London and Wales, September 2002

We arrived in London on 30 August, spent three nights, and then took the train to Wales, where we rented a car and toured a small area in the south from the English border to Pembroke. As usual, we didn't have the time to see all the sights of interest to us even in this small area. The sights we did see fell into a number of categories familiar from many of our trips: museums, churches, castles, gardens, and countryside . This trip was notable for including a new category, industrial archeological (IA) sites. We'd seen a little IA in other countries (canals in Europe, Hagley Mills in Delaware), but we made a determined effort to identify such things before taking this trip, and we visited many more than usual. England and Wales are particulary good places to see IA, since the industrial revolution started early there, and they have preserved many sites, rather than building over them or demolishing them.

Of the 614 photos I took during the 17 days of this trip, I have posted 79. Click on any link below to go to a page with the photo and a short legend. You can go forward from one photo to another, using the NEXT link built into each page. Or you can click the LIST link to come back here to browse to another sight of interest to you.

    London

  1. Oxford Street
  2. London street
  3. British Museum Grand Court panorama
  4. London street near the British Museum
  5. MI6 building on south side of Vauxhall Bridge
  6. New building (St. George Wharf) on south side of Vauxhall Bridge

    Cardiff

  7. Keep of Cardiff Castle
  8. Former headquarters for Cardiff Bay docks

    Near Abergavenny

  9. Kilpeck church south door
  10. Kilpeck church south door left jamb
  11. Garden at Great Campston B&B
  12. Llanthony Priory
  13. Cwmyoy "twisted" church exterior
  14. Cwmyoy "twisted" church interior
  15. Road to Blaenavon
  16. Blaenavon ironworks
  17. Amphiteater at Caerleon
  18. Tintern Abbey exterior
  19. Tintern Abbey interior

    Near Carmarthen

  20. National Botanic Garden of Wales
  21. National Botanic Garden of Wales
  22. National Botanic Garden of Wales
  23. National Botanic Garden of Wales
  24. Aberglasney walled garden
  25. Aberglasney fish pond
  26. Pasture with cows at Dinefwr
  27. Dinefwr Castle
  28. Newton House front at Dinefwr
  29. Newton House back at Dinefwr

    Near Pembroke

  30. Carew Castle
  31. Cross at Carew Castle
  32. Panorama with Carew Castle on left and tidal mill on right
  33. First floor of tidal mill at Carew
  34. Second floor of tidal mill at Carew
  35. French mill stone
  36. Exterior of tidal mill at Carew. dpwnstream side
  37. Dam for tidal mill at Pembroke Castle
  38. View of estuary from Cresswell House at 6:06 PM
  39. View of estuary from Cresswell House 76 minutes later, at 7:25 PM
  40. The sea at Tenby
  41. Panorama of harbor at Tenby
  42. Lifeboat station, Tenby
  43. Typical narrow rural road, wider than some we drove

    Kidwelly and Aberdulais

  44. Mine head at Kidwelly Industrial Museum
  45. Winding engine at Kidwelly
  46. Cold rolls at Kidwelly
  47. Cold mill steam engine at Kidwelly
  48. Hot mill at Kidwelly
  49. Steam engine for hot mill at Kidwelly
  50. Hot milling process at Aberdulais Falls
  51. Aberdulais Falls, ruins of tin plate mill
  52. Aberdulais Falls modern waterwheel
  53. Aberdulais Falls modern water turbine

    Near Cardiff

  54. Nantgarw Pottery
  55. Nantgarw Pottery
  56. Saggers used at Nantgarw Pottery
  57. Inside kiln at Nantgarw Pottery
  58. Nantgarw example 1
  59. Nantgarw example 2
  60. Nantgarw example 3
  61. Nantgarw example 4
  62. Nantgarw example 5
  63. Nantgarw example 6
  64. Rhondda Heritage Park, Pontrypridd
  65. Miners lantern technology
  66. Canary cage to detect methane
  67. Flame chart to detect methane
  68. Tunnel support frames
  69. Tunnel supports
  70. Tredegar House, Newport
  71. Tredegar House side entrance
  72. Wood carving in Brown Room of Tredegar House
  73. Trainwatcher, Cardiff

    London (again)

  74. American hanger at Duxford, Cambridgeshire
  75. Durbins in front of bomber at Duxford
  76. V&A, London, inscription about bomb damage
  77. Steam engines, Science Museum, London
  78. Steam engines, Science Museum, London
  79. Patisserie Valerie, London, cakes

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