tarboat's photos with the keyword: wharf

Derelict loading chutes at the Wallerscote chemical works. Coasters used to load soda ash and sodium bicarbonate here. Now it is all gone and housing rises in its place.

A wharf on the Manchester Ship Canal not far from Eastham with the names of many of the ships that tied there painted on the walls by their crew.

Wharf crane at Cotehele Quay, Cornwall dating from 1865. The circular platerecords the maker as Hennett, Spink, and Else at Bridgwater Iron Works, Bridgwater, Somerset, which operated under that name between 1857 and 1865. In 1865 the partnership between Follett Charles Hennet, Daniel Spink and Richard Charles Else was dissolved with the business to be carried on as Hennet and Spink. Liquidation followed in 1870 but the business was subsequently re-opened sometime later by Hennet and Co.

Grab crane on the wharf at Engis near Liège on the River Meuse. This facility is operated by plaster and plasterboard manufacturers N et B Knauf Et Cie S.C.S.

Coasters used to load soda ash here. Now it is all gone and housing rises in its place.

Wharfside corrugated iron on the tidal Chelmer at Maldon.

Oakgrove wharf and swing bridge soon after 1900. In those days the pub was here called the Royal Oak. On the wharf are large piles of gravel waiting loading onto boats for delivery along the Macclesfield Canal. The stone came from the Hawkshead Quarries in Sutton which were at that time operated by Ashton and Holmes. In 1912 they were selling Brown Macadam at 3s.9d ton and Blue Gravel at 4s.6d ton.

10s 10d for 1 ton of coal sold in June 1857 by H. Ford, Coal merchant based at the coal wharf on the canal side in Macclesfield. Large quantities were transported to Macclesfield by the canal from collieries a few miles north and also from the Potteries. Rail transport eventually took over much of this trade and many merchants moved to coal yards near the main goods yards.

The lime sheds are a prominent feature of Ouse Dock at Goole. This view was taken from the first floor of the Lowther Hotel which is an ideal place to stay if you like docks!

Coasters used to load soda ash here. Now the loading facilities lie mainly derelict, but the storage bunkers remain in use.

This fine crane survives out of use at the Calder Wharf in Ravensthorpe on the Calder and Hebble Navigation. Sadly the adjacent warehouses are now derelict and when I last looked were roofless.

Wagon turntable at Duke Street Wharf, West Float, Birkenhead. I think it's a long time since this was last used.