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Retired #Telecommunications Engineer. #Travels about. Takes #photos. Likes #railways. Likes #history. Likes old #buildings. Likes old #tech. Likes #beer. Doesn't like Tories. Older pics imported from Instagram lack Alt Text, sorry about that.
2025-05-11
#Ruins in the woods. Looks a bit like a pillbox fortification but actually it’s something to do with an old reservoir. It’s near the summit of a steep sided conical hill. Also there’s a big valve visible inside.
#silentsunday
A small ruined building in mature woodland. the thick concrete roof has collapsed in and the brick walls have tumbled down.view into the collapsed building over the edge of a broken, moss covered wall. a larg3 rusty metal valve body can be seen inside with a square spigot to take a wheel or handle.
2025-05-10
You're probably ok as long as your name isn't Leda.
2025-04-30
Chips spotted!
#meermittwoch
Left rear quarter view of an immature herring gull in flight with outstretched wings and head pointed down at approximately 45 degrees. It is seen against a blue sky and sea with the top of a groyne end marker pole visible.
2025-04-26
A ferry from the Isle of Wight passing Southsea at night for #SchiffSamstag
a ship passing in the night. a car ferry with all the deck spaces brightly illuminated so it stands out against the deep blue sea and sky
2025-04-25
Something different for #FensterFreitag The cockpit section of a Handley Page Victor “V Bomber”, part of the UK’s Cold War nuclear deterrent force.
front view of a conical aircraft nose with a crescent of cockpit windows on the upper side. only the cockpit section is displayed in front of a metal hangar wall. there is a section of undercarriage below the cockpit and incongruously a green plastic garden chair
2025-04-20
St. John's? It's a bit of a nice calm oasis.
2025-04-18
North aisle window at Wymondham Abbey, Norfolk for #fensterfreitag.
For more info visit https://www.norfolkstainedglass.org/Wymondham/home.shtm
A backlit photo of a stained glass window. This circa 1840 window is believed to have been designed by Joseph Grant of Costessey. The centre light contains a painted panel of the Virgin Mary and Child whilst  the base lights display scenes of: The Nativity, Crucifixion and Ascension. A selection of roundels are displayed in the tracery and side lights.
2025-04-15
are you… The Batman? 🙂
2025-04-11
Travelling in style for #fensterfreitag
A view through the window of a vintage railway carriage of flat fields with distant trees and a church spire. Inside the carriage has wood panelling, deep plush seats in a red pattern facing a table located centrally below the window.
2025-04-07
Ionic Temple, Chiswick Park.
#RandomWalks
A large group of daffodils in front of an artificial watercourse. on the other side of the water a small pale stone building with a grey domed roof stands amongst mature trees. The arched doorway of the building with a shallow triangular pediment is reflected in the water. The photo is taken in the early evening with low bright sunshine from the left.
2025-04-06
#silentsunday
Heathfield Gardens, Acton.
a public park with an area of grass dotted with small trees, a children's playgroup in the background, and a white flat roofed building behind trees on the left
2025-04-02
I mean, if you were a real pirate surely you wouldn't worry about fishing quotas?
A fisherman's guy on a shingle beach with a skull and crossbones flag flying above it. A chalk board on the hut reads 
"SORRY DUE TO NO FISH QUOTA)

NEXT-FISH

SAT!!"
2025-03-28
Something a little different for #Fensterfreitag
(For the benefit of the millennials this is a public phone kiosk, people used to use them to make voice calls 😜 )
Interior view of an old British red public telephone kiosk with a Bakelite 200 type telephone and a “button A and B” pay phone mechanism. There are notices in frames on the wall above the telephone. Through the red glazing bars of the window an area of grass is seen with some brick buildings, a yellow advertising sign, and part of a red and white streetworks safety barrier.
2025-03-15
#Sunset at West Kirby
sun setting over an estuary. there tide is out. there are low islands and wind turbines visible in the distance
2025-03-15
We know a song about this, don't we boys and girls?
a passenger ferry boat on the River Mersey with buildings visible on the south bank in the distance
2025-03-11
#London is all purple tonight.
night scene of a wide river with a cityscape and a road bridge. the buildings on the right bank and the parapet of the bridge are lit in purple which is reflected in the water surface
2025-03-06
Picnic time, Hydon's Ball & Heath.
a hand holdinga pork pie in front of an bare sandy area with distant trees and hills behind it
2025-03-02
[applause] :-)

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