Dar Mlodziezy moored at Greenwich Penninsular Dar Mlodziezy (The gift of youth) is one of six ships of this design…
Alternative housing for Nightingales in Kent
Nightingale Photo by Sergey Yelisev (https://www.flickr.com/photos/yeliseev/) I was astounded to see the story concerning the development of Lodge Hill in…
Tall Ships Festival (2)
Onto the main site at Greenwich waterfront. The Tolkien was built in East Germany as a motorised tug boat. After…
Tall Ships Festival (1)
A visit this weekend to the Tall Ships festival at Greenwich My first stop was Woolwich Riverfront where some of…
World shorebirds day
I only found out today that Saturday has been designated World Shorebirds day. A chance to focus on and celebrate…
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…
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
Shine on Harvest Moon
I was interested to read on EarthSky about this years Harvest Moon. The Harvest Moon is the nearest full moon…
UNHAPPY ANNIVERSARY
Originally posted on Towheeblog:
This fall marks the centennial of the death of America’s last Passenger Pigeon. It is one…
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.…
