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Tall Ships Festival (4)

Another highlight of my day at the Tall Ships Festival was some smaller barges which was also present on the … More

Greenwich, River barges, Tall Ships Festival

Views of York (6)

York, York Minster

Tall Ships Festival (3)

Dar Mlodziezy moored at Greenwich Penninsular Dar Mlodziezy (The gift of youth) is one of six ships of this design … More

Greenwich, Tall Ships Festival

Tall Ships Festival (2)

Onto the main site at Greenwich waterfront. The Tolkien was built in East Germany as a motorised tug boat. After … More

Greenwich, Tall Ships Festival

Tall Ships Festival (1)

A visit this weekend to the Tall Ships festival at Greenwich My first stop was Woolwich Riverfront where some of … More

Greenwich, Tall Ships Festival

Bluebell Railway (7): Maunsell U class 1638

50 U class locomotives were built for Southern railway between 1928 and 1931. They were designed by Maunsell to haul … More

Cutty Sark (8): Images of a ship

“Cutty Sark June 2012” by Lauair -Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ File:Cutty_Sark_June_2012.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Cutty_Sark_June_2012.jpg

Cutty Sark, Greenwich

Bluebell Railway (6): H class 263

H class 263 was built at Ashford, Kent in 1905 and was designed for surburban passenger services on the LSECR. … More

Bluebell Railway, LSECR H class

Marquis of Granby

Photo by Mtaylor848 (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons Photo by Mtaylor848 (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons … More

Household Cavalry, Household Cavalry Museum, John Manners, Marquis of Granby

Household Cavalry Museum

A trip into London and some time to kill. I decide to visit the Household Cavalry museum off Whitehall. The … More

Horse Guards Parade, Household Cavalry, Household Cavalry Museum

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