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A Tour of Gravesend (2)

Turning east and returning to the Riverfront we soon pass the Customs House and the headquarters of the Port of…

General Gordon, Gravesend

A Tour of Gravesend (1)

After we left the Sikh temple we passed the Clock Tower built in 1887 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of…

Gravesend, Pocahontas

Guru Nanak Darbar Gurdwara, Gravesend

When Keith and I visited Gravesend we went to see the Sikh temple. It was opened in 2010 replacing an…

Gravesend, Guru Nanak Darbar Gurdwara

Peterborough: St John’s Parish Church

In the 11th century, the Abbey built a church for the townspeople on land to the east of the Cathedral…

Peterborough, St Johns Peterborough

Naturelog: 26th January

Keith and I spent the day in Gravesend, a town of the south bank of the Thames estuary in Kent. We…

Gravesend, Redshank, Ruddy Turnstone, Wren

A Penguin comes to call

They weren’t expecting this to happen   https://www.aol.co.uk/video/penguin-makes-surprise-visit-to-antarctic-research-boat-5a601eee55935e038850cfb8/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Cdl_lnk1%26pLid%3D236637499_uk    

Penguin

A TOUCHING SCENE, BUT WHY? — Towheeblog

1-20-18 I got this image of two Acorn Woodpeckers touching beaks. Was this an adult and young so long after…

Acorn Woodpecker, Black-Tailed Godwits

Highlights of 2017: Skies

Regular readers will know that I love photographing skies particularly at sunset and I saw some wonderful ones in 2017

Sunset

Views of Peterborough

Market Square buildings 16th century home of the Hake family. Thomas Hake was MP for Peterborough 1586-89 Town Hall 1929

Peterborough

Queen Victoria dies

  Today marks the 117th anniversary of the death of Queen Victoria. By the time of her death, she had reigned…

Queen Victoria

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