All at sea

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

A thread for Photoshop doodlings………..

Models with real backgrounds

"Great Eastern leaving Liverpool on short trip to Ireland"

Spot the error!

Capt B

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

[Dave_PParticipant @dave_p]

Flag and smoke in opposite directions?

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Nope!

Something more factual than that, Dave

You really need to know the GE story to know the answer

Clue……..Note only four funnels…….Mmmmmm?

Bob

[Dave_PParticipant @dave_p]

There's me thinking I was being a smarty pants!

I think I know now but will leave it for someone else.

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

"Maiden voyage to Holyhead"

Spot the same error

Bob

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

"Holyhead harbour from Telegraph Hill"

Only just discovered this fact!………..Will do a recce and report back

The photo suggests that the old Telegraph building is still standing and the cable connected to Ireland via the Isle of Man

I like this shot……….Capt Bob

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

"Ghost ship at Holyhead"

Bob

[Dave_PParticipant @dave_p]

Not the flying dutchman

[Gareth JonesParticipant @garethjones79649]

Hi Bob,

I like the picture of Holyhead breakwater, I spent many happy hours in my youth fishing off the side of it. It is still the longest breakwater in the UK.

My parents spent their honeymoon in Soldiers Point on Holyhead island where the breakwater starts. My father used to tell me that the engineer in charge of building the breakwater committed suicide when he thought it had been built in the wrong shape and should have enclosed a bigger area. However that story is apparently untrue. There is a detailed account of building the breakwater here:- http://www.holyheadbreakwater.com/BwBuild/index.htm, which says that the Great Eastern visited the town in 1859.

Gareth

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Hello Gareth

We like this part of Holyhead too, and we often call at the Boathouse for lunch in summer

Soldiers Point is abandoned now along with two other awesome mansions, close by

GE at Holyhead………Harbour was unsuitable for some reason

Some of the crane track can still be seen today

Bob

Edited By Bob Abell on 13/11/2012 18:51:57

[Gareth JonesParticipant @garethjones79649]

Heres one for you then Bob, me on Holyhead breakwater, sometime around 1960, with Jack the dog.

Gareth

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Gareth

Les Jones stores his models in the Maritime Museum

He was taken ill some time ago, would you know how he is lately?

I have a set of steam engine castings for him

Bob

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Bob

I do like the clarity of your first image, it holds up very well even under magnification.

I especially like the connection between the ship and its final resting place by the way you have positioned the ship across the mouth of the river appearing to be heading at full speed to the beach where it was cut up.

Its a very poignant and evocative image.

Paul

Regarding Hollyhead the GE did dock there but on its first night in port a huge storm forced the Captain to take the ship out to sea where its mass helped it ride out the storm, some smaller ships were sunk.

Edited By Paul T on 14/11/2012 09:00:26

[Gareth JonesParticipant @garethjones79649]

Sorry Bob I have no idea. I live over in East Yorkshire so I dont know the chap you are referring to. Before I retired I used to visit RAF Valley 2 or 3 times a year and occasionally managed to drive around Holyhead to see what's changed but I have not been there for over three years now. Although I have now returned to work I am not likely to be visiting Valley in the near future.

Gareth

[eric collinsParticipant @ericcollins99759]

very nice pictures thank you

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Thank you, Eric….Pleased you liked them

Well nobody 's got the answer to the opening poser!…..Shame on you, Paul

Great Eastern's maiden voyage in 1859 was to Holyhead and she had five chimney's in those days and the photo shows only four chimney's

The chimney and boiler were removed in 1865 to make room for the Atlantic Telegraph cable

Bob

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