Places to see in ( Newbiggin by the Sea - UK )
Places to see in ( Newbiggin by the Sea - UK )
Newbiggin-by-the-Sea is a small town in Northumberland, England, lying on the North Sea coast. Once an important port for shipping grain and a coal mining town, it is still a small fishing port making use of traditional coble boats. Fishing has always been associated with Newbiggin, although later many inhabitants were employed in coal mining. By Victorian times, Newbiggin was Northumberland's favourite seaside town, attracting hundreds of visitors every day in the summer months.
In 1869, there were 142 cobles (fishing boats) in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea. Newbiggin Colliery was sunk in 1908. The colliery closed in 1967, but at its peak in 1940, 1,400 men were employed there. The former Newbiggin Colliery Band is now the Jayess Newbiggin Brass Band, named for its president and former member, cornet legend James Shepherd.
The town was at the end of the first telegraph cable from Scandinavia in 1868, and was laid from Jutland, Denmark. Attractions in Newbiggin today include the 13th century parish church, and the new flagship Newbiggin Maritime Centre, which has replaced the former heritage centre at a cost of £3million.
The lifeboat station was opened in 1851 following a fishing disaster in which ten Newbiggin fishermen lost their lives in stormy seas. It is the oldest operational boathouse in the British Isles. Celebrating over 160 years as a lifeboat station, Newbiggin has had 13 different station lifeboats over the years; today it operates an inshore Atlantic 85 lifeboat. The crews have been presented with 16 awards for gallantry.
Newbiggin-by-the-Sea boasts the longest promenade in Northumberland. Each spring and autumn, the promenade becomes a prime location for naturalists watching the North Sea seabird migratory passage. Woodhorn Church was once the mother church in the Parish of Woodhorn with Newbiggin. When she was declared redundant in 1973, that role passed to St Bartholomew's.
( Newbiggin by the Sea - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Newbiggin by the Sea . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Newbiggin by the Sea - UK
Join us for more :
Hundred of Hoo Railway, Kent line in 1958
The Hundred of Hoo Railway is a railway line in Kent, England, following the North Kent Line from Gravesend before diverging at Hoo Junction near Shorne Marshes and continuing in an easterly direction across the Hoo Peninsula, passing near the villages of Cooling, High Halstow, Cliffe and Stoke before reaching the Isle of Grain and the container port on its eastern tip, Thamesport. There used to be a short branch line leading from Stoke Junction to the coastal town of Allhallows but this closed from 4 December 1961, the same date on which the Hundred of Hoo line was closed to passenger services.
Isle of Grain, Rochester £319,995 | New Move Estate Agents
With bags of character and many period features this 3 double bed detached riverside cottage is a delight, situated on the sea front it has extensive panoramic views over the Thames Estuary to Southend and is only minutes walk to the Grain coastal path walk with views over the Medway Estuary to Sheerness, the enchanting garden (approx 1/3rd of acre) is divided into 3 picturesque secluded areas, this one must be seen.
Hike round sheppey-through the tunnel
going through a tunnel on our hike round sheppy
Old Photographs Beauly Highlands Of Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Beauly, Scottish Gaelic: A' Mhanachainn, a town in the Kilmorack Parish of the Scottish Highlands. The town historically traded in coal, timber, lime, grain and fish. Mary Queen of Scots is said to have visited Beauly in 1564 and stayed overnight. The history of the village is inextricably linked with a number of the Scottish clans, most notably the Lovat Frasers who owned much of the land around the town. The Chisholms owned much of the land on the north side of the River Beauly and ruled from Erchless Castle while the Mackenzie clan ruled the lands to the North of Beauly. Beauly is the site of the Beauly Priory, or the Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin and John the Baptist, founded in 1230 by John Byset of the Aird, for Valliscaulian monks. Following the Reformation, the buildings, except for the church, which is now a ruin, passed into the possession of Lord Lovat. Beauly is also the site of Lovat Castle, which once belonged to the Bissets, but was presented by James VI, to Hugh Fraser, 5th Lord Lovat and later demolished. The Inverness and Ross-shire Railway, which was to be a line between Inverness and Invergordon, was authorised in 1860, and opened in stages. The first section, that between Inverness and Dingwall, opened on 11 June 1862, and one of the original stations was that at Beauly. The River Beauly, Scottish Gaelic: Abhainn nam Manach, is a river in the Scottish Highlands, about 10 miles west of the city of Inverness. The river begins near the village of Struy, at the confluence of the River Farrar and the River Glass. The river meanders as it flows east, passing to the south of the village of Beauly and into the Beauly Firth. Beaufort Castle near the town of Beauly is a Baronial style mansion built in 1880, but incorporates older building work. There has been a castle on the site since the 12th century. Beaufort is the traditional seat of the Lords Lovat. The earliest mention of the site, as Downie or Dounie Castle, occurs in the reign of King Alexander I, 1106 to 1124, when a siege took place.
Water Eaton Grain Tower.
A mooch about Water Eaton Grain Tower on a hot and beautiful day.
Forgotten History in the Town of Dover (VLOG 4)
Please check out AMJ the comedian and radio presenter Adam-Morrison Jones.
Support him folks hes a great guy :)
Sorry to say the weathers been really crap lately and the drone footage I wanted for this video was not done :(
In the video we take a look at the forgotten history of two locations in Dover kent. Victoria Park Houses that were built in 1864 to house officers that were located at Dover Castle, with the locations of ww2 air raid shelters behind them.
The second location is St James' Church built in the 11th century and was damaged in both world wars.
#IKS
Freight Train
Travelling from Isle of Grain Kent on the original steam operated line that carried Queen Victoria to catch the ferry at Port Victoria to Sheerness.
201612 Park with Wayne High Halstow
Places to see in ( Kirkwall - UK )
Places to see in ( Kirkwall - UK )
Kirkwall is the largest town and capital of the Orkney Islands of Scotland. The town is first mentioned in Orkneyinga saga in the year 1046 when it is recorded as the residence of Rögnvald Brusason the Earl of Orkney, who was killed by his uncle Thorfinn the Mighty. In 1486, King James III of Scotland elevated Kirkwall to the status of a royal burgh; modern roadsigns still indicate The City and Royal Burgh of Kirkwall. The name Kirkwall comes from the Norse name Kirkjuvagr (Church Bay), which later changed to Kirkvoe, Kirkwaa and Kirkwall.
Kirkwall is a port with ferry services to Aberdeen and Lerwick, as well as the principal north islands in the group. At the heart of the town stands St. Magnus Cathedral, which was founded in memory of Saint Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney 1108–1117 by Earl (later Saint) Rögnvald Kali. Next to the Cathedral are the ruins of the former Bishop's Palace and Earl's Palace. The town has two museums, the larger being Tankerness House Museum, which contains items of local historical interest within one of Scotland's best-preserved sixteenth-century town-houses. The prehistoric, Pictish and Viking collections are of international importance. The other museum is the Orkney Wireless Museum, dealing with the history of radio and recorded sound.
Apart from the main historical buildings mentioned above, Kirkwall has many 17th–18th-century houses and other structures in the local vernacular style. The 'Kirk' of Kirkwall was not the Cathedral (which was originally at Birsay), but the 11th-century church of Saint Olaf of Norway. One late medieval doorway survives from this church, and an aumbry from the original church survives within the late 19th-century structure of the present-day Saint Olaf's Church (Episcopal) in the town's Dundas Crescent. Kirkwall also once had a medieval castle, which was destroyed in the 17th century.
On the west edge of the town, surrounded by Hatston Industrial Estate, is a prehistoric ancient monument, Grain Earth House (Historic Scotland), a short low stone-walled passage deep underground leading to a small pillared chamber. One of the major annual events in the town is the Ba Game, held each Christmas Day and New Year's Day between the Uppies and the Doonies, each team representing one half of the town. Kirkwall also has the most northerly of the world's Carnegie libraries, which was opened by Andrew Carnegie and his wife in 1909.
( Kirkwall - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Kirkwall . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Kirkwall - UK
Join us for more :
Places to see in ( Beauly - UK )
Places to see in ( Beauly - UK )
Beauly is a town in the Kilmorack Parish of the Scottish County of Inverness, on the River Beauly, 10 miles west of Inverness by the Far North railway line. The town is now within the Highland council area. The land around Beauly is fertile - historically corn was grown extensively and more recently fruit has successfully been farmed. The town historically traded in coal, timber, lime, grain and fish.
Beauly is the site of the Beauly Priory, or the Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin and John the Baptist, founded in 1230 by John Byset of the Aird, for Valliscaulian monks. Following the Reformation, the buildings (except for the church, which is now a ruin) passed into the possession of Lord Lovat. Beauly is also the site of Lovat Castle, which once belonged to the Bissets, but was presented by James VI, to Hugh Fraser, 5th Lord Lovat and later demolished.
In 1994 Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat sold Beaufort castle to Ann Gloag (director of the Stagecoach Group) to pay off debts. In 2002, the Beauly railway station, built in 1862 and closed in 1960, was renovated and reopened. Beauly is in the Aird and Loch Ness Ward of the Highland Council.
The extensive ruins of the abbey church of Beauly Priory with funerary monuments (notably including those of the Mackenzie family) are managed by Historic Scotland. The town is known for the Beauly Shinty Club, its shinty team, who have won the Camanachd Cup three times and have been World Champions once. To the south-east of Beauly is the church of Kirkhill, Highland containing the vault of the Lovats as well as a number of septs of the Mackenzies, including Seaforth and Mackenzies of Gairloch.
3 miles (5 km) south of Beauly is Beaufort Castle, the chief seat of the Lovats, a modern mansion in the Scottish baronial style. It occupies the site of a fortress erected in the time of Alexander II, which was besieged in 1303 by Edward I. This was replaced by several castles in succession. One of these, Castle Dounie, was attacked and burned by the forces of Oliver Cromwell in 1650 and razed again by the royal army of Prince William, Duke of Cumberland in 1746 during the Jacobite Rising. Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat witnessed this latter conflagration of his castle from a neighbouring hill (he then fled and took refuge in the Highlands before his capture on Loch Morar).
( Beauly - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Beauly . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Beauly - UK
Join us for more :
Expulsion of the Acadians
The Expulsion of the Acadians, also known as the Great Upheaval, the Great Expulsion, the Great Deportation and Le Grand Dérangement, was the forced removal by the British of the Acadian people from the present day Canadian Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island —an area also known as Acadie. The Expulsion occurred during the French and Indian War and was part of the British military campaign against New France. The British first deported Acadians to the Thirteen Colonies, and after 1758 transported additional Acadians to Britain and France. In all, of the 14,100 Acadians in the region, approximately 11,500 Acadians were deported.
After the British conquest of Acadia in 1710, the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht allowed the Acadians to keep their lands. Over the next forty-five years, however, the Acadians refused to sign an unconditional oath of allegiance to Britain. During the same period, they also participated in various military operations against the British, and maintained supply lines to the French fortresses of Louisbourg and Fort Beauséjour. As a result, the British sought to eliminate any future military threat posed by the Acadians and to permanently cut the supply lines they provided to Louisbourg by removing them from the area.
This video is targeted to blind users.
Attribution:
Article text available under CC-BY-SA
Creative Commons image source in video
12TH CENTURY CASTLE LIES IN RUINS (WHY??)
IKS:
IKS Chris Instagram:
#IKS
Mark Reckless MP: Rochester and Strood says No Estuary Airport
Mark Reckless MP meets with residents and campaigners at St James' Church, Cooling to reveal the results of his No Estuary Airport ballot and to talk about his submission to the Davies Aviation Commission.
Cliffe Fort - Flooded magazines (Location 2)
IKS Production 2011/12
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cliffe Fort is a Royal Commission fort built in the 1860s on the edge of the Cliffe marshes on the Hoo Peninsula in north Kent
The Leas at Minster & Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey sea fishing marks, Kent, England
The Leas at Minster-on-Sea & Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey beach fishing marks, Kent, England.
for more angling video guides to
English South Coast shore fishing marks.
Two popular spots for thornback ray fishing, this video shows low tide footage, including the shipwrecks at Royal Oak Point, giving the shore angler an idea of that to expect on their first visit.
IRELAND - WikiVidi Documentary
Ireland is an island in the North Atlantic. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest on Earth. Politically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland , which covers five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom, in the northeast of the island. In 2011, the population of Ireland was about 6.4 million, ranking it the second-most populous island in Europe after Great Britain. Just under 4.6 million live in the Republic of Ireland and just over 1.8 million live in Northern Ireland. The island's geography comprises relatively low-lying mountains surrounding a central plain, with several navigable rivers extending inland. The island has lush vegetation, a product of its mild, but changeable climate which is free of extremes in temperature. Thick woodlands covered...
____________________________________
Shortcuts to chapters:
00:03:58: Name
00:04:14: Prehistoric Ireland
00:07:01: Emergence of Celtic Ireland
00:10:39: Late antiquity and early medieval times
00:15:17: Norman and English invasions
00:19:56: The Kingdom of Ireland
00:24:00: Union with Great Britain
00:30:41: Partition
00:31:38: Independence
00:34:43: Northern Ireland
00:39:34: Politics
00:40:01: Republic of Ireland
00:41:10: Northern Ireland
00:42:18: All-island institutions
00:44:09: Economy
00:44:52: Tourism
00:46:38: Energy
00:50:10: Geography
00:53:54: Climate
00:56:01: Flora and fauna
00:59:52: Impact of agriculture
01:02:09: Demographics
01:05:08: Divisions and settlements
01:07:25: Migration
01:09:40: Languages
01:13:53: Culture
01:15:57: Literature
01:19:01: Music
01:21:57: Art
01:22:36: Science
01:26:19: Sports
01:27:55: Field sports
01:32:34: Other sports
01:36:00: Recreation
____________________________________
Copyright WikiVidi.
Licensed under Creative Commons.
Wikipedia link:
A Look Back at the Buildup to the Great War
As the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War One approaches, Margaret MacMillan, Robert K. Massie, and David A. Andelman discuss the rivalries and alliances in Europe during the years leading up to the war.
Speakers:
Margaret MacMillan, Author, The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914; Warden, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford
Robert K. Massie, Author, Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War
Presider:
David A. Andelman, Editor, World Policy Journal; Author, A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today
Built On Agriculture Part 1 - The Selkirk Settlers
“Built on Agriculture” is a 4 part documentary series that pays tribute to the people who settled the plains of Manitoba and what they achieved.
Part 1: The Selkirk Settlers
Lord Selkirk’s compassion for the Scottish crofters helped seed the Canadian prairies with a population that helped retain the land for Canada. They faced many struggles surviving the early decades and becoming successful farmers. Because of their success the prairies were then settled by waves of immigrant farmers attracted by free land and fueled by the Canadian Government’s support for the railroad.
Production funding for Built on Agriculture was provided by Manitoba Government Growing Forward 2, a federal-provincial territorial initiative, Government of Canada; MacDon Industries Ltd., Monsanto Canada Inc., The Bicentenary of the Red River Selkirk Settlement Committee, Parrish & Heimbecker Limited, Richardson Foundation, The Winnipeg Foundation, and the Members of Prairie Public.
The Kolbrin - Part 7
Download the PDF in the following link.