Birmingham on Sea

[Frothblower]

This morning on a wet grey day

Is that the sea I can see ?

 

[Dave M]

Is that the sea I can see ?

Partly with the Mud :unconscious:

 

[BernardR]

Is that the sea I can see ?

Only with the aid of fantastic eyesight and military spec binoculars.

 

[BernardR]

But then it is the mouth of the Severn not the real sea anyway our kid.

 

[Dave M]

https://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/news/appeal_against_tropicana_decision_successful_1_1686930

 

[G G Jean]

I remember going there on a day trip with the school and going home on the train covered in mud and Patty fell over and hurt her knee. I think it was the platform on the station.

 

[Bishopsmate]

Fantastic Carnival once again!

 

[Dave M]

Bishopsmate I was in Alfred St, yes was a good one pity there was a stopage at on stage


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjQyWFckWFo

 

[Bishopsmate]

I understand that there was a medical emergency, but no details as yet. We took the opportunity to move from where we were just on the bend by the cinema to go back to the coach on the seafront. We were soaked although still in good spirits!!!
I have a good video of the Charleston float but don't know how to upload it

 

[Bishopsmate]

try this one
[video]https://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/home/video_weston_s_carnival_fun_1_1690692[/video]

 

[Dave M]

11th November 2012

 

[Dave M]

14th and 16th January Cold

 

[ColinB]

Just had this sent to me by another Radio Ham, anyone in Weston or surrounding area know why these lamp post have Morse Code on the pole.
And no prizes but, anyone else able to read what it says.

Colin

 

[Lloyd]

"Pier square" reading from the top down? But why? Who, as a road user or pedestrian reads morse? Bet they were'nt cheap. either!

 

[jennyann]

This article will tell how this came about Colin. https://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/news/square_to_be_renamed_by_princess_on_town_visit_1_968987

 

[paul stacey]

Still dos'nt mention why "Morse Code" was used to identifie the area????????
paul

 

[rosie]

I was wondering if anything had been done to Birnbeck Pier recently. I know it was getting into a bad state. I remember seing a display of old radios there once, and we had a lovely cup of coffee one Sunday morning, It must be about 28yrs ago, but happy memories.
rosie.

 

[Dave M]

I was wondering if anything had been done to Birnbeck Pier recently. I know it was getting into a bad state. I remember seing a display of old radios there once, and we had a lovely cup of coffee one Sunday morning, It must be about 28yrs ago, but happy memories.
rosie.

Nothing done at all, a few weeks ago, will sort out a pic

 

[Donbogen]

Just before the entrance to old pier somebody was selling gramophones @radios this was in late 60s, Moving on does anyone remember the old bag lady she was always around the area of the crazy golf the locals looked after her but she always turned down a offer of a bed our landlady told us she was a Belguim refugee from ww1

 

[Dave M]

Few pics the distance one Jan 2013, the others slightly older, but it looks the same.

 

[db84124]

"Pier Square" reading from the top down? But why? ......

Hello there, Lloyd, do you think there may be some connection with the demise of the most famous maritime radio station in the world at Portishead? The original station was on Portishead Down, just 11 miles away. The more recent station closed in April 2000 but was certainly the world’s best-known long range maritime radio communications centre and the lampposts could have been designed in recognition of its service between 1928 and the year 2000. I imagine that, at first, Morse code was still very much in use simply because it carries so much further that a voice connection.
Just a hypothesis …… but I can’t think of anything else.
Stay well,
David

 

[db84124]

But why?

Lloyd, I think this may hold the explanation to this mystery:

“Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless telegraphy, successfully transmitted radio signals across the Bristol Channel in the spring of 1897, from Penarth (near Cardiff) to Brean Down (just south west of Weston, on the other side of the River Axe).”

“Wireless telegraphy rapidly came to mean Morse code transmitted with Hertzian waves (electromagnetic waves) …… ”


With thanks to Wikipedia.
David

 

[ColinB]

Sorry guys, I should have added an up-date I found out the reason was as David suggests, Marconi's experiments, but how they expect more that 1% of the population to read Morse or even be bothered to look it up beats me.


Colin

 

[rosie]

Thanks for posting the pictures Dave M, (I vaguely )remember the lifeboat going down that ramp.
We went to the end of Brean Down (in our more mobile days.) There were some disused military buildings, what a view!!
rosie.

 

[Scrumper]

Taken yesterday. Weird.

 

[Elizabeth Redmond]

Do you think they will ever repair it

 

[rosie]

Thank you Scrumper.
How sad that it wasn't kept in good repair.
rosie.

 

[Scrumper]

If you zoom in on the picture you can see someone stood in front of the new grey/white building. I wonder what's in it?

Edit: It's a temporary boathouse according to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birnbeck_Pier

 

[Dave M]

I believe the Lifeboat people do not use Birnbeck anymore

 

[Dave M]

Two pics from the 16th Jan