Enchantress / Weymouth

Built in Canada in 1943 for the Royal Navy. Has a strengthened hull for working with cables and chains. Likely used to deploy barrage balloons as well as general transportation around Weymouth and Portland. Now serving as a pleasure boat along with another WW2 veteran My Girl [source: Coastline Cruises leaflet]. Weymouth Harbour, Dorset. 

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9 Custom House Quay / Weymouth

Grade II listed warehouse built C19. Until earlier this year occupied by Sharky's children's indoor activity centre, previously John Deheer's Warehouse and before that Hanney's Fish Warehouse. Weymouth, Dorset. 

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My Girl / Weymouth

Built 1931 by the Mitchell Brothers, Mevagissey. Requisitioned 1939 to carry personnel and supplies to the Portland forts. After WW2 this 13m launch reverted to a pleasure boat, ferrying passengers between Weymouth and Portland [source: Coastline Cruises leaflet; National Register of Historic Ships]. Weymouth Harbour, Dorset.

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The Sailors Return / II

Harbourside public house, late C18 with mid-C19 exterior alterations, according to its Grade II listing. 1 St. Nicholas Street, Weymouth, Dorset, UK. 

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Lano's Tunnel / Tout Quarry

By Jonathan Lano, c.1862 (according to keystone engraving), using Portland stone. Originally for the quarry tramway, Grade II listed in 1993. Listing concludes: this is a well-built structure with some design pretension in an abandoned quarry area. Isle of Portland, Dorset. 

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Tout Quarry / 2 sculptures

'Hearth' / by Timothy Shutter

Fine carving c.1989 by Timothy Shutter (b.1954) at Tout Quarry. Funded by the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust. Damaged by person(s) unable to comprehend that this wasn't a real fireplace. Isle of Portland, Dorset.

'Still Falling' / by Antony Gormley

1983 carving by Antony Gormley in the disused Tout Quarry. Life size, feet are Roach Stone, body is Whit Bed, and the head is Base Bed. Isle of Portland, Dorset. 

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Coast Path / Tout Quarry

Isle of Portland, Dorset. 

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Chesil Beach / dusk

Vista at Chiswell, with the Cove House Inn in silhouette. Isle of Portland, Dorset. 

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Cove House Inn / Chiswell

Built early C19 and survivor of the 'Great Storm of 1824'. Made of large dressed Portland stone blocks with a slate roof. Grade II listed. The curving structure at front of image is a wave return wall. Chiswell, Isle of Portland, Dorset. 

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'Chiswell Earthworks' / by John Maine

Land sculpture by John Maine RA (b.1942), constructed 1986-93. The various walls comprise Slat and Topstone, Roach, Whitbed and Basebed. Maintained by the Chiswell Community Trust. Isle of Portland, Dorset. 

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Fortuneswell / from Chiswell

View including the tower of St John's church, built 1840 and Grade II listed as are numerous other buildings in the village. Naturally the predominant building material of 'Fortune's Well' is Portland stone. Isle of Portland, Dorset. 

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Pub Sign / 'The Cutter'

East St, Weymouth, Dorset, DT4 8BP. 

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Groves Malthouse / Oriel window

Architect: C.R. Crickmay & Son, 1889, for Grove's Brewery, aka Malthouse Number 4. Now residential and Grade II* listed. In the Hope Square area of Weymouth, Dorset. 

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Pebble View / House Sign

Crafted house sign in Fortuneswell, Isle of Portland, Dorset.

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Coopers Cottage / Weymouth

Architect: C.R. Crickmay, 1861, originally part of a malthouse. Grade II listed, now residential. Weymouth, Dorset. 

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Barbican Estate / 3 pics

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 Seddon Highwalk

Shakespeare Tower / Balconies

Seddon House

Architects: Chamberlin, Powell, and Bon; engineers: Ove Arup & Partners, 1974. Brutalist residential terrace block on tall columns with pick-hammered concrete surfaces. Grade II listed. The spectacular Barbican Estate was designed by the practice that cut its teeth on the nearby Golden Lane Estate. City of London.

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Weymouth Bay / Dorset

The larger building with twin pinnacles is the Royal Hotel, built c.1897 in a Renaissance Revival style. The great majority of the Esplanade buildings are Georgian. Weymouth, Dorset.

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Lifeguard station / Weymouth

Weymouth central beach, Dorset.

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Town Bridge / Weymouth

Yachts returning to the marina berths while the town bridge is raised.  Bridge built 1930, made of steel with Portland stone abutments. Weymouth, Dorset.

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TS Pelican of London / Weymouth

Originally built 1948 by Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand, France, as an Arctic trawler. Now extensively remodelled as a barquentine sail training ship, and seen here in its latest home port of Weymouth, Dorset. 

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Old Rooms Inn / Weymouth

Grade II listed, parts late C16. In 1618 the home of Thomas Gear, and in the C18 used as assembly rooms (Delamotte's Public Rooms), according to listing. Weymouth, Dorset, UK. 

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Top Cat III / Weymouth

Charter boat built by Blyth Workcats Ltd. 11m cataraman hulls in GRP. Weymouth harbour, Dorset.

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Weymouth Pavilion / II

Architects: Samuel Beverley, Anthony Denny, 1960. Planning application for first floor extension with lift shaft, alterations to existing sun deck, replacement windows, external decorations & replacement roof covering (copper replaced by grey membrane) soon to be decided. The Esplanade, Weymouth, Dorset. 

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Nao Victoria / Weymouth

Replica of the first ship to circumnavigate the world in 1519-22, moored in Weymouth harbour. The Nao sails to Poole on the 15th May '17. Weymouth, Dorset. 

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Warehouse Theatre / Weymouth

Mid-C19 warehouse, now home to a theatre group. Limestone rubble and block, with brick arch over doors. Grade II listed. 7 Hope Street, Weymouth, Dorset.

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8-12 Hope St / Weymouth

Late Georgian terrace of 3-storey residences built of Flemish bond brick, now colour-washed. Listed Grade II. Rodwell, Weymouth, Dorset. 

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Shinjuku / night

Shinjuku district, Tokyo, Japan. 

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NTT DoCoMo Yoyogi Bldg / spire

Architects: Kajima Design, 2000, in a postmodern style. 272m high (inc. antenna) offices and data centre. The distinctive stepped spire had a clock face added in 2002. Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan. 

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Shinjuku NS Building / skylight

Architects: Nikken Sekkei Ltd., 1982. Thirty-storey high-rise has an atrium running the whole height of the building, naturally lit via this glazed space-frame roof. 2-4-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan. 

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Tokyo Opera City / Tower

Architect: Takahiko Yanagisawa, TAK Architects Inc., 1996. Height 234m / 768ft, 54 floors, New National Theatre at base. 3-20-2 Nishi Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.

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Shinjuku Mitsui Bldg / 2 pics

Architects: Nihon Sekkei Inc, 1974, in the International style. At 55 storeys this was, when completed, the tallest building in Japan. 2-1-1 Nishi Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. 

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Shinjuku Sumitomo Building / Tokyo

Architects: Nikken Sekkei Ltd., 1974.  >200m high office building at 2-6-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. 

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Shinjuku Washington Hotel / Tokyo

Architects: Sakakura Associates, 1983. Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. 

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Stained Glass / The Water Carrier

Window detail in the Hakone Glass Museum, Hakone-machi, Ashigarashimo-gun, Kanagawa, Japan. 

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Hakone Glass Museum / 2 pics

Crystal Bridge

Watermill

In the gardens of Hakone Glass-no-mori, Hakone-machi, Ashigarashimo-gun, Kanagawa, Japan. 

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Hakone Shrine / Torii

At the foot of Mount Hakone along the shores of Lake Ashi. Kanagawa, Japan. 

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Victory Replica / Lake Ashi

Life-size replica of Nelson's HMS Victory. One of several ships which carry visitors across Lake Ashi (created in the crater of the Hakone Volcano). Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan. 

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Fuji-san / from Shinkansen

Mount Fuji from the Shinkansen Hikari (bullet train), travelling from Kyoto to Tokyo on the Tokaido route.

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Bridge / Tenryu-ji Precincts

At Arashiyama, Ukyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan. 

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Buddhist Statue / Arashiyama

Statue in the garden of temple at Sagatenryuji Susukinobaba-cho, 62. Temple possibly called Saisonin, but no rōmaji was displayed so not sure. Arashiyama, Kyoto, Japan. 

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Togetsukyō Bridge Vista / Arashiyama

View of the Katsura River from the west side of the 'Moon Crossing Bridge'. Arashiyama (lit. Storm Mountain) is a nationally designated Historic Site and Place of Scenic Beauty. Saga, Ukyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan. 

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