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In the midst of blizzard-like conditions, the ducks of Brookside Gardens seemed to be unbothered by such matters. So perhaps the title really should be: Content Ducks Cold Photographer.
Telecommunications.
"Have you signed the Official Secrets Act?"
The highly visible Wenallt Mast (see inset note, background- right hand) was a well known landmark that acted as a sentinel on the ridge to the north of Cardiff.
A telecommunications installation ("BT war headquarters for Wales"- see below) that served as an early warning system and provided a visual symbol of the Cold War era.
The foreground installation in the above photo was - I am led to believe* - the site of a secret communications post (* see note added below subsequently!)
Located almost in the shadow of the Wenallt Mast at Coryton, was Regional War Room (Region 8) - one of 13 UK regional war rooms; a government command and control centre, located in the grounds of the Wales and the Marches Headquarters of the GPO General Post Office (near the Coryton roundabout, M4): OS Grid Ref: ST146812
Site Name: Cardiff (Coryton) Regional War Room, (Region 8), Coryton, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, OS Grid Ref: ST146812 www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/c/cardiff_coryton/index3.html
This Glock now firmly locks into my hand, the texture is not so rough that it will snag on clothing. Perfect for Carry. This is The “Carry Texture”
Had run out of Acros, so went into my TMY2 stock and used the Rodinal to Xtol schema. The combo of an old and new developer with this square grain film seemed to work out well. It doesn't have the same tonality as Acros, but the versatility is higher. The grain is quite impressive, as is the accutance, particularly with a 400 speed film. A very happy day to my fellow impressive flickeranians.
Domingo é dia de chocolate quente, filmes e preguiça.
Sunday is day of hot chocolate, movies and laziness.
Cold and snow covered, these rocks boldly interrupt the path of the swift flowing Virgin River as it exits the narrows.
The reactor pool at the High Flux Isotope Reactor. Primarily a research reactor, the HFIR also is used for the production of medical isotopes.
Leica MP
Leica Elmarit 28mm f/2.8 III
Kodak T-Max 100
Ars Imago FD 1+39
6 min 20°C
Scan from negative film
It's easy., at this remove from eighty years later, to believe that the end of the second world war meant that the world enjoyed immediate and stable peace.
Nothing could be further from the truth: there were fears of the war continuing as a struggle between the democracies of the West and the Communist bloc, with nuclear weapons able to annihilate entire cities. Britain prepared by building its own nuclear deterrent, whilst to protect the civilian population it rebuilt the ARP function - now known as Civil Defence, or CD. It also needed people to join the Auxiliary Fire Service and as Police Specials - fully qualified, but on-call, firefighters and Police.
The Civil Defence Corps, the auxiliary Fire Service and the Police needed recruits - thousands of them. Local authorities up and down the country were responsible for full and part-time posts to observe incoming aircraft, or look after areas of each town to rescue survivors and help the Police keep order in a post-apocalypse Britain.
Bolton Corporation used a fairly imaginative way to raise awareness and gain recruits for its CD unit, Fire Service and Police. Withdrawn Leyland bus number 186 was taken into the paint shop where the Corporation Transport's craftsmen gave full head to their creative talents, with this amazing advertising livery. 186 was driven around Bolton to drum up recruits - we don't know how successful it was in Bolton, but we do know that it was always a struggle to get CD recruits as the pay was very low and as time went on, its relevance faded as the Cold War settled into a semi-stable, sullen sense of mutual destruction.
By then 186 had also lost its relevance - after a time promoting Civil Defence, 186 was sent to the scrapyard. You can still see preserved Bolton buses, not least number 77 of 1956 which is now in the Museum of Transport Greater Manchester.
If you'd like to know more about the Museum of Transport Greater Manchester and its collection of vintage buses, go to motgm.uk.
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The Lightning Preservation Group
A group of enthusiasts based at Bruntingthorpe airfield Nr Leicester who are dedicated to maintaining two of the last few remaining English Electric LIGHTNING aircraft in fully functional condition.
- See more at: www.lightnings.org.uk/#sthash.5Or5f7N9.dpuf
Dec 31st 2008 - a cold (-3ºC), frosty and misty end to the year. I was only outside the car for a few minutes, but my fingers went numb.