Waste Ground outside Riley's Spring Works
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Waste Ground outside Riley's Spring Works
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton Taken: 4 Jun 1956
I celebrated my 21st birthday by taking this photograph of waste ground outside the spring works. In those days. nobody bothered about air pollution. Engines would stand on the sidings for hours emitting smoke and steam, while additional smoke was caused by Riley's workmen setting fire to waste rubber outside the works.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.607334
Longitude
-2.157292
