tarboat's photos with the keyword: fence

Oberbarmen gasholder. OXTOR is a recording studio in the industrial building next door to the gasworks site.

When the Macclesfield Canal was being built high embankments caused considerable difficulties to the engineers due to subsidence and slipping. Some of these banks have continued to cause problems and in these cases the normal hedgerow boundary was replaced by a fence comprising stone posts with holes cut in them to carry a tarred cable. It has been suggested that this may have been a re-use of the haulage cable from the Chapel Milton incline plane on the Peak Forest Tramway which was in the same ownership as the canal from the 1840s. These are some of the fenceposts on Dane-in-Shaw bank at Congleton, a structure that still causes the canal engineers problems of subsidence.

Having only just posted an image of a sparrowhawk on my lawn it was a bit of a coincidence when tarboat junior told me this morning that there was another one sat on the garden fence. This time the light was better and I was able to take several shots through the kitchen window. A fine bird indeed!