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Gloucester's mighty Cathedral stands in the centre of the city and dominates the local landscape.
The present building was begun in 1089 and was eventually completed in 1499. The building is massed in Architecture, colour stained and glass and large spaces in the nave amongst the giant pillars.
The Cathedral is unique in having widows depicting the earliest images of golf and foot ball aswell as the earliest surviving van vaulting in England in the Cloisters.
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Jane Brown2022All Rights Reserved. This image is not available for use on websites, blogs or other media without explicit written permission
We went for a meal in Gloucester docks - an extremely good Greek restaurant - which is great praise from me as i live in north London in an area with a considerable number of Cypriot residents, both Greek and Turkish - and we have many Greek and Turkish restaurants in our area. Not being able to see very well and at dusk I am pleased to find what I captured!
After exploring the docks we headed to Gloucester Cathedral, where we spent a few hours meandering and sitting - including lunch - we had very nice salads in the Cathedral café.
Day 17
My son practiced driving in Cheltenham and Gloucester. We decided to get out and have a look around. Nice afternoon!
Gloucester (two hours from London) small town where I spent over 10 days and had incredible time. This is Gloucester cathedral built in 14th century and has largest window in England (Great Window).
Canon 5D Mark III, Canon EF 14mm f/2.8L USM II. F/11, ISO 400.
5 exposure processed in Photomatix Pro and Photoshop CS5.
DB Schenker Class 60 Co-Co 60063 ambles through Gloucester on 6B13 05.07 Robeston - Westerleigh loaded Murco tanks.
10th July 2013
Class 45 ‘Peak’ 45 108 is seen restored to its original identity as D120 and in the British Railways green livery of its earlier years of service. Sporting a Thames-Clyde Express headboard, the Peaks were for long a staple of the Midland Main Line and worked this Anglo-Scottish service that ran from London St. Pancras to Glasgow Central, via the Settle & Carlisle and former GSWR Nidd Valley routes. D120 was captured at the Gloucester Rail Day held at the old Horton Road MPD, a location where many Peaks passed through on workings between Birmingham and Bristol.
August 1991
Rollei 35 camera
Kodak Ektachrome 100 film.
Class 25's Nos.25122 and 25126 come off the Bristol line heading a mixed freight for Severn Tunnel Junction. What a wonderful array of traction is visible in this image, with Horton Road depot still active. If only we had this kind of variety today. Gloucester station on 15th August 1979. 25122 had just one year remaining in active service, withdrawn in November 1980, and was cut up at Swindon Works in May 1983, after a period of storage. 25126 faired slightly better, condemned in November 1982, and disposed of in April 1983 at Vic Berry's Leicester scrapyard.
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Cut-down cab class 03 No.03142 from Landore depot is in the company of class 08s 08501 (from Holbeck depot), 08646 (from Bristol Bath Road depot) 08826 (Gloucester-allocated), 08364 (Gloucester-allocated) and 08849 (Gloucester-allocated) at Gloucester Horton Road depot on 7th July 1979. The lower profile of the 03's cab (for Burry Port & Gwendraeth line use) is quite evident from this angle. It was destined for Swindon Works, for storage, but ended up going for scrap during 1985.
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The fan vaulting was built for the first time in the Cloisters of Gloucester cathedral. This is the concept where the pattering of vaults matches the tracery. The vault is as important as the walls and windows and it becomes a display for a repetitive pattern of tracery panelling.
More about fan vaulting here:
medieval.ucdavis.edu/20C/Architecture.html
and here: