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I noticed today it is nine months since I posted a picture of my favourite boat. How time flies. This was from may 2019 when I spent a few days in the Scottish Highlands.
Last May (2019) I spent some time in the Scottish Highlands which meant I had to go and see my favourite boat; the MV Dayspring.
Here she is shot in sunny weather with Ben Nevis in the background. She has been in this position since she foundered during a bad storm on December 8th 2011 on the shore near Corpach in the Scottish Highlands. The tide has never been high enough since to re-float the boat so she remains here stuck on land rotting away. She is still privately owned.
You all know how I love to photograph this boat. It is a sad but beautiful sight to me. I have become very attached to this boat. To me it has become part of the landscape here.
Here is some of her history
mvdayspring.co.uk/
Penelope, Jillian and Susie ponder the age old problem of how does Father Christmas really get down the chimney!
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Self developed in DD-X 1:4 at 19.5 C for 8.5 mins
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Staff Sgt. George Shaughnessy from Coalition Joint Special Operation Task Force disseminates newspapers to the crowd of curious on Oct. 26, 2002. Soldiers from 489th Civil Affairs Battalion and support from 9th and 8th Psychological Operations, Ft. Bragg, N.C., deliver a humanitarian aid package to Nejhab, a village in Afghanistan. The package includes 10 medium size tents, 250 blankets, and three medical kits for the villagers before the colder seasons begin. (U.S. Army photo taken by Spc. Eric E. Hughes) (Released)
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To learn more about living and serving in Korea with the US Army, visit our official website at: imcom.korea.army.mil
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Photos from the US Army in Korea can be viewed online at www.flickr.com/imcomkorea
The Morning Calm Weekly command information newspaper is available online at imcom.korea.army.mil
Published for those serving in the Republic of Korea - an assignment of choice.
About this image: Operation Enduring Freedom. A Department of Defense Image Collection.
These images are generally cleared for release and are considered in the public domain. Request credit be given the Department of Defense and individual photographer.
To learn more about living and serving in Korea with the US Army, visit our official website at: imcom.korea.army.mil
Whether you are fresh off of active-duty, a military spouse or a seasoned professional, you will find a career with U.S. Army in Korea both challenging and inspiring. If you ready to join an award winning team and embark on the adventure of a lifetime, you can learn more about living and working in Korea online: imcom.korea.army.mil
Photos from the US Army in Korea can be viewed online at www.flickr.com/imcomkorea
The Morning Calm Weekly command information newspaper is available online at imcom.korea.army.mil
Published for those serving in the Republic of Korea - an assignment of choice.
About this image: Operation Enduring Freedom. A Department of Defense Image Collection.
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Standing in platform 2 at Nottingham waiting for departure time is East Midlands Trains 156497 working 2S15, 11:45 Nottingham – Skegness, 8th November 2018.
CP 2224 and 2211 move down to the switch at the east (south) end of the Thief River Falls yard while moving around CPKC 241 that is occupying the mainline. The four hoppers look like the type for Thunderbird Commodities in Mahnomen. This power set just returned from a round trip to Lake Bronson to drop off gondolas for collecting used ties. They are now on their way out of Thief River Falls for local service.
East Midlands Railways 43059 approaches Market Harborough working 1B23, 06:34 Leeds – St Pancras, 8th January 2020.
Locomotive History
43059 was built at Crewe Works and entered service in August 1977 as part of HST set 254002 for East Coast Main Line duties. Since 1991 it has been a regular performer on the Midland Main Line and has been fitted with a Paxman VP185 engine in lieu of its original Paxman Valenta.
A heard of Highland cows in a snow covered field by a frozen Loch Meiklie in the Highlands of Scotland.
On a grey January morning East Midlands Railways 43049 heads north from Market Harborough working 1D13, 08:34 St Pancras - Nottingham, 8th January 2020.
A scene that has changed considerably from when I last stood here just over forty years ago (see first comment)
Locomotive History
43049 was built in 1977 at Crewe works as part of HST set 253024 for Western Region London – Bristol/South Wales services. 253024 was one of five Western Region HST sets transferred to Midland Main Line duties in 1982 and 43049 has been pounding up and down to London St Pancras from the East Midlands and South Yorkshire for the last thirty eight years. 43049 has been fitted with a Paxman VP185 engine in lieu of its original Paxman Valenta.
Car: Ford Capri 280.
Date of first registration: 13th March 1987.
Registration region: Stoke-on-Trent.
Latest recorded mileage: 105,394 (MOT 5th July 2019).
Date taken: 8th September 2019.
Location: Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, UK.
Coming to Collabor88 the 8th July
Fatpack is MOD and contains 55 extra colors.
HUD - Color option for trim and side panels
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Reborn + Waifu
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Dipping into my photo archives in past weeks I found this shot in the Pornic file. Until I became used to it, the naming of places after important dates did seem a particularly French custom. This date resonates with me and brings to mind the concluding pages of my father's diaries.
In the early hours of 8th May 1945, my father was in a column of prisoners being marched away from the PoW camps. They had reached the German-Czech border, after a 'stopover' in a tin mine at Zinnwald. My dad saw the guards shine their torches down and feared they would have no option but to sleep on the wet ground. He suggested to his pals that they leave the column.... Which they did. Unnoticed.
There followed a time of living on their wits for food and shelter, plus a few adventures, until they met three American ex-PoWs, who had found a 15 cwt truck. My dad and his mates hitched a lift to Pilsen where they were officially registered as recovered allied PoWs by the Third US Army.
There followed a flight to Reims in France and thence onward to England where my dad finally arrived home to his wife at 4.30 p.m. in the little village of Claydon, Suffolk on 25th May 1945.
I was born the following year - nearly a Christmas baby. A new little family; a different life.
As my Flickr friends who have read the story know, the help of a fellow member of a local U3A Photography Group has been invaluable to me in publishing, in paperback and kindle format, my father's diary account of his WW2 service, captured at Tobruk, subsequently as a PoW in N. Africa, Italy and Germany:
www.amazon.co.uk/Till-We-Meet-Again-Gunner/dp/154404870X
My royalties are donated to the Red Cross, without whose food parcels sent to the PoW camps, my father felt that 'a lot of us wouldn't have come back'.
A view across part of Attenborough nature reserve with Ratcliffe on Soar Power Station on the horizon, 8th March 2024.
In 1929 large-scale commercial gravel extraction began around Attenborough and would continue for the next ninety years. The extraction formed deep lagoons and as the extraction moved away from the works the gravel was transported by barge through the ever-expanding network of lagoons. In 1965, an application from the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) looked to fill the lagoons with ash from Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station. However, by this time, the pits were already well-known for their wildlife interest and extensively used by local fishermen and birdwatchers, with records starting around 1948. Due to the strength of local feeling the CEGB withdrew their application and the ash was taken to Fletton, Peterborough. Discussions then began with the site’s then owners, Trent Gravels Ltd, about the future for the lagoons and it was agreed to develop the site as a nature reserve in parallel with continued gravel extraction. The opening ceremony as a nature reserve was in 1966 and was performed by David Attenborough. Gravel extraction has now finished, and the works have been demolished, whilst the nature reserve now welcomes around 500,000 visitors per year and is regarded as one of the best sites in the UK to see kingfishers.
Ratcliffe on Soar 2116MW power station was built in the mid-1960s and opened in 1968 and is one of the biggest coal fired power stations built in the country. In 1981, the station was burning 5.5 million tonnes of coal a year, consuming 65% of the output of the south Nottinghamshire coalfield. Emissions of sulphur dioxide, which caused acid rain, were greatly reduced in 1993 when a flue gas desulphurisation system using a wet limestone-gypsum process became operational on the four boilers. Emissions of nitrogen oxides which also cause damage to the ozone layer, were reduced in 2004 when Ratcliffe became the first in the United Kingdom to be fitted with Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) technology. One of the last coal fired power stations still in use it is due to close in 2025.
A section of the Cromford Canal, Derbyshire and in the distance is the end of the canal at Cromford Basin, 8th April 2017. The Cromford Canal used to run more than 14 miles from Cromford to join up with the Erewash Canal at Langley Mill. It had four tunnels and fourteen locks and was built in the late 18th Century. It was last used as a working waterway in 1944 and since then most of it has fell into disrepair. Parts of the route are now blocked by modern buildings, roads and other obstructions, including the Butterley Tunnel, which collapsed as long ago as 1900. At one time this tunnel was the third longest canal tunnel in the world at 2 miles long. The derelict tunnel is one of the major obstacles to getting the canal re-opened. This section of the canal in the photograph at the northern end has been fully restored and turned into a popular linear country park. The section includes many of the best sites on the canal including Wigwell Aqueduct, Leawood pumping station, High Peak Junction and Cromford Basin. Although the water is still shallow, it is possible to navigate the canal in this area.
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