East Coast Anorak Series No 3 - What was here once?

[tillergirl]

 

[FullCircle]

Well it looks like some sort of pier existed to the right in the background, and the silting centre and left looks like part of it. Sort of looks north bank of the Blackwater, but I couldn't say why.

 

[sarabande]

perhaps a bit more water before Global Warming started to kick in ?

 

[tillergirl]

Name the thing that isn't there FC. Pretty warm.

 

[dualin]

I think its something to do with railways and supplys and possably a firing range???

 

[CliveG]

I beleve that it was a peir for a ferry over to Bradwell that a rail line was linked to.

It was talked about in a post the other day.

 

[tillergirl]

Not a firing range but the end of this

http://www.tollesbury.org/images/crab_winkle/lrg_pierstn07.gif

 

[ianc1200]

The first time I knew the answer to one of these where is it's, & was too late replying! M Griffiths mentioned the line several times in his books, & I've had a look to find traces & concluded it was as shown.

IanC

 

[tillergirl]

You can have a win credit! It's about as useful as winning.

 

[FullCircle]

Dang! You can't turn your back for a minute round here.

I knew I should have kept my powder dry.

So close, so close. Dang.

 

[nortonmotors]

The first time I knew the answer to one of these where is it's, & was too late replying! M Griffiths mentioned the line several times in his books, & I've had a look to find traces & concluded it was as shown.

IanC

I knew that ! But I'm too slow for this forum.
How about Port Victoria, mentioned in another East Coast classic.
How many others know where that was ?

 

[tillergirl]

Ah yes. "Tidal eddies troublesome". Won't spoil it for others. Prompts me for another when that's been got.

 

[Saguday]

Tollesbury Pier!!

Did I win?

 

[tillergirl]

"And here comes the British contestant. He didn't win but that's not important, its all about the performance. The way he crossed the line after all the others was in a class of its own. Nobody else did it quite like that and he can be proud of his personal best"

Sorry naughty of me but I'm trying to avoid writing a late paper.

What about Nortonmotors' 'Port Victoria'. Where wuz that?

 

[FullCircle]

What about Nortonmotors' 'Port Victoria'. Where wuz that?

Its the standard port on RYA Training Chart 3 (Northern Peninsula).

 

[tillergirl]

Ah no, Norton's talking about a real place - which you will have sailed past - not that its called that any more. Not that its called anything any more. Not that you could anchor cos of the other things there.......

 

[DanTribe]

"How about Port Victoria, mentioned in another East Coast classic.
How many others know where that was ?"

Ooh Please Sir, I know.
Often mentioned in Francis B Cooke's writings and was once the home of the Corinthian Yacht Club, [before it was Royal] I think.
It had it's own railway station.

 

[tillergirl]

Go on, go on. You're right. Return rail fare 3rd class 10/-, 1st class 14/7

Say where it wuz.

 

[nortonmotors]

And in Jones' "Swin, Swale, and Swatchway" ; on a clear day I can almost see the chimbley from here.

 

[ianc1200]

I thought his follow up "The last voyage of the Teal" (1893) was a better read.

IanC