HMS ACHERON SAFE HOME
HMS Acheron the ship that made headlines when she was reported missing off Greenland has arrived at Rothesay.
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George Leslie Hunter - gallery of oil paintings / reproductions - Ölbild/Reproduktionen - x43
Gallery George Hunter with 21 sample pictures - in the online-shop we show you 139 templates of this painter for handpainted oil paintings reproductions in museum quality.
George Hunter, was a Scottish late-impressionist painter from the group of Scottish colorists. His early works were influenced mainly by the style of Cezanne, while later he used stronger colors.
George Hunter was born on 7 August 1977 in Rothesay, on the island of Bute, on the west coast of Scotland, in the United Kingdom. He died on December 7, 1931, in Glasgow
Galerie George Hunter mit 21 Beispielbildern - im Onlineshop zeigen wir Ihnen 139 Vorlagen von diesem Maler für handgemalte Ölbilder Reproduktionen in Museumsqualität.
George Hunter, war ein schottischer spätimpressionistischer Maler aus der Gruppe der schottischen Koloristen. Seine frühen Werke wurden vor allem vom Stil Cezannes beeinflusst, während er später kräftigere Farben benutzte.
George Hunter wurde am 7. August 1977 in Rothesay, auf der Insel Bute, an der Westküste Schottlands, im Vereinigten Königreich geboren. Er starb am 7. Dezember 1931, in Glasgow
Paddle Steamer Waverley passing the River Kelvin-River of her Launch.
Paddle steamer Waverley passing the mouth of the River Kelvin on a wet Friday evening on the 18th August 2017.
Waverley was ordered by the London and North Eastern Railway. She is now the last sea-going passenger Paddle Steamer anywhere in the world. She was named after the debut novel of Sir Walter Scott, but wasn’t the first Paddle Steamer to bear the name. The previous Waverley, built in 1899, had been requisitioned as a minesweeper during World War II and sank during the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940.
The present Waverley was built at the Pointhouse Shipyard of A & J Inglis, at the mouth of the River Kelvin, the site is now part occupied by the Riverside Museum.
Materials were so scarce in post-war Britain that the new Waverley had to wait more than three months after her launch to have the boiler and engines installed. She finally entered service in June 1947, sailing a scenic route up Loch Long to Arrochar.
Ownership of the Waverley passed to the Caledonian Steam Packet Company in 1948. However, by the 1970’s, changing holiday habits meant that pleasure steamers had fallen out of fashion. Fortunately, the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society – a group of enthusiasts based in Scotland – were able to buy the ship for the token sum of one pound form the newly formed Caledonian MacBrayne.
The Waverley has since undergone several restorations, and now operates a cruise schedule between May and October each year. Her twin red, white and black funnels are a frequent sight in the coastal waters of Scotland, England and North Wales.
2017 sees the Waverley sail in her 70th year.
#147: Standard Sanway, HLTP Cast iron Shanks Leverns The bell siphon patent
Another beaut filmed by Adamzes admirer. Still here thankfully.
Fixtures:
1x 1950s Twyfords sink
1x 1960s Standard Sanway toilet
3x 2010s Armitage shanks urinals
1x 1910s The bell siphon Patent shanks levern cast iron Cistern
Filmed: Medstead and Four marks train station, Four marks, Hampshire
Country: UK
Built: 1862
Dumfries
Dumfries (Listeni/dʌmˈfriːs/ dum-freess; possibly from Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Phris) is a market town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland. It is near the mouth of the River Nith into the Solway Firth. Dumfries was a civil parish and became the county town of the former county of Dumfriesshire.[2] Dumfries is nicknamed Queen of the South.[3] People from Dumfries are known colloquially as Doonhamers.
There are at least two theories on the etymology of the name. One is that the name Dumfries originates from the Scottish Gaelic name Dún Phris which means Fort of the Thicket. According to another theory, the name is a corruption of two words which mean the Friars’ Hill; those who favour this idea allege the formation of a religious house near the head of what is now the Friars’ Vennel
No positive information has been obtained of the era and circumstances in which the town of Dumfries was founded.[4]
Some writers hold that Dumfries flourished as a place of distinction during the Roman occupation of North Great Britain. The Selgovae inhabited Nithsdale at the time and may have raised some military works of a defensive nature on or near the site of Dumfries; and it is more than probable that a castle of some kind formed the nucleus of the town. This is inferred from the etymology of the name, which, according to one theory, is resolvable into two Gaelic terms signifying a castle or fort in the copse or brushwood. Dumfries was once within the borders of the Kingdom of Northumbria. The district around Dumfries was for several centuries ruled over and deemed of much importance by the invading Romans. Many traces of Roman presence in Dumfriesshire are still to be found; coins, weapons, sepulchral remains, military earthworks, and roads being among the relics left by their lengthened sojourn in this part of Scotland. The apostle Paul claimed rank and privilege as a Roman citizen on account of his birth at Tarsus; the Caledonian tribes in the south of Scotland were invested with the same rights by an edict of Antoninus Pius. The Romanized natives received freedom (the burrows, cairns, and remains of stone temples still to be seen in the district tell of a time when Druidism was the prevailing religion) as well as civilisation from their conquerors. Late in the fourth century, the Romans bade farewell to the country.[4]
According to another theory, the name is a corruption of two words which mean the Friars’ Hill; those who favour this idea allege that St. Ninian, by planting a religious house near the head of what is now the Friars’ Vennel, at the close of the fourth century, became the virtual founder of the Burgh; however Ninian, so far as is known, did not originate any monastic establishments anywhere and was simply a missionary. In the list of British towns given by the ancient historian Nennius, the name Caer Peris occurs, which some modern antiquarians suppose to have been transmuted, by a change of dialect, into Dumfries.[4]
Kingswear Castle paddle steamer boat in Totnes
First outing for the paddle steamer 2013.
Old Photographs Tobermory Isle Of Mull Inner Hebrides Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Tobermory, the capital of, and the only burgh on, the Isle of Mull in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. The town was founded as a fishing port in 1788, its layout based on the designs of Dumfriesshire engineer Thomas Telford. Ferries sail between Tobermory and the mainland to Kilchoan on the Ardnamurchan peninsula. During the Second World War, Tobermory was home to Royal Navy training base HMS Western Isles. The fictional town of Torbay in Alistair MacLean's novel When Eight Bells Toll was based on Tobermory, and much of the 1971 movie was filmed in the town. In the middle of the 1800s emigrant sailors created the community of Tobermory, located in Ontario, Canada. This namesake town has twin harbours, known locally as Big Tub and Little Tub, which sheltered ships from the severe storms of Lake Huron. Tobermory waterfront was chosen by the BBC as the location of the popular children's television series Balamory. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day
Paddle Steamer Waverley leaves Clevedon on it's last Bristol Channel trip of the season 7/9/2014
Paddle Steamer Waverley, built in 1946, leaves Clevedon Pier on it's last Bristol Channel trip of the season 7/9/2014. Long and nice sound of hooter.
PS Waverley was owned by the LNER 1946-48, Caledonian Steam Packet Company 1948–73 and since 1973 Waverley Excursions.
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Salvo Fair 2011 - Victorian Twyfords Campaign Water Closet from Alscot Bathroom Company
James Rylands of Summers Place Auctions describes an 1840s mahogany portable water closet, or as he calls it 'a campaign karzi', brought to Salvo Fair 2011 by Norman Cockroft of Alscot Bathroom Company as a taster for the Alscot clearance auction sale held by Wellers later that summer.
The blue and white transfer-printed porcelain bowl was made by Twyfords, and was highly unusual in still having its counterweighted blue and white enamelled trap, together with the mahogany cabinet, brassware pump cistern and bucket which, as Mr. Rylands eloquently pointed out, the military owner's manservant would readily have emptied.
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Becket Chapel, Dover Castle, England
Becket Chapel, Dover Castle, England
River Street Savannah the Pirate Ship, Ferry, Paddle boat
I walked down by the water on the pier. The water had a fast currect. I took pictures of the Hyatt, the old stores, restaurants, and parks on River Street.