NO5301 : Old seawater evaporation building and windmill
Pittenweem, Fife, Great Britain
Old seawater evaporation building and windmill
A very old industrial site now gone back to nature.
The windmill was used to draw seawater from the foreshore up into tanks housed in buildings like the one in the foreground.
Coal fires fueld from local fields were then lit under the tanks and over time the water was evaporated off leaving the salt.
Salt was an important preservative agent right up into the 1900's.
The windmill was used to draw seawater from the foreshore up into tanks housed in buildings like the one in the foreground.
Coal fires fueld from local fields were then lit under the tanks and over time the water was evaporated off leaving the salt.
Salt was an important preservative agent right up into the 1900's.
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- NO5301, 12 images (find more images nearby)
- Photographer
- Jim Bain (find more nearby)
- Image classification
- Geograph (First for NO5301)
- Date Taken
- Sunday, 4 September, 2005
- Submitted
- Sunday, 4 September, 2005
- Category
- Industrial landscape (find more nearby)
- Subject Location
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OSGB36:
NO 532 018 [100m precision]
WGS84: 56:12.3947N 2:45.2724W - Photographer Location
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OSGB36: NO 533 017
- View Direction
- West-northwest (about 292 degrees)
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