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A proximité de Hill.70 Memorial, the Loos Britsh Cemetery.
Le village a donné son nom à la bataille qui a duré du 25 septembre au 8 octobre 1915. Il était aux mains des Allemands et il a été pris par la 15e Division (Scottish) et la 47e Division (London). Il a été défendu par les troupes françaises le 8 octobre. Le cimetière a été commencé par l’Armée Canadienne en juillet 1917 et ces tombes se trouvent dans le secteur I (rangs A et B) et dans le secteur II (rang A). Le reste du cimetière a été fait après l’Armistice avec le transfert des tombes des champs de bataille environnants et des petits cimetières du nord et de l’est de Loos. Près de 3000 victimes. (Denis et Caroline Dujardin)
Près de 3000 victimes.
The village has given its name to the battle of the 25th September 1915-8th October 1915, in which it was captured from the Germans by the 15th (Scottish) and 47th (London) Divisions, and defended by French troops on the 8th October. The cemetery was began by the Canadian Corps in July 1917, and the garves then made are contained in Rows A and B of plot I and Row A of plot II. The remainder of the cemetery was formed after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from the battlefields and smaller cemeteries over a wide area North and East of the village. (Denis et Caroline Dujardin)
Nearly 3000 casualties
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Pastels, neutrals and delicate prints aren't something I'm good at. I'm happiest in bolds, black and my never-lets-me-down signature white. I tried though. Can you tell?
Josh top by Ersch - honestly, get the pattern fatpack for this as there are so many options that were just glorious. Theo dress pants by KLN SZN. Prevailing Thorns by Aii with {egosumaii}, Runa Braid by Raven Bell with Mithril Animations. Dark Majesty hairbase by Nuve again - yes, I am going to run it into the ground, thanks for asking!
Oh yeah - this one is dedicated to that one person who sparkled in my inbox today and got me really excited for something both old and new.
Whilst out and about I came across this rather fine Jaguar XK150 fixed head coupe parked up and in a position to photograph, 8th August 2020. The Jaguar XK150 was produced between 1957 and 1960 with around 9,400 vehicles produced in three basic types, a roadster, a fixed head coupe and a drop head coupe. They were fitted with a double overhead cam straight six XK engine of either 3.4 litre or 3.8 litre.
2 DRR is a 3.4 litre XK150 first registered in September 1959.
We say : no - jo - لا - ոչ - heç bir - না - ne - he - dili - 無 - 无 - nej - ei - aucun - non - არა
όχι - કોઈ - pa gen okenn - לא - नहीं - tsis muaj - tidak - aon - nei - no - いいえ - ora - קיין - ಇಲ್ಲ
no - គ្មាន - 아니 - ne - ບໍ່ມີ - nulla - nē - ne - ada - ebda - नाही - нема - geen - no
هیچ - nie - não - nu - нет - nej - не - nie - no - no - hakuna - hindi - எந்த - ఏ - ไม่ - ne - hayır -
немає - nincs - کوئی - không - dim - няма - nein --------for protest and solidarity!!!!!!!
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.
Just had the joy from Beeston to Nottingham of new East Midlands Railway import from Greater Anglia, 156902 working 2L67 Leicester – Lincoln, 8th February 2020. Interior run down and shabby, PIS not working, toilet not working, exterior as can be seen uninspiring grotty white with ingrained muck. Compared to one of the "home" fleet Class 156 a very downmarket experience. Luckily East Midlands Railway were able to replace it with a home fleet Class 156 at Nottingham. 156902 needs an internal refurbishment and external repaint into a decent livery instead of this awful white rubbish, but will it get it.
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.
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.
RNLI Trent class Lifeboat 14-22 Edward Duke of Windsor moored in the harbour at Hartlepool, 8th June 2025. The prototype Trent class boat was launched in 1991 and used for trials for three years. The first production Trent class boat entered service in 1994 and the last of the thirty eight boats built was launched in 2004. The Trent class are capable of 25 knots and are designed to operate up to 50 miles out to sea. The Edward Duke of Windsor entered service in 1997 and has spent its entire operational career in the Relief Fleet. It was withdrawn by the RNLI a few weeks later and sold for further use as a workboat. It is currently (December 2025) based in Harwich.
New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) R179 no. 3230 (Bombardier, 2016-2019) is the lead motor on an uptown C train seen stopped at 42nd St-Port Authority Bus Terminal Station on the IND 8th Avenue Line.
London and North Western Railway 0-6-0 DX Goods 713 shunts the goods yard on the 4mm (P4 gauge) Market Bosworth model railway at the Festival of British Railway Modelling, Doncaster show, 8th February 2025. The London and North Western Railway built nine hundred and forty three DX Goods between 1858 and 1874 at Crewe Works with 713 being built in 1864..
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'.
To all of you, of every age and country...
Today is your day!
(8th March is being celebrated as International Women’s Day all over the world.)
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