The
Morrison's Regional Distribution Centre at Bridgwater is huge - 767,500
square feet to be precise - and employs some 1,400 staff
The muddy banks of the River Parrett near
Cannington
The village of Combwich
The autumn leaves in Crayford, Greater
London
Cattle grazing on the Dartford Marshes
with the local sewerage plant in the background
Rose Hips at Crayford Ness
The MV Asperity was built during 1997 and
is an oil products tanker. It is seen here on the Thames near
Crayford Ness
The Opaline, a roll-on, roll-off cargo
vessel, moored at Tilbury Docks
The Queen Elizabeth Bridge near Dartford
is the second longest cable-stayed bridge in the UK (the Severn Bridge
is 6 metres longer) and is the easternmost crossing point of the
Thames. When it opened in 1991 it was only the second bridge east
of London Bridge to be built in over 1,000 years (tunnels being
favoured as they did not restrict the height of ships entering the Port
of London). Even at 57.5 metres clearance from the river, the
bridge is now not high enough to allow the largest of the new classes
of cruise liner to pass under it
The QEII Bridge from Greenhithe
Another
day, another pylon. This
time the massive structure of the 400 kV Thames Crossing at
Swanscombe. At 190 metres (taller than the BT Tower), these are
the tallest electricity pylons in Britain and span some 1,372 metres
across
the River Thames
The
expression "nothing new under the sun" has Biblical roots
(Ecclesiastes) but has passed into general, secular use. It seems
apt here as this structure, which dates from 1924, was an early attempt
at extracting oil from the shale beds of the North Somerset
coast. The project, at Kilve, was eventually abandoned on cost
grounds
