Monday 22 February 2010

All the fun of the fair

Just a quick one... (if you can do anything quickly on blogger at the moment)

This...



Is a part of Wallasey Docks. To the right is a type of bridge called a rolling bascule bridge. Basically, a curved rack and pinion with a counterweight, and the leaf of the bridge carries a roadway over a lock of a dock. When a ship comes, they use an electric motor to move the rack and pinion - lowering the counterweight and raising the bridge. Centre left is a rusty old German U-Boat. That's now gone to Woodside Ferry Terminal in Birkenhead, about a mile down the road. Between them are a couple of warehouses. The image is dated March 2007, and those warehouses have now been demolished.

For the last couple of weeks, the bare land has been occupied by a fairground. This finished today, so we thought we'd go and take some photographs. I was hoping the darkness, and a long shutter time would give some interesting result, as many of the attractions were chucking people around. Sadly, a bit more care was needed, like taking a tripod, but it was a spur of the moment thing and we just grabbed our cameras and went.

Here are some of the better ones...













Gaudy or what!

2 comments:

Pete said...

I don't like fairs.

Paul said...

Try Jessops instead (local camera shop joke)