In 1967 I started working on the Severn Wye Cable Tunnel, machine tunneling started from behind the service station at Aust and made it's way under the Severn Bridge to Beachley. A second tunneling machine had started on the Wye section to New House in Wales. The rock proved too hard for the machines and so drill and blast commenced from New House and Beachley to keep on target. I joined a group of water skiers who used the old Aust ferry slip way beside the bridge to launch our boats and would ski at high tides. All great fun and we even skied on Boxing day, the landlord of The Ferry Boat Inn supplied us with warming coffees and large brandies afterwards.
I remember using that ferry quite often. I initially thought that the Morris Minor shown was mine, but it wasn't. The ferry was not exactly the most modern of vessels but it saved a long journey via Gloucester.
Beautiful, wonderful, these old statues that I, as a Dutchman, could not have known about, I drove for years in England with flowers and plants and later frozen ones, both via the tunnel hundreds of times and also from Dunkirk to Dover, I have also been able to drive on that Severn bridge many times. . Indeed England has changed a lot, a little too much crime, especially around Leeds, Manchester, etc., but elsewhere you were warned not to spend the night there with your truck and then you were guided to an area that was surrounded by a fence of up to 4 meters high, really bizarre!! It doesn't cost the people anything to prevent further crin=minality and don't blame them!!! In time I would like to go south to England again with a caravan as I have been retired for years, thanks for the images, chapeau!! Greetings from the Netherlands!!
In 1967 I started working on the Severn Wye Cable Tunnel, machine tunneling started from behind the service station at Aust and made it's way under the Severn Bridge to Beachley. A second tunneling machine had started on the Wye section to New House in Wales. The rock proved too hard for the machines and so drill and blast commenced from New House and Beachley to keep on target.
I joined a group of water skiers who used the old Aust ferry slip way beside the bridge to launch our boats and would ski at high tides. All great fun and we even skied on Boxing day, the landlord of The Ferry Boat Inn supplied us with warming coffees and large brandies afterwards.
I remember using that ferry quite often. I initially thought that the Morris Minor shown was mine, but it wasn't. The ferry was not exactly the most modern of vessels but it saved a long journey via Gloucester.
What a Shame it was not your car Keith. Thanks for Comments. More Pics soon.
Love them, thanks.
Thank You. Some more soon.
Beautiful, wonderful, these old statues that I, as a Dutchman, could not have known about, I drove for years in England with flowers and plants and later frozen ones, both via the tunnel hundreds of times and also from Dunkirk to Dover, I have also been able to drive on that Severn bridge many times. .
Indeed England has changed a lot, a little too much crime, especially around Leeds, Manchester, etc., but elsewhere you were warned not to spend the night there with your truck and then you were guided to an area that was surrounded by a fence of up to 4 meters high, really bizarre!!
It doesn't cost the people anything to prevent further crin=minality and don't blame them!!!
In time I would like to go south to England again with a caravan as I have been retired for years, thanks for the images, chapeau!!
Greetings from the Netherlands!!
Thank You Bob for those kind Comments. So pleased you enjoyed Pics. Some more soon. Dave
@@pickofthepics2067 You're welcome
England was another world back then.A much nicer place.
I absolutely agree.
When it was safe to walk the streets of our cities . Vote Reform UK 🇬🇧