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| RobWilson:
Thanks for the replies Lads :thumbup: , I will stick a visit on to my to do list for later on this year :ddb: ,wile on a nautical thyme I must get to see the SS Great Britain as well sometime . But a sure thing for this summer will be a visit to Crossness Pumping Station http://www.crossness.org.uk/ . Cheers Rob |
| John Rudd:
--- Quote from: RobWilson on April 08, 2015, 02:50:47 PM --- wile on a nautical thyme I must get to see the SS Great Britain as well sometime Cheers Rob --- End quote --- I've visited the SS Great Britain.....Well worth seeing, the propellor is a sight...... If ever you get the chance visit the Belfast dockyard too, where the Titanic was built....the dry dock is really eerie.... |
| RobWilson:
Cheers John , That is another place to visit added to the list :thumbup: On the way over to Ireland I could stop off at the Isle of Man and have a butchers at the Laxey Wheel . Rob |
| awemawson:
By total chance (Travelling Cornwall to Monmouth) I was in Bristol the day SS Gt Britain came 'home' to her original dry dock on the back of a massive barge affair all the way from the Falklands, where she'd been beached for years as a coal bunker for passing ships. She was in a very sorry state, de-masted with much planking missing. It was a very moving thing to watch - I arrived very late in Monmouth !!!) That was 1970 according to my Googling just now. http://www.ssgreatbritain.org/story/incredible-journey Since then I've visited several times, slowly seeing her re-birth. |
| Pete.:
--- Quote from: RobWilson on April 08, 2015, 02:50:47 PM ---Thanks for the replies Lads :thumbup: , I will stick a visit on to my to do list for later on this year :ddb: ,wile on a nautical thyme I must get to see the SS Great Britain as well sometime . But a sure thing for this summer will be a visit to Crossness Pumping Station http://www.crossness.org.uk/ . Cheers Rob --- End quote --- I worked at Crossness a few times last year - not on the historic building but on the state-of-the-art SPG plant where they burn cake to make electricity. It's one of the most gadawful stinky places I've ever had to work at and I had to wear a personal HS monitor (hydrogen sulphide) at all times. Funny thing you might see there are several derelict concrete boxes that look like a crash-landed TARDIS dotted about the site. I never got the chance to ask what they used to be used for but it looks for all the world that Dr Who picked a bad spot to land then decided to abandon his craft because of the smell :D |
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