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Ruggedly and individually riding to Aldeburgh


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I haven't been here since my son was small. All I recall is that the fish and chip shop was famous for its quality and we had been told to try it if we ever went there. Unfortunately the rest of East Anglia also wanted some. The queue was hundreds of yards long, it actually crossed side streets. Once we had queued for 45 minutes, I was all for giving up, but my other half insisted that we keep going. Eventually we got inside and bought our fish and chips. I'll give them their due, they had customers stretching to the next county but they had not put their prices up or taken on extra staff, they just got on with it like they were unpopular.

Once we had our hard won food we walked through the alley to the beach to eat them. That was when I discovered that people would come up to you and offer to buy them off you for double the normal cost rather then join the queue. I refused a few offers and scoffed the lot.

 

 

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The Moot Hall. If you absolutely need to have a moot, then this is the place to have one. You can moot away and no one will think badly of you, as long as you clean up after yourself.

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Model boating lake according to the map and looks like one man is about to have a go. He'd be better of just having a moot instead.

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NOW, this is a benchmark on one end of the Moot Hall. Used when measuring levels/surveying. The Ordnance Survey used to place them on public buildings, bridges, retaining walls, police stations, anywhere they thought was unlikely to change. I put a 50p in it for some of the pictures, that is how we used to use them.

You extend your measuring staff and place the foot of it on the sticking out coin. The height of the bench mark will be shown on the large scale OS plan, or you can get it from a reference book. Your telescope is set up on a tripod somewhere close by and it is carefully levelled using the two bubbles and two adjusters. Because it is level now, wherever you look the cross hairs will point at stuff at the same height above sea level. By reading the number on the measuring staff and adding it to the benchmark height you get the height of your telescope.

Now where ever you put the staff on the ground, you look through the telescope and read the measurement where the cross hairs are, to the nearest millimetre. Subtract the height of the telescope from the reading on the staff and you have the ground level.

The last picture is a sign in a built in seat at the other end of the Moot Hall.

 

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Nice shots Yen......but how can you be Ruggedly and Individually riding if......

10 minutes ago, yen_powell said:

my other half insisted that we keep going.

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I took a picture of a front door just off the beach because I noticed they were ready for a flood. The Martello tower was surprise, I never saw that last time I was there.

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8 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Nice shots Yen......but how can you be Ruggedly and Individually riding if......

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That was about 25 years ago not today. I had sandwiches today, I learnt my lesson.

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Great photos @yen_powell  , that looks like a great place to visit.  I have an aversion to anything near Ipswich as I used to do a trunk run there from Avonmouth.  There was always a bloody hold up (traffic)  on that run and that was over 35 years ago.

Perhaps I need to investigate that coast at some time as you always find great places to visit over there 👍

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53 minutes ago, Pedro said:

 

Thanks for the explanation too, I always wondered how they measured levels with those tripods and telescopes

It's outdated now, they have devices that pick up a point, tell you how high it is and you code it so it can be converted into an AutoCAD drawing, the measuring staff is replaced by a stick with a prism on top.

I still use the old fashioned method myself on small jobs if required. All I need is a 'boy' with a bit of sense to hold the measuring staff vertically in the right place. You'd be amazed at how difficult some youngsters find that. They slouch, or lean in a particular direction or start looking at their phone instead of paying attention. I pay outside companies to do the big surveys now. We had our own in house bloke, but he either never had anyone to help him (minimum 2 man job), his batteries would pack up, or he wouldn't go out in the rain. He now works for me as a CAD draughtsman instead until he retires.

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1 hour ago, yen_powell said:

It's outdated now, they have devices that pick up a point, tell you how high it is and you code it so it can be converted into an AutoCAD drawing, the measuring staff is replaced by a stick with a prism on top.

I still use the old fashioned method myself on small jobs if required. All I need is a 'boy' with a bit of sense to hold the measuring staff vertically in the right place. You'd be amazed at how difficult some youngsters find that. They slouch, or lean in a particular direction or start looking at their phone instead of paying attention. I pay outside companies to do the big surveys now. We had our own in house bloke, but he either never had anyone to help him (minimum 2 man job), his batteries would pack up, or he wouldn't go out in the rain. He now works for me as a CAD draughtsman instead until he retires.

The mechanical companies i work with are using some kind of laser scanner to measure rooms for new equipment to be manufactured and installed, it produces a mm perfect 3D drawing of the room but I've yet to see anything they have produced off site fit without adding or taking something away :classic_laugh: I think the traditional draughtsman's days are numbered.

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30 minutes ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

The mechanical companies i work with are using some kind of laser scanner to measure rooms for new equipment to be manufactured and installed, it produces a mm perfect 3D drawing of the room but I've yet to see anything they have produced off site fit without adding or taking something away :classic_laugh: I think the traditional draughtsman's days are numbered.

I was asked to do a 3D drawing of a street a few years ago by the woman in charge of us at the time. I reminded her that although she promised to refund me my money if I paid for it and did a course in my own time back in 2004, she had gone back on her word when I asked for the repayment. I said seeing as I had paid for the course and done it in my own time she would have to pay me as a consultant if she wanted it done. She changed her mind.

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2 hours ago, yen_powell said:

All I need is a 'boy' with a bit of sense to hold the measuring staff vertically in the right place.

I think that's how it's done here, as I frequently spot a guy with a telescope on a tripod and another holding a staff in the distance. 

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great pics yen.  was that Snape maltings you visited?  that burnt down in the autumn of '87 (?)  i know this because i was working as a volonteer bosun fro the Ocean Youth Club refitting one of their yachts in Fox's marina Ipswich. We used to sail a lot with the essex county fire brigade an their head honcho at the time, Roger Paramour, was a regular relief skipper on the boat.  That night we were all sleeping on the boat in the yard, Roger Paramour, "Smudger" Smith ( essex fire brigade no3 man and breathing apparatus specialist) and about 8 other firemen.  around 2 in the morning their bloody beepers started going off all over the place, they leapt out of their bunks, forgetting that we'd removed all the sole boards to re varnish them.... it took them a good 10 minutes to extricate everybody from the bilges... 😂

 when Roger's pager ( remember them?) went off,  smudger said it must be a big one cos they only do that when all the pumps in the area are out. I found out a couple of days later that it was Snape Maltings that went  up. 

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13 minutes ago, MooN said:

great pics yen.  was that Snape maltings you visited?  that burnt down in the autumn of '87 (?)  i know this because i was working as a volonteer bosun fro the Ocean Youth Club refitting one of their yachts in Fox's marina Ipswich. We used to sail a lot with the essex county fire brigade an their head honcho at the time, Roger Paramour, was a regular relief skipper on the boat.  That night we were all sleeping on the boat in the yard, Roger Paramour, "Smudger" Smith ( essex fire brigade no3 man and breathing apparatus specialist) and about 8 other firemen.  around 2 in the morning their bloody beepers started going off all over the place, they leapt out of their bunks, forgetting that we'd removed all the sole boards to re varnish them.... it took them a good 10 minutes to extricate everybody from the bilges... 😂

 when Roger's pager ( remember them?) went off,  smudger said it must be a big one cos they only do that when all the pumps in the area are out. I found out a couple of days later that it was Snape Maltings that went  up. 

It was Snape Maltings yes, I stopped to put a jumper on, the temperature had dropped suddenly.

I'm going to google what a sole board is now.

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6 minutes ago, yen_powell said:

It was Snape Maltings yes, I stopped to put a jumper on, the temperature had dropped suddenly.

I'm going to google what a sole board is now.

sorry, moveable floorboard in a boat. A floor in a boat is something else entirely. 

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7 hours ago, Pedro said:

Still waiting for a nice ride report from you, show Yen how it's done!

Yen knows how it’s done , so I shan’t be doing what you are asking ,…

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