Art is an engineering view in this case. When I was at school in South Wales in the early sixties, we regularly saw winding machines long-since dead, but poignant in the extreme, as business was gone.
The signs of a dead industry, like old water mills - even windmills, are needed for people who love metal, chain and wood, but in heavy quantities as in this case. I still marvel at any picture of an old steam engine, or even an Austin Allegro...
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It can't be art - it's not in London.
ReplyDeleteIt was at the time.
ReplyDeleteI rather like old boilers.
ReplyDeleteAt first glance I wondered how an engine could wind wood . . . .
ReplyDeleteArt is an engineering view in this case. When I was at school in South Wales in the early sixties, we regularly saw winding machines long-since dead, but poignant in the extreme, as business was gone.
ReplyDeleteThe signs of a dead industry, like old water mills - even windmills, are needed for people who love metal, chain and wood, but in heavy quantities as in this case. I still marvel at any picture of an old steam engine, or even an Austin Allegro...
"Quietly rusting away", aren't we all ?
ReplyDeleteSam - good point.
ReplyDeleteJames - probably to our eyes although it would have been very functional.
Roger - they go on and on.
DCB - :)
Scrobs - there are numerous signs of dead industry in the area, the trail itself was once a railway.
Wiggia - I certainly am.