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A lamp and windows on the extension to a 140 year old house on the Main Street of Unionville. The old building houses a popular restaurant that is over 40 years old. But like all the restaurants in the area, business is slow because of COVID-19 and winter.
On May 2nd, 1989 The Cure released their 8th album, a miracle to some, to me a masterpiece. So this is my interpretation of the most romantic album ever in the history of music, image and text. I couldn't exactly pass it by when Kara sugegsted it, cuz I've learnt English with their songs.
Clinging on a MayDay (more than an album synopsis)
I’ll just write in a Plainsong rhyme, I’ll put out my heart on a Lovesong and I’ll scream at the sky how you fell into my arms, how fear always draws to a Closedown whenever I’m with you.
I’m so glad you remembered that 30 years have passed. Your name like ice into my heart, I bleed and if I drink I don’t think I’ve ever felt so Homesick about anyone. There was nothing in the world that I’ve ever wanted more than one Last Dance with you.
I never sleep, I’m running out of time, running on this Fascination Street, running into your arms, cuz you make me feel like I am young again and free again and able to swim The Same Seep Water As You.
Softer than shadows and quicker than flies in this Untitled room you sing a Lullaby, you move like a spider to drag me closer, pull me under, suffocate and strangle with my Pictures of you.
The strangest twist upon your lips entangles me in nights like this in hopelessness and bliss and Prayers For Rain. It rains. Each drop falls harder now, deteriorates, you’re tight against the side of me listening to “Disintegration” as if it’s ‘89 all over again.
"I'm running out of time I'm out of step and
closing down and never sleep for wanting hours
The empty hours of greed and uselessly always
The need to feel again the real belief of
something more than mockery if only I could
fill my heart with love".
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The latest information about ChouChou SIM
Decision of the continuation was announced
has been officially decided by ChouChou members.
I want to thank the people who have worked hard.
and OFC Chouchou members and The LL too.
And More over ! there is a happier report.
A place called ” Babel ” that once existed in ChouChou SIM
will be resurrected to that place too.
There will be coming soon.
That means the
Complete resurrection of ChouChou. Yay！
Would you please do me a favor?
Please tell this information to people who grieved by closedown news.
“ We didn't lose a utopia. ：）”
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Chouchou｜New Album “oort” Out 10.18
@Chouchouholic
First item "code01 oort" is released next month on October 18
"Experimental Album" for experimental and avant-garde works of Chouchou.
Please feel a sound of Chouchou which the first teaser "Tyche" is new, and is beautiful.
いよいよ情報解禁です。
来月10月18日にChouchouの実験的且つ前衛的作品のための新しいライン「Experimental Album」から、第1作目『code01 oort』がリリース。
第一弾ティーザー『Tyche』
新しくも美しいChouchouの音を感じてください。
White-bellied sea eagle - thanks fo my Flickr friends who confirmed the identification.
This photo was shot as it made its way south, over the Sunshine Coast beach at Coolum. As usual, I wasn’t set up with my long lens so this has to do. It’s mouth was open, tongue out. It must have been huffing and puffing a bit after a long flight down the beach.
As it flew past, little did it know that the humans below were about to head for lockdown and closedown the next day.
Coolum, Queensland.
« Quel plus grand horizon que l’abandon ? Quelle autre liberté ? » (J.V.)
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Sign-off. Eventually everyone does.
Some people may remember when TV didn't broadcast 24 hours every day. Some people may recall waking up in the early morning hours to something like this.
But that's not what this is about. It's about the contemplation of something greater. An interpretation of something we all are bound to, an inevitability of sorts.
I will leave it at that. I'll let the viewer think about what it may be. Or may not be.
Another truly magical place is disappearing from Second Life.
"Dear Members.
World's End Garden is closedown in 18/10/2013.
I end the production activities in SL.
I keep my shop@kowloonSIM and marketplace.
thank you for your all supports.
Lucia Genesis
from World's End Garden,with love."
Go and visit as long as you can. Take photos... then, remember.
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Worlds%20End%20Garden/96/9...
Anna, thank you for the texture: www.flickr.com/photos/lenabem-anna/4716416871/in/set-7215...
Vieux port (désaffecté) de Cayenne, Guyane. Mon premier essai avec le système de filtres (gris neutre gradué) Cokin. Merci à Richard Thompson pour ses conseils à propos des filtres GND.
Old harbor (closed down) of Cayenne, French Guiana. This is my first try with my Cokin's GND filters. Big thanks to Richard Thompson for his help/advices about sunset photography and particulary about GND filters.
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Grand sur fond noir | Large on black | Darkr
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a7rii + Isco Göttingen Kiptar 1:2/110 (projector lens)
Polaroid SX70. Polaroid 600 film. Blend filter.
"I'm running out of time
I'm out of step and closing down
And never sleep for wanting hours
The empty hours of greed and uselessly
Always the need to feel again
The real belief of something more than mockery
If only i could fill my heart with love...."
- The Cure
'Closedown'
Madrid
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so I flew in to Reno last week for a few days of work, and planned a shoot at Tahoe one night.
as I ascended the Reno side of the pass, and the snow and ice on the roads got more treacherous, I began to regret choosing the muscle car from the rental place. when I reached the flashing warning lights that said "snow tires or chains required beyond this point" and had to turn around, I realized I could have planned a little better in advance.
the following night, after a quick vehicle swap at the airport for an AWD jellybean, once again I attempted the pass. of course the weather was perfect and dry, so made it with no problems, jellybean or no.
sunset was meh because of the lack of clouds (which, introspectively, sounds pretty jaded, but there you have it) but once the sun went down, I knew the second attempt would be worth it.
« L’extrême et anéantissante fatigue où m’amène assez vite toute activité et tout exercice, me retire assez considérablement du monde familier. » (H.M.)
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The Colliery Zollern II/IV is located in the northwestern suburb of Bövinghausen of Dortmund, Germany. The Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG projected Zollern in 1898 as a model colliery.
Ground up construction began in 1898 on a new site. Most of the buildings of the colliery were built in solid brickwork by the architect Paul Knobbe and were completed in 1904 with the central engine house, in which the most up-to-date generators and machinery used in the colliery were housed. The architecture and state-of-the-art technology support the transition of Gothic-revival to Art Nouveau and the industrialization of the early 1900s.
Due to deadline pressure, the central engine house was built in iron framework construction with infilling of red brickwork, planned and executed by the Gutehoffnungshütte. The Art Nouveau styled main entrance was designed by the Berlin architect Bruno Möhring, it shows a lead glazing of blue, green and violet colored stained-glass. Counterpart of the main entrance is the big control board of polished marble in brass mounting, with a brass clock hanging from above.
Other buildings on the site include administration bureaus, blacksmith's shop and carpenter's shop, first-aid and fire station with stable, pithead baths, tools store and the central gateway.
In 1969, three years after its closedown, the colliery was recognized as Germany's first technical building monument of international importance. As of 1981, it has been the headquarters of the Westphalian Industrial Museum.
The original pit frames had been scrapped before 1969, two similar constructions from other collieries were reconstructed on this site in the 1980s.
Wrightbus Streetlite DF (door forward) in Chesterfield coach station Derbyshire. Acquired upon the closedown of Leasks of Lerwick, Shetland Isles Scotland.
Wrightbus Streetlite DF (door forward) in Chesterfield coach station Derbyshire. Acquired upon the closedown of Leasks of Lerwick, Shetland Isles Scotland.
This woman, identified only as Lisa, spontaneously threw herself down on the sidewalk and closed down Chicago CityHall this Sunday.
When asked about the nature of her grievances, she stated she was "mad as hell" and she "wasn't going to take it anymore!"
When pressed for more details, she replied that her list of complaints was "so long, she didn't know where to start." The rascal then got up and made a clean getaway before police could bring her to justice.
Walking through the grounds of the Ukrainain National Museum of the Second World War, I stumbled across a choir of teenage girls singing the country's national anthem, being filmed by a very professional crew with all the kit. I never go to the full story, and I wonder if they were recording something for TV closedown (if such things still exist)?
In 1982 The Western National Omnibus Company Ltd announced plans to split itself into four separate new companies and so Western National Ltd, Devon General Ltd, North Devon Ltd and Southern National Ltd all look to the road on 1 January 1983. Thirty years on, much has changed of course, and after various takeovers, reorganisations, renamings, and a conversion to a coach operator, just one of those four companies continues to trade.
That one is Western National Ltd which, after several changes of name, we now know as First South West Ltd. It hasn’t been plain sailing, mind, and it’s ‘patch’ has radically changed over the years. Initially it was set-up to cover Cornwall and the south-west corner of Devon, including Plymouth, Tavistock and Totnes. Subsequent events saw it expand with the acquisition of North Devon in 1999 but what had been a bullish, optimistic 1980s and early 1990s was to give way to a torrid twenty-first century where pressure to deliver the returns that First Head Office demanded, saw round after round of service cuts and minimal investment. This opened the door to competitors, particularly in Cornwall where it seemed that every cutback led to the replacement tenders being picked up by Truronian or Western Greyhound, allowing both, but particularly Western Greyhound, to develop a comprehensive network, strengthened by commercial initiatives and a fine eye for clever scheduling and great customer service. In 2009 Truronian would be purchased, probably as much to stop anyone else getting their hands on it as for anything else.
In North Devon, it was Stagecoach who picked up sufficient tenders to open a base in Barnstaple and started competing commercially to keep vehicles occupied during the day. When First decided it was all too much, they tried to sell to Stagecoach, only to have the deal blocked, so Stagecoach upped the competition and First walked away.
As already mentioned, back in the 1980s things had looked so much more hopeful. There had been the bright new (some would say garish) white/red/yellow/blue stripey livery (which gained the nickname ‘Captain Birdseye’ as the red, yellow and blue stripes were reminiscent of those used on fish finger boxes at the time, although to be pedantic, Birdseye’s stripes were actually red, white and blue www.thegreatbritishdiet.co.uk/Images/Birds%20Eye/Fish%20F. There was the Cornwall Bus & Coachways identity. Then came the more restrained but still smart, blue-and-cream-with-red-stripe livery. Then the ‘Badgers and Flags’ blue/white/red livery (officially, apparently, the flags were actually tickets but the name had already stuck) and the FirstGroup-era simplified white-with-blue-skirt-and red stripe livery, which had the blue and red reversed for North Devon. Lots of liveries, all very blue and not a hint of traditional green but at least the final livery did lead very neatly into First’s ‘Barbie 2’ non-low-floor livery, for which Western National appeared to have dispensation not to use the allegedly very expensive pink-fade vinyls for a while. Some would say that was an improvement! The love of blue didn’t stop at just liveries but destination blinds too.
Anyway. away from liveries and back to the early days, no-one should forget (try as we might!) the enthusiastic influx of Mercedes ‘Hoppa’ minibuses and along with new ownership from Plympton Coachlines backed by Badgerline, in 1987, the company embarked on a number of takeovers (such as Grenville, Harveys and Roberts – lots more liveries!), not to mention a full-on bus war with Plymouth Citybus.
In Plymouth, that 1988 bus war required plenty of extra buses which were either brand new off-the-peg dealer stock or second-hand acquisitions from the likes of Devon General, Southampton Citybus or fellow Badgerline Group subsidiaries. One of the ex-Devon General buses was 2856 (SFJ 136R) a Leyland National seen here on Royal Parade in 1988.
The bus war didn’t last, of course, and Badgerline eventually took full-control (later merging with GRT Bus Group to form FirstBus), although two further attempts to gain ground in Plymouth would occur some years later. Ugobus would fizzle out seemingly all by itself and the final attempt, brought on by First’s daft announcement of its Plymouth operations being ‘nearly in closedown mode’, caused Stagecoach and Citybus to register over some core First routes and First to compete more heavily on city routes. However the damage was done and Plymouth depot was sold to Stagecoach in September 2015.
At the same time fortunes were improving in Cornwall where Western Greyhound’s previously keen eye was now well off the ball and alongside suffering two arson attacks, WG got itself into an almighty mess from which it would never recover, allowing First to have pretty much all of west and mid Cornwall to itself again. Some way away, over in Somerset, another part of First – First Somerset & Avon – was fighting its own battle in Taunton and Bridgwater against a competitive onslaught from Webberbus. By now, though, a new management ethos throughout FirstGroup was giving a lot more control back to local managers and Taunton and Bridgwater was identified as an ideal location to try a new approach, leading to a new network, a new livery and a whole new identity. Like Devon & Cornwall, the Somerset operations had suffered from years of cuts and under-investment and the First name had become somewhat tarnished. The result was ‘Buses of Somerset’ with a two-tone green livery and control was switched to Devon & Cornwall’s management team with the two depots later being added onto that company’s licence.
Nearly thirty-three years since the creation of Western National Ltd from WNOC’s split, Cornwall has expanded, struggled and bounced back, North Devon was acquired and closed down, Plymouth and South Devon died a death of a thousand cuts leading it to be sold off and parts of Somerset have been added…. but the company survives. I doubt anyone could have predicted many of those events back in 1982!
« Je n’ai plus de “projet” bien descriptible et cette longue interruption qui m’a fait tant de bien n’a fait aussi que renforcer ma perplexité. » (N.B.)
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This the fourth of four hand memorial bronzes that mark a route of remembrance in Hoorn. They were fashioned by World War II resistance champion Truus Menger. This one is titled Steun (Support). The sculptures are a reminder of an atrocity from World War II when 5 Dutch citizens were lined up and shot in front of a church in retaliation for the Dutch resistance killing of a Dutch Nazi sympathizer George Herlee.
The inscription on this sculpture reads:
"PUT YOUR HAND
BUT ON MY HAND
HOLD ME, GIVE ME STRENGTH
STAY WITH ME IN DESPAIR
AND SOLITUDE
UNTIL IT IS FINISHED ... "
The long story:
On December 30th 1944 Rottenfuhrer George Herlee got eliminated in the barbershop of Mister B. Groot. As an act of revenge the Germans executed five innocent men.
On the fourth of January 1945 the Germans closedown the area around the church (Koepelkerk), some people who just passed-by were instructed to watch the thing that was about to happen. Around noon five men heavily guarded by German soldiers walked to the side of the church. The men were prisoners who probably didn’t even know why they were executed. The execution was carried from a truck with semi-trailer. The Germans must have used heavy artillery because you can still see the deep holes of the bounced off bullets. Normal bullets do not make such a deep holes.
These are the names of the men who gave their lives that day:
-Johan Versfelt; mechanic, born May 29th 1886 in Den Haag
-Gerardus Jonker; workman, born October 16th 1903 in Amsterdam
-Jacob Wilhelm Jansen; fish merchant, born December 15th 1910 in Amsterdam
-Hendrikus Martinus Immig; merchant, born July 19th 1917 in Amsterdam
-Johan Theodoor Jozeph Janssen; profession unknown, born March 21st 1921 in Bandoeng.
The monument is therefore a memory to this historical occurrence in Hoorn. Five men were killed in cold blood by the Germans in an injustice way. Later the monument also became a kind of a remembrance to the people so they would not forget about the terror that occurred in the Second World War.
Long before the Hands of Truus Menger were installed there was already a silent walk. The walk started at the ‘Westerdijk’ and finished at the ‘Kerkplein’. Since 1990 four bronze hands mark the route. The reason of the mark points is that people should think about the occurrences at the time. Without the hands it doesn’t work so well, because then you have no specific place to stop and contemplate. The hands represent departure, anger, despair and support. These aspects characterize the war.
Every year on 4 May in the Netherlands is National Remembrance Day.
Before the commemoration takes place many people participate in the annual "Silent Walk" from Westerdijk through the city to the Church Square. In Hoorn many people are familiar with the existence of the walk but not always the tragic meaning behind the route is known.
The walk ends were the five were shot at the church.
George Herlee had long been sought by the regional resistance. Herlee was one of the most notorious hunters of illegal immigrants hiding in the northern part of Holland. Many victims he had already turned in. Most of them ended up in prison on the Weteringschans in Amsterdam. There, they were tortured and humiliated to get a confession. Those who survived this torture were often executed in the dunes at Bloemendaal aan Zee or the Waalsdorpervlakte.
An early drive to Ottawa to take care of my grandchild due to daycare closedown due to possible COVID infection with respiratory symptoms there. This is a reflection of the low rising sun on another hot and humid day. Lots of traffic and trucks that I try to avoid as much as possible, that’s why I take backroads as much as possible.
10¼in gauge Co-CoDH No.4 (Yates 4/1979) is seen crossing the viaduct in Netherhall Woods on the Netherhall Woodland Railway with the KEG (Kentrail Enthusiast Group) "Cumbrian Closedown Special". With the railway having closed in 1992 the line was becoming increasingly overgrown but the owner Mr Yates agreed to a private visit and five of us were possibly his last passengers. Sadly the line never reopened because of rising insurance costs and the locomotives were sold in 1995 along with the stock and track. Although Nether Hall a listed ancient monument shares the same site as the railway I believe the ruins are on private land so all vestiges of the once lengthy 10¼in gauge railway were removed in 1995.
There is very little recorded in print about this line other than a brief mention in the Oakwood Press book "A Survey of Seaside Miniature Railways" suggesting it was extended in 1985 making it much longer than the ½ mile previously recorded when the line first opened. The new layout encompassed a passing loop and new station. Sadly its one of those lines that has passed into history with very little recorded in pictures or print, basics like a timeline of opening and closing dates have proved very illusive.
With thanks to Peter Scott: (addendum added 23/9/20)
The line first opened on 13th April 1979 and operated until the end of the Summer season in 1992. Mr Yates then operated the line as a private site for invited visitors until the whole railway was sold for removal in 1995. The track was removed along with the rolling stock and locomotives and went to the new Morecambe Bay Miniature Railway which opened in August 1997.