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Looking toward St Andrew Square.
August 2021 update: Councillors are set to make George Street pedestrian only. Bus stops will be sited at either end and car parking will reduced to blue badge holders and loading access for businesses. These plans are part of Edinburgh City Council’splans to make the city centre car-free by 2030.
www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-geo...
A continental makeover is promised by the city council (Feb 2016). The computer generated image by consultants Ironside Farrar shows cycle lanes but no bus stops, the removal of the cobbled strip in the middle and no statue of James Clerk Maxwell: www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/continental-makeover-...
Update: Concluding report issued June 2016 www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/2085/mapping_the_future...
See: www.edinburgh.gov.uk/meetings/meeting/3956/transport_and_...
Roddy Smith, chief executive of the Essential Edinburgh group said: “We’re fully supportive of the work Ironside Farrar have done, their initial plans are excellent and the reaction from the businesses has been very positive so far. They are essentially looking at having the pavements further out into the street, where there would be one lane of traffic going in each direction. The idea is that if the streets are wider, people will hang about for longer."
Errm... can the street actually be made wider?
Read more of Mr Smith's enthusiasm at: www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/continental-makeover-...
Ironside Farrar were appointed to turn the information gathered at a public consultation into design principles. The public were invited to share their views to help shape the future of George Street at the heart of Edinburgh's New Town; a streetscape which is widely recognised as an architectural gem.
The open day, on Friday 2nd October, gave people a 'final chance' to meet designers, landscape architects, planners and civil engineers working on a long-term vision for George Street.
See also: www.flickr.com/photos/23351536@N07/21945040721
Alas the information on the exhibition boards displayed was not available anywhere online, there were no leaflets to take away and apparently no online consultation at this stage. You had to go along in person on the day at the Assembly Rooms. (Note that according to the information displayed on the boards this event was stage two of the consultation process following the end of the ETRO. At stage one 81 questionnaires were returned and 141 further comments were received. Not really much feedback for a city of nearly half-a-million people. It seems this event was held mid August.)
Background: A one-year trial came to an end at the start of September and has been used to test the impacts on the street and surrounding area when there is more space for pedestrians, cyclists and events, and less space for traffic. The trial used an “Experimental” Traffic Regulation Order (ETRO) as a place making and design measure. At the end of a trial using an ETRO the street has to be returned to its previous layout before the long-term plan is put to the public.
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/city-divide...
Cyclists are being prioritised: gu.com/p/4cz84/sbl
See also the following council press releases -
Oct 2015: www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/1934/have_your_say_on_t...
Aug 2015: www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/1895/help_shape_the_fut...
Sep 2014: www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/1648/new-look_george_st...
Latest plans (2023): www.edinburgh.gov.uk/georgestreet/
George Washington stops at the light, signaling for a right turn.
Mount Vernon neighborhood, Baltimore City.
Happy Families
// These five beings have been there with me since I was a child. I saw them on my shelf and thought it would make a great photo and it's very nostalgic. George is the newbie, top left. I want to have a big collection of porcelain dolls and old barbie dolls. I want to keep these buddies until I have my own children so they can have them because believe it or not - everything is sentimental to me, including these guys.
"Ciao papà, sai mi ricordo una vita fa quando ero poco più alto di un metro, pesavo al massimo 30 chili, ma ero ancora tuo figlio. Quei sabato mattina che andavo a lavorare col mio papà e salivo su quel grande camion verde, mi sembrava che quello fosse il camion più grande dell'universo papà... mi ricordo quanto era importante il lavoro che facevamo e che se non era per noi la gente sarebbe morta di freddo... per me tu eri l'uomo più forte del mondo papà. Ti ricordi quei filmini quando mamma si vestiva come Gloria e Diane e i gelati, le partite di football, Quain, Toon... il giorno che partii per la california per poi tornare a casa con l'FBI che mi dava la caccia e quell'agente dell'FBI che dovette mettersi in ginocchio per mettermi le scarpe e tu che dicesti: quello è il tuo posto figlio di puttana ad allacciare le scarpe a George... quello si che fu bello, fu veramente speciale... ricordi papà? E quella volta che mi dicesti che i soldi non sono la realtà? Beh vecchio mio, oggi ho 42 anni e alla fine l'ho capito quello che tentavi di dirmi tanti anni fa... Ora finalmente l'ho capito. Sei il migliore papà! Avrei soltanto voluto fare di più per te... avrei voluto avere più tempo... comunque... Che tu possa avere il vento in poppa, che il sole ti risplenda in viso e che il vento del destino ti porti in alto a danzare con le stelle."
"Hello Dad. You know I remember a lifetime ago, when I was about 3 1/2 feet tall, weighing all of 60 pounds, but every inch your son. I remember those Saturday mornings going to work with my dad, we'd climb into that big green truck. I thought that truck... was the biggest truck in the universe pop. I remember how important the job we did was, how if it wasn't for us, people would freeze to death. I thought you were the strongest man in the world. And remember those home videos when mom would dress up like Loretta Young, barbeques and football games, ice cream, playing with the Tuna. And when I left for California only to come home with the FBI chasing me, and that FBI agent Trout had to kneel down to put my boots on and you said, "That's where you belong you son of a bitch, puttin on Georgie's boots." That was a good one pop, you remember that. And remember that time when you told me that money wasn't real. Well old man, I'm 42 years old, and I finally realize what you were trying to tell me, so many years ago. I finally understand. Your the best, pop, just wish I could have done more for you, wish we had more time. Anyway, may the wind always be at your back, and the sun always upon your face, and may the wings of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars. I love you Dad. Love George."
This lovely orange tabby is available at Panhandle Animal Shelter in Ponderay, Idaho. Yes, he is just that pretty!!
Best when viewed on black.
Cabinet card photograph taken sometime during the 1990's. The following is written on the back:
"George Powell"
George Street, looking north from Martin Place, Sydney
Dated: No date
Digital ID: 4481_a026_000408
Rights: www.records.nsw.gov.au/about-us/rights-and-permissions
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George McCrae
- Rock Your Baby (3'14)
- Rock Your Baby (Part 2) (2'05)
RCA Records / Deutschland 1974
ex vinyl-collection MTP
George Perez, born June 9, 1954, is a writer and illustrator of comic books known for his work on various titles, including The Avengers, Teen Titans, and Wonder Woman.
Source: Wikipedia
Photo taken April 28, 2012 at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo, BMO Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
From: Crown Studios' New South Wales officers and men of the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) and the Australian Naval Forces : portrait collection, 1919
Date of Birth: 5.1.[no year]
Date of Enlistment: [no year]
Trade or Calling:
Born in or near what Town: Wallarabba NSW
Address prior to Enlistment: Wallarabba NSW
Rank, Number, Battalion, Distinctions:
Casualties and where:
Name & Address of Next of Kin: Mr J. Killner Wallarabba NSW
Name and last address of Father: John Killner
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George has got to nine years of age and has now decided to sneak up on the back of the settee and watch the world go by !
Panasonic Lumix G3 ~ f4.2 @ 67MM , on camera flash, 1/160, iso 160 ~ lens ~ 45-200 Lumix f3.5
(Edited to add answer key)
I shot the same scene with eight different imaging devices. Which device shot George best?
Each photo was shot in full-auto mode and I made no adjustments to the image afterward. All I did was crop and scale each one to a size of 2048 pixels to facilitate your side-by-side comparison. Go ahead and click through to the full-size version if y'like.
To give you some idea of the detail in the image, I've also compiled a lightbox of thumbnails, clipped from the same region of the image at the file's full original resolution (and then scaled to common dimensions).
What to you think? Leave your comments in the comments. I'll post the "answer key" after these have been online for a bit.
French postcard by Agfa. Photo: Studio Harcourt.
Handsome and athletic Georges Marchal (1920-1997) was one of the main lead actors in the French cinema of the 1950s, together with Jean Marais. He starred in several costume dramas and Swashbucklers and later appeared in films of Luis Buñuel.
Georges Marchal was born as Georges Louis Lucot in Nancy, France, in 1920. In Paris, he followed secondary school, and then took classes in ballet and acrobatics. Many odd jobs followed, like courier, docker at the Les Halles market, and assistant at the Medrano circus. He enrolled in the course of Ms. Calvi, and was hired at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal for the play 'Permission de détente' (Permission to relax) by Yves Mirande. At 20, he joined the Comédie-Française to play in 'Iphigénie et Psyché' (Iphigenia and Psyche). He soon also played in boulevard comedies. His film career started with the comedy Fausse alerte/The French Way (Jacques de Baroncelli, Bernard Dalban, 1940) starring Josephine Baker, which was only released in 1945. During the Occupation days, he was noted in Lumière d'été/Summer Light (Jean Grémillon, 1943) opposite Madeleine Renaud, Vautrin/Vautrin The Thief (Pierre Billon, 1943) with Michel Simon, and after the war, in Au grand balcon/The Grand Terrace (Henri Decoin, 1949) with Pierre Fresnay, about the heroic pilots who struggled, suffered and often died to carry the mail. He became the typical Jeune Premier of the French post-war cinema and posed as a rival of Jean Marais although he didn’t reach the same level. In 1951, he assumed the title role in Il naufrago del Pacifico/Robinson Crusoe (Jeff Musso, 1951), and for Sacha Guitry, he played the young Louis XIV in the star-studded Si Versailles m'était conté/Affairs of Versailles (Sacha Guitry, 1953). In 1951, he married actress Dany Robin. They were both young, beautiful, adored, and preserved their privacy in a house of Montfort l'Amaury. They made six films together, including La Voyageuse Inattendue/The Unexpected Voyager (Jean Stelli, 1949), based on an old script by Billy Wilder, and the comedy Jupiter (Gilles Grangier, 1952). Georges’ talent as a stuntman did wonders for his parts in costume films and swashbucklers such as Messalina (Carmine Gallone, 1952) with Maria Félix, Teodora, imperatrice di Bisanzio/Theodora, Slave Empress (Riccardo Freda, 1954) with Gianna Maria Canale, and Les trois mousquetaires/The Three Musketeers (André Hunebelle, 1953) in which he featured as D'Artagnan.
The arrival of the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) sounded like the death knell for Georges Marchal. He moved to Italy to continue his career. With his muscular body, he was an ideal hero for the Peplum films (the Italian sword and sandal epics). He appeared in a dozen of them, including Nel Segno Di Roma/Sheba and the Gladiator (Guido Brignone - and uncredited Riccardo Freda and Michelangelo Antonioni, 1958) with Anita Ekberg, Le legioni di Cleopatra/Legions of the Nile (Vittorio Cottafavi, 1959) with Linda Cristal, and Sergio Leone's first solo directorial effort, Il colosso di Rodi/The Colossus of Rhodes (Sergio Leone, 1961) with Rory Calhoun. Marchal was a close friend of Luis Buñuel and also one of his preferred actors. Marchal starred in four of his films: Cela s'appelle l'aurore/That is the Dawn (1955) with Lucia Bosé, La mort en ce jardin/Death in the Garden (1956) with Simone Signoret, Belle de jour/Beauty of the Day (1967) with Catherine Deneuve, and La voie lactee/The Milky Way (1969) with Laurent Terzieff. Other interesting films he appeared in were the anthology film Guerre secrète/The Dirty Game (Terence Young, Christian Jaque, Carlo Lizzani, Werner Klinger, 1965) with Robert Ryan, the Romanian historical epic Dacii/The Dacians (Sergiu Nicolaescu, 1967) with Pierre Brice, Faustine et le bel été/Faustine and the Beautiful Summer (Nina Companeez, 1972) and Les Enfants du placard/The Closet Children (Benoît Jacquot, 1977) with Lou Castel. During the 1970s, he focussed on television and appeared in Quentin Durward (Gilles Grangier, 1971), as Philip IV the Fair in Les rois maudits/The Accursed Kings (Claude Barma, 1972), Gaston Phébus (Bernard Borderie, 1977), and Les grandes familles/The Great Families (Edouard Molinaro, 1988) with Michel Piccoli. He played a seductive older man in three TV-films based on the legendary Claudine novels by Colette, Claudine à Paris/Claudine in Paris (1978), Claudine en ménage/Pauline Engaged (1978) and Claudine s'en va/Claudine Goes (1978), all starring Marie-Hélène Breillat and directed by Edouard Molinaro. He also played Claude Jade's father in the fine TV Mini-series L'Île aux trente cercueils/The Island of Thirty Coffins (Marcel Cravenne, 1979). He retired in 1989. His last film appearance had been as General Keller in L'Honneur d'un capitaine/A Captain’s Honour (Pierre Schoendoerffer, 1982) about the French army's behaviour in Algeria. Georges Marchal died in 1997 in Maurens, France, following a long illness. He was married to Dany Robin from 1951 till their much-publicised divorce in 1969. He remarried in 1983 to Michele Heyberger.
Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Pablo Montoya (IMDb), Ciné-Ressources, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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George Skeris, a 36-year-old man from Redondo Beach, CA, swam in the two-mile Dwight Crum Pier-to-Pier Swim, Individual Swimsuit race. Skeris ranked 70th in the M35-39 class, 601st by gender, and 919th overall, with a finishing time of 01:34:48. His race number was 287.
Manhattan Beach's International Surf Festival hosted the event on Sunday, August 6, 2023. Swimmers traverse the ocean between Hermosa Beach Pier and Manhattan Beach Pier.
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Regimental number - 1031
Place of birth - Bairnsdale, Victoria
School - Hindmarsh Public School
Religion - Church of England
Occupation - Farm hand
Address - ...
Marital status - Single
Age at embarkation - 19
Next of kin - Father, Harry Sandford Davis, William Street, Beverly, South Australia
Previous military service - Served in the Cadets
Enlistment date - 11 September 1914
Rank on enlistment - Private
Unit name - 16th Battalion, F Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number - 23/33/1
Embarkation details - Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board Troopship A40 Ceramic on 22 December 1914
Rank from Nominal Roll - Private
Unit from Nominal Roll - 16th Battalion
Fate - Killed in Action 2 May 1915
Place of death or wounding - Gallipoli, Turkey
Date of death - 2 May 1915
Age at death - 18
Age at death from cemetery records - 18
Place of burial - No known grave
Commemoration details - The Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 52), Gallipoli, Turkey
The Lone Pine Memorial, situated in the Lone Pine Cemetery at Anzac, is the main Australian Memorial on Gallipoli, and one of four memorials to men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Designed by Sir John Burnet, the principal architect of the Gallipoli cemeteries, it is a thick tapering pylon 14.3 metres high on a square base 12.98 metres wide. It is constructed from limestone mined at Ilgardere in Turkey.
The Memorial commemorates the 3268 Australians and 456 New Zealanders who have no known grave and the 960 Australians and 252 New Zealanders who were buried at sea after evacuation through wounds or disease. The names of New Zealanders commemorated are inscribed on stone panels mounted on the south and north sides of the pylon, while those of the Australians are listed on a long wall of panels in front of the pylon and to either side. Names are arranged by unit and rank.
The Memorial stands over the centre of the Turkish trenches and tunnels which were the scene of heavy fighting during the August offensive. Most cemeteries on Gallipoli contain relatively few marked graves, and the majority of Australians killed on Gallipoli are commemorated here.
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
Australian War Memorial - 79
Miscellaneous information from
cemetery records - Parents: Henry Sandford and Fanny DAVIS, South Esplanade, Semaphore, South Australia. Native of Victoria, Australia. 52
Family/military connections - Brother: 1032 Pte Harry Herbert DAVIS, 16th Bn, died of wounds, 5 June 1915.
Other details -
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
(found on ebay)
George and I had a lovely catch-up today - The Photographer's Gallery, The National Portrait Museum, and then some tea and scones!
The George Hotel, Market Place, Frome, Somerset, 29 January 2023. Rebuilt early 1750's, frontage altered early 19th Century, interior remodelled 1874.
Portait of George Müller (1805-1898) of Kroppenstaedt, Prussia, and Bristol, England, the founder of the once famous Orphanages in Ashley Down, Bristol, from George Müller of Bristol and his Witness to a Prayer-hearing God by Arthur T Pierson (c1899).
Countless Bristol orphans owed a great dept of gratitude to George Müller but, in his early years, he was far from virtuous. The spoilt son of a tax collector, he became – even before he was ten years old – a habitual thief and fraudster. He would even purloin government funds which were entrusted to his father. His father wanted him to enter the Church and sent him to the Cathedral School in Halberstadt. Later he attended a school at Nordhausen and finally the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. But, during his adolescence, he became a compulsive gambler and drunkard. And his behaviour gradually worsened until the Christmas period of 1821 when, aged 16, he spent 24 days in prison. Yet, at the age of 20, not only was he a student at a Lutheran university but – still as decadent as ever – he was accepted as a candidate for holy orders with permission to preach.
However, after a pleasure-seeking visit to Switzerland, a change came over George Müller. He made a full confession to his father and attended a prayer meeting led by an unsophisticated tradesman called Johann Wagner. The debauched but educated George Müller was well accustomed to high-flown religious services – and they left him cold – but Wagner's lowly prayer meeting was life changing. Müller put his years of decadence behind him. He determined to live a life of active Godliness and, therafter, attended Wagner's weekly prayer meeting whenever he could.
For a while his principal preoccupation was to convert Jews to Christianity but, in 1827, he spent two months in free lodgings provided in the orphan houses in Halle established a century earlier by August Hermann Francke. While there he learnt about how Francke had, starting from a single small house, set up network of orphanages in Halle. Later the same year he was urged to serve as with the London Missionary Society, to convert Jews to Christianity. In 1928 he made the move to London. Subsequently he worked in Devon where he met and soon married Mary Groves. Whilst in Devon he also met the evangelist, Henry Craik, who became his life-long friend and helper.
In 1832 the Müllers came to Bristol where George became joint pastor of Bethesda Chapel which was then in Great George Street. In 1836 they adapted their home to care for 30 orphaned girls. More room was soon required so they purchased houses in Wilson Street, St Pauls (now demolished). They housed 130 children, but that was still nothing like enough to house the many hundreds of orphans in the Bristol area. The Müllers response in 1849 was to open the first of five purpose-built orphanages on the hill at Ashley Down. Although they soon became known as the Muller Orphanages or, more often, the Muller Homes, that was never a name favoured by Müller himself. By 1870, 2,000 children were housed on the site. George Müller never went into debt, and never made a public appeal for donations, working on the principle that, if he had faith, God would provide.
One of the principal benefactors was another strongly religious German who had settled in Bristol. Conrad Finzel was a farmer’s son born in about 1790 in a village near Frankfurt. While still in his teens he fled to Britain to avoid being drafted into Napoleon’s army. He made his way to Bristol and started work in a in a sugar refinery. By 1830 he had founded his own refinery in the city. It was very lucrative but, in 1846, it was destroyed by fire. Many would have merely thought 'What have I done to do deserve this'. But Finzel reflected more deeply.:
" 'I then asked myself'; he said some time afterwards, in terms eminently characteristic of the man, 'what Conrad Finzel had done to call for this chastening stroke from God; and after thinking for some time, the truth flashed upon me.The Almighty had punished me because I had not given to His uses as He had blessed me. He had greatly increased my store, and I had only helped the poor in the same proportion as when I had little. Thus I deserved punishment, and God sent me this affliction to remind me of my duty, so, instead of giving so and so, I said, I will give one-third of my gains, for the future. I have given them, and God has gone on blessing me.'
"He gave freely to all sorts of charitable institutions, but most freely of all to the remarkable Orphan House established on Ashley Hill, by his countryman, the Rev. George Müller. During some years it was reckoned, his gifts thereto amounted to £10,000 a year. When near his end, a friend once spoke to him of the misfortune that his death would prove to the institution. 'What has the life of George Miller, or Conrad F inrel, or any one else,' he answered, 'to do with the Orphan House? It is God's work, and God will take care of it when there is not one of us left.' In that temper Conrad Finzel lived and worked in Bristol for nearly forty years. He died at Wiesbaden, while on a visit to his native land, on the 21st of October, 1859." (The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 55, William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley, 1868). Paul Townsend has written more about Finzel's Refinery here.
The five houses of the orphanage were constructed to designs by John Foster & Son during the 25 years that followed 1845. At the time of their construction they were designated by numbers that reflected the order in which they were built. Only later were they assigned the names by which they are known today. Number one, now Allen House, was constructed between 1847 and 1849. Brunel House followed in 1857 and Muller House itself in 1862. The two remaining houses, Davy and Cabot were built in 1868. There's an artist's impression of how the site looked at the time here in which Muller House is front centre. And there's a recent plan of the site here – though it has Cabot and Davy houses the wrong way round!
The decade following 1865 saw many changes in George Müller's life. In 1866 his life-long friend, Henry Craik died and, early in 1870, his wife Mary also died. Later the same year his daughter Lydia married his assistant James Wright. Then late in 1871 George himself re-married. His bride was Susannah Grace Sangar, whom he had known for 25 years. Finally, in 1875 George Müller handed over full responsibility to Wright and started a programme of preaching first in Britain, Europe and America and later in countries such as Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand, Ceylon and India.
In 1894, after 23 years of marriage, Müller's second wife, Susannah died. By then George himself was 89 and was living in House Number 3 – the building that's closest in the drawing below – now known as Muller house. He preached his last sermon on 6 March, 1898 at Alma Road Chapel in Clifton and, four days later was found by his maid dead on the floor by the side of his bed. His funeral on 14 March was Bristol's largest by far. Tens of thousands of mourners lined the streets – among them thousands of the orphans who had owed their start in life to George Müller. He was buried by the side of his two wives. He had never sought money for its own sake and died a poor man with few possessions.
In 1958 the Orphanages were relocated and the buildings became the home of a succession of colleges: Bristol Technical College, Brunel Technical College, various faculties of Bristol Polytechnic and finally the Ashley Down Centre of the City of Bristol College . Some of the buildings – including Muller House itself, were converted to flats when they were no longer required by the College.