#river tay

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River Tay, Perth

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Kercock Bothy, river Tay, Perthshire, Scotland, 2011 - by Angus Clyne, Scottish

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James McIntosh Patrick (British, 1907-1998), Magdalen Green with the Tay Bridge Behind. Watercolour, 30 x 22.5 in.

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Perth, Scotland 1860/1880

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The RRS Discovery was launched into the Firth of Tay on March 21 1901

Designed for Antarctic research, she was launched as a Royal Research Ship (RRS) in 1901. Discovery was the first ship of its kind to be constructed specifically for scientific research. She was also the last wooden, three masted ship to be built in this country and is the only one that survives.

The basics of the ship were built on the same principles as the whaling ships - hundreds of them worked out of Dundee in the 19th and early 20th century.

The Discovery’s first captain was the famous explorer ‘Scott of the Antarctic’. Captain Robert Falcon Scott, was appointed in 1901. He was Born in Devon, England, basically a shy man who also had great courage and strength. It was said that Captain Scott was responsible for the errors that turned his expedition into a disaster. However, research in the past few years has discovered that it was some of the men under Captain Scott’s command, who disobeyed his orders that led to tragedy.

Another famous explorer joined Captain Scott on RRS Discovery’s first voyage and that was Sir Ernest Shackleton. He would later sail in another famous ship the 'Endurance’ in 1914-16.

Since 1996 Discovery has been berthed at Dundee, and is a major tourist attraction to the city, the ship however is said to be one of the most haunted in the world and paranormal teams regularly set up all sorts of equipment on the ship

One of the main spirits said to roam the ship is that of Charles Bonner. While Discovery was leaving New Zealand, the young seaman fell from the crows nest, on the mainmast, landing head first onto the deck, crushing his skull. Quite a few independent psychics have picked up on the seaman and feel that he is still a strong presence on the ship. His spirit is said to be most powerful on the deck at the place where he fell to his death. It’s also been reported that people have sensed and seen the spirit of Shackleton roaming around the ship and it may be his spirit that has been observed in one of the cabins. Psychic mediums have also picked up this presence on numerous occasions. Other apparitions include the spirit of a little boy and shadow figures are seen roaming the ship in various areas.

Electricity seems to attract the spirits on the Discovery. In the cabin that belonged to Ernest Shackleton, light bulbs constantly blow despite the area being checked by electricians. In addition when the 'Ghost Club’ investigated the ship, light bulbs in Captain Scott’s cabin were found to be dislodged from their fittings.

The Ghost Club investigators experienced strange movements of a rope. This was a very heavy ship’s rope that couldn’t be moved simply by walking past, so why it began swaying remains a mystery. In addition investigators felt the chairs or benches that they were sitting on being moved by an unseen force.

There are also frequently the sound of footsteps roaming around the ship. These have been heard by people and also caught on recording equipment. Investigators have yet to find out who is making the footsteps - could it be Charles Bonner or Ernest Shackleton?

There is also one interesting account of a visitor to the ship who had spent some time talking with a sailor, but no one else could see the person she was speaking to. Similar events have happened with other visitors to the ship, where they have seen a spirit that looked solid and stopped to talk to him only to realise later that the person was not anyone alive connected to the ship.

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Still with the oldies… #CloudGrab captures looking over the River Tay in Perth, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 - 11.05.2022 💎 (5 takes) ☁️

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Under the V & A -- Water Water Everywhere #247

Under the V & A -- Water Water Everywhere #247

Hi all 👋 Feel free to join in whenever you have a water picture to post (any type of water, in any state, will do). See below for how to join the fun 😁 This is the walkway through the Victorian & Albert Museum in Dundee. V & A underside Make sure to check out these fantastic posts from last week… thanks for taking part 🙏 Elke Traudel Brian How To Join In Create a Water Water Everywhere…

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The Tay road and rail bridge on a misty morning.

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Aberfeldy, Perth and Kinross, Scotland

The Birks of Aberfeldy in Perth and Kinross, as seen in today 's photo is a steep area of land covered with many trees and a valley passing through. Aberfeldy is a small market town situated in the upper reaches of River Tay. Surprisingly enough the town does not have a theatre, or a music hall however has two community venues used for music and drama. J.K. Rowling the well-known author purchased the Killiechassie house on the banks of River Tay. The Highlands north of Aberfeldy has a rich deposit of a mineral called baryte which is used as a weighting agent to prevent blow-outs in gas and oil wells.

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River Tay, Perth

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i love that mystery files is taking this tumblr post to heart

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'24.6.1 奈良市柳生、山辺郡山添村にて

@masachi さんとの撮影会、お昼に山菜定食いただいた後は十兵衛杉、阿対の石仏を見て国道を南下。

山添村の布目川で、とても良い風情の橋に出会いました。

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Day Ten - Tai Kamiya/Sora Takenouchi, Taiora (Digimon)

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On June 20th 1887 the "new" "Tay rail bridge opened, the longest in the British Isles.

Firstly let’s get the usual dates thing out the way, I have three dates for this after examination, 1st, 10th and 20th of June, you’d think in an age where we photograph things for posterity, we could get the dates right. I’ve chosen today because it flagged up in my alerts, it’s as simple as that.

We have to salute the bravery of those men who worked building bridges like this, I say men, but look t the photos of the construction workers and see how young some of them were!

I think we all know the story behind the Tay bridge disaster so there is now need to go through it all again but after the bridge collapsed the North British Railway and supporters of the Tay Bridge were determined that it should be rebuilt. William Henry Barlow who had sat on the board of enquiry into the old bridge was asked on the best course of action. After thorough investigation of the options, his recommendation was to build a new double line bridge, completely independent of the old.

Barlow’s design for the new bridge was deeply influenced by the presence of the old. To satisfy stipulations made by the Board of Trade, the bridge was to be constructed exactly parallel alongside the old in order to keep navigation channels open, and its height was to be reduced from 88ft in the old bridge to 77ft in the new. As in the old bridge, the railway line was to run on the top of the approach girders, and through the girders of the high, larger navigation spans. Barlow recommended that if the spans of the new bridge were to be kept the same, girders from the old bridge that were unaffected by the collapse of the high girders, were able to be re-used in the new.

The new bridge was to be built 60ft upstream from the old, allowing the old bridge to become ‘staging’ for the men and materials in the construction of the new. The approaches onto the new bridge were altered; to the south the branch lines were joined on brick arches nearer to the shore at Wormitt, and to the North the eastwards curve into Tay Bridge Station (now called Dundee) was softened. Stringent tests on weight and wind loading in the design and construction of the new bridge were also to be undertaken. The proposals for the ‘New Tay Viaduct’ were accepted by Parliament in October 1881, and the firm William Arrol & Co of Glasgow was appointed contractor.

The new bridge took just 5 years to build, thanks in most part to special pontoon equipment with hydraulic legs which were designed by William Arrol. Various arrangements of these hydraulic pontoons were used to sink and construct the brick and concrete foundation columns, to erect the wrought iron piers, to move the old girders into position for the new bridge, and to erect the new navigation spans. The completed bridge is 10711ft in length, 8396ft of which is in a straight line running virtually north / south across the Tay until it curves eastwards towards Dundee. There are 85 piers; 1-28 forming the south approach, 28-41 the ‘navigation spans’ and 41-85 the north approach. The new Tay Bridge was opened to traffic, without ceremony on 20th June 1887.It still stands as testament to what good engineering was used in it's build.

You can find loads more pickoff the bridge during construction here https://www.leisureandculturedundee.com/virtual-gallery-new-bridge-1887