A 1900 Year Old Fort And A Ghost Pick Pocket

untitled_9036.jpg

It feels like my blog is becoming more and more history orientated, although I'm not a historian, I do like to let my imagination run wild with the history of England.

In this post I visited Chester's Fort, part of Hadrian's Wall, built 1900 years or so ago, I'm always interested in Roman Britain, I just wish that some of the buildings were more intact than they are, but beggars can't be choosers (as they say).

untitled_9034.jpg

One of the reasons we decided to visit the fort on the way home was due to some roadworks around the Newcastle area, it caused a bit of delay when we headed up, so we thought we'd go cross country and get on the A1 much lower down, bypassing the hold ups around Newcastle.

The fort sits on the North Tyne River and is now an idyllic location. The river is lovely and clear, there was once an old Roman bridge that spanned the river here, sadly no longer.

b9e0cdc7_51df_4505_b42d_77dc2aa4e61a.jpg
(Part of the bath house and changing rooms)

The Romans had a 300 year reign in Britain, Hadrian visited in 122AD and ordered the building of Hadrian's Wall, this was to keep the Scottish out as the Roman's thought the Scottish were Barbarians.

untitled_9006.jpg

The wall was 80 miles from coast to coast, with forts on parts of it as well as river crossings etc.

untitled_9008.jpg

It's such a great place to visit, especially with the Grade 2 listed museum, full of artefacts that have been found during the excavation of the wall.

untitled_9021.jpg

untitled_9022.jpg

Wondering around is great, although there's only really the foundations left, and it made me think as to how small the door ways were, obviously people were also much smaller back then, we would probably be considered giants.

untitled_9024.jpg

The English Heritage staff are absolutely fantastic, sadly I didn't get the mans name, but he gave me lots of insights into the history of the fort and how to get on the river etc.

untitled_9027.jpg

untitled_9046.jpg

I had to be quick with the camera as a couple of coaches full of American tourists stopped at the fort, and didn't want to get that many people on my shots. Although avoiding people in the shots was hard to do anyways due to the amount of visitors the fort gets.

untitled_9047.jpg

untitled_9005.jpg

There is a lot more here than meets the eye, as you wonder around, you think you have seen everything, until you notice little paths snaking off in all directions, these paths lead to other parts of the fort, I can only imagine how big it actually was when it was built.

If you have notice, I have done a couple of shots with me in them, I did use my 360 camera on some of these, I really do love the effect, especially the little planets that you can create.

I'm sure this fort must be haunted, I had my camera stuff on me all the way around, kept my lens cap in my back pocket as I usually do, anyhow, as I was packing my stuff up, my lens cap had vanished, even though I'd not taken it out of the pocket, I'd like to believe it was a pick pocket ghost, but as normal thinking comes in to mind, I'll have lost it, my memory isn't what it used to be now days lol.

If my geography Hadrians Wall also runs near Sycamore Gap, a place I yearn to photograph with the milkyway in shot too, I'm just waiting for the right time etc.

A big thank you if you have made it this far down the page, all shots done using a Sony A7iii and a Ricoh Theta S (an oldy) 360 camera.

I hope you've enjoyed this post.

All the best :-)

Sort:  



Hi @darrenflinders, Thank you for participating in the #teamuk curated tag. We have upvoted your quality content. For more information visit our discord https://discord.gg/8CVx2Am

I love Hadrians wall, and Chester's Fort is fantastic. The workmanship and capability they had all those years ago is quite mind blowing. And the history along the wall is fantastic. We will actually be down there next week, so will probably be dropping into Chester's ! Great pics !
!LUV

Thanks ever so much, I know what you mean regarding the workmanship, everything was built to last back then, not like new builds now days where everything is built to a cost lol. Hope you have a great time matey, I certainly want to go back as soon as I can lol.

This is a very nice place to visit. Photography has a way of making you several things,.like a historian 🙂
Your shots are super clear & there's one picture that looks like the place was in the air or taken upside down...its very nice (The part of the bath house and changing rooms photo), can you make me understand how it is? Thanks so much.

Hi, thanks for your comments, the photo you mention was done using my 360 camera, it has two lenses which takes a panoramic shot, you can the process these to make them look like tiny planets, they are fun cameras and hope to get a better quality one in the near future. You can pick up a second hand Ricoh theta S pretty cheap on eBay. This is the one I’m using but it is old now, so do a bit of research before buying, check out the insta 360 2 camera, this is probably the next one I’m gonna get lol

Wow that's really nice. No wonder the photo looked like you were standing on another planet indeed. I'd really love love have one and I'll use your recommendations. Thank you so very much 🤗🙌

Manually curated by ackhoo from the @qurator Team. Keep up the good work!

Congratulations @darrenflinders! You have completed the following achievement on the Hive blockchain and have been rewarded with new badge(s):

You made more than 600 comments.
Your next target is to reach 700 comments.

You can view your badges on your board and compare yourself to others in the Ranking
If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word STOP

To support your work, I also upvoted your post!

Check out the last post from @hivebuzz:

Hive Power Up Month Challenge 2022-07 - Winners List
The 8th edition of the Hive Power Up Month starts today!
Hive Power Up Day - August 1st 2022
Support the HiveBuzz project. Vote for our proposal!