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Dunnet Head (Scottish Gaelic: Ceann Dùnaid) is a peninsula in Caithness, on the north coast of Scotland, that includes the most northerly point of the mainland of Great Britain. The point, known as Easter Head, is at 58°40′21″N 03°22′31″W (grid reference ND202767), about 18 km (11 mi) west-northwest of John o' Groats and about 20 km (12 mi) from Duncansby Head. Dunnet Head can be seen also as the western limit of the Pentland Firth on the firth's southern, or Caithness, side (Duncansby Head is the eastern limit).
Recent MyTravel A330 flickr posts by Rob and Swire (see links below) prompted a search through the archives for any that I had taken at Ringway, Manchester.
I found this one, a photo of most dubious quality in so much as it isn't even vaguely sharp, but an interesting one nonetheless.
You'll immediately see that the aircraft doesn't even say "MyTravel" but "Garuda International" which is the airline of Indonesia. Why? Well some 18 months before this photo was taken, MyTravel agreed a merger with Tommy Cook. Carrying its MyTravel livery, this aircraft (can't see the registration) became part of Thomas Cook Scandinavia based in Denmark. However things took a twist when just a few months later Garuda were banned from Europe for not meeting EU safety standards. Now to be honest, I'm not sure if Tommy Cook leased "acceptable" planes such as this one to Garuda so they could continue some sort of European service until they were reinstated. They may simply have been for Hajj use, when pretty much every spare serviceable plane around the world is required to transport people to Mecca. Whichever, a hybrid livery appeared for a while which was effectively the old MyTravel with Garuda titles! Complicated eh?
You could easily describe this as a pretty dreadful photo. However, to me, it remains one of my most remarkable.
Taken 13 years ago to this day, the fuzzy snowball in the centre of the photograph is Comet Holmes. It was taken high up just off the Macclesfield to Buxton Road at a spot where the lights of Greater Manchester are largely hidden. The Lumix bridge camera was balanced on top of the car and made a valiant attempt. It remains the only comet of which I've got a photo, though maybe I should have tried much harder when Hale-Bopp was so visible in 1997.
This 2007 pass of Comet Holmes was notable because it temporarily brightened by a factor of about half a million. It remains the largest known outburst by a comet and not surprisingly became visible to the naked eye.....though you still had to work quite hard to find it in the night sky. Not surprisingly, given the image above, highly specialist equipment would have been needed to get any photo without that unexpected extra luminosity.
This downtown theater has been wonderfully restored and looks to be used now for community activities.
BITHBOX # 101
For everyone of course, but especially for Mark of the parish of St. Pete, Florida. With 500 bieren to try he would be here for a while!
The Cumbrian Mountains. I'm sure Chris or someone will put us right. Taken from the high road between Ulpha and Eskdale, we think this is looking towards Scafell Pike from the southwest.
The Queen Victoria, Cunard's newest cruise ship, arrives in the Port of Rotterdam on her maiden trip. Shooting together with Bert and "De oude schicht".
Taken from the ferry boat returning to the mainland. Shortly after this our boat develpoed engine trouble and another boat had to come out to rescue us.
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The cavalier daring of John Hunt Morgan's cavalry alarmed authorities - Southern as well as Northern. The soft spoken son of a prominent Lexington, Kentucky, family, Morgan was a Mexican War veteran and commander of the Lexington Rifles Militia Company before the war. He made his mark in the Confederacy as the Colonel of the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry and as a Brigadier General commanding a cavalry division in the Army of Tennessee.
These two engraved Colt 1860 Army Revolvers with ivory Mexican Eagle grips were his and he carried them until his death in combat against Federal cavalry in Greensville, Kentucky, on 4 September, 1864.
My Mexican Eagles are not engraved but they remind me of this matched brace.
Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia.
Vogelkelder - Den Haag
eerste foto met de 50MM 1.4 lens. Je trekt de vogels zo door het dikke gaas heen!
Preserved Midland Railway 156 Class 2-4-0 No 158A - the oldest surviving Midland Railway locomotive - in poor condition, in storage at Leeds Holbeck shed, in summer 1967. The loco had been in service until 1947, when it was withdrawn for preservation.
Today, the loco is pristine, and is a static exhibit at the Midland Railway, Butterley, on loan from the National Railway Museum.
Leeds Holbeck steam shed closed down in 1967, and some of the site was later used as a diesel repair and maintenance depot.
Restored and cropped/enlarged from an unfocussed faded grainy original..
Original slide - photographer unknown
NER/LNER J27 0-6-0 65830 with DE 0-6-0 shunter D3672 at Darlington shed, in April 1963.
65830 was withdrawn soon after this photos was taken, and scrapped a few weeks later.
One example was preserved, and 65894 is currently (2015) at the Darlington Railway Centre, awaiting funds for its latest overhaul.
D3672 became Class 08 08512, and was scrapped in 2011.
The shed closed in 1966, and the site is now open land, next to Darlington College..
Restored from an unfocussed grainy purple-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - photographer unknown
BR/S 2EPBs - Class 406 - entering Waterloo East station, in autumn 1977, with unit 6091 nearest the camera...
These units were all withdrawn from service by 1995, and three have been preserved..
Restored from a grainy unfocussed fungus 'blue-stained' original..
Original slide - photographer unknown
also see photo below...
...and the wooden spoon for takings at the village fete goes to the Egg Toss.
Who remembers the song "How much is that doggie in the window?"
Time for an update :
"How much is that donkey in the window?"
Always interesting to see inside an aircraft that doesn't have the cosmetic make-up of commercial airliners. This is taken from the front of the cargo bay looking towards the cockpit of a Boeing Vertol HH-46 Sea Knight helicopter, registered as N7678F. A Search and Rescue variant of the more common CH-46, she was visiting the Houston Wing of the Commemorative Air Force from The National US Armed Forces Museum. Another photo of the craft is shown below.
Talking to one of the crew, I was somewhat taken aback to learn that being airworthy and with a volunteer crew all ready to fly, the helicopter wasn't able to help with rescues during Hurricane Harvey because she wasn't FAA licensed to carry passengers. I should have asked, but didn't think of it at the time, whether they were able to deploy for sorties dropping supplies? Frankly, if I was stuck on a rooftop surrounded by flood water, I wouldn't have given a monkey's uncle as to whether the chopper had a passenger licence or not.
this roll of film had sat around for ages, i shot it on the beach at Crosby last September and somewhere else as well - but I don't know where.
As always with fossils, I stress that we are very much amateurs on the subject and welcome alternative identification suggestions .
Found by Kim on Charmouth beach, we had no clue as to what this was. So, as you do, we asked a man who clearly knew a lot more than we did. We can only take his word but straight away he said it is in chert rock so therefore from the Cretaceous period, approximately 145 to 66 million years ago and was a sponge.
Even on large size it is hard to see numerous tiny pits. However, they can be clearly seen through a hand lens. The diameter of the central ring is c10mm / around half and inch. The coin is a British 5p piece.
We think the central 'depression' might be where the water used to flow out through what is known as the osculum.
Belgium.
National Botanic Garden in Meise (Brussels)
This was taken in a beautiful field with all sorts of summer blooming wildflowers.
my most interesting on black: www.fluidr.com/photos/lindadevolder/interesting