MV Minerva Cruise Ship passing in front of Dover Castle, Inner Harbour, Kent, UK

The MV Minerva photographed from the Turret on the Admiralty Pier of the Western Docks at 4.02 pm on Wednesday, 28th July, 2010:


(Click this MS Minerva cruise ship text link to see the largest size)

MS Minerva & Castle (1)

The MS Minerva had previously been berthed at Cruise Terminal 1 on the Admiralty Pier (out-of-shot to the left). The passenger ship has completed the 180 degree turn shown half-a-minute earlier in the MS Minerva & Dover Castle (1) photo and is now heading for the Western Entrance of Dover Harbour and the English Channel beyond.

The Minerva had arrived from Copenhagen (Denmark) earlier in the day at the end of a 15-night, "Treasures of the Baltic" cruise and is leaving port at the start of a 15-night, "Sagas of Fire & Ice" cruise.

Itinerary (schedule): Kirkwall (Orkney Islands, Scotland), Lerwick (Shetland Islands, Scotland), Helmaey (Vestmannaeyjar Islands, Iceland), Reykjavik (Iceland), Grundarfjordur (Grundarfjörður, Iceland), Isafjordur (Ísafjörður, Iceland), Akureyri (Iceland), Thorshavn (Torshavn, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, Denmark), and Edinburgh (Scotland).

A video from Swan Hellenic featuring the MV Minerva:

Saxon Church and Roman Pharos on Harold's Earthwork, Dover Castle, Kent, UK

The East Roman Pharos (on the right: a lighthouse and watchtower) and Saxon church of St Mary-in-Castro sit in a shallow depression on top of a huge horseshoe-shaped mound called "Harold's Earthwork":


(Click this St Mary-in-Castro and Pharos text link to see the largest size)

The rampart is rimmed by a the ruins of a low parapet wall, visible either side of the buildings, that was once connected to the composite Norman and Saxon Colton Gate (behind the viewer; alt. Colton Gateway, Colton Tower).

Harold's Earthwork was raised by Henry III (Henry of Winchester, Plantagenet) and lies south of Henry II's Keep, or "Great Tower", out-of-shot to the left (1).

The photo was taken at 5.31 pm on Sunday, 26th of June, 2011.

Click to see all photos of the Pharos and St Mary-in-Castro; also see all Dover Lighthouse and Church photos.

Dover Castle is a Grade I Dover Listed Building and Dover English Heritage site; the Pharos and St Mary-in-Castro have separate Grade I listings.

The following notes are divided into three sections - Pharos and Church, Pharos, Church:

Dover Castle's 12th Century Norman Keep at Dusk, Kent, UK

A view of Dover Castle's Norman Keep, or Great Tower (night view), taken at dusk on May 23rd, 2007:



Below the Keep are the massive walls of the Inner Bailey, or Inner Curtain Wall.

Above the left-hand side of the Inner Bailey is the square tower of the Saxon St Mary-in-Castro church.

Below the Inner Bailey is the dark embankment of "The Spur" with its Ravelin (Redan).

The road leading to the Bleriot Memorial is on the left.

Note the World War II anti-tank defences known as "Dragon's Teeth" near the signposts at bottom-left.

More information can be found on this photo's original webpage at:

The Norman Keep of Dover Castle at Dusk (UK-1)

A Dover Norman and Second World War history photo.

All castle photos are indexed with Castles and Dover Castle category labels.

This designated ancient monument is one of the town's Listed Buildings and English Heritage sites.

Clickable thumbnails of all Dover Castle-related photos on the main Panoramio Images of Dover website are available on this blog at: Dover Castle (also linked to below the blog title at the top of the page).

The Panoramio photos are each accompanied by a Google Earth satellite map. However, the images are smaller than those on the Images of Dover Blog and the captions are less well formatted.

John Latter / Jorolat

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