(Video #200 !)
A quick flight with the P4A around the metals recycling docks of www.s-norton.com , Liverpool - possibly the UK largest processor of scrap metals. Annually, Nortons collect and export 1.5 million tonnes.
Notice that the darker area of the scrap metal pile is actually car engine blocks!
"The world's first Liebherr R 984 C Litronic high rise industrial rehandler, believed by the company to be the largest of its type in the world", www.khl.com/news/worlds-first-liebherr-high-rise-handler/36916.article by Lindsay Gale, 13 May 2009, detailing S. Norton & Liebherr co-designing this machine.
Music (also recycled!):
The Orb, "Pandaharmonium"
Writers: Julian Peake, Seb Fontaine, Thomas Newman, Delline Bass
Licensed to YouTube by UMG (on behalf of Virgin); The Royalty Network (Publishing), CMRRA, and 3 Music Rights Societies
Original: Penguin Cafe Orchestra, "Music For A Found Harmonium (Pandaharmoniumorb Mix)"
from "Auntie Aubrey's Excursions Beyond The Call Of Duty - The Orb Remix Project - Part 2"
Writers: Julian Peake, Seb Fontaine, Thomas Newman, Delline Bass
Licensed to YouTube by DeepMiningCorpAssoc (on behalf of PMI Dance); The Royalty Network (Publishing), CMRRA, and 4 Music Rights Societies
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrcdQ05Y89I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inch_Island
As the man says, "It's not easy to get to!": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BjTEedMOoY
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JI6L_wz-wI
Firstly, apologises for the unstabilized video, it was recorded using my phone. Walking around a very over-grown, long abandoned building site on my own with expensive camera equipment would not have been a very good idea!
Secondly, further apologises for any of the graffiti/graffito which may contain raw language! Some of it, in my opinion, was rather very well done - especially the spider!
"Vision of New Chinatown Liverpool" section was from seven years' ago: http://confidentials.com/liverpool/revealed-chinatown-set-for-high-rise-rebirth (Images: Brock Carmichael)
A month ago, Tom Duffy wrote a summary of the end of the project which can be found at: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpools-new-chinatown-dream-collapses-23281402
Overall access to this site is annoyingly easy. My suspicion is that as well as the main construction contractor going out of business, the site services which provide perimeter fencing either hasn't been paid for a long time and/or has also gone out of business. As a result, the perimeter fencing is breached in a number of places.
Not all of the site is easily accessible, some parts of the foundations have a single entrance to a long dark dead-end. Out of respect of privacy to anyone who may have been there, these areas were not fully explored.
Much of the site is littered with broken glass and other sharp debris, my heavy-duty under-sole protected work-boots were very useful in this regard.
Another reason for recording this on my phone is that there are a large number of uncapped inspection points for drain access. Mostly these were about 1 metre / 3 feet deep. Falling into these while concentrating on a dSLR would have hurt, and some could cause more serious injury due to the other sharp debris fallen into these holes.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpwKzj76wGI
BBC Programme
Documentary about the development of the Boeing 747 jumbo jet. The 747 was a game changer, the airliner that revolutionised mass, cheap air travel. But the first wide-bodied plane was originally intended as a stopgap to Boeing's now-abandoned supersonic jet. This is the remarkable untold story of the jumbo, a billion-dollar gamble that pushed 1960s technology to the limits to create one of the world's most recognisable planes.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEnYzQ7aRO8
Seems that this driver was inviting me to reshape their driver's door for them!
Other car arrived at the roundabout at about the same time as I did.
For those viewers who don't drive on UK roundabouts, the main rule is, "give-way to traffic coming from the right". A rule such as this is very important because getting it wrong would mean the driver's door is prone to a collision.
When they entered the round about I was already on it and indicating to turn off, I thought the only place for them to go would be their immediate left - same road road I was taking. As this road was two lanes, I made sure I took the right hand lane and expected them to take the left hand lane..
Didn't quite expect them to make a second mistake by missing that turning and cutting off my exit!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tkiEbh53To
Located ( https://plus.codes/9C5VC226+X73 ), Thomas Steers Way, is a major pedestrian entrance to the Liverpool One shopping area.
Not actually part of River of Light as such.
Part of playlist ( https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6BEcX-rB0v6qU_MD-uN5pc1uW61R0dft )
#RiverofLight #WinterLights
[All sounds (and music) recorded natively by the camera using external stereo microphones. Camera was on a hand-held dynamic gimbal.]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3yJ4B9ZS5o