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'Walk the Plank' fun ship 'Fitzcarraldo', Preston Docks (Marina). Summer Bank Holiday Monday 31 August 1992
Photograph copyright: Ian 10B. Slide No. 9978
Blue Heron Cruises portable dock at Flowerpot Island, just north of the large flowerpot, Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada.
Boyton Dock: Boom and Bust
Boyton Dock protrudes into the Butley River - a reminder of short-lived booms in the past, when geology created two brief windfalls for the nearby village of Boyton. A large deposit of high quality potter's clay was found in the mid 1600's beneath a local field. It was good enough for export to Holland and America, and also for shipping to the London delftware manufacturers at Lambeth and Vauxhall. At its height, the boom saw 500 tons of clay dug every year, carted to the dock and sent to London. That bubble burst when they ran out of clay.
The other Boyton boom also came from beneath the sandy crag soils, where brown nodules of phosphate - coprolite - were found that make good agricultural fertiliser. The boom began in the 1840's, but it was all over by 1880. In a seven-year period, 1,600 tons of coprolites were quarried from one Boyton farm, and 2,500 tons from another. The nodules were shipped from the dock on the Butley River by barge. At Ipswich they were ground up and processed into fertiliser by a business that later metamorphosed into Fisons.
Butley River
The Butley River is a tributary of the River Ore. The river has its source in the Rendlesham Forest area to the east of Eyke.
The river is tidal from its confluence with the Ore at Boyton as far inland as Butley Mills and almost to the village of Chillesford. A water mill was first recorded at Butley Mills in 1530. The river was also used for the transport of goods but by 1948 had become too silted to allow either use.
The river is located within the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. An RSPB reserve, Boyton Marshes, is situated at the mouth of the river on an area of salt marsh. A registered charity, the Alde & Ore Association, exists to "preserve and protect for the public benefit the Alde, Ore and Butley Creek rivers and their banks from Shingle Street to their tidal limits".
The river is crossed by the Butley Ferry during the summer period. This provides a link between Orford and Boyton and Butley for pedestrians and cyclists along the Suffolk Coast Path.
Seal Sands grab dredger (left) and Wilton buoy tender (right) docked in the River Tees near Middlesbrough's Transporter Bridge. Taken from the cradle of the bridge as it was going across the river.
The New Dock at Side Cut
Side Cut Metropark, Maumee, Lucas County, Ohio
Taken June 6th 2014
Earlier this spring, I helped the Toledo Metroparks with a canoing program on Silver Lake for Springfield Middle School 6th graders every Tuesday and Thursday for three weeks. I must say we could've used a better dock and this one here wasn't put in until sometime in the past week. Oh well. Better late than never, right?
Dock Cranes, and Canary Wharf at West India Docks.
The cranes are merely decorative now and represent the people who worked in London's docks who built the Empire. They worked hard for little in return.
Canary Wharf which houses those who work for the new empire of finance. They do little physical work and get paid rather better than the dockers of old.
There was a strong rainstorm this evening and I decided to grab my tripod and camera and venture out to see its effects on the little town of Lake Ridge. At the docks where I met the geese in my previous photos, I found these boats stacked up out of the water. Above, the clouds began to part as the storm calmed down and left.