#Orford Ness

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Research has shown that skimming while reading in digital media reduces the inclination and perhaps ability to engage in higher level reading, while a lack of higher-level reading practice compromises the efficacy of skimming when reading. Higher-level reading implies critical and conscious reading, slow reading, non-strategic reading and long-form reading, according to Schuller-Zwierlein et al,…

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[elizabethkiem]

Afternoon moonrise. Long light. Low sun. Slow dusk. Shingal hush from distal to Ness.

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[dailylighthouse]

Orford Ness Lighthouse

Suffolk, England

Source: Wikimedia Commons

Constructed: 1792

Automated: 1965

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Fiat CR.42 Falco at the @RAFMUSEUM, London. This particular aircraft was forced to land at Orford Ness during a raid on #Harwich. #ww2 #worldwar2

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[careerinruins]

Orford Castle was built for King Henry II between 1165 and 1177, Orford Castle was once a royal outpost on the River Ore’s tidal estuary, in Suffolk.

All that remains of the outpost today is the Castle Keep. The castle’s curtain walls, outer towers and gatehouse were demolished in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The Keep is one of England’s most complete and unusual, with a unique polygonal tower next to the pretty town and former port, which Henry II also developed on the Suffolk coast.

The remains are remarkably intact including the fresh water well in the basement all the way up to the roof with magnificent views of Orford Ness.

It is home to Orford Museum and is managed and owned by English Heritage.

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[whatdoesshedotothem]

Saturday 14 December 1833

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at 12 last night the water was less rough - took a little claret and water which staid on my stomach and from then to 5 a.m. I 2 or 3 times caught myself awaking from a sort of dream - then (at 5 a.m.) took a little more claret and water and a crumb or 2 of bread, but this last would not do - however my stomach did not revolt and I felt better at 9 when the steward came to tell me Lowestoff [Lowestoft] was in sight - I rose from my bench, washed as well as I could and went on deck at 9 ½ for ½ hour - the morning was fine - the fine sea breeze refreshed me - at 10 took a little cold boiled beef and a bottle of sofa water which tho’ not up and good yet was more grateful to me than perhaps anything else could have been - poor Thomas had been as ill as myself and was just calling out for a chop having had nothing since Thursday morning - on advising him to try cold meat, he chose toasted cheese and bread! Eugenie had had wine and water last night, but was still ill with her companion Mrs. Kroger - on deck all the day - at 2 ½ took a little soup - little more cold boiled beet but no relish for it - some hot apple pie and 2 bottles of soda water - on deck again from 3 ¼ to 9 50 when we lay (3 miles below Gravesend) to as I supposed for the night - we had passed the Nore light and entered the river at 5 40 by my watch and 5 by the captain’s and from soon after entering the river had heaved the lead every 4 or 5 minutes or after - it was latterly very dark - we had ¼ less 4 and once even less still and we were afraid of getting wrong - much craft, too, in the river - the Ostend steamer whose light we had seen like a star soon after passing the Nore, passed us and we hailed her at about 9 ½ - she lay to, just before we did, saying it was too much risk to go on - so I went down had a bottle of soda water and one or 2 of my Paris biscuits finding that I had no relish for the little brandy and water I had just tried - nothing like soda water - turned out my travelling bag and crammed all into it I could - was thinking whether to write or lie down, when I felt all stirring went on deck and found us off again and close to Gravesend at 10 40 (I go all along by my own watch) - some delay in taking the 2 tide-waiters on board - spoke to them - no chance of getting my carriage till Monday - walked about on deck a little while and went down to my cabin for the night at 11 - the Bankes arrived on Thursday and the Superb this morning - the Jolliffe and Tourist will surely arrive tomorrow - we passed this morning the companys’ steamer Ramona bound to Hamburg and a Hull steamer bound from London home - good deal of shipping about all today - several coasters (Scotch and coal smacks) in full sail northwards - a fine West India ship they said bound there for coal before going to the W.I. – after Lowestoff [Lowestoft] Orford town and castle belonging to the M. of Hertford, and Orford ness and the 2 fine lighthouses both belonging to the marquis – said our mail guard, one cannot have better property than light-houses – these very good lights – a great deal of traffic this way – every vessel on reaching port says for every light she has passed – perhaps 20 lights from here to Edinburgh and perhaps a smack pays £2 for the whole – all the light houses under the control of the Trinity board. all alterations etc. prescribed by the board must be done – perhaps about ½ the light houses we have are private property – If tree on the coast has long been a landmark, the owner cannot cut it down without putting up a beacon, or lighthouse, or something – our mail guard very communicative – talks of himself and his brother officers – 4 of them altogether I think he said – were all mates of Harwich packets – he 15 years on the Gothenburg station – even these packets (now the only ones from Harwich) to be given up next spring or next year, and the mails conveyed by the Hamburg vessels, the rest of the way to be by Copenhagen – the captains of the Harwich packets were all appointed by interest and knew of their business – there was once a military man made – the mates had charge of working the vessels – ½ a ton is common weight that weights down a buoy – the beacons are fixed in vessels and these vessels weighted down and thus sunk fast into the sand banks – Norroy? Leadenhall street best for sea charts – chart of the n. sea 7/6 – the nore light said our captain fixed in a ship close to the Nore sand – Southend (n) and the Nore (s) form the entrance into the river there about 3 miles broad – and it is fifty miles from the Nore to London – the Downs extend over the Godwin sands, said our captain – our mail guard said they did not begin till Sandown castle ships not always safe there - very  fine day - and very fine evening and night - fine star light and horned moon light for sometime but when we lay to at 9 50 rather obscure - fine against at Gravesend which looked lighted up in a fine crescent of pairs of lights along the water’s edge - did not feel cold on deck

Told the Hull boat that the London (Hull boat) had put into some port in Norway

[jamespeskett]

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The perfect staycation for every month of the year

This venerable event is one of the UK’s most extensive hike-fests, and the 2024 programme includes dawn chorus strolls, walks and riverboat trips, as well as haiku-writing hikes, and ambles on Orford Ness (lovely for walking in early spring, too, and this month worth pairing with nearby Halesworth’s theatrical INK Festival, finishes 14 April; inkfestival.org).  Further south, Dedham Vale is a…

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“Collection Of Scrap In City Starts,” Windsor Star. November 14, 1942. Page 5 & 6.. ---- Metal and Rubber Picked Up; Windsor Follows After Drive Begun in Rural Areas --- Old bed springs, tin cans, kettles, pails, overshoes, bathing caps, heavy duty tires, lawn-mowers, typewriters, piping, sheet metal, stoves and heaters children's tops, and a thousand and one other pieces of scrap metal and rubber were contributed by Windsorites this morning to the salvage drive. 

PLACED ON CURB Householders put their contributions on the curbs in front of their homes, and 30 city trucks started collection at 9 a.m., with 100 other trucks loaned by city firms, joining in the work at noon. 

The amount of salvage contributed showed a determination on the part of residents of the city that the victorious sweep of the United Nations will not be halted by lack of equipment, and citizens made efficient and effective clearings of attics, basements, garages and tool sheds for the badly needed salvage. 

Campaign headquarters reported at noon that between 200 and 250 tons of scrap metals and rubber would probably be gathered up in Windsor, despite a salvage drive having taken place last June. 

ACTIVITY IN RURAL AREAS They reported "a lot of activity in the three counties of Essex. Kent and Lambton where all residents of rural and urban areas are hard at work. 

During the week, school children collected keys, locks and hinges at the schools and these articles were also picked up by the trucks today. 

Metal from a big electric sign of the Ferry Morse Seed Company of Detroit, at the corner of Sandwich and McDougall streets, was pledged to the scrap drive yesterday, and dismantling of the sign will take place early in the week. John Milne, superintendent of the company, authorized the contribution of the sign. 

Canvassing of city homes to explain the urgency of the need for scrap metals and rubber was conducted by the women of Windsor, under direction of Mrs. H. J. Arbuckle, vice-chairman of the local committee. 

KENT TOTAL GROWS CHATHAM, Nov. 14 Warden W. L. Hills, of Highgate. estimated this morning that perhaps half a million pounds of scrap would be collected in Kent County before the current all-out tri-county drive for scrap iron ended. There was no way, he said, of estimating how much had been collected yesterday or what would be gathered today. 

The scrap is being piled In depots in each of the ten townships of th-county and being taken up by independent collectors. It would be impossible for another week at least. Warden Hills said, to make any sort of a fair estimate of the total. 

Besides his calculations on the basis of his own Township of Orford which was well above the average, and in which about 100,000 pounds was taken yesterday and today, the warden thought that half a million pounds might not be an exorbitant figure when the campaign was completed. 

Anticipating a huge success in all three counties in the big drive for scrap metal which in some places will end with collection today, J. O. Laird, of  Windsor, provincial organizer, salvage campaign office, department of national war services, said here last night that Harwich and Orford townships likely would be among the foremost contributors in Kent. Here in connection with the drive, Mr. Laird said that when the collections were completed some other townships might show equally good results. 

While Friday and today were the principal days set aside for gathering of scrap iron in Kent, Essex and Lamb- ton counties, Mr. Laird believed that in most parts of the rural areas, collecting would likely continue for another 10 days. But even last night he was able to report a surprisingly large amount of crap metal already hauled to the various dumps in Kent and other counties. 

PRAISES HARWICH He particularly mentioned Harwich, saying that its 12 collection centres were piled high after a thriving busi ness had been done in gathering scrap. The scrap gathered at the depots will be picked up by scrap dealers who will purchase it through local salvage committees and all profits will be for war work. 

Telling his appreciation of the fine response to the appeal for needed metals, Mr. Laird mentioned particu larly the work of school children who helped materially in the campaign. Drawing attention to The Windsor Daily Star, he said that it had "given marvelous help in the publicity campaign." 

He asked that citizens of the three counties continue their efforts to find scrap and get it to the stations for collection, since it was of the utmost necessity that Canada have a million pounds of scrap before winter sets in. 

SOUTH ESSEX LEAMINGTON, Nov. 14. Very encouraging results are being reported in this district over the amount of scrap rubber and metals that is being unearthed by patriotic residents of this part of Essex County, during the tri-county salvage drive that is now under way. 

At Kingsville, trucks started to pick up this much needed material yesterday and expect to have it completed by tonight. In Mersea Township the collection will be carried out next week and it is expected that a good yield of salvage material will be brought to this town by trucks from the farming community about here. 

Unlike other parts of Western Ontario, this section has very few large collections of scrap lying about, this is because a very active salvage committee has been operating here and in Kingsville since the outbreak of the war. This committee has turned many thousands of tons of material into the war effort by their diligent work along this line. 

LAMBTON RESPONSE GOOD SARNIA. Nov. 14. Aside from the immediate response, which is better than many expected, the current scrap campaign in Lambton County is making hundreds of home owners more "scrap conscious," and the result likely will be a much greater volume of discarded goods turned in at regular collection periods in the future months or years, officials said today. 

"For instance," a canvasser in Sarnia Township said last night, "one farmer who hasn't before turned over a pound of scrap gave us a hundred pounds of metal and said that as he starts overhauling his farm machinery there will be a few more hundred pounds." 

Salvage officials reported that the Lambton campaign is proceeding on schedule in most places. Many of the municipalities started collecting this week, but a number have set aside dates next week for assembly community scrap heaps.

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[tonydeynupsidedown]

Orford Ness Bunker Research

During the weekend I visited the Abandoned Atomic Research facility of Orford Ness. Known by locals as the Island Of Secrets, It was constructed some time in the 1950’s with the intention of testing Atomic bombs. Because of its era it ties perfectly Into my project.

 They’re multiple buildings to visit, I started by investigating a structure that looked like it wasn’t meant to be open to the public. However I went in It anyway. I would like to mention this is before I was told not to wonder of trail because of unexploded ordinance. I risked my life for the (top right image) and (middle left image), anything for my project research! 

I am particularly fond of the (top right image) because of all the old debris on the floor, I feel it makes it look chaotic as if people had to evacuate in a rush leaving belongings behind. The (middle left image) is also really cool, I love it because its a piece of paper with the same effect I want my top secrete file to have. It was also no doubt written using a type writer.

The only other building of notable interest was the laboratory. It looks like an above ground bunker. With thick concrete walls and rusting steel gates, this was by far the coolest building and my favourite I explored. One of the things I found really amazing about it was the greenery growing in the main room. It really hammered home the point that this has been abandoned for nearly 70 years. The other part I loved about the laboratory was the long ominous hallway. I think this holds so much atmosphere and horror potential.

For my key lore explanation, photos of the government facility is something I thought would be cool. I'm presenting my work as if its been documented by an explorer and he has taken photos of the facility as well as secrete documents. I think it would be a good idea to use some of the images I took at Orford Ness and include them as if they are from the underground government bunker in my project. I'll have to make them back and white first so they fit in with the theme.

[elizabethkiem]

in the London Library

Alphabetisation is your friend.

it is the friend who, sensing you tire of Timothy Morton and are plagued still by a short story set in Hinchingbrook Park, recommends you go in search of your last successful local introduction -- Victor Serge, alongside of whom sits: Gemma Seltzer (to finally tell the ventriloquist dummy story you have been waiting for ever since that ride home from Deptford) and Ponsonberry Senior (if you recall correctly) whose "Diary of Mrs. Pepys" certainly relieves you of the burden of some sort of serialized Samuel, for it (the fictionalised diary of Elizabeth Pepys, a wondrous character) is the best enjoyment you will receive as a legacy of that annual celebration of 'his' stone-day. And atop the Diary sits "She Married Pushkin," so you take her out for a smoke, since she (not the titular she, but the long-lost Goncharoff she plagued by the need to finish her own serialised life of the long gone) reckons Natalia should have as much of a say as Elizabeth. And though Natalia had the more glamorous oaf, Elizabeth gets all the good lines.

You don't know all that immediately but you will, once you cast off Seltzer and Serge and, waylaid by "Ness", which grabbed you just as you were leaving and, truth be told, does sweep you off your feet for the rest of the dance because for a 40 minutes you really don't need anything else but McFarlane on Orford (not Loch).

But Elizabeth Pepys and Natalia Pushkina have been great mates over this 'arctic' (let's face it, it doesnt mean what it used to mean) December.

As kindred spirits as alphabetisation itself.

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Doreen Carwithen (1922-2003)

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[thisisengland]

Orford Ness, Suffollk.

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