Showing posts with label Gorey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gorey. Show all posts

Friday, 19 April 2013

Jersey Railways

While you wait patiently for me to get snapping again, I thought I'd share this wonderful link with you.

www.disused-stations.org.uk/g/gorey_pier/

Make your way from Gorey back to town, station by station, in a bygone age. It was a bit before my time... but sounds fascinating. I'd love to have a time machine to go back and take a look!

I hope that gives you something to study enjoyably :)

Monday, 18 October 2010

Misc

I'll start with the picture postcard shots today.
Here's Anne Port looking colourful.








.. having come around the coast from here...







.. Archirondel's old Round Tower...









.. closer.






Building work by Gorey's Castle Common...






.. and a view over the Royal Bay...






.. the harbour, closer.







.. and pier.






There's a house up in the top right that looks like it is falling over! ...






.. those crazy architects, LOL!






I took a walk to investigate...







.. looks fairly normal close up.






Meanwhile back at Gorey, an initiative to provide a cycle path on a wide main road where I really can't see there was a problem or a need for it...




.. but it provided work for someone, I suppose, in these difficult times.







I shall wait to see when I first see someone cycling here on this short stretch!






.. closer.






At the bottom of the coastal end of Plat Douet Road, an old commercial premises...





.. being felled to make way for... have a guess...
.. more new flats!






Top of Welly Hill - looks far more open than it used to, must have had the tree killers in...





.. now you can see the ironmongery on top of the 1894 Maison St. Louis weather observatory.






I noticed a new sign the other day...








.. at a higher tide.

There's one by Port Control too.






.. farther, instead of "closer" for a change :)







The Branchage filmfest Spiegeltent was here again this year. (3 words in a row that upset the spelling checker!)







A view down Kensington Place with a hazy Noirmont in the distance.





New Digital Telly aerials going up at Fremont Point, gives us a chance to see how big that white thing is...









.. here's a bloke with a head for heights, for an idea of scale!









Nearby at Wolf's Caves, the old pub (later to become a Worship Centre) is being ripped apart, like several abandoned vehicles in the car park.

Thursday, 13 August 2009

Gorey Common



Into the village...







.. but not quite. Looking over the common...








.. and there's the castle between the trees...







.. closer.







A Grouville attempt to impress the Britain in Bloom judges...








.. I thought it was fitting to publish these on a flowery day :)





















Friday, 22 August 2008

Victoria Tower bunkers

Now that the police have finished by Victoria Tower, let's see how they've left the bunkers there...



West of the carpark, north of the track (map) a bunker has been covered over and tidied up...




.. only a small concrete corner is showing.






Taken from the tower drawbridge, showing how the ground has been disturbed around the central wooded area, and boulders have appeared...





.. and these big blocks. The wooded area contains buried bunkers, but there's nothing worth taking pics of.



North-East Position



Here is (map) a group of linked semi-circular positions like this one...







.. and the inland part of this group has been newly bricked up.









Nice views from here, of Anne Port...







.. and beyond.






Eastern Position



Here is a newly barren pathway down to...







.. another semi-circular position that looks, oddly, almost as good as new.







From here, (map) there is a nice view over to the castle green...






.. closer...






.. and looking back from there...








.. closer.





South-East Position



This one used to be amongst trees that have now been felled...
(map)






.. looking towards the castle's north side.





(map locations are approximate for now)