Photos, videos and docs of Loose_Grip/Pete, with the keywords: "South"

HBM Hellevoetsluis South Holland 15th April 2026

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:07:58 +0000

This boat in the harbour at Hellovoetsluis has it's own garden bench.

HBM to everyone. Enjoy the start of a new week.

HFF Wassenaar The Netherlands 20th April 2026

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:48:31 +0000

A long way from Southern Scotland but these Belted Galloway cows - sometimes called Oreole Cookie cows for obvious reason - are very content in the Voorlinden park north of The Hague.

HFF to everyone. Have a great weekend.

HBM Mumbles Swansea South Wales 28th September 2024

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 06:28:22 +0000

Loose_Grip/Pete has posted:

Located at the eastern end of the Gower Peninsula the pier at Mumbles dates from 1898. Unfortunately the cafe here was closed due to fire damage.

HBM to everyone. Enjoy the start of a new week.

HFF or WW South Wigston England 9th October 2025

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:08:21 +0000

Loose_Grip/Pete has posted:

At the top is certainly a fence and the bottom has definitely got a wall of stones but there is also a Fence Holding Up the Wall.

So....HF(HUTW)F to everyone. Have a great weekend.

HFF Winnie the Pooh Hartfield East Sussex 7th August 2025

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:43:07 +0000

Loose_Grip/Pete has posted:

Staying in Hartfield in the Tigger Room of the Bear inn It was obligatory to visit Winnie the Pooh's 100 acre wood and Pooh Sticks Bridge so here's the bridge.

No sign of the expected hordes of tourists. They must be off looking for Harry Potter...

HFF to everyone. Have a great weekend.

HBM Wentworth Castle Gardens South Yorkshire 5th September 2025

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 07:07:08 +0000

Loose_Grip/Pete has posted:

Wentworth Castle Gardens are not to be confused with Wentworth Woodhouse, although both have impressive stately houses & both are located close together near Barnsley.

HBM to everyone. Enjoy the start of the new week.

HFF South Kensington London 28th May 2025

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 29 May 2025 18:31:47 +0000

Loose_Grip/Pete has posted:

This huge glass design by American glass artist Dale Chihuly hangs in the entrance hall of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

HFF to everyone. Have a great weekend.

HFF Thorne South Yorkshire England 15th May 1974

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 06:19:02 +0000

Loose_Grip/Pete has posted:

Thorne South station where my father worked as a porter in the 1940s. British Railways Class 31 diesels 31105 & 31235 pass eastwards with a train of rails.

The photo was taken to highlight the Great Central Railway remains rather than the engines - rather obviously! All that was left of the Victorian station by 1974 were these rather delicate railings & gas lamp standard on the Down side & the partial wall on the Up platform. The truncated supports for the platform awnings can be seen on the Up side together with the fading Eastern Region blue "Thorne" running in sign. Later the whole lot was bulldozed and a new station built left of this spot which only ever had bus shelter waiting areas. The old MS&L stationmaster's house still stands however below and to the left of this view.

HFF to everyone. Have a great weekend.

HFF Kwazulu Natal South Africa

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:00:11 +0000

Loose_Grip/Pete has posted:

We spent 3 weeks in South Africa and rented a car to do an anti-clockwise road trip from Johannesburg. We headed east and then south.

I think I took this shot from the roadside somewhere south of Glencoe as we were driving to Rorke's Drift. The landscape was wide and open and this fence did little to hem it in!

HFF to everyone and have a great weekend.

HWW Tredegar Newport South Wales 29th September 2024

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 06:20:00 +0000

Loose_Grip/Pete has posted:

Situated within 90 acres of beautiful gardens Tredegar House is one of the most significant late 17th-century houses in the whole of the British Isles.

For more than 500 years the house was home to the Morgans, later Lords Tredegar. The Morgan family owned more than 40,000 acres in Monmouthshire, Breconshire and Glamorgan at the end of the 18th century. Today it is owned by Newport council and the National Trust are custodians.

Happy Wednesday Wall to everyone. Enjoy the day.

HFF Port Talbot Neath South Wales 29th September 2024

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 06:43:45 +0000

Loose_Grip/Pete has posted:

An early Sunday morning photo session outside Tata's Port Talbot steelworks. No stunning sunrise just half-light gradually increasing.

Morfa coke ovens closed in March, Blast Furnace 5 (on the right) closed in July and BF4 closed last weekend. This ends Port Talbot's ability to produce liquid iron from ore. Around 2,800 staff from Tata's 8,000 workforce stand to lose their jobs.

HFF to everyone. Have a great weekend.

HBM Mumbles Swansea South Wales 28th September 2024

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 22:43:10 +0000

Loose_Grip/Pete has posted:

Back to rain today but yesterday was beautiful. Mumbles is on the Gower Peninsula south of the city of Swansea. In the distance is Mumbles Pier.

HBM to everyone. Have a great start to the new week.

HFF Barnsley South Yorkshire 18th May 2024

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 08:08:57 +0000

Loose_Grip/Pete has posted:

The steps up to the modern footbridge over the railway in Barnsley town centre.

HFF to everyone. Enjoy the weekend.

Du Toitskloof Western Cape South Africa 28th May 1982

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Tue, 28 May 2024 06:28:17 +0000

Loose_Grip/Pete has posted:

An image from 42 years ago to the day on our road trip around South Africa.

Driving up on the N1 to the Du Toitskloof Pass (820 metres, 2,690 ft) in the Hawequas Mountains east of Capetown heading north eventually to Kimberley.

This road is now the regional route R101 since the opening of the Huguenot Tunnel on the N1 in 1988.

St. Davids Haverfordwest South Wales Easter 1973

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Tue, 28 May 2024 06:20:35 +0000

Loose_Grip/Pete has posted:

A 12th-century pope decreed that two trips to St Davids were equal to one trip to Rome which turned it into a centre of pilgrimage for the entire Western world. This is St Davids Bishop's Palace alongside the cathedral

HWW Kimberley Northern Cape South Africa 2nd June 1982

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 17:58:16 +0000

Loose_Grip/Pete has posted:

It's difficult to capture the depth of the "Big Hole" in Kimberley but the height of the buildings give an idea of the scale. It's a real vertical wall of rock.

Kimberlite, an ultramafic igneous rock and a rare variant of peridotite, is most commonly known to be the main host matrix for diamonds. It is named after Kimberley where diamonds were mined from this hole.

Kimberlite occurs in the Earth's crust in vertical structures known as kimberlite pipes, as well as igneous dykes and can also occur as horizontal sills. The consensus on kimberlites is that they are formed deep within the mantle, hence at high temperatures and pressures.

HWW to everyone. Have a great day!

HFF Kinderdijk South Holland Netherlands Spring 1982

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 17:07:06 +0000

Loose_Grip/Pete has posted:

Where else but the Netherlands?

The many windmills along this canal in South Holland near Rotterdam are famous but I can't for the life of me remember the name of the area. Help me Jaap, Fred, Trudy...
Thanks! It's Kinderdijk of course!

Anyway HFF to everyone. Enjoy the weekend.

Kruger National Park South Africa 20th May 1982

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 22:07:54 +0000

Loose_Grip/Pete has posted:

We drove from Johannesburg to Kruger Park for a short break spending just one night at Pretoriuskop in the park. With no particular plan we just drove around for the day and were surprised how many animals were about although we didn't see any big cats.

This pod of hippos were lazing about in the river. In fact they are among the most dangerous animals in the world due to their aggressive and unpredictable nature.

HBM Capetown Western Cape South Africa 29th May 1982

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 13:48:40 +0000

Loose_Grip/Pete has posted:

Table Mountain complete with tablecloth as seen from the Camps Bay area.

HBM to everyone. Enjoy the start of the new week

Sydney New South Wales Australia 30th October 1979

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 20:11:48 +0000

Loose_Grip/Pete has posted:

A sailing boat passing the lighthouse near the mouth of Sydney bay. We spent a week in Sydney back in 1979 en route to Medan in Sumatra.

Having said that I'm not sure which lighthouse this is. Any ideas? Thanks to Graham I now realise this is Hornby lighthouse and the pic was taken from the harbour cruise ship.