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Preparing for the future..?....12th/13th century Norman castle overlooks huge machines constructing a new 500 metre long sea defence wall at the village of Oystermouth at the western end of Swansea Bay,west Wales,UK.The project will also up-grade 1,000 metres of promenade used by tens of thousands of tourists and visitors to the picturesque former fishing village at the gateway to the Gower Peninsula.
Part of the remains of the Shoeburyness MOD defences on the Thames, built in WW2. The pier stretched to the deep water channel and an anti-submarine net was extended across the remainder of the river. Dismantled after the war, this is all that remains of the defence alongside the MOD firing range at Shoeburyness.
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the groyne sea defences are a natural draw for long exposure work when you live near the coast.
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Estonian Soldiers during their final mission readiness exercise in the vicinity of ̃ before deploying to Iraq as part of ESTGUARD-4, which is part of the NATO Iraq Mission.
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River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken during the fourth week of September, 2016.
On a rare trip down to the Harbour area, just to check out progress here. Throughout the summer, this is where the heavy-duty engineering works have been taking place.
This is a section of the flood protection scheme that I have pretty much ignored -- it's inconvenient for me to access, and others cover it much better.
Check out 'Turgidson'.
Walking back along the newly constructed walkway adjacent to Seapoint Court, and looking upriver towards the town of Bray with the 'Fran O'Toole bridge' in immediate view.
Bray: Fran O’Toole Bridge:
On 31 July 1975, five members of the Miami Showband were travelling by minibus back to Dublin from a gig in Banbridge, County Down.
At the townland of Buskhill, outside of Newry, they were stopped at a bogus military checkpoint by gunmen dressed in British Army uniform, who ordered them to get out and line up by the roadside.
They were members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). Two of them had hidden a time bomb on the minibus, but it exploded prematurely and killed them.
The remaining gunmen then opened fire on the band members, killing Fran O'Toole, Brian McCoy and Tony Geraghty and wounding Des Lee and Stephen Travers.
On Saturday 4 July, Bray Bridge was renamed the Fran O'Toole Bridge.
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Bray Bridge, Main Street, Bray, County Wicklow :
Three-arch stone built road bridge over the Dargle or Bray River, built in 1855-56. The bridge is in dressed granite, with round-ended piers rising into panelled pilasters and a string course just above the level of the arches.
The arches themselves are segmental, whilst the parapets have rounded coping. Branching off to the north-east of the bridge a smaller single-arch dry bridge, carrying the Ravenswell Road over a grass-covered laneway which leads down to the riverbank itself.
This smaller bridge is in granite rubble with a segmental arch with dressed granite voussoirs, and rounded coping to the parapets.
(Description: National Inventory of Architectural heritage)
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A four-arch Bray Bridge was constructed in 1666, but this collapsed in 1741 and was replaced by a new bridge within the same year.
The 1741 bridge was replaced in 1856 by a new three-arch bridge designed by Mr Henry Brett.
The bridge was built by David Edge, and it bore his name.
The bridge was renamed on 5th July 2015 in honour of Bray resident Fran O'Toole, who was the lead singer with the Miami showband.
Three members of the showband were killed outside Newry in 1976, including Fran O'Toole.
The Railway Bridge downstream was built in 1853, a year prior to the opening of the railway between Dublin and Bray.
The railway company had to narrow the channel of the river and build a small shipping dock.
Between Bray Bridge and the Railway Bridge there was a wooden footbridge linking Ravenswell Road and the Seapoint Road, this bridge was built at the time of the railway coming to Bray.
It closed in 1870 and was removed shortly afterwards.
"The Little Book of Bray and Enniskerry" by Brian White.
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It’s popular belief that they were anti-submarine defences but in reality they were defences against small boats, the water even at high tide is far too shallow for a submarine.
Estonian Sailors practice VBSS and Vessel protection duties on-board Estonian Naval Vessels 25th May 2016
Some interesting remains to be seen, could have spent more time exploring but had to press on and get back to Southport for beer o'clock. It's not the sort of place where you want to be out after dark..
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On the north side of Cramond Island are these WWII searchlight buildings. Dalgety Bay is directly across the Forth.
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Type 45 destroyer HMS Dragon at sunset during her patrol in the Middle East in 2013.
HMS Dragon is the fourth of the Royal Navy's six Type 45 air defence destroyers. Launched on 7 November 2008. After successful firing the Sea Viper, intensive at-sea training, her maiden deployed on 19 March 2013 to the Gulf region.
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BOOM DEFENCE. OCTOBER 1941, ROSYTH.
Men who are used to handling fishing gear in peacetime are particularly suited to boom defence in wartime. These ratings man boom defence vessels which lay mooring cables for pontoon defences..
Laying out moorings from a Boom Defence Vessel.
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As part of Defence Expo 2018 Exhibition at Thiruvidanthai, an Airshow took place on 14042018. Photos taken are presented here
St. Bees. Railtrack completely rebuilt the sea defences at Sea Mill over the winter of 1996/97. Here the completed works can be seen on 12 August 1997 as a flask train behind 37244 passes over it. 4,400 precast blocks make up the sea wall which itself has additional protection of 70,000 tonnes of limestone rock armour.
Reece Lyne is seen here drawing his tacklers and looking to release the ball to his winger. The bulk of Jason Carney being one of the defence. Wakefield play their next home game tonight against a strong Leigh team and will have to do without the services of Reece. This picture was taken in their last home game during which Reece was in my opinion the stand out Wakefield performer. Ultimately he put his body on the line and made a last second tackle which resulted in a Wakefield victory but a torn ligament which will see him absent for a good while.