Englands Glory

[ST1]

I spotted this mural as we were leaving Bluff (25th February 2017) on the South Island of New Zealand. At the time I made the image I didn't know anything about the wreck depicted in the mural.

My thought at the time was "make the image, then sometime research the background of the vessel". Well here I am just over two months later, just getting round to processing the image and doing a bit of research.

Having now searched the internet the back story of "Englands Glory" makes interesting reading. Not to mention a memory of a brand of matches that my search brought back to me. The history was made more interesting to me as the vessel was built on the River Wear at Sunderland which is about forty miles North of my home.

For anyone who would like to know more of the fate of the vessel, this is one of the sources of information I found
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[Shadowman]

Nicely composed.

[IzzieK]

Very interesting find. That was one box of matches with that image that I discovered in my luggage after a quick trip. Now it makes me feel old and wrinkly knowing how long the matches have been in existence.

[Donald]

That's another aspect of our interest in photography - it can lead us down soi many other paths.

[Wavelength]

Liked this very much