One of the subjects I am considering for assignment 5 is the
lack of historical preservation of the industrial heritage of the area. There
are a number of areas which were historically important which are now being
left abandoned or build destroyed and built around.
I first noticed this abandoned lighthouse while standing
overlooking the royal yacht Britannia. In this distance at the end of what was
originally as seawall stands this lighthouse. The seawall and harbour bay have
been filled in and now new expensive housing is being built almost right up to
the lighthouse.
Lighthouse
Beers Below
Statue at end of Pier
Mining Museum
Further along the coast is what is left of a mining museum, a lot of the items on display are now beginning to rot and rust. The trains, trucks and tracks that I remember as a child have almost all disappeared and the beam engine which used to stand proudly in the centre of the grounds now sits like a wounded dinosaur, a blot on the landscape ignored by locals and passers-by alike.
Brickworks
Beam Engine
Happy Boiler?
