Looking at the reasons why I started to photograph old machinery and some examples from the West Coast of Scotland.
The purpose of this site is to show some pictures of old, often abandoned, bits of machinery that I’ve photographed over the last couple of years. My obsession with this started when I was on holiday in Italy and noticed abandoned agricultural machinery. While my wife wouldn’t let me cart any of it home (and I’m sure the airline wouldn’t have allowed it in my luggage), I decided to just photograph it to preserve something for posterity.
The main picture on the home page is a case in point. It’s a rusty anchor point that I photographed when we were on holiday up on the north west coast of Scotland a few years back. These are actually the remains of the mechanism used to haul supplies up to the Rua Reidh Lighthouse.
It’s old industrial heritage, the picture immediately above is the slipway that they used to pull supplies up from the dock below using the winder at the top. There was even an abandoned trolley on site.
