - 
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This brought 2011 to a close with an all time high for personal annual submissions.
Here's to an excellent 2012.
- When
- Tue, 3 Jan 2012 at 22:10
- Chosen Photo
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