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Marjorie Pope Posts: 6710 Joined: 13th Apr 2010 Location: UK | quotePosted at 19:31 on 21st August 2010
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Britannia Royal Naval College, an imposing building overlooking Dartmouth, has been training Royal Naval officers on this site since 1905. Since 1998 it has been the sole centre for Royal Naval officer training in the UK. |
| Marjorie Pope Posts: 6710 Joined: 13th Apr 2010 Location: UK | quotePosted at 19:46 on 22nd August 2010 Ugbrooke House has been home to the Lords Clifford of Chudleigh for the past 400 years and is the present Lord Clifford's private residence (open to the public during July and August). The house was remodelled by Robert Adam at the same time as the Park was landscaped by Capability Brown. A visit to Ugbrooke is a lovely experience.  Picture by Marjorie Pope  Picture by Marjorie Pope  Picture by Marjorie Pope |
cathyml Posts: 23275 Joined: 25th Jan 2010 Location: South Africa | quotePosted at 20:06 on 22nd August 2010 Marjorie that is splendid, thanks so much. What a lovely estate! |
Christine Cooney Posts: 29 Joined: 12th Oct 2009 Location: UK | quotePosted at 11:36 on 24th August 2010 Hi just got back from wonderful Cornwall, where we actually got a lot of sunshine!! We went all over this beautiful county and wanted to share the little harbour of Mevagissey with you, this was the view from a little cafe on the front, where we sat having a cool drink and takeing in the atmosphere of this truely magical place.  Picture by Christine Cooney Hope you like it!!! |
| cathyml Posts: 23275 Joined: 25th Jan 2010 Location: South Africa | quotePosted at 11:43 on 24th August 2010 Thank you so much Christine for sharing Mevagissey with us. Ignore the remark on the Dorset whistle stop tour where I asked if you had photos you could add to this thread, lol. You beat me to it!! Any more would be very welcome. I can now look at this pic and image it's me sitting at the cafe gazing at this scene! |
Vince Hawthorn Posts: 12758 Joined: 19th Apr 2010 Location: UK | quotePosted at 23:06 on 24th August 2010 Useless Information Time!! Every time you good folk look at your maps of Britain to see where to go for the next photo session and it is an Ordnance Survey map, all the height points and contours wherever you look (from Lands End to John O'Groats) they are all based on the mean sea level here in Newlyn.At the end of the harbour pier hidden and secure is the O.S. datum level from which all other levels are taken. The only thing is if we are to believe all this global warming warnings how much longer will this datum level be valid?  Picture by Tony Winfield |
| Vince Hawthorn Posts: 12758 Joined: 19th Apr 2010 Location: UK | quotePosted at 22:16 on 26th August 2010 Hey Everyone we have gone through so fast we didn't even stop for a ProperPasty.  Picture by Vince Hawthorn What is a proper pasty? Well it has to be made in Cornwall and with ingredients that come from Cornwall. Forget all these strange concoctions you can find in bakers these days, stick to how it has always been done- diced chuck steak, potato,suede(or turnip), onion, salt and pepper.If you want to be really traditional a portion of fruit at the far end. The pastry can be according to taste shortcrust or flakey. The crimp must be around the side making a "D" shape, it should never be crimped along the top. The crimp is very important!!! It is also called a handle and it was used by the cornish miner to hold his pasty whilst eating his pasty at croust time. Very important as well our miner would not eat all of his pasty but would throw what was left of the handle into the darkness of a shaft or a tunnell. Why? I hear you ask. Two possible answers, firstly he could be throwing a bit of pasty to the knockers(these are spirits of the mine who would make a knocking sound to warn of impending danger if they have been treated well with morsells of pasty, otherwise if not treated well they would cause great mischieve in the mine).The second reason our miner will be throwing away a bit of his pasty is more down to earth(well under it anyway), there isn't hot and cold running water and other conveniences underground and a by product of tin and copper mining is arsenic, so a contaminated end of pasty is discarded.  Picture by Jennifer Briggs That should keep our miner going until the end of the shift and for his climb up all the ladders to "grass"(the surface).  Picture by Vince Hawthorn
Nothing else to say now other than ENJOY!!! Chons Da |
| Vince Hawthorn Posts: 12758 Joined: 19th Apr 2010 Location: UK | quotePosted at 22:05 on 27th August 2010 There is also another place worth a visit IF YOU DARE!!! Bodmin Jail, is a place with a long and grusome history, as well as being a prison and a very horrible one at that the jail was also a place of execution.  Picture by Barbara Whiteman
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 Picture by Barbara Whiteman One last story about Bodmin Jail (or Gaol as it is also spelt) is the role that it played in World War 1. Apparently the Crown Jewels and the Doomsday Book were brought to Bodmin Jail for safe keeping during the conflict. |
| cathyml Posts: 23275 Joined: 25th Jan 2010 Location: South Africa | quotePosted at 10:08 on 30th March 2011 These Whitle Stop Tours can be added to ad infinitum. If you come across a really interesting activity or place to visit or just to tell us about your trip, please feel free to add it to the relevant English Counties - Whistle Stop Tours. Here is a picture of the Scillonion that Dorothy added today. It is the ferry which sails between Penzance and the Isles of Scilly  Picture by Dorothy maat-davey
Isles of Scilly (pages 1 - 3) on this thread All information, maps and pictures for the Isles of Scilly can be seen here: http://www.picturesofengland.com/England/Isles_of_Scilly Cornwall (pages 4 - 8) on this thread, for more information click below: http://www.picturesofengland.com/England/Cornwall Devon (pages 8 - 12)on this thread, for more information click below: http://www.picturesofengland.com/England/Devon
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