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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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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Manningtree Going Throw Old Harwich To Shout At Dovercourt
Manningtree Going Throw Old Harwich To Shout At Dovercourt They Got Sent Wrong Address It Said Main Road, Harwich When It Should Of Been Main Road, Dovercourt. 14:19 20th June 2008
In Attendance To Shout Were 2 x Dovercourt, 1 x Manningtree, 1 x Weeley
A Walking Tour of Historic Harwich, England Part Two
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. 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 Two of Four about Historic Harwich, England. See the others on my You Tube channel.
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!
SCARY GHOST CAUGHT ON CAMERA at Harwich Redoubt Fort in Essex with WP Paranormal Events
Our 3rd ghost we have caught at this location. All team members accounted for and ONLY team members were in the building at the time.
So who's this walking around?
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Police Car On Call To Old Harwich
Police Car On Call To Old Harwich 31/03/2008 at 18:30
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Harwichport severe thunderstorms flooding in front of Star Market Sisson Road
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
11/32 Amble to Eyemouth - Spectacular wildlife of the East Coast
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Shark Bay journeys north calling in at the Farne Islands - home to some of our most spectacular wildlife. This is everything you need to know about bird watching from puffins to guillemots...and also seals. John and Fionn rate this as a 'must visit' for any other intrepid boat owners. Then there's the rugged beauty of the Northumberland coast and majestic Bamburgh Castle en route to Holy Island to stock up on the local mead...next stop Scotland!
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11/32 Leg 9 - Amble to Eyemouth – Spectacular Wildlife of the East Coast
Tripper boats from the main land bring people out to the Farne Islands to enjoy the spectacular wildlife here.
So we’ve just arrived at the Farne Islands, we are in a mooring called “Kettle” which is almost a complete circle, really sheltered from the currents. The guides from the tripper boats have let us pick up their mooring and so we are going to go ashore for an hour, we are going to pumps up the inflatable, go ashore and check out the island.
The islands are actually open from the 1st April to 30th September, but without a doubt the best time to visit is during the bird breeding season which is from mid-April to late July. Late October to mid-December is the best time to watch seal pups.
The Farnes have been a wildlife sanctuary for almost 100 years. The National Trust took over management in 1925, but it wasn’t always this way. The seals here used to be killed for their skins and oil from their blubber and sea birds and eggs were collected in such numbers that some species almost disappeared.
Today the seal colony on the farms are one of the most important in Europe, numbering between 3000–4000 grey seals, and in the summer tens of thousands of puffins and guillemots breed here, as well as lesser numbers of many other sea birds. The island’s only human residents are now the wardens.
The Farne Islands are an absolute must for anybody who’s cruising this area. Awesome bird colony, absolutely amazing place to visit. Look at that water, it’s absolutely crystal clear now, absolutely beautiful. After all of the muddy water that we have been through, it’s great to see nice, clean, clear water again. That’s an incredible island, the bird colony there is just fantastic!
This Northumberland coast is stunningly beautiful isn’t it, amazing coast line! This used to be the coast of castles, we’ve been passing one after another after another. This is Bamburgh Castle which is probably one of the most beautiful I have ever seen, absolutely stunning castle! We can’t get in any close because it is a really shallow bank here, we’ve got a meter below us already and we’ve got to watch the depth all of the time but it’s about as close as we can get to it.
It’s a flying visit to Lindisfarne - we anchored out here in the harbour, got some post cards, got some mead, went to the Priory, back on the boat heading north. We are still hoping to make it to Scotland today although it’s getting a bit late in the day, we’ll see how we do!
That was just a stampede of seals wasn’t it! Must be 300 or 400 or more just on this sand-spit, just went charging for the water when we came towards them. Incredible spectacle!
After an incredible day we crossed the Scottish border and pulled into Eyemouth looking for a birth for the night.
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Harwich From Above
Harwich is a town in Essex, England and one of the Haven ports, located on the coast with the North Sea to the east.
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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Portland Bill Lighthouse Cinematic Short Film by Drone
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Portland Bill
Portland Bill is a narrow promontory (or bill) at the southern end of the Isle of Portland, and the southernmost point of Dorset, England. One of Portland's most popular destinations is Portland Bill Lighthouse. Portland's coast has been notorious for the number of shipwrecked vessels over the centuries. The dangerous coastline features shallow reefs and the Shambles sandbank, made more hazardous due to the strong Portland tidal race.[1]
The Bill is an important way-point for coastal traffic, and three lighthouses have been built to protect shipping. The original two worked as a pair from 1716, and they were replaced in 1906 by the current one.[1]
Portland Bill Lighthouse
Piles of stone at Portland Bill from quarrying in the area
From Roman times, beacon fires were lit to warn ships of the danger of the Bill.[2] A petition to Trinity House was put forward for a lighthouse in the early 18th century, but Trinity House opposed it. They later conceded that a lighthouse was needed and George I granted the patent on 26 May 1716.[1][2] Trinity House issued a lease to William Barrett and Francis Browne to build and maintain one or more lighthouses.[3]
One lighthouse was built at Branscombe Hill, while the other was situated on lower land.[2] The two lighthouses were lit for the first time on 29 September 1716. The lights were poorly maintained, and Trinity House terminated the lease after an inspection in 1752.[1][4] In 1789, the Old Lower Lighthouse was demolished and rebuilt. In 1844, Trinity House erected a stone obelisk at the southern tip of the Bill as a daymark, and the first lightship was placed at the Shambles sandbank in 1859.[5] In 1869, Trinity House had both lighthouses rebuilt.[1][4]
Pulpit Rock is an artificial stack of rock that was formed in the 1870s by quarrying operations at the Bill.[6] At the turn of the 20th-century, Trinity House put forward plans for a new lighthouse[4][1] which was completed in 1905 and first shone on 11 January 1906.[2] The original two lighthouses were decommissioned and sold.[2][7] The Old Lower Lighthouse later became a bird observatory in 1961.[8] The Old Higher Lighthouse was owned by Marie Stopes from 1923 to 1958 and is now a holiday let.[9] A proper road to Portland Bill was laid in 1922 and this helped the Bill become a tourist destination.[10]
A coastguard lookout at Portland Bill was built in 1934. It closed in the 1990s but was taken over by the National Coastwatch Institution, which rebuilt the station in the 21st century.[11] During the 1960s, the Ministry of Defence Magnetic Range was built at the Bill. Farther up the hill at Branscombe was a Royal Navy Wireless telegraphy station which was established in the early 20th century and closed in the 1990s.[12] The Shambles lightship was permanently withdrawn in 1976 and replaced by automatic buoys.[13] The current lighthouse was unmanned in 1996 and all monitoring and control transferred to the Trinity House Operations & Planning Centre in Harwich. The lighthouse has a visitor centre, while tours are conducted to take visitors to the top of the lighthouse.[14]
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Durlston Castle and Anvil Point on Jurassic Coast of Dorset
John Mowlem (1788-1868), a Swanage-born man, was a stonemason and builder. He was the founder of the quarrying and construction company Mowlem. He and his nephew and business partner George Burt (1816-1894) wanted to give something back to their home town (Swanage, UK), which was the source of their Portland and Purbeck limestone, popular for building at the time. John Mowlem built the Mowlem Institute, a reading room and public library, in 1862. George Burt purchased an undulating tract of land covering Durlston Head during the same year. This estate, the Durlston Estate, included quarries that supplied their firm with limestone. Burt developed this estate as a tourist attraction.
Burt established the Durlston Estate upon the crest of the hill and here he built his folly Durlston Castle. The castle was designed by the Weymouth architect G.R. Crickmay (1830-1907) and built by W.M. Hardy in 1886-87 entirely of local stone. The 'castle' was never a real castle: it was purpose-built by Burt as a restaurant for the visitors to his estate.
The castle played a part in the evolution of radio and telecommunications. A team of Marconi's engineers used the roof of the castle in the 1890s for some of their early wireless experiments to transmit to the Isle of Wight.
The side wall of the castle features a sundial and two stone tablets inscribed with various statistics such as clock times and tides around the world. South of the castle is the Great Globe, built by Burt in 1887.[3] The footpaths around the Castle and Great Globe are lined with cast iron bollards that were brought from London. All around the estate there are further stone plaques carved with quotations from Shakespeare and the Bible, maps showing the English Channel and the United Kingdom, and further facts about the natural world. These surrounds were placed during the period 1887 to 1891.
Also within the Durlston Country Park and within walking distance of the Globe are Durlston Bay, the Tilly Whim Caves and the Anvil Point Lighthouse. The Park is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site.
The lighthouse is built of local stone and was completed in 1881.[3] It was opened by Neville Chamberlain's father, then Minister of Transport. The lighthouse tower is twelve metres tall, the height of the light above the high-water mark is 45 m (148 ft). The light is positioned to give a waypoint for vessels passing along the English Channel coast.
Originally the light was illuminated by a paraffin vapour burner (PVB) set within a large (first order) revolving 14-panel dioptric optic by Chance Brothers & Co.[4] It was the first example of a significant new design of lighthouse optic, whereby (through the use of dense flint glass in the upper and lower portions) the height of a Fresnel lens could be significantly increased, dispensing with the need for additional reflective prisms above and below.[5]
During 1960, the lighthouse was modernised and electrified (with a new lamp, powered by mains electricity, replacing the PVB). At the same time a smaller optic replaced the original lens array, which was removed and donated to the Science Museum.[6]
Anvil Point Lighthouse was fully automated on 31 May 1991 and is now monitored and controlled from the Trinity House Operations Control Centre at Harwich.
The lighthouse had a 1,000 watt filament lamp with an intensity of 500,000 Candela. The lights range was about 19 nautical miles (35 km; 22 mi), but was reduced to 9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi) following a review of aids to navigation in 2010.
In 2012, a LED lamp was installed above the rotating Fresnel lens to serve as the main light at Anvil Point; its character is, as it was previously, a white flash every 10 seconds (The old lens, though no longer in use, remains in place in the tower.)
The old fog signal was a 5-minute cannon. In 1960 this was replaced by an electric emitter. In 1981 new automatic equipment was installed, but the fog signal was discontinued in 1988.
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Sunset at the Oasis @ Harwich Essex
A short animated video of my photographs taken at Dovercourt Bay, Harwich, Essex. one fine evening in 2008
Welcome to Dovercourt (Old Film Style)
My look at Dovercourt, Essex in the style of an old movie. I created the video using my mobile phone's camera so the video is jerky.
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