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This is from the time out Jan and I had on Thursday, the bridge she took her photo from:
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You must have ducked down as I took this Jan.
This is a Flickr 'first' because it's the only photo on Flickr using horse manure as a texture !!
I think :o)
If anyone knows different, do please let me know, or maybe not !
THIS IS JUST OUTSIDE THE "LAKES" VILLAGE OF ELTERWATER.
IT HAD BEEN RAINING ALL DAY SO WE STOPPED FOR A DRINK IN THE BRITANNIA IN THE VILLAGE AND THE SUN CAME OUT , ONLY FOR HALF AN HOUR THOUGH.
A LOVELY BIT OF AUTUMNAL COLOUR
Benar Beach near Dyffryn Ardudwy, it's a wonderful place to walk or take the children for a day out, of course the warm weather helps.
Taken looking towards Christchuch, Dorset. I believe this is a church in the background.
I was out testing my new (old) 70-300 lens so playing around with different focus and aperture settings
As it is Summer...just had to add this one from my other flickr albums...acrylic,pastel and pencils...Brighton
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The Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Friday 23rd June 2023.
About the photograph.
With special thanks to Ruben GB for pointing out the correct model.
This is a Second World War German armoured reconnaissance vehicle known as the Sd.Kfz 222.
Previously I wrote stating that I do not know which variation this is, as there is the 221, 222, and 223, all of which looks very similar, and only referred to it by the first model (221), until Ruben GB identified it as the 222 model.
Sd.Kfz is an abbreviation of Sonderkraftfahrzeug, which is German language meaning special purpose vehicle.
In the Sd.Kfz numbering system, the range of 200 to 299 is generally for reconnaissance vehicles, armoured cars, and armoured personal carriers.
The vehicle seen in the photo is a Leichter Panzerspähwagen, German for light armoured reconnaissance vehicle.
It was manufactured by Horch, from around 1935 to 1944, and used a petrol V8 engine. It is a four wheel drive, designed for off-roading.
However it was said that it performed well in countries with good road systems like in Western Europe, but is hampered with poor off-road performance at the Russian Front and in the North African campaign.
Here in the photo, it is seen driving around, and carrying out a re-enactment show for the visitors, during the TANKFEST event.
About TANKFEST and The Tank Museum.
The Tank Museum is found next to the British Army military base, simply called Bovington Camp, and is used by various tank regiments.
The writer Rudyard Kipling once visited Bovington in 1923, and saw some damaged tanks left from the First World War. He recommended that a museum should be set up.
However the museum was simply a shed, and was not open to the public until about 1947, when the museum was finally set up.
By about 1982, the museum was expanded and modernized, it housed many various different tanks in the Exhibition halls, along with working tanks which are often show in the live action arena.
The museum also has the only working German Tiger I tank, known as Tiger 131.
TANKFEST is an annual live action re-enactment event showing off various working tanks in staged display, in the museum’s showground known as Kuwait Arena.
For more information, just Google “TANKFEST, The Tank Museum, Bovington.”
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The 3rd of June 2006 was a lovely sunny summers day. We decided to visit the Battlefield line where we had fish and chips, and a ride on the DMU. T326 with class 116, 51131 nearest the camera is photographed at Shenton.
#80 in Explore on 29th January 2011
Mermaid Street, Rye, looking rather bleak on this wet and windy January afternoon.
The overnight rain might have stopped (at least for some of the day), but the low cloud, mist and fog didn’t go, so we decided just to go into Rye and mooch around. First of all, coffee at The Apothecary (Haydens, our favourite, was shut for refurbishment – shock, horror!). Then we shopped in the delicatessen, the butchers, the chemist, the book shop, the other deli, and the greengrocers – we LOVE shopping in Rye, because it’s still possible to shop for a meal in individual shops without having to go to the supermarket.