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Mary Rose (3): The Mary Rose bell

The Mary Rose Bell is one of the few objects excavated, which date from the launch of the ship in … More

Mary Rose, Portsmouth, Portsmouth Dockyard

Mary Rose (2): The remains of the Ship

The preservation of the ship and its contents are been a major undertaking. Essentially the archaeologists were working with little … More

Mary Rose, Portsmouth, Portsmouth Dockyard

Mary Rose (1)

Over the next few weeks, I plan to publish a series of blogs about my recent visit to the Mary … More

Mary Rose, Portsmouth, Portsmouth Dockyard

Naturelog: Wednesday 16th April

A lovely sunny afternoon so went off to Sutcliffe Park LNR to look for Butterflies and perhaps some early Dragonflies … More

Eltham, Sutcliffe Park LNR

Turner and the Sea

Today I went to see the Turner and the Sea exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. I am … More

Fighting Temeraire, JMW Turner, national maritime museum, Turner

Bletchley Park revisited (8): The Enigma machines

When people generally talk about the Enigma machine, they usually imagine that it was a single model, which once the … More

Bletchley Park, Enigma

Bletchley Park revisited (5): The dispatch rider

Most of the signal intercepts that arrived at Bletchley Park came by the hands of the motorcycle dispatch riders, who … More

Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park revisited (4): 1947 Sunbeam Talbot

This saloon car was built in 1947 and exported to madras in India, where it remained until it was purchased … More

Bletchley Park, Sunbeam Talbot

Bletchley Park revisited (2): The Ambulance

This 1938 Austin ambulance is now part of a small transport collection which is housed in the garages at Bletchley … More

Bletchley Park

Naturelog: Thursday 20th March

Decided to visit some of my local sites on the River Thames to see if there was any sign of … More

Canada Goose, East India Dock, Eurasian Coot, Greenwich Ecology Park, Tufted Duck

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