Old warehouse, Hereford

The warehouse in today's photograph is on Gwynne Street near the River Wye and the old bridge in Hereford. It has been sensitively refurbished and displays its original polychrome brickwork, windows where the loading/unloading doors would have been and what looks like the housing for the pulley at the top of the facade. One feature I really like, and probably prompted my photograph, is the colour chosen for the paintwork.

photos © T. Boughen     Camera: Nikon Z 5

Disused Hull dock and warehouse, 1982

One of my tasks during the lockdown caused by the coronavirus epidemic has been to ensure that all our family photographs are digitised by scanning. Most had been done prior to this year, but a few collections of transparencies (slides), prints and negatives came to light and they have been worked through. The activity has revealed transparencies and negatives that haven't seen the light of day since they were exposed. Here are a couple.

They were taken on different days (and months) in 1982 and show the disused Humber Dock, the bridged link to Railway Dock, and the warehouses that stand by the docks. Today both these stretches of water are part of Hull Marina. The warehouse has been converted into flats and the whole site has new buildings, car parks, chandlery services, hotels etc. In other words a centre of bustling marine activity.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Olympus OM1n    1982

Govilon Wharf

The village of Govilon is only a couple of miles from Llanfoist, and the journey there on foot, by the canal, is very pleasant. There is thick woodland on the uphill side of the canal and a narrow screen of trees on the downhill side. Our journey was punctuated by numbered stone bridges that took tracks and roads over the canal, and at Govilon we came upon a small, stone-built, former warehouse at the wharf. This appears to have been turned to recreational use by the local boating fraternity. On the day of our visit the boats were still tied up and empty, blue tarpaulins and covers still in place to keep the wintery weather at bay. The only moving boat we saw was a powered dinghy with someone examining the branches that had fallen into canal in recent high winds.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Lumix FZ1000 2