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Bracebridge Heath Y Station or RAF Branston Mere as it is also known was a code-breaking station in Lincolnshire which played a key role in the famous Enigma project.
The abandoned building near Lincoln was once a top secret nerve centre for a team of 'listeners' who spent the war intercepting German radio transmissions – and helping win the war.
It is now privately owned by a farmer who uses it to store wood, but it once hummed with life as teams of staff worked around the clock intercepting enemy transmissions to supply to Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes – home of the famous code-breakers.
P52 Assignment 33. “Science America” Magazine Shoot. Portrait of the founder of a new company that develops top notch code to prevent cyber theft.
The Postcard
A postcard bearing no publisher's name that was posted in Bognor on Thursday the 22nd. September 1904 to:
Miss G. Moore,
c/o Mrs. Tanner,
Royal William Yard,
Stonehouse,
Devon.
The brief message on the divided back was as follows:
"just arrived here.
A lovely stay.
With love,
N."
The Bathing Machine
Note the bathing machines on the beach.
The bathing machine is a Victorian device that declined in popularity in the first decade of the 20th. century when mixed gender bathing became acceptable.
The machine allowed people (especially women) to enter the water without being seen in their bathing costume by the opposite sex. How times have changed!
There are two modern close-up coloured views of a preserved bathing machine on the pepandtim photostream - if you do a tags search, the codes 54BML98 and 34EAS32 will get you there.
Bognor Regis
Bognor Regis is a seaside resort in West Sussex on the south coast of England, 55.5 miles (89 km) south-west of London.
The resort was developed by Sir Richard Hotham in the late 18th. century on what was a sandy, undeveloped coastline. It has been claimed that Hotham and his new resort are portrayed in Jane Austen's unfinished novel Sanditon.
The resort grew slowly in the first half of the 19th. century, but grew rapidly following the coming of the railway in 1864.
In 1929 the area was chosen by advisers as a suitable place for King George V to recuperate, which led to its regal suffix, by royal consent.
Butlin's has been present in the town since the early 1930's when an amusement park and zoo were opened. A holiday camp followed in 1960, and this has more recently moved towards hotel accommodation with modern amenities.
The First Female Flight Attendant
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 22nd. September 1904, Ellen Church was born in Cresco, Iowa. She became the first female flight attendant.
After graduating from Cresco High School, Church studied nursing, and worked in a San Francisco hospital. She was a pilot as well as a registered nurse.
Steve Stimpson, the manager of the San Francisco office of Boeing Air Transport (BAT), would not hire her as a pilot, but did pass along her suggestion to put nurses on board aeroplanes to calm the public's fear of flying.
In 1930, BAT hired Church as head stewardess, and she recruited seven others for a three-month trial period.
The stewardesses, or 'Sky Girls' as BAT called them, had to be registered nurses, 'Single, younger than 25 years old; weigh less than 115 pounds [52 kg]; and stand less than 5 feet, 4 inches tall [1.63 m]'.
In addition to attending to the passengers, they were expected to, when necessary, help with hauling luggage, fuelling and assisting pilots to push the aircraft into hangars. However, the salary was good at $125 a month.
Church became the first stewardess to fly. On the 15th. May 1930, she embarked on a Boeing 80A for a 20-hour flight from Oakland/San Francisco to Chicago, with 13 stops and 14 passengers.
Death of Ellen Church
The innovation was a resounding success - the other airlines followed BAT's example over the next few years, but an injury from an automobile accident terminated Church's career after 18 months.
A horse riding accident ended her life on the 22nd. August 1965.
Look who I got from stupid EMS today? It's my new guy from April Story, he is so cool! He hasn't got his own name and look, but we will work on it ^^ Now I call him JoJo, because I am huge fan of JoJo's Bizzarre Adventures
Attention Area/Code
For future reference, please use this guide in deciding when to wear red + white + blue plaid shirts:
1st and 3rd MONDAY: FL
2nd and 4th MONDAY: DR
1st and 3rd TUESDAY: CC
2nd and 4th TUESDAY: DD
1st and 3rd WEDNESDAY: CS
2nd and 4th WEDNESDAY: MB
1st and 3rd THURSDAY: KC
2nd and 4th THURSDAY: MH
1st and 3rd FRIDAY: CD
2nd and 4th FRIDAY: GS
1st and 3rd SATURDAY: MW
2nd and 4th SATURDAY: KS *or* KL
Sundays you are free to dress as you please, and Fridays remain Tiedays. No changes to skirts, slacks, undergarments or footwear.
Adherence to this schedule will minimize the chances of two or more Area/Coders showing up to a meeting wearing matching shirts and ensures a professional atmosphere in the workplace. If you have any questions about this change in policy, please let me know.
Code Blue!!! awww crap not on my camera lens,took a pic of my new roommates lolol,a fun test run — with Veronica Gearz and Blaze Vella.
Inside joke. My fiance, Jennifer, is a nurse. Her coworkers can't seem to tell her apart from her friend Mia who works on the same floor.