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Burrator Reservoir, Dartmoor National Park, England
Burrator Reservoir, Dartmoor National Park - a well chilled place. Burrator Reservoir is a beautiful spot set in the midst of farmland and moorland close to the villages of Sheepstor and Meavy. Mr Edward Sandeman (1862-1959) was appointed Plymouth's Water Engineer in July 1891. He had previously been the Assistant Engineer at Blackburn in Lancashire, where he had carried out important works worth over £1 million. In December 1891 he prepared a report on the water supply of Plymouth in which he recommended the Burrator Gorge for a storage reservoir and the provision of a direct pipeline from there into the Town. The Corporation adopted his scheme on March 30th 1892. The Plymouth Corporation Act of June 9th 1893 authorised the construction of the reservoir, along with a pipe-line from there to the service reservoir at Roborough. Work started on the construction of the Burrator Dam on August 9th 1893, with Sheepstor Dam being started the following year, both under Mr Sandeman's supervision. The Burrator Dam is built across the river Meavy at the Burrator Gorge. It is constructed of concrete faced with dressed granite. The smaller one at Sheepstor is built on a dividing ridge between the Meavy and Sheepstor Brook and is formed by an earth embankment with a core wall of puddled clay above the original ground level and a concrete section below ground. Officially opened Wednesday September 21st 1898 by the Mayor, Councillor J T Bond. It cost £178,000 of which the two Dams cost £102,000 and £24,000 respectively. It was reported shortly afterwards that as a result of the construction of the Reservoir, the revenue from the water property had increased from £13,000 to £15,000 per year while the expenditure had decreased from £4,000 to £3,500. Mention was also made of the fact that although the Reservoir was completely frozen over in January 1917, when the top was covered with ice 10 inches thick, a constant supply of water was still delivered to the Town. The watershed for the Reservoir was stated in the 1930s to be 5,360 acres. In order to preserve the purity of the water discharging into the Reservoir, the Corporation bought the whole of the watershed in 1916. The last portion of land was freely donated to the Town by Mr John Bayly. Boundary posts marked PCWW 1917 can be found on the moorland surrounding that area.
Work started on raising both the Burrator and Sheepstor Dams by 10 feet in December 1923. This would enlarge the capacity from 668 million gallons to 1,026 million. The work was financed by the Government as part of an unemployment relief programme. A suspension bridge was erected by Messrs Orr, Watt & Company, of Motherwell ion Scotland, near Burrator Dam to carry traffic while the work proceeded. At each end was a sign that read:
NOTICE
NOTHING EXCEEDING
10 Tons WEIGHT
MUST CROSS THIS BRIDGE.
CHARS-A-BANC
ARE NOT ALLOWED
ON THE BRIDGE.
However, that apparently did not deter Mr Russell Lillicrap, a timber merchant from Horrabridge, who drove his traction engine towing a threshing machine across it. The weight strecthed the cables so much that they had to be repaired. The enlarged reservoir was opened by the Mayor of Plymouth, Alderman W H J Priest, at the Fyshinge Feast held on Wednesday September 12th 1928. On September 21st 1929 the Council granted the workmen a days paid leave. The whole area has been afforestated and gives the Reservoir the look of an alpine lake. The area of the Reservoir at overflow level is about 150 acres.
Plymouth Maritime Headquarters (Mount Wise)
A walk around the upper section of Mount Wise bunker.
Pre-arranged trip 2009
Many thanks to the owners
IKS Production 2009
Visiting Burrator in Devon
This week I went to Burrator Resevoir in Devon, U.K. and took my camera with me. Although I shot the video during late October 2009, many of the trees still had their leaves and it didn't feel cold enough for late Autumn at all. Your polite comments are welcomed - sorry for the quality of some of the video - saving up for a better camera soon.
Kolkata's most famous landmark - Howrah Bridge
One can see the most famous landmark of Kolkata is the Howrah Bridge or Rabindra Setu and also ferry sailing on the river Hooghly.
The Howrah Bridge, is a cantilever bridge with a suspended span over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India. Commissioned in 1943, the bridge was originally named the New Howrah Bridge, because it replaced a pontoon bridge at the same location linking the two cities of Howrah and Kolkata (Calcutta). On 14 June 1965 it was renamed Rabindra Setu, after the great Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, who was the first Indian and Asian Nobel laureate. It is still popularly known as the Howrah Bridge.
The bridge is one of four on the Hooghly River and is a famous symbol of Kolkata and West Bengal. The other bridges are the Vidyasagar Setu (popularly called the Second Hooghly Bridge), the Vivekananda Setu, and the newly built Nivedita Setu. It weathers the storms of the Bay of Bengal region, carrying a daily traffic of approximately 100,000 vehicles and possibly more than 150,000 pedestrians, easily making it the busiest cantilever bridge in the world. The third-longest cantilever bridge at the time of its construction, the Howrah Bridge is the sixth-longest bridge of its type in the world.
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Rabindra Setu or Howrah Bridge: Kolkata landmark
The Howrah Bridge, is a cantilever bridge with a suspended span over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India. Commissioned in 1943, the bridge was originally named the New Howrah Bridge, because it replaced a pontoon bridge at the same location linking the two cities of Howrah and Kolkata (Calcutta). On 14 June 1965 it was renamed Rabindra Setu, after the great Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, who was the first Indian and Asian Nobel laureate. It is still popularly known as the Howrah Bridge.
Kolkata is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly river, it is the principal commercial, cultural, and educational centre of East India, while the Port of Kolkata is India's oldest operating port as well as its sole major riverine port. As of 2011, the city had 4.5 million residents; the urban agglomeration, which comprises the city and its suburbs, was home to approximately 14.1 million, making it the third-most populous metropolitan area in India. As of 2008, its economic output as measured by gross domestic product ranked third among South Asian cities, behind Mumbai and Delhi.
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Bondi Beach Sydney, Australia
Bondi Beach is the world famous beach in the Sydney suburbs. It's beautiful located in a small bay and there's lots of small shops and cafés close to the beach. There's lifeguards on patrol along the beach, on the look out for people in danger for currents, sharks etc.
Manly is another nice beach in the Sydney area:
Kolkata Metro Railway
At Moidan station, this is the oldest metro railway service in India.
Usha Uthup sings 'Kolkata Kolkata', a Bengali song
Indian playback singer Usha Uthup sings 'Kolkata Kolkata' a Bengali song on a television show. The tune was given to Usha Uthup by A. R. Rehman and lyrics were written by Ratan Saha.
Usha Uthup was brought up in the bustling metropolis of Mumbai. Though she has not learned music formally, her passion for music was present right from the moment she uttered her first words!
Usha Uthup sings in more than thirteen Indian and eight foreign languages. Besides singing in several Indian languages like Hindi, Punjabi, Bangla, Assamese, Oriya, Khasi, Gujurati, Marathi, Konkani, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu she also sings in French, German, Italian, Sinhalese, Swahili, Russian, Nepalese, Arabic, Creole, and of course, English.
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