gravygraham
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Or, more to the point, where was I when I took this pic at the weekend?
Where am I?
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sailorman
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Holland
gravygraham
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Nope.
dj43
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Ostend
sailorman
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Nope
gravygraham
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It's in the UK.
talltim
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Southend
gravygraham
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Is the right answer. A box set of Towie dvd's is on it's way.
talltim
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Thx, you are so kind
Searush
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Did you not look at your chart then?
Batteryman
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Isn't it very shallow there at low tide?
gravygraham
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Yes very. We didn't get closer than 100 metres or so of the pier end. The chart plotter was showing lots of green - somewhere I don't go - even at high water.
dpb
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Blimey, that picture brought back memories!
The building to the right is the Southend lifeboat station.
I was the Project Manager for that job and my office during construction was the white building at the far end of the pier, which is over a mile long.
The journey to work took forever as I lived in Whitstable at the time, from where you could see the pier on a clear day, had to drive to Southend via Dartford Crossing, park up on Southend Seafront and then catch the pier train as far as it went which was still a few hundred meters short of the site....or if I missed the train I had to walk.
Remember sitting at my desk when the whole office lurched to one side, looked out the window to see one of the Waverley’s paddle wheels just feet away as she came along side.
The structure is steel framed and clad in cedar, it houses, amongst other things, one of the large RNLI RIBS (Atlantic 25) which is launched from the other side of the building by a small crane.
All the materials had to be brought out by a barge from a local boat yard as we were not allowed to bring anything that we couldn’t carry along the pier.
The works were carried out over the winter period, and that, at times, was interesting!!!!!
The building to the right is the Southend lifeboat station.
I was the Project Manager for that job and my office during construction was the white building at the far end of the pier, which is over a mile long.
The journey to work took forever as I lived in Whitstable at the time, from where you could see the pier on a clear day, had to drive to Southend via Dartford Crossing, park up on Southend Seafront and then catch the pier train as far as it went which was still a few hundred meters short of the site....or if I missed the train I had to walk.
Remember sitting at my desk when the whole office lurched to one side, looked out the window to see one of the Waverley’s paddle wheels just feet away as she came along side.
The structure is steel framed and clad in cedar, it houses, amongst other things, one of the large RNLI RIBS (Atlantic 25) which is launched from the other side of the building by a small crane.
All the materials had to be brought out by a barge from a local boat yard as we were not allowed to bring anything that we couldn’t carry along the pier.
The works were carried out over the winter period, and that, at times, was interesting!!!!!