Electric Power Industries
The Archimedes Screw of Bainbridge Hydro Electric Scheme on the River Bain, Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire.
Waterfalls and the Archimedes Screw of the hydro-electric plant on the River Bain at Bainbridge in Wensleydale, the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire.
Halton Lune Hydro, one of the biggest community owned hydro-electric schemes in the UK is on the River Lune at Halton near Lancaster in Lancashire.
The sea wall running alongside Heysham 1 and 2 Nuclear Power Stations, Heysham in Lancashire.
Heysham 1 (1983) and Heysham 2 (1988) each contain two advanced gas cooled reactors that provide low carbon electricity for around four million homes.
Heysham 2 Nuclear Power Station, Heysham in Lancashire.
Heysham 1 (1983) and Heysham 2 (1988) each contain two advanced gas cooled reactors that provide low carbon electricity for around four million homes.
Colwith Force, Little Langdale in the Lake District, Cumbria.
This spectacular waterfall plunges 20 metres in two leaps. In 1910, tourists paid 4d to see the falls. At the foot of the waterfall is a small scale hydro-electric plant, and 100 metres downstream is the site of a medieval bloomery (iron smelting furnace).
Sluice gate and head race next to the weir on the River Ribble in Settle, North Yorkshire.
The weir, sluice gate and head race were all constructed to power the waterwheel at the old Bridge End Textile Mill. Now the sluice gate and head race are once again being used for the Settle hydro-electric scheme.
The hydro-electric generating plant on the weir of the the River Calder at Whalley in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire.
The rusty 1902 Gilkes Vortex turbine beside the upper falls of Disher Force at Woodhall in Wensleydale, the Yorkshire Dales.
This turbine was installed in 1936 by the owners of Woodhall Garage to provide hydro-electricity to the.hamlet.
This photo was taken beside a public footpath where Eller Beck plunges over the edge of Haw Bank.