Latest Images by Harold Potts http://www.geograph.org.uk/ 2009-11-12T21:23:43GMT text/html 2007-09-23T22:42:19GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/17405 Harold Potts 54.559735 -3.575904 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/564875 A fine example of drystone wall building. This clearly modern structure marks the property line of a small front garden, but echoes ancient structures built with the same technique, ubiquitous throughout nearby Lakeland. text/html 2007-09-23T22:31:23GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/17405 Harold Potts 54.552977 -3.584148 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/564852 I was saddened to see this prohibitory notice while visiting this site about 200m from where I was born and grew up. As a lad in the 40's I was frequent witness to an impromptu football game in process here which I think had been going continually since about 1920, Sad that it has been deemed necessary to bring this to an official end. text/html 2007-09-23T22:20:58GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/17405 Harold Potts 54.577284 -3.581068 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/564831 This pleasant hill at the entrance to the Solway Firth was once used as a slag tip by a smelting operation at nearby Lowca. A source of some danger to adventurous lads at that time - the slag was molten when tipped, and cooled at its own pace underneath a dark grey crust - it is now returned to its former character and is used by hang gliders. text/html 2007-09-19T23:15:43GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/17405 Harold Potts 52.476305 -1.909263 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/560934 One wonders if this is a heritage building or a modern reproduction. Whichever, it is an elegant sight. text/html 2007-09-19T23:08:48GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/17405 Harold Potts 52.475224 -1.906615 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/560919 text/html 2007-09-19T23:04:51GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/17405 Harold Potts 52.477474 -1.910439 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/560910 text/html 2007-09-19T22:58:15GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/17405 Harold Potts 52.478465 -1.912793 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/560894 And as fine a setting for one as you will find. text/html 2007-09-19T22:51:30GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/17405 Harold Potts 52.447013 -1.932570 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/560887 This well-hidden stream is a separator of Town and Gown, flowing as it does past the Grange Road Gate which in turn separates Westley-Richards gun factory from the university. text/html 2007-09-19T22:45:05GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/17405 Harold Potts 52.449080 -1.930801 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/560877 Birmingham U was founded in 1900 and is probably the original "Redbrick" university. The grey single-storey buildings running left to right through the lower half of the picture are "temporary" buildings which have been there at least 50 years to this contributor's knowledge. text/html 2007-09-19T15:28:02GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/17405 Harold Potts 52.477744 -1.910585 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/560200 A quiet moment looking towards Brindley Place for Gas Street Basin side. text/html 2007-09-19T15:23:01GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/17405 Harold Potts 52.477653 -1.909261 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/560196 Old and New. Industrial Birmingham making a graceful transition to recreational boating. text/html 2007-09-19T15:17:17GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/17405 Harold Potts 52.477834 -1.910585 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/560191 Surely this image expresses the new image of Birmingham in transition from Victorian industry to a place worthy of the attention of tourists. text/html 2007-09-17T15:01:31GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/17405 Harold Potts 54.608761 -3.222452 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/558319 The bird of prey image calls to attention the existence close by of the only nesting osprey pair in England. The pair can be viewed in season by means of a videocam located next to the nest, available in the Visitor Centre. Their prey is mostly fish caught in Bassenthwaite Lake. text/html 2007-09-16T15:11:45GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/17405 Harold Potts 54.549200 -3.591114 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/557190 This old artefact would seem to have been used in another lost industry of the town - importation of rum and wine. text/html 2007-09-16T15:05:50GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/17405 Harold Potts 54.553741 -3.587579 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/557187 A fine piece of engineering - a tunnel about one kilometre long running under the town. As a matter of further interest: running over the top of the tunnel [behind the parapet in the picture] is the line followed by one of the earliest railways ever built - the "waggon way" carrying iron-clad wooden rails which allowed horse-drawn transport of coal from William Pit to the harbour.