Topic: Where in the world? (Read 389463 times)

Arrow5 · « **Reply #475 on:** August 04, 2015, 12:15:27 pm »

Correct , in the flatlands a wee bit to the Nor-east. Now moored in the excellent Maritime Museum located in the ex Royal Dutch Naval Yard Den Helder. Well worth a visit.

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #476 on:** August 04, 2015, 12:43:27 pm »

No more lightships!

Netleyned · « **Reply #477 on:** August 04, 2015, 06:32:32 pm »

Back to the Heavy Lifters boys

Seriously , I be away from my trusty pooter and
I have enough trouble posting text let alone
Pictures, so first to post anything other than
the Black light vessel in Hull marina

is in the chair.

Ned

Just Add Water · « **Reply #478 on:** August 04, 2015, 07:13:09 pm »

Quote from: Martin [Admin] on August 04, 2015, 12:43:27 pm

No more lightships!

How about heavy ships ?

Netleyned · « **Reply #479 on:** August 04, 2015, 08:28:27 pm »

That's wot I said

Ned

Nemo · « **Reply #480 on:** August 04, 2015, 08:34:27 pm »

What ship and where?

Liverbudgie2 · « **Reply #481 on:** August 04, 2015, 08:35:49 pm »

Stockholm.

Arrow5 · « **Reply #482 on:** August 04, 2015, 08:43:19 pm »

The great ship Vasa...it was so heavy it sank on it`s maiden (not quite) voyage.

Nemo · « **Reply #483 on:** August 04, 2015, 08:54:52 pm »

Correct - I think it only moved about 100 metres!

Arrow5 · « **Reply #484 on:** August 04, 2015, 08:58:56 pm »

You go Budge

Liverbudgie2 · « **Reply #485 on:** August 04, 2015, 11:13:17 pm »

Starting to struggle as most of mine now are either too hard or too easy.

Arrow5 · « **Reply #486 on:** August 05, 2015, 08:31:41 am »

Hmmm... maybe this isn't a clock tower but a tide indicator. The "clock" faces are at different times.

Lack of maintenance more likely

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #487 on:** August 05, 2015, 09:15:44 am »

Liverpool... Birkenhead?

Netleyned · « **Reply #488 on:** August 05, 2015, 09:17:48 am »

Jesse Hartleys Hydraulic Tower Liverpool.
Salisbury Dock
Ned

Arrow5 · « **Reply #489 on:** August 05, 2015, 09:18:22 am »

Victoria Tower, Salisbury Dock

to be precise and too late

BarryM · « **Reply #490 on:** August 05, 2015, 09:28:00 am »

Quote from: Arrow5 on August 04, 2015, 08:53:14 am

No offence taken my man, "two great nations separated by a common language" to paraphrase Churchill. BTW "Sassenach" means lowlander, not Englishman. That is a hint for your new geography lesson

I'm sure I would not be venturing to naysay such an esteemed Heilan Chentleman but as Dougie would tell you himself, 'Sassenach' refers to a 'Saxon'. Yon hairy, uncivilised, tribe furth of Scotia in the Deep Sooth of this island.

Slainte,
Barry Mc

Netleyned · « **Reply #491 on:** August 05, 2015, 09:33:43 am »

Now This is a Hydraulic Tower

Ned

Liverbudgie2 · « **Reply #492 on:** August 05, 2015, 09:44:52 am »

I will call this one a score draw as both are correct but the correct name is the Victoria Tower not the Hydraulic Tower. There are only two examples of this design in the World the other apparently is in St. Petersburg.

There are five DIALS any one of which can be seen from a point on a compass. The current owners, Peel Ports say that they are going to restore it however, I'll believe that when it happens.

LB

John W E · « **Reply #493 on:** August 05, 2015, 09:52:06 am »

Grimsby's hydraulic Dock Tower

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2126039

Ned
Google is good init But it cannot fined the
Dusseldorf fire boat plans or build instruction booklet
In my modelling room

aye
john

Netleyned · « **Reply #494 on:** August 05, 2015, 09:58:12 am »

I didn't post the picture as a Where in the World,
but just to show a really fine example of a hydraulic
accumulator tower.
For anyone unsure as to the purpose, the accumulator
supplied hydraulic (water) power to open and close
the lock gates.

Ned

Arrow5 · « **Reply #495 on:** August 05, 2015, 11:36:39 am »

Barry M, Ach !! Just so, me being an Ayrshireman originally I dinna hae the gaelic. I bow to your superior knowledge of the language of angels.

Nemo · « **Reply #496 on:** August 05, 2015, 07:08:01 pm »

Quite! An Ayrshire man can never be a teuchter!

http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/oct/03/scots-english-do-you-know-your-teuchters-from-your-sassenachs

Arrow5 · « **Reply #497 on:** August 05, 2015, 07:59:27 pm »

Very informative article. My childhood language and well into adolescence, was "country/town-ish" Ayrshire diluted with a bit o` Glesca due to teenage trips to that city "for the dancin`" at various Palaise de danse establishments until I was called-up for National Service whence my vocabulary was enhanced with Anglo Saxon and Arabic expletives. No swearwords in Gaelic just blasphemy and medical terms I believe, nice. Now I have an idea for a nice hexagonal clock tower for "Where in the world"

Nemo · « **Reply #498 on:** August 08, 2015, 07:00:40 pm »

Gone a bit quiet? So, where in the world was this?

Arrow5 · « **Reply #499 on:** August 08, 2015, 09:22:30 pm »

Madeira Drive , Brighton ?

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