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I went to New Brighton yesterday to take some photos in the day. i totally forgot its the summer holidays and the place was packed so there was no chance of getting any long exposures near the light house and the tide was already pretty high anyway. so i headed down to the breakers near the Lifeguard station. its the first time i've taken photos there but i've seen it done many times before. i'd love to give it another go at sunset
A group of Italian tourists waited patiently while I took the previous shot at the entrance to this picturesque alley. They politely waited for me to finish - very considerate indeed. I thanked them for their kindness and suggested they should proceed since they would vanish from a long exposure shot. Cheerfully they complied, calling out bona sera, except for one man who seemed rather suspicious. He waited to see proof of vanishing Italians (and one woman with a urinating dog whose nationality I did not check). He was visibly impatient and fidgeting by half way into the minute exposure. When the shutter closed and the image came up he acknowledged, a little sniffily, that I was right and continued a little unsteadily on his way.
Honfleur is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy en.normandie-tourisme.fr/normandy-tourism-109-2.html in northwestern France. It is located on the southern bank of the estuary of the Seine across from le Havre and very close to the exit of the Pont de Normandie. Its inhabitants are called Honfleurais. It is especially known for its old, beautiful picturesque port, characterized by its houses with slate-covered frontages, painted many times by artists, including in particular Gustave Courbet, Eugène Boudin, Claude Monet and Johan Jongkind, forming the école de Honfleur (Honfleur school) which contributed to the appearance of the Impressionist movement. The Sainte-Catherine church, which has a bell tower separate from the principal building, is the largest church made out of wood in France. The first written record of Honfleur is a reference by Richard III, Duke of Normandy, in 1027. By the middle of the 12th century, the city represented a significant transit point for goods from Rouen to England. Located on the estuary of one of the principal rivers of France with a safe harbour and relatively rich hinterland, Honfleur profited from its strategic position from the start of the Hundred Years' War. The town's defences were strengthened by Charles V in order to protect the estuary of the Seine from attacks from the English. This was supported by the nearby port of Harfleur. However, Honfleur was taken and occupied by the English in 1357 and from 1419 to 1450. When under French control, raiding parties often set out from the port to ransack the English coasts, including partially destroying the town of Sandwich, in Kent, England, in the 1450s. At the end of the Hundred Years' War, Honfleur benefited from the boom in maritime trade until the end of the 18th century. Trade was disturbed during the wars of religion in the 16th century. The port saw the departure of a number of explorers, in particular in 1503 of Binot Paulmierde Gonneville to the coasts of Brazil. In 1506, local man Jean Denis departed for Newfoundland island and the mouth of the Saint Lawrence. An expedition in 1608, organised by Samuel de Champlain, founded the city of Quebec in modern day Canada. After 1608, Honfleur thrived on trade with Canada, the West Indies, the African coasts and the Azores. As a result, the town became one of the five principal ports for the slave trade in France. During this time the rapid growth of the town saw the demolition of its fortifications on the orders of Colbert. The wars of the French revolution and the First Empire, and in particular the continental blockade, caused the ruin of Honfleur. It only partially recovered during the 19th century with the trading of wood from northern Europe. Trade was however limited by the silting up of the entrance to the port and development of the modern port at Le Havre. The port however still functions today. On August 25, 1944, Honfleur was liberated together by the British army - 19th Platoon of the 12th Devon's, 6th Air Landing Brigade, the Belgian army (Brigade Piron) on 25 August 1944.[1] and the Canadian army without any combat. en.normandie-tourisme.fr/articles/honfleur-278-2.html
A defensive pill box from WW2 sits, upturned on the beach after the land it defended no longer existed, landing next to some defenses from the next decade, installed to halt the invasion of the Sea.
Another shot of the various defences on Kilnsea beach. They are big lumps of concrete! The tide was on tne way out and I guess I arrived about 30 minutes late to catch the best of it washing around these blocks.
Early morning. Mayday walk at Pitstone Hill.
Looking out across one of the ditches still clearly defining this Iron Age site. Our ancestors presence in this land can be clearly felt up here. We thought it a fitting place to go for a walk at first light on 1st May.
Seen heading northbound on the M1 motorway at Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire.
No information at all on this vehicle.
Nothing on the DVLA website appears for this registration.
It looks like Plaxton Panther body work.
I reckon its an MOD (Ministry of Defence) vehicle similar to FE14 DGF which I have photographed and is believed to be MOD.
In November 2019 heavy rain in the Rotherham area caused extensive flooding in the Denaby , Mexborough , Conisborough and Parkgate areas causing millions of pounds worth of damage.
Since then work has been taking place to reduce the risk of it happening again . The 6D03 1952 Tinsley SS - Immingham Nordic with 66134 up front passes one such site to right at Parkgate , where extensive tree felling has taken place .
In common with other places named above , the railway signalling has been placed on stilts .
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Photographed on 120 Tri-X film
Los Angeles
This was the last war
of your old self
to be fought
No longer the little girl who took
their advances as compliments
and in beds of betrayal found
her voice
Woman of woman
who found her strength
in the fire
This far and no further
she says
and will never again be the color of winter
Standing now in the wind of Grace
A fresco (1537) of the defence of Constantinople against Persians dressed as Turks in 626 appears on the south wall of Moldovita Monastery in Bukovina, Romania.
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
Foto feta amb una Rolleiflex Old Standard fabricada el 1933; objectiu Carl Zeiss Tessar f3.5 75mm; pelicula Kodak Tri-X 400 revelada en Rodinal 1+100 durant 50 minuts.
Fotografies de la zona de combats de la Batalla del Ebre (1938).
Fotografies de la zona de combats de la Batalla del Ebre (1938).
Un sector de les trinxeres que defensaven la posició Raimats. Quan es varen excavar arqueològicament fa uns 10 anys, s'hi va trobar un cadaver republicà mort en combat.
Els darrers i dramatics combats de la batalla es produiren en una posició vital per protegir la retirada del exèrcit republicà : Los Raimats, al nord de La Fatarella. Intuint la cabdal importancia d'aquesta posició, els republicans la fortificaren a consciencia, amb moltes trinxeres conectant vuit bunquers de formigó, la majoria per ametralladores però com a mÃnim un per un canó antitanc. L'assalt final començà el 14 de novembre: les tropes feixistes ocuparen La Fatarella i continuaren cap a Raimats amb molts tancs. El comandant alemany Gustav Trippe va morir allà . Els defensors de la XV Brigada perderen algunes posicións (Cota 554), però aguantaren, mentre la resta del exercit creuava l'Ebre per Flix i Riba-roja.
El 15 de novembre s'incrementà l'atac, amb molta artilleria i aviació. Els tancs T26 dispararen directament contra les troneres dels bunquers per matar els defensors. Això va permetre que la infanteria assaltés les darreres defenses de la Cota 562, morint casi tots els defensors. Riba-roja i Flix varen caure el dia 16, però l'exercit del Ebre no havia estat aniquilat.
La batalla de l'Ebre (25 juliol - 16 novembre de 1938) fou la més important i mortifera de la guerra civil espanyola. Hi ha que també la consideren també la més decisiva, però crec que per desgracia la guerra ja estava decidida de molt abans, com a minim des del trencament del front d'Aragó el 9 de març del mateix any.
Tot i que l'exèrcit republicà creuà l'Ebre el 25 de juliol del 1938 per molts punts entre Mequinensa i Amposta, la major part dels combats de la batalla es donaren a la Terra Alta, a la zona entre Vilalba dels Arcs, La Fatarella, Camposines i Gandesa, a més de la Serra de Pandols.
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Picture taken with my Rolleiflex Old Standard made in 1933; Carl Zeiss Tessar f3.5 75mm lens; Kodak Tri-X 400 stand-developed in Rodinal for 50 minutes.
This is part of the Ebro battlefield (1938), in Southern Catalonia.
Part of the restored trenchline of the Raimats fortified line, in the Hill 562. It's a beautiful rural landscape, but in 1938 it was Hell. When archeologists restored this trench a decade ago, they found the skeleton of a Republican soldier, killed in combat.
The last and dramatic combats of the battle took place in a vital position to protect the retreat of the Republican Army: "Los Raimats", north of La Fatarella. Sensing the paramount importance of this position, the Republicans conscientiously fortified it, with many trenches connecting eight concrete bunkers, most armed with machine guns but at least one with an anti-tank gun. The final assault began on November 14: the fascist troops occupied La Fatarella and continued towards Raimats with many tanks. German Commander Gustav Trippe died in the first assault. The defenders of the XV Brigade lost some positions (hill 554, were this bunker stands), but held on, while the rest of the Republican Army crossed the Ebro by Flix and Riba-roja.
On 15th November the attack increased, with much artillery and aviation bombing. T26 tanks fired directly at the bunkers' embrasures, killing the defenders. This allowed the infantry to assault the last defenses of Hill 562, killing almost all the defenders. Riba-roja and Flix fell on the 16th, but the Ebro army had not been annihilated.
The Battle of the Ebro (July 25 - November 16, 1938) was the most important and deadlier of the Spanish Civil War. There are those who also consider it the most decisive, but I think that unfortunately the war was already decided long before, at least since the breaking of the front of Aragon on March 9 of the same year.
The battle began with the greatest offensive made by the Republican forces, when they crossed the river Ebro between Mequinensa and Amposta (especially between Riba-roja and Miravet), and advanced to the line La Pobla de Massaluca -Vilalba dels Arcs -Gandesa - Serra de Pandols . But in just 48 hours, the dazzling advance was stopped short. Then Franco decided to crush the republican forces hill by hill (with massive artillery and bomber barrages), in a battle of attrition identical to the First World War for which the Republicans had no resources or alternative, especially with the river behind them. The main assaults, which lasted from August 10 to October 29, were concentrated in a very small and devastated area: the triangle Vertex Gaeta - Corbera - Camposines.
Finally, a final offensive on October 30 occupied the ridge of the Serra de Cavalls, making the entire Republican bridgehead unsustainable, which managed, however, to withdraw in an orderly manner until November 16. But the damage was already done, and there were no forces left for a proper defense of Catalonia, which fell three months later. Then, fascist darkness.
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Hoek van Holland is an amazing place which you have to visit every now and then. Today we explored HvH!
Saturday morning at Pitstone Hill.
Some recent scrub clearance means you can now clearly see these Iron Age defences on the hillside.
New Brighton sea defences head on. Was waiting on these very slippery rocks for the tide to expose the stones!
44 Egremont Street, Belmont, Auckland, New Zealand.
Navy house built in 1956.
The New Zealand Navy provides low cost rental housing for naval staff, who are allowed to stay in naval housing for a maximum of 8 years.
Most navy houses were built in the traditional state house style.
These houses are now owned by Ngati Whatua and are leased back to the navy.
Bodiam Castle is a 14th-century moated castle near Robertsbridge in East Sussex, England. It was built in 1385 by Sir Edward Dalyngrigge, a former knight of Edward III, with the permission of Richard II, ostensibly to defend the area against French invasion during the Hundred Years' War. Of quadrangular plan, Bodiam Castle has no keep, having its various chambers built around the outer defensive walls and inner courts. Its corners and entrance are marked by towers, and topped by crenellations. Its structure, details and situation in an artificial watery landscape indicate that display was an important aspect of the castle's design as well as defence.
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Old gun defences at the entrance to Hull marina, Kingston Upon Hull, East Yorkshire, England.
I had a trip to Arbroath to catch the sunrise, it didn't really come to much, but what did take my notice was the work going on to reinforce the sea wall defences, the JCB's and dump truck were well at it. So its not very often you see this, so thought I would post it.
These are sea defences placed on the beach at Garryvoe in County Cork to prevent coastal erosion. The stones here have been wedged into the gaps in the timber by the force of incoming tides.
Warden Point Battery - Warden Point, Kent.
World War 2 sea defences at Warden Point on the Isle of Sheppey. The pillboxes have fallen in to the sea due to the eroding coastline on the island.
The flood defence at Kessingland - we were chatting to some locals. Around 40 years ago, the sea used to come right up to it. Now it's so far away, old bits of staircarpet have been considerately laid to save poor old Ki's feet from the shingle! And this is only a couple of miles up the coast from Covehithe, where the sea is taking land away at a terrific rate
Fortress Fermont, situated east of Longuyon, France, is part of the defences of the Maginot Line. The fortress has been constructed between 1931 and 1936 and its purpose was to prevent the Germans from invading France after they did so in the First World War. It constitutes a complex that stretches over more than two kilometres of subterranean corridors and occupies a surface of 27 hectares. In the Second World War only one French soldier has been killed in Fortress Fermont and that happened because of an accidental hit through one of the loop-holes.
The lifting cupolas are the characterizing aspect. Those are cupolas with various types of artillery that only become visible when raised. As long as the cupolas are in the down position and equal with the surrounding surface, they are barely distinguishable from their surroundings. On the surface, you will discover the other combat blocks, including the 75 turret of block 1, and learn how the Fermont structure, attacked from the rear on June 21, 1940, resisted all German assaults and held out until the armistice.
All of the galleries of the Ouvrage are located at an average level of 30 m below ground, access is possible by stairs or by 6 freight elevators, two of which were designed to receive equipment and ammunition. The main gallery, approximately 1 km long, is equipped with a trolley and a 60 cm track where locotractors run, powered by 600 volt direct current, produced on site by a power plant equipped with four 225 hp generators. Captain AUBERT and the Fermont crew left the structure on June 27, 1940 in front of a German military detachment.
Fermont is also, in front of the Munitions entrance, the outdoor museum which contains most of the equipment used on the Maginot line. There are notably three artillery turrets from the Brehain structure which are the only ones in France to be presented to the public in this way, and two turrets recovered from Fort Molvange, one of 75.32 and a twin machine gun turret
Just spent a great weekend away with Phil camping near Cromer. Early start of 4am on the Saturday morning for sunrise. Sadly it just stayed dull hence the b&w shot.