River Don and Sheffield Industrial Museum

Introduction

The photograph on this page of River Don and Sheffield Industrial Museum by Chris Allen as part of the Geograph project.

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River Don and Sheffield Industrial Museum

Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 23 May 2010

The building on the left is the Sheffield Industrial Museum and the angled pipe up it side in the distance is the exhaust from the 12,000 horsepower River Don rolling mill engine. Pestilential Buddleia is growing on the river bed (one of the top 4 invasive weeds - Himalayan Balsam, Japanese Knotweed, Giant Hogweed and Buddleia).

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Image Location

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Latitude
53.389652
Longitude
-1.472191