Photo of The Day

[Gordon Ferguson]

And one for the machine shop fans

[NE Brownstone]

I took this photo years ago when I worked for Rebel Rentals in the Gulf coast oilfield as a power tong operator running completion tubing.  This is a blowout preventor just under the drill floor of a small workover rig perched on top of some little remote platform somewhere out there in the Gulf of Mexico.  Unfortunately, this was the last frame of the last roll I had and some dopey floorhand decided to stick his hand in the way.  I did do some photo shopping to get rid of his hand, but to get rid of the rest of him was taking some time and I just cropped the rest of him out.

Anyways, this thing looked like something out of Aliens and I had to take a shot of it.

[Barney]

Sorting some old photos out - taken some 35years back in the Devils Bridge area in Wales could not find much about it at the time but was told it was a Silver mine - what amazed me was how "American "it looked complete with its Grandt Line windows and nuts/bolts.
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Barney

[Barney]

A few more Shots
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[Ray Dunakin]

Cool ruins! That is some major rust -- looks like the whole thing's been dipped in acid.

[finescalerr]

I don't think Grandt Line offers that style of window. -- Russ

[Ray Dunakin]

Hampton's Store (and City Hall, Mayor's Office, and gas station) in Skullbone, TN:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brent_nashville/11459823335/

Looks like a great subject for a model!

[Ray Dunakin]

Whimsical locomotive BBQ:

[Terry Harper]

[Krusty]

Fowler portable engine.

[Krusty]

Another Fowler portable engine.

[Barney]

Any ideas on this one ? -looks like a tin shed on rails !! hefty rails  and elaborate buffer stops .its situated in a barbed wire fenced off field by a Worcestershire village of Sherrif's Lench and looks like no one has entered the place for a long time
Barney
photo quality low mobile phone job!

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[Lawton Maner]

If the photos were taken northwest of Evensham, there is an old airfield about 2 miles west of its location to which it might be linked.  Can you provide a road or other reference from which to assist searching Google Maps?

[Lawton Maner]

Further research indicates that RAF Throckmortan was constructed in 1940 as a base for Wellington Bombers.  After the war it was used as a training site and as a Cold War Dispersal field for Volcan Bombers.  I suspect that the structure in question dates from the Cold War and might have been used in air defense of the air base.

[Scratchman]

Here's a photo of a boiler I found near my home.

Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/