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A members only club and part of the Club and Institute Union. No real ale at the moment, serving Greene King IPA keg beer plus some lagers. Whitbread was a famous British brewery which abandoned brewing to become a hospitality company running restaurants, coffe shops, and hotels etc.
The SURDOC building was the canteen and social club for workers from the nearby docks. The docks of course ceased some time ago with the advent of containerisation and massive increases in ship size.
Surdoc House,Cope Street, Surrey Docks, SE16 2UJ
Houlihan's Birkenhead Sunday League, Premier Division match between Dock AFC v Rock Ferry Social FC at Shaftesbury YC's Memorial Ground, Birkenhead on Sunday 18th April 2021.
pic by Chris Stading
Again, near the docks in Valencia.
Wasn't sure if this should be 365... However, figured the one with the 24 should be as it had something to do with me ;)
Hanging out with Rory and Kara. First, Fuzhoushan for a view of the 101, and then sailing on the Tamsui River up at Guandu.
The remains of the long long disused lines down to Lowestoft docks, run adjacent to the line in platform 4 seen here on the left, before they disappear into the undergrowth.
Taken whilst travelling on the 'Anglia Plus Day Ranger', priced at £19 and valid after 08.45 (earlier on certain services) i can recommend it.
20th September 2018
Dock workers relaxing on precarious metal pipe piles in a harbour yard. Shipping boats and machines behind them, the city of Valparaiso in background. Faces of workers indistinguishable
Oslo docks at about 9:30am
The skies and sun make for a great set of colours, especially when HDR processed
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South Dock is one of only two surviving docks in Rotherhithe, to the north of Deptford, which was originally marshland, with numerous docks in existence from the 17th century until 1970, when the docks closed. Most of the docks were subsequently filled in and turned into housing estates and parks in the 1980s and early 1990s, when the whole area -- part of the Docklands development area under Margaret Thatcher, along with Limehouse and the Isle of Dogs -- was renamed Surrey Quays. South Dock, however, became a marina, and was reopened in 1994. In the background is Baltic Quay, an award-winning residential block that opened in 1989, but is now very dated in appearance.
For a similar view in the daytime, from May 2012, see: www.flickr.com/photos/andyworthington/7609214308/
For more on Andy Worthington, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/
The Traffic Office, with its unusual cast iron portico, is one of a number of building designs by Hartley in collaboration with the architect Philip Hardwick.
The original design was by Hardwick, but Hartley radically changed it by adding a second floor to it shortly after its construction.
Both inside (where the 'light well' became an impressive hall) and outside, it was designed to impress and, like others of Hartley's lesser buildings, could be considered part of a 'corporate identity'.
It is built of brick with red sandstone dressings. There are prominent battered chimney stacks with connecting arches.
The most remarkable feature is the cast iron Tuscan portico and frieze. The four columns are 3.5m high, have a diameter of 1m at the base, and were cast in two halves and brazed together along their length.
The architrave is 11.5m long and was made in a single casting, in the shape of a giant "U". Brazed onto the architrave is an iron cornice and pediment, consisting of seven separate castings.
The building suffered prolonged dereliction, including structural damage, before being restored under the aegis of the Merseyside Development Corporation and re-opened as television studios.
The Mart Dock from the air. The ship in the photo is the same Goodrich ship from the previous photo I posted. I'm not sure of the year, but I think this was the 1920s.
The building with the curved roof was where Muskegon's hockey team played until Walker Arena opened in 1960.
Thailand - Bangkok Docks - Klong Toey (Khlong Toei)
Klong Toei (Thai: คลà¸à¸‡à¹€à¸•à¸¢) is a district in central Bangkok, long known for substandard housing. It is bordered by the Chao Phraya River and contains major port facilities. It is also the name of a major market, though not touristic. The market is served by the Bangkok Metro station Klong Toey on Rama IV Road.
Alternate spelling - Khlong Toei
Princes Dock is a dock on the River Mersey, England and part of the Port of Liverpool. It is the most southerly of the docks situated in the northern part of the Liverpool dock system, connected to Princes Half Tide Dock to the north. The dock is now in the buffer zone to one of Liverpool's World Heritage Sites.
The dock was built by John Foster, with construction starting in 1810. During the construction, Foster ordered many times more stone than was needed. Allegedly, Foster diverted it to his family's building company. He resigned when this was discovered.
Princes Dock was named after the Prince Regent. It opened on the day of the Prince Regent's coronation as George IV in 1821. Access to the southern half of the dock system was via George's Basin, George's Dock and into Canning Dock. In 1899, both George's Basin and George's Dock were filled in to create what is now the Pier Head.
On 12 June 1895 Liverpool Riverside Station was opened, situated between Princes Dock and the River Mersey.
In 1968 B&I Line (operator of the Liverpool - Dublin service) commenced a new car ferry service from Carrier Dock further downriver. A passenger only service continued to use Princes Dock till 1969.
Ferry services from Princes Dock finally ended in November 1981 when P&O Ferries closed their Liverpool - Belfast overnight service. The dock subsequently closed to shipping and was partly filled.
Challenge 2015, Week 3 "Inspired by Poetry"
I found the poem and then went a looking for a wild flower, only they have too much sense to flower in January, but I sort of thought this Dock in seed would fit :))
The Flower
Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.
To and fro they went
Thro' my garden bower,
And muttering discontent
Cursed me and my flower.
Then it grew so tall
It wore a crown of light,
But thieves from o'er the wall
Stole the seed by night.
Sow'd it far and wide
By every town and tower,
Till all the people cried,
'Splendid is the flower! '
Read my little fable:
He that runs may read.
Most can raise the flowers now,
For all have got the seed.
And some are pretty enough,
And some are poor indeed;
And now again the people
Call it but a weed.
Alfred Lord Tennyson :
Swansea Docks - the South Dock and Marina. The Sail Bridge is a pedestrian bridge crossing the former dock.
South Dock Swansea
March 2012