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A MOC I built a few months back but never really posted properly.
This is the Docking ring version, which features an outer-space scene with planets and stars.
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There are a few old vehicles parked up at the Royal Albert Dock Liverpool that appear to be permanent fixtures as they always seems to be there, even at night.
This Citroën HY was a new addition to the area. My camera doesn't do the colour scheme justice - the orange was VERY bright.
I have to say, I've never seen a caterer specialising in Cheese on Toast before!
Camber Dock in Old Portsmouth England dates back to 1180 and was built by Jean de Gisors the owner of a fleet of merchant ships so he could trade with Normandy. Now the home to a fleet of inshore fishing boats and a marina for leisure craft
Marken is a peninsula in the Markermeer, in the Netherlands and a former island in the Zuiderzee, located in the municipality Waterland in the province North Holland. It is the namesake of the Markermeer, the body of water which surrounds it. The former island is nowadays connected to the North Holland mainland by a causeway.
Gloucester Docks main basin is the terminus of the 16 mile long Gloucester to Sharpness canal. The ship canal was opened in 1827 and was built to allow ships to bypass a difficult winding stretch of the river Severn, allowing Gloucester to become an inland port.
The main basin allowed large sea-going ships to offload their cargoes so they could be transported by barge on the River Severn up to the Midlands. When the canal was first opened it was the widest and deepest in England.
In its heyday the basin would have been extremely busy with ships - sailing ships, steam ships, barges, and narrowboats - carrying things like timber and grain. All around this area there would have been a hive of activity, with local saw mills, corn mills, workshops, rope makers, and sail makers.
After visiting Gloucester Docks Charles Dickens wrote "You will see, suddenly appearing, as if in a dream, long ranges of warehouses with cranes attached, endless intricacies of dock, miles of tramroad, wildernesses of timber in stacks, and huge, three-masted ships, wedged into little canals, floating with no apparent means of propulsion, and without a sail to bless themselves with."
The main basin became so busy in the 1840s that ships were forced to queue along the canal, waiting for a place to unload to become available. An additional dock - Victoria Dock - was built to provide more quay space. This new dock - completed in 1849 - is now overlooked by the car park to the east of the main basin.
The old warehouses surrounding the main basin were built between 1827 and 1873, and provided a place for corn to be stored. Nowadays the 15 remaining ones are used as offices, housing and shops, and in the case of Llanthony Warehouse, as the home of the National Waterways Museum.
This photograph is part of the Shipbuilding on the River Tyne, 1960 - 1977 collection which was kindly donated to Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums. Taken by Ronald Sanderson, this photograph shows two ships in dock, surrounded by several cranes. This photograph was probably taken in 1960. It is a 35mm slide.
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First great western class 43 hst 43005 Stands at falmouth dock with a special service to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the falmouth branch
This image dates from June 1892 and captures the recently completed dock as it was just prior to opening. The land in the right foreground where a barrel rests on its side is where the Riversway Control Centre now stands. Among a forest of chimneys competing for space on the smokey horizon are a number of the towns prominent buildings. At the extreme right is the tower of the Baptist Church on Fishergate. Moving left we see the tower of the old town hall then the spire of the Parish Church and finally the lantern of the Harris Museum which was in the final stages of completion. Also of interest are the large piles of spoil from the recently completed river diversion.
I looked it up. I've seen these all my life, but didn't know they're called dock cleats. Ready for the boat!
22-6-1909 Work on the docks extension,see the detail recorded in these glass plates,this one shows the steam pumps in operation with a diver about to enter a chamber in the side wall of the dock.
From the industrial collection.