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Tag Archives: Harbour
Retrospectively Wading through Weymouth
This is another retrospective blogpost that I should have done way back in 2013, on returning from Weymouth for a job interview. The exif data puts the images at 19 June 2013. Weymouth is a seaside town in Dorset, and … Continue reading
Posted in Heritage, Hobbies and Interests, Photo Essay, Photowalks, Retrospective, United Kingdom, War Memorial
Tagged beach, Dorset, Harbour, seaside, United Kingdom, War memorial, Weymouth
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Gloucester Harbour
It is strange to find a harbour so far from the sea, but then you really need to remember that the Severn is not a small river. Gloucester harbour is not a deep water port as I know it, but … Continue reading
Posted in Bridges and Rivers, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, Heritage, Hobbies and Interests, Ships, Transportation, United Kingdom
Tagged Dredger, Drydock, Gloucester, Harbour, High Orchard Bridge, Llanthony Bridge, narrow boat, National Waterways Museum
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Galloping around Gloucester
Looking at my handy index page for 2015, I was last in Gloucester in August and September of 2015, and in those visits I took in the Cathedral, the Jet Age Museum and I saw lots of dudes with odd shaped … Continue reading
Posted in Churches and Cathedrals, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, Heritage, Hobbies and Interests, Memorials and Monuments, Personal, Photowalks, Retrospective, United Kingdom
Tagged Emperor Nerva, Gloucester, Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucestershire, Harbour, HM Prison Gloucester, Llanthony Secunda Priory, Prison, River Severn, St Mary de Crypt
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Navy Day
My Triang Minic collection has been quite a popular subject on this blog, in fact there are a number of pages related to my 1/1200 and 1/1250 scale waterline ships. This page is really about some of the naval vessels … Continue reading
Posted in Hobbies and Interests, Military, Personal, Photo Essay, Ships, War, World War 2
Tagged 1/1200, 1/1250, Australis, Harbour, Liberty, Minic, Ohio, Royal Navy, ship, Triang Minic, waterline
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That last voyage across the harbour
In March 1990 a group of us went down to Durban to see the arrival of the Cunard cruise ship Vistafjord arrive. By way of explanation, I was a member of what was then the Transvaal Branch of the World … Continue reading
Posted in Cruiseships, Hobbies and Interests, Personal, Retrospective, Ships, South Africa, Transportation
Tagged Dredger, Durban, Harbour, Ocean Terminal, RE Jones, Ribbok, SAR&H, Tug, Vistafjord
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