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Vivienne and Mirelle Part 7: The Fall of Seraine
Power borrowed is never power kept.
It began with whispers in the port scaffolds.
A cargo reroute. A contract dropped.
A name removed from a protection list.
Seraine had expanded—too far.
The Pale Hour wasn’t quiet anymore. It was efficient. Clean. Elegant.
It attracted people who used to owe their silence to Vivienne.
People who should have known better.
Freelancers started bypassing the Ravenwood.
Mid-tier operators checked in with Seraine’s people before they checked in with Vivienne’s.
Even one of Omalley’s girls defected. Quietly. Permanently.
Vivienne said nothing.
Not when she heard about the meeting with the out-of-system broker.
Not when someone tagged her surveillance node in the Drift with Pale Hour credentials.
Not even when two Ravenwood-aligned clients turned up dead—information compromised.
She waited.
Because Vivienne Ravenwood doesn’t make threats.
She makes examples.
They called it The Quiet Hour afterward.
Six names struck from the Ravenwood’s register. Six who would never be seen again.
Six bodies found in Old Port—clean kills, knives still sheathed.
Bodies left - not as a warning, but as a promise.
A data broker pulled from a tram before reaching the docks.
A Crimson Alcove girl who rerouted her loyalty was found seated in a chair inside the Ravenwood, head bowed, untouched, but with her ledger account emptied and her status revoked.
Each one had stepped away from Vivienne.
Each one thought she hadn’t noticed.
She had.
Vivienne didn’t watch the purges.
She orchestrated them.
She left the executions to people who had once been forgotten, favored, or fed by her.
No bounty posted. No credits exchanged.
Just quiet orders.
And names.
And one exception.
Seraine.
She wasn’t killed.
She was dismantled.
It happened that night when she tried to hold court.
Her version of it: a high-back chair, private security, clients who thought they’d found a new center of gravity.
Vivienne walked in alone.
No guards. No fanfare. Just a crimson coat and gloves she didn’t remove.
Seraine stood. Smiled.
Vivienne didn’t.
She crossed the room like the floor belonged to her—because it did.
Two guards went down before anyone registered motion. No blood. No resistance worth mentioning.
Seraine’s hand flashed toward her blade, but Vivienne was already there.
The disarm was fluid, the counter precise. Vivienne’s knife found its mark: through the center of Seraine’s right hand.
The hand that signed deals, that left silk messages, that dared to build a shadow in Vivienne’s wake.
Vivienne leaned in. Close enough to be memory.
“You know what the others never did.
How to leave with a wound instead of a grave.
Don’t make me reconsider the distinction.”
Then she turned and left.
And no one followed.
Aftermath
The Pale Hour was shut down before sunrise.
Seraine vanished.
The traitors were already gone. No one filled their places.
And inside the Ravenwood, the lights ran brighter for a few nights—just enough for people to remember who cast the longest shadow.
Addendum to Part 7
After fire, there are always those who crawl out of the ash—not to rebuild, but to ask permission to breathe.
It was late.
Not late for the port. Late for the Ravenwood.
The casino floor had gone still. Music faded. Lights dimmed to gold and steel. The kind of hour that didn’t tolerate unannounced visitors.
But one came anyway.
She waited outside the security line. Said her name once, quiet. Gave no credentials. No threats.
Just a name:
“Marin.”
Vivienne knew it.
A minor Pale Hour facilitator. Data movement. Quiet loyalty. Never crossed Vivienne directly, but never stood apart either.
She was watched during the purge. Flagged. But not marked for removal.
Now she stood just inside the bar. Not shaking. Not armed. But very, very careful.
Vivienne didn’t stand.
She didn’t speak, at first.
She let the silence test the girl’s spine.
“I wasn’t loyal,” Marin said, finally. “But I wasn’t stupid, either.”
“I knew who you were.”
Vivienne looked at her. Nothing sharp. Just the kind of stillness that made every heartbeat feel overheard.
“She’s gone,” Marin continued. “And I’m still here. I could disappear. I should. But I’d rather stay.”
Vivienne raised one brow.
“Why?”
“Because at least with you,” Marin said, “I know the rules.”
That got the first reaction. Not a smile. But something shifted around Vivienne’s mouth. Like memory. Or amusement.
She stood. Slowly.
Walked to the bar. Poured one drink. Just one.
Set it on the edge of the counter. Didn’t invite her to take it. Didn’t claim it either.
“You’re still breathing,” Vivienne said.
“That’s permission enough. Don’t ask for more.”
Vivienne turned and walked away.
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Headland is a civil parish in the Borough of Hartlepool, County Durham, England. The parish covers the old part of Hartlepool and nearby villages.
History
The Heugh Battery, one of three constructed to protect the port of Hartlepool in 1860, is located in the area along with a museum.
The area made national headlines in July 1994 in connection with the murder of Rosie Palmer, a local toddler.
On 19 March 2002 the Time Team searched for an Anglo-Saxon monastery.
Dominating the skyline is the impressive architectural structure that is St Hilda’s Church. Remnant of Hartlepool’s Saxon heritage and undoubtedly the crowning glory of the Headland, this church is a must-see attraction. After her stay in Hartlepool, the Abbess of the church progressed along the coast to Whitby and this spiritual journey can be explored through ‘The Way of St Hild’ walking trail.
A great way to explore the historic Headland is by finding and following the Headland Story Trail. The trail features 18 different information boards, each telling a story of the areas fascinating heritage from tales of shipwreck to the legend of the Hartlepool monkey. A truly interactive and fun walking experience!
Other landmarks of note include the impressive Town Wall, dating from the 14th century. This grade I listed, scheduled ancient monument still guards the Headland, and was originally built to keep out the twin threats of raiding Scots and the rigours of the North Sea.
The Borough Hall is another striking building and dates back to 1865. This gorgeous entertainment venue hosts an action-packed events programme so be sure to keep an eye out for all upcoming events here.
Dive into the town’s military history at The Heugh Battery Museum – this restored coastal defence battery protected the town throughout both World Wars. An enchanting historical sight with the original barrack room, underground magazines, coastal artillery and observation tower, the exhibits tell the story of those who lost their lives and the brave men who defended the area. Refresh with a light bite or sweet treat at the Poppy Café, located within the museum.
Visit the Headland War Memorial to see the magnificent ‘Winged Victory’ – a stunning statue that tributes those who lost their lives during the two world wars.
At the very north of the Headland you will find Spion Kop Cemetery – this historic cemetery supports a species-rich dune grassland and offers fantastic views of the coastline.
Every summer Headland Carnival attracts lively visitors to the area. Packed with thrilling rides, amusing games and live entertainment this week of jam-packed fun is great for all the family.
Hartlepool is a seaside and port town in County Durham, England. It is governed by a unitary authority borough named after the town. The borough is part of the devolved Tees Valley area. With an estimated population of 87,995, it is the second-largest settlement (after Darlington) in County Durham.
The old town was founded in the 7th century, around the monastery of Hartlepool Abbey on a headland. As the village grew into a town in the Middle Ages, its harbour served as the County Palatine of Durham's official port. The new town of West Hartlepool was created in 1835 after a new port was built and railway links from the South Durham coal fields (to the west) and from Stockton-on-Tees (to the south) were created. A parliamentary constituency covering both the old town and West Hartlepool was created in 1867 called The Hartlepools. The two towns were formally merged into a single borough called Hartlepool in 1967. Following the merger, the name of the constituency was changed from The Hartlepools to just Hartlepool in 1974. The modern town centre and main railway station are both at what was West Hartlepool; the old town is now generally known as the Headland.
Industrialisation in northern England and the start of a shipbuilding industry in the later part of the 19th century meant it was a target for the Imperial German Navy at the beginning of the First World War. A bombardment of 1,150 shells on 16 December 1914 resulted in the death of 117 people in the town. A severe decline in heavy industries and shipbuilding following the Second World War caused periods of high unemployment until the 1990s when major investment projects and the redevelopment of the docks area into a marina saw a rise in the town's prospects. The town also has a seaside resort called Seaton Carew.
History
The place name derives from Old English heort ("hart"), referring to stags seen, and pōl (pool), a pool of drinking water which they were known to use. Records of the place-name from early sources confirm this:
649: Heretu, or Hereteu.
1017: Herterpol, or Hertelpolle.
1182: Hierdepol.
Town on the heugh
A Northumbrian settlement developed in the 7th century around an abbey founded in 640 by Saint Aidan (an Irish and Christian priest) upon a headland overlooking a natural harbour and the North Sea. The monastery became powerful under St Hilda, who served as its abbess from 649 to 657. The 8th-century Northumbrian chronicler Bede referred to the spot on which today's town is sited as "the place where deer come to drink", and in this period the Headland was named by the Angles as Heruteu (Stag Island). Archaeological evidence has been found below the current high tide mark that indicates that an ancient post-glacial forest by the sea existed in the area at the time.
The Abbey fell into decline in the early 8th century, and it was probably destroyed during a sea raid by Vikings on the settlement in the 9th century. In March 2000, the archaeological investigation television programme Time Team located the foundations of the lost monastery in the grounds of St Hilda's Church. In the early 11th century, the name had evolved into Herterpol.
Hartness
Normans and for centuries known as the Jewel of Herterpol.
During the Norman Conquest, the De Brus family gained over-lordship of the land surrounding Hartlepool. William the Conqueror subsequently ordered the construction of Durham Castle, and the villages under their rule were mentioned in records in 1153 when Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale became Lord of Hartness. The town's first charter was received before 1185, for which it gained its first mayor, an annual two-week fair and a weekly market. The Norman Conquest affected the settlement's name to form the Middle English Hart-le-pool ("The Pool of the Stags").
By the Middle Ages, Hartlepool was growing into an important (though still small) market town. One of the reasons for its escalating wealth was that its harbour was serving as the official port of the County Palatine of Durham. The main industry of the town at this time was fishing, and Hartlepool in this period established itself as one of the primary ports upon England's Eastern coast.
In 1306, Robert the Bruce was crowned King of Scotland, and became the last Lord of Hartness. Angered, King Edward I confiscated the title to Hartlepool, and began to improve the town's military defences in expectation of war. In 1315, before they were completed, a Scottish army under Sir James Douglas attacked, captured and looted the town.
In the late 15th century, a pier was constructed to assist in the harbour's workload.
Garrison
Hartlepool was once again militarily occupied by a Scottish incursion, this time in alliance with the Parliamentary Army during the English Civil War, which after 18 months was relieved by an English Parliamentarian garrison.
In 1795, Hartlepool artillery emplacements and defences were constructed in the town as a defensive measure against the threat of French attack from seaborne Napoleonic forces. During the Crimean War, two coastal batteries were constructed close together in the town to guard against the threat of seaborne attacks from the Imperial Russian Navy. They were entitled the Lighthouse Battery (1855) and the Heugh Battery (1859).
Hartlepool in the 18th century became known as a town with medicinal springs, particularly the Chalybeate Spa near the Westgate. The poet Thomas Gray visited the town in July 1765 to "take the waters", and wrote to his friend William Mason:
I have been for two days to taste the water, and do assure you that nothing could be salter and bitterer and nastier and better for you... I am delighted with the place; there are the finest walks and rocks and caverns.
A few weeks later, he wrote in greater detail to James Brown:
The rocks, the sea and the weather there more than made up to me the want of bread and the want of water, two capital defects, but of which I learned from the inhabitants not to be sensible. They live on the refuse of their own fish-market, with a few potatoes, and a reasonable quantity of Geneva [gin] six days in the week, and I have nowhere seen a taller, more robust or healthy race: every house full of ruddy broad-faced children. Nobody dies but of drowning or old-age: nobody poor but from drunkenness or mere laziness.
Town by the strand
By the early nineteenth century, Hartlepool was still a small town of around 900 people, with a declining port. In 1823, the council and Board of Trade decided that the town needed new industry, so the decision was made to propose a new railway to make Hartlepool a coal port, shipping out minerals from the Durham coalfield. It was in this endeavour that Isambard Kingdom Brunel visited the town in December 1831, and wrote: "A curiously isolated old fishing town – a remarkably fine race of men. Went to the top of the church tower for a view."
But the plan faced local competition from new docks. 25 kilometres (16 mi) to the north, the Marquis of Londonderry had approved the creation of the new Seaham Harbour (opened 31 July 1831), while to the south the Clarence Railway connected Stockton-on-Tees and Billingham to a new port at Port Clarence (opened 1833). Further south again, in 1831 the Stockton and Darlington Railway had extended into the new port of Middlesbrough.
The council agreed the formation of the Hartlepool Dock and Railway Company (HD&RCo) to extend the existing port by developing new docks, and link to both local collieries and the developing railway network in the south. In 1833, it was agreed that Christopher Tennant of Yarm establish the HD&RCo, having previously opened the Clarence Railway (CR). Tennant's plan was that the HD&RCo would fund the creation of a new railway, the Stockton and Hartlepool Railway, which would take over the loss-making CR and extended it north to the new dock, thereby linking to the Durham coalfield.
After Tennant died, in 1839, the running of the HD&RCo was taken over by Stockton-on-Tees solicitor, Ralph Ward Jackson. But Jackson became frustrated at the planning restrictions placed on the old Hartlepool dock and surrounding area for access, so bought land which was mainly sand dunes to the south-west, and established West Hartlepool. Because Jackson was so successful at shipping coal from West Hartlepool through his West Hartlepool Dock and Railway Company and, as technology developed, ships grew in size and scale, the new town would eventually dwarf the old town.
The 8-acre (3.2-hectare) West Hartlepool Harbour and Dock opened on 1 June 1847. On 1 June 1852, the 14-acre (5.7-hectare) Jackson Dock opened on the same day that a railway opened connecting West Hartlepool to Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool. This allowed the shipping of coal and wool products eastwards, and the shipping of fresh fish and raw fleeces westwards, enabling another growth spurt in the town. This in turn resulted in the opening of the Swainson Dock on 3 June 1856, named after Ward Jackson's father-in-law. In 1878, the William Gray & Co shipyard in West Hartlepool achieved the distinction of launching the largest tonnage of any shipyard in the world, a feat to be repeated on a number of occasions. By 1881, old Hartlepool's population had grown from 993 to 12,361, but West Hartlepool had a population of 28,000.
Ward Jackson Park
Ward Jackson helped to plan the layout of West Hartlepool and was responsible for the first public buildings. He was also involved in the education and the welfare of the inhabitants. In the end, he was a victim of his own ambition to promote the town: accusations of shady financial dealings, and years of legal battles, left him in near-poverty. He spent the last few years of his life in London, far away from the town he had created.
World Wars
In Hartlepool near Heugh Battery, a plaque in Redheugh Gardens War Memorial "marks the place where the first ...(German shell) struck... (and) the first soldier was killed on British soil by enemy action in the Great War 1914–1918."
The area became heavily industrialised with an ironworks (established in 1838) and shipyards in the docks (established in the 1870s). By 1913, no fewer than 43 ship-owning companies were located in the town, with the responsibility for 236 ships. This made it a key target for Germany in the First World War. One of the first German offensives against Britain was a raid and bombardment by the Imperial German Navy on the morning of 16 December 1914,
Hartlepool was hit with a total of 1150 shells, killing 117 people. Two coastal defence batteries at Hartlepool returned fire, launching 143 shells, and damaging three German ships: SMS Seydlitz, SMS Moltke and SMS Blücher. The Hartlepool engagement lasted roughly 50 minutes, and the coastal artillery defence was supported by the Royal Navy in the form of four destroyers, two light cruisers and a submarine, none of which had any significant impact on the German attackers.
Private Theophilus Jones of the 18th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, who fell as a result of this bombardment, is sometimes described as the first military casualty on British soil by enemy fire. This event (the death of the first soldiers on British soil) is commemorated by the 1921 Redheugh Gardens War Memorial together with a plaque unveiled on the same day (seven years and one day after the East Coast Raid) at the spot on the Headland (the memorial by Philip Bennison illustrates four soldiers on one of four cartouches and the plaque, donated by a member of the public, refers to the 'first soldier' but gives no name). A living history group, the Hartlepool Military Heritage Memorial Society, portray men of that unit for educational and memorial purposes.
Hartlepudlians voluntarily subscribed more money per head to the war effort than any other town in Britain.
On 4 January 1922, a fire starting in a timber yard left 80 people homeless and caused over £1,000,000 of damage. Hartlepool suffered badly in the Great Depression of the 1930s and endured high unemployment.
Unemployment decreased during the Second World War, with shipbuilding and steel-making industries enjoying a renaissance. Most of its output for the war effort were "Empire Ships". German bombers raided the town 43 times, though, compared to the previous war, civilian losses were lighter with 26 deaths recorded by Hartlepool Municipal Borough[19] and 49 by West Hartlepool Borough. During the Second World War, RAF Greatham (also known as RAF West Hartlepool) was located on the South British Steel Corporation Works.
The merge
In 1891, the two towns had a combined population of 64,000. By 1900, the two Hartlepools were, together, one of the three busiest ports in England.
The modern town represents a joining of "Old Hartlepool", locally known as the "Headland", and West Hartlepool. As already mentioned, what was West Hartlepool became the larger town and both were formally unified in 1967. Today the term "West Hartlepool" is rarely heard outside the context of sport, but one of the town's Rugby Union teams still retains the name.
The name of the town's professional football club reflected both boroughs; when it was formed in 1908, following the success of West Hartlepool in winning the FA Amateur Cup in 1905, it was called "Hartlepools United" in the hope of attracting support from both towns. When the boroughs combined in 1967, the club renamed itself "Hartlepool" before re-renaming itself Hartlepool United in the 1970s. Many fans of the club still refer to the team as "Pools"
Fall out
After the war, industry went into a severe decline. Blanchland, the last ship to be constructed in Hartlepool, left the slips in 1961. In 1967, Betty James wrote how "if I had the luck to live anywhere in the North East [of England]...I would live near Hartlepool. If I had the luck". There was a boost to the retail sector in 1970 when Middleton Grange Shopping Centre was opened by Princess Anne, with over 130 new shops including Marks & Spencer and Woolworths.
Before the shopping centre was opened, the old town centre was located around Lynn Street, but most of the shops and the market had moved to a new shopping centre by 1974. Most of Lynn Street had by then been demolished to make way for a new housing estate. Only the north end of the street remains, now called Lynn Street North. This is where the Hartlepool Borough Council depot was based (alongside the Focus DIY store) until it moved to the marina in August 2006.
In 1977, the British Steel Corporation announced the closure of its Hartlepool steelworks with the loss of 1500 jobs. In the 1980s, the area was afflicted with extremely high levels of unemployment, at its peak consisting of 30 per cent of the town's working-age population, the highest in the United Kingdom. 630 jobs at British Steel were lost in 1983, and a total of 10,000 jobs were lost from the town in the economic de-industrialization of England's former Northern manufacturing heartlands. Between 1983 and 1999, the town lacked a cinema and areas of it became afflicted with the societal hallmarks of endemic economic poverty: urban decay, high crime levels, drug and alcohol dependency being prevalent.
Rise and the future
Docks near the centre were redeveloped and reopened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1993 as a marina with the accompanying National Museum of the Royal Navy opened in 1994, then known as the Hartlepool Historic Quay.
A development corporation is under consultation until August 2022 to organise projects, with the town's fund given to the town and other funds. Plans would be (if the corporation is formed) focused on the railway station, waterfront (including the Royal Navy Museum and a new leisure centre) and Church Street. Northern School of Art also has funds for a TV and film studios.
Governance
There is one main tier of local government covering Hartlepool, at unitary authority level: Hartlepool Borough Council. There is a civil parish covering Headland, which forms an additional tier of local government for that area; most of the rest of the urban area is an unparished area. The borough council is a constituent member of the Tees Valley Combined Authority, led by the directly elected Tees Valley Mayor. The borough council is based at the Civic Centre on Victoria Road.
Hartlepool was historically a township in the ancient parish of Hart. Hartlepool was also an ancient borough, having been granted a charter by King John in 1200. The borough was reformed to become a municipal borough in 1850. The council built Hartlepool Borough Hall to serve as its headquarters, being completed in 1866.
West Hartlepool was laid out on land outside Hartlepool's historic borough boundaries, in the neighbouring parish of Stranton. A body of improvement commissioners was established to administer the new town in 1854. The commissioners were superseded in 1887, when West Hartlepool was also incorporated as a municipal borough. The new borough council built itself a headquarters at the Municipal Buildings on Church Square, which was completed in 1889. An events venue and public hall on Raby Road called West Hartlepool Town Hall was subsequently completed in 1897. In 1902 West Hartlepool was elevated to become a county borough, making it independent from Durham County Council. The old Hartlepool Borough Council amalgamated with West Hartlepool Borough Council in 1967 to form a county borough called Hartlepool.
In 1974 the borough was enlarged to take in eight neighbouring parishes, and was transferred to the new county of Cleveland. Cleveland was abolished in 1996 following the Banham Review, which gave unitary authority status to its four districts, including Hartlepool. The borough was restored to County Durham for ceremonial purposes under the Lieutenancies Act 1997, but as a unitary authority it is independent from Durham County Council.
Emergency services
Hartlepool falls within the jurisdiction of Cleveland Fire Brigade and Cleveland Police. Before 1974, it was under the jurisdiction of the Durham Constabulary and Durham Fire Brigade. Hartlepool has two fire stations: a full-time station at Stranton and a retained station on the Headland.
Economy
Hartlepool's economy has historically been linked with the maritime industry, something which is still at the heart of local business. Hartlepool Dock is owned and run by PD Ports. Engineering related jobs employ around 1700 people. Tata Steel Europe employ around 350 people in the manufacture of steel tubes, predominantly for the oil industry. South of the town on the banks of the Tees, Able UK operates the Teesside Environmental Reclamation and Recycling Centre (TERRC), a large scale marine recycling facility and dry dock. Adjacent to the east of TERRC is the Hartlepool nuclear power station, an advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) type nuclear power plant opened in the 1980s. It is the single largest employer in the town, employing 1 per cent of the town's working age people.
The chemicals industry is important to the local economy. Companies include Huntsman Corporation, who produce titanium dioxide for use in paints, Omya, Baker Hughes and Frutarom.
Tourism was worth £48 million to the town in 2009; this figure excludes the impact of the Tall Ships 2010. Hartlepool's historic links to the maritime industry are centred on the Maritime Experience, and the supporting exhibits PS Wingfield Castle and HMS Trincomalee.
Camerons Brewery was founded in 1852 and currently employs around 145 people. It is one of the largest breweries in the UK. Following a series of take-overs, it came under the control of the Castle Eden Brewery in 2001 who merged the two breweries, closing down the Castle Eden plant. It brews a range of cask and bottled beers, including Strongarm, a 4% abv bitter. The brewery is heavily engaged in contract brewing such beers as Kronenbourg 1664, John Smith's and Foster's.
Orchid Drinks of Hartlepool were formed in 1992 after a management buy out of the soft drinks arm of Camerons. They manufactured Purdey's and Amé. Following a £67 million takeover by Britvic, the site was closed down in 2009.
Middleton Grange Shopping Centre is the main shopping location. 2800 people are employed in retail. The ten major retail companies in the town are Tesco, Morrisons, Asda, Next, Argos, Marks & Spencer, Aldi, Boots and Matalan. Aside from the local sports clubs, other local entertainment venues include a VUE Cinema and Mecca Bingo.
Companies that have moved operations to the town for the offshore wind farm include Siemens and Van Oord.
Culture and community
Festivals and Fairs
Since November 2014 the Headland has hosted the annual Wintertide Festival, which is a weekend long event that starts with a community parade on the Friday and culminating in a finale performance and fireworks display on the Sunday.
Tall Ships' Races
On 28 June 2006 Hartlepool celebrated after winning its bid to host The Tall Ships' Races. The town welcomed up to 125 tall ships in 2010, after being chosen by race organiser Sail Training International to be the finishing point for the race. Hartlepool greeted the ships, which sailed from Kristiansand in Norway on the second and final leg of the race. Hartlepool also hosted the race in July 2023.
Museums, art galleries and libraries
Hartlepool Art Gallery is located in Church Square within Christ Church, a restored Victorian church, built in 1854 and designed by the architect Edward Buckton Lamb (1806–1869). The gallery's temporary exhibitions change frequently and feature works from local artists and the permanent Fine Art Collection, which was established by Sir William Gray. The gallery also houses the Hartlepool tourist information centre.
The Heugh Battery Museum is located on the Headland. It was one of three batteries erected to protect Hartlepool's port in 1860. The battery was closed in 1956 and is now in the care of the Heugh Gun Battery Trust and home to an artillery collection.
Hartlepool is home to a National Museum of the Royal Navy (more specifically the NMRN Hartlepool). Previously known simply as The Historic Quay and Hartlepool's Maritime Experience, the museum is a re-creation of an 18th-century seaport with the exhibition centre-piece being a sailing frigate, HMS Trincomalee. The complex also includes the Museum of Hartlepool.
Willows was the Hartlepool mansion of the influential Sir William Gray of William Gray & Company and he gifted it to the town in 1920, after which it was converted to be the town's first museum and art gallery. Fondly known locally as "The Gray" it was closed as a museum in 1994 and now houses the local authority's culture department.
There are six libraries in Hartlepool, the primary one being the Community Hub Central Library. Others are Throston Grange Library, Community Hub North Library, Seaton Carew Library, Owton Manor Library and Headland Branch Library.
Sea
Hartlepool has been a major seaport virtually since it was founded, and has a long fishing heritage. During the industrial revolution massive new docks were created on the southern side of the channel running below the Headland, which gave rise to the town of West Hartlepool.
Now owned by PD Ports, the docks are still in use today and still capable of handling large vessels. However, a large portion of the former dockland was converted into a marina capable of berthing 500 vessels. Hartlepool Marina is home to a wide variety of pleasure and working craft, with passage to and from the sea through a lock.
Hartlepool also has a permanent RNLI lifeboat station.
Education
Secondary
Hartlepool has five secondary schools:
Dyke House Academy
English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College
High Tunstall College of Science
Manor Community Academy
St Hild's Church of England School
The town had planned to receive funding from central government to improve school buildings and facilities as a part of the Building Schools for the Future programme, but this was cancelled because of government spending cuts.
College
Hartlepool College of Further Education is an educational establishment located in the centre of the town, and existed in various forms for over a century. Its former 1960s campus was replaced by a £52million custom-designed building, it was approved in principle in July 2008, opened in September 2011.
Hartlepool also has Hartlepool Sixth Form College. It was a former grammar and comprehensive school, the college provides a number of AS and A2 Level student courses. The English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College also offers AS, A2 and other BTEC qualification to 16- to 18-year-olds from Hartlepool and beyond.
A campus of The Northern School of Art is a specialist art and design college and higher education, located adjacent to the art gallery on Church Square. The college has a further site in Middlesbrough that facilitates further education.
Territorial Army
Situated in the New Armoury Centre, Easington Road are the following units.
Royal Marines Reserve
90 (North Riding) Signal Squadron
Religion
They are multiple Church of England and Roman Catholic Churches in the town. St Hilda's Church is a notable church of the town, it was built on Hartlepool Abbey and sits upon a high point of the Headland. The churches of the Church of England's St Paul and Roman Catholic's St Joseph are next to each other on St Paul's Road. Nasir Mosque on Brougham Terrace is the sole purpose-built mosque in the town.
Sport
Football
Hartlepool United is the town's professional football club and they play at Victoria Park. The club's most notable moment was in 2005 when, with 8 minutes left in the 2005 Football League One play-off final, the team conceded a penalty, allowing Sheffield Wednesday to equalise and eventually beat Hartlepool to a place in the Championship. The club currently play in the National League.
Supporters of the club bear the nickname of Monkey Hangers. This is based upon a legend that during the Napoleonic wars a monkey, which had been a ship's mascot, was taken for a French spy and hanged. Hartlepool has also produced football presenter Jeff Stelling, who has a renowned partnership with Chris Kamara who was born in nearby Middlesbrough. Jeff Stelling is a keen supporter of Hartlepool and often refers to them when presenting Sky Sports News. It is also the birthplace and childhood home of Pete Donaldson, one of the co-hosts of the Football Ramble podcast as well as co-host of the Abroad in Japan podcast, and a prominent radio DJ.
The town also has a semi-professional football club called FC Hartlepool who play in Northern League Division Two.
Rugby union
Hartlepool is something of an anomaly in England having historically maintained a disproportionate number of clubs in a town of only c.90,000 inhabitants. These include(d) West Hartlepool, Hartlepool Rovers, Hartlepool Athletic RFC, Hartlepool Boys Brigade Old Boys RFC (BBOB), Seaton Carew RUFC (formerly Hartlepool Grammar School Old Boys), West Hartlepool Technical Day School Old Boys RUFC (TDSOB or Tech) and Hartlepool Old Boys' RFC (Hartlepool). Starting in 1904 clubs within eight miles (thirteen kilometres) of the headland were eligible to compete for the Pyman Cup which has been contested regularly since and that the Hartlepool & District Union continue to organise.
Perhaps the best known club outside the town is West Hartlepool R.F.C. who in 1992 achieved promotion to what is now the Premiership competing in 1992–93, 1994–95, 1995–96 and 1996–97 seasons. This success came at a price as soon after West was then hit by bankruptcy and controversially sold their Brierton Lane stadium and pitch to former sponsor Yuills Homes. There then followed a succession of relegations before the club stabilised in the Durham/Northumberland leagues. West and Rovers continue to play one another in a popular Boxing Day fixture which traditionally draws a large crowd.
Hartlepool Rovers, formed in 1879, who played at the Old Friarage in the Headland area of Hartlepool before moving to West View Road. In the 1890s Rovers supplied numerous county, divisional and international players. The club itself hosted many high-profile matches including the inaugural Barbarians F.C. match in 1890, the New Zealand Maoris in 1888 and the legendary All Blacks who played against a combined Hartlepool Club team in 1905. In the 1911–12 season, Hartlepool Rovers broke the world record for the number of points scored in a season racking up 860 points including 122 tries, 87 conversions, five penalties and eleven drop goals.
Although they ceased competing in the RFU leagues in 2008–09, West Hartlepool TDSOB (Tech) continues to support town and County rugby with several of the town's other clubs having played at Grayfields when their own pitches were unavailable. Grayfields has also hosted a number of Durham County cup finals as well as County Under 16, Under 18 and Under 20 age group games.
Olympics
Boxing
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, 21-year-old Savannah Marshall, who attended English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College in the town of Hartlepool, competed in the Women's boxing tournament of the 2012 Olympic Games. She was defeated 12–6 by Marina Volnova of Kazakhstan in her opening, quarter-final bout. Savannah Marshall is now a professional boxer, currently unbeaten as a pro and on 31 October 2020 in her 9th professional fight Marshall became the WBO female middleweight champion with a TKO victory over opponent Hannah Rankin at Wembley Arena.
Swimming
In August 2012 Jemma Lowe, a British record holder who attended High Tunstall College of Science in the town of Hartlepool, competed in the 2012 Olympic Games. She finished sixth in the 200-metre butterfly final with a time of 58.06 seconds. She was also a member of the eighth-place British team in the 400m Medley relay.
Monkeys
Hartlepool is known for allegedly executing a monkey during the Napoleonic Wars. According to legend, fishermen from Hartlepool watched a French warship founder off the coast, and the only survivor was a monkey, which was dressed in French military uniform, presumably to amuse the officers on the ship. The fishermen assumed that this must be what Frenchmen looked like and, after a brief trial, summarily executed the monkey.
Historians have pointed to the prior existence of a Scottish folk song called "And the Boddamers hung the Monkey-O". It describes how a monkey survived a shipwreck off the village of Boddam near Peterhead in Aberdeenshire. Because the villagers could only claim salvage rights if there were no survivors from the wreck, they allegedly hanged the monkey. There is also an English folk song detailing the later event called, appropriately enough, "The Hartlepool Monkey". In the English version the monkey is hanged as a French spy.
"Monkey hanger" and Chimp Choker are common terms of (semi-friendly) abuse aimed at "Poolies", often from footballing rivals Darlington. The mascot of Hartlepool United F.C. is H'Angus the monkey. The man in the monkey costume, Stuart Drummond, stood for the post of mayor in 2002 as H'angus the monkey, and campaigned on a platform which included free bananas for schoolchildren. To widespread surprise, he won, becoming the first directly elected mayor of Hartlepool, winning 7,400 votes with a 52% share of the vote and a turnout of 30%. He was re-elected by a landslide in 2005, winning 16,912 on a turnout of 51% – 10,000 votes more than his nearest rival, the Labour Party candidate.
The monkey legend is also linked with two of the town's sports clubs, Hartlepool Rovers RFC, which uses the hanging monkey as the club logo. Hartlepool (Old Boys) RFC use a hanging monkey kicking a rugby ball as their tie crest.
Notable residents
Michael Brown, former Premier League footballer
Edward Clarke, artist
Brian Clough, football manager who lived in the Fens estate in town while manager of Hartlepools United
John Darwin, convicted fraudster who faked his own death
Pete Donaldson, London radio DJ and podcast host
Janick Gers, guitarist from British heavy metal band Iron Maiden
Courtney Hadwin, singer
Jack Howe, former England international footballer
Liam Howe, music producer and songwriter for several artists and member of the band Sneaker Pimps
Saxon Huxley, WWE NXT UK wrestler
Andy Linighan, former Arsenal footballer who scored the winning goal in the 1993 FA Cup Final
Savannah Marshall, professional boxer
Stephanie Aird, comedian and television personality
Jim Parker, composer
Guy Pearce, film actor who lived in the town when he was younger as his mother was from the town
Narbi Price, artist
Jack Rowell, coached the England international rugby team and led them to the semi-final of the 1995 Rugby World Cup
Wayne Sleep, dancer and actor who spent his childhood in the town.
Reg Smythe, cartoonist who created Andy Capp
Jeremy Spencer, guitarist who was in the original Fleetwood Mac line-up
Jeff Stelling, TV presenter, famous for hosting Gillette Soccer Saturday
David Eagle, Folk singer and stand-up comedian,
Local media
Hartlepool Life - local free newspaper
Hartlepool Mail – local newspaper
BBC Radio Tees – BBC local radio station
Radio Hartlepool – Community radio station serving the town
Hartlepool Post – on-line publication
Local television news programmes are BBC Look North and ITV News Tyne Tees.
Town twinning
Hartlepool is twinned with:
France Sète, France
Germany Hückelhoven, Germany (since 1973)
United States Muskegon, Michigan
Malta Sliema, Malta
Wrestling Alliance Company - Wrestling live 2019 - Ben Damage Vs Rafael Belmont
Ben Damage Def. (Get The Contract) Rafael Belmont
Type of match : Strap Match Contract on a pole
( la WAC revient avec son show 'Wrestling Live' ce dimanche 13/10/2019 !
2 match son deja annonce !
Le bourreau defendra son titre de champion de Belgique face a Rob Raw !!
The Family affronterons The spirits'Guardians pour le championnat tag team de la WAC !! )
I photographed some of my lawn contracts the last couple of days. I'm pretty happy with how nice my lawns are looking. I am also still learning the settings on my camera so not all the photos took as well as I would have liked but all things in time. :D
Aer Lingus flight EI131 to Windsor Locks (BDL) in Connecticut, USA, about to lift off from Dublin Airport's runway 28 with both the older Terminal 1 and the newer Terminal 2 in the background.
This Boeing 757, EI-LBT "St. Brendan" may look like an Aer Lingus jet, but it's actually owned and operated by ASL Airlines Ireland on contract.
If you could hear into the cockpit, you'd have heard the co-pilot announce "V1 ... Rotate" in the seconds before this shot was taken.
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Some background:
Buffalo Airways is a family-run airline based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, established in 1970. Buffalo Airways was launched by Bob Gauchie and later sold to one of his pilots, Joe McBryan (aka "Buffalo Joe"). It operates charter passenger, charter cargo, firefighting, and fuel services, and formerly operated scheduled passenger service. Its main base is at Yellowknife Airport (CYZF). It has two other bases at Hay River/Merlyn Carter Airport (CYHY) and Red Deer Regional Airport (CYQF). The Red Deer base is the main storage and maintenance facility. The company slogan is “Your passage to the North”.
Buffalo also operates a courier service as Buffalo Air Express which started in 1982-1983. It offers service throughout the Northwest Territories (NWT) and Northern Alberta. In association with Global Interline Network it can ship around the world from bases in Yellowknife, Edmonton and Hay River.
Under contract for the NWT Government, Buffalo Airways also operates and maintains aircraft used in the aerial firefighting program. The waterbombers are assisted by smaller aircraft known as "bird dogs" which are used to help spot wildfires as well as guide waterbombers during operations.
One of these aircraft were two Noorduyn Norseman bush planes, also known as the C-64, a Canadian single-engine shoulder wing aircraft designed to operate from unimproved surfaces. Distinctive stubby landing gear protrusions from the lower fuselage made it easily recognizable. Norseman aircraft are known to have been registered and/or operated in 68 countries and also have been based and flown in the Arctic and Antarctic regions.
Designed by Robert B.C. Noorduyn, the Noorduyn Norseman was produced from 1935 to 1959, more than 900 were sold. With the experience of working on many ground-breaking designs at Fokker, Bellanca and Pitcairn-Cierva, Noorduyn decided to create his own design in 1934. Along with his colleague, Walter Clayton, Noorduyn created his original company, Noorduyn Aircraft Limited, in early 1933 at Montreal while a successor company was established in 1935, bearing the name Noorduyn Aviation. Noorduyn's vision of an ideal bush plane began with a high-wing monoplane airframe to facilitate loading and unloading passengers and cargo at seaplane docks and airports; next, a Canadian operator utilizing existing talents, equipment and facilities should be able to make money using it; last, it should be all-around superior to those already in use there. From the outset, Noorduyn designed his transport to have interchangeable wheel, ski or twin-float landing gear. Unlike most aircraft designs, the Norseman was first fitted with floats, then skis and, finally, fixed landing gear.
The final design looked much like Noorduyn's earlier Fokker designs: a robust high-wing braced monoplane with an all-welded steel tubing fuselage. Attached wood stringers carried a fabric skin. Its wing was all fabric covered wood, except for steel tubing flaps and ailerons. The divided landing gear were fitted to fuselage stubs; legs were secured with two bolts each to allow the alternate arrangement of floats or skis. The tail strut could be fitted with a wheel or tail skid, and sometimes a fin was added in this place on aircraft of floats to improve directional stability.
Until 1940, the Noorduyn company had sold only 17 aircraft in total, primarily to commercial operators in Canada's north and to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. With the outbreak of war in Europe, demand for a light utility transport and liaison aircraft that could operate on unprepared airfields close to the European frontlines led to major military orders. The Royal Canadian Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces became the two largest operators, and several versions, the Norseman Mk. II-IV, which primarily differed in their powerplants, were produced.
In postwar production, the Canada Car and Foundry in Fort William, Ontario acquired rights to the Norseman design, producing a version known as the Norseman Mk V, a civilian version of the wartime Mk IV. To exploit the market further, the "Can Car" factory designed and built the Norseman Mk VII. This version had a bigger engine, a new all-metal wing and greater cargo capacity but was fated never to go into production. With large Korean War commitments at that time, the company put it into temporary storage where it was destroyed in a hangar fire in September 1951.
In 1953, Noorduyn headed a group of investors who bought back the jigs and equipment from Canada Car and Foundry and started a new company called Noorduyn Norseman Aircraft Ltd. Bob Noorduyn became ill and died at his home in South Burlington, Vermont, on 22 February 1959. The company continued to provide support for operating Norseman aircraft and built three new Mk Vs before selling its assets in 1982 to Norco Associates. Norco provided support services only, as Norseman aircraft manufacture was labor-intensive and very expensive, and this ended the production of the rugged aircraft after almost 30 years.
The last Noorduyn Norseman to be built was sold and delivered to a commercial customer on January 19, 1959. A total of 903 Norseman aircraft (Mk I - Mk V) were produced and delivered to various commercial and military customers. The two aircraft operated by Buffalo Airways (CF-NMD and -NME) were refurbished WWII USAAF machines that had formerly flown in Alaska and on the Aleutian Islands. They were initially procured by the company only as light transport and feederliner passenger aircraft for regional traffic around the Great Slave Lake. During this early please the Norsemen carried an overall white livery with pastel green trim.
However, with the company’s commitment to aerial firefighting the robust machines were from 1987 on primarily used for aerial fire patrol in the Yellowknife region during summertime, and for postal service in wintertime. Occasionally, the Buffalo Airways Norsemen were used as air ambulance, too. To reflect their new role the machines received a striking and highly visible new livery in deep orange and dark green, which they carried for the rest of their career. In the firefighting role they operated in unison with other Bird Dogs and Buffalo Airways’ Air Tractor 802 Fireboss and specially converted Lockheed L-188 Electra waterbombers. CF-NME was eventually grounded in 1996 after a severe engine damage and sold (but later revived with a replacement engine), while CF-NMD, nicknamed ‘Anna Louise’ by its crews, soldiered on with Buffalo Airways until 2004.
General characteristics:
Crew: 1
Capacity: up to 10 passengers
Length: 32 ft 4 in (9.86 m)
Wingspan: 51 ft 6 in (15.70 m)
Height: 10 ft 1 in (3.07 m)
Wing area: 325 sq ft (30.2 m²)
Airfoil: NACA 2412
Empty weight: 4,240 lb (1,923 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 7,400 lb (3,357 kg) ;7,540 lb (3,420 kg) with floats
Fuel capacity: 100 imp gal (120 US gal; 450 L) in two wing root tanks,
plus optional 37.4 imp gal (44.9 US gal; 170 L) or 2x 101.6 imp gal
(122.0 US gal; 462 L) auxiliary tanks in the cabin
Powerplant:
1× Pratt & Whitney R-1340-AN1 9 cylinder air cooled radial piston engine, 600 hp (450 kW),
driving a 3-bladed Hamilton Standard, 9 ft 0.75 in (2.7623 m) diameter constant-speed propeller
Performance:
Maximum speed: 155 mph (249 km/h, 135 kn) as landplane with standard wheels
138 miles per hour (120 kn; 222 km/h) on skis
134 miles per hour (116 kn; 216 km/h) on floats
Cruise speed: 130 mph (210 km/h, 110 kn) KTAS at 10,000 ft (3,000 m)
Stall speed: 68 mph (109 km/h, 59 kn)
Range: 932 mi (1,500 km, 810 nmi) at 10,000 ft (3,000 m)
Service ceiling: 17,000 ft (5,200 m)
Rate of climb: 591 ft/min (3.00 m/s) at 100 miles per hour (87 kn; 161 km/h)
Wing loading: 22.8 lb/sq ft (111 kg/m²)
Power/mass: 0.08 hp/lb (0.13 kW/kg)
Maximum - Flaps extended (Vfe): 108 miles per hour (94 kn; 174 km/h)
The kit and its assembly:
This project was spawned when, some years ago, I came across a picture of PBV-5A Canso/Catalina CF-NJE/ C-FNJE (ex RCAF 11094) during its use with Buffalo Airways between 1996 and 2004, where it AFAIK flew as a tanker/mobile gas station for other firefighting aircraft. The Canso carried a bright and highly attractive livery in deep orange and dark green with high-contrast white trim on wings and fuselage, and I immediately decided to apply this pretty scheme to another aircraft one day. And what could be more Canadian and an epitome of a bush aircraft than the stubby Noorduyn Norseman (well, O.K., an Otter, a Beaver…) which is available as a 1:72 kit from Matchbox (since 1981, re-released by Revell)? An alternative is AFAIK a full resin kit from Choroszy Modelbud, even though it only offers floats.
Several years after the project’s inception I was able to hunt down a relatively cheap kit (2009 Revell re-boxing), but it rested some more years in The Stash™ until the time was ripe and I collected enough mojo to tackle it. Since this would only be a livery whif and not involve any major conversions, the Norseman kit was basically built OOB, using the optional floats as most suitable landing gear.
The only addition is a scratched semi-elliptic stabilizing fin under the tail, sometimes seen on real world Norsemen with floats. A technical change I made is a metal axis for the propeller with an internal styrene tube adapter behind the engine. Unusual for a Matchbox kit: it comes with separate rudders and flaps, and I mounted the latter in a downward position. For eventual flight scenes I integrated a vertical styrene tube behind the rear cabin bulkhead, as a rigid adapter for a steel rod display holder.
To avoid masking and the danger of losing one or more of the side windows during the assembly or while painting the model, I left them all away and recreated them after painting with Humbrol ClearFix – only the windscreen is an OOB piece. The risk of pushing one of the windows into the hull is IMHO very high, because each pane is a separate piece and none of them have any support to increase the contact area with the hull. This also makes the use of glue to mount and fix them rather hazardous. The ClearFix stunt went better than expected, but I guess that the Norseman’s window might be the limit of what can be created with the gooey stuff.
Overall fit of the kit is good, even though some PSR is needed along seams (esp. at the wing/fuselage intersections) and for some sinkholes along the fuselage seam. A feature Matchbox always did well is the surface structure of fabric-clad areas, and the Norseman is no exception. Mounting the delicate float arrangement was challenging, though, it takes a lot of patience and thorough drying phases to assemble. Because I wanted to paint the floats and the respective struts in aluminum (from a rattle can) I assembled and lacquered them separately, for a final “marriage”.
As additional details I added PE boarding ladders between the floats and the side doors instead of the minimal OOB plastic steps, and some rigging between the fin and the stabilizers as well as between the floats’ struts, created with heated grey styrene material.
Painting and markings:
The real highlight of the model: the bright firefighting livery! I adapted the paint scheme as good as possible from the benchmark Catalina (the same livery was also carried by CL-215 waterbombers) onto the stubby Norseman and used Humbrol 3 (Brunswick Green) and 132 (Red Satin, a rather orange-red tone) as basic colors. A personal addition/deviation is the black belly, and because of the separate cowling I ended the jagged white cheatline behind it and added a white front ring to the cowling.
The wing supports were painted white, similar to the real Canso. Since the floats are an optional landing gear, they were painted (separately) in white aluminum (from a rattle can), with dark gray walkways and black tips. The model did not receive an overall black ink washing, because I wanted to present a clean look, but I did some very subtle post-shading with slightly lightened basic tones along the internal braces. It’s barely noticeable, though.
Most of the white trim was created with generic decal stripe material from TL Modellbau, a very convenient solution, even though a LOT of material (more than 1m in total!) went into the decoration. Aligning all the stripes on the stabilizers and the wings was not as easy as it seems, due to the rib structure of the surfaces. The registration codes on wings and fuselage were created with single white letters (also from TL Modellbau) in different sizes.
The model was sealed with semi-gloss acrylic varnish (Italeri) for a clean and fresh look, the floats received a coat with matt (effectively a bit shiny) varnish from a rattle can, before the model was finally assembled and final struts and the PE boarding ladders were added. The anti-glare panel in front of the windscreen became matt, too.
As one of the final steps, the windowpanes were created with ClearFix (see above) – quite a stunt. Due to their size and square shape, I had to carve some individual tools from chopsticks to apply the thick material properly. Filling the openings this way was quite a challenge, but eventually worked better than expected (or suspected).
A pretty outcome! The firefighting livery suits the Norseman well, it’s a bright spotlight – as intended in real life! :D Building the model took a while, though, mostly because I had to take time for the paint to dry and the extensive use of decal stripes, and I took part in the 2023 “One Week” group build at whatifmodellers.com in the meantime, too. The Matchbox kit is also not to be taken lightly. While things mostly go together well, the delicate floats and the windows are a serious challenge, and I think that replacing the clear parts mostly with Clearfix was not a bad move to avoid other/long-term trouble.
03/01/2018. With Newport Transport having re-taken their long standing school contracts from New Adventure Travel, a number of second hand double deckers were acquired for the new academic year.
Included among the latest in-takes is this Dennis Trident, numbered 427 in the fleet and registered KV02 URS. She was new to Connex in London as TA109 but later passed to Travel London becoming 9809. In addition to this, the vehicle has also operated with Abellio London, Geldards (who converted her to single door formation) and briefly Courtney Buses.
As can be seen here, she has gained the new, all-over green version of the Newport Transport livery.
The Palace of La Mosquera, also known as the Palace of the Infante Don Luis de Borbón, is a neoclassical palace from the end of the 18th century, located in the municipality of Arenas de San Pedro, province of Ávila, Spain. It was built by the Infante Don Luis Antonio de Borbón y Farnesio, sixth son of Felipe V and brother of Carlos III who, exiled from the Madrid court after contracting a morganatic marriage with María Teresa Vallabriga, moved his residence from the Boadilla del Monte Palace in Madrid to the town of Arenas de San Pedro.
History
The prince arrived with his family in Arenas de San Pedro in 1778, and decided to settle at first in the Lletget house, then in the Old Palace, the Palace of the Ladies, in addition to carrying out the works to channel the Guisete stream.1 In 1779 he commissioned the project of a new palace to the renowned architect Ventura Rodríguez.2 The Madrid architect would supervise the completion of the project, but delegated its execution to four collaborators:3 the architect Mateo Guill, the master builder of the Infante Alfonso Regalado , and the brothers Ignacio and Domingo Tomás.3 The scale of the project and the advanced age of Don Luis meant that the project was never completed.
The eight years that the Infante lived in this Palace were the period of greatest cultural splendor in the town. The Infante, a great lover of art, history and science and considered one of the most important patrons and collectors of the kingdom, made an important contribution to national art and the development of Arenas de San Pedro, summoning distinguished European travelers and numerous artists: composers such as Luigi Boccherini, architects such as Ventura Rodríguez and painters such as Francisco de Goya, who would immortalize the magnificent surroundings of the Sierra de Gredos in his paintings. Don Luis gathered in the Arenas palace a rich, original and varied collection of paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures. A lover of history and science, he created a complete Natural History Cabinet and a splendid library, which undoubtedly must have made a great impression on visitors at the time.
The prince died in Arenas de San Pedro on August 7, 1785. The palace was emptied of all its contents between 1785 and 1796, occupied by Napoleonic troops in 1809 during the Spanish War of Independence and converted into a minor seminary between 1868 and 1869 , was sold by his heirs and destined for a seminary until 1972, a period during which it underwent important changes in its internal distribution. The palace was finally bought in 1988 by the Arenas de San Pedro City Council, which proceeded to rehabilitate and enhance the entire complex. In recent times, the palace and its surroundings have been used as an exhibition gallery,4 catwalk for fashion shows5 or as a stage for dance festivals and concerts.6
Description
The building, built between 1780 and 1783, is characterized by its neoclassical layout. Following the characteristic order of palatial architecture, it presents a closed plan, articulated around an interior patio whose center is occupied by a pyramidal fountain. The plan is arranged in five bays parallel to the main façade, the central one being where the stairway and patios are located. In turn, these bays are cut by other perpendicular ones, ordering and dividing the plan into well-proportioned quadrilateral rooms, completely regular, where the axis becomes the protagonist. The façade shows the obvious traces of an unfinished building that uses characteristic materials from its surroundings such as gray granite and Tiétar sand plaster.
On the outside, the palace stands out for its elegant proportions, ordering its three levels with clearly palatial horizontal lines. The towers that rise above the roof and finish off the corners give the palace an El Escorial appearance, reminiscent of the one projected by Ventura Rodríguez in his palace in Boadilla del Monte. Initially, four towers were planned, one in each corner, but finally only two of them could be built. This sober and orderly character characterizes its exterior, where the portico stands out for its monumentality. The main entrance to the palace is through this beautiful portico of classical proportions designed by Ignacio Tomás in granite stone, conceived as a triumphal arch made up of three arches with six Doric columns and a balcony with a balustrade and which gives access to the hall. The hallway allows access to the stair space, a double-height square space covered by a vault and delimited by a perimeter archway with balconies, which is configured by its elegant proportions as one of the fundamental pieces of the palace.
The palace limits to the west with the Casa de Oficios and the stables. The Casa de Oficios, intended for the servants of the Infante, is inspired by the project designed by Ventura Rodríguez for the Post Office in Puerta del Sol in Madrid. Built in masonry and brick, initially divided into thirteen apartments, this parallelogram comprises a ground floor and a top floor. The lower floor is articulated around a central courtyard. In the basement of the House, were the stables of the palace, where a simple fountain designed by Ventura Rodríguez was also planned.
An important part of the project was made up of the gardens, whose design presented a typology close to the ornamental gardens of the Farm, planted with “broderie” flower beds, articulated around circular fountains of very elaborate typology, such as the fountain of the dolphins, in preserved part, designed by Ventura Rodríguez.
In addition to its wealth of heritage, Arenas de San Pedro is a site of tourist interest due to its famous Águila Caves, discovered in 1963 and located just six kilometres from the town.
Population: 6,454 (2018) National Statistics Institute
In the centre, the impressive Don Álvaro de Luna castle can be found, with its large keep, along with a Gothic church from the 16th century, Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, with a magnificent bell tower, and the Infante don Luis de Borbón palace.
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Contract haulier for Balcas Enniskillen Northern Ireland. Kenny took 3 motors over from Ireland to help out at Invergordon in 2010.
Taken on a delivery job to North Eastern England, the operator recipient apparently shared this company's (Skelton Mini Buses) facilities. Sadly I believe, my friend and customer never did receive his full payment, but that's another story. The yard scene is typical of many an independent's premisis at the end of the 1980s/ early '90s, with several examples of the Bedford marque in evidence. Two are worthy of note, the green and white liveried one on the far right being a late model VAM, and the one second to the left standing proud seems to have received a little Supreme trim to it's Elite front end. By this time, Elites of any sort were a touch thin on the ground.
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Sorority Arena is a multi-purpose stadium located in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and is home to the Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense. It was inaugurated on December 8, 2012.
The new stadium is the only Sorority, outside stadiums host the 2014 World Cup, signed a contract with the Green Building Council Brazil (GBC Brazil) to obtain LEED certification.
For a while now I have been in discussions with LSU Press about writing a book. As you can see above, the contract finally got signed today. The book is going to be called Water Under Everything. For those of you who don’t happen to be obsessive Eudora Welty fans, the title comes from a short story she published in the New Yorker in 1952 titled, No Place For You My Love.
It tells the story of two single people who are seated together at a brunch at Galatoire's. After getting to know each other a bit they decide to drive out of New Orleans and down to Venice at the tip of where the Mississippi empties into the Gulf. The story is about the way Louisiana changes as it descends towards the water and about how the people change as well. At one point a character in the story say “The water was under everything.”
Anyone who has been to Grand Isle or who has thought much about the physical nature of the state of Louisiana can attest that this description fits the state as a whole. Water Under Everything will be about that Louisiana, the constantly changing, green, slipping, aquatic, half-mad world that is everywhere a place unto itself. In short, it is going to be about what I love about Louisiana and the things I fear are threatening our own unique corner of the world.
I put together a little reading list to get me started and I am listing it below. If you have suggestions then please say so, but I am trying to limit the total number of books to around 10. I have read most of the ones listed below but it never hurts to re-familiarize yourself with the masters. I am also taking suggestions for chapter subjects. Each chapter will deal with a different place, festival, restaurant or town. So, let me know a little about your favorites. I am sure you will be hearing more about it as the project moves forward. And, by the way, you now can stop worrying about what you are going to get everyone for Christmas 2013.
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
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Trosa town church (also called the Trosa town parish church or Tros city church) is a church located in Trosa, south of Södertälje in Sörmland. The church is part of Trosa parish, Södertälje contract, Strängnäs diocese.
Trosa town church consists of a rectangular building with trilateral completed choir in the east and an adjoining sacristy in the north. The church has had several predecessors. A chapel was probably in the medieval city, located further upstream of the Trosa river, when the sea was considerably higher. When the land rose, the town moved to the present location, and a chapel was built in about 1600. In 1614 it was replaced by the timbered church with nave and a lower narrower choir, possibly identical to the old chapel. The armory was in the south, the sacristy in the north. Later, an arm of the cross was built to the north.
The present church was built not far from the old churc in the years 1694-1710. After the construction period the church has not undergone any major changes. In the 1750s, however, the vestry was added, and in 1895 the roof shingles were replaced by copper plate. The nave is covered by a hipped gable roof. Pointed window openings break through the rose-colored walls. Dormers gives light to the stands.
The western entrance is a portal constructed in 1837. Of the two primary entries in the south and the north, only the the southern remains. The interior still retains its 1700s character, with whitewashed barrel vault, pulpit and reredos from 1711.
Source: Swedish Wikipedia, my translation
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Trosa stads kyrka (även kallad Trosa stadsförsamlings kyrka eller Trosa stadskyrka) är en kyrkobyggnad belägen i Trosa, söder om Södertälje i Sörmland. Kyrkan ingår i Trosa församling i Södertälje kontrakt, Strängnäs stift.
Trosa stads kyrka består av ett rektangulärt kyrkorum med tresidigt avslutat korparti i öster och en sakristia vidbyggd i norr. Kyrkan har haft flera föregångare. Ett kapell fanns förmodligen i den medeltida staden, belägen längre uppåt Trosaån. Sedermera flyttades staden till den nuvarande platsen, och ett kapell uppfördes omkring år 1600. 1614 ersattes detta av en timmerkyrka med långhus och ett lägre smalare kor, som möjligen var identiskt med det äldre kapellet. Vapenhuset låg i söder, sakristian i norr. Senare byggdes en korsarm till i norr.
Inte långt från den gamla kyrkan uppfördes den nuvarande, mellan åren 1694-1710. Sedan byggnadstiden har inte kyrkan genomgått några större förändringar. På 1750-talet tillkom dock sakristian, och 1895 byttes takets spån ut mot plåt. Långhuset täcks av ett valmat sadeltak. Stickbågiga fönsteröppningar genombryter de rosafärgade murarna. Takkupor ger ljus åt läktaren.
Entrén är en portal som konstruerades i väster år 1837. Av de två ursprungliga ingångarna i söder och norr är den södra bevarad. Interiören är mycket bevarad i sin 1700-talsprägel, med det vitkalkade tunnvalvet, predikstol och altaruppsats från 1711.
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Copenhagen Movia´s sole contracted 12m CNG bus . Due to a bus shortage some bus is better than no bus! For afternoon peak this gas bus made probably its 1st visit to route 10 covering for a Volvo B7RLE - it has defective destinations which explains why it was available when workshop needed to make up a shortfall
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Bysiau Cwm Taf holds the Pembrokeshire County Council contract for Service 351 (Tenby-Saundersfoot-Amroth-Pendine). This enters Carmarthenshire for its last few miles and twice a day connects at Pendine with the company's Carmarthenshire County Council-contracted Service 222 to and from Carmarthen. Until June 2016, the contract was held by Silcox, who allocated anything and everything, though former MoD Plaxton Derwent-bodied Leyland Tigers were a popular choice.
A new 8.9m Alexander Dennis E20D, YY74 RYM, was purchased by Bysiau Cwm Taf for the service - which doubles up as a school contract at the Tenby end - at the start of 2025, and she was descending Pendine Hill and heading for the village, where the connection would be made with Service 222, in this November 2025 shot.
Original (North Side) Star Orchestra, all the latest dances, & popular music furnished for balls, pic-nics, parties, receptions & etc., all contracts made by A. C. Etzel, leader & manager. Offices, Hotel Etzel, No. 1427 Penn Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa., North Side Star H. & F. Club, No. 12 Spring Garden Ave., Allegheny, Pa.
199_ Annual Afternoon Moonlight Excursion, United Order of Keg Drainers. Next Sunday, December 33d, 1561. To Fall Out Grove, 10,000 miles from Hungry Island. Tickets free. Children under 30 half price. Orphans accompanied by their parents not admitted.
At an enormous outlay of persuasion, promised wind etc., Steamer Fish Boat, and the 2 large & commodious bottom barges, Stumps & Butts, have been chartered for the occasion, and will leave foot of Starvation Alley 13:62 P.G. punctually, all not on board will please run after the barge. Life preservers can be had at the Keg Drainers' headquarters. Please order after the excursion to avoid the rush.
Music by the popular orchestra. Dancing 14 to 23 D.B. Q.Z! If the excursion proves favorable the weather will be postponed till last week or the day after tomorrow. N.B. And you will always have a good time & not feel tired the next day, when you dance to the music of the.... Turn over.
Jean-Yves Le Gall, President of CNES, and Gaele Winters, ESA’s Director of Launchers, signed a contract for the Ariane 6 new‑generation launcher launch base, on 12 August 2015, at ESA’s Paris Head Office.
Ariane’s modular approach will offer either two boosters (Ariane 62) or four boosters (Ariane 64), depending on the required performance.
The site of the launch pad for Ariane 6 at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana has been chosen, and prime contractor CNES is already excavating the site. The new complex will also include facilities for preparing the launcher.
Credit: ESA–N. Imbert-Vier, 2015
This Mack tractor owned by Chippewa Contracting in Saginaw,Mich. was nearly brand new when it was photographed in 1999.
Lori started taking pictures of me while I was deeply immersed in the Register.com v. Verio case. I promise my eyes are open behind the book.
Abellio London operates contract bus services for Transport for London and is owned by the Netherlands Railway (NS).
8324 (YX10 EBF) is a 2010 Alexander Dennis Enviro200 9.3 metre 24 seat bus.
Abellio 8324 on route 484 on Station Road, Lewisham on Friday, September 20th, 2013.
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Maskill Contracting are a small family owned operation from Palmerston north specialising in machinery transport for Equip Logistics & their own general frieght cartage nationwide. The fleet consists of Kenworth K104(3), K108, T404, Daf XF95, CF105, Mitsubishi FUSO(2). This unit no.2 is an 8x4 Mitsubishi FUSO flatdeck truck & trailer unit powered by a 430hp Mitsubishi motor coupled to an 18 speed Road-Ranger. It is shot northbound passed Upper Atiamuri with McCormick & John Deere 6610 tractors, a 4-furrow plough and what appears to be a front end loader wrapped & palletised on the front.