The Pigeon House photographed late evening on 12 March 2016. 

This was built in 1910 for Lord Leverhulme as part of his vast ornamental gardens on the side of Rivington Pike. 

It is built in gritstone and is four storeys high each storey having a single room accessed by a semicircular stair turret on the West side. 

The lowest level is the entrance which is cut into the hillside, the first and second floors were dovecote's each having light chamfered mullion windows and dove holes in the external wall with landing places for the birds.  

The third floor was designed as a sitting room and has windows on the North & South sides, it is said that Lady Leverhulme used this floor as a sewing room. 

The tower fell into disrepair in the 1970's but was repaired in the 1980's.

I took this picture from the Red Funnel ferry on our way to the Isle of Wight for a weeks holiday on 4 April 2015.

Ships berthed are Hanne Knutsen, Frank, Philipp Essberger and Houyoshi Express II.

My ship list is struggling in 2016 as I have not been able to get to Liverpool.

I have however seen a couple of vessels whilst on overnight business trips to London and this week at Eccles whilst crossing the bridge across the Manchester Shop Canal I saw the General Cargo ship Nestor (IMO 9390123, 2008) being loaded with scrap metal.

Saga cruises started operations in 1996.

They are part of the much larger Saga PLC group which was founded by Sidney De Haan in 1959.

Photograph was of the Saga Sapphire (IMO 7822457, GT 37012, 1981) taken 5 April 2015 as she sailed past me in East Cowes before heading out of the Solent on the start of a cruise.

Detroit Bridge photographed on 13 April 2016. I visited the bridge on a bright and sunny lunchtime from one of our offices a short walk away.

The bridge used to be a twin-track railway bridge, one of a number of swing bridges spanning across the Manchester Ship Canal. It was built in 1942 and replaced a single-track rail swing bridge built in 1895.

The bridge weighs approximately 300 tonnes and was built by Dorman Long. It is 80m long, 9m wide and over 10m high above deck level.

With the decline of dock industry in Salford, the bridge became redundant in 1981. It was refurbished in 1988 and floated to its current location to start a new life as a pedestrian bridge across one of the docks. The refurbishment included installation of a hardwood timber deck for use by pedestrians together with the removal of all the mechanical equipment.

The bridge was refurbished again in 2005 at a cost of £500,000. The decking was replaced with non-slip GRP planks and the bridge was repainted.

An interesting feature is the addition of an observation deck below its redundant pivot in the middle of the canal basin, this is accessed by curved staircases on both sides.

Ostensjo Rederi are based in Haugesund, Norway and have been operating since 1973.

They operate both tug and offshore services including ROV Survey, cable laying, trenching, heavy lift, module handling and removal operations.

Ship photographed was the Lomax (IMO 96578322, GT 426, 2012) at Fawley on 4 April 2015.

I saw this painting in a pub on the Isle of Wight in October 2015. The painting was on three pieces of hardwood board that had been fastened together to form a rough canvas. Over the last 164 years the boards have moved / shrunk splitting the picture into three.

A railway bridge near Cleckheaton in Yorkshire photographed on a cold and damp 17 February 2016.

On the evening of 22 June 1928 seven coal waggons plunged off this bridge into the street.

A coal train was being shunted into sidings to make way for the London express when a coupling broke and the waggons ran away. They crashed through the  buffers and landed on the butchers shop that once stood here totally destroying it. Miraculously no one was hurt or injured.

This bridge originally carried the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway over Westgate and connected Low Moor with Dewsbury when it opened in 1848.The line closed to passenger traffic in 1965 and to goods traffic in 1981.