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I swiped this from www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/img/compass-new.gif . The line engraving style on a 32 point compass and the notation makes it visually interesting.
"Popeye studied it, checked the compass needle quivering in front of him, and turned the ships bow 5 degrees to starboard"
- Popeye Ghost Ship, page 86.
Compass Rose quintet performs in front of the Oak Park Public Library on August 12. That's my cousin thumping away on bass.
Former Grey Green Leyland Royal Tiger Plaxton Paramount 3500 A850 UYM is seen in Hastings on 11th September, 1997. I don't know anything about Compass but believe they were from the Stoke on Trent area.
Bussola feng shui, in pregiata scatola in legno decorata
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Compass from India, blanket from Morocco; both from my sister who visited those places. I found this on a memory card I hadn't used since the beginning of the year.
The Compasses, Ludlow.
The structure on the left is the site of the "Corve Gate" in the old town walls.
The Compass Point development around Saunders Ness Road and taking in Mariners Mews and Sextant Avenue was built in the mid-80s forming a quiet, neat upmarket estate on the Isle of Dogs.
As part of the development, two tall blocks of flats are abutted by full height cylindrical towers, framing and echoing the view of silos across the Thames and acting as a small reminder of the estate's industrial past.
Architect Sir Jeremy Dixon's Georgian-inspired designs were built on Dudgeon's Wharf, reclaimed after the closure of the docks.
At the end of Sextant Avenue, a memorial remembers the old Wharf - not for its years of hard labour in the service of heavy industry - but for a reason more poignant and tragic.
Forty years ago the world was looking skywards for news of Nasa's audicious mission to take Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Mike Collins to the moon.
On July 17, a day after Apollo 11 shot into the skies atop a cone of fire, another explosion took the lives of five fireman, the biggest loss of life suffered by the London Fire Brigade in peace time.
Dudgeon's was a ship building firm in the 1800s and was one of a cluster that prospered on the island - including names such as Ash, Stewart's and Samuda's. At its height, in the early 1860s, it is estimated that the firms on the Isle of Dogs employed up to 15,000 men and boys in the shipyards and engineering firms.
The most iconic of the ships built at these docks was Isambard Kingdom Brunel's SS Great Eastern, the largest ship ever built at the time of her launch in 1858.
But the Great Eastern was a last hurrah for ship building on the Thames. The rivers of the North were more efficient and labour and materials were cheaper and in double-quick time large firms of the Thames went bankrupt and tens of thousands were out of a job.
People starved, shipyards became wastelands and revival would take many long painful years.
Some shipbuilding survived by specialising - Yarrow built steam-powered gunboats while other firms turned to ship repair. Shipbuilding skills evolved. Workers produced a diverse range of goods including parts for major civil engineering projects - bridges and gas holders - as well as boilers, engine parts, tanks, propellers and wire rope. Other skills were cannabilised into new industries - sacks and tarpaulins, woodworking and paint, varnishes and chemicals.
Industry survived one way and another for another 100 years of so until the docks and their associated works began disappearing in the 1960s.
The arrival of containers - which London couldn't handle - in the late 60s finally rendered the docklands obsolete.
By the time of the 1969 tragedy, the wharf was a redundant "tank farm" with an array of a hundred or so containers for storing oils and spirit, some up to 200,000 gallons in size. However, these tanks were destined to go as part of the regeneration of the land and demolition contractors had received advice on how to take apart these structures safely.
The demolition was rife with danger and difficulties and firefighters had frequently attended the site after sparks from cutting gear ignited small fires.
Less than two weeks before the fatal explosion, 40 men with eight pumps had tackled a fire on waste oil in a derelict tank and now another call arrived at Millwall Fire Station at 11.21am alerting the emergency services to another fire.
Two appliances were sent from Millwall in F Division and another from Brunswick Road. A foam tender from East Ham was sent later along with a fireboat from Greenwich.
Station Officer Innard, believing the fire to be out when he arrived, decided to put a curtain of water into the open top manhole of Tank 97.
Four other officers joined him on top of the tank to feed in the water. Later reports concluded that this pull of water drew air into the tank, mixing with the flammable vapours.
SO Innard then decided to ensure there was no further fire by opening the bottom manhole. Unable to find a spanner to undo the nuts, it was suggested they should be burned off.
As soon as a workman applied the cutting flame of his torch to the first nut, the vapours inside the tank ignited immediately, blowing the roof off the tank, together with the five firefighters and a work man.
The explosion happened at 11.52. Three appliances were sent from Bethnal Green and Bow. Their role was to collect the bodies.
Remembering the tragedy on a brigade forum, one ex-firefighter wrote: "I had been in the job for seven years when this happened and it really shook us. As you say 'Never forgotten' especially from us guys who could have been involved. Rest easy, mates."
THE VICTIMS
- Temporary Sub Officer Michael Gamble of F23 Millwall, 28, married, 10 years in the brigade.
- Fireman John Victor Appleby of F22 Brunswick Road, aged 23, married, three children, almost five years' service.
- Fireman Terrance Breen of F22 Brunswick Road, aged 37, married with three children, 12 years' service.
- Fireman Paul Carvosso of C25 Cannon Street, aged 23, married, one child, four years' service.
- Fireman Alfred Charles Smee of F23 Millwall, aged 47, one son, 24 years' service.
Edited illustration from the Internet Archive Book Image Photostream on Flickr of a compass rose with a fancy arrow pointing north.
47580 powers up towards the tunnel at Bl.Ffestiniog in the 'obligatory' rain towards Llandudno Junction.
St Mary, Rickinghall Superior, Suffolk
First church-exploring bike ride of the year.
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The two Rickinghall churches are non-identical twins, half a mile apart. Down in the lower village, the medieval parish church of Rickinghall Inferior, also dedicated to St Mary, is feminine and gorgeous. The upper church of Rickinghall Superior is more masculine, and perhaps also rather more reserved. This arises partly because it is redundant, but also because of the way in which the Rickinghall bypass cuts it off from its community. And yet, despite the proximity of that busy Diss to Bury road, the graveyard I climbed up into from the adjacent lane was a lovely place, full of snowdrops on this bright day in February 2019.
Approaching from the east though, it would be hard to find this church attractive. The broad 15th century east nave wall with its chequerboard effect spreads bleakly beyond the narrow 14th century chancel. The Victorians are blamed for a lot, but here we see two medieval architectural periods which are simply not speaking to each other. The fine 15th century tower lifts its head imperiously, not wholly approving, I suspect.
But, like all Churches Conservation Trust churches, this one is maintained beautifully inside, and obviously well-loved by the locals. It is a supreme irony that churches which fall into disuse should be cared for so lovingly, even if, as seems increasingly to be the case with CCT churches, it is not open during the day, and you have to find a key.
On a buttress on the south-west corner of the tower there is a curious scratching, which I first took to be an Ordnance Survey triangulation marker, but on closer inspection wondered if it was actually intended as a square kind of scratch dial. Sam Mortlock thinks it is Suffolk's best example of a mason's mark, depicting a pair of compasses. The church is generally heavily buttressed, including substantial ones on the porch with its sacred monograms.
I did not see this church before it was made redundant. I mention this because you step into a spendidly rustic atmosphere; this is a big, clean, aisleless nave, with tiled and stoned floors and fairly primitive 19th Century benches which are entirely rural in feel. I wonder if it was like this before the CCT took it over, or did they remove carpets and more claustrophobic furnishings? The font is later than that of Rickinghall Inferior, but traceried in a similar way. It benefits from the wide open space at the west end of the nave, and in general there is a feeling of openness and size here in comparison with the church down in the village.
The Perpendicular feel is also quite different to that of Rickinghall Inferior.The height of the chancel makes it feel rather narrow, which it isn't really. The glass in the east window is outstandingly good, by the O'Connor brothers, and depicting Christ welcoming the children, and, best of all, the Presentation in the Temple. Two young girls carry the sacrificial doves and candle - could they have been based on village children?
One village boy certainly remembered here is in glass on the south side of the chancel. He was Samuel Speare, a former altar boy here. Encouraged by the Rector, he set off to become a missionary at the age of fifteen. While working on the island of Zanzibar in 1873, he fell ill, was brought home to England and died. He was just twenty years old. The glass shows him with his real face as the Biblical Samuel serving in the Temple of Shiloah, and woken by the voice of God in the house of Eli. Above his head fly four cherubs with what the CCT information board describes as 'the heads of African boys'.
There are two fragments of older glass, a medieval lion and a continental bacchanalian cherub, probably 17th Century. The chancel has a fine castellated piscina.The rood loft stairs open out fully ten feet above the nave floor, suggesting that the medieval rood made full use of the height of the chancel. The stone benches which run beneath the nave windows are also of interest, and a rare feature in an East Anglian church. They date from the time when corporate worship was just becoming the norm, a century or so before the Reformation. You can imagine villagers sitting there to listen to itinerant preachers expounding the Gospel.
Although you'd fall for the exterior of the sister church first any day, the setting and interior here are so lovely that it seems a shame that Rickinghall Superior is no longer used for regular worship. The other large Perpendicular church which served the extended village of Rickinghall-cum-Botesdale, at Redgrave, has also now been declared redundant, which is also a shame.
Foundation-pieced seat pad - to learn how to do a compass design. Cotton batiks bought at Yoders Department Store on a trip to Indianna. Machine pieced and quilted. 2005.
This prairie wildflower may be Ohio's tallest. It can attain heights of 10 feet. It is state-listed as "threatened" in Ohio because of its scarcity. This one was found in a restored prairie area in Miller Ecological Park in Lebanon, Ohio.
For 2014, the Jeep Compass interior has been tastefully upgraded with accents and trim that customers will appreciate. Upgraded features include a new interior trim option in the Compass Limited model: Saddle Brown perforated leather seating with accent stitching. The Latitude model includes a new sport mesh and vinyl seat with light gray accent stitching, and the Light Pebble Beige trim features a new Tangerine accent stitch on the seats. In addition, the armrests and center console lid are now wrapped in vinyl and the instrument cluster overlay graphics have been updated.
New satin chrome finish adorns the center bezel, shifter bezel and pull cups and a new bin applique with badge round out the interior design upgrades.
The final act at Mysterium Compass during the 2010 National Scout Jamboree in Fort A.P. Hill, V.A. Tuesday Aug. 3, 2010. Photo by Tom Copeland Jr
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