Monday, September 02, 2024

Silo Tagging

 


This is unmistakably Brighouse: the giant Sugden Flour silos are as an effective geotag as any map reference. These two concrete monoliths appear almost timeless, but when I took this photo in 1970, one was just seven years old and the other only a few years older. Many of those buildings and chimneys have now gone, of course, but the silos - repurposed as a massive climbing frame - remain.



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