Historic Images of Ryde
Historic images of Ryde, Isle of Wight
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Drive | Sydney | Rhodes to Sydney Olympic Park
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Rhodes was named after the home of an early resident, Thomas Walker (1791–1861), which was built on the north-eastern side of the peninsula. Walker named his property Rhodes after his grandmother's home, Rhodes Hall, in Leeds, England. The house was demolished in 1919, when the land was purchased by the John Darling Flour Mills, later owned by Allied Feeds Limited.[6]
Industry invaded the once picturesque and heavily forested isthmus in 1911 when Messrs. G & C. Hoskins established a large foundry specialising in the manufacture of cast iron pipes for gas and city water reticulation purposes. In 1930 their operations moved to Port Kembla, and in 1935 the site was taken over by CSR.[7] During the period from about 1930 to the mid-1980s, the western part of the suburb between Homebush Bay and the railway line was taken up by chemical manufacturing.
The main manufacturers were Berger Paints, CSR Chemicals,[8] Union Carbide,[9] and Allied Feeds.[10][11]
The former Tulloch Limited Phoenix Iron Works were located between the railway line and Concord Road, south of Mary Street. They gave their name to Tulloch Avenue and Phoenix Avenue. This is now the site of the Hewlett Packard offices in Sydney. Tullochs manufactured rolling stock for the New South Wales Government Railways.
In October 2010, the City of Canada Bay approved a plan which would allow up to 5 buildings of 25 storeys in this Western section. The expected population in this western section is over 11,000, making it one of the most densely populated areas of Sydney outside the CBD. There are no facilities for organised active recreation or school education within this area.
Aboriginal people have been associated with the Homebush Bay area for many thousands of years. When Europeans arrived in 1788, the Homebush Bay area formed part of the traditional lands of the Wanngal clan. The lands of the Wanngal clan extended along the southern shore of the Parramatta River between about Leichhardt and Auburn. The Wanngal clan would have had access rights to the resources of the Homebush Bay area, but would have routinely interacted with neighbouring clan groups.
Shortly after the British colonisation of Sydney several smallpox epidemics ravaged the local Aboriginal population, leaving many of the clans seriously depleted. By way of adaptation, members of neighbouring clan groups are known to have joined together to ensure their survival. Aboriginal people were still using the Homebush Bay area in the early 1800s even after their lands were granted to Europeans. Several encounters and conflicts between Europeans and Aboriginal people are documented for the Homebush Bay area throughout the 1790s, and in the early 1800s Aboriginal people (perhaps of the Wanngal clan) were working for and supplying fish to europeans in the area.[3] No references have yet been located which describe Aboriginal people living in the Homebush Bay area for the period after the 1810s; however, this is the subject of ongoing research through the Aboriginal History & Connections Program, a long-term program aimed at documenting Aboriginal connections to the Homebush Bay area before and after the arrival of Europeans launched by the Sydney Olympic Park Authority in April 2002.
Today the Homebush Bay area is within the asserted traditional cultural boundary of the Darug language group, of which the Wanngal clan is said to have belonged. The descendents of Darug traditional owners of the Sydney area play a custodial role in the preservation of Aboriginal cultural heritage and are actively involved with archaeological and historical research in and around Homebush Bay. The area also falls within the administrative boundary of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council which also plays a major role in the investigation and preservation of Aboriginal culture and heritage.
Southern Vectis Bus Cam - Route 9 - Newport To Ryde - May 2018 | kittikoko
Top deck front seat view. I have removed audio from this journey, so feel free to put your favourite songs on in the background and enjoy the ride!
Newport Bus Station
Fairlee Medina Leisure Centre
Wootton Cedars
Binstead Newnham Road
Ryde Bus Station
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Buses Yearbook 2018
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Places to see in ( Portsmouth - UK )
Places to see in ( Portsmouth - UK )
Portsmouth is a port city and naval base on England’s south coast, mostly spread across Portsea Island. It’s known for its maritime heritage and Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. The dockyard is home to the interactive National Museum of the Royal Navy, the wooden warship HMS Victory, where Nelson died in the Battle of Trafalgar, and HMS Warrior 1860. The Tudor ship Mary Rose is also conserved in a dockyard museum.
Portsmouth is a port city in Hampshire, England, mainly on Portsea Island, 70 miles (110 km) south-west of London and 19 miles (31 km) south-east of Southampton. The city of Portsmouth forms part of the South Hampshire built-up area, which also covers Southampton and the towns of Havant, Waterlooville, Eastleigh, Fareham, and Gosport.
Portsmouth is one of the world's best known ports. HMNB Portsmouth is considered to be the home of the Royal Navy and is home to two-thirds of the UK's surface fleet. The city is home to some famous ships, including HMS Warrior, the Tudor carrack Mary Rose and Horatio Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory (the world's oldest naval ship still in commission). The former HMS Vernon naval shore establishment has been redeveloped as a retail park known as Gunwharf Quays. Portsmouth is among the few British cities with two cathedrals: the Anglican Cathedral of St Thomas and the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St John the Evangelist. The waterfront and Portsmouth Harbour are dominated by the Spinnaker Tower, one of the United Kingdom's tallest structures at 560 feet (170 m). Nearby Southsea is a seaside resort with a pier amusement park and medieval castle.
Portsmouth F.C., the city's professional football club, play their home games at Fratton Park. The city has several mainline railway stations that connect to London Waterloo amongst other lines in southern England. Portsmouth International Port is a commercial cruise ship and ferry port for international destinations. The port is the second busiest in the United Kingdom after Dover, handling around three million passengers a year. The city formerly had its own airport, Portsmouth Airport, until its closure in 1973. The University of Portsmouth enrols 23,000 students and is ranked among the world's best modern universities. Portsmouth is also the birthplace of author Charles Dickens and engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Alot to see in ( Portsmouth - UK ) such as :
HMNB Portsmouth
Spinnaker Tower
HMS Victory
D-Day Museum
HMS Warrior
Southsea Castle
Blue Reef Aquarium
Mary Rose Museum
National Museum of the Royal Navy
Portsmouth City Museum
Portsmouth Harbour
HMS M33
Clarence Pier
Round Tower
Portsmouth Cathedral
Spitbank Fort
Eastney
Portsea Island
Domus Dei
Portsdown Hill
HMS Alliance
Stansted Park
Portchester Castle
Royal Navy Submarine Museum
Explosion! Museum of Naval Firepower
Victoria Park, Portsmouth
Charles Dickens' Birthplace Museum
Southsea Model Village
Cumberland House Natural History Museum
Farlington Marshes
Alexandra Park, Portsmouth
No Man's Land Fort
Fort Blockhouse
Fort Cumberland
Southsea Rock Gardens
Canoe Lake
Portchester, St Mary
Fort Widley
Stokes Bay
Genting Casino Portsmouth
Seagrove Bay
Creech Wood
( Portsmouth - UK) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Portsmouth . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Portsmouth - UK
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1938 stock heritage train accelerating out of Heathrow Terminals 1, 2, 3
This is London Underground's 1938 stock tube train accelerating out of Heathrow, a station it would probably never have visited when in service! You can get a good feel for the motor noise and the experience of being in one of these trains in a tunnel, with the ambience of the dim tungsten bulbs.
UK - Scotsman fails - County of Essex to the rescue - 19/5/2016
Flying Scotsman failed to make an appearance on The Cathedrals Express from York to London Kings Cross on Thursday 19th May 2016. Class 47 diesel 47580, County of Essex, stood in at the last minute.
We see the 47 working hard on Gamston Bank, south of Retford. The 47 is preceded by an Inter City 125 which gives us a musical horn rendition, a Freightliner Class 66 and a Grand Central Class 180.
UK: Riding on board an ex London Underground Tube train (1938 stock) on the Isle of Wight
Riding on board an ex London Underground train on the Isle of Wight in Southern England. The train is the 15:38 service from Shanklin to Ryde Pier Head and is formed of '1938 stock' that used to operate on the London Underground. Recorded 4th August 2012.
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The 1938 Tube Stock is a London Underground tube stock design. A total of 1,121 cars were built by Metro-Cammell and Birmingham RC&W. An additional 167 cars (91 new builds plus 76 conversions) were subsequently added to the fleet, and the stock was used on the London Underground until 1988. During their long lives they worked on the Bakerloo, Northern, Piccadilly, East London and Central lines. Some examples are still at work on the Isle Of Wight as Class 483, making them the oldest passenger rolling stock operating timetabled services on the National Rail network.
The only examples still in daily use are the six units that survive operating the Island Line service on the Isle of Wight, and allocated TOPS Class 483. Ten sets (nine serviceable; a total of twenty cars) were bought by Network SouthEast from London Underground in 1988.
After running many years in NSE colours, the trains were repainted into 'dinosaur' livery. However, as of mid-2008, all trains had been returned to an approximation of their original LT train red livery; albeit with yellow fronts as per mainline regulations.
In addition, some other units survive in preservation, including cars from the first-built unit, which are preserved at the London Transport Museum Depot in Acton. A driving cab had been preserved at the London Transport Museum (LTM) in Covent Garden, but was not included in the Museum's refurbishment. It was fitted as a driving stock simulator, and was located next to the Museum's driving trailer.
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The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest island in England, located in the English Channel, on average about 2--5 miles (3--7 km) off the south coast of the county of Hampshire, separated from the mainland by a strait called the Solent.
It is easily accessible from Southsea (Portsmouth) by hovercraft. Several ferry services operate across the Solent: the route from Southampton to Cowes is 10 miles (16 km), Portsmouth to Ryde 3 miles (7 km), Portsmouth to Fishbourne 7 miles (11 km), and Lymington to Yarmouth 4 miles (6 km).
The island formerly had its own railway network of over 88 km, but only one line remains in regular use. The Island Line is part of the United Kingdom's National Rail network, running a little under 14 kilometres from Ryde to Shanklin. The line was opened by the Isle of Wight Railway in 1864, and from 1996 to 2007 was run by the smallest train operating company on the network, Island Line Trains. It is notable for utilising ex-London Underground rolling stock. Branching off the Island Line at Smallbrook Junction is the heritage Isle of Wight Steam Railway, which runs for 5.5 miles to the outskirts of Wootton.
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Back on track: A Q stock project
We are restoring a unique piece of the District line’s heritage, the last remaining 1930s Q stock cars.
The 1930s Q stock trains were formed from sleek new cars with flared sides, purpose-built to run with a mix of older cars with American-style clerestory roofs dating from 1923.
Unlike modern fleets which are all built from identical connecting cars, passengers never knew what formation of cars would pull into their platform.
We need your help to raise £200,000 to preserve these rare and distinctive examples of London’s transport heritage, for future generations to enjoy.
Donate here:
When the British Council had a royal visit
Prince Edward and Princess Sophie paid our partner school in Versailles a visit...
Upminster Depot Open Day 1990
An open day in August 1990 at the London Underground Limited (LUL) District Line's Upminster Depot.
The trains seen include:
*D78 stock (plus an inspection pit walk below the train)
*C stock (in both original and experimental refurbished fleet liveries),
*Q38 stock pilot driving motors
*a preserved N / Q35 stock trailer
*the two 1960 tube stock DM's for the track recording train,
*1983 tube stock,
*the BREL (blue livery) 1986 tube stock,
*battery locomotives,
*Mercedes-Benz U1000 Unimog Road-Railer L84, (more footage of this can be found at this link:
*RM, RF, RMC buses,
*a steam train which shuttled between the depot and Upney station
In 1990 the Northern Line Morden depot also had an open day, the film showing this can be seen at this link:
More footage of the steam train can be seen at this link:
The train comprised:
Met No.1 steam locomotive, 2 former British Railways passenger carriages and battery electric locomotive No. L44
The passenger carriages look like they were:
Mk1 BSK No. 35011 numbered 977588 (brake second corridor)
and Mk2C FO No. 3152 numbered 977547 (first open)
A Walk Around The Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, England
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is an area of HM Naval Base Portsmouth which is open to the public; it contains several historic buildings and ships. It is managed by the National Museum of the Royal Navy as an umbrella organisation representing five charities: the Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust, the National Museum of the Royal Navy Portsmouth, the Mary Rose Trust, the Warrior Preservation Trust Ltd and the HMS Victory Preservation Company. Portsmouth Historic Dockyard Ltd was created to promote and manage the tourism element of the Royal Navy Dockyard, with the relevant trusts maintaining and interpreting their own attractions. It also promotes other nearby navy-related tourist attractions.
The National Museum of the Royal Navy was first opened in Portsmouth in 1911. The museum is host to many original Naval artefacts, including one of the original sails from the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. You can also see the Trafalgar Experience, an interactive walk-through gallery which details the Battle of Trafalgar and ends with the famous Wyllie Panorama. The museum also includes World War I Monitor HMS M33, which opened to the public in 2015, the centenary year of her launch.
HMS Victory has been open to the public for nearly 200 years. She was the famous flagship of Admiral Horatio, Lord Nelson who he famously died on during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. She was moved into her current dry-dock in 1922 where she has remained since.
The Mary Rose was raised in front of a worldwide TV audience in 1982. She was then brought to Portsmouth and housed in dry dock. A new £35million museum, housing the ship and thousands of artefacts that were also recovered, opened in May 2013.
HMS Warrior 1860 was brought back home to Portsmouth in 1987, to further add to the collection of historic ships Portsmouth had to offer. As the world’s first iron clad warship, she represented a milestone in shipbuilding when sh was launched in 1860 and never fired a shot in anger.
Harbour Tours represent the chance to see the Historic Dockyard and Naval Base from the water. The trip leaves from Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, heads up to the North West corner of the Naval Base, making a quick stop at Gunwharf Quays before coming back to the Historic Dockyard.
Action Stations opened to the public in 2001 in the historic Boathouse No. 6. This building houses an interactive experience of the modern Royal Navy, including flight simulators, climbing walls and towers amongst many others. A recent addition is a Laser Quest experience, which offers another completely different use of this building
Boathouse 4 is due to open in 2015 as a Boatbuilding and Heritage Skills Centre Alongside an exhibition telling the story of small boats in the Royal Navy, visitors will be able to see traditional boatbuilding skills in action. The nearby Boathouse 5 houses a Historic Boat Workshop, part of the International Boatbuilding Training College.
Assurance Review on planning in the Ryde LGA, Listening Session 2
Thursday 7 February 2019.
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London Transport Museum 2018
The Medway Queen - Dunkirk evacuation paddle steamer
The paddle steamer Medway Queen is famous both as a well-remembered seaside excursion steamer and as the ship that saved 7000 soldiers during the Dunkirk Evacuation in 1940. In the Isle of Wight and Solent area the ship has a further claim to fame as a favourite restaurant and nightclub from 1966 to 1974.
Medway Queen entered service on the Strood – Chatham-Southend-Herne Bay route in 1924. She served every summer season on broadly that same schedule with occasional charters and excursions including the Spithead Naval Review of 1937 when she toured the assembled fleet r who had travelled down by special train from London.
In September 1939 the ship evacuated civilians from London and was then requisitioned and as a Royal Navy minesweeper. She served throughout the war on the south and east coasts moving in 1943 to a training establishment based in Granton, Edinburgh. Her claim to wartime fame centres on Operation Dynamo when, as one of the ships of the 10th minesweeping flotilla, she made seven trips across the channel to rescue 7000 British and French troops. In the course of this she claimed 3 enemy aircraft shot down with her 12pdr gun, paddle box mounted machine guns and a number of supplementary Bren guns “acquired” during the action.
After the war, Medway Queen returned to her old route until 1963 when she was withdrawn. A last minute purchase saved her from the breakers and she became a nightclub on the river Medina, near Newport. The club opened on 14th May 1966 and we are celebrating that 50th anniversary this year. When the club eventually closed the ship was once again sold to a group who moved her back to Kent in 1984. She passed to the current owners, a charitable trust, in 1987 and with the help of a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund the hull has been completely rebuilt in the Albion Dockyard, Bristol.
(HD) Steam on the Met, 9466 & Metropolitan No.1, 24/05/2013.
The long awaited Steam on the Met returns after a 13 year absence (last run in May 2000, an annual event that ran from 1990-2000) to celebrate 150 years of the London Underground. After the very sucessful and enjoyable event that took place back in January with Metropolitan No.1 Tank beneath the streets of London, this event took place on the open sections of the Metropolitan Line and joint Chiltern Great Central Section between Wembley Park in the suburbs of the London Borough of Brent very close to the Large Football Stadium and Venue Arena to the country town of Amersham in Buckinghamshire.
The event had three particpating Steam Locomotives being Met No.1, BR Pannier 9466 and special liveried GWR/BR 45XX 'Pairie Tank' in LT150 Red.
Also was Electric Locomotive No.12 Sarah Siddons and the three LU Class 20 Diesels.
Filmed at various locations including Rayners Lane, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Rickmansworth and Amersham.
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A trip on London Underground 1938 heritage stock
A trip around the Heathrow loop from Northfields on the Piccadilly line on board a heritage London Underground 1938 Northern line train
Britain's Ageing Railway System
Coming into Brighton Pier Station
P.S LINCOLN CASTLE
Operated on London & North East Railway's Hull-New Holland ferry service on the Humber Estuary in England, commencing on 4th August 1941,one month after a delayed delivery from Scotland
She had originally left the Clyde in October 1940, but rough seas damaged her and she put in at Tobermory, before returning for repair. She then lay at Craigendoran awaiting fine weather
After railway mationalisation in 1948 she was owned by British Transport Commission then British Railways and finaly Sealink
Similar to her quasi-sisters Tattershall and Wingfield Castle except for the boiler being forward (ie the boiler placed ahead of the engines in the hull)
With her funnel forward of the paddle wheels her looks were more conventional than her sisters
Enclosed wheelhouse and radar added in April 1948
Mainmast fitted in April 1954
Retained on the service after the withdrawal of her quasi-sisters, running alongside the paddle car ferry Farringford
Withdrawn in Febraury 1978 with a defective boiler, having remained coal-fired to the end, the last such vessel of her type in the UK
Opened as a pub at Hessle close to the Humber Bridge which had, since 1981, rendered the ferries obsolete
Resold to Colin Johnson in 1986 and moved to Immingham for refurbishment in 1987 and boilers removed
Opened as a bar and restaurant at the Heritage Centre at Alexandra Dock, Grimsby in 1989
Closed to the public since late 2006 for refurbishment,
Due to serious deterioration and holing of some hull plates he was moved along the dock and beached on limestone tipped into the corner of the dock to avoid sinking
Work stalled on cost grounds and Lincoln Castle was offered for sale in 2009
In the absence of private buyers by June 2010 (mostly put off by the high costs of rectifying the hull plus the local council's demand for a GBP 60k bond) the owner decided to scrap the ship
The Lincoln Castle Preservation Society was established at the end of May 2010 to buy the ship for restoration and eventual return to service but failed in their attempt
Come Building with Reggie Balmoral (Chawncy Gardner) Appley Tower
Appley Tower, a Grade 1 listed building on Ryde beach, the Isle-of-Wight, UK, has been derelict & closed to the public for 10 years, until Mad Chawncey Gardner gets the job of single-handely re-inventing his way to the top of the tower using nothing but reclaimed timber.
Can he assemble this strange wooden vision of runic doors, dodgy floors, secret toilets, shaky-shifty staircases, great stone brains & honecomb shelving before British Heritage & Listed Building Control string him up off the back of the Dotto Train & drag him up the Esplanade by his testicles.
Reg (Chawncy) is still availble for similar projects if you dare to take him on ....
'Reg Against the Machine' is also available for pub gigs, private parties & other shindigs such as the Isle-of-Wight Festival, where he debuted in 2011.
National Transport Museum of Ireland
National Transport Museum of Ireland