tarboat's photos with the keyword: queensferry

Typical Local Authority pride demonstrated on the 1914 school buildings at Queensferry. FCC = Flintshire County Council. You wouldn't get such frivolity on a new council building. I presume that this is the work of J C Edwards of Ruabon. This photo earned me a visit from the police. I took two quick shots of the building but that was enough for several local people to report my car registration as belonging to a dodgy character. They were bemused as to why anyone would want to photograph such things and went away convinced, I am sure, that I am a very strange person.

Today it is hard to imagine that this spot was once a bustling wharf from which coal, clay and bricks were exported in large quantities. All that now remains are these timbers that formed part of the quay. A quay developed at Lower, or King's Ferry on the River Dee, for the shipment of coal from about 1740 when the Mancot Tramway was built to link Big Mancot Colliery with the Dee at Mancot Mark. Around 1793 this was replaced by an iron plateway. Aston Quay, as it came to be known, expanded further following the construction of a second tramway, or in fact a system of tramways, which extended from Pentrobin Colliery, Buckley. The various sections of the tramway had different names but are generally referred to as the Aston Tramroad. The south section was built by Rigby, the Hawarden Ironmaster, and Hancock, the Buckley brick manufacturer, after the formation of a partnership in 1792. The lower 1¼ miles was replaced by an iron plateway around 1799, which served a number of businesses including Lane End brickworks at Buckley and Aston Hall Colliery. The plateway was eventually replaced by the standard gauge Aston Hall Colliery Railway. All that now remains are a few of the timbers that formed part of the quay.

Pillbox at Queensferry alongside the River Dee on the approaches to Chester.

Promens' Deeside factory specialises in the manufacture of industrial packaging for dangerous substances including chemicals such as agrochemicals, detergents, and lubricating oil. The main processes are extrusion blow moulding and injection moulding.

The double-leaf Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge over the tidal Dee at Queensferry was opened in 1926 to replace the 1897 Victoria Jubilee Bridge which incorporated a retractable timber structure. The new bridge was designed by Mott Hay and Anderson, and built by Sir William Arrol and Co. Ltd, for £83,051. The lifting spans, totalling 134ft are now fixed in place and the barges carrying Airbus wings have to arrive at a low enough state of the tide to allow headroom for them to pass.

Cambrian Gas Ltd at Queensferry was established in 1990. It is Cheshire & North Wales' largest independent LPG supplier.

Ghost sign on Pierce St, Queensferry.