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Segedunum Roman Fort and Museum, Wallsend, near Newcastle, northeast England

Monday, 26 June 2022

Looking from inside the 35-metre-high viewing tower at Segedunum Roman Fort and Museum. The tower provides views of the excavated remains of Segedunum, which was a Roman fort at the easternmost end of Hadrian's Wall, located close to the River Tyne at Wallsend. The fort was in use for approximately 300 years from about 122 AD up to around 400AD.
Looking from inside the 35-metre-high viewing tower at Segedunum Roman Fort and Museum. The tower provides views of the excavated remains of Segedunum, which was a Roman fort at the easternmost end of Hadrian’s Wall, located close to the River Tyne at Wallsend, near Newcastle upon Tyne. The fort was in use for approximately 300 years from about 122 AD up to around 400AD.

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Head of Steam Railway Museum, Darlington, northeast England, June 2022

The Head of Steam Railway Museum was established in 1975, on the route of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which was the world’s first steam-powered passenger railway. It is located in Darlington, County Durham, England.

Sunday, 26th June 2022.

The front of a steam locomotive at the Head of Steam railway museum. An adjoining platform can be seen opposite along with a historic wooden footbridge linking the platforms. The museum is situated inside the original station building belonging to North Road railway station in Darlington. This building opened in 1842 and is today Grade II* listed. This site was originally Darlington's main railway station. Today a functioning Network Rail station still operates next to the museum.
The front of a steam locomotive at the Head of Steam railway museum. An adjoining platform can be seen opposite along with a historic wooden footbridge linking the platforms.

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Scarborough Castle, England, June 2022

Scarborough Castle is located in the town of Scarborough in North Yorkshire, England. This former medieval Royal fortress sits on a promontory overlooking the town and the North Sea. The present stone castle dates from the 1150s. There was an earlier wooden castle, and going back in time before this, an Anglo-Scandinavian settlement, a Roman signal station and an Iron Age settlement. Today the site is a scheduled monument open to the public and managed by English Heritage.

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Exeter, Devon, England, June 2022

Sunday, 12th June 2022.

Exeter's City Wall with a plaque attached. The plaque reads 'Built by the Romans about 200 AD, since repaired by others. Much of the City Wall still stands, some of it of original Roman workmanship'. Exeter was once a Roman city known as Isca Dumnoniorum. The Roman's took over the settlement from Celtic tribes and Isca seems to have been the local name for the Exe River and the Dumnonii were the tribe then inhabiting what is now Devon and Cornwall.
Exeter’s City Wall with a plaque attached. The plaque reads ‘Built by the Romans about 200 AD, since repaired by others. Much of the City Wall still stands, some of it of original Roman workmanship’. Exeter was once a Roman city known as Isca Dumnoniorum. The Roman’s took over the settlement from Celtic tribes and Isca seems to have been the local name for the Exe River and the Dumnonii were the tribe then inhabiting what is now Devon and Cornwall.

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Birmingham and Coventry, England, June 2022

Birmingham

Birmingham is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.14 million in the city proper and 4.3 million for the wider metropolitan area. Birmingham is often considered to be the social, cultural, financial and commercial centre of the Midlands. Unusually the city has no large river running through it with only the small River Tame and its tributaries flowing close to the centre. The city grew in the 18th century during the Midlands Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution and became known as “the first manufacturing town in the world”.

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