by Trevor Millum | Jan 6, 2016 | Visits
Our sweep across the Southern Counties took in Bristol, Southampton, Brighton, Overton and Staines. From Southampton we visited the New Forest (not new and mainly not forest but heathland) and Beaulieu, where donkeys guard the entrance to the pub/hotel: What kind of...
by Trevor Millum | Nov 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
Magnificently restored, the SS Great Britain now sits in Bristol dock looking as if she’s ready to sail. She’s an early example of a hybrid mode of transport: able to use both sail and coal-fired steam engine which powered a mighty propellor (or screw, for...
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