We Have Some Sunshine!!..........

............but looking around, it may not last!!
This is the Norfolk Naval Pillar or Nelson Memorial in Great Yarmouth. Opened in 1819, and built by a grateful county and would have rivalled the later pillar in Trafalgar Square had extra cost of piling the foundations in the soft sand not led to a reduction in height. The column is surmounted by Britannia who looks off to the west-northwest in the direction of Nelson's birthplace at Burnham Thorpe. The column stands as a seamark and was to have been topped by a gallery/balcony but Yarmouth Borough Council paid for the statue instead. Once she stood in the centre of an open links which was used as a racecourse for a few days each year. Today it is an area of empty factories and small workshops and offices but is still most impressive. There is a stairway to the top - over 200 steps - and only two people at a time, it is so narrow! Not for me, I'm claustrophobic!!

The weekend is nearly upon us again - hope you have a good one.

Last years Blip was of Rosehips
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