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Despite seeing this bug everywhere in France, I've not uploaded that many shots of it (I guess it's due to me uploading plenty of it from the UK!!)!
All of these were seen in various locations in La Brenne - France
Istanbul, Turkey
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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.
Liverpool
The recent heatwave in the UK provided some gorgeous photo opportunities on my visit to Leeds. The reflections in the dock and River Aire were stunning, so of course I had to make full use of this opportunity (and suffered some sunburn in the process)!
In this area there were many working boat yards, or docks, like this one, where boats were built and repaired. They were busy, cluttered places not unlike a modern scrap yard as it was common practice to break wooden boats, salvaging the ironwork.
Castlefields boat dock is typical of the many on the Black Country canal system of the period and is equipped to build new working craft and to repair those of iron or composite construction. The dock can accommodate three boats, drawn sideways out of the water by winches onto the slip. There are a number of different buildings on the boat dock each serving a specific purpose.
President on the opposite quay is a historic, steam-powered narrowboat, built in 1909 by Fellows Morton and Clayton (FMC) at their dock at Saltley, Birmingham, England. It is now owned by the Black Country Living Museum, where it is based. President is registered by National Historic Ships as part of the National Historic Fleet.
The 71 feet (22 m) long[1] President was constructed in 1909 at FMC's company dock in Saltley, and cost £600. She was registered on 23 June that year. Her riveted, wrought iron hull is shaped in the 'Josher' style, named for FMC director Joshua Fellows.
In 1925, the Ruston, Proctor and Company steam boiler and engine were replaced by a 15 hp Bolinder crude oil engine.
Ernest Thomas, a director of FMC, and a Walsall-based coal carrier, acquired the boat in 1946. She was sold to George and Matthews of Wolverhampton in 1948, but that year the UK's canals were nationalised and she finished her working days as part of British Waterways' northern maintenance fleet, on the Trent and Mersey, Macclesfield and Shropshire Union canals, from a base at Northwich.
President was bought by Nicholas Bostock and Malcolm Braine in 1973, as a derelict hull. They restored the hull and constructed a replica cabin and boiler room. A 1928 Muir and Findley "Scotch" return boiler, similar to that originally used, but operating at 100 PSI was acquired and fitted, as was a twin cylinder steam engine, originally used in a Thames launch. The boat returned to service in 1978.
President was purchased by the Black Country Living Museum in January 1983. The boiler was replaced by a Cochran dryback return flue boiler in 1990. A major refit took place from 2001–2003, including the provision of a new steam engine, pipework and cabin, plus major hull repairs.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_(narrowboat)
It was mainly used to dredge Gloucester Docks and the Sharpness canal to a depth of 16ft and to dredge the dock at Sharpness to 24ft. At times SND No.4 also worked in the entrance and tidal basin at Sharpness. These operations typically removed 35,000 to 40,000 tons of mud from the canal and docks each year until 1981, when SND No.4 was replaced by a diesel-electric powered dredger. It is now a working exhibit in the Gloucester Waterways Museum.
Sunset shot in Moorlough, Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
As I stood for an hour photographing the sunset, the images were not just coming out as well as I was hoping for. I was just about to give up but decided to take a few steps back and capture this image of the dock I was standing on instead and here is the outcome! I was standing on top of the Image I was looking for the whole time and didn't realise it! lol
Built by the PRR as part of the elevated Newark Penn Station project, Dock Bridge consists of two lift spans over the Passaic River. The west span (right) was built in 1935 and opened along with Newark Penn Station in March 1935 (the headhouse and the three western tracks in service), the east span was built in 1937 with the H&M (PATH) on the upper level along with the east half of the station, which opened June 20, 1937.
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Canning Dock is a dock, on the River Mersey,LIVERPOOL 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, which was the world first enclosed commercial 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.
LIVERPOOL CITY CENTRE 2012
3 Hufeisen-Azurjungfern docken an einem kleinen Ästchen an, fotografiert am Ellbach in Bad Tölz
3 Azur Virgin dragonflies dock to a small twig, photographed at the Ellbach brook in Bad Tölz, Upper Bavaria
with Tamron 70-300mm VC USD
A panorama of the heavy machinery at the Millhaven ferry dock. It's there to build new docks so cars can load from the front and back of the ferry, instead of loading from the side.