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I had a wonderful time at The National Trust Gunby Hall Estate in Lincolnshire. It was fascinating to find out about its place in history, listen to the descriptions of the rooms from the friendly Trust volunteers, the little anecdotes and so much more.
The Estate comprises the 42-room Gunby Hall. It's a Grade I Listed Building. It dates back to 1700.
The Clock Tower, Carriage House and Stable Block all date back to 1735 and are all Grade II Listed Buildings.
In 1944 the trustees of the Gunby Hall Estate, Lady Montgomery-Massingberd, Major Norman Leith-Hay-Clarke and Field Marshal Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd, gifted the house to the National Trust together with its contents and the 1,500 acres of land.
The principal part of Gunby Hall was built at the end of the 17th century for Sir William Massingberd on the site of a small manor house that had once belonged to a family called Gunby. The 3-storey, 7-bay house was built of red brick, some brought from Holland in 1699, and the rest probably dug from the brickfield that is now the Icehouse Pond in the park. The exterior is distinctly formal; the only ornament is a doorway on the west front with an elaborately scrolled, broken segmental pediment enclosing a cartouche of arms. The interior decoration is restrained with simple early 18th-century panelling and an early Georgian staircase with a moulded ceiling.
[NT] Gunby Estate, Hall and Gardens:
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HL203 & S311 haul 9L16, Temora War Birds Special upgrade at Jindalee on their way back home, to Canberra. Sunday 22nd November 2015
A trio of CSX locomotives rumble slowly up the approach to the Hell Gate Bridge on their way to Queens. The steep bridge approaches are by far the ruling grades on the relatively short line from the Bronx to Queens. The towers for the Little Hell Gate Bridge can be seen behind the train.
The Grade II* Listed The Old Almshouse, Chamberlain Street, St Cuthbert Out, Wells, Somerset.
Also known as Bubwith Almshouse. Work began on them in 1436, extended in 1614 and 1638, major restoration of 1884. Local stone rubble with Doulting stone dressings, Welsh slate roofs with stone ridge and coped gables, tall ashlar chimney stacks on rubble bases.
Complex plan of medieval north wing, with attached wings of 1884 and 1614 extending southwards, a detached south range of 1638 and additional detached central block apparently of 1884.
Russell Grader Manufacturing Company was founded in 1903 by Richard Russell in Stephen, Minnesota. Elevating graders and an unsuccessful gas engine were the first products. The company relocated to Hamline, Minnesota, in 1906, and began manufacturing pull graders in 1908 with the introduction of a two-horse patrol machine. Russell sales literature claims that they produced the “first patrol grader on the market”; it may have been this machine.
The Russell Grader MFG Co. Minneapolis, MINN.
PAT, Aug 28 1910
Three Valley Gap, Collections,
Trans Canada Highway #1, 19km west, of Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
For my video; youtu.be/SdS_StWOhVk
Rothstein, Arthur,, 1915-1985,, photographer.
[Grading and packing onions, Rice County, Minnesota]
[1939 Sept.]
1 slide : color.
Notes:
Current, corrected title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the source: Flickr Commons project, which identified the produce as 'onions' and helped find a b&w negative LC-USF34-028125-D with similar image, photographer, date, and place name. Earlier devised title said: "[Harvesting unidentified crop]"
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Subjects:
Harvesting
Onions
United States--Minnesota--Rice County
Format: Slides--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection ph in Lot 11671-29 is missing (DLC) 93845501
General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34435
Call Number: LC-USF35-522
The Grade II Listed Manchester Piccadilly Railway Station, in Manchester, Greater Manchester.
Manchester Piccadilly is the principal railway station in Manchester. It opened as Store Street in 1842 and renamed Manchester London Road in 1847, it became Piccadilly in 1960. It serves intercity destinations such as London (Euston), Birmingham, Bristol, Southampton, South Wales and Glasgow as well as other destinations throughout Northern England including Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle and York. The station consists of 14 platforms; 12 of which are terminal platforms, the other two are through platforms situated to the south of the train shed. Piccadilly is also a major interchange of the Metrolink light rail system, two platforms used by Metrolink trams are located in the station's undercroft, under the railway platforms.
Piccadilly is the busiest station in the Manchester station group ahead of Oxford Road, Victoria, Salford Central and Deansgate. With over 25 million passenger entries and exits between April 2015 and March 2016, it is the fourth busiest station in the United Kingdom outside London. In total, six train operating companies operate services to and from Piccadilly. It is the second busiest interchange station outside London, with almost 3.8 million passengers changing trains at the station annually.
The station received a five-year £100m refurbishment in 2002, which was the most expensive improvement on the UK rail network at the time. According to an independent poll carried out in 2007, Manchester Piccadilly has the highest customer satisfaction level of any UK station, with 92% of passengers satisfied compared with the national average of 60%. An TWAO application to build two new platforms was made in October 2016 and construction is expected to commence upon completion of the Ordsall Chord in January 2018.
To accommodate High Speed 2 (HS2), an extension to Piccadilly would have four platforms and a 7.5 miles (12.1 km) tunnel would be built under south Manchester to join the West Coast Main Line at Ardwick. Journey times to Manchester Airport would be reduced to 9 minutes, Birmingham 41 minutes and London 68 minutes – from 18 minutes, 86 minutes and 128 minutes respectively. Station upgrades could include enhanced Metrolink services, improved road access and car parking. The line is planned to be completed by 2032.
A major redevelopment of Piccadilly station and the surrounding area has been proposed to complement the HS2 plans; the project would involve the construction of a large new canopy over the HS2 platforms, the creation of a new entrance to the station, and new office, retail and residential buildings. Architectural designs indicate that the derelict Mayfield Station and the curved Gateway House office block will be demolished.
An alternate model for 42106 Stunt Show Truck & Bike.
Inspired by typical three axle road graders
Comes with four manual functions, which are HoG steering, front and main blades and rear ripper.
Front blade can be raised with a lever. Main blade is operated by a gear rack. Rear ripper is operated by lever located in the cab
Model comes with instructions and they can be bought on Sellfy and Rebrickable:
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All lights are mounted on half pins, which means that they will spin freely. To avoid that oddly looking lamps, you can add few stripes of paper on each pin, locking it securely.
BFT empties in the form was regular style DM&IR ore cars pound the stiff grade at Waldo running wrong main. The track on the right is the Two Harbors Sub, or Loop Line, and is the grade NB ore trains take to avoid the even stiffer grade on the Iron Range Sub between MP 3.5 and Two Harbors Jct. Trains such as these BFT empties, and the MRF will take the Iron Range Sub because they are light enough to get up without stalling. These two SD40-2W's were straining hard against that logic however.
Showing 64-62 Birmingham Rd (on the left) built 1580 for John Marston and 60-58, originally a single house now divided into two. All Saints Spire can be seen behind.
All listed Grade II
One of the ugliest vehicle's ever. I didn't see the point nor purpose of this vehicle, till I saw it working! Smart stuff, multifunctional and never designed to look good, just to be functional, and thats what I like! Hope you like my moc to.
A Provo-Skyline-Trona empty coal train ascends the 1916 detour that dropped the grades over Soldier Summit from four percent to two. Seen here at Tie Fork Utah. 4 September 2021.
Entrecote, marbling 5, 280 days grass feed, free running bull.
Emmenthaler/Västerbotten cheese pastry, Hollandaise sauce, fresh, green asparagus and red wine sauce/reduction.
Friday fast food.
Built - in a Tudor style - during the First World War but not opened officially till 1920 by The Duke of York, later to become King George VI on the abdication of his brother the Prince of Wales.
Listed Grade II.
Seen here with the Lord Mayor's Car, a 2014 Jaguar XJL registration "1 COV"
The gates are grade II* listed historic. The main building is grade I listed historic.
"The Bowes Museum has a nationally renowned art collection and is situated in the town of Barnard Castle, Teesdale, County Durham, England.
The museum contains paintings by El Greco, Francisco Goya, Canaletto, Jean-Honoré Fragonard and François Boucher, together with a sizable collection of decorative art, ceramics, textiles, tapestries, clocks and costumes, as well as older items from local history. The early works of French glassmaker Émile Gallé were commissioned by Joséphine, wife of the founder John Bowes. A great attraction is the 18th-century Silver Swan automaton, which periodically preens itself, looks round and appears to catch and swallow a fish.
The Bowes Museum was purpose-built as a public art gallery for John Bowes and his wife Joséphine Benoîte Coffin-Chevallier, Countess of Montalbo, who both died before it opened in 1892. Bowes was the son of John Bowes, the 10th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, although he did not inherit the title as he was deemed illegitimate under Scottish law.
It was designed with the collaboration of two architects, the French architect Jules Pellechet and John Edward Watson of Newcastle. The building is richly modelled, with large windows, engaged columns, projecting bays, and mansard roofs typical of the French Second Empire, set within landscaped gardens. An account in 1901 described it as "... some 500 feet in length by 50 feet high, and is designed in the French style of the First Empire. Its contents are priceless, consisting of unique Napoleon relics, splendid picture galleries, a collection of old china, not to be matched anywhere else in the world, jewels of incredible beauty and value; and, indeed, a wonderful and rare collection of art objects of every kind."
Among those with less favourable opinions was Nikolaus Pevsner, who considered it to be "... big, bold and incongruous, looking exactly like the town hall of a major provincial town in France. In scale it is just as gloriously inappropriate for the town to which it belongs (and to which it gives some international fame) as in style".
The building was begun in 1869 and was reputed to have cost £100,000 (equivalent to £9.3 million in 2019). Bowes and his wife left an endowment of £125,000 (£11.6 million in 2019) and a total of 800 paintings. Their collection of European fine and decorative arts amounted to 15,000 pieces.
A major redevelopment of the Bowes Museum began in 2005. To date, improvements have been made to visitor facilities (shop, cafe and toilets); galleries (new Fashion & Textile gallery, Silver gallery and English Interiors gallery); and study/learning facilities. The three art galleries, on the second floor of the museum, were updated at the same time.
The museum hosts an internationally significant programme of exhibitions, recently featuring works by Monet, Raphael, Turner, Sisley, Gallé, William Morris, and Toulouse-Lautrec.
The BBC announced in 2013 that a Portrait of Olivia Boteler Porter was a previously unknown Anthony van Dyck painting. It had been found in the Bowes Museum storeroom by art historian Dr. Bendor Grosvenor who had observed it on-line at the Your Paintings web site. The painting itself was covered in layers of varnish and dirt, and had not been renovated. It was originally thought to be a copy, and valued at between £3,000 to £5,000. Christopher Brown, director of the Ashmolean Museum, confirmed it was a van Dyck after it had been restored.
Barnard Castle (locally [ˈbɑːnəd ˈkæsəl], BAH-nəd KASS-əl) is a market town in Teesdale, County Durham, England. It is named after the castle around which it was built. It is the main settlement in the Teesdale area, and a popular tourist destination. The Bowes Museum has the best collection of European fine and decorative arts in the North of England, housed in a magnificent 19th-century French-style chateau. Its most famous exhibit is the 18th-century Silver Swan automaton, and its artworks include paintings by Goya and El Greco.
Barnard Castle sits on the north bank of the River Tees, opposite Startforth and 21 miles (34 km) south-west of the county town of Durham. Nearby towns include Bishop Auckland to the north-east, Darlington to the east and Richmond in North Yorkshire to the south-east.
Barnard Castle's largest single employer is GlaxoSmithKline, which has a manufacturing facility on the town outskirts.
Before the Norman conquest the upper half of Teesdale had been combined into an Anglo-Norse estate which was centred upon the ancient village of Gainford and mortgaged to the Earls of Northumberland. The first Norman Bishop of Durham, Bishop Walcher, was murdered in 1080. This led to the surrounding country being attacked and laid waste by the Norman overlords. Further rebellion in 1095 caused the king William II to break up the Earldom of Northumberland into smaller baronies. The Lordship of Gainford was given to Guy de Balliol.
The earthwork fortifications of the castle were rebuilt in stone by his successor, Bernard de Balliol I during the latter half of the 12th century, giving rise to the town's name. The castle passed down through the Balliol family (of which the Scottish king, John Balliol, was the most important member) and then into the possession of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick. King Richard III inherited it through his wife, Anne Neville, but it fell into ruins in the century after his death.
The remains of the castle are a Grade I listed building, whilst the chapel in the outer ward is Grade II* listed. Both sets of remains are now in the care of English Heritage and open to the public.
John Bowes lived at nearby Streatlam Castle (now demolished). His Streatlam stud never had more than ten breeding mares at one time, but produced no fewer than four Derby winners in twenty years. The last of these, "West Australian", was the first racehorse to win the Triple Crown, in 1853.
Bowes and his wife Joséphine Benoîte Coffin-Chevallier founded the Bowes Museum, which is of national status. Housed in its own ornate building, the museum contains an El Greco, paintings by Goya, Canaletto, Boucher, Fragonard and a collection of decorative art. A great attraction is the 18th century silver swan automaton, which periodically preens itself, looks round and appears to catch and swallow a fish.
Although never a major manufacturing centre, in the 18th century industry centred on hand loom wool weaving, and in the early 19th century the principal industry was spinning and the manufacture of shoe thread." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
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One of the ugliest vehicle's ever. I didn't see the point nor purpose of this vehicle, till I saw it working! Smart stuff, multifunctional and never designed to look good, just to be functional, and thats what I like! Hope you like my moc to.
The sun sets on us all. After a lifetime of leveling our roads this vintage 20's Galion E-Z Leaning Wheel Grader sits along a country road.
The owner of this grader has had it for over 30 years and only recently put it out to pasture as he is retiring from farming at the age of 84.
If you're asking yourself "what the heck is this?" - good. I'm asking myself the same thing.
First attempt at Pyro developing, using APX (probably not the best choice), shot pretty freely at nothing in particular, and since no times were easily available.. well 20 minutes sounded good for a test roll.
The negatives look like faded green rust pulled out of a local sewer and the scanner treats them accordingly: it absolutely hates them. A lot of sliders were thrown around to make it "normal." I also notice the APX is trying to curl itself into non-existence and I don't particularly blame it. But hey, I love the natural toning.
Ahh, feels like old times, but there's no learning in success. Back to the drawing board.
Pacifica, California, 2009
Union Pacific engine 8785 leads K683, a train of empty ethanol tanker cars , destined for Proviso, IL.
9/8/2020
Fairport, NY
One of the ugliest vehicle's ever. I didn't see the point nor purpose of this vehicle, till I saw it working! Smart stuff, multifunctional and never designed to look good, just to be functional, and thats what I like! Hope you like my moc to.
A high shutter speed was used in this image to freeze movement in both the models clothes, and the wind turbines in the background. A white reflector was used to bounce light back onto the subject. Colours and contrast where adjusted in post production using Photoshop CS5's Raw, curves and levels tools.
Found this peace of crap in the middle of a pasture near Red Deer. Seems to be a grader that once was used on gravel roads.
A notable school for me: The first one in which I started and ended the school year in the same class. Burbank, 1954,
Top grade Chrysocolla gem silica, a new find of natural, more durable,stable, unique,good colored and highly translucent material on this planet ever seen.