Site of a demolition in Nenthead
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The photograph on this page of Site of a demolition in Nenthead by Trevor Littlewood as part of the Geograph project.
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Site of a demolition in Nenthead
Image: © Trevor Littlewood Taken: 15 Oct 2018
The demolition has taken place and the site is being cleared. Since 1909 this location, central in the village of Nenthead, has been occupied by a large, brick-built, industrial building built by the Vieille Montagne Company of Belgium; its purpose was the processing of zinc ores. For many years the building has been the garage for the Wrights Brothers bus company; local information is that a new garage will be built on the site. The building had been deteriorating for decades and at best could only have been described as unlovely; all the same, a piece of north-Pennine mining heritage has been lost. This image from Ashley Dace shows the building as it was until recently : http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2530833
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Image Location
Latitude
54.7878
Longitude
-2.343163