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A green dock beetle chews its favorite food, the weed called dock. Dock refers to a large genus, Rumex, of about 200 species, some of which are weeds in pastures and agricultural fields. This green dock beetle, Gastrophysa viridula, is working with a host of others to defoliate dock growing at Lower Church Lake, one of the sections of Boulder County Open Space and Mountain Parks.
The beetle is native to Europe and introduced to North America. In the last century, in England, the beetles were collected for their iridescent green elytra (wing covers) which were used to adorn women's hats.
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
At the bottom of this picture is the river Taff, then up to the Glamorganshire Canal and beyond are the Bute West and East docks.
'Fusedale H' laid up in Goole Docks. These barges, which were such a big part of life on Northern rivers and estuaries, will rust away, be broken up or converted to house-boats for the well-to-do, so sadly, these pictures are the last record I'll have of them working.
Located on Queen Street (once known as Dock Street) in Charleston, South Carolina, this was the first building in America built exclusively to be used for theatrical performances.
The original theater was destroyed by fire in 1740 and replaced by the Planter's Hotel in 1809. The wrought-iron balcony and sandstone columns were added in 1835. After the Civil War (1860-1865) the hotel fell into disrepair but, in 1935, it was designated a Depression-era renovation project and was reconstructed within the shell of the former hotel. Modeled on 18th century London playhouses by noted Charleston architect and preservationist Albert Simons (1890-1980), the historic theater's second grand opening took place in 1937. After another renovation by the City of Charleston, the theater was reopened for a third time in 2010. Now owned and managed by the City of Charleston, the Dock Street Theater is now home to many of the City's finest cultural events.
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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