Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register: Recently Added Galleries and Collections

Clouds

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

]]>Clouds are one of the most beautiful products of nature. They are being studied more and more as part of climate change research and are beginning to give up some of their secrets.

David J Kerwin Private Collection

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

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MBBC Nob End, Prestolee to Salford

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

]]>Nob End at Little Lever grew up as a thriving canal community. It was the junction between the upper summit level of the canal Bury - Bolton, and the lower section of canal to Salford and the River Irwell.
The lower section of the MBBC was reached down a series of locks, known as Prestolee Locks. On the Bolton side of junction on the upper section were the canal workshops.

Shetland Miscellany

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

]]>Specific geological photos will be found in Earth Sciences Gallery or SEARCH on the site for 'shetland'

Sedimentary rocks

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

]]>Sedimentary rocks are rocks formed as sediment or from solution. Examples include sandstone from rivers, mudstone, coal from 'tree-like' material, chalk and limestone mainly from calcareous animal remains such as coral and forminifera.

Landforms, structures, folding, faulting etc

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Mon, 13 May 2013 18:48:10 GMT

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Glaciation and glacial features

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

]]>In addition to the features left behind after the last Ice Age, there is a gallery of stunning images showing active ice-berg and glacial movement in East Greenland. Click here to see the Gallery http://heritagephotoarchiveuk.zenfolio.com/p949338642

Flowers, trees, shrubs etc

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

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Minerals

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

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Birds

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

]]>I always find it hard to believe are so closely related and are the only surviving links to the Age of Dinosaurs, but they are. The sheer variety of birds, colours, habits and behaviors is truly amazing. KH

Igneous rocks

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

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Ulverston

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 11 May 2013 10:23:35 GMT

]]>Ulverston is small market town near Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria. It is unusual in that it has a wide range of historical buildings, many largely unaltered. It is famous for the Hoad Monument (qv), the Ulverston Ship Canal, Pharmaceuticals, and as the birthplace of Stan Laurel, the early movie actor.
Search ion the site box for canals, ulverston to see photos of ship canal.

Rainbows and Moonbows

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Fri, 10 May 2013 20:31:29 GMT

]]>Rainbows and indeed the very rare moonbow are two of natures delights. Rainbows are often regarded by some as 'cheesy' yet there are few spectacles in nature that match it. So risking the uninvited smell of cheese, enjoy this gallery of sunsets.

Sychnant Pass & environs

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

]]>Sychnant and nearby Dwygyfylchi lie between Conwy and Penmaenmawr in North Wales. It is an area of exceptional natural beauty, the pass itself being on international signficance as an example of both a glaciated valley sub-glacial river system with a waterfall.

Ysbyty Ifan

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

]]>Ysbyty Ifan is a remote village south of Betws-y-Coed in North Wales. A beautiful, remote area, predominantly Welsh-speaking, the principal industry being hill farming.

Trefriw

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

]]>Trefriw is a small village on the western side of the Conwy Valley near Llanrwst. It lies on the very edge of Snowdonia in one of the most beautiful parts of North Wales. In the past the principal industry (apart from tourism and mining) was the woollen trade, The Trefriw Woollen Mills are still in existence in the village.

Bethesda

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

]]>One of the great centres of slate quarrying in North Wales.

Fungi and lichens

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Capel Curig area

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

]]>Capel Curig in Snowdonia is famous for its view of the Snowdon Horseshoe group of mountains to the north west.

Betws-y-coed

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

]]>A small 'honeypot' village long associated with tourism and an artists' colony. Nevertheless, a beautiful place not overly spoilt.

Penmaenmawr

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

]]>Famous for its stone quarries and Druid's Circle. To see photos of the Bronze Age Druids' Circle search 'bronze age' in site search box.

Conwy Town (Including Deganwy, Llandudno Jc, Glan Conwy etc)

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

]]>Conwy is a medieval walled town with castle c13th for Edward I. Built 1283-1287. World Heritage Site.

Bronze Age

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

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Waterfoot and The Thrutch

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

]]>A small town in the Rossendale Valley famous for its association with footwear manufacturing and quarrying. It has a unique 'shopping arcade" dating back to the 19th century.

Ramsbottom & Holcombe

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

]]>A small but important industrial town in the Rossendale Valley north of Manchester. Paper-making, chemicals, cotton, woollens were amongst its main industries. Historically important for its association with the Grant brothers and, and the Luddite Chatterton Riot.

Rawtenstall

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

]]>Rawtenstall is an important town in the Rossendale Valley of Lancashire. It is famous for quarrying and for the manufacture of footwear and cotton goods.

Bacup and environs

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

]]>Bacup (pronounced bay-kup) is a small industrial town at the head of the Rossendale Valley in Lancashire. It grew during the industrial revolution into a 'town of stone' - local quarrying was a major industry, there was also cotton, woollens, shoe manufacturing, farming and small-scale coal mining.

Burnley

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

]]>An industrial town in NE Lancashire famed for its cotton textile industry.

Llanrwst, including Melin y Coed, Llanddoget etc

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

]]>An important little market town in the Conwy Valley. It is typically Welsh in character with an unusual railway station, a unique bridge, and remarkable church with Almshouses.
Across the valley is Gwydyr Castle and Gwydyr Forest. (Photos in Gwydyr Gallery)

Llyn Crafnant area

ken.howarth@btinternet.com (Heritage Photo Archive & Heritage Image Register) — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

]]>Crafnant is one of the most beautiful of all the North Wales valleys. Set above the village of Trefriw in the Conwy Valley it is easily accessed and there is a footpath over the mountains to Capel Curig.