Lionel Callow Photography

Sunday, 7 September 2014

Heybridge Basin Maldon

A few shots from my walk along the sea wall.

Saturday, 6 September 2014

Margate

These are a few shots from my recent visit to Margate.

Harbour

The Turner Contemporary Gallery

Railway Station

Arlington House Margate

Turner Contemporary Gallery

The Clock Tower

Sunday, 31 August 2014

Kent Police Box at Chatham Docks

The Police box from the Kent Police museum at the Chatham Dockyard, or is it?

Friday, 29 August 2014

The covered dry dock made of wood is one of the nation’s best preserved buildings. Built in 19^th century, it was needed to protect the wooden ships of the day from deterioration whilst they were under construction. Once ships were made from iron this shed could not be used for building ships due to the fire risk and was then used for a number of other purposes.

HMS Gannet 1878

HMS Cavalier

Figurehead HMS Rodney 1884

Thursday, 28 August 2014

Historic Dockyard Chatham

The Ropery at The Historic Dockyard with its ¼ mile long Double Rope house is still being used as a working commercial factory today.

HMS Ocelot

HMS Ocelot is an Oberon class diesel electric submarine. This was the last submarine built in the Chatham Dockyard, launched on the 5^th May 1962 & commissioned on 31^st January 1964, paid off in August 1991.

Visitors to this submarine need to be happy in small enclosed spaces and agile enough to get through the hatches between the compartments.

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Casing looking at the sonar dome

Forward torpedo room

Hatch between compartments

Chart table

Periscope

Diesel engine room

Helm

If you visit the dockyard the Submarine & the Ropery are both must see tours, I recommend when you arrive you book the two tours before you do anything else, you will need to have a timed ticket to visit these two attractions & they are very popular.