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66085 waits at Cadoxton on the branch line to Barry Docks for a green signal to proceed on the 6B39 Barry Docks (dow Corning) - Newport ADJ wagonload. Meanwhile, chemical/oil products tanker, Bomar Quest, is seen at the No2 dock in Barry discharging chemicals to the Dow Corning plant.
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.
I took the idea for this image from this PHOTO from my good Friend Marco Peixoto who is a master in B&W and is the one who got me his old DSLR cheap and taught me the basics about Photography.
This a Ferry docking with one of our most famous Landmark on the background, the Monument to the Discoveries (I really don't know who this landmark is know abroad). Cheers everyone.
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An example of the Christmas magic at The Albert Dock Liverpool this festive season.
Each evening throughout December, visitors can enjoy a wonderfully festive magical light display. The Dr Martin Luther King Jr building; situated near the entrance of Albert Dock, has become the canvas for an intricate light projection centred around the theme of “Unwrapping Christmas on Albert Dock”. Incorporating origami and hand-crafted paper designs in the style of a beautiful pop-up book.- to captivate the imagination and whisk visitors away on a fantastical journey of storytelling and imagination.
Magical Light Display
5pm – 10pm
1st December 2017 – 1st January 2018#UnwrapAlbertDock
St. Pauli Landungsbrücken
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One of the dry docks, in front of the Great Western Railway building,Built in the 18th century, Slave ships were repaired here
Seeing as my other picture of 37s at South Dock has proved popular, here's a companion piece, taken the same day, 8 December 1979, and with 37242 nearest the camera. Other locos on shed that day were 08053 / 373 / 671 and 37062 / 063 / 106 / 143 / 160 / 194 / 195 / 200.
The charm of Chatham Docks, on a rather hot bank holiday weekend, Aveling Porter 'Sydenham' moves through the Wharf area.
Two photos of the Cities Town Dock Museum Kingston upon Hull East Yorkshire 6 May 2019 there are some 22 photos in this set taken due to the closing of Marks and Spencer on the 4 May 2019 and a few weeks later Boots the Chemist closed both in Whitefriargate The green dome that can be seen is on top of the City Hall Queen Victoria Square.
Shortly before track and signal rationalisation, a 31 heads an eastbound passenger past the Fish Docks; August '84
Jasmine relaxing on a dock in the Columbia River Gorge~Washington State.
Scroll down to see pics of Jasmine's RAW diet....thought I'd share with you.
An image of (part) of the warehouse at the Stanley Dock, Liverpool, UK.
Apart from anything else, I thought I'd visit here for a historical point of view, the building is starting to be redeveloped into several hundred apartments as part of a larger development of the whole Stanley Dock site. The plans involve hollowing out the centre of the warehouse to create a garden-filled courtyard.
It's hard to get a scale of the building, it's super massive big!!, the building it's self is the Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse, is a grade II listed building and is the world's largest brick warehouse. Standing 125 feet (38 m) high, the building was, at the time of its construction in 1901, claimed to be the world's largest building in terms of area. The 14 storey building spans across 36 acres (150,000 m2) and its construction used 27 million bricks, 30,000 panes of glass and 8,000 tons of steel!
I used to see this when travelling to Southport by train to visit some of my uni mates, and was always amazed by it, but had never visited it until the other week (It was too bright on that occasion for photography), so made a return visit today. I'm glad it has a future, and a new lease of life, it's going to take some converting though, mainly due to the sheer size and scale of the building :)
If you would like any more information, I attach a wiki link here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Dock_Tobacco_Warehouse
f5.6/30 Seconds (10.0 ND Filter)/iso100/Nikon D5100/Sigma 10-20mm lens @ 20mm
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Through this periscope on our space ship we observed the docking manoeuvre with the International Space Station. It gets jettisoned before landing.
Durch dieses Periskop an der Sojus-Kapsel haben wir das Andocken an die ISS beobachtet. Es wird vor der Landung abgetrennt.
Credits: ESA/NASA
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Built 1935-1937 by PRR and designed by Waddell & Hardesty as part of the elevated Newark Penn Station, the Dock Bridge at the Passaic River consists of two 230 foot lift spans with the west span placed in service in March 1935 when the headhouse and three western tracks were opened (being the largest lift span at the time). A second (east) span was added in 1937 with two tracks for the H&M (PATH) rapid transit rail line and an eastbound PRR track.
Two photos of the Cities Town Dock Museum Kingston upon Hull East Yorkshire 6 May 2019 there are some 22 photos in this set taken due to the closing of Marks and Spencer on the 4 May 2019 and a few weeks later Boots the Chemist closed both in Whitefriargate The green dome that can be seen is on top of the City Hall Queen Victoria Square.
To add some more creativity to my phorographs I have now started to use a ND filter that prevents light from coming into the lens, and opens for longer exposure in the bright daylight. Yeah!
f/36 @ 30 sec, ISO 100
Press L to view on black
1899（明治32）年 1号ドック完成
1930（昭和5）年 日本丸進水
帆船日本丸の改修工事のため昨年12月から排水されていた旧横浜船渠1号ドックは3月21日に注水されたそうです。
向かって左の建設中のビルは横浜市役所新庁舎です。
First photograph made of the Dock Pilings at Good Harbor Bay, in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Park, MI in 2003.
I'd love to see some of my Flickr friends next Friday night for the tree lighting here, followed by the lighting in Cape Porpoise.
A dock (from Dutch dok) is either the area of water between or next to a human-made structure or group of structures involved in the handling of boats or ships, usually on or close to a shore, or the structures themselves.
Dock in winter
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The Albert Dock is a complex of dock buildings and warehouses in Liverpool, England. Designed by Jesse Hartley and Philip Hardwick, it was opened in 1846, and was the first structure in Britain to be built from cast iron, brick and stone, with no structural wood. As a result, it was the first non-combustible warehouse system in the world.
At the time of its construction the Albert Dock was considered a revolutionary docking system because ships were loaded and unloaded directly from/to the warehouses. Two years after it opened it was modified to feature the world's first hydraulic cranes. Due to its open yet secure design, the Albert Dock became a popular store for valuable cargoes such as brandy, cotton, tea, silk, tobacco, ivory and sugar. However, despite the Albert Dock's advanced design, the rapid development of shipping technology meant that within 50 years, larger, more open docks were required, although it remained a valuable store for cargo.
During the Second World War, the Albert Dock was requisitioned by the Admiralty serving as a base for boats of the British Atlantic Fleet. The complex was damaged during air raids on Liverpool, notably during the May Blitz of 1941. In the aftermath of the war, the financial problems of the owners and the general decline of docking in the city meant that the future of the Albert Dock was uncertain. Numerous plans were developed for the re-use of the buildings but none came to fruition and in 1972 the dock was finally closed. Having lain derelict for nearly ten years, the redevelopment of the dock began in 1981, when the Merseyside Development Corporation was set up, with the Albert Dock being officially re-opened in 1988.
Today the Albert Dock is a major tourist attraction in the city and the most visited multi-use attraction in the United Kingdom, outside of London. It is a vital component of Liverpool's UNESCO designated World Heritage Maritime Mercantile City and the docking complex and warehouses also comprise the largest single collection of Grade I listed buildings anywhere in the UK.
The history of the Albert Dock dates back to 1837, when Jesse Hartley first began the development of plans for a combined dock and warehouse system.The plans drawn up by Hartley and fellow civil engineer Philip Hardwick for the Albert Dock were at the time considered quite 'radical', as they envisioned the loading and unloading of ships directly from the warehouses. However, this idea was not new, and as far back as the 1803 Warehousing Act, legislation had been passed to allow this form of development to occur, whilst the concept was first actually used in the construction of St Katharine's Dock in London, which was opened in 1828. As part of the development process, Hartley was eager to test the fire resistance of any particular design by constructing an 18 ft (5.5 m) by 10 ft (3.0 m) dummy structure, filling it with timber and tar, and setting it alight. After testing several structural designs he settled on the combination of cast iron, brick, sandstone and granite. The design was submitted for planning permission in 1839 although it wasn't until 1841, when the bill authorising the design of the dock was eventually passed by Parliament, that construction was allowed to begin.
Jesse Hartley
The site chosen for the dock to be built on was an area of land boarded by Salthouse Dock to the east, the entrance channel to Canning Dock to the north and by Dukes Dock to the south. The land earmarked for the site had to be cleared, with 59 tenants being evicted and numerous premises demolished including a pub, several houses and the Dock Trustee's Dockyard. Upon the clearance of this land both the Salthouse and Canning dock's were drained to allow entrance passages into the Albert Dock to be constructed, whilst hundreds of 'Navvies' were employed to dig out the dock basin and construct the new river wall. The dock basin was completed by February 1845, allowing the first ships to enter the Albert Dock, although with the warehouses still under construction this was merely to allow these boats to 'lay-up'
The dock complex was officially opened in 1846 by Albert, Prince Consort, husband of Queen Victoria and the man in honour of whom it was named. This event marked the first occasion in Liverpool's history in which a member of the Royal Family had made a state visit to the city and as a result the occasion was marked with a major celebrations. Many thousands of people turned out for the Royal visit with the newspaper The Pictorial Times noting the reception Prince Albert received:
"His reception was most enthusiastic; balconies were erected along the line of procession, and these and the windows of houses were filled with gay and animated parties. There was a most brilliant display of flags, banners All business is suspended. There are 200,000 strangers in town, and all the inhabitants are in the streets. All is gaiety and splendour." (The Pictorial Times, 1846).
The Prince was taken on a processional tour through the city, including a visit to the town hall where the royal address was made, before departing aboard the fairy across to the Cheshire side of the Mersey and then northwards towards the Albert Dock. Again this stage of the procession route was laden with onlookers with The Pictorial Times describing the Prince's entrance into the Albert Dock:
"From the Cheshire side of the river the Fairy crossed to the Liverpool side, and returned along the line of docks amidst the cheers of assembled thousands and the roar of artillery. The sight was really magnificent, all the ships in the docks were decked out in gayest colours and the river was crowded with boats filled with people. At half-past two the fairy entered the dock, where were assembled two thousand ladies and gentlemen, the elite of the town; they cheered enthusiastically, which his Royal Highness returned, and in order to gratify the crowd sailed round the dock." (The Pictorial Times, 1846).
Despite the official opening occurring in 1846, the construction of the Albert Dock was not fully completed until 1847. In 1848, a new dock office was built and the dock itself was upgraded to feature a hydraulic cargo handling hoist system, the first of its kind in the world. Over the next decade several more buildings where added including houses for the piermaster, his assistant & the warehouse superintendent; and a cooperage. Warehousing in the dock was also expanded to meet the increasing demand by joining together the eastern and western ends of the Southern Stack.
LIVERPOOL CITY CENTRE AUTUMN 2012