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Following my earlier post here are the further promised (threatened 
) shots from my stroll around "Old Harwich".
Another plaque on the Great Eastern Hotel. Harwich seems to have played quite role in the foundation of the U.S. of A.
Opposite the Hotel is the Victorian "Ha'penny Pier", so called as that was the original toll for using it. It now serves visiting yachtsmen ( it even has shower facilities) and the few remaining fishing boats and the foot ferry to Felixstowe which operates in the summer. It also has quite a nice cafe with inside and outside tables and a fresh fish stall. The round building on the left houses a visitor information centre and a small Pilgrim Fathers exhibition.
A recent arrival is Lightship LV18 which served Trinity House from 1958 to 1995 and was the last manned lightship in service. After sevice as a "pirate radio" ship and use in a number of films it has been beautifully restored and is now a permanent museum recording the conditions endured by lightship crews.
At the other end of the quayside in contrast is the modern operations centre of Trinity House.
Across the road from here is the workshop facility and buoy yard where buoys from around our coast are brought for overhaul.
The gantry behind the buoy yard was for loading railway trucks onto the railway ferries which operated a daily service to Belgium until the 1960's.The new Trinity House pier replaced this facility but the railway lines can still be seen where they cross the road and disappear under the new workshop.
On the quayside opposite the Trinity House ops centre is the Merchant Marine Memorial which is beautifully maintained.
And finally, if you've persevered this far, the view from Trinity House pier along the quay to the Ha'penny Pier and across the haven to the giant gantries and ships at Felixstowe Container Port in Suffolk, the largest in the UK.
Thanks for looking.
) shots from my stroll around "Old Harwich".Another plaque on the Great Eastern Hotel. Harwich seems to have played quite role in the foundation of the U.S. of A.
Opposite the Hotel is the Victorian "Ha'penny Pier", so called as that was the original toll for using it. It now serves visiting yachtsmen ( it even has shower facilities) and the few remaining fishing boats and the foot ferry to Felixstowe which operates in the summer. It also has quite a nice cafe with inside and outside tables and a fresh fish stall. The round building on the left houses a visitor information centre and a small Pilgrim Fathers exhibition.
A recent arrival is Lightship LV18 which served Trinity House from 1958 to 1995 and was the last manned lightship in service. After sevice as a "pirate radio" ship and use in a number of films it has been beautifully restored and is now a permanent museum recording the conditions endured by lightship crews.
At the other end of the quayside in contrast is the modern operations centre of Trinity House.
Across the road from here is the workshop facility and buoy yard where buoys from around our coast are brought for overhaul.
The gantry behind the buoy yard was for loading railway trucks onto the railway ferries which operated a daily service to Belgium until the 1960's.The new Trinity House pier replaced this facility but the railway lines can still be seen where they cross the road and disappear under the new workshop.
On the quayside opposite the Trinity House ops centre is the Merchant Marine Memorial which is beautifully maintained.
And finally, if you've persevered this far, the view from Trinity House pier along the quay to the Ha'penny Pier and across the haven to the giant gantries and ships at Felixstowe Container Port in Suffolk, the largest in the UK.
Thanks for looking.
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