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Dwight Lloyd Plant in the course of construction, Mount Isa, 1930

from State Library of Queensland

• Barry Merrick said:

  Dwight Lloyd Sinter Plant, right, construction. April/May 1930. The sinter plant is the first stage of the smelting process. The lead concentrate for the mill, the opposite of this hill, was transferred to the Filter Plant, the higher building towards the middle of the image. Here the water was extracted and then the dried concentrate, around 28% lead was mixed with coke and limestone and then made into cakes by a pug mill. These cakes were then roasted on a travelling grate in the sinter plant. By "cooking" the cakes the sulphur in the concentrate was burnt out. This left lead sinter. This was then dumped into bins and an electric charge car loaded up the other "ingredients" as well the sinter and travelled to the furnaces and dumped the load into the top of the blast furnaces where the crude lead was created. The "sintering machine" was manufactured by Morrison and Bearby in Newcastle N.S.W.

Trains lined up at sheds, Adelaide, Co. Antrim.

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 4 older comments, and then…
• Robin Parkes said:

  Why is it in Location Hunters? Sure it's Adelaide Yard in Belfast. There is a new traincare facility there now.

• Niall McAuley said:

  Entrance to Adelaide Station is here

• Sharon Corbet said:

  The locomotive in the foreground (no. 187) was built in 1913 and was withdrawn from service some time in the 5 years after this photo.

• Robert Foster said:

  Great shot of the shunting yard, great to see working steam engines.

• Niall McAuley said:

  Interesting detail: looking through the window of the 3rd loco, I think I see the Red Hand logo of the Ulster Transportation Authority, which was only formed in May 1958, a year or so before this shot. The earlier GNR logo had a smaller Red Hand, surrounded by castles, a ship, a skeleton (?) etc. [Edit: the skeleton is from the arms of Derry, the ship from Belfast, 3 of the castles from Dublin]

Hi High Street

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 19 older comments, and then…
• beachcomber australia said:

  The clocks agree - 15:35 !

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  beachcomber australia Jai Hindley!

• Seán Ó Domhnaill said:

  So many telegraph wires on that building in the middle.

• beachcomber australia said:

  National Library of Ireland on The Commons 🚴...

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Seán Ó Domhnaill A web?