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week 29 - compass. My first time trying this pose! I'd seen it, but didn't see how to get into it until yoga class this week. Very excited. :)
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.
Compass Bus MX58VGP in Worthing on service 7A to Lancing via Broadwater - Lyons Farm - Sompting. 17th May 2013.
Compass Bus Alexander Dart MPD Pointer SN 56 AXC on my local route a short while ago, 29th October 2013. This example started life with Coakley Bus in Scotland.
Today, Compass Bus took over 5 buses worth of East Sussex County Council tenders previously operated by Renown. GX 05 AOP was seen on the Newhaven Town Service this morning.
Apparently this compass Rose represents the different Celtic peoples of the world. It's located close enough to the Tower of Hercules that this photo was taken from its shadow. The endless view over the Atlantic would have represented the literal end of the Earth for the Romans who first came to the region in the second century B.C.E.
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The theme for the Compass Festival this year is Desire. This image is for the front and back cover of the programme.
Compass Travel SN54 HXG, a Transbus Enviro 300 B44F+27 that was new to Alexander Dennis as demonstrator January 2005. It was sold to Huntingdon & District (fleet no 5334) August 2006.
Acquired by "Stagecoach in the Fens" retaining Huntingdon & District livery, (fleet no 27583) March 2008.
Stored out of service by August 2009.
Subsequently owned by Houstons, Lockerbie by August 2010.
Purchased by Compass for Sainsbury's Chichester contract 28 January 2011.
Seen here in Bognor Regis on Tuesday 22.04.2012 on it's way to Sainsbury at Chichester.
Step 3: Shove the magnet through the slit in the foam tray.
Building a directional compass the really easy way. Details at http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/EasyCompass
47760 leads The Ynys Môn Express into Blaenau Ffestiniog during its return journey from Holyhead on Wednesday 29th May 2013. This was a rather unusual 'slot' for a special up and down the Conwy Valley.
Compass Bus Enviro 300 SN54 HXG passes through Telscombe Cliffs on 11th August, 2016, whilst working an extra on Brighton & Hove's service 12X between Newhaven and Brighton
Compass Illuminati is a 3D mixed media collage of hand cut digitally manipulated images printed on archival cotton rag paper. Each hand cut image is given it's depth through strategically place foam core supports that are not visible. Artistically bent copper wire zig zags through the image adding further depth. The finished collage is sealed with UV spray to protect against fading.
The finished collage is placed in a shadow box square frame with glass front measuring 5"W x 5"H x 1.75"D.
This is an original one of a kind ( OOAK )
A shot of the Compass Island being scrapped at Able UK's Teesside Environmental Reclamation & Recycling Centre (TERRC) at Graythorp, Hartlepool. 15th November 2009.
Former National Travel East Leyland Leopard Duple Dominant MWG 500P was one of many ex NBC Leopards refurbished by Stuart Johnson dealer before onward sale. This example passed to Compass Royston of Stockton-on-Tees and was seen in Scarborough in July, 1989.
This beautiful summer-blooming wildflower is rare in Ohio and is officially listed as endangered here.
A vendor's wares - beautiful wood encased pocket watches and compasses - Tennessee Renaissance Festival - May 15, 2011
View of the south face of the compass obelisque and the Marshall County Courthouse from on top of the Grave Creek Mound, Moundsville, WV.
Junior Guides at the CW Region camp in Grenfell had fun learning about compasses and direction with Jan & mother helpers