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On 15 September 1987, a pair of 4EPB units heads for London Bridge on ecs past Bricklayer's Arms Junction. This view from the platform at South Bermondsey has now been lost to vegetation.
This guy was around 70 years old, and still laying bricks!
He was happy enough to pose for me.
Taken outside a hawker bar not far from Kek Lok Si temple.
British postcard for A British Film Year exhibition by Raithby, Lawrence & Company Ltd, Leicester and London. Photo: Terry O'Neill. Glenda Jackson on the set of Mary Queen of Scots (Charles Jarrott, 1971).
Today, 15 June 2023, British actress and politician Glenda Jackson (1936) passed away. She was one of the leading British actresses of the 1960s and 1970s. As a major film star, she won many awards, including two Oscars for Best Actress for Women in Love (1969) and A Touch of Class (1973).
Glenda May Jackson was born in Birkenhead on the Wirral, England, in 1936. Her father was a bricklayer. Jackson was educated at the West Kirby County Grammar School for Girls. She graduated from school at 16 and worked for two years in a Boots chemist shop. However, she found this boring and dead-end and wanted better for herself. Her life changed forever when she was accepted into the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) at the age of 18. Her work impressed all who observed it. Jackson made her professional stage debut in Terence Rattigan's 'Separate Tables' in 1957. She was a member of the Dundee Repertory Company in the early 1960s alongside Edward Fox, Michael Culver and Nicol Williamson. She made her film debut as a singer at a party in the British New Wave drama This Sporting Life (Lindsay Anderson, 1963), starring Richard Harris. After ten years of scraping by, she was invited to join the Theatre of Cruelty, an offshoot of the Royal Shakespeare Company. She was cast as Charlotte Corday in Peter Brook's internationally award-winning 'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis De Sade' (aka 'Marat/Sade'), written by Peter Weiss. For this part, she was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic). Subsequently she was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for four years. Jackson also appeared in the controversial film version, Marat/Sade (Peter Brook, 1967), featuring Patrick Magee. According to the anonymous biographer at IMDb, Jackson “is acknowledged to have stolen the show”. Her first starring film role came in the offbeat drama Negatives (Peter Medak, 1968). It was followed by a starring role in the 1920s romance Women in Love (Ken Russell, 1969), based on a scandalous novel by D.H. Lawrence. For her role opposite Alan Bates she won her first Academy Award for Best Actress. Brian McFarlane in Encyclopedia of British Film: “Her blazing intelligence, sexual challenge and abrasiveness were at the service of a superbly written role in a film with a passion rare in the annals of British cinema.” Another controversial role followed as Tchaikovsky's (Richard Chamberlain) nymphomaniac wife in The Music Lovers (Ken Russell, 1970). Both roles added to her image of being prepared to do almost anything for her art. She worked again with Russell on the musical comedy The Boy Friend (Ken Russell, 1971), although her part was only an uncredited cameo.
In the early 1970s, Glenda Jackson was much in demand. In Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Schlesinger, 1971), she played a divorced businesswoman in a dead-end affair with a shallow bisexual artist (Murray Head). The film turned out to be another major success. She won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and was again nominated for the Academy Award. She confirmed her controversial reputation by having her head shaved in order to play Queen Elizabeth I of England in the BBC's blockbuster serial, Elizabeth R (1971). Jackson received two Emmy Awards for her work. She also portrayed Queen Elizabeth in the film Mary, Queen of Scots (Charles Jarrott, 1971) opposite Vanessa Redgrave. For this role, she won David di Donatello for Best Actress. She appeared on the popular comedy series Morecambe and Wise Show (1971), playing Cleopatra in a very funny comedy sketch. This led to many other appearances on the show, including the Christmas Shows of 1971 and 1972. American Filmmaker Melvin Frank saw Glenda Jackson’s comedic potential and offered her the lead female part in A Touch of Class (Melvin Frank, 1973), co-starring George Segal. Her funny performance earned her a second Academy Award as Best Actress, plus a Golden Globe. Curiously she was not present to receive either of her Oscars. By then, she was recognised as one of Britain's leading actresses. She was praised for her high intelligence and meticulous approach to her work. Jackson refused obvious commercial roles and sought out serious artistic work. In the following years, she played such roles as Solange in The Maids (Christopher Miles, 1974) with Susannah York, Hedda Gabler in Hedda (Trevor Dunn, 1975) and Sarah Bernhardt in The Incredible Sarah (Richard Fleischer, 1976). For these impressive portrayals she was again nominated for major awards, and she took home several of them. In 1978, she was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). Sandra Brennan at AllMovie: “On stage, screen, and television, powerhouse actress Glenda Jackson displayed a fierce intelligence and a brazen toughness that have bordered on abrasiveness. With her sharp facial features, Jackson is more handsome than glamorous, but this has only helped her career in that it provided her the opportunity to play a wide variety of strong-willed, smart, and sexy women.”
During the 1980s Glenda Jackson often worked for television. She portrayed actress Patricia Neal in The Patricia Neal Story (Anthony Harvey, Anthony Page, 1981) with Dirk Bogarde as Neal’s husband Roald Dahl, and Yelena Bonner in Sakharov (Jack Gold, 1984) starring Jason Robards as Bonner’s husband, the imprisoned Russian nuclear scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov. For both parts she was nominated for an Emmy award, but both times she did not win. She was one of the most fondly remembered later guest stars on The Muppet Show because she told the producers that she would perform any material they liked; this turned out to be a role where she has a delusion that she is a pirate captain who hijacks the Muppet Theatre as her ship. She continued to make interesting films, including The Return of the Soldier (Alan Bridges, 1982) with Julie Christie, and Turtle Diary (John Irvin, 1985), but both were modest successes. In 1989, she appeared in Ken Russell's The Rainbow, playing Anna Brangwen, mother of Gudrun, the part which had won her her first Academy Award. Jackson retired from acting in order to focus on public affairs. She had grown up in a household that was staunchly supportive of the Labour Party, and throughout her adult life, Jackson has been passionate about politics. After the 1992 general election she became a Member of Parliament (MP) for Labour, and remained a MP for many years. After the 1997 general election, she was appointed a junior minister in the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair, with responsibility for London Transport, a post she resigned before an attempt to be nominated as the Labour Party candidate for the election of the first Mayor of London in 2000. The nomination was eventually won by Frank Dobson, who lost the election to Ken Livingstone, the independent candidate. After constituency changes for the 2010 general election, her majority of 42 votes was one of the closest results of the entire election. In June 2011, Jackson announced that, presuming the Parliament elected in 2010 lasts until 2015, she would not seek re-election. She explained "I will be almost 80 and by then it will be time for someone else to have a turn." Glenda Jackson was married to former stage actor and designer Roy Hodges from 1958 until their divorce in 1976. They had a son, Daniel Hodges (1969).
Sources: Brian McFarlane (Encyclopedia of British Film), Sandra Brennan (AllMovie), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
Young boy brick layer in Bago, Myanmar
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Conques is one of the magical places, I cannot pass. Every time I am in the area, I just have to take the detour, stop and see it again.
Over centuries Conques was a popular stop for all pilgrims travelling the Via Podiensis and it still is. It is a treat after having crossed the harsh Aubrac. I still remember my feelings, when I reached Conques in 2008 on my hike, that had started weeks before in Geneva.
A tiny convent existed here already in the 8th century. This grew into a very successful monastery, after the relics of St. Foy arrived in Conques through theft in 866. The relics were stolen by a monk from Conques, who had posed as a loyal monk in Agen for years.
The arrival of the relics of St. Foy caused the pilgrimage route to shift to Conques. As the existing church was too small for all the pilgrims, a new, much larger church had to be constructed. It was completed by the end of the 11th century. As a large pilgrim´s church, it had an ambulatory with five radiating chapels. A century later galleries were added over the aisle and the roof was raised over the transept and choir to allow people to circulate at the gallery level.
Different masons and carvers have worked in Conques over the building process, so here are different Romanesque styles.
At the former cloister, the icons get more secular.
The bricklayer in front puts in the last stone, his colleague on the left signals loudly with his horn that this is the end of the workday.
Bricklayers Arms London August 1991.
In mid-1991 this all-Leyland Olympian dual-door demonstrator was trialled by London Buses.
Am unsure whether it was used on revenue-earning stage service whilst with London Buses, but did make appearances on private hire work. As such it was captured with the East London subsidiary on what appeared to be a school outing.
The bus was later acquired by Capital Citybus a few months later and pressed onto stage service work in north and east London, where it acquired the fleet number 250. It then became part of the First Capital fleet upon takeover. I believe it is now preserved for posterity and owing to its 'PVC' registration, was dubbed the ‘plastic bus’. See also the next image.
A leaving herd, which will stay within the Go-Ahead fleet but will leave route 42 for not being suitable to the route's conditions (i.e emissions), but this is a great batch for performance, ELS8 YU02GHO bids farewell (soon enough) on route 42 seen with incorrect blind displays, en-route Liverpool Street stopping at the Bricklayers Arms bus stop.
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Euro 3, 5 speed ZF?
Scania OmniTown N94UB 10.7m East Lancs Mylennium Vyking
The 396 between Epping and Bishops Stortford pre-dated the development of Harlow New Town and largely bypassed it, running direct along London Road. RT635 (JXC443) lays over at the Bricklayers Arms stand, Bishops Stortford on 3 September 1970, working the 1556 to Epping.
Alesha Relaxing showing her Umbilicus Navel Belly Button at the Bricklayer's Arms English Pub Shoreditch London
The navel (clinically known as the umbilicus, colloquially known as the belly button, or tummy button) is a hollowed or sometimes raised area on the abdomen at the attachment site of the umbilical cord. All placental mammals have a navel.
Nowadays if would be hard, if not impossible, to find good enough bricklayers for this kind of jobs in Sweden.
12373 (YX16OGM) is seen on the 53 at somewhere. Now the route goes over the Bricklayer's Arms flyover.
Taken from a print in my collection, no further details known.
SE£CR D class, built at Ashford entering service numbered 739 January 1902. SR A739 after the 1923 grouping. Rebuilt at Ashford February 1927 as D1 class, later renumbered 1739. Renumbered 31739 in 1949 and withdrawn November 1961.
talking walls, greece: mysterious tower in the mani village lagia, the albaian bricklayer ardjan is living in one of the rotten houses
'Tyneside' 2 EPB 5782 on the rear of a 10-car train in the Bricklayers Arms Junction area south east of London Bridge, c1968.
Alesha from Jamaica out on the Town Mini Skirt and Pink Top on her Phone Again! Legs Eleven Bricklayer's Arms English Pub Shoreditch London Corner of Rivington Street and Charlotte Road EC2
St Ignatius’ College is an independent co-educational day school in Adelaide: part of the international network of Jesuit schools which began in Messina, Sicily in 1548.
The Chapel of The Holy Name foundation stone was placed by the Archbishop of Adelaide 7 August 2005.
Plaques on the chapel read: The Chapel of The Holy Name was dedicated by the Archbishop of Adelaide, and opened by the Reverend Mark Raper SJ Provincial of the Australian Jesuits 26 March 2006.
The Archbishop was unable to present on account of illness: the ceremony of dedication was performed by the Vicar General of the Archdiocese Monsignor David Cappo.
**Chapel bricklayers and assistants – Malcolm Burdett, Russell Alderton, Mark Jackson, Gordon Bannister, Bob Sellers, Vince Spartano.
The Bricklayer's Arms English Pub Shoreditch London Corner of Rivington Street and Charlotte Road EC2 Attractive Blond Lady in Leopard Animal Skin Print Dress
In all my years of coming here I had never been on the far side of the creek, It gives a whole new view of Wells Next The Sea.
The granary pictured above was built 1903/1905. My great-grandfather (who lived in the houses to the left) was a journeyman bricklayer and he worked on the building.
Location: Bruce Street, Mount Waverley VIC
Structural Engineer: Danes Design
Developer/builder: En Vogue Developments
Bricklayer: Edithvale Bricklaying
Abellio 2533 YX5 OXC on 415 at Bricklayers Arms roundabout. Monday 19th September 2016. DSCN38849.
AD E40H-AD Enviro400 (MMC) 10.4m.
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ARRIVA Kent & Surrey VDL SB200 - WrightBus Commander 2 - GN04 UGD (3966) is seen at New Hythe Station on 3rd September 2021 before heading down to he nearby Bricklayers Arms to work route 71A to Maidstone Town Centre
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