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Canning Dock is a dock, on the River Mersey, England and part of the Port of Liverpool. It is situated in the southern dock system, connected to Salthouse Dock to the south and Canning Half Tide Dock to the west. The Canning Graving Docks are accessed from the dock.
The dock was opened in 1737 as a protected tidal basin providing an entrance to Old Dock. Having been subsequently enclosed as a wet dock three years earlier, in 1832 it was officially named after the Liverpool MP, George Canning. To the east is the site of Old Dock, built in 1709, this was the world first enclosed dock. Canning Dock would have initially served ships involved in the trans Atlantic slave trade.
Access to the northern half of the dock system was via Georges Dock, George's Basin and into Princes Dock. In 1899, both Georges Basin and George's Dock were filled in and the site is now the Pier Head.
Along with the Albert Dock and others in the immediate vicinity, Canning Dock was abandoned as a commercial shipping facility in 1972 due to the rising cost of dredging and falling numbers in traffic. It was restored in the 1980s and provides access to the Canning Graving Docks, which are part of the Merseyside Maritime Museum.
By March 2009 work was completed on a £22 million extension of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, providing a further 1.4 miles of navigable waterway.
From Princes Dock, the extension passes the Pier Head and terminates at Canning Dock. The extension includes a small basin at Mann Island, in the vicinity of the Pier Head, and a new lock providing access to Canning Dock.
These old docks have stories hidden inside. I wonder what this area looked like 50 years ago? More than likely these are not docks but train trestle bones.
By Phyllida Barlow
Tate Britain Commission 2014
Inspired by Tate Britain's location in relation to the river Thames, dock is Barlow's most ambitious sculptural installation to date. Obtrusive and invasive, the works in dock block and impede the way, overfilling the 100 metre long barrel-vaulted Duveen Galleries. They project dual and contradictory identities: monumental on the one hand, collapsed on the other. Made of lightweigh materials such as timber, metal, polystyrene, tarpaulin, canvas, cardboard and rope, the works in dock look battered or ravaged and offer an antagonistic counterpart to the austere neoclassical galleries. Suspended , collapsed, stacked, wrapped, folded or jammed, the sculptures have taken over and create a dynamic space that challenges the experience of viewing.
Sculptor Phyllida Barlow
Sculptor Phyllida Barlow will unveil her largest and most ambitious work in London to date for the Tate Britain Commission 2014, supported by Sotheby’s, on 31 March 2014. The annual commission invites artists to make work in response to Tate’s collection of British and international art and to the grand spaces of the Duveen Galleries at the heart of Tate Britain.
For over four decades Phyllida Barlow has made imposing, large scale sculptural installations using inexpensive, everyday materials such as cardboard, fabric, timber, polystyrene, plaster, scrim and cement. Her distinctive work is focused on her experimentation with these materials, to create bold and colourful three-dimensional collages.
Drawing on memories of familiar objects from her surroundings, Barlow’s tactile and seemingly unstable sculptures often contrast with the permanence and traditions of monumental sculpture. In works such as Peninsula at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in 2004 or Stint at Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre in 2008, a cacophony of form, colour and materials filled the spaces. In Barlow’s most recent work TIP for the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, timber lengths wrapped in mesh, cement and brightly coloured fabric ribbons cascaded en masse across the museum plaza to the entrance.
Phyllida Barlow has had an important influence on younger generations of artists through her work and long teaching career in London art schools. At the Slade School of Fine Art, her students included Turner Prize-winning and nominated artists Rachel Whiteread and Angela de la Cruz.
Having seen the space evolve over several decades, I’m very excited by the opportunity to work in the Duveen Galleries. Considering a body of new work, I was very conscious of two particular contradictory aspects: the tomb-like interior galleries against the ever-present aspect of the river beyond.
Phyllida Barlow
[Tate website]
L to R. Jesse Hartey's 6 sided clock. Cranes of Liverpool2 Deepwater Container Terminal, Seaforth Onshore Windfarm and Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse.
Wapping Dock is a dock on the River Mersey, England and part of the Port of Liverpool. It is situated in the southern dock system, connected to Salthouse Dock to the north, Queens Dock to the south. Kings Dock was originally located to the west, but has since been filled in.
The dock was opened in 1852. It was named after the road it runs alongside and which also gave its name to the Wapping Tunnel.
The large brick warehouse built in 1856 along the eastern side of the dock was designed by Jesse Hartley. The building is of a similar architectural style to the warehouses surrounding the nearby Albert Dock. When originally built, it was 232 metres long and consisting of five separate sections. Bombed in the May Blitz of 1941, the badly damaged southernmost section was not rebuilt, with only the supporting cast iron columns remaining in situ. The remainder of the building continued in commercial use, even after the dock closed in 1972. The warehouse was restored and converted into residential apartments in 1988 and is Grade II* listed.
WAPPING DOCK LIVERPOOL CITY CENTRE APRIL 2013
The Blackford Dolphin oil rig was built in Norway in 1974, and came to Belfast in November 2013 for a major upgrade and repair at Harland and Wolff. Illuminated and in residence over the Christmas period it has been dubbed Belfast's Unofficial Christmas Tree (www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/news/harland-wolffs-m...)
Photos taken in the revived Titanic Quarter in East Belfast - previously home to the shipping industry in Belfast, largely redeveloped for modern industry and entertainment.
Image © 2013 Robert J.E. Simpson / Avalard. All Rights Reserved.
Fishing boats North Collingwood dock, Liverpool, with floating club ship 'Landfall' (formerley landing craft LCT7074) behind and Stanley dock warehouse in background. Taken on Fuji HR 100 film with Nikon Fm2, scanned from negative.
M/S Sunnan II is the previous steamer S/S Louhivesi who before sailed at Finland’s eastern lakes, chiefly at Saimaa. The ship has been in cruising service at Tammisaari from the year 1992. The steam engine and the boiler were moved in 1985. The ship has served some years also as a café at Vyborg.
Previous names: S/S Louhivesi, S/S Lappeenranta, S/S Imatra II, M/S Imatra II
Built: Paul Wahl & Co., Varkauden konepaja, Varkaus 1906
Length: 26,83m
Breadth: 6,5m
Depth: 2,4m
Tonnage: 142 brt
Engine: Volvo-diesel (originally a steam engine)
Engine capacity: 430 PS
10 knots
Owner: Ab Shiprest Lenator Oy, Tammisaari 1992-
Previous owners: Saimaan Laivamatkat Oy 1967-1982, Sulkavan höyrylaiva (Martti Hämäläinen) 1982-1992
Home port: Tammisaari
100 passengers
Restaurant, cabinet, bar, 5 cabins for 2 persons
Ashbridges Bay / Woodbine Beach, on a foggy Thursday, when temps were supposed to hit 20C, but sure didn't feel like it.
Few signs of the original Preston Dock railway system survive today, but the original cast iron entrance gate posts to former dock property at Strand Road happily still survive, as does the bitumen rail traffic. Completing the scene is a William Bagnall 0-6-0 saddle tank 'Courageous'. A 1917 map of the dock railway system can be found at the following link. This location is at the bottom right hand corner of the map..http://www.prestonstation.org.uk/images/KS/DockMap1917_800.gif.
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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 ;)
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
Martin our friend and fellow photographer stopped to talk to the children living in the shanty town at Mandaly dock area. They were fascinated to see the image of themselves in his camera.
We had to tread carefully in this area as rubbish and flotsam scattered the sand. The children were very pleased and amused to see us as not many tourists visit this poor area.
A Jeanneau 43DS sailboat sits at the dock in the pale light of a winter day on English Bay in Vancouver, BC.
Lake Bemidji in Bemidji, Minnesota.
HDR from 6 exposures
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Photomatix for HDR and tonemapping
jhead to restore EXIF to 0 EV
Final touchup in gimp
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