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Spurn Head, or Spurn Point, is a three and a half mile peninsula, composed of sand and shingle, stretching out between the North Sea and the River Humber in a south-westerly direction. The first peninsula developed after the retreat of the last Ice Age, and how it came into existence and how it develops and changes cannot be certainly proven. Its course is not fixed, because it is attached to one of the fastest eroding coasts in the world — the Holderness coast. One theory, supported by historical records, postulates a cyclical history of about 250 years for each of the various peninsulas, which have grown gradually as a result of long-shore drift of material washed out of the clay cliffs to the north. The profile of each peninsula, which grows from a stump, is low, allowing a certain amount of washover of sand, which helps to build it up on the western side, whilst most of the material moves further south and forms a spoon-shaped point. With the rapid erosion of the coast to which it is attached, a breach is inevitable eventually, and once the sea gets through, the head becomes isolated and gradually washes away. A new peninsula then forms a little to the west and the cycle starts again. Another theory gives more emphasis to the washover of the neck, and suggests that as the sand and other material is transported from east to west, the neck gradually shifts westward, presumably moving the head with it. It is not possible to test these theories thoroughly because since mid-Victorian times Spurn has been kept in place by artificial coastal defences, begun after a massive breach which took place in 1849, when the peninsula was composed of a string of islets. The groynes and revetments to protect the peninsula were first erected by the Board of Trade, but when military forts were established on the Point (see below) the Army took over, with the Royal Engineers, and later civilians, working upon the maintenance of the sea defences, until the late 1950s, when the military left. Because of these man-made sea defences the peninsula is now the longest it has ever been, and since the 1850s has been kept in the same alignment, making it highly vulnerable to attacks from north-westerly tidal surges in the North Sea. In 1960 Spurn was bought by the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Trust (now the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust), which could not afford to maintain the defences, and they are now crumbling away. At the northern end of the peninsula only about three yards (three metres) of land now separate the high tide mark on the Humber from the high tide mark on the sea.
Point Souttar is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the western side of Yorke Peninsula on the portion forming the south coast of Hardwicke Bay in Spencer Gulf about 121 kilometres west of the Adelaide city centre.
One of the two trail heads for the lookout. From this point the trip is about a mile. We drove up the road a bit to the other trail head where the trip is about a half mile.
Gird Point Lookout. Bitterroot National Forest, Montana.
Pointing out one of the ways to mix colors digitally -- with lots of layers and show through. Recently I enjoyed listening to a painter, as she was outside painting a landscape, tell me how much she liked mixing oils to get all kinds of shades and color combinations. It got me to wondering again about different ways to mix digital colors, to make them less plain and more interestingly complex. This was digitally painted with Procreate (iPad app). The drawing paper texture background was copied from Graphite and the frame from PicFrame, two other iPad apps.
Beautiful sunrise today at Wellington Point, Queensland, Australia. Taken at dawn.
Filters: Little Stopper and .6 grad.
St Mary, Greetham, Rutland
I was cycling around the northern part of Rutland between its most easterly point, Essendine, and its most westerly point, Whissendine, visiting the churches in the area, fifteen in all.
From the gloomy church at Stretton I dipped under the noisy A1, and westwards on the fairly busy road which leads in the direction of Oakham until I reached the large, pleasant village of Greetham, big enough to have a shop and a couple of pubs. The church was open, but there was a coffee morning in progress. They were very nice, but I always find it difficult to concentrate on what I'm doing when I'm trying to be sociable at the same time.
The church, set back from the village street, is a big one with a grand spire which is probably second only to Ketton in the county. There are aisles and clerestories and an interior which is largely 19th Century. There are two excellent 1940s windows on each side of the church by Donald Brooke, a Midlands artist I hadn't come across before. The east window is startlingly tilted to one side, presumably by the chancel subsiding soon after it was built.
I had to go right the way around RAF Cottesmore on a long, dog-legging lonely road to reach my next port of call. This was Thistleton, a dull little village set along another busy road.
The church was locked with a keyholder notice. This is an entirely 19th Century building of the 1870s against a 14th Century tower described by Pevsner, not a frequent user of adjectives, as 'nondescript'. The apsed chancel is striking, as is the proximity of houses to the north side of the church, they almost touch. Again, Pevsner didn't convince me to go for the key, which was 'at the herb nursery 50 yards up the road'. I headed on, and not seeing anywhere that looked like a herb nursery I was glad that he hadn't been more persuasive.
It wasn't far down the road to a much lovelier, larger village, Market Overton, which stands on a bluff of the Wolds looking out over the vale towards Oakham. On the main street was the church, which reveals itself slowly from the east, hidden by yews and cherry trees, until suddenly there it is, with a spectacular ironstone tower and a large nave and chancel spreading east behind a strikingly wide south transept. The churchyard is full of tall Ketton stone memorials, and all in all it was a beautiful spot in the sunshine.
Two ladies were sitting in the porch having a chat, and they told me that they'd just been up the tower because the clock had stopped and they had to take a photograph of the mechanism for the menders. When they saw my camera they said that it was a pity I hadn't come earlier, as I could have come up with them and taken the photograph, which made them giggle as if they had said something inappropriate, which was nice. I stepped into a lovely church, dark but jewel-like from the 19th Century glass, full of atmosphere. There are no great survivals, but plenty of interest including a tremendous Norman font with a decorated bowl squatting at the west end.
The road fell steeply down into the vale immediately to the west of the church, and already I could see the tall tower of the next church a mile or so off below. I wound down into the small village of Teigh, close to the Leicestershire border.
Here's a wish for a calm Monday for everyone! Taken at Meigs Point in Hammonasset Beach State Park near Madison, Connecticut.
Point with backdrop being amazing to us, living here. These cliffs and another set, cut by a sometimes raging creek are full of cliff carvings. This man and others were found here. It was their world.
Used this effigy previously but don't think a swift post did him justice, if anything could, any of them. Although not ' snarling ', he also does not wear a tragic expression- like the effigy clearly with a wound and the artist somehow is able to tell us he is in huge pain? He also wears the ' wrap ' headdress although guessing those elaborate pieces would have been tough to pull off on this type of piece.
Point Bolivar Light is a historic lighthouse in Port Bolivar, Texas, that was built in 1872. It served for 61 years before being retired in 1933, when its function was replaced by a different light. The current lighthouse is at least the second structure at the site. The first lighthouse was built in the mid-1850s and was pulled down during the Civil War so that Union warships could not use it as a navigational aid.
Pacemaker Crown Graphic - Schneider-Kreuznack Symmar-S 1:5.6/210 - Kodak Plus-X Pan (PXP) @ ASA-125
Kodak HC-110 Dil. B 5:00 @ 20C
All the pages for the " Entry Point" booklet. We've ordered them as individual 4x6 postcards with round corners and brought them to a local printing company (Concord Printing - thanks Ben!) to drill a hole (where the metal ring will be inserted). After this process we got lots of help from church volunteers to assemble 500 of them.
Point Wilson Lighthouse - Port Townsend, Washington
This lighthouse was built in 1913.
I used a kite to fly the camera.
The rickety little bridge to Point Bonita lighthouse can only be crossed by two people at a time. This is the way back from the lighthouse.
Been awhile since I've ridden this bike. Cruised down to Fort Point to see if there was any action going on in the water... nada. Low tide = VW Beetle size rocks to smash your head into.
Original Caption: City Point, Va
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 111-B-678
From:: Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, (Record Group 111)
Photographer: Brady, Mathew, 1823 (ca.) - 1896
Coverage Dates: ca. 1860 - ca. 1865
Subjects:
American Civil War, 1861-1865
Brady National Photographic Art Gallery (Washington, D.C.)
Persistent URL: catalog.archives.gov/id/525083
Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001.
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"A much-photographed Tomales Bay icon, the derelict fishing boat the Point Reyes, was severely damaged by a mysterious fire early Monday morning, and comments from angry Inverness residents are burning up social media over the loss of this beloved local landmark."
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"Following overland tests at Salisbury Plain during March 1897, on May 13, the Italian born and recently British based inventor, best known for his development of a radiotelegraph system, Guglielmo Marconi, assisted by George Kemp (who was a Cardiff based Post Office engineer) transmitted and received the first wireless signals over open sea from Lavernock Point to Flat Holm island. The very first message transmitted in morse code was "ARE YOU READY". This was immediately followed by "CAN YOU HEAR ME" to which the reply was "YES LOUD AND CLEAR".
The initial tests were so successful over the three and a third mile (6 kilometres) stretch of water that it was quickly decided to relocate the telegraph equipment from Flat Holm to Brean Down Fort, near Weston Super Mare increasing the distance to nearly ten miles (16 kilometres) from the Lavernock Point transmitter.
Following these successful trials, Marconi subsequently vested his new patent rights in his 'Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company'.
On the point in the late 1860s Lavernock Fort gun battery was built by the Royal Commission and completed in 1870, with three 7" muzzle loading cannons to protect the channel approaches to Cardiff and Bristol shipyards during the short lived war between Britain and France that followed the French Revolution. Sometime before 1895 the gun battery was reinforced with a fourth cannon only for all four guns to be replaced eight years later by two rapid fire six inch former naval guns in 1903. A two unit searchlight battery was added during the Second World War. Today the remaining main section of the gun battery has been listed as an Ancient Monument, which includes the gun emplacements, director-rangefinder observation position, crew and officers quarters."