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Logs and chain lying on the site of the replacement work on Rosendale Road railway bridge "No.2" (West Dulwich, London).
The replacement bridge replaced a previous one (1950s-1960s) in January 1914. This in turn had replaced the even older original one (1866).
The logs here were sawn from one of the horse chestnut trees that line Rosendale Road, as it was close to the bridge and obstructing the work. The tree wasn't removed completely and in any case these trees are regularly pollarded anyway. But it did reduce this particular tree to a rather stumpy remnant.
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ROSENDALE ROAD RAILWAY BRIDGES
There were three railway bridges over Rosendale Road, two of which still exist. They don't appear to have names, so I have numbered them arbitrarily.
"No.1", the most northern one is out of view here (see accompanying photos).
"No.2" is out of sight to the L of this picture (but see accompanying photos). It was built in 1866 for the London Brighton and South Coast Railway. The original structure was very ornate structure in cast iron (see the photo in Edwin Course's article, below). The original bridge was designed by Charles Barry Junior. The large sums paid by the then railway company (London, Brighton and South Coast Railway) for construction of its line across the Dulwich Estate, with other bridges matching this one, enabled the Estate to build the present main building of Dulwich College (1857-1866).
"No.3" was demolished some time after 1966. It was very ornate in cast iron, and was immediately adjacent to "No.2". It ran L-R almost above where I took this shot. An iron plaque on the bridge bore the date 1891. It carried coal trains of the former London and North Western Railway into Knight's Hill Sidings and its former coal depot.
--- belowtheriver.co.uk/wednesday-picture-the-bridges-of-west...
--- Course, Edwin, 1960. The foreign goods depots of South London. Railway Magazine [vol?] (for November 1960), pp. 761-766. www.semgonline.com/RlyMag/ForeignDepotsofSthLondon.pdf
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RAILWAY BRIDGE REPLACEMENT WORK IN DULWICH & HERNE HILL, JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2014 (33/39)
This bridge, and two further sister bridges carrying the same line over neighbouring streets, had been in poor condition for some time, and after a period of preparation work, they were completely replaced in January 2014. Two neighbouring streets, one of them a busy main road, were closed to traffic concurrently for about two weeks, and another was closed for work on the third bridge shortly afterwards. They were also closed to pedestrians at weekends. To minimise disruption to train services, the main replacement work was carried out night and day in continuous shifts over two weekends.
The main replacement work took place in the night in the early hours of January 19th 2014. Huge hydraulic cranes had to come from Scotland (James Jack, Ainscough) to do this engineering work because there were no cranes available nearer to London capable of handling the old and new bridges.
--- belowtheriver.co.uk/wednesday-picture-the-bridges-of-west...
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While I was driving through Jersey City on my way to Bayonne the other day, this wreckage caught my eye. The aftermath of a fire at a chemical factory, I'm guessing about six years ago from indications painted on tanks. The entire complex is marked for demolition, but I guess there's no money for that, so it just sits as an eyesore and rots.
Two shot panorama. View it large.
The day after I made this picture, I read in the daily newspaper that a young girl drove her Dad's car right through this store's windows. The large display widow was totally smashed and the outdoor electric box was damaged.
It must have been quite a shock for all involved in the accident.
I hope there were no casualties.
Service recalls 9/11 trauma, resolve, resilience that followed
By Franklin Fisher
franklin.s.fisher2.civ@mail.mil
CAMP RED CLOUD, SOUTH KOREA – The American people have demonstrated resilience and resolve in the years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a speaker at Camp Red Cloud said during a chapel service in remembrance of the traumatic events and their aftermath.
Titled “A Call to Remember!” the service began Sept. 11 at 11:30 on a sunny Tuesday and ended around noon before an audience of about 40.
In his remarks, the speaker, Lt. Col. Steven G. Finley, commander, U.S. Army Garrison Casey, first evoked the specter of those events in 2001 that have become seared in the national consciousness and are often compared to Japan’s attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
“Eleven years ago, America confronted one of the darkest nights,” Finley said of the events that unfolded that morning in 2001, which saw not only the attacks on the World Trade Center in Manhattan, but also on the Pentagon, and that included the crash of United Airlines Flight 77 near Shanksville, Pa.
“Mighty towers crumbled,” he said. “Black smoke billowed up from the Pentagon. Airplane wreckage smoldered on the Pennsylvania field.
“Friends and neighbors, sisters and brothers, mothers and fathers, sons and daughters – they were taken from us with heartbreaking swiftness and cruelty.
“On September 12, the day after, the nation awoke to a world in which evil was closer at hand, and uncertainty clouded our future,” Finley said.
“These past 11 years have shown that America does not give in to fear,” said Finley. “The rescue workers who rushed to the scene, the firefighters who charged up the stairs, the passengers who stormed the cockpit – these patriots defined the very nature of courage…
“These past eleven years have shown America’s resolve to defend its citizens and the American way of life…” he said.
“Proof of our healing has been a story of total resilience. The Pentagon is repaired, and filled with patriots working in common purpose daily. Shanksville is the scene of friendships forged between residents of that town, and the families who lost loved ones there.
“New York remains a vibrant capital of the arts and industry, fashion and commerce.
“The trade center – where it once stood the sun now glistens off a new tower that reaches toward the sky.
“Our people still work in skyscrapers, our stadiums are filled with fans and our parks full of children playing.”
The audience also heard personal recollections from two other members of the Warrior Country community, Mark Hagelin, management analyst with the U.S. Army Garrison Red Cloud’s Plans, Analysis, and Integration Office, and Chaplain (Maj.) Andrew Lawrence, the 2nd Infantry Division’s deputy division chaplain.
Hagelin said his brother, an attorney who “worked around the corner” from the World Trade Center, was out on a case and miles away when the attacks occurred.
“Others weren’t quite so lucky,” he said, noting that among high school friends of his sister-in-law was a firefighter who died “fighting to save others” when the second tower of the World Trade Center collapsed.
“I refuse to hate,” said Hagelin. “Hate brings pain and intolerance.”
But, he said, “I will not forget,” and likened the Sept. 11 attacks to Pearl Harbor.
“The horrific vision and soundtrack of 9/11 are etched into my soul,” said Hagelin. “I will never forget.”
Lawrence, then a parish priest in Iowa, accompanied a group of Catholic parishioners on a pilgrimage to Rome, arriving there Sept. 11. They ended the day stunned by news of the attacks. They awoke next morning, Sept. 12, to find under their hotel room doors a letter signed by the mayor of Rome expressing condolences and goodwill to the city’s American visitors.
Later that day, during a tour of St. Peter’s Basilica, an American woman on vacation from her job at the Pentagon approached Lawrence, asked if he was an American, and in the course of conversation said she’d been unable to reach her co-workers after news of the attacks. She feared some of them may have been killed, she said, and asked Lawrence to pray with her, which he did.
Toward the end of Tuesday’s service, during a ceremonial moment of silence, a firefighter from the Camp Red Cloud fire department, clad in his dark blue work uniform, his face expressionless, struck a brass memorial bell five times, paused, and struck another five times, at intervals, until the bell had sounded 20 times.
The shaken victim of a Motorcycle - v - car RTA on the A4, Bath Road, Bristol assists Police with their enquiries.
Photo: Monday, 22nd September 2008.
Some drunken asshole threw a flaming gas can into my neighbor's bush at 1am. A passer-by noticed the burning gas can and managed to kick it out into the street before the building caught fire.
Some drunken asshole threw a flaming gas can into my neighbor's bush at 1am. A passer-by noticed the burning gas can and managed to kick it out into the street before the building caught fire.
Last Thursday (Feb, 18, 2010) around 10:00 AM in the morning, Echelon complex in Austin where local IRS office is located was hit by a small personal airplane. One person died excluding the pilot. Several people are being treated for major/minor injuries. The incident was a deliberate act by the pilot due to his grudge against the IRS. It was a terrifying and sad day.
Read KXAN for more details
Participatory Event
The quirky fruit-throwing festival, now in its eleventh year, commemorates the sinking of the SS Indiana in 1901.
The SS Indiana ran aground off Worthing after colliding with another vessel. Its cargo, tens of thousands of oranges and lemons, cascaded from a gaping hole in its hull and was washed up on Worthing beach. Residents descended in droves to collect the fruit - a rare and valuable commodity in the early 20th century.
The event takes place no matter how bad the weather is. We've held it in driving rain and thick fog before, but hordes of flingers still turn up. It is especially popular with families and young children who don't care if it's raining or blowing a gale. They just love being on the beach, taking part in an event they will remember for the rest of their lives.
Proceeds from the event, on the beach opposite Thorn Road, will go to Lauren Jones, 18, Worthing's wheelchair tennis ace. Lauren, from Offington, was left paralysed from the waist down after falling from a tree.
Although there is some caramelized residue and a small amount of fat that rendered out during cooking, you can see that most of the sausage is still where it belongs - in the casing.
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July 2nd, 2012