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Double-leaf bascule bridge, Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa; when down it connects V&A Waterfront proper with the New Basin of the Waterfront Village and the Cape Grace Hotel, immediately to the left in the photo. The forced-focus backdrop of this photo is majestic Table Mountain.
The project management and technical design of this delightful bascule bridge (1996) is by Hytec (Cape) Pty Ltd, under the tutelage of Anton Wale, of old Cape stock. The Victoria & Alfred Waterfront besides being one of the major three tourist destinations in the Cape is also a working harbor with docks and ship repairs and chandlers. The complex - though extensively and thoroughly gentrified in the last ten years - dates from 1860. It was then decided that a new harbor had to be built to replace the four pitiful jetties of Table Bay Harbor, and the harbor also had to be cleared of as many as 24 ships that had sunk there in the course of fierce storms. The first harbor basin named after Prince Alfred, second son to Queen Victoria, was inaugurated by him in 1870, and soon another basin was finished as well, named after his mother. A newer harbor district was necessary in the middle of the twentieth century. Between 1938 and 1946 two enormous docks were built further out to sea: Duncan Dock and Sturroch Graving Dock; others were also constructed. Today, together with Saldanha and Mussel Bay, Cape Town's great harbor can accommodate the largest ocean farers (huge container ships and those modern enormous cruise ships) but also smaller coastal vessels.
The Cape Grace Hotel is one of the world's two or three top hotels. It has an old maritime look but was constructed only in the mid-1990s; the brainchild of 'Chippy' Brand and his son Charles, and the latter's university friend Peter Moore, it boasts a wonderful bar, reportedly with the greatest variation of whiskeys in the southern hemisphere. Appropriate to its location, it is called 'Bascule' and has a pleasant terrace overlooking the new basin.
Compton Verney is an award-winning art gallery located in a beautiful 18th century Grade I listed mansion built by Robert Adam. The house is set in over 120 acres of landscaped grounds designed by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown. There was a manor at Compton Verney at least as early as 1150.
Compton Verney, near Kineton in Warwickshire, was requisitioned by the Army during World War II and became vacant when the war ended. In 1993 it was bought in a run-down state by the Peter Moores Foundation, a charity supporting music and the visual arts established by former Littlewoods chairman Sir Peter Moores. The property was restored to a gallery capable of hosting international exhibitions. Compton Verney Art Gallery is now run by Compton Verney House Trust, a registered charity, and is open to the public.
Dear fellows,
this is my tribute to a book I read during the last weeks:
The Weather Experiment - Peter Moore
"This delightful book is highly readable, highly informative and highly recommended. Anyone with an interest in the foundations of scientific weather analysis, 19th century history of discovery and invention, or just wonders how we got to understand the weather would be well served by spending time with this finely written account."
this is my mom, in 1966, wearing a dress made of vinyl and B&W photo transparencies. "portrait dress" created by robert watts, 1965. photo by peter moore, 1966.
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Peter Moores and David Orchard were mainstays of the RGS High Wycombe tennis team in the period from 1960 to 1964, and they then followed each other to Sheffield University. The bottom half of this composite photo shows David Orchard (second from left) and Peter Moores (far right) in both the original 1967 Sheffield University first IV photo and the reunion (at Wimbledon) in 2013.
My thanks to Cliff Gudgeon (second from right) for permission to publish.
BBC Young Musician of the Year 2009. Peter was only 12 when he won the YMotY competition. I was privileged to photograph a group of musical students rehearsing for a charity concert in Rochdale,
The background (a school hall) was cluttered, and so low level shots like this worked best.
(This photo is reproduced with kind permission of PM & family)
If you live in the Manchester area, you may like to know that Peter will be a soloist at a concert organised by Rochdale Music Society on
February 13th 2010 at 7:30pm
Heywood Civic Centre
Do book in advance as the demand is likely to be high as other Chetham's students will be playing too!
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Geister-Krimi / Heft-Reihe
Peter Moore / Geisterflug ins Niemandsland
cover: ?
Horrorroman
Martin Kelter Verlag
(Hamburg / Deutschland; 1974-1981)
ex libris MTP