This looks like a Velocette MAC, a 350cc single cylinder which was produced from 1933 through to 1960
This model looks like one of the last circa 1959 or 1960, lovely example.
This looks like a Velocette MAC, a 350cc single cylinder which was produced from 1933 through to 1960
This model looks like one of the last circa 1959 or 1960, lovely example.
St Valery sur Somme sits on a limestone promontory in the heart of the bay where the canal maritime heads inland to connect with Abbeville. St Valerie was visited by both William the Conqueror and Joan of Arc. Today the former medieval city with cobbled streets,has been given over to tourism.
The old town quay must have been a great place to sit out bad weather, the channel turns left and out into the bay
Looking inland toward the canal the town marina, with the huge tides and associated strong currents in the areas not to mention the many sand banks and shallows it must be a challenging area to sail, probably like north Norfolk coast or the Severn or Dee estuaries in the UK.
The Somme Bay railway has a terminus in St Valerie, originally built during the Epoque, traditional carriages are drawn by steam locomotives connecting to the nearby towns of Le Crotoy, Noyelles-sur-Mer, Saint-Valery-sur-Somme and Cayeux-sur-Mer for tourists who enjoy the quaint charm of Victorian travel during a tour of the seaside resorts
Poor photo which was taken pretty much at the end of range of my ancient iPhone, the bows which can just be made out, were almost square, presumably the underwater profile was different.
Is still alive and well, there was a good turn out for the parade on Sunday led by local Scouts and Guides from the two villages Hamble and Netley.
Around the area the local knitters (actually crochet) have been decorating local post boxes, above classic RAF pilot and nurse are brilliantly represented.
The door to St Paul's on the green at Sarisbury, a few of us gathered outside by the war memorial with a small party of children from Sarisbury school, the Mayor, local Councillors, armed forces and police.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Laurence Binyon, 1869 - 1943
Located at the end of a spit in the Baie de Somme, the area is part of a nature reserve, the last vestiges of sea side holiday making and the casino at disappear as you head north east from Cayeax sur Mer along the trail in the sand dunes.
With tide out there are vast stretches of empty beach, I didn't check tides for Hurdel but just along the coast to. the west where we were staying the rise was 8 meters, presumably similar here with some very strong tidal currents going in and out of the estuary.
The remains of a massive gun emplacement form the war, presumably the tidal erosion has undercut the foundations over the years leaving it like stranded wreckage form a Start Wars movie.
The village is still active with some fishing boats,pleasure boats and yachts tucked further up the river and day trip boats taking visitors out to see the seals with
To give a little scale to the gun emplacement
I do have a thing for day boats and this is an interesting example it looks like a Swallow Boats Bayraider and apologies if I have that wrong, but a very worthy modern successor to the original Drascombe.
The council has served a notice of a clean up down at Swanwick hard which requires all dinghy owners to remove their dinghies or they will be removed and presumably scrapped
They did a similar thing a couple of years back, as I recall legitimate owners removed their boats for a couple of weeks and then were able to return with a registered number. Then as usual over the years a few unregistered and or derelict dinghies turned up, so maybe time to sort things out.
Running along the western Solent between Lymington and Keyhaven