Saturday 12 April 2014

Shotwell Tower


Close by Drypool Bridge this place produces shotgun cartridges for the entertaining business of slaughtering birds specially reared to be 'sport' for gun toters with rather too much money than sense. The tower is so that molten lead can be sprayed into water from a height so producing lead pellets to further pollute the land. Do I seem a tad down on this place? Well tough.

The Weekend in Black and White is right .here

5 comments:

  1. Doesn't sound like a great reason for that place to exist. However, it does make an awesome photo.

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  2. Killing birds seems to be a popular thing. Very sad. I only shoot them with my Canon. But you took a fine photo here.

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  3. A great photo! But, - the building should never have been built!

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  4. I grew up near a shot tower, but it was disused. This obviously isn't. A fine shot(!) of a rather unappealing building

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  5. Killing for sport is a sign of ignorance.

    William, you have a fine eye for black & white.

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