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A TRANSMIGRATION GALLERY
Collected By Touch the Light None of the images are my property. |
Map showing the location of Portsmouth, Southsea, Gosport, Cosham and the Isle of Wight.
Portsmouth is actually an island itself, though that isn't clear from this.
The Royal Naval Museum and HMS Victory in the early 80s.
Don't play soccer on the deck, they take a dim view of it.
Portsmouth Harbour today.
The railway station is in the centre of the photograph. To the right is the famous Spinnaker Tower.
The ship on the left is HMS Warrior, the world's first iron-hulled battleship.
The Hard ('hard' is a word used in southern England for a road leading down to a foreshore).
The building with the mock-Tudor frontage is the Ship Anson pub.
The entrance to Portsmouth Harbour station.
The gangway going down to the Gosport ferry is to the right of the truck in the background.
Tower House, Clarendon Road, Southsea.
It looks more impressive from the front.
The entrance to HMS Mercury on the South Downs near Petersfield.
It was decommissioned as a naval institution in the 1990s.
Mercury Park - as it's now known - from the air.
The large house towards the right of the photograph was the inspiration for the scene set outside Hayden Hall.
I'll post more images as the various parts of the story arc are completed.
Comments
Touch the Light, Thanks for
the blog and pictures. Always have wondered what the U.K. looks like.
May Your Light Forever Shine
Bloody awful!
It looks terrible at the moment. Most of the snow that fell over the weekend has melted, but we've got howling gales, some form of precipitation that's a cross between hail and sleet, and a chilling dampness that gets right into your bones.
And people have been stealing the carrots the kids used for the snowmen's noses! Just when you think your country's hit rock bottom...
I'm not seeing the photos!
The photos are not showing for me, though I know there are links to them as I can see them when I view the page source. Anyone have any idea why not? My browser is SeaMonkey.
Regards,
Dave.
Do you have graphics blocked
Do you have graphics blocked for bigcloset? It's a long shot, but the only thing I can come up with. You might clear your cache and reload.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Blocked graphics
It was Adblock Plus that was blocking the images. I ought to have thought of that myself but I just didn't, because it's been OK til now!
Regards,
Dave.
in an update to their filters
one filter is blocking bcts images. Have to delete the one filter it updated by doing a rollback inside Ad-Block Plus to a previous filter state, or hunt the little bugger down manually. I just did the rollback when it happened.
Sephrena
I demand
pictures of the gritty setting of the current arc!
Whilst i've family who live in the bit of Yorkshire currently known as Teeside it'd be nice to see some pics, i recognise some of your places, visited others and am enjoying the gritty northern tale!
I await more with baited breath!
Madeline Anafrid Bell
Coming Soon...
The plan is to upload the final part of 'Death By Misadventure' tomorrow (22 Jan) together with the images that go with the story. They're mostly of Hartlepool headland, which appears on some Ordnance Survey maps as Croft-on-Heugh. Not that I've ever heard anyone from that neck of the woods call it anything other than 'thee 'eadland' mind! And you may or may not know that the former West Hartlepool was built up from a settlement originally known as New Stranton.
Part 4 of this story arc is set in Scugdale (though I've changed the name). Although I'm on fairly safe ground regarding the local accent in Northcroft (aka 'old' Hartlepool), I have my doubts when it comes to the way they speak in the area between Stokesley and Northallerton. All I can say is that I did my best to stop them sounding too much like they'd wandered into an episode of 'The Last Of The Summer Wine'.
Added two more images I
Added two more images I forgot about earlier.
I'm like that. You'll get used to me.