Photos – Media categories – Tony Giles, Blind Author and World Traveller

London, England, January 2023

Saturday, 21st January 2023

Tony inside the Jack the Ripper Museum in Whitechapel, East London. The room is a re-creation of Whitechapel Police Station as it was at the time Jack the Ripper was active starting in 1888. The photo shows display cases and framed prints of Illustrated Police News.

The Jack the Ripper Museum is situated in a historic Victorian house in Whitechapel.

Norfolk Island, Australia, September 2022

Norfolk Island is an external territory of Australia located 990 miles (1,600 kilometres) to the east-north-east of Sydney with an area of 13.4 square miles (34.6 square km). The island was first settled by East Polynesian seafarers during the 13th or 14th century. They had left by the time Great Britain took control of the island in 1788 as part of the settlement of Australia. The island was used as a harsh penal colony from 1788 until 1855,

Terrigal Beach, Central Coast, New South Wales

12th September 2022

Tony with his surfing instructor on Terrigal Beach. There are a row of surfboards and Tony is lying on one of them.

Tony practising positioning himself on the surfboard. He is using his arms to raise himself up on to his knees.

Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway, England, July 2022

The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway is a heritage railway line which runs through parts of Gloucestershire and Worcestershire on the edge of the Cotswolds, England. About 14 miles (23 km) of track have currently been restored between Cheltenham Race Course and Broadway.

The line was originally built between 1900 and 1906. It was then operated by Great Western Railway and ran from Cheltenham to Stratford-upon-Avon and then on to Birmingham. The line closed to passengers in 1960 and to freight in 1976 and the track was lifted from 1979.

Manchester, June 2022

Manchester is a large city in the north-west of England. The city itself had a population of 552,000 in 2021, while the wider urban area, including Salford to the west, had a population of 2.87 million. Manchester grew rapidly at the turn of the 19th Century due to a boom in textile manufacturing as part of the Industrial Revolution. The Manchester Ship Canal opened in 1894, creating the Port of Manchester and linked the city to the Irish Sea.