Wednesday 29 July 2009

All Saints Church - Chalbury - Dorset



All Saints church is set at one of the highest points in Dorset from which views can be seen on clear days of the Needles and the Isle of Wight.

The church comprises a chancel and nave and appears to date from the 13th century. It was partly rebuilt in the 16th century and extensively repaired in 1702. This church has the most completely preserved 18th centruy interior of any Dorset church.

A future project, as long as the weather stays dry and sunny! watch this space.

Thursday 16 July 2009

RAF - Ibsley - Hampshire

Ibsley Control Tower.Ibsley was a very busy RAF airfield in the last great war. It was the location for a morale-boosting wartime movie starring David Niven, and was taken over by the Americans in 1943. Ibsley played a major role in the D-Day invasion. It survived for precious few years, the airfield having been lost, almost entirely, to gravel abstraction. All that is left is a ruined control tower surrounded by lakes.
Ibsley Historical Group have their base behind The Old Schoolhouse South Gorley. Their Open Day is the first weekend in August. Many of the buildings they use are old WWII structures.

Tuesday 14 July 2009

Shaftesbury Abbey Project.


Our second visit to Shaftesbury Abbey and Museum in July.
At 08:30am sharp, we set up our mast in the grounds of the Abbey. The weather was cloudy at first but soon changed sunny. We managed twp positions taking photographs of the ruined Abbey and the Herb garden. Hot cup of coffee and we was packing up our equipment and heading towards to the museum.
Pity we couldn’t see the Gold Hill from where we set up the mast. The sun was shining and we took some lovely photographs of the museum and the surrounding buildings. Packed up and burned off the disc before 10am. Walking back to the car I handed out brochures to the local estate agents.

Monday 13 July 2009

Abbey House Gardens

After our visit to Abbey House Gardens in June, we came back to photograph the Gardens in July.
The owner Mr Ian Pollard asked to come as early as 5am. So with an early start we arrived at 06:45am. Set up Mast on the Upper Lawn to take our photographs.
The past week the weather has been unsettled and on our first visit it rained but this time it held off while we photographed these lovely gardens. Three and a half hours later we finished our work and had a lovely cup of tea, burned off two discs and handed them over to the owners. We had some odd showers but also some sunny spells.

Sunday 12 July 2009

Bow Construction Ltd


Monday 6th July: Waking at 05:30am, a quick breakfast we made our way to Shrewsbury. Arrived at 7am and set up Mast on the Battlefield Enterprise Park. Weather report has said clouds!
The work force turned up early with clean vans except the boss! At 07:30am it started to rain. Our worst nightmare! All that way(5 hour drive plus sleep over) and it rains. The men were ready to set off for their work.
Lucky the rain stopped and we managed to photograph the vans in front of their office building. By 09:00am was ready to return home. After a few stops, we was home by 5pm.