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Tag Archives: Greenwich

G is for … Greenwich

08 Saturday Apr 2017

Posted by RuthsArc in 52 challenge, creativity, days out

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A2Z Challenge, Greenwich

Greenwich, London is one of my favourite places. The home of the Greenwich Meridian, where east meets west and the home of GMT Greenwich Mean Time.

A place of maritime history, classic buildings, The Old Royal Naval College, a delightful park, a Victorian foot tunnel under the River Thames and The Royal Observatory on the hill.L greenwich 1IMG_8510IMG_8508IMG_3210

Greenwich is also the home of the Cutty Sark, a sailing ship of the Victorian era, one of the fastest “tea clippers” that brought tea back from China, until the Suez Canal opened in 1869 and steamships too over the route.

The Cutty Sark moved to a different cargo and was the fastest ship in the wool trade for ten years in the 1880’s sailing from Australia to Britain in a record 73 days.

Now, the restored Cutty Sark has pride of place on a stunning steel and glass dry dock, where you can tour the ship and walk underneath the hull.IMG_8481IMG_8489Under 2

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Greenwich – a favourite place

12 Sunday Apr 2015

Posted by RuthsArc in all about me, days out, my place, remembering / musing

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astronomy, Greenwich, London, me, photos

Greenwich has got to be our favourite place in London. We’ve lived a few miles down the road and have visited many times each year, in all seasons and weather, sunshine to snow.

We love Greenwich Park. It has been our family tradition for many years to go for a walk around the park on Boxing Day. So I have carried and pushed favourite Christmas presents over the decades – dolls and buggy, scooters, wheelie trainers, stuffed dogs, real dogs, bags and back packs and one treasured gift bag with purple fluffy handles. In this park, among others, our girls learned to ride two wheeler bikes, we walked Oska and Izak.

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As my interest in astronomy grew, the observatory and planetarium became places of learning. Along with the Maritime Museum, the Old Naval Collage with it’s beautiful painted hall and chapel.

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Greenwich has several markets, vintage, arts and crafts, food stalls. There are a variety of restaurants and a mix of traditional and modern pubs. A favourite is The Old Brewery, where they brew Meantime beers on the premises. Another is The Trafalgar, overlooking the River Thames.

Greenwich is the centre of the world when it comes to navigation and time. The Greenwich meridian is the point of zero degrees longitude and all other locations are calculated from this point. Greenwich Mean Time is based here and the world clock calculates all other time zones from here.

As mentioned on a post yesterday, the historic sailing ship, The Cutty Sark is located in Greenwich, now fully restored, the mast and rigging towering above the roof tops.

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It was fitting that we spent our last two nights in the UK in a hotel in Greenwich, with views of the Royal Observatory from our room.

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Afloat

11 Saturday Apr 2015

Posted by RuthsArc in photography, weekly photo challenge

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boats, Greenwich, London, photos

This week’s prompt is … afloat.

When I saw the prompt I thought of boats and ships, but with a twist.

The “Cutty Sark” is an old sailing ship.

She was built in 1869 and was one of the fasted “tea clippers” of the time, bringing tea cargo back from China. Later she transport wool from Australia. She became a museum ship and was moved to a dry dock in Greenwich, London, in 1954.

Cutty Sark is now an innovative tourist attraction. The ship is suspended in her dock, sitting majestically afloat a glass canopy, with access to walk underneath her copper lined hull.

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To keep the nautical theme, a few years ago, this “ship in a bottle” was the art installation on the fourth plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square. This is Nelson’s ship, HMS Victory.

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Symmetry

13 Friday Feb 2015

Posted by RuthsArc in creativity, photography, weekly photo challenge

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architecture, Australia, Ely, Greenwich, India, London, photos

This week’s prompt is .. symmetry.

Cutty Sark tea clipper and the gates to Greenwich Park.

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Gates at Admiralty Arch, London.

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Ely Cathedral nave and octagon.

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A Tudor Building in Ely, a little wonky after so many decades.

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Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia.

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Taj Mahal with it’s many optical illusions is the ultimate image of symmetry.

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