Bollards
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The mooring bollard is situated at Varyl Begg housing Estate.Before the housing estate was build it was ssurrounded by sea and vessels used it for mooring.The housing estate was named by former Governor of Gibraltar Sir Varyl Begg Admiral of the Fleet,From March 1969 to October 1973.
Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Dordrecht, Merwekade, Waterbus River runner, Conductress, Rope, Bollard (cut from B&T, slightly cut from L&R)
Waiting to board the approaching Waterbus back to Rotterdam on the Merwekade in Dordrecht and seeing the conductress emerging and throwing a rope from the front deck of the sleek Australian built ‘River Runner’ catamaran with its modernist ‘De Stijl’ paint scheme.
A year after the start of the Wasterbus service, it lost its competitive edge due to speed restrictions on some parts of the river. Nowadays the service is operated by Aquabus, a joint venture of Doeksen and Arriva.
This is the last one of the Bollard series and number 7 of the new Bollard & Co album.
A bollard, which is a post for mooring boats. The word has since expanded to include posts used for road traffic management.
Il paraît que "la solitude" est le grand thème récurrent de mes photos de rue.
En tout cas ce qui est certain, c'est que, dans cette photo-ci, plus encore que la solitude, c'est l'absence qui me saute aux yeux...
Sans doute encore une conspiration des Potelets ! :-))
Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam Zuid, Kop van Zuid, J.P. Bakemakade, Binnenhaven, Moss, Bollard, Cables, Boats (uncut)
A bollard in the Binnenhaven. It was a very modern harbour for the time, equipped as it was with steam and hydraulic cranes and coal tips. It was realized by the Rotterdamsche Handelsvereeniging (RHV Lodewijk Pincoffs). At the time, the ports (including the Entrepothaven) were avoided by ships if possible because of the quay dues levied by the RHV (which did not occur in the Dutch ports at the time) and the difficult manoeuvring in and out of the harbour. In 1892, the profitable operation was no longer possible and it was taken over by the municipality of Rotterdam.
Nowadays the harbour is partly filled in and used as a berth for yachts and houseboats - often decommissioned tugs, trawlers and pilot/coast guard vessels.
This is number 311 from the Rotterdam Harbour and industry album.
Europe; Netherlands; Rotterdam Zuid; Cruise terminal; MS Rotterdam, Boatmen (Roeiers), Bollard, Cable
With the previous posts, it has become clear that bollards are part of a technical ánd labour system. In Rotterdam the latter has taken a specific shape, that of the KRVE, 'De Koninklijke Roeiers Vereeniging Eendracht'. It’s a cooperative association that holds the monopoly of mooring ships to the Rotterdam quays. It was founded in 1895. Back then, rowboats were still used to bring the cables ashore for fastening. For this reason, these boatmen were (and still are) called roeiers (rowers) in Dutch. A picture of their modern transport is here.
This is post number 6 of the new Bollard & Co album.
A beautiful winters day in Melbourne, getting the opportunity to photograph the old jetty bollards at Clifton Springs.
A couple of traffic bollards marking the edge of some roadworks sticking out into the street, seen against the golden late evening sky.
Well, it’s more accurate to say this was a cannon style bollard.
Some bollards were genuine cannons reused as street furniture, this one - unless someone knows better - is simply cast in the style of a cannon, my best guess at its age would be around the late 19th century.
To be found at St Michael’s Lane, Derby.
Europe, Portugal, Lisboa, Tejo (Tagus), Parque das Naçoes, Bollard, Barrier.
Shot in the Parque das Naçoes. For the 1998 World Expo it was created on the site of a largely abandoned petrochemical industry complex (from Galp).
The bollard probably used to moor oil tankers echoes this transformation it was developed to be a part of a barrier system that prevents visitors of the Parque (not sailors or harbour workers) from falling into the water.
I found the form of the bollard intriguing. It’s clearly designed to snag a cable that is thrown over it during mooring and after that prevents it from slipping off later. The process is shown here, which also shows that bollards are part of a social system with its own division of labour ) and the form suggests that it can be thrown/approached from different directions, suggesting certain flexibility in the positioning of the ships during mooring. Like is the case with the Rotterdam bollards of the two previous posts. Ah, the conflation of form & function ;-)
This number 33 of the Lisboa-Paques das Naçoes album and 118 of Urban restructuring (world)
The term “bollard” first appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1844, describing a post used to attach a maritime vessel’s mooring line. The etymology is unclear, but it is likely it was derived from the word “bole,” meaning tree trunk. Over time, the term has been extended to include posts used to guide pedestrian and vehicle traffic.
Although the term is only two hundred years old, bollards have been around for thousands of years. Some of the oldest surviving examples date from the Roman empire, where carved stone posts were commonly used for tethering in front of buildings, and as milestones along the sides of roads.
As architectural elements they come in a wide variety of shapes and styles to accentuate or visually stand out in their settings.
That's it. Nice and simple. Just bollards. Oh, and some rope, too.
Moss Landing, just north of Monterey, California.
A phalanx of thick wooden posts acting as bollards at the end of the carpark at the Bowden community garden, where it joins onto the North Adelaide railway station.
Collective 52 Photo Project. Week 24/52- ''Rusty''
Seen today on a walk by the sea in Thessaloniki, Greece.
“Photography is the story I fail to put into words.”
– Destin Sparks.
Intentionally rusty metal bollards lining the edges of the zebra crossing in front of the Adelaide Botanic Garden Friends' Gate.