Mersey
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On 21 September 2007, the QE2 visited Liverpool for the last time to mark the official opening of that city’s cruise liner terminal. She was launched at 20 September 1967. She is scheduled to be berthed permanently at the Palm Jumeirah development in Dubai in 2008 to be refurbished and become a floating hotel by 2009.
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Birkenhead Priory was founded about 1150 for the Benedictines and is the oldest standing building on Merseyside. Parts of the site are listed buildings of Grade I and II and the priory is also a Scheduled Ancient Monument. / / In 1317 the monks from Birkenhead Priory were granted ferry rights by Edward II. This allowed them to build a house in what is now Water Street to store their corn. The house was also used by travellers for shelter if the weather was too bad for the ferry to cross the River Mersey. / / The priory’s chapter house is consecrated as an Anglican church, with a chapel dedicated to the training ship HMS Conway. There is also a museum detailing the history of the site. / / St Mary’s Tower was originally part of Birkenhead’s first parish church, opened in 1821 in the grounds of the priory. / / Redevelopment of the area from 1925 resulted in a large number of residential housing within the parish being cleared to make way for the construction of the first Mersey Tunnel. An expansion of the Number 5 dry dock at the adjacent Cammell Laird shipyard in the 1960’s resulted in the church losing a significant portion of its graveyard. Subsequent redevelopment of the approach roads to the Mersey Tunnel effectively cut off the church from most of what remained of its parish, further dwindling the congregation. / / St. Mary’s Church closed in 1974 and was partly demolished a year later, for reasons of safety. Only the former church tower and parts of the outer walls were retained in situ. The tower has since been refurbished and is dedicated to those who died on HMS Thetis. / / The churchyard contains the burial vault of the Laird family, which includes John Laird (1805-1874), Birkenhead’s first Member of Parliament and co-founder of the adjacent Cammell Laird shipbuilding company. / / The name Birkenhead is possibly from the Old English bircen meaning birch tree, of which many once grew on the headland which jutted into the river near the Priory itself. / / More on the Priory here / / © photogenique (dave peddie): using this image for any purpose and in any way, without prior permission, may lead to legal action. / / Do check out puffling’s growing portfolio / / / /
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This is actually a sewage pumping station at New Brighton, Wirral, UK. Part of it is supported on these huge concrete pillars which go down deep into the sand on the beach below. On this particular day the tide was low, and i managed to capture the low sun creating these fantastic shadows onto the water and the concrete wall. It is built on the site of the old New Brighton pier which was demolished in 1963. / In its heyday New Brighton was a huge tourist attraction, with thousands of holiday makers travelling from all over the northwest and arriving by ferry at the pier. / Just a couple of hundred yards from the pier was the famous New Brighton Tower, the tallest in the country. It was even taller than Blackpool tower, but sadly, was demolished in 1921.
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The Mersey Bluff Lighthouse was established in 1889 and is built of bricks on a stone base. / It replaced a succession of beacons and obelisks that had formerly stood on the site. It also replaced the earlier Don River light. / In 1910 the original kerosene lamp was converted to acetylene gas which was supplied by a Colt seven-day acetylene generator. / The light was converted to DC electric operation in 1920 and demanned at the same time.It was connected to mains power in 1978. / The lighthouse stands on top of the bluff to western side of the mouth of the Mersey River in Tasmania north of the Port of Devonport. / The establishment of the lighthouse ended a history of wrecks in this area. / The Commonwealth assumed responsibility for the lighthouse under the Commonwealth Lighthouse Act in 1915 / It is unusual for an Australian lighthouse to have vertical stripes in it’s day mark. / Another unusual feature of this lightstation is that it was connected to town water in 1901. LOCATION: Latitude 41° 10’ S, Longitude 146° 21’E (Map) / OPERATOR: Australian Maritime Safety Authority / CHARACTER: Group Flashing (4) in 20.0 Seconds / LIGHT SOURCE: 1000 Watt 120v, Tungsten Halogen / POWER SOURCE: 120V DC Battery Bank Charged from 240V Mains Supply / INTENSITY: White: 43,800 cd; Red: 8,700 cd / ELEVATION: 37 Metres / RANGE: White: 17 Nautical Miles; Red: 14 Nautical Miles / HEIGHT: 13 Metres
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Birkenhead ferry terminal right in front of the famous Liver Buildings. Night shot, just giving the camera a whirl at night shots.
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. / © photogenique (dave peddie), using this image for any purpose and in any way, without prior permission, may lead to legal action.
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This is a cropped version of my Liverpool Sunrise photograph.
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Storm approaching Liverpool viewed from Formby beach. The wind turbines can be seen on the horizon.
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This is the local beach in Devonport , Tasmania,very popular in the summer season, provides a music sound bowl, and a caravan park, playground, a wishing well and BBQ areas and surf life saving, restaurant and milk bar
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SUNRISE THROUGH FERRY TERMINAL
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went for an afternoon bike ride, and the sun was just right, illuminating the whole of the Liverpool riverfront. There was even a small three-master conveniently moored. / / © photogenique (dave peddie): using this image for any purpose and in any way, without prior permission, may lead to legal action. / / Do check out bnj0’s great clothing designs / /
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same afternoon bike ride as Afternoon Sun On Liverpool and the ferry posed perfectly for me. / / © photogenique (dave peddie): using this image for any purpose and in any way, without prior permission, may lead to legal action. / / Do check out jonUK’s great portfolio / /
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Taken at lunch time today… / Mersey River, Devonport, Tasmania, Australia.
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The Runcorn/Widnes road bridge over the River Mersey taken at sunset from Wigg Island, Runcorn.
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Birkenhead Silhouetted across the Mersey by an intense winter sunset.
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My husband Kevin, captured this panoramic view of the boats on the Mersey River, Tasmania.
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Captured at Bell’s Parade, Latrobe, Tasmania. / The view looking across the Mersey River, from inside the BBQ shelter.
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Taken from the “Spirit of Tasmania” / in the Mersey River Devonport Tasmania.
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On the 28th Aug 2007, Liverpool celebrated its 800th Anniversary to mark the granting of Liverpool’s first charter, by King John on that day in 1207, and held a firework display on the Mersey Riverfront by the ‘three Graces’, The Royal Liver Building, The Cunard Building, and the Port of Liverpool Building. After the Fireworks, we hung around and the smoke drifted away on the night breeze to reveal the buildings in blue.
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On 21 September 2007, the QE2 visited Liverpool for the last time to mark the official opening of that city’s cruise liner terminal. She was launched at 20 September 1967. She is scheduled to be berthed permanently at the Palm Jumeirah development in Dubai in 2008 to be refurbished and become a floating hotel by 2009.
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On 21 September 2007, the QE2 visited Liverpool for the last time to mark the official opening of that city’s cruise liner terminal. She was launched at 20 September 1967. She is scheduled to be berthed permanently at the Palm Jumeirah development in Dubai in 2008 to be refurbished and become a floating hotel by 2009.
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. / © photogenique (dave peddie), using this image for any purpose and in any way, without prior permission, may lead to legal action.
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