Rothesay Inner Harbour

Booby Trapper · Post by **Booby Trapper** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:08 pm

Took this pic Today.
Looks like it will be some time before completion.

claymore · Post by **claymore** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:26 pm

That lovely JCB which must have cost thousands and the blasted driver can't be bothered to wipe his feet before he gets back into the cab.

Post by **Silkie** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:47 pm

I'm wondering if they've got the plans upside down.

sahona · Post by **sahona** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:36 pm

Seems to be going backwards - the project, not the digger

Arghiro · Post by **Arghiro** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:32 pm

Yikes, what a mess! I take it that's the little formal garden area in front of Lena Zaferelli's chip shop?

WTF are they doing to the place? I hope they haven't damaged the Victorian Gent's. Used to keep Arghiro against the central jetty bit of the harbour. First task on getting aboard was to fill a bin liner with all the cans, fag packets & chip papers chucked into the cockpit by the Glasgae trippers.

aquaplane · Post by **aquaplane** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:59 pm

I've never been to Rothsay, inner or outer harbours, the Admiral always warned me off, somat about wash from ferries.

3 questions:

Is the JCB below sea level?

Can Rothsay harbour be spoilt?

Have they managed to do it?

Booby Trapper · Post by **Booby Trapper** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:25 am

aquaplane wrote:I've never been to Rothsay, inner or outer harbours, the Admiral always warned me off, somat about wash from ferries.

3 questions:

Is the JCB below sea level?

Can Rothsay harbour be spoilt?

Have they managed to do it?

Yes. better seen from this angle. note the bollards

No it could only be improved

Question 3 not applicable.

Rowana · Post by **Rowana** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:27 pm

I've sort of lost my bearings a bit since it's at least a couple of years since I've been there.

Is this the bit that used to have the pontoons in it that you approached to the left end of the peir?

If it is, it's about time something was done with it!

Olivepage · Post by **Olivepage** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:27 pm

Interesting pictures, but

I'm sure I'm missing something.

I've never been there

Maybe its just my old fashioned notions

But if thats a harbour, should'nt there be some water involved in it somewhere.

Sorry if I'm missing the obvious.

cpedw · Post by **cpedw** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:42 pm

According to PBO which arrived today "Work is running more than a year behind schedule ... it will now not be finished before September."
Best leave it until 2009.

Derek

Arghiro · Post by **Arghiro** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:38 pm

Ahhh, I see it all now. I presume the stonking great ramp is how they get their toys down there.

I presume they have piled sheet steel across the entrance to keep the Oggin out. Used to be a lovely spot, very 1950's right to the end of the century.

Arghiro · Post by **Arghiro** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:38 pm

Ahhh, I see it all now. I presume the stonking great ramp is how they get their toys down there.

I presume they have piled sheet steel across the entrance to keep the Oggin out. Used to be a lovely spot, very 1950's right to the end of the century.

Post by **DaveS** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:49 am

Is there an echo in here?

In here?

T25 · Post by **T25** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:07 am

And there was me being a gent and not saying anything

Telo · Post by **Telo** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:34 am

T25 wrote:And there was me being a gent and not saying anything

Ah, so, perhaps, you have visited the errmm gents' on the pier; a rather fine example of Victorian (or poss Edwardian) alignment with cleanliness and devotion to idealism in the realm of the the lavvy. Well worth a visit imho.

BLUEMOMENT

Rothesay Inner Harbour

Rothesay Inner Harbour

That really hacks me off