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Hardee's in Delafield opened in the 80's and is one of 2 Hardee's in the Milwaukee Metro, the other being St Francis. At this Hardee's, I had the Big Chicken Sandwich. Of course being plain and I loved it. It's on the expensive side compared to many sandwiches but I was well worth it.
EVWR Train WOA-3 (Empty to White Oak Mine at Delafield) holds in the Epworth siding for a loaded SH train.
A close-up view of a vibrant magenta rosebud is captured amid lush, deep green leaves, highlighting the intricate layers of the flower. The surrounding foliage adds a rich contrast, emphasizing the delicate beauty of the budding rose.
SOUTH CHINA SEA (Oct. 15, 2022) Lt. j.g. Sean Mullen, from Delafield, Wis., retrieves firefighting boots in a repair locker during a simulated fire drill aboard Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins (DDG 76), while conducting routine operations in the South China Sea. Higgins is assigned to Commander, Task Force (CTF) 71/Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15, the Navy’s largest forward-deployed DESRON and U.S. 7th fleet’s principal surface force. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Donavan K. Patubo)
City of Delafield, Wisconsin Police Department Ford Police Interceptor Utility. Delafield is in Waukesha County.
A lovely shot of 8750 class 0-6-0PT No 9610 coming off shed at Croes Newydd, in 1966
Croes Newydd West Signalbox controlled access to and from the shed on the Wrexham and Minera line. The Wrexham and Minera Railway was one of several constructed to serve the intensive quarrying, mining and iron founding operations in the area west of Wrexham, which was undergoing considerable expansion in the mid 19th century thanks to the exploitation of the underlying Middle Coal Measures.
The section of line between Brymbo and Minera had originally been part of the former North Wales Mineral Railway, built in 1844 and later incorporated into the Great Western Railway. This line's operation was constrained by the rope-worked inclines, locally known as "brakes", and tunnels along its route through the hilly country between Wheatsheaf Junction, near Wrexham, and Brymbo. As a result, an Act of 1861 proposed that a new railway, the Wrexham and Minera Railway, would be constructed from Croes Newydd, at Wrexham on the main Shrewsbury-Chester line of the Great Western Railway to Brymbo, where it would join the GWR's existing route to Minera. The new railway company would have a capital of £48,000 in total (£36,000 of which would be in shares) and the power to enter into an agreement with GWR on operational matters and division of receipts. George Robert Jebb, who had previously worked on the Shrewsbury-Chester route, was appointed Resident Engineer. The line was fully completed and jointly leased to the GWR and LNWR, within whose "sphere of influence" it also fell, in June 1866. A short branch was also constructed through to the colliery at Vron, owned by William Low, one of the Wrexham and Minera company's directors. In the 1870s a further extension, the Wrexham and Minera Joint Railway, was built from Brymbo through to an end-on connection with the LNWR's Ffrith Branch, which ran from Llanfynydd to Coed Talon near Mold. This line was jointly operated by the GWR and the LNWR - the only line in North Wales to be so operated. The completion of this link through the Cegidog valley not only gave the GWR a route to Mold but allowed the LNWR access to the North Wales Coalfield. The construction of the Wrexham-Brymbo line led to the immediate abandonment of the North Wales Mineral Railway's original Brymbo (or "Brake") tunnel and incline. The lower section of the NWMR route from Wheatsheaf Junction, through Summerhill Tunnel, to Moss remained in use until 1908 for colliery traffic.
Between 1882 and 1905 the GWR gradually introduced passenger services between Wrexham and Minera, in response to requests from local communities. Halts or stations were located at Plas Power (Southsea), the Lodge, Brymbo, Brymbo West, Pentresaeson (for Bwlchgwyn), Coedpoeth, and Vicarage Crossing (Minera), with a passenger terminus at the rather remote Berwig Halt. From 1905 the GWR began operating a railmotor service, with as many as fifteen workings on Saturdays. ] The LNWR ran its own passenger trains from Mold south to the joint station at Brymbo. In 1905, the businesses of Coedpoeth campaigned for the Great Western Railway Company to lay a new branch from the existing Coedpoeth Station into the village centre. The local business's claimed the station was too far away (being effectively located in Minera) to serve them properly and was of little convenience. Regardless, their petition failed miserably. This may have been because the gradient was simply too steep for conventional rail, as well as the little profit for a large undertaking. Despite this situation, Coedpoeth station remained a main focal point for the area, serving several villages with a combined population of around 9000 people.
At the top end of the line, there was a mile-long spur, the New Brighton branch, along the flank of Esclusham Mountain serving the Delafield Minera Lead Mines (which operated their own locomotive Henrietta, a Manning Wardle 0-6-0). The mines closed in 1910 and the spur was pulled up, only to be opened again for several years from 1920 to serve silica clay beds. The line ran west from Croes Newydd, steadily climbing through the farmland west of Wrexham. Shortly beyond Croes Newydd yard, the GWR's Moss Valley branch (serving several collieries near Moss, with a spur running as far as Ffrwd north of Brymbo) diverged. The main Brymbo branch continued westwards passing the industrial villages of New Broughton and Southsea, where there were connections to more collieries. Swinging northwards and still climbing, it ran along the eastern side of a rather steep valley to Brymbo, where the joint line to Coed Talon diverged just beyond the main joint station. At Brymbo Middle signal box a short trailing branch south-west to Vron served the collieries there, passing through the steelworks en route. The section from Brymbo West onwards to Minera remained solely in GWR ownership: traversing the rural area west of Brymbo, it passed the brickworks at Cae-llo and the steel company's siding at the Smelt mine, where fireclay and coal were mined, before reaching Minera, 3 miles and 1234 yards beyond Brymbo West. This part of the route featured a large number of level crossings over minor roads. Competition from new bus services meant that the GWR's passenger service from Wrexham was cut back to Coedpoeth from 1926, and discontinued entirely at the end of 1930, but the small goods office and water tower were left standing at Coedpoeth, as steam locomotives needed replenishing after the hard climb from Croes Newydd. All lines continued in use for freight traffic, however, and the passenger service from Mold to Brymbo (now operated by the LNWR's successor, the LMS) continued with five trains a day on weekdays throughout the 1930s, despite there now being no onward connection to Wrexham. The end section of the Vron branch was closed in 1930 along with the collieries it served, but part of its length from Vron Junction remained in use to serve the increasing steelworks traffic. Passenger traffic on the joint line from Brymbo to Coed Talon declined during the Second World War, however, with only two passenger trains a day in each direction, largely maintained for schoolchildren attending school in Mold. The passenger service was finally withdrawn in 1950 by British Railways, with the final closure of Brymbo station, although its goods siding remained open. The Brymbo-Coed Talon line was taken out of use in 1952, although it was not formally closed until 1963.
The route from Croes Newydd to Brymbo was double-tracked and built to a standard designed to cope with heavy coal and freight trains to and from the steelworks. These trains were usually worked by train crews from Croes Newydd shed using GWR 2800 Class locomotives based there; given the steep climb from Wrexham to Brymbo, which reached gradients of 1 in 36, a bank engine (such as a GWR 57xx or 56xx Class locomotive) was often used. The more lightly built section beyond Brymbo West to Minera was worked by smaller locomotives, such as the 5700 Class, with engine 9610 being used almost exclusively on this line. In later years BR class 9F and ex-LMS 8F locomotives were also used on steelworks traffic. Steam locomotives continued in use on the line until relatively late under British Railways, with BR Class 24 and 25 diesel's being introduced to Croes Newydd shed from 1967-8.
One unusual aspect of workings on the line was that gravity shunting was permitted at Brymbo on shorter trains even as late as the 1970s. The gradients here could be problematic: there was an incident in the 1970s in which a train ran out of control on the former Vron Branch, and broke through level crossing gates in Brymbo. By the early 1970s, the section of line from Brymbo West to Minera saw only two trains a week, and it was closed in 1972, shortly before Minera Limeworks was itself closed. The last part of the system, the 3-mile line from Brymbo West to Wrexham, remained open for freight trains to and from the steelworks, and as late as the mid-1970s there were 7 return workings a day. This section of line was taken out of use on 1 October 1982, due to increasing amounts of steelworks traffic being sent by road. The steelworks itself closed in 1990-91, along with a final section of the Vron Branch that had remained in use as part of the works' internal railway system. After a period of abandonment, the track was lifted in the late 1980s. Many of the line's bridges and other structures, including the platforms of the former Brymbo station, were not demolished until the 1990s.
A number of structures remain, including a large stone viaduct near Ffrith on the former Joint Railway from Brymbo to Coed Talon. The Moss Valley spur between Wrexham Maelor Hospital and the site of Moss and Pentre Station has now been re-surfaced as a cycle route. Croesnewydd West Signal Box was a post-war G.W Type 14 Box with asbestos roof and 37 lever frame, which controlled the west end of the yard of the same name, to the west of Wrexham. The box was closed at the same time as the line to Brymbo on 4th May 1983. to those who are familiar with Wrexham Maelor Hospital, the photographer is standing behind the bridge which carries Croes Newydd road and the car park for the Hospital.
Departing Foresight Energy's Sugar Camp Coal Mine is EVWR Train EVW4-17 with CSX Power on the EVWR Savatran Rail Spur. Here they pull around the connection with the EVWR St. Louis Sub. at South Sugar Camp. This line was built for the Chris Cline Group in 2010 to combat poor handling of their trains by the CN, which the line was originally located next to.
Locomotives: CSXT 3304, CSXT 417
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Delafield, IL
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The Rolls Royce 20/25 built between 1929 and 1936 succeeded the 20HP Rolls Royce 'small car'. It was intended to appeal to owner drivers, but many were sold to customers with chauffeurs.
This example was purchased by MR S.M Spalding in September 1934 from Car Mart Ltd, Park Lane, London. Chassis #GYD20, engine number M7H features coachwork by Freestone & Webb, completed in July 1934.
The car passed through a number of owners during its lifetime. The most recent two owners have kept the complete history of the car with nine volumes detailing work carried out and associated costs, along with photos over 45 years.
It was purchased by the current from Oxen, UK in 2012 and now resides in Footscray, Australia.
The car number plate is the original, so when the car came to Australia, its original plates, first issued in 1934 were able to be retained.
Belgian postcard by Photo Edition, no. 432. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
American actress Helen Vinson (1907-1999) was a chic, elegant beauty with a tinge of a Southern drawl, who appeared in 40 films between 1932 and 1945. She specialised in the part of the other woman, often taking on the role of the cynical adulteress or the spiteful wife who does her best to prevent her husband's happiness with another woman.
Helen Vinson was born Helen Rulfs in Beaumont, Texas, in 1907 She was the daughter of Edward A. Rulfs, an oil company exec. During her youth, she developed a passion for horses. The family eventually settled in Houston, where another passion for acting was ignited. She met Mrs. March Culmore, director of the Houston, Texas Little Theater. Culmore took Helen as a pupil and soon Helen was playing leads with The Little Theater Group. Although she was not accepted into the drama department of the University of Texas, she persevered by earning parts in local theatre productions. She eventually made her Broadway debut in a walk-on role in a production entitled 'Los Angeles' (1927). While in her teens she had married Harry N. Vickerman, a man fifteen years her senior who came from a well-to-do Philadelphia family. The stock market crash of 1929 ruined her husband's business and the stress and anguish precipitated divorce proceedings after only five years. In 1931, she earned major Broadway notice as the female lead in Agatha Christie's fantasy 'Death Takes a Holiday' playing a woman who literally faces Death (played by Philip Merivale). Helen gained further notice on Broadway in 'Berlin' (1931) starring Sydney Greenstreet and 'The Fatal Alibi' (1932) with Charles Laughton. During this time she was also noticed by Warner Brothers talent scouts who ushered the svelte blonde straight to Hollywood. Vinson played both lead and support roles in pre-Code films. Making a strong impression trading insults as the aloof "other woman." Often unsympathetic, self-involved and frequently bitchy and backstabbing. She was not above using her feminine wiles to get her way. She played Kay Francis' epicurean friend in the mild comedy Jewel Robbery (William Dieterle, 1932), and stood between Loretta Young and David Manners happiness as his wealthy fiance in the soap-styled drama They Call It Sin (Thornton Freeland, 1932). In the classic I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy, 1932), she had a rather bland 'nice girl' role as the stylish woman Paul Muni leaves Glenda Farrell for. She appeared as Doris Delafield in The Kennel Murder Case (Michael Curtiz, 1933), which starred William Powell as Philo Vance. Appearing opposite a number of diminutive male stars such as Paul Muni, Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, and George Raft, whom she danced with in Midnight Club (Alexander Hall, George Somnes, 1933), the almost 5'7" actress was not too popular with the so-called vertically-challenged leading men at Warners and was quickly released from her contract.
However, Helen Vinson appeared alongside some of Hollywood's most popular and virile leading men. She played Warner Baxter's castoff wife in Frank Capra's Broadway Bill (1934) and appeared with Charles Boyer in Private Worlds (Gregory La Cava, 1935). She was also the selfish wife of Gary Cooper who intrigues to prevent his happiness with Anna Sten in The Wedding Night (King Vidor, 1935). She married the British Wimbledon tennis champion Fred Perry in 1935 and moved to England for a time. In Great Britain, she made the films The Tunnel (Maurice Elvey, 1935), King of the Damned (Walter Forde, 1935) starring Conrad Veidt, and Love in Exile (Alfred L. Werker, 1936) opposite Clive Brook, which resulted in little fanfare. The couple relocated to Los Angeles a few years later so she could find more work. Perry also hoped he could parlay his sports fame into a movie career. Their highly publicised marriage only lasted five years. Helen appeared with James Cagney in Torrid Zone (William Keighley, 1940) and even lightened it up a little bit in the Bob Hope/Paulette Goddard comedy Nothing But the Truth (Elliott Nugent, 1941). Gary Brumburgh at IMDb: "One of Helen's best-known film roles, however, came with the plush drama In Name Only (1939) starring Cary Grant and Carole Lombard. In this vintage soaper, Vinson plays a close confidante to the highly manipulative and rancorous Kay Francis, who is married to Grant, who has in turn fallen in love with good-hearted Lombard." Another standout role for Vinson was as an undercover federal agent posing as a femme fatale opposite Richard Cromwell in Universal Pictures's anti-Nazi action drama entitled, Enemy Agent (Lew landers, 1940). Her last role was that of Helen Draque in The Thin Man Goes Home (Richard Thorpe, 1945) after which Vinson's film career ended. After marrying her third husband, stockbroker Donald Hardenbrook, in 1945. Helen gave up her career completely according to the wishes of her husband. The couple remained together until his death in 1976. She had no children from her three marriages. After her retirement, she found varied interests including interior design. For the remainder of her life, she divided home life between Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. She had a favorite horse named Arrabella. Helen passed away in Chapel Hill in 1999 of natural causes at the age of 92.
Sources: Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Bob Hufford (Find A Grave), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
Nessie is our provincial lady...
amusing account of a year in the life of an upper middle class English woman in the 1930's...
The Delafield Fish Hatchery was constructed in 1907 and served its purpose to propagate fish for Wisconsin's waterways until 1953, and now serves as a senior center and is also quite popular for weddings.
well, i went back to see the jack-o-lanterns at night ... i was surprised to see they had different colored lights in them ... i personally prefer plain lights to look more like candles, but it was cool nonetheless ... somebody really put a lot of work into this .. the whole town of delafield is so charming ....
LARGE View On Black
texture by les brumes
The Postcard
A postally unused Colourmaster International postcard that was published in the mid-1960's by Photo Precision Ltd. of St. Ives, Huntingdon. The card was printed in Great Britain.
Steyning
Steyning is a town in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It is located at the north end of the River Adur gap in the South Downs, four miles (6.4 km) north of the coastal town of Shoreham-by-Sea.
The smaller villages of Bramber and Upper Beeding constitute, with Steyning, a built-up area at this crossing-point of the river.
In the 2001 census, 5,812 people lived in 2,530 households, of whom 2,747 were economically active.
History of Steyning
-- Saxon
Steyning has existed since Anglo-Saxon times. Legend has it that St. Cuthman built a church, at one time dedicated to him, later to St. Andrew, and now jointly to St. Andrew and St. Cuthman, where he stopped after carrying his mother in a wheelbarrow.
Several of the signs that can be seen on entering Steyning bear an image of his feat. King Alfred the Great's father, Æthelwulf of Wessex, was originally buried in the church, before being transferred to Winchester - a Saxon grave slab (possibly his) remains in the church porch.
-- Norman
To thank his Norman protectors for refuge during his exile, Edward the Confessor granted his royal minster church in Steyning, with its large and wealthy manor lands, to the Abbey Church of the Holy Trinity at Fécamp, to take effect after the death of Aelfwine, the Bishop of Winchester, who had charge of Steyning.
The bishop died in 1047, and ecclesiastical jurisdiction then passed directly to the Pope.
Confirming the gift of Steyning made by Edward the Confessor, the charter acquitted the grantees of all earthly service and subjection to barons, princes and others, and gave them all royal liberties, custom and justice over all matters arising in their land, and threatened any who should infringe these liberties with an amercement of £100 of gold.
This was an addition to the nearby port with land around Rye, Winchelsea and Hastings, already given to the same Abbey by King Cnut, to honour a promise made by his wife Emma of Normandy's first husband King Aethelred.
By then Steyning was already a thriving port with a market, a royal mint, the church founded by St Cuthman and one other church, as the Domesday Book relates 60 years later.
Godwin, Earl of Wessex expelled the Norman monks in 1052 and seized Steyning for himself, and his son Harold decided to keep it upon his accession. This made commercial and strategic sense, as Harold did not want a Norman toehold in a potential invasion port, but William responded by swearing on a knife before setting out for England to recover it for the monks.
Upon his victory at Hastings, he honoured his promise and returned it to the monks. However, its strategic importance made William place William de Braose in a new castle at nearby Bramber, who began a vigorous boundary dispute and power tussle with the monks, William's settlement having lacked definite terms in the first place.
The Domesday Book, completed in 1086, brought this to a head. It found that de Braose had built a bridge at Bramber and demanded tolls from ships travelling further along the river to the port at Steyning.
The monks challenged Bramber's right to bury its parishioners in the churchyard at William de Braose's new church of St Nicholas, and demanded its burial fees, despite it being built to serve the castle not the town.
The monks produced forged documents to defend their position, and were unhappy with the failure of their claim on Hastings.
In 1086 the king called his sons, barons and bishops to court (the last time an English king presided personally, with his full court, to decide a matter of law) to settle this. It took a full day, and the Abbey won over the court, forcing de Braose to curtail his bridge tolls, give up various encroachments onto the abbey's lands and organise a mass exhumation and transfer of all Bramber's dead to the churchyard of Saint Cuthman's Church in Steyning.
-- Mid to Late Medieval
Even the 1086 judgment did not settle the Steyning versus Bramber dispute once and for all; it continued for centuries afterwards, exacerbated by the Lord of Bramber founding his own religious establishments in his neighbouring parish.
Meanwhile, in the 14th. century, the River Adur began to silt up, and the town's use as a port became difficult, leading to a loss of trade and population. The monks of Fécamp Abbey retained control of Steyning until the 15th. century, and re-dedicated the church of St Cuthman. to St Andrew. in the 13th. century.
-- 17th. Century
In 1614, William Holland, Alderman of Chichester, founded and endowed Steyning Grammar School.
-- 19th. Century
The Steyning Line railway from London to Shoreham arrived in Steyning in 1861, and a station was opened to serve the town.
Steyning Town Hall, (currently an estate agents) at 38 High Street, was built in 1886.
The legendary Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell married 'Kitty' O'Shea (niece of Lord Hatherley) here in 1891, the culmination of an adulterous affair that saw his fall from power, catastrophically dividing Irish politics.
Besides much agriculture, brewing, a tannery (Tanyard Lane) and to a small extent brickmaking, more than 25 men were employed in the sheep-related trade as fellmongers. More than four were parchment makers, five were millers, and there was a surgeon, an oil painter, James M. Burfield, and a watch maker in the town during the 1881 census.
The railway remained in service for over a century, closing in 1966 as result of the Beeching Axe. The route of the railway line has since been converted into a footpath and cycleway known as the Downs Link.
Modern town
Modern Steyning
In Steyning there is a variety of facilities including four public houses, many boutique shops, cafes and estate agents. There is a leisure centre, which was built with National Lottery funding. It also has a modern health centre, a public library and the Steyning Museum.
A spring fair is held on the Spring bank holiday (the last Monday in May).
The Monarch's Way long-distance footpath skirts the southern end of the town.
The Steyning Festival
The Steyning Festival was founded in 2006 by Ann Poupard, a resident of the town. The event is now biennial and runs for two weeks at the end of May/start of June. It features theatre, music, literature, talks, walks, community events and more.
In 2009, the Steyning Festival was awarded a lottery grant to bring international artist and psychogeographer Chris Dooks to Steyning for a month-long residency, resulting in a free MP3 tour.
Steyning Sport and Leisure
There is a long established cricket club near the police station. Steyning also has a non-league football club called Steyning Town Community Football Club, who play at the Shooting Field. The town also has its own leisure centre.
Steyning Athletic Club, established in 1951, offers a variety of sports to members - including Running, Swimming, Cycling, Race walking, Circuits/Fitness and Triathlon. Annual Club events include the Roundhill Romp (a 10k running race that is part of the Sussex Fun Run League) and the Steyning Stinger (Full Marathon and Half Marathon on the South Downs).
Notable Residents of Steyning
Notable residents include:
-- Peter Carter-Ruck. He was the founder of Carter-Ruck Solicitors, and was born in the town in 1914.
-- E. M. Delafield, author, was born and grew up in Steyning.
-- Sally Gunnell, former British athlete and gold-medal winner in the 1992 Summer Olympic Games.
-- Bernard Holden, railway engineer and president of the Bluebell Railway lived in the Station Master's House from 1912 and attended Steyning Grammar School in the 1920's.
-- Victor Benjamin Neuburg, occultist and poet, proprietor of the Vine Press.
-- Elizabeth Norton, historian and author, grew up in Steyning and was educated at Steyning Grammar School.
-- Laurence Olivier, the actor, had a home in Ashurst, near Steyning, where he died in 1989 at the age of 82.
-- Richard Raphael, cricketer
-- W. B. Yeats, the Irish poet, stayed at the Chantry House in his later years with his mistress Edith Shackleton Heald; she spent her last years there with the artist Gluck.
-- Maisie Peters, singer-songwriter, was born in Steyning.