Just pictures

[dombuckley]

Clacton Pier?

Looks like Southend to me - also, note similarity of buildings in background (not my photo)

 

[Tomahawk]

You mean sarfend...?

 

[Kukri]

Yes, it’s clearly Southend. In a case of “navigator’s vision”, I had been trying to fit the three tower blocks into the two tower blocks at Frinton.

Moral for me, here...

 

[philiphurst]

White out

Yep! Seems the image didn't load. No idea where I went wrong, I'm afraid.

 

[Concerto]

Its called 'Southend 6'!

However I assumed it was one of the entrance piers to Ostend or some such

Drat I forgot to change the file name. It is Southend Pier. All you from the Orwell, Blackwater, etc. probaly never normally see it.

 

[johnalison]

Drat I forgot to change the file name. It is Southend Pier. All you from the Orwell, Blackwater, etc. probaly never normally see it.

I went there once, in about 1954. We took the tube to the end of the pier and spent the afternoon in the Kursaal, which was brilliant, and far better than Battersea funfair, which had become a bit sleazy by then. My chief memory is of the (real) water-splash, and the crooked house.

 

[Denek]

It has long been a wish of mine to get a photo of our boat under way but this is difficult when you are on board and so I have started building a web site with the idea of owners being able to send photos of other peoples boats. The idea being that the owner could request them.
no charge or anything just for fun really. I have spent our last couple of sailing trips taking photos and am currently putting the site together. Nothing fancy as I am not a professional. hopefully someone will take a photo of mine?
what do you think of the idea?
any suggestions appreciated

 

[Lucky Duck]

There used to be a website - yourboatpix - which I think was maintained by a member of the forum.

It was popular for quite some time before eventualy suffering from a progressive drop in new content and no longer seems to exist.

 

[Charlie Boy]

 

[Charlie Boy]

 

[Aquaboy]

Sailing barge Melissa

 

[Aquaboy]

and this from the Stour on Thursday

 

[Tomahawk]

The photo in #109 really does show how much shipping has changed over the past century.

Melissa was a working ship this time last century. Yet fully loaded she wouldn’t register a change on the waterline of that container monster.

 

[Kukri]

Roughly speaking, world trade in goods by water, calculated as ton miles, has grown by 4.5% annually over that time.

 

[Wansworth]

Used to take 300 tons coal from Google to Gweek every year,in a coaster then somebody decided it was better delivered by road

 

[michael_w]

A Thames barge was the equivalent of Ford Transit, the Evergreen ship's forerunner would have been a 4 masted barque.

 

[Kukri]

Back in the 1980s the GPO, as it then was, announced that “in real terms”, the cost of posting a letter for next day delivery had not increased since the Penny Black.

I was impressed, and sat down to see what had happened to the freight on a ton of cargo from Shanghai to London in that time, using the GPO’s calculation of the inflation rate.

I found that the freight rate on a ton of cargo from Shanghai to London in 1989 was one per cent of the rate in 1841, in real terms.

 

[cherod]

No , not today ?

 

[Corribee Boy]

You'll have to excuse the quality of this image: it was taken by my daughter using an Iphone with a broken screen. Personally I think it gives it atmosphere, like an oil painting.

it's taken over the counter of Transcur, leading the pack down the Stour in the Two River's race a few years back and I think it conveys a little of the excitement of the chase.

 

[Cantata]

Here's our pal Roger, in 'Tiller Girl' on the Blackwater a few years ago -