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Rare earthenware vase decorated with a green iridescent glaze, which shows a Christopher Dresser influence, that was made by the short lived firm of Holmes & Son, Longton.
This company was only in existence for a period of five years,
Three kiln support scars on the base which were the result of glaze firing which necessitated individual articles being separated from one another and placed on stilts so that on firing the glaze, which as it fused, melted and ran did not adhere to another article or to the kiln shelf.
Impressed mark: H & S L and NO 6
(the 'L' stands for the pottery town of Longton)
Date: 1899-1904
Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett's Longton
"Bennett referred to Longton as Longshaw in his Five Town Novels. It is the least mentioned of the Pottery towns in his Five Town novels . Bennett compared the conurbation as being akin to Hell. Pictures of the area during its industrial growth defy belief with smoke pouring from a multitude of chimneys in amongst bottle ovens of various shapes and sizes. The great concentration of these ovens and the situation of Longton being in a slight hollow, made it the most polluted of all the pottery towns."
1893 journal
"As early as 1756, a manufactory of English porcelain was established here, and ware of great lightness and beauty was produced, fully equaling that for which Chelsea was famous. It will thus be seen that Longton deserves to rank with Burslem as one of the historic towns of the Potteries. Longton, which is situated in the extreme south of the district, is connected by the Stoke and Derby branch of the North Staffordshire Railway with the great trunk lines of England, and so enjoys excellent facilities for transport purposes."
Day 19/51
It does exist some where in the depth.
Canon Powershot SX30 IS, f5.6, shutterspeed 1/100, ISO200.
I just love those moments when it just finished raining, and the sun is laying perfectly over everything.
The Bell AH-1 Cobra (also called HueyCobra) owes its existence to the Vietnam War. While the proof of the air cavalry concept was being proven every day, the US Army was also losing huge amounts of helicopters to ground fire. Equipping the troop-carrying “slicks” with door guns helped, and arming the UH-1 Iroquois/Huey with weapons was another interim solution. Clearly, however, the solution lay with a dedicated attack helicopter that could defend the troop carriers.
Bell, the manufacturer of the UH-1, had been also experimenting with a concept of a heavily armed, turreted, and thin fuselage helicopter. The US Army awarded a proof-of-concept contract to Bell, which replied in a heavily modified Model 47 called the Sioux Scout. It failed to win any orders, but Bell kept at it even as the Army pursued the far more complicated and expensive AH-56 Cheyenne. This resulted in the Model 209, based on components of the UH-1 and the original conceptual design.
With the Vietnam War intensifying and the Cheyenne going nowhere, the Army issued a requirement for an interim solution, which the Model 209—built and tested in only eight months—won easily. The Army ordered 110 AH-1Gs in April 1966 and the type was in action in Vietnam a year later. It was highly successful there, and successive marks of the Cobra would continue to fight in America’s wars since—Grenada and both Gulf Wars. US Army Cobras were upgraded continually in the 1980s, resulting in a dizzying number of variants: the AH-1S (with upgraded engine), AH-1P (with flat glass windscreen), AH-1Q (with TOW missile system), AH-1E (with 20mm gatling cannon in nose turret), and AH-1F (with laser rangefinder and countermeasures). In 1988, the Army finally gave up and redesignated the whole lot as AH-1S.
US Army Cobras were finally retired in 2001, but USMC Cobras remain in service, with the fleet being converted to AH-1Z Kingcobras. Israel, Iran, and Pakistan likewise have used and continue to use their Cobra fleet, and it is generally considered to be the most successful and prototypical attack helicopter.
As is usual with most helicopters, very little can be found of the career of this AH-1F, 68-17063. Given its delivery date, it probably was originally built as an AH-1G and was later upgraded to an AH-1F in the 1970s; as such, 68-17063 might have seen combat in Vietnam. It is known that the helicopter's last assignment was with the 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment (Tennessee National Guard), and it was retired sometime after 2000. It was then donated to the Veterans Memorial Museum at Chehalis, Washington.
68-17063 retains the older overall olive drab finish of US Army helicopters, along with the markings of the 1st Cavalry Division and the 7th Cavalry Regiment; the infamous 7th Cavalry was attached to the 1st during the Vietnam War, though the 7th may not have gotten Cobras until after Vietnam. The elaborate sharkmouth was probably not Army regulation, but some AH-1Gs did carry sharkmouths this large--plus it looks cool. I got this picture on a cloudy Washington morning in May 2024...the clouds having just robbed me of a chance to see Mount St. Helens.
Some people may moan about the present cold spell, however there is always a silver lining and some of the sky scenes have been awesome recently and many a time have I wanted to pull over and take a shot during work; this is exactly what I did on this day. This is in a parking area on the A46 en route to Newark.
2019-01-29: Mr. John Roome, Regional Director, South Asia Sustainable Development addressing the audience during the conference of CIF's 10 year Existence in Ouarzazate, Morocco. In frame, (L-R) Ms. Mafalda Duarte, CEO of the Climate Investment Funds; Mr. Fiu Mataese Elisara, Executive Director, ole Siosiomaga Society Incorporated (OLSSI), Samoa; Mr. Hon. Al Mustapha Garba, Ministry of Environment, Urban Safety and Sustainable Development, Niger and Mr. Johan L. Kuylenstierna, Chair of the Swedish Climate Policy Council.