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Ocean Terminal Shopping Centre, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland
Many thanks for the feedback on yesterdays upload, the Forth Bridges was certainly a highlight for my trip. Anyway, a bit of a contrast to yesterdays upload, this is the main atrium inside the Ocean Terminal Shopping Centre.
I really like the way the light beams down through the portal like hole in the roof and reflects off the pillars. Also like the halo too caused by this light. The inside of the building is to reflect that of an Ocean Liner I believe from what I have read. Sadly the building outside in my opinion doesn't look as nice as the interior which is a shame.
I was attracted to this image after coming out of theHer Majesty's Yacht Britannia museum which if you visit Edinburgh I highly recommend in visiting.
Photo Details
Sony Alpha SLT-A99 / ISO100 / f/9 / 1/25s / Minolta AF 17-35mm F2.8-4 D @ 20mm
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Lightroom 5
Silver Efex Pro 2
Location Information
Ocean Terminal in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland is a shopping centre, designed by Sir Terence Conran.
It is built on former industrial docklands on the north side of the city at the edge of the boundary between formerly separate ports of Newhaven and Leith. The land was formerly occupied by the Henry Robb shipyard, which closed in 1983. Since then, the entire area has undergone urban renewal and regeneration, much led by and on the lands in the ownership of Forth Ports and its predecessors.
These and other developments have played key parts in the regeneration of Leith. The now-decommissioned Royal Yacht Britannia, which is accessed via the Britannia Visitor Centre within Ocean Terminal, is permanently berthed next to the building and can be viewed from the centre.
The berth currently occupied by Britannia was originally planned to handle cruise liners. As Britannia is now permanently moored alongside the Ocean Terminal, Forth Ports Plc plan to build another terminal for cruise liners.
Bhs and Debenhams are the Terminal's anchor stores; in total there are some 85 stores, 4 restaurants, 3 coffee shops stores, a variety of bars, as well as a cinema Vue and a day spa.
There is car parking and the centre is served by Lothian Buses services 11, 22, 34, 35 & 36. It also has bus links to West Lothian towns of Broxburn, Uphall and Livingston on First Scotland East's 630 and 631, and to Fife on Stagecoach's 50 peak services. The centre was to be served by the Edinburgh Trams at Ocean Terminal tram stop until the tram line east of St. Andrew's Square was cancelled in June 2011.
A proposal to extend Ocean Terminal by building a new wing built on land reclaimed from the port has already been mooted.
Tables and chairs inside the state dining room onboard Her Majesty's Yacht (HMY) Britannia exhibit at the Ocean Terminal at Leith near Edinburgh in Scotland (UK).
Note the there isn't a chair at the head of the table for The Queen.. The Queen would always sit on the port side of the dining table ;-)
HMY Britannia was launched on April 16th 1953 and retired from service on December 11th 1997.
www.royalyachtbritannia.co.uk/exclusive-use/royal-functio...
www.flickr.com/photos/stuart166axe/tags/hmybritannia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMY_Britannia
Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
Well almost, Christmas is only a month away.
This year's theme is Disney characters.
Harbour City, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong (Thursday 21 November 2013 @ 3:42pm)
Victoria Peak in the background and a MV-22B Osprey in the foreground... not a photo I thought about taking before today!
Note the flag on the ship is flying at half mast in respect to those killed in the attack on the Washington Navy Yard shootings.
This K12 Micra in grey, is a 5 door S model and is in great shape and well looked after for a 53 reg.
The S model has the 1.2-litre engine, side airbags, a 60/40 split sliding rear seat, drivers seat height adjustment and CD player.
This one is seen here at Ocean Terminal, Edinburgh.
The glossy brochure issued by the British Transport Commission who, along with the railways that served the Terminal, operated the UK's ex-railways docks, harbours and inland waterways through the Docks and Inland Waterways Executive. It describes the fine Ocean Terminal constructed in post-war austerity and opened on 31 July 1950 to serve the then huge numbers of passengers who travelled on liner services and arrived or departed Southampton by rail. As can be seen the Terminal was designed to deal with a full range of services from arrival or departure by train at 'ground level' and on upper floors services such as baggage, customs and passport control were situated along with a wide range of almost airport style passenger amenities; banks, shops and restuarants.
Architecturally there is something of a Festival of Britain style but overall it has a feel of a pre-war design that was dusted down and I suspect that the Southern Railway, who pre-nationalisation ran Southampton's Docks, may have had a design that was delayed by war. There is a certain restraint in terms of design shown here - but very plush and quite corporate. I like that very corporate look that includes all the service areas, shops and banks.
I quote R P Biddle, the Docks and Marine Manager of the Transport Commission - "there is a streamlined efficiency about the operations which the ocean passenger of today rightly expects and which instantly creates a favourable impression". Oddly no architect is credited.
But it was all very commodious and in pre-jet aviation days it was one of the ports of entry or exit to the UK and I wonder how many passengers waved hello or goodbye to people standing on the liner-like decks of the building over the years.
As liner traffic decreased in the 1960s the Terminal saw less and less use and was finally closed in 1980 and sadly, amidst some protest, it was demolished in 1983. A shame really as within a decade Southampton was busy again with cruise ship traffic and my, would not this building restored have made quite the sight?
Lothian Buses 135 (SK07 CFX) arrives at the Ocean Terminal, Leith on the afternoon of February 22nd 2018. This is one of a batch of fifteen Wright Eclipse Urban 1 bodied Volvo B7RLE.
Beautiful night, beautiful sunset, beautiful yacht down on River Street in Savannah, Georgia.
Thanks for any criticism, good or bad
This bus was new to Lothian buses a 447 in 2016.
Seen here at Ocean Terminal at the temp terminus and alternative exit due to tram works.
Yes I know, I have posted similar to this before, however look above my copyright and above the jetty to the right, there lies the SS Shieldhall, owned by the Solent Steam Packet, she is one of the largest working steamships in Europe. She is now in danger of being scrapped as it is a very costly thing to keep her running. An appeal to save her has been started, and as a piece of our seafaring heritage it would be a shame to lose her.
Find out more from www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-12112086
Scania OmniCity, 991 (SN57DBX), pictured at Ocean Terminal, Leith, on the 23rd January 2014, having just arrived with a service 35 working from Edinburgh Airport.
This photo is dedicated to the Sea Knight's Crewchief Lance Corporal Ridgeway and First Mechanic Lance Corporal Chester.
Assigned to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 163 (HMM-163) based at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California, the squadron is nicknamed "Ridge Runners".
The engagement of this squadron founded in December 1951 goes back to the Vietnam War (the Battle of A Shau) and includes the campaigns Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Currently the squadron is commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Joseph P. Levreault (USMC).
Parked on the flightdeck of the USS Boxer (LHD 4), a Wasp-Class Amphibious Assault Ship of the United States Navy (USN), docked at Ocean Terminal during a port visit to Hong Kong before returning to its home port in San Diego, California.
This photo can also be seen here:
www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Marines/Boeing-Vertol-CH-46...
The Majestic Tour connects Old Town and New Town attractions with the Royal Botanic Garden and the former royal yacht, Britannia, which has been at Leith since 1998. These tour buses from the Ballymena factory of Wrightbus were delivered in 2016.
The Sail Away Party gets underway as Britannia sets sail from Southampton for Norway.
Built 2015
IMO 9614036
Tonnage 143730
Flag United Kingdom
Owner P&O Cruises
Bus and driver take an 11 minute layover having arrived at Ocean Terminal, Leith. 431 (SA15 VTK) looks immaculate as it awaits departure time on the afternoon of February 22nd 2018.
6 Times is a multi-part work by Antony Gormley which positions six life-size figures between the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the sea at Edinburgh’s Leith Docks. This one is number 6.
Kowloon Wharf (九龍倉) was where Lee and his family leaf or returned to Hong Kong by sea before 1960s.
Ocean Terminal (海運大廈), opened in 22 March 1966, is where Bruce Lee posed for a set of photos for movie company Golden Harvest.
In the spring of 1959, Lee got into another street fight and the police were called. Until his late teens, Lee's street fights became more frequent and included beating the son of a feared triad family. Eventually, Lee's father decided for him to leave Hong Kong to pursue a safer and healthier avenue in the United States. His parents confirmed the police's fear that this time Lee's opponent had an organised crime background, and there was the possibility that a contract was out for his life.
The police detective came and he says "Excuse me Mr. Lee, your son is really fighting bad in school. If he gets into just one more fight I might have to put him in jail".—Robert Lee (李振輝)
In April 1959, Lee's parents decided to send him to the United States to stay with his older sister, Agnes Lee (李秋鳳), who was already living with family friends in San Francisco. Bruce Lee departed from Hong Kong at Kowloon Wharf jetty in 1959.
Kowloon Wharf (The Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited) is a company founded in 1886 in Hong Kong. The company's original business was in running wharfage and dockside warehousing. The company adopted its current name “The Wharf (Holdings) Limited” in 1986.
The farewell party were allowed to get on board the ship to say good bye to their friends at that time.
The flagship of the Royal Navy fleet HMS Ark Royal alongside the Ocean Terminal at Greenock ready to participate in Exercise Neptune Warrior.