The Elan Valley Pen y Garreg dam has this rather nice decorative tower on it. As you can see the vane is rather the worse for wear - the letter E has fallen off, and the N & W are drooping rather badly.
The Elan Valley Pen y Garreg dam has this rather nice decorative tower on it. As you can see the vane is rather the worse for wear - the letter E has fallen off, and the N & W are drooping rather badly.
Last edited by Analoguesat; 23-04-2009 at 06:14 PM.
Not read this thread for a while. There are certainly plenty of them. Well done everyone great images........I must get out a bit more. Looking forward to spotting some in Scotland in a couple of weeks
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The next one up the valley is the Craig Goch dam and its vane is in far nicer condition!
Nice ones again Ross.
Cheating slightly maybe, but this one is mine on my weather station on the side of the cottage!
Despite the angle Ive taken the pic, it does just about clear the roof line behind it - its not really high enough but I couldnt get it any higher safely.
Nice one Ross, well if I come up to Scotland later in the year, I'll drop by with my ladders.
Lol - Im going to get myself some ladders then one summers afternoon it will be moved over onto the cottage end wall instead of being on the old wash house wall.
I snapped this one on Monday at Hythe Marina, across from Southampton.
Afterwards I turned round to take the view from there!
Great Catherine, love the QM2 in the background.
Some really good shots . Well done Ross and Catherine
Here are a couple more form Topsham. That I have missed
Weather vanes
Saw these two at Guernsey
Particularly like the first one Joe, was that on a house or government building?
Well done Joe. Very nice
I am not sure Rolf but it looked official
Weather vane spotted from Ferry leaving Portsmouth
Great shot Rolf
Nelsons Flag ship
A gallion I think, Capture in a back garden on a shed
LOL, could be the new art form Beryl, shed vanes.
Here they have them on Gate posts . The last Warship one I took was o a concrete gate post.
Loads are on sheds in Exmouth too
Here are to on Sheds in Back gardens in Exmouth
Bellerophon on Pegasus and St. George and the dragon ( I think , I think)
Here are a few more vanes on entering Portsmouth on the Norman Spirit Ferry.
Some weather vanes in Middelburg, Zeeland, NL.
One pic shows the town square as well, while the last one shows old houses beside a canal, the far left one having a weather vane on top!
This one was on our friends' house. A bit more high tech. than most as Frans likes his 'toys'!
Last pic shows the monitor inside the lounge - sorry it's a bit fuzzy, but I guess you'll make things out!
The Herring Gulls amused me - seemed to be watching a tennis match!
Sorry, forgot to mention...
Love your shed ones, Beryl. Posh sheds in your area I think!
Rolf, trying to work out which masts belong to 'Victory' there..
That first Galleon one is amazing, but don't you think the golden one has lost its hull? The last one is similar to many on old, Georgian period houses in Middelburg, NL. I guess that was the standard weather vane pattern in those days!
Nice shots Catherine.
Thanks for your comment on mine
Those two lovelies were on expensive properties.(Other side of town)
Some crackers there Catherine, not sure about the masts, perhaps all of them.
This is the old Town Hall in Alston - a beautiful little market town hidden away in a remote corner of the North Pennines
Edit - found a pic of the front of the building
Last edited by Analoguesat; 03-06-2009 at 09:39 PM.
That's a nice one Ross, sounds like a nice place to visit as well.
And just across the road is the nice little church of St Augustines. Here we see the tower lit up by the glow of the setting evening sun
LOL, you just had to get a dish into the picture didn't you.
Alston & the surrounding area is really lovely. Ive been visiting for around 15 years now. Well recommended for a peaceful break.Originally Posted by rolf
That's a nice one Ross, sounds like a nice place to visit as well.
The surrounding moorland is great for all sorts of birds - we have seen black grouse on numerous occasions over the years. The best view we ever had was when I almost ran over one that was standing in the middle of the road!
Some nice pubs in the area too.
LOL, you just had to get a dish into the picture didn't you.
Thats a wifi link for the Alston CyberMoor project. It was on the news at the end of last week
Some aerial views of Alston - this is most of the town!
_http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/chp17.htm
Last one for now - spotted on a house in Teesdale not too far from High Force waterfall.
Got some funny looks from the locals screeching to a halt outside a farm, hopping out with the camera taking a couple of pics and heading off up the valley again
BTW Rolf you are most welcome to put any of my pics in the Wellencamp weather vane album if you want to.
The more people that enjoy them the better
Thanks Ross, probably just going to keep the Wellenkamp site for family stuff now, as we have the Gallery here, which we didn't when we started up.
Here's the Vane on the Hind's Head at Aldermaston village, Berkshire.
Ive spotted one on the council buildings down in Galashiels. Appears to be a fox and a plum tree - I'll tell you the relevance of the plum tree to local legend when I put the pics up!
Didn't see many weather vanes while we were in Scotland this one was taken at Ullapool................at 11.56
That's a beauty Babs.
Excllent . Well don Babs
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