Spike Island Widnes Dock Panorama Halton, Cheshire, England UK
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Tony Smith / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
DN6NHMFile size:
111.5 MB (6.2 MB Compressed download)Releases:
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10050 x 3879 px | 85.1 x 32.8 cm | 33.5 x 12.9 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
22 September 2013Location:
Spike Island, Sankey Canal, Widnes, England UKMore information:
Spike Island is an island in the estuary of the River Mersey, in North West England, flanked by the Sankey Canal. It is a reclaimed toxic waste site, considered a birthplace of the British chemical industry, and forms a part of Widnes in the Halton borough of Cheshire. Its maze of abandoned chemical factories, rail lines, canal and industrial dockage, and industrial pollution, which had declined into a rust belt toxic wilderness, was reclaimed as woodland, wetlands and green space between 1975 and 1982. A surviving warehouse is now the home of the Catalyst Museum, the only science museum in the UK solely devoted to chemistry. Spike Island was the site of a famous outdoor concert by The Stone Roses in May 1990. A film about the concert was released in 2013, and is called Spike Island.