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Dragged back to NX Coventry garage after its serious fire on 17th October 2018. 'Back' being the operative word - it was lifted at the rear by a pick-up truck to get to here.
Vehicle: Ford Transit Custom 320 Limited.
Year of manufacture: 2018.
Date of first registration in the UK: 29th June 2018.
Place of registration: Sheffield.
Date of last MOT: 8th December 2021.
Mileage at last MOT: 46,339.
Date of last V5 issued: 29th June 2018.
Date taken: 12th January 2022.
Album: Carspotting 2022
I could have cropped this pictured up to tidy it but I left it as taken as there is plenty of interesting bits to see, an Atlantean, Leyland National and couple of VRs, oh and a rather badly burnt out coach.
The unfortunate vehicle in question was Van Hool Volvo 2522 P522PRL which suffered a fire and crashed while working a National Express duty to Helston.
Needless to say it was eventually disposed of for scrap.
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30.1.2015. EWS liveried Class 67 No 67104 drags fire damaged 91103 and its rake of Mk4 stock at Eaton Lane, en route to Bounds Green.
Steam powered tractor burned in one of the 2020 wildfires in Oregon.
Leica IIIf camera with Ernst Leitz Wetzlar Summitar 5cm f/2 lens. The film is unknown but I think it may be Ilford FP4. I developed the film in Beerenol (Rainier Beer).
Southall Memories - a series of photographs from the Southall / Greenford area that I grew up in, back in the 1970s/80s.
This is what my home garage (HW) looked like after a major fire on the evening of Christmas Day 1985. Many Metros were damaged in the fire, and a few were written off completely (see my photo of the damaged buses below). The garage closed just a few months after my visit, and was converted to a carpet warehouse.
You can see a random selection of my bus photographs here on Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/southallroutemaster/random/
720nm Infrared
This abandoned building is adjacent to a tire shop. Several seasons ago the tires were set on fire burning this side of the building. A fresh pile of tires now.
Preserved AEC Routemaster Park Royal at Woburn Park Bedfordshire during the September 2015 Showbus event. New in 1962 it fell foul of fire damage to the upper deck in 1973. Rebuilt and used in the experimental wing at LTE's Chiswick Works as a single-deck. In 1990 the bus was sold into preservation and continues to exist as such.
Signs of regeneration on Horse Island Road - It is now so easy to forget the extensive damage and long lasting trauma done by the December - January fires in New South Wales and elsewhere in Australia. The lack of preparation and the inadequate response by Government. Covid 19 will wax and wane but many will remember the fires long after ....
This area had been overrun by fire and all that remained were these trees, the snags, as they are called.
We were visiting Idaho, near the town of Warren, while it was under assault by a wildfire this summer.
Warren is an unincorporated town located in the north central region of the U.S. state of Idaho on the South Fork of the Salmon River near the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. It is located within the Payette National Forest in Idaho County. In 1862, the discovery of gold led to the formation of the settlement. The community was named for James Warren, prospector.
This is a photograph of Brighton's Old West Pier, long since destroyed. I took this with a 10 stop filter to capture some motion blur and warmth in the sky.
Both of these are withdrawn - with 4203 (Y809 TOH) looking a lot worse than sister 4207, alongside National Express Coventry garage on 20th October. 4203 (Coventry's first low-floor double decker numerically speaking, delivered in July 2001) caught fire at the University of Warwick on the morning of Wednesday 17th October 2018 operating the 11/12X group of services - presumably some kind of mechanical/engine fault. Fortunately no-one was seriously injured and 4203 itself, was probably only weeks away from withdrawal.
Junction City, Lane County, Oregon -- Florist or Flower Shop destroyed by fire.
For the Soul of the Photograph group pool, I think the light under the door is kind of cool, sort of representing the still alive heartbeat of a nearly destroyed building/business.
For the group "If These Walls Could Talk" I think they would say who or what started the fire, and whether or not anyone was hurt, and how long before the fire department got there. If it were arson or not, how much insurance? Will the owners rebuild, etc.
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Making our way from Mores Creek Summit to Lowman, ID, the "Purple Mountains Majesty" line from the song "America the Beautiful" plays out in front of our eyes~!
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On Mon 11 June 1923 at around 0100hrs a fore broke out beneath the platforms at the Pennsylania Railroad's Broad Street station in central Philadelphia and it soon spread to consume the entire station as seen on the cover photograph. The structure destroyed dated from the reconstruction of 1892/3 and was designed by Frank Furness. The station, and its approach tracks, created a massive 'divide' across the city centre that was the subject of many planning complaints even when electrically operated trains started in 1915 to gradually replace some of the steam hauled services into and out of this congested dead end terminus.
If the fire was spectacular the response by the Pennsylvania was no less impressive. On the Monday most peak hour services ran 'as nornal' to other Philapdelphia city stations and even as the fire was still burning the railroad started to build temporary platforms and staircases to the streets below one block back from the devastated station. One the day of the fire 38 electric trains used these new platforms - on the Tuesday this rose to 142 trains. As girders and steelwork cooled under the wrecked train shed roof the construction of new timber platforms commenced from the outer end of the shed to the concourse - this was in use by 151 suburban trains to run into the station on the Wednesday as work continued to restore the other platforms. This involved track laying to gain access to salvage wrecked rolling stock that had been consumed in the fire. By Thursday 14th two tracks and platforms were complete and access to all sixteen rebuilt tracks and platforms was complete within 7 working days.
The roof was dismantled and replaced by 'umbrella' canopies along the platforms. Oddly the terminus's days were in a way already numbered as the Pennsylvania embarked on a massive investment programme involving new tunnels, tracks and stations in the central area of the city during the 1920s and '30s. This substantially reduced the use of the station that was, again, consumed by fire in 1943. It closed completely in 1952 and was wholly demolished by 1953.
I know some folks have seen this image in the past, but after I saw an image that a friend made of a tree in the same area, it made me realize something:
There is something different about the look of bare trees in this part of the country; something special. I can't quite pin point the rational for this thought. Maybe it has something to do with the overall openness of the area; allowing light to interact with its subject more intimately throughout an entire day. Or it could just be as simple as the natural make up of other environmental factors surrounding these trees. Well, whatever it is I felt compelled to share this image again.
February 2012
Gary, IN
Horseman 45L View Camera
90 mm Nikon Nikkor-SW f/ 4.5
Ilford FP4 125 B&W Negative Film
Cokin P003 Red Contrast Filter
D76 Developer
N-3 Development
Epson v750 scan
Former Irish Rail Roadliner and before that Wincanton in GB, RV10(89D40335) lies fatally damaged in Longford Gargage following an arson attack in 2010.
I took these photos on the morning of September 19th of some of the damage from the San Bruno PG&E pipeline explosion. As of this morning, most of the disaster area is still heavily guarded by various law enforcement agencies.
More from wikipedia.
The 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion occurred at 6:11 p.m. PDT on September 9, 2010, in San Bruno, California, when a 30 inch steel natural gas pipeline owned by Pacific Gas & Electric exploded in flames.
The loud roar and shaking led some residents of the area, first responders, and news media to initially believe that it was an earthquake or that a large airplane from nearby San Francisco International Airport had crashed. It took crews nearly an hour to determine it was a gas pipeline explosion.[
Reports about the number of deaths are conflicting. According to the San Bruno chief of police seven were dead and six were missing as of Saturday September 11, but the coroner's office questioned the information from the police department, stating only four deaths were confirmed. Many were hospitalized with injuries. 37 homes were destroyed by the blaze, with about 8 badly damaged. USGS registered the explosion and resulting shock wave as a magnitude 1.1 earthquake. Eye witnesses reported the initial blast "had a wall of fire more than 1000 feet high".
Meat Market USA
International Halal Food Market
5858 Florin Road
Sacramento, California
This place has been closed since August of 2012 when it suffered a fire, and then a second fire just two weeks later. Suspicious circumstances were investigated, but I never heard anything.
Dump truck burned in the Atlas fire on Soda Canyon Road in Napa County, CA. Photographed with a Leica IIIc using a Summitar 5cm f/2 lens. The film is Ilford Pan-F 50+ developed in Caffenol C-H (rs).
Highway 17
Agawa Bay
Lake Superior Provincial Park
Inside the southern boundary of Lake Superior Provincial Park, at Agawa Bay, lies the abandoned and destroyed Northern Auto (Agawa) Service Center.
The Restaurant/Garage/Store was destroyed by fire in April 2009.
Taken in a burned out building in the Oakley neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio.
I wish I knew the history of what's been going on in the building. It looks like it could have been a fire, but why the portalets, why the inside art and on and on?
Back of Circle; Roof Void; Both Sides of Pros Arch; Fly Tower of Alhambra Theatre, Morecambe
The Alhambra is a theatre situated on the West End promenade in the English seaside resort of Morecambe, Lancashire. Opened in 1901 as the Alhambra Palace, it took its name, though not its style, from the famous Moorish original in Granada, Spain. The building was in continuous use, with a range of entertainment and social uses, until 1970 when a fire gutted the interior. Following extensive refurbishment the theatre reopened in 1973 as The Inn on the Bay before renaming itself The Carleton Club, becoming a major events venue and one of the great Northern soul dance clubs. After closing in 2016, it reopened it the same year as a multi-purpose venue with capacity up to 1,100. The theatre was the location where Laurence Olivier shot his iconic 1960 film version of John Osborne’s The Entertainer.
History
The Alhambra is the most significant surviving example of Morecambe's West End heritage. Though diminished after the fire of 1970 by the loss of its elaborate Dutch gable and distinctive sun-burner turret, the edifice still dominates and enhances an elegant Victorian curve of promenade. It was built on the site of the old West End Market, which was demolished for this purpose, and the ground floor of the new building was designed as a replacement covered market space. Only the original market sign survived, moved to back of the building above the new market’s rear entrance. Although postcards with exterior views of the Alhambra Palace are plentiful, there are very few images of its interior. Fortunately, the national press published detailed descriptions at the time.
From conception and design to financing and management the Alhambra Palace, which opened on April 4, 1901, was entirely a local effort, conceived by developers John Gardner and John Scott and young architect Herbert Howarth, all of whom lived near by. John Edmondson was the experienced local building contractor who also installed the electric lighting in the theatre. He was also responsible for most of Morecambe’s great buildings, including the surviving 1900 Park Hotel up Regent Road from the Alhambra.
For the first few years of their existence, Gardner managed the Alhambra and the Park Hotel, both integral to the partners’ redevelopment of the West End's 1877 Summer Gardens whose 30 acres, including a massive pavilion, had proved unprofitable and located too far from the sea. They built the Park Hotel, Regent Park and surrounding houses on that site and linked them with the then ultra-modern Alhambra Palace on its prime seafront location
Theatre for the West End
Topping a special variety bill, Chung Ling Soo, destined to be hailed as one of the world's greatest magicians, topped the Alhambra opening night after the 1901 opening ceremony. Opposite the Alhambra stood the West End Pier with a theatre at the end. However this burnt down in 1917 and the pier itself was demolished in 1978 after extensive storm damage. For most of the 20th century the theatre featured refreshment bars and a popular restaurant. In addition, the Alhambra managers spotlit what was in vogue – variety, films and summer shows – without losing its reputation as a home for amateur, social and community needs.
The ground floor of the theatre was designed to be used for retail purposes and when it first opened comprised a market, shops, restaurant and photographer. By 1910 the venue was also licensed as a cinema and regularly screened films in between live theatre and variety revues. In the 1920s it became the Astoria Super Cinema but continued to host other events. It closed as a cinema during World War II when it was requisitioned for use in the war effort, and reopened in 1946.
The venue was closed in 1970, when a projector caught fire in the upper tiers and the entire wood structure of the interior collapsed, although the flames did not spread to the large space of fly tower. The walls and main structure were unaffected by the internal damage, and so, after basic remodelling inside (the suspended ceilings still conceal a cavernous balcony and roof space above), it reopened as the Carleton Club, a huge 'black box' with multi-bars suited to dance and social events. Various restaurants also occupied the front part of the original theatre floor, where ceiling to floor bay windows directly look out on Morecambe Bay.
The club's fortunes faded at exactly the same time that Morecambe's West End became a particular area of major social deprivation as a result of the whole resort's economy collapsing in the 1980s and 1990s. Along with other large buildings in the town such as the iconic Midland Hotel and top leisure park Frontierland at the edge of the West End, the Carleton/Alhambra fell into disuse with only a handful of events put on per year and it finally closed in 2016.
The Alhambra today
The same year the building was rescued by local developer Ian Bond who reopened it as an entertainment, conference and community-purpose venue. He also brought new tenants to the shops at street level (the central market space was already occupied by the region's largest angling store Gerry's Fishing). The venue is currently run by volunteers who are part of the wave of local networks focused on turning around the town's fortunes since the 2000s. In 2019 the charitable company Morecambe Alhambra Theatre Trust was created to formally run the venue along with the established Friends of the Alhambra.
Renaming itself the Alhambra once more, the theatre has designed its multi-community purpose to complement the other nearby renovations or developments along the seafront: the Midland Hotel, the new Promenade wave deflection wall (2019), the similarly renovated Morecambe Winter Gardens theatre, and the planned £80 million Eden Project North by the Midland.
Since 2016, a growing number of cultural events central to the North West of England have found a base at the Alhambra, including Morecambe Punk Festival, steam punk festival A Splendid Day Out and goth club nights Corrosion. The Other National Theatre and the UK Centre of the International Theatre Institute are based at the Alhambra. Morecambe Fringe launched there in 2017 and Hawkwind’s space rock festival Hawkeaster took over the entire venue in 2018 [Wikipedia]