tarboat's photos with the keyword: window

The Town Hall at Bollington in Cheshire was built in 1933 using the local gritstone. The stained glass windows declare the old Urban District Council which is now the Town Council after many reorganisations of local government.

Window at Shakespeare's Ale House, Gibraltar Street, Sheffield. The Ward's Sheaf Brewery was on Ecclesall Road, Sheffield and was acquired by Septimus Henry Ward in the 1870s. In 1972, S H Ward & Co. Ltd was acquired by Vaux & Associated Breweries and continued to brew bitter as a subsidiary. Despite still being profitable, the brewery was closed in 1999. The Wards brand was bought by the Double Maxim Beer Company in 2003 and is run as a subsidiary called Ward's Brewing Company.

Advertisement for beer on the window of the Miners Arms at Eyam. 'Anchor Beers' refers to the long lost Sheffield-based, Hope and Anchor Breweries which became part of Charrington United Breweries in 1962.

The Packet on Bute Street is one of the last remaining traditional pubs left in Cardiff.

The Punch Bowl, 31 Holywell Street, Chesterfield, designed by architects Wilcockson and Cutts. The pub was rebuilt in 1931 by the Chesterfield Brewery Company which was soon after taken over by Mansfield Brewery. The Punch-in-a-bowl in the window over the door was the trade mark of T P Wood, wine and spirit merchant, whose business was taken over by Chesterfield Brewery.

Virginia Mills, Higher Hillgate, Stockport. This property is sometimes said to be a former cotton mill but it was actually built in the 1890s by Giles Atherton as a hat factory and possibly for the manufacture of hat-making machinery. The initials G A can be seen in the etched glass of some of the ground floor windows. Giles Atherton was born in 1852. He started off as a hatter and by 1881 was manufacturing hats and employed 30 women and 10 men at premises on Adswood Lane. He became an agent for Yule’s American hat manufacturing machinery. He visited America a number of times and during a visit to New York in the 1890’s, he was offered the patent rights to hat leather stitching machines. He became a J. P., a magistrate and the mayor in 1896, 1897 and 1903. He laid the foundation stone for the Town Hall and also for the north wing of the Infirmary. He was a property owner, with 12 houses on Charles Street, Hillgate and lived at Virginia Villa, Mile End. He died in 1931.

Looking into a shop window in Penzance.

Seen at a window in Helmsley, North Yorkshire. I was immediately reminded of a certain insurance advert on the TV.

Decay sets in at a boathouse on the High Lane canal arm.

Or is it a window ..................? Loading shovel at a farm above Buxton.

Stained glass window memorial at Rolls Royce, Derby. This is the Rolls Royce company's tribute and the wording at the bottom of the glass says: "This window commemorates the pilots of the Royal Air Force who in the Battle of Britain turned the work of our hands into the salvation of our country".

Victoria House on Greave Street, Oldham, has had a varied life, having at times been used as a snooker hall, council housing office and a commercial college. Closed since 1999 the building looks likely to be revived since the council has donated it to Oldham Boxing and Personal Development Centre for development as a gym and community hub. Whether the funding to achieve this can be raised remains to be seen.

The original Independent Chapel in Caroline Street, Longton, was built in 1819 and as the Congregational Church this was replaced by a new building in 1905. There is a wealth of terracotta and art-nouveau glass in this building which appears little altered. Today it is known as Longton Community Church.

Jefferson has just spotted a cat in the garden from where I took this shot through the utility room window at Miss Tarboat's house. Jeff doesn't like cats, he really doesn't!

Heritage Open Days saw Christ Church in Macclesfield open to view so I took the opportunity to photograph the interior of the redundant building. Whilst in the gallery I was taken by this view down onto Waterloo Street West and the roofs of Roe Street.

I have always enjoyed seeing acid etched glass in windows and pubs have been a great source of examples. These days the selection is greatly reduced through unsympathetic modernisation or maybe just accidental or deliberate breakage by the local philistines. This well known Macclesfield watering hole sports a particularly fine personalised example. Now I need to dig out my books on Macc pubs to identify which brewery was responsible for it. Robinson's now provide the ale but they will have obtained the pub through a buyout at some time in the past.