RMweb Premium martin_wynne Posted June 30, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 30, 2019 Walking on Clee Liberty. In the distance, those blue remembered hills: camera at SO 57498 84229 looking NW Martin. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted June 30, 2019 Share Posted June 30, 2019 On 26/06/2019 at 19:10, Kingzance said: Here's one for the bucket and spade brigade, waiting for the image was thirsty work! Thanks, but where is it, forget the bucket & spade, I'm always looking for dog-friendly beaches. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted June 30, 2019 Share Posted June 30, 2019 27 minutes ago, bike2steam said: Thanks, but where is it, forget the bucket & spade, I'm always looking for dog-friendly beaches. Maybe we've got to guess? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted June 30, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 30, 2019 The Camel Estuary north of Padstow, Hawker's Cove on the left. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Kingzance Posted June 30, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 30, 2019 1 hour ago, bike2steam said: Thanks, but where is it, forget the bucket & spade, I'm always looking for dog-friendly beaches. Petethemole has guessed it - the breaking wave just inside the headlands is The Doom Bar from which the beer that was originally brewed in Rock was named. The old lifeboat station (in grey) is now a residence! As for walks, a lovely circular rote round the headland is signposted but the beach can be a little tricky on a flooding tide. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted June 30, 2019 Share Posted June 30, 2019 1 hour ago, SVRlad said: Maybe we've got to guess? I wondered about that, but curiosity got the better of me!! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Isherwood Posted June 30, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 30, 2019 1 hour ago, Kingzance said: Petethemole has guessed it - the breaking wave just inside the headlands is The Doom Bar from which the beer that was originally brewed in Rock was named. The old lifeboat station (in grey) is now a residence! As for walks, a lovely circular rote round the headland is signposted but the beach can be a little tricky on a flooding tide. The converted lifeboat station was, I understand, at one time in the possession of Edward Woodward. Regards, John Isherwood. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 (edited) Eating sausage and chips, on a pleasing mild day, sitting in the Old Market Square, Alford, Lincs.... Edited July 1, 2019 by rockershovel 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 St. Aldhelm's Head, with the headlands of Houndstout, Swyre Head, in the distance, and Smedmore the furthest away. Unfortunately not my pic, but my next-door neighbour's with the help of his drone. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
N15class Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 Home territory for me. Have worked on most of the coastguard cottages, and chapel at sometime or other. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthBrit Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 Meccano 8 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Kingzance Posted August 14, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 14, 2019 1 hour ago, NorthBrit said: Meccano I am sure that Frank’s toys from Binns Road were the cause of my eventual route into engineering. I was given a second hand set in good old red and green for I think my 7th birthday and was always building devices, sometimes to plans but often later to achieve a particular outcome, sometimes successful and at others times not so! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
N15class Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 I would often make cable cars and run from the bedroom window to the plum tree 30 yards away. Clockmaking for me. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted August 24, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 24, 2019 A Cowes -Southampton ferry with both Fawley oil refinery and the nearby power station providing a backdrop against the setting sun 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted August 25, 2019 Share Posted August 25, 2019 Family Bank Holiday on the beach, Anderby Creek N Lincs with Mrs R, No 1 Son, his wife and my granddaughter. I really don't know any other country where "a day on the beach" is quite the same (Bill Bryson has a piece about this, somewhere) 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted August 25, 2019 Share Posted August 25, 2019 (edited) 13 hours ago, The Stationmaster said: A Cowes -Southampton ferry with both Fawley oil refinery and the nearby power station providing a backdrop against the setting sun The 650 foot chimney has to go, https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/17678198.fawley-power-station-to-be-destroyed-in-series-of-controlled-explosions/ Edited August 25, 2019 by bike2steam 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted August 25, 2019 Share Posted August 25, 2019 Driver shortages across the rail network on the Sunday of a bank holiday weekend. Don't you just love it... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Parker Posted August 25, 2019 Share Posted August 25, 2019 10 minutes ago, SVRlad said: Driver shortages across the rail network on the Sunday of a bank holiday weekend. Don't you just love it... Why? Do they shrink in the sun? Couldn't they sit on a cushion so they can see over the control desk? (Gets coat...) 2 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted August 25, 2019 Share Posted August 25, 2019 12 minutes ago, Phil Parker said: Why? Do they shrink in the sun? Couldn't they sit on a cushion so they can see over the control desk? (Gets coat...) Well you certainly made me chuckle Phil, as I'm currently delayed at Salisbury for an hour because SWR, rather conveniently for them, can't seem to find any drivers. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Kingzance Posted August 25, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 25, 2019 3 hours ago, bike2steam said: The 650 foot chimney has to go, https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/17678198.fawley-power-station-to-be-destroyed-in-series-of-controlled-explosions/ It almost beggars belief in my mind - here we have an oil-fired power station with plenty of available cooling in a rapidly growing area of population and it even has an oil refinery and marine offloading facilities adjacent to it yet we (or those in charge) are happy to buy power from elsewhere in Europe through a series of sub-sea interconnectors (which they intend expanding too) drawing power from a network that in some cases relies on the combustion of Lignite rather than to overhaul and recommission this local asset. Maybe that actually vindicates the title of this thread! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted August 25, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 25, 2019 Lived in the area for over twenty years, but only today did I manage an outing to the Stapleford Miniature Railway for their B/H Event. Set in rather nice countryside. The only downside was that I decided to cycle the 9 miles. Very pleasant this morning, but rather hot on the uphill return. I didn't know that I suffered from Alcoholic constipation, until I discovered that I couldn't pass a pub. Fortunately (or not) there was only one on the way home so I visited the bar twice!!. Regards Ian 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Kingzance Posted August 25, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 25, 2019 27 minutes ago, Ian Smeeton said: Lived in the area for over twenty years, but only today did I manage an outing to the Stapleford Miniature Railway for their B/H Event. Set in rather nice countryside. The only downside was that I decided to cycle the 9 miles. Very pleasant this morning, but rather hot on the uphill return. I didn't know that I suffered from Alcoholic constipation, until I discovered that I couldn't pass a pub. Fortunately (or not) there was only one on the way home so I visited the bar twice!!. Regards Ian And lovely local pies too! 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted August 25, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 25, 2019 And another view of the British Isles from alongside (Ish) - in this case The Seven Sisters and Beachy Head - 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
N15class Posted August 25, 2019 Share Posted August 25, 2019 A view of arriving at my favourite island. Lundy July past. First visit for many years. The north end and north light. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted August 26, 2019 Share Posted August 26, 2019 (edited) On 25/08/2019 at 17:29, SVRlad said: Well you certainly made me chuckle Phil, as I'm currently delayed at Salisbury for an hour because SWR, rather conveniently for them, can't seem to find any drivers. This really belongs in another thread, but it's typical modern railway management - everything is permanently a scarce resource, all training is provided by "someone else" and key roles routinely depend upon overtime working to make up rosters while failure to adequately resource commitments is regarded as sufficient excuse not to meet contractual obligations. Then agsin, it isn't really new. I seem to remember this being a quote from W S Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan? "Dear Sir, Sunday morning, although recurring at regular & well foreseen intervals, always seems to take this railway by surprise..." Edited August 27, 2019 by rockershovel 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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