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With only 37 days remaining until the big grand opening on April 26th, contractors rush to complete Utah Transit Authority's Salt Lake Central commuter rail station at 3rd South and 6th West on March 20, 2008.
You knew where this was going.
I'm not gonna lie, this was originally conceived as a retirement post.
I mean, where do I go from here? I've completed the holy collection, and I feel like I've been out of ideas for a while honestly. Just been killing time till the last of these came in.
Honestly I haven't really been feeling the lego thing lately. Don't get me wrong, I love the hobby and the community and all you guys, but I dunno, the appeal isn't the same these days, and I've been kinda trying to figure out like, what's my plan for this collection in the long run. What am I gonna do with this stuff in five, ten years. Just being existential and crap. Plus I've just had a lot going on, so I haven't really found the time, and, in a way, I feel like I've pretty much accomplished everything I could have hoped to do. Well, outside of finishing up my JP figs, and making the perfect Popeye figs, who I do have plans for, but not the parts. I'd also love to do a Squad series someday like Moth Stories, but I haven't got the time or means right now.
This isn't retirement though, just musing. I'll still be around, fear not.
ANYWAYS, you're not hear for my existential crap, you're here to ask if that Gordon is a real Christo. Ha!
All of these figs, save for Man-Bat, Moth, Hatter, Ra's, Hush, Clayface, Batgirl and Gordon, are the 100% official, classic 2006-8 Bat figs. All of em. This is essentially my dream collection, and I'm stoked to finally have them all.
Hush is a LYL Brick custom, Clayface is one of those cheapass knockoffs, Moth is a purist custom, Ra's and Man-Bat are as well, save for the former's hair and latter's wings, Hatter has a painted CMF Balloon clown hat, an Onlinesailin head, and that Western torso with the card suits. Batgirl is old news, and yes, Commissioner Gordon is indeed a Christo, supplied to me by Saga Customs/Bravo Bricks, a gentleman and scholar. I had to wait a good many months, but it was damn well worth it.
Anyways, it's no Sharp Hand Joe, but this would have made a damn fine retirement post I think.
Cheers everybody, I'll see you round the flickersphere
Ce passage forme le prolongement de la rue de Choiseul, qui porte le nom d'Étienne-François de Choiseul-Beaupré-Stainville, ministre de la Guerre et ministre des Affaires étrangères sous Louis XV.
Le passage Choiseul fut édifié entre 1825 et 1827 à proximité des Grands Boulevards, alors très fréquentés, à l'initiative de la banque Mallet et Cie en vue de réaliser une opération d'ordre spéculatif.
Pour cela, on fit détruire les hôtels de Lionne, de Langlée, de Gesvres (dont le porche constitue encore l’entrée nord du passage) et Radepont, en projetant de construire des immeubles à leur place. Or, seul le passage Choiseul fut bâti finalement.
Les plans ont été dessinés par l'architecte François Mazois1 mais celui-ci ne verra pas l'achèvement de son travail puisqu'il meurt en 1826. La relève est assurée par Antoine Tavernier qui fut chargé de l'achèvement du passage.
Le passage est le plus long des passages couverts parisiens avec une longueur de 190 m pour une largeur de 3,7 m. Il consiste en une enfilade d'arcades sur pilastres au niveau du rez-de-chaussée. Ce dernier et l'entresol sont occupés en majorité par des boutiques tandis que les premier et second étages sont plutôt résidentiels. Il est recouvert d'une verrière qui fut remplacée vers 1907.
This passage forms the extension of the rue de Choiseul, named after Étienne-François de Choiseul-Beaupré-Stainville, Minister of War and Minister of Foreign Affairs under Louis XV.
The Passage Choiseul was built between 1825 and 1827 near the Grands Boulevards, which were very busy at the time, on the initiative of the bank Mallet et Cie in order to carry out a speculative operation.
To this end, the hotels of Lionne, Langlée, Gesvres (whose porch still forms the northern entrance to the passage) and Radepont were demolished, with plans to construct buildings in their place. However, only the Passage Choiseul was finally built.
The plans were drawn up by the architect François Mazois1 but he did not see his work through to completion as he died in 1826. He was succeeded by Antoine Tavernier, who was responsible for completing the passage.
The passage is the longest of the Parisian covered passages with a length of 190 m for a width of 3.7 m. It consists of a series of arcades on pilasters on the ground floor. The ground floor and the mezzanine are mostly occupied by shops, while the first and second floors are more residential. It is covered by a glass roof which was replaced around 1907.
I love these abandoned furniture/appliance finds. Mind you, I think that it's horrible that people dump their old crap like this. But in rural America, THIS is our "art in public places!" ;)
BTW, this shot completes another one:
This is the 3rd and last photo of the series that I took last summer at the Edro III shipwreck in Pegeia (or Peyia), Cyprus. In case you are interested, the two previous photos are Rusty Calmness and Monochrome
I was lucky enough to get a beautiful sunset with some interesting clouds in the sky. I was waiting for the sun to hide behind the clouds, but there were a lot of people at the site while I was taking the shot. Therefore I decided to lower both the highlights and shadows in post-processing, to create silhouettes of the ship and the remaining foreground features on the right.
Not quite, there are several other projects on the go but the little city by the sea is beginning to look BIG
Taken 8 days before the first day of public services on the Manchester Metrolink, the paving of the Metrolink track nears completion between Aytoun Street and London Road (A6) where the Metrolink enters the Piccadilly Station undercroft.
28th March 1992
After completion of Operation Desert Storm, the USS Missouri paused briefly in Australia and Hawaii en route home to Long Beach Naval Station. There her officers and crew received a hero’s welcome by thousands of friends and family.
But the USS Missouri had one final mission to complete.
On December 7, 1991, the Missouri returned to the historic waters of Pearl Harbor for the 50th anniversary commemoration of the attack on the Hawaiian Islands (the start of America's involvement in WWII). Moored a short distance from the USS Arizona Memorial, the Missouri and Arizona provide a symbolic connection from the “day which will live in infamy” to the formal ending of World War II (signed on the deck of the Missouri).
Her final mission complete, the officers and crew of the Missouri now prepared for the difficult task of retiring the historic battleship. On March 31, 1992, the Missouri was decommissioned for the final time; the last active service battleship in the world, her departing officers and crew the last battleship sailors.
Though her active naval service is complete, her legacy is not forgotten. On January 29, 1999, after years of dedicated community effort, the Battleship Missouri returned to service as centerpiece of the Battleship Missouri Memorial in Pearl Harbor.
Information above taken from the Battleship Missouri Memorial website:
This image was taken from across the harbor at the Pearl Harbor Visitors Center. Editing was completed in Photoshop CS6 and final conversion to black & white was done with Nik Silver Efex Pro II.
Harvest completion is a satisfing feeling, but only for a short while. There is next season planting to get the ground ready for, probably some equipment to be repaired and if you are raising livestock well, they get hungry just like kids. Harvest completion also means the holidays are approaching and that means time with family and friends.
An image may be purchased at fineartamerica.com/featured/harvest-completion-ed-peterso...
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 28 miles (45 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 165,521. It is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census.
The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.
On July 4, 1961 African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962 a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida
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Having just completed shunting 9101 into 3 portions at Merbein, G527, X44 and XR555 run back to the front of the train to stable the engines while the new containers are loaded onto the wagons and form 9102.
G527 later will detach and run light engine to Mildura to pick up 6 cement hoppers for the run to Melbourne to unload at Gheringhap and onto Waurn Ponds.
During 2015, the Victorian State Government announced a plan to convert sections of the Yelta line into Standard Gauge along with building brand new lines connection regional areas to ports faster and effective. Trains like 9101/9102 Mildura goods could be a thing of the past come 2016.
Thursday 1st October 2015
Mitt Romney inspects the 2019 Utah Copper Spike, created to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
I drew friend's Blythe by Photoshop.
She's site is www1.odn.ne.jp/momolita/
In March 2001, the United Enthusiasts Club organised a visit to Northern Counties Motor & Engineering Co., Wigan. An unidentified Volvo B7TL / Plaxton President for London Central is approaching completion. (31st March 2001: Sl.6743)
A worker burnished a propeller that has been cast by pouring molten recycled metal into moulds set in the earth floor of the rudimentary workshop.
There are numerous such enterprises set back from the banks of the Buriganga River servicing the needs of the ship building yards in Dhaka.
Dhaka, Bangladesh. © David Hill March 2025
Standing at the Derwent Mouth having completed our journey from Ladybower Reservoir, 55 miles later. Now to find a new adventure that will keep us going!
This image from April of 2007. Car is in basement of Calderwood building, and almost ready to be installed in "hidden" chamber.
Just a few more things to do, skirting boards, pictures on the walls. Also waiting on a chair and rug that I ordered from Etsy
From my set entitled “Virginia Beach”
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In my collection entitled “Virginia Beach, Williamsburg, Jamestown, Yorktown”
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From my photostream:
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Beach,_Virginia
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Virginia Beach is an independent city located in the South Hampton Roads area in the Commonwealth of Virginia, on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. It is the most populous city in Virginia and the 41st largest city in the United States, with an estimated population of 435,619 in 2006.[3]
Virginia Beach is the easternmost of the Seven Cities of Hampton Roads that make up the core of the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA. This area, known as "America's First Region", also includes the independent cities of Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Suffolk, as well as other smaller cities, counties and towns of Hampton Roads.
Virginia Beach is best known as a resort, with miles of beaches and hundreds of hotels, motels, and restaurants along its oceanfront. Every year it is host to the East Coast Surfing Championship as well as the North American Sand Soccer Championship that attracts teams from around the world. It is also home to several state parks, several long protected beach areas, three military bases, a number of large corporations, two universities, and historic sites. Near the point where the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean meet, Cape Henry was the site of the first landing of the English colonists bound for Jamestown on April 26, 1607.
The city is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having the longest pleasure beach in the world. It is located at the southern end of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, the longest bridge-tunnel complex in the world.[4]
Chesepians were the first inhabitants of the area now known as South Hampton Roads in Virginia of which anything is known.[5] The Algonquian word "Chesepioc" means "Great Shellfish Bay", a reference to the Chesapeake Bay. They occupied an area which is now the independent cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake and Virginia Beach.[6]
In 1607, after a voyage of 144 days, three ships headed by Captain Christopher Newport carrying 105 men and boys made their first landfall in the New World where the Atlantic Ocean meets the southern mouth of the Chesapeake Bay in the northeastern part of the city. They named it Cape Henry, after Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of King James I of England. However, these English colonists of the Virginia Company of London left the area, as they were under orders to seek a site further inland which would be more sheltered from ships of competing European countries. They created their first permanent settlement at Jamestown.[7]
Adam Thoroughgood (1604-1640) of King's Lynn, Norfolk, England is one of the earliest Englishmen to settle in the area which became Virginia Beach. At the age of 18, he became an indentured servant to pay for passage to the Virginia Colony. He earned his freedom and became a leading citizen of the area. In 1629, he was elected to the House of Burgesses for Elizabeth Cittie [sic], one of four "citties" (or incorporations) which were subdivided areas established in 1619. [8]
In 1634, the Colony was divided into the original eight shires of Virginia, soon renamed as counties. Thoroughgood is credited with using the name of his home in England when helping name New Norfolk County in 1637. The following year, New Norfolk County was split into Upper Norfolk County (soon renamed Nansemond County) and Lower Norfolk County. Thoroughgood's choice of residence after 1634 was along the Lynnhaven River, also named for his home in England. Lower Norfolk County was quite large, and stretched all the way from the Atlantic Ocean west past the Elizabeth River, encompassing the entire area now within the modern cities of Portsmouth, Norfolk, Chesapeake, and Virginia Beach.[8]
In 1691, Lower Norfolk County was divided to form Norfolk County and Princess Anne County. Princess Anne, the easternmost county in South Hampton Roads, extended northward from the North Carolina border to Cape Henry at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, and included all of the area fronting the Atlantic Ocean. Princess Anne County was to last from 1691 to 1963, over 250 years.[9]
The small resort area of Virginia Beach grew in Princess Anne County beginning in the late 19th century, particularly after the 1888 arrival of rail service and electricity and the opening of the original Princess Anne Hotel at the oceanfront near the tiny community of Seatack. In 1891, guests at the new hotel watched the wreck and rescue efforts of the United States Life-Saving Service for the Norwegian bark Dictator. The ship's figurehead, which washed up on the beach several days later, was erected as a modest monument to the victims and rescuers along the oceanfront for more than 50 years, and later became the inspiration for the current matching Norwegian Lady Monuments in Virginia Beach, and Moss, Norway.[10]
Although the resort was initially dependent upon railroad and electric trolley service, the completion of Virginia Beach Boulevard in 1922, which extended from Norfolk to the oceanfront, opened the way for automobiles, buses, trucks, and passenger rail service, the latter of which was eventually discontinued. The growing resort of Virginia Beach became an incorporated town in 1906. In 1927 The Cavalier Hotel opened and became an extremely popular vacation spot for both the wealthy and celebrities of the time. Over the next 45 years, Virginia Beach continued to grow in popularity as a seasonal vacation spot, and casinos gave way to amusement parks and family-oriented attractions. Virginia Beach became politically independent of Princess Anne County as an independent city in 1952, although the numerous ties between Virginia Beach and Princess Anne remained. In 1963, after approval by referendum of the voters of the City of Virginia Beach and Princess Anne County, and with the approval of the Virginia General Assembly, the two political subdivisions were consolidated as a new, much larger independent city, retaining the better-known name of the Virginia Beach resort.[11]
Real estate, defense, and tourism are major sectors of the Virginia Beach economy, but the city has begun to run out of clear land available for new construction above the Green Line, an urban growth boundary dividing the urban northern and rural southern sections of the city.[12]
As such, while Virginia Beach does not have a redevelopment authority, local public and private groups have maintained a vested interest in real-estate redevelopment, resulting in a number of joint public-private projects such as commercial parks. Examples of this are the Virginia Beach Convention Center, the Oceanfront Hilton Hotel, and the Virginia Beach Town Center. Using tax increment financing through creation of special tax districts and street and infrastructure construction, the City was able to assist in financing the projects making them a reality. The Town Center opened in 2003 and still has construction taking place, while the Convention Center opened in 2005.[13] [14]
In addition, some unique structures like the Alan B. Sheppard Dome ("The Dome"), a geodesic dome and convention center designed by Buckminster Fuller and dedicated to the career of astronaut Alan Shepard that was built in the 1960s were destroyed by the city.[15]
Infill and development of residential neighborhoods has placed a number of operating constraints on Naval Air Station Oceana, a major fighter jet base for the U.S. Navy. While the airbase currently enjoys wide support from Virginia Beach at large, the Pentagon Base Realignment and Closure commission has proposed closure of Oceana within the next decade.[16]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasailing
Parasailing, also known as parascending, is a recreational activity where a person is towed behind a vehicle (usually a boat) while attached to a specially designed parachute, known as a parasail. The boat then drives off, carrying the parascender into the air. If the boat is powerful enough, two or three people can parasail behind it at the same time. The parascender has little or no control over the parachute.
There are six parts of a parasail. The harness attaches the pilot to the parasail, which is connected to the boat, or other speeding vehicle, by the tow rope. The activity is primarily an amusement ride, not to be confused with the sport of paragliding. There are parasailing locations all over the world.
Land based parasailing has also been formed into competition sport in Northern Europe and especially in Finland. In land based parasailing, the parasail is towed behind a car or a snowmobile. In accuracy competitions the tow-vehicle controls the speed and height, and the parascender controls the lateral movement of the parasail. The competitions consist of two parts: dropping or throwing a streamer to a target, and accuracy landing. The sport was developed at the end of the 1990s in growing rapidly. The first international competitions were held in 2004.
Post Processing:
PhotoShop Elements 5: posterization, sumi-e, slanted strokes.
Princes Pier is a 580 metre long historic pier on Port Phillip, in Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was known as the New Railway Pier until renamed Prince's Pier after the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) who visited Melbourne in May 1920.
The pier was constructed between 1912 and 1915 by the Melbourne Harbour Trust to supplement the adjacent Station Pier (originally the 'Railway Pier'). From completion in 1915 until 1969 it was also a major arrival point for new migrants, particularly during the post-war period. In addition to a pier, there was a gatehouse and barriers, terminal building, amenities rooms, goods lockers, ablution blocks, railway sidings and passenger gangways.
With the containerisation boom the pier became unused, being closed to public access in the early 1990s due to the poor timber condition, and squatters caused a fire in the late 1990s that destroyed the store structures. A refurbishment estimated to cost $14 million was announced by the State Government in April 2006, with the first 196 metres of the Pier fully restored, beyond that point the decking being removed and the original pylons preserved. A full restoration was estimated at $60 million. A contract for the work was awarded in June 2007, and work began in October of the same year. The pier reopened to the public in December 2011. - From Wikipedia
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37 students cross the stage in the Celebration of Completion as they receive their degrees' from Baldwin Wallace University in the John Patrick Theatre at the Kleist Center for Art & Drama. Winter graduation ceremony.
I figured after showing you two ends, I would share a middle.
Funny thing is, I have wanted to do a photo series like this using the human body and have just never gotten around to it. Instead, it took a snowshoe trip up to Mirror Lake to find it.
Abandoned in 1962 with the completion of the Crookton Line Change, this 400 foot curved bore is part of the original A&P alignment somewhere circa 1882-ish. In 1897, the ATSF acquired the A&P assets and operated the route under the ATSF subsidiary Santa Fe Pacific railroad. A year later tragedy struck the route when wooden timbers supporting the tunnel caught fire - at least two men perished fighting the blaze. This prompted a reconstruction of the tunnel incorporating steel boilerplate replacing the original wooden shoring in the ceiling. During WWII the tunnel was considered of such military importance that guards were posted to prevent sabotage, and two wooden guard shacks were added at each portal. In 1943, Jack Delano photographed some of the wartime action here as requested by the Office of War Information.
More information can be found in David Myricks "Railroads of Arizona" Vol. 4.
05/11/2024, Port of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, Spain.
Arrived from Marsaxlokk, Malta, for bunkers and stores. Sailed for Lobito, Angola.
A Norwegian owned offshore maintenance vessel.
Keel laid on 21/12/2004, launched on 08/10/2005, & completed on 03/03/2006.
The fore and aft parts were built by Maritim Shipyard, Gdansk, Poland (VS-4204)
The midships section, outfitting, and completion was by Ulsteinverft, Ulsteinvik, Norway (271)
14,506 g.t. & 9,511 dwt., as:
'Normand Installer'.
To view more of my images, Abbey Gardens, and St Edmundsbury Cathedral, please click "here" !
St Edmundsbury Cathedral is the cathedral for the Church of England's Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. It is the seat of the Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich and is in Bury St Edmunds. A church has stood on the site of the cathedral since at least 1065, when St Denis's Church was built within the precincts of Bury St Edmunds Abbey. In the early 12th century the Abbot, Anselm had wanted to make a pilgrimage along the Way of St James to Santiago de Compostela. He was unsuccessful and instead rebuilt St Denis's and dedicated the new church to Saint James, which served as the parish church for the north side of Bury St Edmunds. This church was largely rebuilt, starting in 1503, with more alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. When the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich was created in 1914, St James Church was made the cathedral. In 1959 Benjamin Britten wrote the Fanfare for St Edmundsbury for a "Pageant of Magna Carta" held in the cathedral grounds. From 1960 onwards, there was renewed building work designed to transform the parish church into a cathedral building, with the rebuilding of the chancel and the creation of transepts and side chapels. The cathedral architect from 1943 to 1988 was Stephen Dykes Bower and he left £2 million for the completion of the cathedral. In the cathedral grounds a new choir school and visitor's centre were built which were opened in 1990. A Gothic revival tower was built between 2000 and 2005. The font was designed in 1870 by George Gilbert Scott, constructed on a medieval shaft, with a cover by F. E. Howard of Oxford. The decoration was added in 1960.
In addition to guided tours of the cathedral itself, visitors can view changing exhibits of art in the Edmund Gallery, and an exhibit of historic and religious regalia and artefacts in the Cathedral Treasures display. The painting "The Martyrdom of St Edmund" by Brian Whelan hangs in the Lady Chapel.
Battered Truckle in Colour to Smooth Heart in Mono
When buying this cheese some months ago I looked upon it as sustenance for a photography idea. It was also edible. Then as the maturing process continued with the long life truckle I wavered between taking pictures, thinking that they would never be processed and only ever be virtual compositions in my sight and not taking pictures for a victory of life lived beyond digital recording. Had it been a film project a different focus would have been generated. After cutting into the cheese I virtually caved in and took pictures. I edited two pictures together to have two areas in focus one from each image and removed the scars from the wax and added a reflection on the knife. None of the edits were completed, they are intimations towards a better image that I attempted and now shared. Had it been a film project a different focus would have been generated. Digital gives us instant potential to record a moment as it happens, or as it matures for months, a moment decided upon without taking photographs and then yet another change of mind and suddenly something to share. The cheese was superb and it cut into three sections without any decision to cause the division that created another object that was another potential for either photography, or life without recording. We have a new perception and completion available in our current digital and virtual worlds.
© PHH Sykes 2022
phhsykes@gmail.com
When first posting I did not think to link the cheese website for anyone wishing to view Godminster.
The heart shaped truckle came from Godminster who in the heart of Somerset make the award-winning organic cheddar. It was a great cheese and the heart shaped cheddar from the heart of Somerset was heartily excellent.
Why not Opinel too, there is no why not, rather there is a why yes and so here you are and I hope that the link works for you.
I am neither advertising, nor commissioned by the above two companies.
91 023 is seen inside Crewe BREL Works nearing completion. The loco was taken into stock by BR on 18/9/90 two months later based at Bounds Green depot in London. For 10 years it was just one of the 31 strong fleet but on 17/10/2000 it was involved in the fatal accident at Hatfield while working the 12.10 Kings Cross to Leeds. The loco and leading two coaches stayed on the track but the rest of the train didn't. They say Lightning doesn't strike twice but it did for 91 023. While propelling the 04.45 Newcastle to Kings Cross on 28/2/2001 the train led by a Mk4 DVT hit a Land Rover and Trailer which had crashed off the M62 Motorway at Heck ending up on the track. The impact was at high speed and caused the whole train to derail except 91 023 on the rear. Almost simultaneously the wreckage was run into by 66 521 going the other way with an Immingham to Ferrybridge coal train. The damage to the class 66, the passenger train DVT and many coaches and wagons was massive causing most to be scrapped but 91 023 survived unscathed. When the media found out it was the same loco in both accidents the jinx or cursed engine stories started. The loco was falling due a major refurbishment as part of the class 91 upgrade for GNER so on 10/12/2001 it was sent to Doncaster Works where the chance was taken to officially renumber the engine. It should in theory have emerged as 91 123 but instead it was returned to service on 20/12/2001 numbered 91 132 leaving the number 91 123 unused in the refurbishment programme.
Jack the Flipper celebrates the 1.Atelier & Showroom renovation completion today with this stunning b&w composition of world-renowned Stonehenge in the United Kingdom.
Like the legend which was created by building this awe-inspiring Stonehenge, also Jack the Flipper was built by a legend of faith, true friendship, loyalty and passion. We are proud to present many exclusive works with you in the future to come!
The world is our dream!
Markus, Sascha, Anke & Uwe
JACK THE FLIPPER
View along the Tyne Bridge as it nears completion, 25 September 1928 (TWAM ref. 3730/15/23).
The Tyne Bridge is one of the North East’s most iconic landmarks. These photographs were taken by James Bacon & Sons of Newcastle and document its construction from March 1927 to October 1928. They belonged to James Geddie, who was Chief Assistant Engineer on the construction of the Bridge with Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd. of Middlesbrough.
(Copyright) We're happy for you to share this digital image within the spirit of The Commons. Please cite 'Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums' when reusing. Certain restrictions on high quality reproductions and commercial use of the original physical version apply though; if you're unsure please email archives@twmuseums.org.uk.