Britain Beautiful, Interesting and Sometimes Strange

Weymouth Harbour,25th September 2020.

The Kennet and Avon Canal between Crofton and Great Bedwyn, 12th July 2020.

View from Monsal Head, Peak District, 1st August 2019.

Mottisfont,8th June 2019.

Great Chalfield Manor 14th July 2019.

Mottisfont,8th June 2019.

Untitled image in Miscellaneous photographs from around the British Isles (Gallery Nine) -Views of Lacock Abbey & its surrounds. (26768)

Untitled image in Miscellaneous photographs from around the British Isles (Gallery Nine) -Views of Lacock Abbey & its surrounds. (26759)

Untitled image in Miscellaneous photographs from around the British Isles (Gallery Nine) -Views of Lacock Abbey & its surrounds. (26755)

Untitled image in A Visit to Salisbury - 10th July 2018. (25493)

Although each dove is individual,together they stand for a fundamental human right that of peace and freedom.

Untitled image in A Visit to Salisbury - 10th July 2018. (25497)

A woodland walk on the Bowood Estate near Chippenham,Wiltshire.4th May 2018.

Kennet and Avon Canal.Scenes near the bottom of the Caen Hill lock flight West of Devizes,Wiltshire.28th March 2017.The 29 locks have a rise of 237 feet in 2 miles (72 m in 3.2 km) or a 1 in 44 gradient. The locks come in three groups. The lower seven locks, Foxhangers Wharf Lock to Foxhangers Bridge Lock, are spread over 1.2 km. The next sixteen locks form a steep flight in a straight line up the hillside. Because of the steepness of the terrain, the pounds between these locks are very short. As a result, 15 locks have unusually large sideways-extended pounds, to store the water needed to operate them. A final six locks take the canal into Devizes. This flight of locks was engineer John Rennie's solution to climbing the very steep hill, and was the last part of the 87 mile route of the canal to be completed. Whilst the locks were under construction a tramroad provided a link between the canal at Foxhangers to Devizes, the remains of which can be seen in the towpath arches in the road bridges over the canal.

A woodland walk on the Bowood Estate near Chippenham,Wiltshire.4th May 2018.

Palm House 18th December 2016.

Untitled image in Kew Gardens at Christmas. (22395)

Palm House 18th December 2016.

Looking across Torquay Marina to the wheel and Pavilion.The latter is to be restored and repaired as part of a waterside developement (proposed).25th August 2016.

National Arboretum,Westonbirt,31st October 2016.

In 800 the Danes plundered Tynemouth Priory,and afterwards the monks strengthened the fortifications sufficiently to prevent the Danes from succeeding when they attacked again in 832. However, in 865 the church and monastery were destroyed by the Danes. At the same time, the nuns of St Hilda, who had come there for safety, were massacred. The priory was again plundered by the Danes in 870. The priory was destroyed by the Danes in 875.The small parish church of St Mary remained. Earl Tostig made Tynemouth his fortress during the reign of Edward the Confessor. By that time, the priory had been abandoned and the burial place of St Oswin had been forgotten. According to legend, the St Oswin appeared in a vision to Edmund, a novice, who was living there as a hermit. The saint showed Edmund where his body lay and so the tomb was re-discovered in 1065. Tostig was killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066 and so was not able to re-found the monastery as he had intended.

A famous railway name on a road in Bude. He was the Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Southern Railway between 1937 and the 1948 nationalisation.He designed two classes of Pacific locomotives the smaller of which ,The west Country and Battle of Britain Class were assiociated with the line to Bude and the famous Atlantic Coast Express from London Waterloo.One of the class,No.34006,was named after the town and its nameplate can be seen in the towns museum.

The Gardens at Claydon House,Buckinghamshire,8th May 2016.They contain a delightful display of Tulips.

Views over the reefs from Warren Beach, Hartland Quay,7th July 2016.

Woodland Walk,Bowood near Chippenham,North Wiltshire 5th May 2016.The Bluebells are stunning.

Looking South West down Loch Linnie from the Corran Ferry on 26th September 2015.

From West of the village of Glencoe looking West down Loch Leven with Creag Bhreac (highest point 615 m) in the background.26th September 2015.

Manchester Arms,Hull is a traditional pub dating back to 1791.

Avebury Manor,Dahlia Garden,8th October 2015

Views around the Avebury Stone Circle.4th June 2011.By the Iron Age, the site had been effectively abandoned, with some evidence of human activity on the site during the Roman occupation. During the Early Medieval, a village first began to be built around the monument, which eventually extended into it. In the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods, locals destroyed many of the standing stones around the henge, both for religious and practical reasons. The antiquarians John Aubrey and William Stukeley however took an interest in Avebury during the 17th century, and recorded much of the site before its destruction. Archaeological investigation followed in the 20th century, led primarily by Alexander Keiller, who oversaw a project of reconstructing much of the monument.