Cromford, the Black Rocks, Derbyshire, England between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Views of the British Isles England Derbyshire

#Cromford #theBlackRocks #Derbyshire #England #10462-ORMOND #TheBlackRocks #photography #historicalPhotos #photochrom

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002696674/

For #doorsday - an unusually complete and well-preserved Renaissance Bookshop.

(Scarthin Books in #Cromford, #Derbyshire - shortly before opening on a Sunday. Photo from September 2012, although the place really hasn't changed - except for the addition of some crowd-sourced steel support posts when it turned out the joke about load-bearing books was a bit too truthful...)
For #saturdaySolitude - some abstract #industrialArchaeology above #Cromford, #Derbyshire. Including remnants of an old tramway up past Black Rocks, and a pile of stacked, worked masonry in the overgrown Barreledge Quarry... 1/n
Something enjoyable - taking a photo of a small, odd-looking bug with camera at arm's length, trying not to fall into a canal, getting home and seeing the results and thinking - what the heck's *that*?

Pretty sure it's a Mystacides azurea var. albicornis - a caddisfly. Look at those maxillary palps!

https://www.naturespot.org/species/mystacides-azurea

#Derbyshire #Cromford #insects #caddisflies #macrophotography
For #saturdaySolitude - Lea Wood, above #Cromford canal, earlier today.

#Derbyshire #woodlands

Cromford Canal in the sunshine

#Cromford #canal #PeakDistrict #sunshine

#Fensterfreitag

#Fensterblick im pompösen Herrenhaus des Unternehmers Johann Gottfried #Brügelmann. Seines Zeichens Eigentümer der #Textilfabrik #Cromford, der allerersten Fabrik auf dem europäischen Kontinent.
Zu besichtigen in #Ratingen.
Mit der #Ruhrtopcard Eintritt frei.

Allen ein schönes Wochenende!

#GooglePixel6a

Mmm, out walking around #Cromford, just up above #Middleton at the moment. It is sunny but not too hot, there's a slight breeze, and I can hear church bells in the distance. This is being at peace.
#Derbyshire
For #saturdaySolitude (which is absolutely a thing now) - a view of the canal in #Cromford, #Derbyshire with the faintest hints of spring. February 2025. (Yes! I also post new photos on here, as well as stuff up to 20+ years old!)

#reflections
One interesting side-effect of using decent cameras for A While is that older photos become unstuck from time - perfectly clear, immaculately preserved digital captures of a particular time and place.

One of these photos was from Then, another from Now - of the Aqueduct Cottage off the canal at #Cromford, #Derbyshire.

#dereliction #restoration #abandonedPlaces