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Thank you Patrick for telling me that this is Caspar.
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Lots of this time of gate in Isle of Wight, often in memory or people or events.
It looks a bit like the flash went off, but I rarely use flash so that is unlikely.
Taken from view point past the test rocket launch pad at the New Battery. The building on the right is part of the Old Battery where we paused for a cuppa and and explore - between this shot and tea stop there was a very heavy downpour.
The lighthouse is automatic since 1994.
www.trinityhouse.co.uk/lighthouses-and-lightvessels/needl...
More information on the Needles...
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/the-needles-old-battery-and-new-...
and on the test rocket launch pad...
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/the-needles-old-battery-and-new-...
"Completed between 1893 and 1895, the New Battery was built after the Old Battery site started to suffer coastal erosion. New technology introduced at the time also needed more space than was available at the Old Battery. During both world wars the New Battery was put to action and afterwards it was chosen as the test site for a new type of technology. From 1955 Saunders Roe leased the site and tested the rockets ‘Black Knight’, ‘Black Arrow’ and the satellite ‘Prospero’ here before they were launched in Australia. The first rocket, known was ‘Black Knight’ was tested in April 1957 at the Highdown site and after further tests, the rockets were taken to Woomera in Australia for launching. Black Knight was designed to test the effect of re-entry to the earth’s atmosphere on a missile and to develop the design of large liquid fuelled rockets. In all, 22 Black Knight rockets were launched. From the Black Knight, the Black Arrow, which was designed to put a satellite into orbit, was developed from the late 1960s. In 1971 it was launched from Woomera along with the satellite ‘Prospero’ which was tucked into the nose cone. Sadly, within days of the successful launch, the British Government cancelled the space programme and the final Black Arrow rocket built was given to the Science Museum in London."
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... in the Needles Park, Isle of Wight ...
Alum Bay is a bay near the westernmost point of the Isle of Wight, England, within sight of the Needles. Of geological interest and a tourist attraction, the bay is noted for its multi-coloured sand cliffs.
Alum Bay is the location of a classic sequence of Eocene beds of soft sands and clays, separated by an unconformity from the underlying Cretaceous Chalk Formation that forms the adjoining headland of West High Down. Due to geological folding of the Alpine orogeny, the strata in the main section of the bay are vertical, with younger rocks to the west. The sands are coloured due to oxidised iron compounds formed under different conditions.
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