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My travels around the UK by car for three weeks with my son. June/July 2019 England.
Day seven. Luckily we made it time to check in before 11pm. We arrived at 10:58. Today we are taking a look around Bristol harbour area before making our way to Wales. We had a few heavy showers.
The Bristol Harbour Railway is a heritage railway in Bristol, England operated by Bristol Museums Galleries & Archives. It runs for approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) along the south side of Bristol Harbour, starting at M Shed (the former Bristol Industrial Museum), stopping at the SS Great Britain, and ending at B Bond Warehouse (home of the Create Centre), one of the large tobacco warehouses beside Cumberland Basin.
The original Bristol Harbour Railway was a joint venture by the GWR and sister company the Bristol and Exeter Railway, opened in 1872 between Temple Meads and the Floating Harbour. Its route included a tunnel under St Mary Redcliffe church and a steam-powered bascule bridge over the entrance locks at Bathurst Basin. In 1876 the railway was extended by 1⁄2 mile (0.80 km) to Wapping Wharf.
By Act of Parliament of 1897, the GWR was authorised to make a westwards connection between the BHR and the Portishead Railway, and then create the West Loop at Ashton Gate which would face south towards Taunton and Exeter St Davids. This connection would allow a doubling of BHR rail access capacity to the Great Western main line. In 1906 this authorised extension was constructed, with new branches from the south via the Ashton Swing Bridge were built to: Canons Marsh on the north side of the Floating Harbour; and to Wapping via a line alongside the New Cut.
The Temple Meads connection was closed and the track lifted in 1964 (the bascule bridge engine survives in Bristol Museums). The Canons Marsh branch closed the following year, with the Canons Marsh goods shed is now the home of Explore At-Bristol, a hands-on science centre. The Western Fuel Company continued to use the branch from the Portishead line and Wapping marshalling yard for commercial coal traffic until 1987.
For More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Harbour_Railway
London River Thames Boat Cruise The Captain Kidd English Pub 108 Wapping High Street Wapping. Metropolitan Police Marine Police Force Boat Station
I was in the city centre today for a meeting, luckily I had my camera. But only 2 minutes of spare time to capture the early morning mist around the Albert Dock.
The Wapping Project, Docklands, London. Formerly a hydraulic power station (built in 1892), it was de-commissioned in 1977, and re-opened as an arts venue incorporating a restaurant in 1998.
Wapping Hockey Club Ladies 2nd Team (maroon) draw 2-2 against Waltham Forest Ladies 1st Team (white) on 30 November 2013. This shot got past the goal keeper and defence and scored Wapping the first goal of the match
Wapping Road School, Bradford 1877 - 2000
Business As Usual
This important and historic school building has fallen into serious disrepair because of a protracted debate over its future between the owners Sphinx Commercial Ltd, and Council planners. An outline planning application for turning the Grade II listed building into apartments was submitted in 2004, before it was sold, but that has not yet been turned into reality. Since being in planning limbo for four years it has been struck by arsonists, thieves and vandals on several occasions. As a result, the school’s slate roof has been gutted and most of its interior features destroyed. It is now on the council’s Listed Building ‘At Risk’ register.
A Remarkable Heritage
Wapping Road School, built in 1877, was a ‘Board School’ under Bradford's very own W.E. Forster's Education Act of 1870.
The school’s distinguished 123-year history saw it play a leading role in the development of state education. More than a century ago, the school created national and international headlines with the help of education campaigners Margaret and Rachel McMillan and their push to improve the lot of children in the state system. Their influence helped bring the country’s first school swimming pool to Wapping Road school and nearby Green Lane School in 1899.
Bradford was a grim place for the poor in the 19th Century, with a lot of extreme poverty. Children suffered in spite of the sacrifice by their parents. Also at this time, children were brought up from London workhouses to work in the mills. This is how the area of Wapping in Bradford got it’s name. Dirt and disease was a problem.
Right up to the early part of this century some children were ‘sewn up’ for the winter – wrapped in flannel which was then sewn into place and not removed until the warm weather came. Some parents thought that this was necessary because there was not enough food to keep a child warm otherwise.
Lots More Including Original Archive Images here.
Auf einem handschriftlichen Dokument, zu sehen inerhalb einer Dauerausstellung in der Albrechtsburg. (Mehrere Wappen)
The Cavern Club is a nightclub at 10 Mathew Street, in Liverpool, England.
The original Cavern Club opened on Wednesday, 16 January 1957 as a jazz club, later becoming a centre of the rock and roll scene in Liverpool in the 1960s. The Beatles played in the club in their early years.
The original Cavern club closed in March 1973 and was filled in during construction work on the Merseyrail underground rail loop. Focus were the last band to play the original Cavern a few days before the club was shut down.
The Cavern Club re-opened on 26 April 1984 and was rebuilt using many of the original bricks, to the original
mattomatto and I took our Nikon weekend photo walk from Tower Hill, Wapping to Liverpool Street today :)
Wappen des Franz Georg von Schönborn, Sankt-Salvator-Basilika Prüm.
Über dem Portalbogen der ehemaligen Fürstabtei Prüm am Seiteneingang befindet sich das herausragende Wappen des Franz Georg Reichsfreiherr (seit 1701 Reichsgraf) von Schönborn (* 15. Juni 1682 in Mainz; † 18. Januar 1756 in Schloss Philippsburg, Koblenz), Mitglied der Adelsfamilie von Schönborn, war ab 1729 Kurfürst von Trier und Fürstabt von Prüm, ab 1732 Fürstbischof von Worms und Fürstpropst von Ellwangen. Das Wappen besteht aus 13 Feldern in insgesamt 3 verschiedenen Ebenen. Als Schildhalter zwei widersehende Löwen mit goldener Mähne und dazu zwei heraldische Fahnen.
Der Herzschild (3. Ebene) enthält das Wappen der Grafen von Schönborn.
Der Mittelschild (2. Ebene) enthält sämtliche Ämter des Kurfürsten: Kurtrier, Fürstbistum Worms, Fürstprobstei Ellwangen, Fürstabtei Prüm.
Der Hauptschild (1. Ebene) enthält alle sonstigen Komponenten des Familienwappens. Viele Besitztümer und Titel kamen erst im frühen 18. Jh. zur Familie. Im einzelnen: Feld 2: Kaiserlicher Doppeladler, Feld 8: Habsburger Stammwappen, Feld 1: Reichsständische Herrschaft Reichelberg, Feld 3: Herrschaft Heppenheim, Feld 4: Erbtruchsessen-Amt in Österreich, Feld 6: Wappen von Buchheim, Feld 7: Grafen von Wolfthal, Feld 9: Wappen der Truchsess von Pommersfelden.
Despite the Docklands having high levels of redevelopment, there are still some areas which are still waiting to be redeveloped, such as this land on the corner of Pennington Street and Chigwell Hill, with a dumped pram.
Hermitage Community Moorings on the Thames at Wapping. A relatively new floating London co-operative community with views that would be the envy of a multi-million pound penthouse.
Open House London 2014 listing:
An exciting new development of residential and recreational moorings for historic vessels on the Thames. The architectural scheme has been designed as a model for river dwelling that takes into account its tidal location. The unique Pier House, built to a high specification, provides a floating community centre just downstream from Tower Bridge.
And from the community’s website: www.hcmoorings.org
Hermitage Community Moorings (HCM) is a co-operative which built, owns, and operates a mooring on the Thames at Hermitage Wharf, Wapping.
The mooring provides berths for up to 20 historic vessels: enabling a mixture of live-aboard, recreational and visitor use. HCM provides well-managed river access for local people, including educational and recreational facilities.
HCM was created by a small, dedicated community over the course of about 6 years and is the first development of its kind on the Thames for more than a generation. The co-operative members entirely self-funded the planning, design, management, construction, installation, and operation of the harbour. The infrastructure is designed to create a small, close-knit community of people committed to boat use and the preservation of historic craft.
Part of its ambition is to ensure traditional river craft (e.g. sailing barges, tugs and motor craft) remain part of the Wapping landscape for future generations – and to create a local landmark that promotes Wapping’s historic links with the river.
Address: 16 Wapping High Street, London E1W 1NG.