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Visiting the Clyde as part of Nato Exercise Joint Warrior 05/09, a Dutch Submarine sails across the Clyde heading for Faslane.
Last night I walked around downtown Holland, Michigan with my camera. Downtown is pretty much deserted on a Sunday evening. I might have gotten some better shots, but I forgot to take my tripod with me to Holland. I did have my little 6 inch tripod, but it is difficult to get it to hold this camera and lens. This one seemed to work. It is sitting on the sidewalk on 8th Ave looking towards River Ave.
This guy wizzed past me like a lightening bolt... and give his face he's hardly a kid... so again typically Dutch being speed skater (probably on ice too) and in good shape. I swear he was moving faster than most of the cars on the road.
The Postcard
A Frith Series Real Photographic card. The card was posted to:
Miss A.F. Wilson,
Jubilee Hospital,
Woodford Green,
Essex.
The postmark is not legible, although the 3½p stamp on the back indicates a posting date of 1973 to 1974.
The message on the back of the card was as follows:
"Just a little card to show you
what Hurst Green looks like.
The cross marks where the
flats are.
Several people have said
what nice surroundings we
live in.
I hope you enjoyed your
holiday, and had a nice rest.
As one reads in the paper,
life is not very easy in
hospitals these days.
Hilda is coming to stay here
on the 20th. July for a
fortnight - it will be good to
have her companionship again.
All the best,
K".
The Woodford Jubilee Hospital
The Woodford Jubilee Hospital, which was financed by Sir John Roberts, was built to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. It opened in 1899 with 12 beds. The patients were looked after by their GP's.
In 1911 it was extended to 54 beds, the money being raised by public subscription.
In 1937 a new X-ray room and apparatus was installed. The women's ward was extended, with an additional 6 beds. The work cost £3,877.
In 1948 the Hospital joined the National Health Service.
The Hospital closed in 1986 under the orders of the then Health Minister, Kenneth Clarke, because it was considered to be too small, with only 47 beds.
The Hospital building was demolished and the site redeveloped in 1988 for retirement homes.
Features which were originally part of the Hospital have been incorporated into the new buildings - a cameo plaque of Queen Victoria, a commemorative plaque, a sundial and a weather vane.
Oxted
Holland and Hurst Green are both villages within the civil parish of Oxted in Surrey at the foot of the North Downs.
The Greenwich Meridian runs through Oxted, passing through Oxted School.
Since the 1970's businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed has lived at Barrow Green Court and farm near Oxted.
Thomas 'Tibby' Clarke lived in Oxted in the 1950's: his Ealing comedy The Titfield Thunderbolt derived its name from an amalgamation of the nearby villages Limpsfield and Titsey.
a dutch angle is a cinematic tactic often used to portray the psychological uneasiness of the subject being filmed.
We've driven past the sign on the interstate for this Dutch Windmill hundreds of times but never went to see it. Last week we drove by & decided it was time. Unfortunately the boys were exhausted & fell asleep & we didn't have the heart to wake them, so we didn't take the tour. Still, it was interesting (I got to look around for just a second while my husband waited with the boys.) I wish I had a program to get rid of the power lines.
This photo was taken during one of the many moments where the sun decided to disappear for a while but somehow, I managed to save it. I may have slightly overcooked this one in photoshop though, let me know if this edit works.
You can really see the level of disrepair that the Dutch Village has suffered in this photo. The opening to the boathouse has seen better days and it doesn't look as if there's anything left in the middle. I wonder how much it'd cost to restore this?
Dutch's should be on all the tourist maps of Spokane, if only to go and be sure that the sign actually says what everyone says it says. Which it does.
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I followed these gorgeous police horses for several blocks. I'm guessing from the look of them they were Dutch Warmbloods. And the police were riding in dressage saddles. Very nice.
sorry :) im all into Holland playing soccer!
The World Championship
again with beesie! and with my dutch dress :p
yesterday june the 13th it was my birthday!
so meet me being 25 :p
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The Meuse Rhine Issel (Dutch: Maas-Rijn-IJssel) is a breed of cattle that originated in the Netherlands and Germany. It gets its name from the region in which it was bred - where the three rivers Meuse, Rhine and Issel (or Oude IJssel) meet. The breed is known as MRIJ for short. It was developed in the second halve of the 19th century. The purpose was to create a cattle breed that can be used for the production of dairy and beef. There are about 35.000 Meuse Rhine IJssel cattle in the Netherlands.
Since 1874 it has been registered in the Nederlands Rundvee Syndicaat (NRS) and has been recognised as a breed since 1905.
It was in the early 1970s that MRI cattle were first imported into the United Kingdom. In the Netherlands the population number decreased since 1970, because the increasing Holstein influence.