Great Places #1 - Bordon, United Kingdom
Bordon is a town in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire. The town has been an army base with its own railway station. Bordon Camp was home to the Canadian Army during both of the world wars and the town is dotted with concrete slabs on which tanks and armoured cars were parked.
Andover, Hampshire, uk
A scenic video tour of historic Andover. This is now a look back at Andover as it was in 2003. The High Street has been pedestrianised since this was filmed.
The Andover Fist Railtour Saturday 8th April 2017 at Salisbury Class 66 Top & Tail
Salisbury was very busy on Saturday 8th April with two railtours visiting in the afternoon. This video concentrates on the Andover Fist 13 coaches top and tailed by EWS class 66 no's 66005 and 66165. The tour started from London Waterloo and ran to Southampton Eastern Docks, Fawley Esso, Salisbury, Andover, Ludgershall MOD and finally returning to Waterloo.
First Look at the New Four Car HST 255 Plus snow chaos and Broken Sea Wall
Snow hit the Westcountry for the second time in two weeks. This clip includes various HSTs and 143 units along the sea wall at Teignmouth. It also shows the results of storm damage forcing the closing of half the sea wall to pedestrians.
This clip also shows the new Class 255 shortened HST set on proving trials. The sets include refurbished mk 3 coaches with sliding doors. They are 43093 and 43016.
Filmed on the 18th and 19th March 2018.
Clun Castle, Clun, Shropshire
Clun Castle, Shropshire, slideshow
Clun Castle, Shropshire video
Welsh Border castle, originally built in the 1100’s by Norman, Robert de Say as a wooden motte and bailey style. rebuilt out of stone in the 13th century and lay in ruins since the english civil war in the 1600's. The site is open to the public, managed by English Heritage.
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Bickleigh Castle - Aerial Tour
Draft of the Bickleigh Castle Aerial Tour
Historic Rome in 2 Minutes
Rome Italy from a tourist's viewpoint.
Historic Rome in 2 Minutes.
Rome (Italian: Roma), the Eternal City, is the capital and largest city of Italy and of the Lazio region. It's the famed city of the Roman Empire, the Seven Hills, La Dolce Vita (the sweet life), the Vatican City and Three Coins in the Fountain. Rome, as a millenium-long centre of power, culture (having been the cradle of one of the globe's greatest civilisations ever) and religion, has exerted a huge influence over the world in its roughly 2800 years of existence.
The historic centre of the city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. With wonderful palaces, millennium-old churches, grand romantic ruins, opulent monuments, ornate statues and graceful fountains, Rome has an immensely rich historical heritage and cosmopolitan atmosphere, making it one of Europe's and the world's most visited, famous, influential and beautiful capitals. Today, Rome has a growing nightlife scene and is also seen as a shopping heaven, being regarded as one of the fashion capitals of the world (some of Italy's oldest jewellery and clothing establishments were founded in the city).
With so many sights and things to do, Rome can truly be classified a global city.
Situated on the river Tiber, between the Apennine mountains and the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Eternal City was once the administrative centre of the mighty Roman Empire, ruling over a vast territory that stretched all the way from Britain to Mesopotamia. Today, the city is the seat of the Italian government and home to numerous ministerial offices. Rome has 2.6 million inhabitants while its metropolitan area is home to around 4.2 million.
Rome's history spans over two and half thousand years, which have seen its transformation from a small Latin village to the centre of a vast empire, through the founding of Catholicism, and into the capital of today's Italy. This is a long and complex topic; what follows is merely a quick summary.
Rome is traditionally said to have been founded by the mythical twins Romulus and Remus (the sons of Mars and Rhea Silvia) on 21 April 753 BC. The twins were abandoned as infants in the Tiber river and raised by a she-wolf (Lupa) before being found by a shepherd (Faustulus), who raised them as his own sons.
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Uffington White Horse, Uffington Castle, Wayland's Smithy 4K
Uffington White Horse, Uffington Castle, Wayland's Smithy
Oxfordshire, England
February 2017
Upnor Castle Kent
Upnor Castle is an Elizabethan artillery fort located on the west bank of the River Medway in Kent. It is in the village of Upnor, opposite and a short distance downriver from the Chatham Dockyard, at one time a key naval facility. The fort was intended to protect both the dockyard and ships of the Royal Navy anchored in the Medway. It was constructed between 1559–67 on the orders of Elizabeth I, during a period of tension with Spain and other European powers. The castle consists of a two-storeyed main building protected by a curtain wall and towers, with a triangular gun platform projecting into the river. It was garrisoned by about 80 men with a peak armament of around 20 cannon of various calibres.
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