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In vibrant apple green steam train Mayflower 🚂🚃 glides through Sydney Gardens with the Steam Dreams excursion from from Horsham to Bristol Temple Meads. This beautiful steam train will remain in the West Country and will be 1 of 8 running at the West Somerset spring steam gala over the May bank holiday weekend. Did anyone else see her yesterday?
📍Bath
One of the numerous tame squirrels that can be seen in the Botanical Gardens at Royal Victoria Park in Bath.
Clun Castle powering through Sydney Gardens, Bath1Z48 powering unassisted through Sydney Gardens Bath on Saturday 11th May 2024.
The tour marked 60 years since 'Clun Castle' achieved the then fastest non stop steam run between Plymouth to Bristol, only bettered by sister 'Castle', No.5043 'Earl of Edgcumbe' during the 50th anniversary recreation in 2014.
Great Pultney Street with the Holburne Museum at the far end.
Presented slightly underexposed to highlight the colour variation in the Bath Stone walls
A4 Pacific No.60009 'Union of South Africa' heading home from Kingswear, in charge of the last Torbay Express of 2019, a run which many have been her final run west of Bristol before her retirement next year. Seen here near journeys end once the sun had gone down.
6024 King Edward I makes a smokey departure from Bath Spa with 'The Bristolian'. Bristol Temple Meads to London Paddington. 28th August 2010.
157765 and 158745 leave Bath Spa on 24/09/2022 with 1F17 13:22 Bristol Temple Meads-Portsmouth Harbour, a service that would normally originate from Cardiff Central.
BR Standard 8P no. 71000, 'The Duke of Gloucester, makes an impressive sight and sound as it leaves Bath Spa for its return train back to Dorridge.
With Bath Station only 1/2 a mile away, the Duke makes an aggressive start through Bath Sydney Gardens and out of the city with the Saphos Trains Xmas special.
Taken at dusk, all the light had gone and the exposure meter was loosing stops of light by the minute.
Taken at F2.8, ISO 4000.
Barney and I currently live just a ten minute train ride away from the famous Roman city of Bath Spa. I go into the city quite a bit but have never taken Barney before because usually I want to visit the shops, or go to the museums - or my favourite: the Roman baths (I did Latin up to GCSE level at school, so the Romans fascinate me). However, as it was such a nice day today, my mum, Barney and I took the train into Bath, skirting round the shops, going instead to the Crescent and a nearby park, as a nice alternative to our usual places to walk the dog. Barney seemed to enjoy having a new place to explore and new canine newspapers to read on all the trees and lampposts - although he was a little irritated I kept him on the lead most the time as it was just too busy and too hot to let him run loose!
Every time I've visited Bath in the past few months, I've wished I had Barney so I could get a nice photo of him in front of the Royal Crescent, which is one of the popular tourist spots in the city - a great arc of the most beautiful Georgian houses.This wasn't quite what I had in mind but it was sooo hot that Barney didn't really want to pose or bounce about and my brain was too fried to think creatively... So, here's a typical tourist-type shot of Barney on the grass with the Crescent behind. I'm sure Barney will be sticking it in his little scrap-book of "places I've visited"!! Perhaps when it's cooler (and there are fewer people around) in the autumn, I'll go back with Barney and take another photo but in the meantime, I do like this - at least he's smiling and the sun is shining :)
Thanks for the comments about Barney's health recently!! His ear is now much better, don't think there's a grass seed in it, looks like he simply got it damp once too often... I'll be sure to dry his ears more thoroughly when he swims in the future! The patch on his leg, which got infected, is still looking rather sore and unpleasant but hopefully the antibiotics will kick in during the next day or two and at least he doesn't appear to be licking it very much and causing further problems, now he's had a steroid injection from the vet. Vets again Friday - fingers crossed he'll be back to his normal healthy self soon :)
Hope everyone has a lovely week and a good weekend too!
Reached Explore #13
Bath Abbey is a parish church of the Church of England and former Benedictine monastery in Bath, Somerset, England. Founded in the 7th century, it was reorganised in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries; major restoration work was carried out by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 1860s. It is one of the largest examples of Perpendicular Gothic architecture in the West Country. The medieval abbey church served as a sometime cathedral of a bishop. After long contention between churchmen in Bath and Wells the seat of the Diocese of Bath and Wells was later consolidated at Wells Cathedral. The Benedictine community was dissolved in 1539 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
These pigs were all over the city of Bath Spa. There were 104 in total but I didn't see them all.
They were there because of a guy named King Bladud.
BR Standard No. 70000 'Britannia', races alongside the canal, near Crofton, with a Dorridge-Bath Spa Xmas special.
A very gloomy December day, but with very still winds, so a classic reflection of the steam in the canal was possible, but also a reflection of bridge 99 too.
1Z70 Dorridge-Bath Spa Saphos Trains
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This is an image of Bath Abbey in Bath, UK. The shot was taken nearly an hour before dawn on Boxing Day with the advantage of nobody at all about and an earlier shower providing some useful puddles. The entrance to the famous Pump Rooms and Roman Baths is on the right. I was staying with family in Bath over Christmas.
The picture was taken handheld with a Sony A700 with a sigma 10-20 wide angle zoom at 10mm. 3 raw images 2EV spacing. Opened in Photoshop first and each image noise saved as tiffs.
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60009 Union of South Africa powers away from a signal check in the Avon Valley on the Torbay Express
Wessex Trains pink livery 31601 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' departs Bath Spa with a Bristol to Weymouth service on 26th November 2005.
Branded 'The Heart of Wessex Line' this top 'n' tail service ran between Bristol & Weymouth and Cardiff & Brighton during 2004 and 2005.
On this occasion 31452 was at the rear
I can highly recommend jumping on the open top Bath city tour bus, you can get on and off as you go around and of course you have some great vantage points up high. I was disappointed with the second route that’s available on the ticket, it sweeps out of the city and around the outskirts but most of the views are blocked by trees. So my advice would be do the city route once, get an idea of what you want to photograph then go a second time jumping on and off along the route
As I’m not posting to Flickr as often as I used to I decided to drop my pro account and just let it die, it worked out to £2 a post last year, I have started a another account John Garghan Artist
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I’ll post simultaneously until this account finishes in December