Polyrus' photos with the keyword: Explore

...but there is something not quite right with it. It's either inside-out, back to front or upside down. Irrespective of my confusion, I wish everybody HFF.

St Mary the Virgin, Parish Church of Swanage. HFF folks!

...at Chinnor station. HFF! Explored!

HFF! Surprisingly Explored!

A French styled Benedictine Abbey designed by a French architect. Napolean lll rests inside, in a crypt paid for by Queen Victoria. I would have preferred to have stood further back so as to include more of the gargoylantuan building, but that would entail chopping down a few oak trees. Explored!

7752 pulling against 46441 at Bury on the East Lancs Railway. A scan from a 35mm SupaSnaps slide. HFF folks! Explored!

HFF Down Under .. and then to the rest Explored!

...apart from what can be seen in the photo. HFF! Explored!

Otherwise known as Llanfairpwll railway station on Angelsey, which has the longest main-line station name in Britain. A scan from an Agfa slide. Explored! HFF to the peeps!

Damn leaves have no consideration for the mess they make ;-) Explored!

... at least there is some kind of a monument framed behind it. HFF and HNY! Explored!

Seen clagging well on leaving Birmingham International station with a BBC "Children in Need" special from Euston to Manchester Vic with class 47 47768 'Resonant' behind the loco as insurance. November 1995 A scan from my Agfachrome slide then a mono conversion as a result of a prompt by fratton parker Since I quietly posted this unobtrusive image, Norbert has designated it a fence photo, so HFF! Explored!

...paddling alongside the pier at Southend, as she was about to become my transport up the Thames to Tower Bridge pier. The PS Waverley was built in 1946 and named after Sir Walter Scott's first novel. She is the last seagoing passenger-carrying paddle steamer in the world! My 100th item on Explore!

Grade II* listed Church of St Philip and St James at Norton St Philip in Somerset. A hand-held zoom shot which has not turned out too bad. Taken from Wikipedia: The current building has elements dating back from the 13th and 14th centuries, however it is likely there was a church on the site before the Norman Conquest. In 1345 the fair which had been granted to Hinton Priory was transferred to Norton St Philip which provided much of the income for the church. The noted diarist Samuel Pepys visited the church in the 17th century and described the tomb of one of the Knights Templar which is now thought to be that of a lawyer or merchant from 1460. He also described the story of the "Fair Maids of Foscott", believed to be conjoined twins from a local village now known as Foxcote. The memorials in the church include one to a soldier slain in Norton St Philip in 1643 during the English Civil War. There were further military casualties in the village during a skirmish in the Monmouth Rebellion A major Victorian restoration was undertaken by George Gilbert Scott in the 1840s. In 2000 further restoration work was undertaken with new wood and steel vestry, toilets and meeting facilities being installed. The tower has a clock by Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy and Charles Frodsham dating from 1841, and six bells. The east window has stained glass by Christopher Webb. In other windows there is much older glass. Explored!

Situated at the junction of the A366 with the B3110 close to the A36 road and approx. 7 miles from the Somerset city of Bath, the inn was built in the 14th or 15th century and and is now a Grade I listed building . The establishment claims that it is the oldest tavern in England but as yet they have not provided any photos of the era to verify this. [At least 10 other establishments lay claim to being the oldest pub in the country!] In the year 1226 the monks from Hinton Priory at nearby Hinton Charterhouse, petitioned the landowner, the Countess of Salisbury, for a new site to achieve greater solitude. She gave them her manors of Hinton Charterhouse and Norton St Philip and a new house was consecrated at Hinton Charterhouse in May 1232. A licence to sell alcohol here at what is now The George is claimed from 1397... which may have only been a local licence from the Prior of Hinton Priory as Governmental licences for providing alcohol were only introduced in 1552. The timber-framed upper floors were added In the 15th century. The inn became a regular part of the stage coach route between London and South West England. It was also used as the headquarters of Monmouth's army, during the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685, after his retreat from Bath. In the aftermath of the failed rebellion Judge Jefferies used the George Inn as a courtroom and conducted 12 executions on the village common, as part of the Bloody Assizes. Explored!

7903 - The basics: Built at Swindon: April 1949 Withdrawn by BR: June 1964 Arrived Woodham's scrapyard at Barry: August 1964 Recovered from Barry Scrapyard: June 1981 Restoration completed by 2014 Returned to traffic after first major overhaul in preservation, May 2016 This is a scan from a Kodachrome 64 slide taken at Christmas 2004. Clearly showing a somewhat improved appearance from my previous image. Explored!

I contemplated doing a mono conversion but realised it would not be appropriate for what is now known as the City of Colours. Hence this SOOC image... Best on black to view the colour! Explored! HFF!

A general view seen in 1966. Not all of these locomotives escaped the cutter's torch, but most did! At least 213 were rescued for preservation, or to supply parts for others. 45699 'Galatea' was one of the latter but even that has long since been restored and been running on the main network again. An old scan from a long lost 35mm slide. Best viewed large. Explored!