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The two small girls will be in their 40's by now and the sight of the local coal mine a distant memory, maybe they came from a mining family and today they take their own families to the country park.
Sadly, Deep Navigation Colliery closed on March 29th 1991, the associated washery stayed open for another 9 months so that the stockpile of coal could be removed. Today the site has been landscaped and is known as Parc Taff Bargoed.
37895 was built by English Electric as D6819, it went new to Cardiff Canton 27/03/1963, under TOPS it became 37283 and on being rebuilt, 37895, in 1985. The loco was withdrawn 10/04/2011 and cut at Kingsbury Metals 08/09/2011
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The microprocessor-based contraption claims this part of the road network is the fastest route to the freeway. It was about 33 miles of dirt road and I discovered a community that was new to me. Good thing I don't drive a Bentley...
Journalism grade photo
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Patras city coast near new port exit
(Navigation beacon red light)
Location :Patras/Achaia/West Peloponese/Greece.
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The Itchen Navigation is a 10.4-mile (16.7 km) disused canal system in Hampshire, England, that provided an important trading route from Winchester to the sea at Southampton for about 150 years. Improvements to the River Itchen were authorised by Act of Parliament in 1665, but progress was slow, and the navigation was not declared complete until 1710. It was known as a navigation because it was essentially an improved river, with the main river channel being used for some sections, and cuts with locks used to bypass the difficult sections. Its waters are fed from the River Itchen. It provided an important method of moving goods, particularly agricultural produce and coal, between the two cities and the intervening villages.
On its completion it was capable of taking shallow barges of around 13 feet (4.0 m) in width and 70 feet (21 m) in length, but traffic was fairly modest. 18,310 tons of freight were carried in 1802, one of the better years, and there were never more than six boats in use on the waterway. Following the opening of the London and Southampton Railway in 1840, traffic declined sharply, and the navigation ceased to operate in 1869. There were various attempts to revitalise it, but none were successful. There had also been several proposals to link it to the Basingstoke Canal to form an inland route from London to Southampton during its life, which likewise did not come to fruition.
The revival of interest in inland waterways following the end of the Second World War has resulted in the tow path alongside the canal becoming part of the Itchen Way long-distance footpath, and is a popular route for walkers. The Itchen Navigation Preservation Society was formed in the 1970s, but progress was slow. A joint venture between the Environment Agency and the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust in 2005 led to the formation of the Itchen Navigation Trust, and two years later, they obtained a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, funding the creation of the Itchen Navigation Heritage Trail Project, which has sought to conserve and interpret the remains. The route provides habitat for a diverse flora and fauna, which has resulted in it being designated as a European Special Area of Conservation and a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Officially the head of navigation, (although a few boats worked a short distance further upstream to serve Wharf Mill), this bridge, Wharf Bridge, built in the 1760s, is the oldest surviving bridge over the River Itchen. The public right of navigation on the Itchen has never been statutorily extinguished.
Looking along the Stroudwater Navigation towards Stroud.The purple vessel is the "Wookey Hole",I believe.
One from the archives. The Navigation is on the side of the Grand Union Canal at Stoke Bruerne in Northamptonshire. I would have thought that this public house dates from the early 1800s after the Grand Union Canal was opened. The architecture certainly looks Georgian. However, it is not a listed building and I have been unable to find out anything about its history.
What I do remember is that when we moved to Northamptonshire in the 1970s it was not a pub at all, but was used as a clubhouse associated with an adjacent camp site. It was converted into a pub a few years later. It's a pleasant place for a family visit, and we enjoy sitting outside on the picnic benches on the side of the towpath, watching the world go by.
The Milwaukee Pierhead Light is an active lighthouse located in the Milwaukee harbor, just south of downtown. This aid to navigation is a 'sister' of the Kenosha North Pier Light. The station was established in 1872. It is west of the Milwaukee Breakwater Light, and is near the outflow of the Milwaukee River—not far east of where that river converged with the Kinnickinnic River—into the Milwaukee Harbor and Lake Michigan. This light has a round steel tower with a round gallery and a ten-sided lantern. In 1926, the original 4th Order Fresnel lens was transferred to the Milwaukee Breakwater Light, and that lens is now displayed at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The Fifth Order Fresnel lens—installed in 1926—was removed in 2005. The tower is newly painted circa 2007. The 5th Order lens is said to be on display also at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum. According to one source: "The original lantern room had helical bar windows and is believed to [be] the one presently on the Breakwater Light." This is corroborated by the report that the Breakwater Light has a "round cast iron lantern room [that] features helical astragal" in the lantern. A Submarine cable runs from this light to the Milwaukee Breakwater Light, upon which a lighted danger warning is displayed. The light was recently painted, circa 2007. From 1872 until 1926, the light had its own keepers. Thereafter, this light, like all of the lights in the harbor, was serviced by the resident Lighthouse keepers who were stationed at the neighboring North Point Light Station until it was automated. The light was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in September 2012.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_Pierhead_Light
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways. Lighthouses mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals, reefs, rocks and safe entries to harbors; they also assist in aerial navigation. Once widely used, the number of operational lighthouses has declined due to the expense of maintenance and use of electronic navigational systems.
Across galaxies where crystal people dwell. Hawkwind... wonderful. Dawn and the starboard navigation light at Ramsey harbour entrance.
While walking along the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes area of Death Valley National Park. The setting is looking to the northeast and across the many dunes ridges to my front with the scattered bushes and plant-life. I decided to angle my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward to create more of a sweeping view across this sandy landscape and bring the mountains off in the distance, higher into the image. I felt that would help to create more of a sense of grandeur across this national park landscape.
Océan Pacifique à l'heure du coucher de soleil- Ixtapa, Mexique.
Pacific Ocean at sunset time, Ixtapa, Mexico
This contraption sits just off the beach in Mustang Island State Park near Corpus Christi, Texas. I've been unable to find out what it actually is, but assume some sort of navigational aid since it isn't far from the Corpus Christi ship channel. A very close look reveals a large number of pelicans and cormorants roosting on it.
Nikon F3, Micro-Nikkor 55/2.8, Kodak Tri-X 400@640. Push +1 developing, HC-110/dil. B, 8 min. Digitized with Nikon D700, AF Micro-Nikkor 60/2.8 D, Nikon ES-2, CS-LITE
My navigation app says that it is a 15 minute drive to the other side . . .
This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera with a Carl Zeiss Distagon 1:4 f=50mm lens and Hasselblad/63 1xHz-0 drop in filter using Fuji Pro 400-H film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.