Looking more like a wedding cake than TinTin's Rocket this is the landmark Mossley water tower, one of two similar towers in the town of Congleton.

There is also athird, 130 year old brick built, one which was the subject of a TV programme to convert it into a stylish home with great views, article here: cheshire.greatbritishlife.co.uk/article/cheshire-interior...

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we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills;
we shall never surrender.

Well, Mr Churchill we did get invaded. But most of them came to live in peace. And Her Majesty still rules the Commonwealth.

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The "Duke of Lancaster" ferry. "Rust is composed of iron oxides. In colloquial usage, the term is applied to red oxides, formed by the reaction of iron and oxygen in the presence of water or air moisture. Other forms of rust exist, like the result of reactions between iron and chloride in an environment deprived of oxygen – rebar used in underwater concrete pillars is an example – which generates green rust. Several forms of rust are distinguishable visually and by spectroscopy, and form under different circumstances. Rust consists of hydrated iron(III) oxides Fe2O3·nH2O and iron(III) oxide-hydroxide FeO(OH)·Fe(OH)3.

Given sufficient time, oxygen, and water, any iron mass will eventually convert entirely to rust and disintegrate. Surface rust is flaky and friable, and provides no protection to the underlying iron, unlike the formation of patina on copper surfaces. Rusting is the common term for corrosion of iron and its alloys, such as steel. Many other metals undergo equivalent corrosion, but the resulting oxides are not commonly called rust

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Geo.Bradbury & Sons abbattoir. Tunstall.

I suspect they are all dead now.

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Tried this before and wasn't satisfied with the result. Tried it again a year later and was still unsatisfied. Seems like I will have to go back and try again.

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