Mill Chimney No. 4 - 48

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Having lived in East Lancs most of my life I have since shildhook been surrounded by the architecture of the Industrial Revolution.  From magnificent mills, lodges, the mill chimney, the terracer house.

Mill chimneys were so huge and imposing when I was a child that they somehow becoame unoticed in the soot and clamour of industry.  House chimneys belched out smoke o obliterate the horizon.

Now those that have not succumbed to the demolisher's hammer and explosives are only viewed as sad monuments to a bye gone time.

But for me they were always something more.  Once mill chimney tops were adorned with iron works, their supporting girdles of steel painted bright red, with matching high access ladders, and green lightening conductors running down their lengths.  House chimneys were salt glazed and not utilitarian, but were in a myrad of shapes and sizes.  They all glisten and reflected in the wet sunlight.