The Pipe

[Kev Pugh]

Another from the Viaduct on Hylton Road Worcester The structure is a combination of traditional Bridgework and Iron Cross-members an entanglement of metal pipework and other utilities make use of the crossing over the Severn, My uploading of this old project has now inspired me to revisit it and spend some time over the coming months photographing it in a little more detail. How I would love to get access to it proper like.

There are 65 arches from start to finish, it begins at Foregate street Station at about 2 storey height rising to approx three storey height at the river crossing where it is joined by the metal bridge..


The Pipe by Kev Pugh, on Flickr

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Very nice paragraph and photo!
Me and a friend stood at that point about 4 months ago wondering which way is the easiest to get to the maintenance walk way that goes to the middle structural bollard that's in the middle of the Severn, would a wire spin look nice there? Reflections off the water etc..... Quite difficult tho.. Not to mention its plastered in pigeon ****. Lol
You get around a bit Kev, fair play!

 

[Kev Pugh]

would a wire spin look nice there? Reflections off the water etc.....

Indeed it would especially shot from the Sabrina Bridge as the would be the nearest you could get a steady shot from the middle of the river.

Quite difficult tho.. Not to mention its plastered in pigeon ****.

Think it needs accessing from above and the nearest place to do that is either the Station would be extremely difficult or the level crossing, another CCTV watched location.. and really would you want to walk in all the Bird Dodoos you need a hat and brolly just to walk under the thing

You get around a bit Kev, fair play!

Not Nearly enough but got plans for this coming year

 

[Brian Moore]

Another nice B&W Kev.

 

[Hamish Gill]

Very nice mate!
Another from the same place that is better than my attempts from there!
what are these shot with mate?

 

[Kev Pugh]

Thanks Hamish Oly OM10 50mm f1,8 Ilford FP4 Dev in ID11 negs scanned and a bit of PP

 

[Hamish Gill]

How do you find id11 to use mate?
What sort of quantities do you buy and store it in?
How many times do you reuse it?
Just interested before I brew up mine ..

 

[Kev Pugh]

To be be honest Hamish it was no probs I mixed up a full 5 litres stored it in an airtight container at room temp, can't recall how long it lasted but I also tended to only develop two rolls at the most at a time so used a fresh each time..

Been using Suprol, which is a film/paper developer lately, a rebranded ilfosol from Firstcall but again I always use a fresh mix each time I develop.

But before when I have reused ID11 I've always added 10% time to the stated dev time

 

[Hamish Gill]

I should probably stop worrying and just do it...
I have that film from our night out to dev ...
I think I'll give it a go over the weekend!

 

[Kev Pugh]

Well it's no good shooting it if you ain't gonna dev it