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The Figtree window by Tom Denny at St. Christophers Church, Warden Hill, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire one of a series of ten 1988-1999.
NRZ 424 shunts the stock of the 0800 charter to Bulawayo at Figtree on 11/08/06, as the "golden" morning light turns to "silver".
NRZ (National Railways of Zimbabwe) 424 (originally numbered 404) "Isilwane or Lion" is a class 15A Garratt (4-6-4+4-6-4) & was built in 1950 by Beyer, Peacock & Company at Gorton in Manchester for the Rhodesdian Railways.
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On October 26th 2022 I discovered that a new galvanised walking track bridge had been built at the mouth of Browns Creek, where it enters the Manning River.
A wide concrete path leads to the bridge from the western end of Pitt and Nelson Streets near the old Peters Milk Factory Wharf.
The pathway and bridge allow new access in 2022 from the east across Browns Creek to the Taree Bicentennial Gardens, which up till now have been tucked away and underutilised on a peninsula between Browns Creek and the Manning River.
Presumably the path will eventually be continued east to the proposed future redevelopment of the old Peeress Butter Factory site fronting the Manning River. That project, which has been in the planning phase for many years, will potentially revitalise the historic Chatham Manning River front and will be known as 'Figtrees on the Manning'.
In the longer term it will also extend to Taree Recreation Centre at Chatham.
For now, the bridge gives access from Pitt and Nelson Streets west through the Taree Bicentennial Gardens.
Those who might explore a little further will find that the path through the gardens extends to a new walking cycling trail completed in December 2021 which links from under Browns Creek Bridge along the western side of Browns Creek through mangrove swamp forest and rainforest all the way to Muscio Park.
Figtree Lane becomes a footpath for a little while, you cross the creek on a small bridge, and eventually the small lane joins a larger road again.
Ocracoke village has about 800 year-round residents - and about 3000 overnight guests in hotel rooms & suites, rental condos & cottages and then some more at the three campsites during the "high season."
When we first visited, in1981, there was still a real sense of an old village, and you could buy fresh seafood, the catch of the day, in several places on the harbor, Silver Lake. Although the Coast Guard and the ferry landings took up much of the harbor on one side of the almost circular "lake" along with a few docking sites for visiting sailors, most of the harbor had docks for boats belonging to the villagers, a few small, locally owned stores and hotels.... I wish I had taken pictures of the village then.
This summer, I decided to record what I think of as the Ocracoke belonging to the islanders....no "for rent" signs on the fence, personal touches, a few historical sites. The fishing industry is mostly gone, and the economy is now built on tourism. The fishermen (and women!) have learned to catch a different kind of fish. :-)
The county agricultural commission put up an insect trap in the fig tree in our back yard, looking for Mexican fruit flies.
You cannot tell from this picture, but the these fig tree roots stood almost 2 meters high near the trunk and spread out 6 to 7 meters in all directions.
7/30. 17/10/09.
'Ello, 'ello, 'ello, wot 'ave we 'ere. Clothes for Adam, har har har. Figjam, eh Jim lad, figjam, *chuckle*. That mate of yours, that singin' feller, he's a bit figjam I think. Now don't go tellin' the Missus I've been usin' langwidge. She don't hold with langwidge, me missus don't.
Sorry Jim lad, no sign of that guitar up 'ere.