Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Well done guys for keeping us all up to speed with the info and pictures. Paul Sampson of the White Cliffs Countryside Project has sent in a couple of terrific pictures which are now on the frontpage as of this minute. Shows the mud etc etc..Many thanks to Paul...another Paul...
Guest 722- Registered: 23 Aug 2011
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I remember being told many years ago that there was a tunnel or sluice that ran from the Wellington dock into the Granville. The sluice gate could be opened at low tide to give the Granville a wash and clean out the silt. Can this be seen now ?
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That might be it in Paul's pictures in Post 35 Andy. I dont know myself...but will keep an eye out.
Ah no...Ive had another look at post 35... probably not...
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Good pics in No.35. Have the 'mudlarks' been doing their searching yet? Looks like a lot of 'treasure' amongst the old drink cans...
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Surprisingly Kath in the frontpage pics from Paul Sampson of WCCP there's no cans to be seen at all at all..perhaps there all still in the Dour
Whoops! Yes I see quite a few cans now that Ive had a better look in post 35. Cant quite make out where we are there for certain.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The pic is 35 is the Dour flowing into the Wellington Dock underneath from underneath New Bridge
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Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Had a look at the gate that has been taken of today, plenty of seaweed shells and barnacles attached to it. The second gate is not being taken of , it will be moved out from the wall and scaffold put round it and worked on in situ.
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Some more interesting views from this afternoon
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great stuff paul, will be interesting to see what is dredged up.
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Not the best photos as taken on my phone yesterday morning but thought the castle looked rather spooky!
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Very atmospheric Helen.
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Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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Some photos taken yesterday afternoon at low tide. The Dour has cut a channel at right angles from the Bubbles culvert across to Northampton Quay then it follows that down for a way before meandering across to Ballast Quay, with quite a big bank of silt on the Ballast Quay side. Then there is a view of the old slipway by De Bradeleis, the top half of which has been made into the carpark. Later photos show the pontoons sitting on the mud off Esplanade Quay. Last photo shows two contractors who had just conducted a video survey of the culvert from New Bridge to the Bubbles on behalf of the Environmental Agency, the one on the left is holding a GPS on a pole.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Nice one Ed, are DHB planning to shift any of that silt?
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Would have thought the area was too small for a dredger? no doubt it can be done but not sure how.
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Does amaze me the size of the ships that used to go in there considering the apparent lack of depth !!
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Guest 718- Registered: 28 Jun 2011
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From the Bob Hollingsbee Collection here are a couple from a previous time. The ferries Canterbury and Lord Warden high and dry as the dock was drained.
From the history of the Lord Warden I am told that this would have been October 1964.
Thanks to Bob and Kath for allowing me to show them.
Fascinating Photos , I cant believe the size of the craft that used that dock it just dosnt seem big enough
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The answer to the dredging question is that the David Church was in the Wellington Dock this afternoon as the tide rose and was lifting a lot of silt.....
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Andy mentioned on the thread about a sluice between Granville and Wellington Docks - today was a very low tide and I spotted this:
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