The 2009 VICTORIAN EXTRAVAGANZA
Saturday 2 May - Monday 4 May 2009The saturday parade (part 3)
Photographs © 2009 by Noel
Walley
Take me to your leader - where did they come from?
Oh good! That's better! - Dawson's famous Foster Showman's Engines
Foden steam road tractor
Before you go please read, and see leftIn the middle of photographing Saturday's
parade
an interesting pamphlet was given to me. It is a memorial sonnet
recalling the sad loss at sea, off the coast of Anglesey, in
1859 of the "Royal Charter" a 2719 ton steel built steam
clipper of 1851 en-route from Australia to Liverpool with about
371 passengers (but designed to carry 600 passengers) and 112
crew on board.
As
I photographed her
presence
in the Extravaganza Parade,
Miss Charlotte Peters Rock,
a one woman crusade,
charmingly bore down upon me
and thrust into my sticky hand a sonnet grand
- recalling that great loss of yesteryear.
CLICK - THE ROYAL CHARTER
in the Extravaganza Parade,
Miss Charlotte Peters Rock,
a one woman crusade,
charmingly bore down upon me
and thrust into my sticky hand a sonnet grand
- recalling that great loss of yesteryear.
CLICK - THE ROYAL CHARTER
Compilation and photographs © 2009 Noel Walley Last updated May 2009
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