Earthwatcher's photos with the keyword: sheffield

A view of 'Pithouse West' opencast coal site taken on 12th March 1993 looking northwards roughly in the area where Brookhouse Colliery (deep mine) used to be. The opencast mining was carried out to recover shallow coal from the site of the former colliery: coal too thin and shallow to have been mined by conventional underground methods. The former colliery site also included waste tips, slurry lagoons and coke ovens, all of which were removed and their remains buried deep within the backfill of the opencast site. The picture shows the Clowne coal seam with the overburden removed, ready for lifting and loading into trucks. The white scar in the middle of the picture is a fault - a natural fracture in the rocks displacing the coal seam down to the right-hand side of the picture. After the opencast site was finished in the mid-1990s, the site was restored to form part of the Rother Valley Country Park. Scanned from Kodachrome 64 transparency film.

In Rough Standhills plantation near Whirlow Brook Hall, looking up a Scots Pine trunk with leaves of adjacent beeches crowding in on the shot. I liked the way the sun illuminated the leaves and gave them a translucent appearance.

This was taken around 1989 at the then British Steel's stainless steel plant at Tinsley, Sheffield. The raw steel is melted in an enormous electric arc furnace and impurities rise to the top of the molten steel as slag. The molten slag is tapped off into a cone-shaped crucible which is then picked up by the special transporter as shown, trundled outside and tipped into a large pit. When it is cool, the solidified slag is broken up and used as hardcore in construction projects. The photograph was taken using a 135 mm telephoto lens from around 150 m away and I could feel the heat even at that distance. The now defunct Sheffield airport was built on this site. Scanned from a Kodacolor print .

I just love trees! Another shot of one of my favourite beeches on the steep northern flank of the upper Limb Valley, between Whirlow and Ringinglow, south west Sheffield.

The same set of beeches viewed (nearly) from the same position in spring, summer autumn and winter. I didn't take these with the idea of a montage in mind, so I could probably do this a lot better on another attempt.

Just playing around in Photoshop!

This colourful lichen is on a tree in the upper Limb Valley, between Whirlow and Ringinglow, south west Sheffield.

A gennel is a Yorkshire term for a narrow cut-through, linking one place with another. In escence, it's a short cut, too narrow for vehicles, so only for pedestrians. This one is quite long - several hundred metres - and connects Whirlow Hall Farm with Ecclesall Road. Best viewed large on black. View On Black

This is in Rough Standhills plantation near Whirlow Brook Hall. Most of the plantation is coniferous and quite dense, but with occasional clearings such as this with birch, oak, beech and sycamore. I tried to capture the wonderful quality of the November sunshine filtering down into the clearing.

Larches and holly in the upper Limb Valley between Whirlow and Ringinglow. The larches feathery branches imparted a beautiful golden quality to the November sunshine filtering down into the clearing, which I tried to capture. Best viewed large

This is in Rough Standhills plantation near Whirlow Brook Hall, It's mostly coniferous, but with patches and margins of mixed woodland with beech and sycamore mixed in with the pines. I just loved the dappled sunlight filtering down on to the rich, russet-brown woodland floor of last year's pine-needles. Best viewed large.

Detail of the archway on the Leavy Greave entrance. "The Jessop Hospital for Women 1877". It's all disused and boarded up now. More details here: www.chrishobbs.com/sheffield/jessops.htm

The Sheffield Bioincubator building with the old Jessop Hospital for Women in the background.

The Sheffield Bioincubator building with the old Jessop Hospital for Women reflected in the stairwell windows

The Jessop Hospital for Women. My kids were born here. More details here: www.chrishobbs.com/sheffield/jessops.htm

Stamens and pistil, I think? I was stunned by the intense redness of these tulips in my garden .... and the black centres in some of them

I was stunned by the intense redness of these tulips in my garden

Tulips in my garden