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Re: [OM] Ship of the Fens

Subject: Re: [OM] Ship of the Fens
From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 17:06:25 -0500
Nice group of images. The Ely Canal Port image is one of your best, beautiful composition and clouds.

Some well-off locals here have a home in Ely, Minnesota, on the Canadian border, and commute back and forth in their Beech KingAir 90. Though it is also on the water, it was named for a mining executive, not its namesake in England. I had to satisfy my curiosity about that.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 3/20/2017 3:36 PM, ChrisB wrote:
That’ll be it, Jim.  It’s a tiny site, with space for only 5 caravans.

Apparently there remain parts of the old monastery in the current house, but I 
didn’t see any remains.

Chris
On 20 Mar 17, at 20:28, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I searched for caravan sites near Ely, and Google identified it for me, about a 
mile south of Ely.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 3/20/2017 2:47 PM, ChrisB wrote:
Thanks, Jim. I can’t see Two Acres, but we stayed at Braham Farm:

52.374779, 0.251706

Which is the site of a monastic settlement dating back over 1,000 years, it 
seems:

http://www.visitcambridge.org/dbimgs/CawdleFen.pdf 
<http://www.visitcambridge.org/dbimgs/CawdleFen.pdf> 
<http://www.visitcambridge.org/dbimgs/CawdleFen.pdf 
<http://www.visitcambridge.org/dbimgs/CawdleFen.pdf>>

I had thought, until last weekend, that drainage of the Fens started in the 
1600s, but in fact it started hundreds of years before.

And my photos are here:

http://cbimages.uk <http://cbimages.uk/> <http://cbimages.uk/ 
<http://cbimages.uk/>>

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