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Compass Bus Dennis Trident T183CLO unloads at Three Bridges Station on rail replacement from Brighton.
i cut this tile compass rose with a wet saw and didn't lose a finger.
found a compass rose design online, printed it, had it blown up poster size at kinko's. cost including poster and tile ~ $35.
fun time indeed. looks cool on the map!
Square Waterhole/Mount Compass. White settlement began in the 1850s primarily with a small licensed inn which provided ale for the bullock teams carting Willunga slate to the Victor Harbor and Goolwa districts. The first land was purchased in 1854. The district was known as “Square Waterhole” as a large square hole had been cut for extracting peat! The locality was on the land route from Willunga to Encounter Bay but the district was only used for grazing area because the soil was so swampy and peaty. Development proceeded from 1890 when a small town was surveyed. In 1892 the district was subdivided into 100-acre farms for the cutting of peat, the growing of vegetables and dairying. The first dairy cows were recorded in 1899. This industry expanded with the development of refrigeration in the early 1890s which allowed export of local butter to England. Dairying further expanded in the 1920s when advances in soil technology and fertilisers allowed for improved pastures. Dairying is still a major activity in the district. A butter and cheese factory opened at Mt Compass in 1956. It was run by Dairyvale and it closed in 1996. A community hall opened in 1903 and a town cemetery was established. The first church which was erected in 1916 was the Church of Christ. A school (1899), Post Office and co-op store were also open by then. St. John’s Lutheran Church opened in 1958. It was consecrated in 1961 and still operates. The Anglican Church in Mount Compass also opened in 1961.
A panorama made from shots taken from a very small, very wobbly boat in the ocean.
The original is a 39 megapixel file.
Galileo designed this military compass for Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga. He got a gold chain and two silver dishes for it. It now lives in the Putnam Gallery at the Harvard Science Center.
Arriva Kent & Surrey decided that service 32, taken on commercially (with de minimis funding) in September 2012 as part of phase 3 of Surrey CC's Bus Review, was not performing adequately.
Surrey CC thus tendered for the route, with Compass Bus winning the new contract and taking over the service from Monday 1st June 2015. This expanded their operations from their Dunsfold base (which also runs the 42).
Arriva's last day was Saturday 30th May 2015. They had run the service since the demise of Tillingbourne in 2001.
Seen here in Earlswood is Compass Bus SK15 HBC, taking the off peak 32 route down Emlyn Road, while heading for Redhill.
Emlyn Road, Earlswood, Redhill, Surrey.
Comprehensive Safeguards Capacity Building for States: ISSAS and COMPASS, a Safeguard side event at the IAEA 66th General Conference. IAEA, Vienna, Austria. 27 September 2022
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
The IAEA offers comprehensive capacity building support to help States meet their international nuclear safeguards obligations. This event will highlight such assistance, namely the IAEA State System of Accounting for and Control of Nuclear Material Advisory Service (ISSAS) and the IAEA Comprehensive Capacity-Building Initiative for SSACs and SRAs (COMPASS). Participants will learn about the achievements, contributions, support, and future plans in helping States implement effective and efficient safeguards.
Arriva Kent & Surrey decided that service 32, taken on commercially (with de minimis funding) in September 2012 as part of phase 3 of Surrey CC's Bus Review, was not performing adequately.
Surrey CC thus tendered for the route, with Compass Bus winning the new contract and taking over the service from Monday 1st June 2015. This expanded their operations from their Dunsfold base (which also runs the 42).
Arriva's last day was Saturday 30th May 2015. They had run the service since the demise of Tillingbourne in 2001.
Enviro SK15 HBE is seen here leaving Redhill bus station, at the start of a journey to Guildford.
Stations Roundabout, Redhill, Surrey.
Compass Bus provide several buses for the Albion Park & Ride services. Alexander Dennis Dart Enviro 200 GX 09 AGU arrives of the match last Wednesday evening with a full complement of passengers.
still sailing south (I took this photo frrom the side, so the point that should be read is on the left) sunday evening, until we can get into the current of the Gulf Stream which will carry us northeasterly, where we actually want to go
we got within 30 miles of Cuba before we turned -- kind of exciting!
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.