The modern skyline
Introduction
The photograph on this page of The modern skyline by Bob Harvey as part of the Geograph project.
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The modern skyline
Image: © Bob Harvey Taken: 24 May 2022
This area was all coal yards, timber yards, and the like when the canal boom was at its height. Now we have a car park, and beyond it a miscellany of buildings - the Wentwood takes an old warehouse and builds two modern accommodation buildings in front of it. The orange coloured building with a triangular pattern is a new apartment house clad in copper panels ("to give a pre-rusted appearance") called Oxid house. To the right is The Astley, another apartment building. Both date to the second decade of the 21st century. In the car park you can also see an older 19th century industrial building, giving some sense of what this area used to be.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.482007
Longitude
-2.230815