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

Wednesday, 18 July 2012

North East - St.Cath's, Archie, Gorey

 I have actually found the time to take some shots and publish! Here's St.Catherine's Bay...
 .. the end of the breakwater, with Le Mainland behind...
 .. the Round Tower at Archirondel...
 .. beach cafe...
 .. and tower again.
 At Gorey, the castle from along the pier...
 .. the slipway and quayside...
 .. one of two castle floodlight buildings.
 Boats with the famous potato cotils behind.
 'Port Control' (not much of a port left to control - no ferries any more) and quite well desguised mobile phone masts in those chunky poles.
 For a few weeks now, some adverts for Cafe du Port, Gorey, have confused me. What's the point of an advert when it doesn't say where the (beep!) it is?! I assumed it was probably the one near the bottom of the hill (Cafe de Gouray - still with a Joyride Cafe sign there, just to confuse matters) but here it is at the end of the pier....
.. with quite extensive seating areas, as they say :)

Should be quite nice on a warm day.

Friday, 16 September 2011

Misc

I've hardly taken any photos this year, so here are a few odds and ends which is just about it for the time being. If viewers were to actually comment, there'd be a better chance that I'd do more :)


St.Helier Harbour...







.. and the Sea Shepherd that came over for the whaling conference.








Coastal Tours







Lots of boats - taking part in the Tour des Ports de la Manche.








At the marina by the New North Quay.







Gorey with the French coastline in the distance...







.. castle, closer...







.. Castle Green.





End of St.Catherine's Breakwater with the Ecrehos in the background, then the French coast.





Checkers before it morphed into Waitrose...








.. closer.






Our beautiful waterfront.

Ha.






One or two kites.





Where the VideoCenter used to be, on the corner of Hilgrove and Halkett Streets - with the dome of the market visible behind.
It would have made a nice open space, another square :)






At the Clock Tower at Charing Cross, a new videoscreen advertising device...







.. kind of them to tell us the Sterling-to-Sterling exhange rate is 1.000 (what about commission?!)









Aerial view of St.Helier, on display at Liberty Wharf...






.. which had yet to be developed at the time, along the an office block, the bus station, the Royal Yacht extension where the JMT depot was, and the new Weighbridge Square.






Three sides of the old burnt-out chapel have gone, leaving the grand frontage for more flats.







Through the Keyhole. Who would live in a place like this? :)

Wednesday, 9 February 2011

Around the old Bistro La Rocque


In Grouville there's a short stretch of main road with an actual sea view...







.. by a slipway, by the third in the Grouville line of 1780s coastal defence Round Towers...






.. closer, the first two towers can be seen.







Looking North, coastal views all the way to Gorey Castle...




.. and the building site where Bistro Rocque used to be - still visible for now on Google Maps





Farewell great restaurant :(








Farther along the coast, Fort Henry on the golf course.





Historical stuff at the slipway.

Monday, 17 January 2011

Royal Bay of Grouville - along the prom

Some spare photos from a walk along there last year...


Looking southwards from the start of the prom by the Golf Course...






.. the other way, northwards to Gorey...







.. and the famous castle.







A Jersey Round Tower







Another look along the beach to the south.





There used to be a bridge here, with steps, over a narrow slipway...







.. but it has been re-engineered so that the prom is more wheel-friendly.

Wednesday, 26 May 2010

Time Team dig up the castle


Last week the Time Team visited Jersey...








.. and had a little dig at Gorey Castle...







.. on The Green...






.. which should be interesting TV to watch next year.







Look up there...







.. zooooming in....








.. I do believe it's Baldrick on the battlements!







The cheek of it...








.. digging ruddy great 'oles in the lawn!
:)







And when all was done....






.. they filled 'em in again and replaced the turf...







.. and you'd hardly know they'd been.







- well, maybe once the weeds have grown back.






This will end up full of bracken and I'll probably never stand here again.






Nice to see this area round the back looking tidier than usual.




I look forward to seeing the programme. I hope you enjoyed the visit, TT! Your TT signs are still cable-tied to various lamposts btw :)