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Cross Country HST with Class 43 No.43208 passes Dawlish,with the 06:06 Edinburgh to Plymouth service,on the 25th of August 2021.
Charing Cross,[5] also known as London Charing Cross,[6] is a central London railway terminus in the City of Westminster, England. It is one of 18 stations managed by Network Rail[7] and all regular trains serving it are operated by Southeastern. It is the fifth busiest rail terminal in London.[8] The office and shopping complex above the station is formally known as Embankment Place.
The station takes its name from its location next to the central London road junction of Charing Cross. The front of the station faces the Strand, while at the other end is the northern end of Hungerford Bridge, which is crossed by all trains serving the station. Ticket barriers control access to all platforms, although the bridge entrance has no barriers it is only open to passengers during the morning peak hours. Therefore, there are regular ticket inspections carried out on the bridge.
Charing Cross is the London terminus of the South Eastern Main Line. All regular services are operated by Southeastern which provides the majority of commuter/regional services to South East London and Kent.
The original station building was built on the site of the Hungerford Market by the South Eastern Railway and opened on 11 January 1864. The station was designed by Sir John Hawkshaw, with a single span wrought iron roof arching over the six platforms on its relatively cramped site. It is built on a brick arched viaduct, the level of the rails above the ground varying from 13 feet (4.0 m) at the north-east end to 27 feet (8.2 m) at the bridge abutment at the south-east end. A year later the Charing Cross Hotel, designed by Edward Middleton Barry, opened on 15 May 1865 and gave the station an ornate frontage in the French Renaissance style.
Contemporary with the Charing Cross Hotel was a replica of the Eleanor Cross in Red Mansfield stone, also designed by Edward Middleton Barry, that was erected in the station forecourt. It was based on the original 13th-century Whitehall Cross that had been demolished in 1647. Distances in London are officially measured from the original site of the cross, now the statue of Charles I facing Whitehall, and not from this replica cross.
The condition of the cross deteriorated until it was in such a vulnerable condition that it was placed on the English Heritage At Risk Register in 2008. A ten-month project to repair and restore the cross was completed in August 2010. This work included recreating and attaching almost 100 missing ornamental features including heraldic shields, an angel, pinnacles, crockets and finials; securing weak or fractured masonry with stainless steel pins and rods and re-attaching decorative items which had previously been removed after becoming loose.
A 77-foot (23 m) length of the elegant original roof structure, comprising the two end bays at the south of the station, and part of the western wall collapsed at 3:45 pm on 5 December 1905. A gang of men were employed at the time in repairing, glazing and painting the section of roof which fell. Shortly after 3:30 pm, the roof emitted a loud noise, which was when someone noticed that one of the main tie rods had broken and was hanging down. Part of the roof began to sag and the western wall began to crack.
It was another 12 minutes before the collapse occurred, which enabled trains and platforms to be evacuated and incoming trains to be held back. The roof, girders and debris fell across four passenger trains standing in platforms 3, 4, 5 and 6, blocking all tracks were. The part of the western wall that fell had crashed through the wall and roof of the neighbouring Royal Avenue Theatre (now the Playhouse Theatre) in Northumberland Avenue, which was being reconstructed at the time. Six people died (two workmen on the roof, a W.H. Smith bookstall vendor and three workmen on the Royal Avenue Theatre site).[10]
At the Board Of Trade Inquiry into the accident expert, witnesses expressed doubts about the design of the roof, even though the cause of the failure was attributed to a faulty weld in a tie rod. Consequently, the South Eastern and Chatham Railway decided not to repair the roof but to replace it. An enormous travelling timber gantry had to be constructed to take the remainder of the station roof down safely. The replacement was a utilitarian post and girder structure supporting a ridge and furrow roof. The curve of the original roof design can still be seen on the interior brickwork. The station was re-opened on 19 March 1906.
Following bomb damage in the Second World War, the hotel received extensive repairs in 1951, ten years after being bombed. In general, this consisted of a whole new set of top floors. The elaborate Mansard roof of the upper floors of the hotel was rebuilt in a plain neo-Georgian white brick.
In 1990 most of the area over the British Rail platforms was covered by Embankment Place, a post-modern office and shopping complex designed by Terry Farrell and Partners. This development led to the replacement of almost the whole of the 1906 roof. The rear two spans of this structure – immediately adjacent to the existing concourse roof – were retained as part of an enlarged waiting area. In addition the original retaining side walls of the station which once supported it remain in near complete condition.[11] Most of the Embankment Place complex is currently occupied by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
In April 2014, the station held a celebration to mark the station's 150th anniversary which included a Kentish farmers market, staff in period costume, a guided walking tour and the unveiling of the new waiting room mural, produced by a local school.
St Michael, All Angels and the Holy Cross, Wormegay, Norfolk
One of East Anglia's more remote churches, half a mile from the nearest road down a long track. A place of silence and stillness. On the face of it a 13th Century church, but there is more to this than meets the eye.
For the second half of the 19th Century, Wormegay and Tottenhill churches were in the hands of one of the great Norfolk church eccentrics, the Reverend William Henry Henslowe. It would be no exaggeration to call Henslowe a controversial figure, but in fact the upset and acrimony he caused in his postings previous to Wormegay had caused him to be quietly moved on until, at the age of 38, he washed up here, where he would spend the rest of his life as perpetual curate. Some of his previous scrapes shine a positive light on his character. As acting chaplain to the Royal Artillery Regiment at Woolwich, he preached a series of sermons which were so increasingly critical of the brutality of military discipline in the barracks that eventually his superiors banned him and locked the doors of the chapel against him. The publication of the sermons in 1836 caused a national uproar and led to improvements in the Army's care of its ordinary soldiers. He applied for, and obtained the curacy of Southery in Norfolk, but fell into dispute with the new owner of the living, a wealthy brewer, who had purchased it for the benefit of his son.
And so in 1840 Henslowe came to Wormegay. An early controversy here occured in 1844, when Henslowe's failure to baptise a dying child in time led to him to refuse a Christian burial for it. Unfortunately for Henslowe, the child's parents were prominent Methodists and the event became a national scandal. It was not until a similar controversy at Akenham in Suffolk some thirty years later that there was a change to the national burial laws, allowing ministers of all denominations to bury in parish churchyards.
Henslowe was an early follower of the Oxford Movement, and an enthusiast for the introduction of High Church liturgy. This did not endear him to all of his parishioners, many of whom were non-conformists. He was against the establishment of a national School in Wormegay because the board was made up principally of Methodists, who on one occasion marched their charges out of his service (National School children had to attend the parish church) and then let the school fall moribund so that only a few girls attended, the other children travelling elsewhere to schools in what were perceived as less High Church parishes.
As was common with several prominent figures in the early Anglo-Catholic movement, there was a certain amount of fantasy injected into Henslowe's perception of church history. On the strength of his name, he decided that he was a direct descendant of Hengist the warrior chieftain who had invaded East Anglia in AD 454. He began to invest his parishes with an increasingly bizarre mythology, changing his spelling of Wormegay to Wermigey, and in 1854 publishing a long prose poem about it called Wermigey, or the Weir Amid the Water: A Norfolk legend of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses. By 1867, when he presented to the church the Bible which is still in use today, he had changed the spelling further to Wyrmygey, and the cover of the Bible records its donor as The Hon. and Right Rev. the Bishop-Rector Henslowe-Ministro. This may seem odd, but it was simply that, in the Middle Ages, the Rectories of Wormegay and Tottenhill had been the preserve of Wormegay Priory. Since the Prior had the status of a Bishop, in 1848 Henslowe had decided that he too was now a Bishop thanks to taking on the Rectories. He converted the early 17th Century back of a pulpit into a Bishop's throne, marking it Cathedra Wormegay around the original date, and Henslowe Ministro around the date 1848 below.
Henslowe died in 1890, and by the bequest of his will the church was almost entirely rebuilt, only the tower and the east wall of the chancel surviving. It is this wall which retains the church's most interesting feature, two elaborate image niches facing west either side of the east window. They are painted with canopies and curtains hanging from cords. Another old survival is an eroded stone depicting the crucifixion. In the 1980s, Mortlock saw this outside, on the west face of the tower. Today, it sits inside the church on the north side of the chancel.
This pattern is perfect for scrap busting. And believe me, I have plenty of fabric scraps.
WIP - project bag
Our Daily Challenge - Religion
I really like the simplicity of this cross and the wood grain. It is the one used on parish holidays.
Cross Country HST with Class 43 No.43208 passes Creech St Michael,with the 06:06 Edinburgh to Plymouth service,on the 26th of July 2021.
Compared to the original cross Bone Clipper set, which is technically more of a dingy, really, this is more of an actual clipper. Though real clippers had a mizzen mast.
*SURLY* cross check
Spec
Frame: *SURLY* cross check
Headset*CHRIS KING* nothreadset
Wheels:*ALEX RIMS*x*SHIMANO* hub
Stem:*FAIRWEATHER* UI-71 integrated stem
Handlebar:*SALSA* bellrap
Grip:*BLUE LUG* acrylic cloth bar tape
Shifter:*SHIMANO* barend shifter
Brakelever:*TEKTRO*
Brake:*PAUL*neo retro &touring canti brake
Tire: *BRUCE GORDON* rock n road all terrain
Saddle:*WTB* pure V race saddle BL special
Seat clamp: *SURLY*
Pedal:*MKS* sylvan touring pedal
A wooden Eastern Orthodox cross anchors the top of the church at Fort Ross, Sonoma County, California.
I did alot of reflecting here. My daughter had all the kids and I was wondering around taking pics. I wanted a pic as if I was at the foot of the cross, but the sky was too indifferent, so I chose this shot. It didn't stop me from wondering how I would have felt at the foot of the cross that day when my Savior died.
I saw this cross today, and this image came together much more quickly that normal....
Many thanks to:
Playing With Brushes for the "Soft Flowers on Light" background texture
www.flickr.com/photos/playingwithpsp/4327843351/
Clive Saxs for "Paint9" an overlay texture
www.flickr.com/photos/chorando/3272800800/
Asja for "Texture #85" the other overlay texture