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Trying out the NDX400 filter. Still not happy, I think I need some help.The water isn't as smooth as I'd like.......
Duke of Lancaster at Heysham 11th August 1974.
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Agfa 64ASA Film
Camera Yashica Electro.
The Duke of Lancaster is a railway steamer passenger ship in operation in Europe from 1956 to 1978, and currently beached in Mostyn docks, on the River Dee, north-east Wales.
The Lancaster was sold to Liverpool based company Empirewise Ltd, who intended her to be used as a static leisure centre and market. She arrived at her new home at Llanerch-y-Mor, near Mostyn on 10 August 1979.The ship was beached and the hull was sealed not in concrete as is commanly thought but surrounded by a large tonnage of sand pulled out of the dee estuary. Known as "The Fun Ship", it was also possible to visit her bridge and engine room. Conversion for use as a 300-room hotel did not appear to go beyond the preliminary planning stage. Its use as "The Fun Ship" was relatively short-lived and was subsequently closed to the public. Over time, the vessel has become increasingly derelict.
The ship was later used as a warehouse by its owners Solitaire Liverpool Ltd, a clothing company registered to the same address as Empirewise Ltd. Despite rumours of the ship being scrapped, the company stated that they have no plans to sell it, or restore it and its current use is uncertain.
Despite having large amounts of its exterior paintwork covered in red-leading, the interior of the ship is in very good condition.
my grandaughter Margo with her little big brother Duke.....only seven months old! and only a year between them.
Ex G.W.R. Duke Class 9084 "Isle of Jersey" at Llynclys on the Oswestry to Machynlleth pick up freight. (Unknown) 6th April 1951
From the Neville Stead negative collection in 2011
David “Duke” Zeibert (1910–1997) opened Duke Zeibert's in 1950 in the LaSalle Building on the southwest corner of Connecticut Avenue and L Street NW. He had formerly been a maitre d' at Fan and Bill’s, a popular steakhouse. An inveterate sports fan, Zeibert decorated his dining room with giant caricatures of himself as various types of sports players. Every table was set with a signature dish of garlic infused kosher dill pickles, which filled the dining room with their aroma.
Looking toward what used to be known as Church Passage, which later became St. James's Passage.
It was on this corner of the building on the left where a woman later identified as Catherine Eddowes was seen speaking with a man by Joseph Lawende, Joseph Hyam Levy, & Harry Harris as they were leaving the Imperial Club on Duke Street around 1:35 am on September 30th 1888.
Church Passage lead into Mitre Square where Eddowes was found horrifically murdered 10 minutes later by PC Edward Watkins while on his beat.
Nikon F4. AF Nikkor 24mm F2.8D lens. Ferrania P30 80 35mm B&W film.
Duke was a family member of mine from 2007 to 2020. He was always an elegant gentleman who trusted everyone he met.
I will miss him forever.
Recently I found this amazing wool felt artist who takes commissions. I sent her over 30+ photos of Duke, and she didn't let me down. She successfully reproduced a miniature version of him.
Now he came back to me with his iconic smile. My Jerryberry would make company with him. None of us would feel lonely ever again.
The "Duke of NormandyII" was built in 1934 in Germany , and was used in Jersey until bought by the Waterways Board in Scotland in 1974. In 1991 she bcame a 'preserved' ship ,under the care of the owner of the Puffer ,Vic32.
The TSS Duke of Lancaster is a railway steamer passenger ship that operated in Europe from 1956 to 1979, and is currently beached near Mostyn Docks, on the River Dee, north-east Wales. It replaced an earlier 3,600 ton ship of the same name operated by the London Midland and Scottish Railway company between Heysham and Belfast.
Dutch postcard by Takken, no. 3009.
American Pianist, bandleader and Songwriter Duke Ellington (1899–1974) was an originator of big-band jazz, and created one of the most distinctive ensemble sounds in Western music. He composed thousands of scores over his 50-year career and continued to play until shortly before his death in 1974.
Duke Ellington was born in 1899, in Washington, D.C., where he was raised by two talented, musical parents in a middle-class neighbourhood. At the age of 7, he began studying piano and earned the nickname 'Duke' for his gentlemanly ways. Inspired by his job as a soda jerk at the Poodle Dog Cafe, he wrote his first composition, Soda Fountain Rag, at the age of 15. He created it by ear, because he had not yet learned to read and write music. Despite being awarded an art scholarship to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, Ellington followed his passion for ragtime and began to play professionally at age 17. In late 1917, he formed his first group, 'The Duke's Serenaders'. He moved to Harlem, ultimately becoming part of the Harlem Renaissance. New dance crazes like the Charleston emerged in Harlem, as well as African-American musical theatre. From 1924 on, Ellington performed in Broadway nightclubs as the bandleader of a sextet, a group which in time grew to a 10-piece ensemble. From 1927 on, he gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the legendary Cotton Club in Harlem. With a weekly radio broadcast, the Cotton Club's exclusively white and wealthy clientele poured in nightly to see them. At the Cotton Club, Ellington's group performed all the music for the revues, which mixed comedy, dance numbers, vaudeville, burlesque, music, and illegal alcohol. In 1929, the Cotton Club Orchestra appeared on stage for several months in Florenz Ziegfeld's Show Girl, along with vaudeville stars Jimmy Durante, Eddie Foy, Jr., Ruby Keeler, and with music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Gus Kahn.
Duke Ellington made hundreds of recordings with his bands, appeared in films and on radio, and toured Europe on two occasions in the 1930s. Ellington's film work began with Black and Tan (1929), a nineteen-minute all-African-American RKO short in which he played the hero Duke. He also appeared in the Amos 'n' Andy film Check and Double Check (1930). Ivie Anderson was hired as their featured vocalist in 1931. She is the vocalist on It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) (1932) among other recordings. Ellington and his Orchestra also appeared in the films Murder at the Vanities (Mitchell Leisen, 1934) and Belle of the Nineties (Leo McCarey, 1934), featuring Mae West. The short film Symphony in Black (Fred Waller, 1935) featured his extended piece A Rhapsody of Negro Life. It introduced Billie Holiday, and won an Academy Award as the best musical short subject. While the band's United States audience remained mainly African-American in this period, the Ellington orchestra had a huge following overseas, exemplified by the success of their trip to England in 1933 and their 1934 visit to the European mainland. Ellington's fame rose to the rafters in the 1940s when he composed several masterworks, including Concerto for Cootie, Cotton Tail and Ko-Ko. His blend of melodies, rhythms and subtle sonic movements gave audiences a new experience—complex yet accessible jazz that made the heart swing. He preferred to call it 'American Music'. During the early 1950s, Ellington's career was at a low point with his style being generally seen as outmoded. Ellington's appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1956 returned him to wider prominence and introduced him to a new generation of fans. Ellington began to work directly on scoring for film soundtracks, in particular Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 1959), with James Stewart, in which Ellington appeared fronting a roadhouse combo, and Paris Blues (Martin Ritt, 1961), which featured Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier as jazz musicians. Ellington earned 12 Grammy awards from 1959 to 2000, nine while he was alive. At the age of 19, Ellington married Edna Thompson, who had been his girlfriend since high school, and soon after their marriage, she gave birth to their only child, Mercer Kennedy Ellington. In 1928, Ellington became the companion of Mildred Dixon, who travelled with him, managed Tempo Music, inspired songs at the peak of his career and raised his son Mercer. In 1938 he left his family and moved in with Cotton Club employee Beatrice 'Evie' Ellis. The relationship with Ellis, though stormy, continued after Ellington met Fernanda de Castro Monte in the early 1960s. Ellington supported both women for the rest of his life. In 1974, at the age of 75, Duke Ellington died of lung cancer and pneumonia. His last words were, "Music is how I live, why I live and how I will be remembered." Following Duke's death, his son Mercer took over leadership of the orchestra continuing until his own death in 1996.
Source: Bio. and Wikipedia.