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At the Historic Dockyard, Chatham, Kent.
The destroyer HMS Cavalier came in to service during November 1944 and did see some wartime action, mainly in the Far East. She was placed in the reserve fleet sometime in 1946. But in the late 1950's HMS Cavalier was refurbished and came back in to front line service until finally being decommissoned in 1972.
Monument close to the Polish Memorial right in the heart of Driel, Netherlands.
In the small Dutch town of Driel, Stanislaw Sosabowski is held in very high esteem. And righty so.
A professional Polish soldier with a service record stretching from before 1913 until 1946.
Major General Sosabowski lead the Polish element of Operation Market Garden with about 1,000 parachutist, in a unit that he had created himself, under his command. Stanislaw Sosabowski made his first parachute jump at the age of 49. He had voiced concerns about Field Marshal Montgomery's ill fated plans for Operation Market Garden before and during the action. Montgomery got his revenge though by using Major General Sosabowski as a scapegoat for the mission failure. This was also siezed upon for political reasons.
Stanislaw Sosabowski had served in the Austro-Hungarian Army during the Great War fighting against the Russian forces. In the Polish Army he fought against Soviets again in the 1920's. He had been captured by the Germans during their invasion of Poland, but escaped to Great Britain via some time in France. He finished his life working for a long time in a factory in Acton, England, probably until his death aged 75 in 1967. Most of his post war work colleges were unaware of his military past.
The site of the mermorial is right where the last major stand of the action took place. The Hotel Hartenstein in Oosterbeek had been used by high ranking German staff before the Allied forces took it over as a base for the short lived Operation Market Garden. Gelderland is the Dutch province where most of the major objectives were located.
The rebuilt Hotel Hartenstein is now the Airborne Museum Hartenstein.
Migrants walking on the Ludhiana-Delhi Highway (NH-44) near Ludhiana, Punjab, during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
The rules and restrictions of the lockdown were tweaked with each iteration, and transportation of all types of goods was opened in May. However, interstate movement of migrants was still not facilitated with any urgency. The irony was that goods could be transported in vehicles, while migrants had to walk hundreds of miles to their homes.
Steam locomotive working the remaining one mile section of the railway at the Historic Dockyard, Chatham. Back in its naval base days there were about seventeen miles of mainline gauge rail track within the dockyard.
The 0-4-0ST locomotive Ajax was built in 1941 by Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns Ltd. Delivered new to Chatham Naval Dockyard it remained in service until 1984. All other steam locomotives within the dockyard were retired in the early 1970's.
ULF 373 displayed at the Flying Festival 2019 held by the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden Airfield, Bedfordshire.
Just over 28,000 of this model of A95's were made from 1956 to 1959. Very few were automatic like this one.
Extended landscape of Pong Lake near Dhameta, Himachal.
Nature presented some amazing scenes while I walked towards the edge of the lake. At one time, as it started to drizzle a bit harder, I put my cameras away and gratefully looked up at the sky right above the lake to thank the universe for this opportunity. I've never connected with the universe like this before. This is my perspective of that moment.
Charlie McKeever's Bar in Portadown, County Armagh.
The business has been at its current site since 1974. Originally founded in 1944 by 19 year old Patsy McKeever and still in family hands.
A long time since I have come across a pub that still has an off licence on site.
Photo taken in September 2019.
2004 Scania / East Lancs OmniDekka,
NIBSbuses BIL 4710 working the route 21C between Canvey Island and Hadleigh Essex.
Nelson's Independent Bus Services are based in Wickford, Essex.
BIL 4710 captured here at the one way system in Hadleigh which is the turnaround for the 21C at this end of the route.
A section of part of the remaining Peace Walls that dates from 1969. There were at one time 21 miles of this type of barrier.
Photo taken from a tourist bus.
AY17 UVM working route 3 from Southend-On-Sea to the City of Chelmsford, Essex.
Seen here on the A13 London Road, Westcliff-On-Sea, Essex.
Budworth Hall, on the right in this photo, was built in 1886. During WW2 it was used at various times as a billet for troops, rest centre for evacuees and a British Restaurant.
A special treat to be able to walk freely around 7 of the Douglas Dakota / C47/ C53 Skytrooper aircraft that will be part of the Daks Over Normandy 75th anniversary event on 5th/6/h June 2019.
They were at Old Warden Airfield for the Shuttleworth Collection's Flying Festival 2019.
KLY 282K at the Festival of Steam and Transport 2019.
The HC variant of the Viva was in production from 1970 until 1979. Although some very good large engined versions were in the range it was the more basic 1159cc and later 1256cc engined models that were really popular. The basic models were easy to maintain by DIY motorist and relatively cheap to run.
DIY motoring is almost extinct nowadays.
Preserved ex London Fire Brigade ALL 386H at the Festival of Steam and Transport 2019. held at the Historic Dockyard, Chatham, Kent.
Dispite the name, Regent Theatre, this was mainly a cinema from 1913 until 1975. It became a bingo hall after that. The building is now a late night bar.
The very appealing Silver Rider livery on this short wheelbase Enviro 200 / Dart B28F photographed in the dull and oppressive bus station at Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
The Silver Rider I circular route was introduced in November 2018.
Lots of short wheelbase buses using Aylesbury Bus Station.
Chelmsford based AU58 FFS at the Army and Navy bus stop in the Moulsham area of the City of Chelmsford, Essex.
The bus stop, like many others, retains the name of a pub that no longer exists.
Photograph taken in 2019.
Must be getting rare now to find several well established pubs all within a 3½ minute walk. Public Houses within the UK seem to be closing down on an almost daily basis. Good to see these ones.
Opened back in 1864 as part of the Metropolitan Line. Current day a stop on the Hammersmith and City Line and also the Circle Line.
A tourist interacting with a fruit seller on Lakeside in Pokhara, Nepal.
I noticed this scene while I was having lunch at a street cafe. A group of tourists, seemingly from the far east, entered the hotel next door. I noticed how all of them were wearing face masks. That left me wondering. How do people who carry an overriding fear of infections really enjoy a holiday? I couldn't appreciate then that their part of the world has experienced frequent viral epidemics. Thus, such precautions have become a routine affair for them. With the COVID-19 pandemic, I can now understand. It is usually common suffering that brings universal comprehension.
A112 KFX parked up on the A13 London Road, Westcliff-On-Sea, Essex.
Looking splendid, as you would expect being part of the Ensignbus Vintage Fleet.
A112 KFX had in its earlier days done duty in National Express livery as a double decker coach.
The CWGC headstone of David Samuel Anthony Lord V.C. D.F.C. in Arnhem Oosterbeek Military Cemetery, Netherlands.
This brave man was born in Cork, Ireland in to a family with strong military heritage. David Lord was already in the RAF before WW2 broke out. He became a very experienced transport pilot and was awarded the DFC in July 1943. During the ill fated Operation Market Garden, Flight Lieutenant Lord was involved in flying resupply missions to the troops on the ground. On Tuesday 19th September 1944 flying a resupply mission in Douglas Dakota III, KG 374, at low level his aircraft was hit by enemy flak setting one of the wings ablaze. Have already made a drop on one pass he continued with a second drop in the strickened aircraft and ordered his crew to bale out. But the plane crashed almost immediately. The actual story only became know in 1945 and the V.C. was awarded posthumously. He is buried alongside members of his crew.
GN04 UFX negotiating a major junction, amid a heavy downpour of rain, where the traffic lights have already failed.
Chichester Road, Southchurch Road junction in Southend-On-Sea, Essex.
YJ06 GNO day tripping to the Steam and Transport Festival 2019 held at the Historic Dockyard Chatham, Kent.
Cooks Coaches are based in Westcliff-On-Sea within the Borough of Southend-On-Sea, Essex.
A Bank Holiday Sunday afternoon. In the days of the Southend Airshow this scene would have been packed with daytrippers and the road closed to traffic.
Forerunner of the more plentyful K6 design from the mid 1930's. The Kiosk No2 ,K2, started to appear on the streets of London in 1926. Designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and made from cast iron. Other versions soon followed until the univerally accepted smaller K6 design became the standard public kiosk that we are more familiar with.
The rubbish on the pavement is very much twenty-first century though.
This is the statue within a monument dedicated to the "Soldier King" of Belgium. It is located at Nieuport, Belgium. H.R.H. King Albert I was King of the Belgiums from 1909 until his death in a mountaineering accident in 1934. A popular King who took charge of Belgium military forces during WW1. There was a small area of Belgium that was not occupied by the Germans and King Albert I was acclaimed for defending it whilst also trying to broker a peace deal with Germany. He was not particularly supportive of British or French ideas of how the war should be conducted.
LTZ 1168 working its way through Notting Hill Gate.
This is one of the 1,000 New Routemasters produced from 2012 until 2017.
RATP Group London United LT168 in an all over advertisment wrap.
The very impressive heritage restoration of the disused Folkestone Harbour Station along with the Folkestone Harbour Arm and old railway bridge across the harbour.
The station is largely from the 1890's (replacing an earlier station) and the signal box dates from 1915.
It has just been featured on Michaell Portillo's Great British Railways programme.
Money from the Regional Growth Fund has helped with this project.
The 15" British naval gun came in to service during 1915 as a major weapon mounted on major warships to fight against enemy warships. However as things turned out it was used more for bombarding land based targets than slugging it out battleship against battleship. The Battle of Jutland being the major exception.
The 15" naval gun on the left in this photograph was mounted on HMS Ramillies when commissoned in 1916 and removed in 1947 before the vessel was broken up. Only fired in action a couple of times.
On the right is the 15" naval gun mounted on HMS Resolution from 1915 to 1938, then put in to storage. This naval gun was remounted on the moniter HMS Roberts and did sterling work in a bombardment role during D-Day and throughout June 1944.
MX58 KYR of Redline Buses in "waterRIDER" livery. Redline has been around since the 1990's and has a fleet of over 30 vehicles based in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
The road bridge at Nijmegen along with the nearby rail bridge were important objectives for Operation Market Garden during September 1944. Unlike a lot of the famous bridges in this area that have been rebuilt, the central span here is original. It had been blown by the Dutch Army on 10th May 1940 with the central span falling in to the Waal River. Presumably largely in tack as the Germans were able to raise it and rebuild the bridge that had originally opened in 1936. Surpringly the German forces did not detonate the explosives on the bridge in September 1944. The rebuilt rail bridge does not look anything like the original, although some element of the old bridge remain.
Photo taken in 2019.
MJO 609 parked outside of Ely Cathedral waiting for the bride and groom to emerge.
The Bentley MkVI was produced from 1946 until 1952. It was based around a reduced length Rolls Royce Silver Wraith chassis. A Rolls Royce version of this Bentley model was introduced in 1949 and named Silver Dawn.
TSJ 447 displayed at a Southend and District Classic Car event along the City Beach section of Southend Seafront.
The information sheet attached to this car revealed that the vehicle is called Emily. It also pointed out that not many people would haved remembered that Ford had made a model called an Escort between 1956 and 1960.
Photograph taken in 2019.