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Birds and trains and history and all of the things that I enjoy

Author: Pete

I am semi-retired after a career in medical sciences. I now work from home doing independent research and consultancy amongst other things. One advantage of this is that I do have time to indulge my interests including birdwatching, natural history, steam trains and history particularly ancient history.

London Churches: St Martin-le-Grand

All that remains of St Martins is the road that was named after it just north of St Paul’s Cathedral. … More

St Martin-le-grand

Black-Crowned Night Heron

The black crowned night Heron is a small Heron species is found in southern Europe, North and South America, Africa … More

Black-Crowned Night Heron

Free Course on History of Portus

The short course I did through Southampton University is still available through FutureLearn   or at: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/portus

Ancient Rome's ports, Portus

Visualising Portus

Here are a couple of videos on the visualisation project  

Ancient Rome's ports, Portus

Portus: Port of Rome

A couple of years back I had the opportunity to do a short course run by the University of Southampton … More

Ancient Rome's ports, Portus

Fitzrovia Chapel (3)

Some more photographs of the magnificent Fitzrovia Chapel in central London.  

Fitzrovia Chapel

The London fences made from stretchers

Originally posted on Stephen Liddell:
Famously many of the iron and steel railings in the U.K. were removed and melted down…

London Stretchers as fences

Turbulent waters

On the way back from Southend on the Jacob Marley, I became fascinated with the water being ejected from the … More

Turbulant Water

Ships of the Medway

John H Amos A steam paddle tug built on the Clyde for the Tees Conservancy. Its main function was towing … More

John H Amos, Medway Queen, SS Richard Montgomery

Fitzrovia Chapel (2)

I do love marble and here are some photographs of some of the great variety of types of marble found … More

Fitzrovia Chapel, Marble

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