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Blue Anchor is a seaside village, in the parish of Old Cleeve, close to Carhampton in the Somerset West and Taunton district of Somerset, England. The village takes its name from a 17th-century inn; [ 1 ] the bay, Blue Anchor Bay, was previously known as Cleeve Bay. [ 1 ]
Tiny the Wonder was an English Toy Terrier (Black & Tan) famous in the City of London in the mid-19th century for being able to kill 200 rats in an hour in the city's rat-baiting pits. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] At the time, the world record for killing 100 rats was 5 minutes, 30 seconds, held by a bull and terrier named Billy .
Blue Anchor railway station is situated in the seaside village of Blue Anchor, Somerset, England, close to the larger village of Carhampton. It is on the West Somerset Railway , a heritage railway , and it houses one of the two museums of the West Somerset Railway Heritage Trust.
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Blue Anchor Line advertisement, 1903. Blue Anchor Line was a British shipping company operating between the United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia between 1870 and 1910. The owners of this shipping company in later years were Messrs. W. Lund and Sons. [1] The Blue Anchor Line was founded in London by Wilhelm Lund (born Denmark 1837, [2 ...
Blue Anchor is a hamlet in mid Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in the civil parish of St Enoder It is situated on the old course of the A30 road (now re-routed south of the settlement as a dual carriageway bypass ) between the villages of Fraddon and Penhale .
Blue Anchor to Lilstock Coast SSSI (grid reference to grid reference) is a 742.8 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Blue Anchor and Lilstock in Somerset, notified in 1971. It provides an outstanding series of sections through the Early Jurassic Lower Lias , spanning the Hettangian and Pliensbachian Stages and named ...
SS Waratah was a passenger and cargo steamship built in 1908 for the Blue Anchor Line to operate between Europe and Australia. In July 1909, on only her second voyage, the ship, en route from Durban to Cape Town along the coast of what is present-day South Africa, disappeared with 211 passengers and crew aboard.