User:AlanFord

I'm Alan Ford (as if that wasn't obvious from my username), currently living in Southampton, UK.

I'm not a cockney actor, and I'm definitely not a comic book.

Sizable articles I've written

• Netley Hospital
• Royal Victoria Country Park
• Netley Abbey
• Seven Dials, London
• Civic Centre, Southampton
• Wilton, Wiltshire
• Cheddar Valley line
• Clevedon branch line
• Cobden Bridge

Other articles I've written chunks of

• Southampton
• University of Southampton
• Southampton Common
• The Polygon, Southampton
• Netley
• Guernsey
• Lymington
• New Milton
• Budapest
• Ordnance Survey
• Mayflower
• North Somerset
• Clevedon
• Clevedon Pier
• Congresbury
• Yatton
• Yatton railway station
• Weston-super-Mare

... and many more...

Full list: Contributions Page

Stubs I've started

• Guernsey Telecom
• Winscombe
• Štúrovo
• Mária Valéria bridge
• Dugald Stewart Monument
• Ytterøy
• Sidney Kimber

Photographs

A Barnstar!

The Photographer's Barnstar I hereby award this Photographer's Barnstar to Alan Ford for his many pictoral contributions Benjaminstewart05 14:58, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

I've scattered a fair few of my photographs around various articles in Wikipedia. I release all my photographs into the Public Domain. All are thumbnailed below.

All these photographs have been taken by Canon Digital Ixus cameras. Up until May 2006 this was an Ixus v3, and later photos were taken with an Ixus 800 IS.

Southampton

File:Southampton-Bargate.jpg The Bargate.	File:Southampton-TitanicEngineersMemorial.jpg Memorial to the engineers on the Titanic.	File:Southampton-Cenotaph.jpg The cenotaph.
File:Southampton-MayflowerMemorial.jpg The Mayflower memorial.	File:Southampton-IsaacWatts-Statue.jpg Statue of Isaac Watts.	File:Southampton-Palmerston-Statue.jpg Statue of Palmerston.
File:Southampton-CivicCentre-West.jpg The Civic Centre police station.	File:Southampton-CivicCentre-North.jpg The Civic Centre arts wing.	File:Southampton-CivicCentre-East.jpg The Guildhall at the Civic Centre.
File:Southampton-CivicCentre-South.jpg The Civic Centre south wing, containing council offices.	File:Southampton-OSOld.jpg The old Ordnance Survey site, now the courts.	File:SouthamptonTerminusToday.jpg Southampton Terminus railway station today.
File:SouthamptonCommon.jpg Southampton Common.	File:StDenysStation-Building.jpg St Denys railway station building.	File:StDenysStation-Platforms.jpg St Denys railway station platforms.
File:SwaythlingStation-Platforms.jpg Swaythling railway station platforms.	File:HighfieldChurch.jpg Highfield Church.

Netley, Hampshire

File:NetleyStation.jpg Netley Railway Station	File:NetleyAbbeyRuins.jpg Netley Abbey	File:NetleyChapel.jpg Netley Hospital chapel
File:NetleyChapel-Interior.jpg Netley Hospital chapel, interior as heritage centre	File:NetleyRVCP-North.jpg View northwards over Royal Victoria Country Park	File:NetleyRVCP-West.jpg View westwards over Royal Victoria Country Park

North Somerset

File:CongresburyChurch.jpg St Andrew's church, Congresbury	File:StrawberryLine-Yatton.jpg The former start of the Wrington Vale Light Railway at Yatton, now the Strawberry Line railway walk	File:YattonChurch.jpg St Mary's church, Yatton
File:YattonStation.jpg Yatton railway station	File:YattonPrecinct.jpg Yatton shopping precinct	File:WinscombeMillenniumGreen.jpg The Millennium Green in Winscombe
File:WestonPier.jpg The Grand Pier and beach, Weston-super-Mare	File:WestonTownHall.jpg Weston-super-Mare town hall	File:ClevedonTree.jpg Windswept tree at Clevedon
File:ClevedonPier.jpg Clevedon Pier	File:StrawberryLine-Bridge.jpg Bridge over the Strawberry Line

New Forest Area, Hampshire (and Dorset)

File:BartonOnSea.jpg Cliffs at Barton-on-Sea, New Milton	File:Lymington.jpg Lymington, narrow cobbled streets	File:Lymington Town Station.jpg Lymington Town railway station
File:ChristchurchPriory.jpg Christcurch Priory	File:Hurst Castle from East of Hurst Spit.jpg Hurst Castle

Romsey, Hampshire

File:RomseyAbbey.jpg Romsey Abbey, exterior	File:RomseyAbbey-West.jpg The west window of Romsey Abbey	File:Romsey.jpg Romsey town centre
File:RomseyAbbeyMountbatten.jpg The tomb of Earl Mountbatten of Burma (on the floor) in Romsey Abbey	File:RomseyStation.jpg Romsey railway station, exterior

Miscellaneous Hampshire

File:NewAlresford-WestSt.jpg West Street in New Alresford.

Salisbury and Wilton

File:SalisburyStation.jpg Salisbury railway station

File:Salisbury-RiverAvon.jpg The River Avon in Salisbury

File:WiltonChurch.jpg The Church of St Mary and St Nicholas, Wilton

Portsmouth and Nearby Area

File:Portsmouth-from-PortsdownHill.jpg View over Portsea Island from Portsdown Hill	File:Portsmouth-Wightlink.jpg Wightlink ferries passing the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour.	File:HaylingIsland.jpg Beach at Hayling Island
File:Portsmouth-SpinnakerTower.jpg Spinnaker Tower from Gunwharf Quays, almost completed	File:Portsmouth-Cathedral-Interior.jpg Interior of Portsmouth Cathedral	File:Portsmouth-Gunwharf-Shops.jpg Shops, bars and restaurants at Gunwharf Quays
	File:LeeOnTheSolent.jpg The seafront and beach at Lee-on-the-Solent	File:FarehamCreek.jpg Fareham Creek
File:ChichesterHarbour-WestWittering.jpg Boats in Chichester Harbour

London

File:St Paul's Cathedral by night, viewed from Ludgate Hill (London, UK - 2005-02-08).jpg St Paul's Cathedral at night	File:StAlfeges-Interior.jpg Interior of St Alfege's Church, Greenwich	File:IslingtonTownHall.jpg Islington town hall
File:TempleChurch-Exterior.jpg Exterior of Temple Church today	File:TempleChurch-Effigies.jpg Marble medieval knight effiges, Temple Church	File:TempleChurch-Organ.jpg Organ in the Temple Church
File:SevenDials.jpg Seven Dials, London	File:CityUniversity.jpg City University in Northampton Square	File:CharlesJamesFox-BloomsburySquare.jpg Statue of Charles James Fox, Bloomsbury Square

Woking

File:Woking-TownSquare.jpg Town Square in Woking

File:WokingStation.jpg Woking railway station

File:Woking-BasingstokeCanal.jpg The Basingstoke Canal in Woking

Miscellaneous England

File:WitneyHighStreet.jpg Witney, Oxfordshire, High Street

File:CongletonTownHall.jpg Congleton Town Hall

File:RadstockMineWheel.jpg Old mining winch wheel in the centre of Radstock

Scotland

File:GlasgowCentral.jpg Glasgow Central station	File:StAndrewsHouse-Edinburgh.jpg St Andrew's House, Edinburgh	File:EdinburghFromCaltonHill.jpg Edinburgh from Calton Hill
File:EdinburghFromCastle.jpg View over Edinburgh from the Castle	File:EdinburghObservatory.jpg View of City Observatory, Edinburgh from Nelson's Monument	File:DugaldStewartMonument.jpg Dugald Stewart Monument, Edinburgh

Guernsey

File:GuernseyAirportOldTerminal.jpg Guernsey Airport old terminal	File:GuernseyTelephoneBox.jpg Guernsey Telecom phone box, St Peter Port	File:Guernsey Postbox type C double aperture pillar box.jpg Guernsey Post post box, St Peter Port
File:StPeterPortChurch.jpg St Peter Port church	File:StPeterPortSouth.jpg St Peter Port from the south

Hungary

File:BudapestKeletiStation.jpg Budapest Keleti railway station	File:Budapest Nyugati Station.jpg Budapest Nyugati railway station	File:EsztergomCatholicMuseum.jpg The Catholic Museum in Esztergom
File:EsztergomBasilica-South.jpg View of the front of the Basilica in Esztergom	File:EsztergomBasilicaOrgan.jpg The organ in the Basilica in Esztergom	File:MariaValeriaBridge.jpg The Mária Valéria bridge, connecting Esztergom in Hungary with Štúrovo in Slovakia

Germany

File:BerlinEastSpree.jpg View over the Spree, eastern Berlin, from the Fernsehturm	File:TempelhofExterior.jpg Exterior of Tempelhof Airport, Berlin	File:TempelhofInterior.jpg Interior of Tempelhof Airport, Berlin
File:TiergartenWoods.jpg Woods in the Tiergarten, Berlin	File:Potsdam Brandenburger Straße.jpg Street in Potsdam	File:PotsdamBrandenburgGate.jpg Brandenburg Gate in Potsdam
File:PotsdamNauenerTor.jpg Nauener Tor in Potsdam	File:OrangeryInterior.jpg Interior of the Orangery Palace, Sanssouci Park, Potsdam	File:SpandauRathaus.jpg Spandau Rathaus
File:SpandauStreet.jpg Street in Spandau	File:RathausSpandau-UBahn.jpg Rathaus Spandau, Berlin U-Bahn	File:BerlinHauptbahnhofUBahn-UnderConstruction.jpg The U-Bahn station at Berlin Hauptbahnhof, under construction

Portugal

File:UC-GeneralLibrary.jpg University of Coimbra General Library

File:CoimbraA-Station.jpg Coimbra-A railway station, Coimbra

File:PortoCityHall.jpg Porto City Hall

Switzerland

File:ZurichView-South.jpg View of Zurich looking south over Lake Zurich

File:LucerneLake.jpg View across Lake Lucerne, Lucerne

Austria

File:GrazView-Kunsthaus.jpg

View over Graz, including the Kunsthaus

France

File:Arles-PlaceDuForum.jpg The Place du Forum in Arles	File:NimesAmphitheatre.jpg The amphitheatre in Nimes	File:PorteDuPeyrou.jpg The Porte du Peyrou in Montpellier
File:SaintesMariesDeLaMer-Streets.jpg Streets in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer

Norway

File:LevangerChurch.jpg The church in Levanger	File:TrondheimTrampeHill.jpg The Trampe bicycle lift, Trondheim	File:YtteroyChurch.jpg The church on the island of Ytterøy
File:SverresborgSquare.jpg The 'town square' in Sverresborg folk museum, Trondheim	File:SverresborgHill.jpg The former castle hill in Sverresborg, Trondheim

Miscellaneous

File:FullersBottles.jpg

Fullers ale bottles