An Afternoon with the Folks
A lovely Easter weekend, afternoon spent with my Mum & Dad at Harwich and Dovercourt.
Willow Submarine:
A model U-boat has been created to commemorate the mass surrender of Germany's submarines on the Essex coast at the end of World War One.
More than 160 U-boats surrendered at Harwich in November 1918, at one point stretching in a two-mile (3km) line.
While most were taken to go on display, many were left beached at Harwich before being sunk or taken by the sea.
The model has been created as part of centenary celebrations.
It measures 15m (49.2ft) long, is made of willow and sits on Dovercourt Beach.
The Low Lighthouse:
The Low Lighthouse, a Grade II Listed Building, was constructed in 1818 as one of a pair providing leading lights for the safe approach to Harwich Harbour. The second lighthouse (termed the High Lighthouse as its lamp room was raised to be visible above the roof of the low light) stands approximately 200m to the north west (landward) and is the subject of a separate scheduling.
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Orfordness Lighthouse
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Jaywick To Harwich High Impact Version 2
Shorter highlight version of the Natural England promotional video of the Jaywick to Harwich coastal patch section.
A Walking Tour of Redoubt Fort, Harwich, England
Historic Harwich, possibly the most hospitable town in England. On our recent trip in July, 2014, Aileen and Colin Farnell of The Harwich Society, met us at St. Nicholas Church and spent 3-4 hours giving us a tour of the sites we missed on our first visit in December, 2013. This video is about The Redoubt Fort in Historic Harwich. Afterwards, we treated them to English Tea at The Pier Restaurant. We invited Peter Chandler, our Harwich Society tour guide on our first visit in December, to have tea and conversation with us at The Bake House, our apartment during our stay in Harwich. Indeed, our three-day visit to Harwich was again the highlight of our cruise vacation. This video is Part Three about Historic Harwich, England. See the others on my You Tube channel.
Old Harwich
Walk around Old Harwich
Harwich Redoubt Fort
Harwich Maritime Museum
Low Lighthouse
Railway Museum
Dovercourt Lighthouse Photography - ESSEX STYLE!
In today's video I cross the border to Essex to shoots some landscapes with my brother Paul. In this video we head out at sunrise to photograph the Dovercourt Lighthouse, which is in Harwich, Essex; a location that I have shot before.
I show you how to get there and what conditions are ideal for long exposure photography.
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Places to see in ( Bamburgh - UK )
Places to see in ( Bamburgh - UK )
Bamburgh is a village and civil parish on the coast of Northumberland, England. The village is notable for the nearby Bamburgh Castle, a castle which was the seat of the former Kings of Northumbria, and for its association with the Victorian era heroine Grace Darling, who is buried there.
The extensive beach by the village was awarded the Blue Flag rural beach award in 2005. The Bamburgh Dunes, a Site of Special Scientific Interest, stand behind the beach. Bamburgh is popular with holidaymakers and is within the Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Bamburgh Castle, then called Din Guardi, may have been the capital of the Brythonic kingdom of Bryneich between about AD 420 and 547. In 547 the castle was taken by the invading Angles led by Ida son of Eoppa and was renamed Bebbanburgh by one of his successors, Æthelfrith, after his wife Bebba, according to the Historia Brittonum. From then onwards the castle became the capital of the Anglian kingdom of Bernicia until it merged with its southern neighbour, Deira, in 634. After the two realms united as Northumbria the capital was moved to York.
Bamburgh was again the capital of local Bernician rulers after the Viking destruction of the old Northumbrian kingdom in 867. Initially puppets of the Vikings, they later had more autonomy under either the Vikings or Kings of united England. The rulers of Bernicia held the title of High Reeve of Bamburgh from at least 913 until 1041, when the last was killed by Harthacnut; sometimes – 954–963 and 975–1016 – they also served as Earls of York. The castle was destroyed in a renewed Viking attack in 993 and in 1018 the Lothian part of Bernicia was ceded to Scotland, significantly reducing the area controlled from Bamburgh.
Bamburgh Lighthouse was built by Trinity House in 1910 to guide shipping both passing along the Northumberland coast and in the waters around the Farne Islands. It was extensively modernised in 1975 and is now monitored from the Trinity House Operations and Planning Centre in Harwich. Routine maintenance is carried out by a local attendant. It is the most northerly land-based lighthouse in England.
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17/32 Stromness to Kinlochbervie - can Shark Bay's good fortune continue?
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It would seem so...there's more fantastic weather for the boys and the sea remains calm apart from the amazing tidal race as Shark Bay heads for the Old Man of Hoy giving us unique views of this spectacular sea stack. John and Fionn are now rounding Cape Wrath which had been another big worry after all the stories they'd heard. But it's all plain sailing into Kinlochbervie, an archetypal fishing port.
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17/32 Stromness to Kinlochbervie – can Shark Bay’s good fortune continue?
Well it’s a fantastic morning here in Stromness. It’s only about half past six but the sun’s already high the sky. There doesn’t seem to be any wind. The sea is calm. Beautiful morning. Forecast for today isn’t too bad – the winds are from the south/south-west so that should give us a fair bit of shelter, but tomorrow the westerlys are blowing up so it’ll be nice to be among the shelter of the islands – we’ll see how it goes.
Well there’s the first surprise of the day – the tidal race. I hadn’t been expecting it this time of day but it’s stretching almost all the way across between Hoy. It looks like we can find a channel up to the north here that we can go through, but this is a lot worse than we saw in the Pentland Firth. It looks like there’s little whirlpools forming and a definite serious tide race. I guess we just timed it wrongly – we were thinking more about getting out on the whole journey. Just, just getting into the first bits of it now so I’m going to head north and see if I can avoid it.
We managed to miss the worst of the tide race and were soon back in calm waters off the Island of Hoy. Hoy has some of the biggest sea cliffs in the British Isles – over a thousand feet high.
Still got plenty of depth – you can get right in underneath it.
But it’s probably best known for its impressive and famous sea stack – the Old Man of Hoy. From there we took a direct course for mainland Scotland’s most north-easterly headland – the Cape Wrath.
So we’re right underneath the cliffs and underneath the lighthouse at Cape Wrath, the very northwest tip of Scotland, and this is probably the place which had worried me most when I was planning the trip. I was just terrified of this place, just thinking of how remote it was, how far from any fuel, how bleak it was gonna be, how stormy it could be – and it’s absolutely flat calm – it’s beautiful. You couldn’t want better conditions to go around. It’s a bit cold – in fact it’s freezing cold, I’ve been wearing gloves to drive, but – ah – absolutely fantastic conditions. It’s so good that we’re going to just hang here, have a cup of tea to warm up before we head around the corner to fuel up.
My Scottish isn’t very good but that was Am Buachaille – haven’t got a clue how you pronounce it. It’s a spectacular bit of rock.
You can just see – one there and one there - the fins [of the dolphins]. They’re going really close to the shore.
They must be feeding – got to be feeding, haven’t they? They’re really intent on the mission, they’re going backwards and forwards, coming up everywhere. There’s a couple there – one just jumped.
What the... What do you reckon that was!?
I haven’t got a clue – it was black and white. It looked like an orchid – the colours of it – but it couldn’t be. It was behaving completely different to the dolphins. With the dolphins you get the fins coming up and body coming down, but that was just leaping, leaping, leaping. Haven’t got a clue what it was – time for the ID book I think!
Like everywhere we visited, we got a warm and helpful welcome in Kinlochbervie. The question was where to head next. We could keep heading south, or we could make another detour and motor across to the Hebrides. At the planning stage of the trip, we totally ruled this out as an option, but right now it seemed tantalisingly possible.
Places to see in ( Bamburgh - UK )
Places to see in ( Bamburgh - UK )
Bamburgh is a village and civil parish on the coast of Northumberland, England. The village is notable for the nearby Bamburgh Castle, a castle which was the seat of the former Kings of Northumbria, and for its association with the Victorian era heroine Grace Darling, who is buried there.
The extensive beach by the village was awarded the Blue Flag rural beach award in 2005. The Bamburgh Dunes, a Site of Special Scientific Interest, stand behind the beach. Bamburgh is popular with holidaymakers and is within the Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Bamburgh Castle, then called Din Guardi, may have been the capital of the Brythonic kingdom of Bryneich between about AD 420 and 547. In 547 the castle was taken by the invading Angles led by Ida son of Eoppa and was renamed Bebbanburgh by one of his successors, Æthelfrith, after his wife Bebba, according to the Historia Brittonum. From then onwards the castle became the capital of the Anglian kingdom of Bernicia until it merged with its southern neighbour, Deira, in 634. After the two realms united as Northumbria the capital was moved to York.
Bamburgh was again the capital of local Bernician rulers after the Viking destruction of the old Northumbrian kingdom in 867. Initially puppets of the Vikings, they later had more autonomy under either the Vikings or Kings of united England. The rulers of Bernicia held the title of High Reeve of Bamburgh from at least 913 until 1041, when the last was killed by Harthacnut; sometimes – 954–963 and 975–1016 – they also served as Earls of York. The castle was destroyed in a renewed Viking attack in 993 and in 1018 the Lothian part of Bernicia was ceded to Scotland, significantly reducing the area controlled from Bamburgh.
Bamburgh Lighthouse was built by Trinity House in 1910 to guide shipping both passing along the Northumberland coast and in the waters around the Farne Islands. It was extensively modernised in 1975 and is now monitored from the Trinity House Operations and Planning Centre in Harwich. Routine maintenance is carried out by a local attendant. It is the most northerly land-based lighthouse in England.
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Places to see in ( Bamburgh - UK )
Places to see in ( Bamburgh - UK )
Bamburgh is a village and civil parish on the coast of Northumberland, England. The village is notable for the nearby Bamburgh Castle, a castle which was the seat of the former Kings of Northumbria, and for its association with the Victorian era heroine Grace Darling, who is buried there.
The extensive beach by the village was awarded the Blue Flag rural beach award in 2005. The Bamburgh Dunes, a Site of Special Scientific Interest, stand behind the beach. Bamburgh is popular with holidaymakers and is within the Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Bamburgh Castle, then called Din Guardi, may have been the capital of the Brythonic kingdom of Bryneich between about AD 420 and 547. In 547 the castle was taken by the invading Angles led by Ida son of Eoppa and was renamed Bebbanburgh by one of his successors, Æthelfrith, after his wife Bebba, according to the Historia Brittonum. From then onwards the castle became the capital of the Anglian kingdom of Bernicia until it merged with its southern neighbour, Deira, in 634. After the two realms united as Northumbria the capital was moved to York.
Bamburgh was again the capital of local Bernician rulers after the Viking destruction of the old Northumbrian kingdom in 867. Initially puppets of the Vikings, they later had more autonomy under either the Vikings or Kings of united England. The rulers of Bernicia held the title of High Reeve of Bamburgh from at least 913 until 1041, when the last was killed by Harthacnut; sometimes – 954–963 and 975–1016 – they also served as Earls of York. The castle was destroyed in a renewed Viking attack in 993 and in 1018 the Lothian part of Bernicia was ceded to Scotland, significantly reducing the area controlled from Bamburgh.
Bamburgh Lighthouse was built by Trinity House in 1910 to guide shipping both passing along the Northumberland coast and in the waters around the Farne Islands. It was extensively modernised in 1975 and is now monitored from the Trinity House Operations and Planning Centre in Harwich. Routine maintenance is carried out by a local attendant. It is the most northerly land-based lighthouse in England.
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Dovercourt Lighthouse
A breif timelapse of the light house at Dovercourt. Shot on a GoPro HD Hero 2. Best viewed in 1080P
Southwold Lighthouse!
We climb all 204 steps to get to the top of the Southwold Lighthouse!
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Start Point Lighthouse Devon
Start Point lighthouse was built in 1836 to protect shipping off Start Point in south Devon England. Open to the public in summer months, it is a grade II listed building owned and operated by Trinity House.
History
Construction
Start Point is one of twenty nine towers designed by James Walker. The lighthouse is in the gothic style, topped by a crenellated parapet. The main tower is built of tarred and white-painted granite ashlar with a cast-iron lantern roofed in copper. The tall circular tower is 28 metres (92 ft) high with a moulded plinth and pedestal stage and two diminishing stages above that. There are two entrances porches, on the north and south sides. The porch on the south side is blocked and has a 4-centred arch hoodmould, whilst the doorway to the north porch has a Tudor arch. Both have raised parapets with Trinity House arms.
The inside of the tower includes a cantilevered granite staircase around the inside well of the tower with an iron balustrade completed by a cast-iron newelan. The lighthouse originally had the keepers' living accommodation on the ground and first floors but this was removed in 1871 when new keepers' houses were built nearby. It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II listed building.[1]
Changes since construction
Since its construction, in 1836, the lighthouse has undergone many changes. In 1862, a fog-signalling bell was added but this was quickly replaced by a siren in 1877. In 1989, the erosion of the coast caused part of the lighthouse complex, including the fog signal, to collapse. A lot of the area had to be leveled as a result and retaining walls put in place. Other buildings which were used by the lighthouse keepers, who originally could only get on or off the lighthouse by boat, such as the well[2] and piggery[3] have survived.
Work began on the automation of Start Point Lighthouse in August 1992 and was carried out by LEC Marine at a cost of £82,754. It was completed in early 1993. The station is now monitored and controlled from the Trinity House Operations Control Centre at Harwich in Essex via a telemetry link.
Optics
The lens is developed from the dioptic system designed by Alan Stevenson, the first of this kind to be used by Trinity House.[4] Two white lights were originally exhibited, one revolving and one fixed to mark the Skerries Bank. The fixed light was subsequently changed to a fixed red subsidiary light to mark this hazard. The light was powered by oil until 1959 when it was electrified. It uses a Fresnel lens.
Foghorn
Start Point, Devon
The light alone was found to be inadequate in fog, and a bell was installed in the 1860s. The machinery was housed in a small building on the cliff face and operated by a weight which fell in a tube running down the sheer cliff. A siren replaced the bell after only fifteen years.[4] When required the foghorn sounds once every 60 seconds.
References
Start Point Lighthouse. Images of England. Retrieved 2007-08-10.
Well House immediately North West of Start Point Lighthouse. Images of England. Retrieved 2007-08-10.
Piggery North North East of Start Point Lighthouse. Images of England. Retrieved 2007-08-10.
Start Point Lighthouse. Trinity House. Retrieved 2007-08-10.
External links
Start Point Lighthouse from Trinity House
Start Point Lighthouse from Lighthouse Depot
Lighthouses, viaduct and cliff lift at risk
Historic England adds lighthouses, cliff lift and viaduct to At Risk Register A cliff lift, a railway viaduct and a pair of lighthouses have been added to a list of sites at risk of being lost. Historic England has added 247 sites to its At Risk Register but 310 have been removed as they were regarded as saved. The 134-year-old Leas Lift in Folkestone, England's oldest surviving timber trestle railway bridge in Maldon and both Dovercourt Lighthouses in Harwich are on the list. A well in London, a lead mine and a Georgian warship have been removed. Historic England praised those who had lovingly cared for and brought back to life empty buildings and valued historic places. Chief executive Duncan Wilson said: The message is clear - our heritage needs to be saved and investing in heritage pays. There are buildings still on the register that can be rescued and can be brought back to beneficial use and generate an income, contributing to the local community and economy. Sites considered saved in the past year included: Tom BurrowsThe heritage risk list 5,073English sites on 2019 register 2,375Grade I and II* listed buildings and places of worship 2,089Archaeological sites 501Conservation areas 102 Parks and gardens 6Battlefields and wreck sitesSource: Historic England New sites at risk included:The Dovercourt lighthouses and causeway, Harwich Believed to be unique examples of 19th century prefabricated lighthouses, the two towers off the Essex coast are a well-regarded feature of the deep water harbour but they are deteriorating. A survey was carried out in 2018 with a view to repair work commencing over the next two years.Wickham Bishops railway viaduct, Maldon The oldest surviving timber trestle railway bridge in England, the structure at Wickham Bishops, also in Essex, comprises two adjoining viaducts and was part of the Braintree to Maldon branch line between 1848 and 1966. Despite extensive repairs in the 1990s, many timbers are suffering from rot and decay caused by damp, lack of maintenance and heavy tree growth.Leas Lift, Folkestone The Grade II* listed funicular railway in Kent was built in 1885 and is one of only three remaining water-balanced lifts in the UK. It closed in January 2017 because of safety issues with the braking system, since when the building, tracks and machinery have degraded further. A trust has been formed to manage the building with the hope of reopening the lift in 2023.Former Weedon Barracks, Weedon Bec The military complex was constructed as a major depot for arms and ammunition during the Napoleonic Wars and included barracks and a military prison. It would have served as a refuge for the king and government if Napoleon had invaded and remained a main supplier of arms and clothing to the British Army until the 1960s. Part of the site in Northamptonshire has been refurbished and Historic England has funded a survey to see what can be done with the rest.Beckford's Tower, Bath This much-loved landma
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6/32: Brighton to Harwich - an enthralling 100 mile leg
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John and Fionn, our Motorboat adventurers, leave the busy Brighton Marina on a leg that skirts the south-east coast of England. A very low spring tide makes it difficult to get a close-up view of Eastbourne. We learn something interesting about spectacular Beachy Head and also hear the deafening din of windfarm construction! Shark Bay encounters traffic problems in the highly regulated Dover Harbour before an evening landfall in Harwich -- over 100 miles in a fascinating day!
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6/32 Brighton to Harwich – An enthralling 100 mile leg
Right! Off to get some fuel. We’ve done pretty well so far, really pleased with the fuel economy. So, we’re going to top up with fuel here at Brighton Marina and then we are going to do the long haul around the southeast corner of Britain. Then this afternoon, probably the first big challenge for the trip we want to head off across the Thames estuary heading North. Looks pretty sketchy from the charts so it should be an interesting experience.
It seems bizarre to build a lighthouse at the bottom of the cliffs at Beachy Head. In fact there is an older light at the top of the cliffs, the Belle Tout light, but the cliffs are so high that the light was often obscured by low cloud or fog.
What’s happening John?
This is really sketchy, we’ve just come in to try and film Eastbourne pier and we’ve got some of the lowest tides of the year here and although it shouldn’t be this shallow we have suddenly found that we have got virtually no water beneath us so I think we are going to miss out on the close up shots of the Eastbourne pier and just get some distant ones. It’s shallower than it actually shows on the charts, and that shows how big a spring tide we have got at the moment, certainly one of the biggest of the year.
It seems incongruous that suddenly along this coast of chalk cliffs there’s a huge low sand-spit with a nuclear power station on it.
What are you intentions please, you’re coming into Western without any permission and now you’re in the harbour, I don’t know what you’re doing Sir?
OK, my apologies, we are just taking a little bit of film footage and then we are moving on. Shall we get out of the way now, over?
Where are you going to go then?
If you would like to tell me which way you would like us to go out, we will go out that way, over.
If you would like to lead out through the entrance. When you are in the harbour keep listening to what’s on channel 74 please.
Alright my apologies for that, we will do that. Shark Bay out.
There’s a moral to this story, if you want to go into Dover harbour first of all, call the harbour patrol on channel 74, get clearance and make sure you keep away from the ferries.
Can you hear that sound? That’s just resonating over the whole of the ocean here. We are in the middle of the Thames estuary among the area where they build wind farms. We are in just about 4m of water despite the fact that you can’t see land anywhere around. And this is where the wind farms are being built. That’s a construction site of one. We can’t get any nearer at all because in fact there’s a safety boat there which is warning people off. It’s a construction site, it’s a dangerous area. We are just hearing from here, it’s an incredible sound!
And finally, the end of another long and varied day at sea. We’ve again covered well over 100 miles and seen so much. From Dover’s busy port to the mysterious Thames Estuary and now Felixtowe’s busy container port. There are Marinas a little further up the river, but it’s our intention to spend the night on Ha’Penny pier at Harwich.
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The Harwich Peninsular
The Harwich Peninsular in old and new pictures
Day out 2: Harwich town . . .
Part 2 of my low-budget day out from Felixstowe - time for a stroll around the surprisingly charming town of Harwich . . then on again!
Burnham-On-Sea Lighthouse (From Burnham-On-Sea.com)
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