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I got my advance copies this morning and then came home to learn that it will be available in stores THIS SATURDAY!!!!
Wow, they originally told us it wouldn't be out until April 2013 :)
Part of my stress-management, anti-depression program. A wonderful Buddhist Meditation Center opened up just 2 miles from my home. I'm thrilled.
The effect is always quite powerful when we pray, chant, or meditate with a group.
The official handbook to the City of Stoke on Trent in Staffordshire, world famous centre of the pottery industry and the edition published in the immediate post-war period, 1947. Most local authorities produced such handbooks designed to both inform local residents of services and amenities as well as to entice vistors of both a commercial or tourist nature. It is fair to say that this for Stoke is honest in that it casts the net of tourist attractions in a wide ring around this industrial centre - that said, Staffordshire and neighbouring Derbyshire do have some very scenic delights!
The City and County Borough of Stoke on Trent was an unusually early example of local government amalgamation on a large scale in the UK prior to the 1974 local government reorganisation. Although relatively small alterations to borough boundaries, and the annexation of smaller authorities by neighbouring larger ones was common, the creation of the new County Borough in 1910 was more akin to contiental practices, such as in Germany and Wuppertal. As early as 1888 there had been pressure to reorganise the numerous small authorities in the north of Staffordshire, possibly as a County of Staffordshire Potteries. This never took off but in 1910 the six towns of Stoke-upon-Trent, Hanley, Burslem, Longton, Tunstall and Fenton amalgamated as the new County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent. It expanded and was raised to City status in 1925 and gained the office of Lord Mayor in 1928. The long term aim of including the neighbouring Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme was always thwarted due to that town's opposition and indeed even in the 1974 reorganisation they remained separate authorities.
The handbook needless to say contains much information about the city's municipal servcies that included gas and electricity supply although the guide being published months before nationalisation of both industries would have been the last edition to include them thus. The one unusual omission for such a city was the fact that local public transport services remained in the hands of a 'private' operator who had taken over from the franchised tramways and indeed, Stoke was noted for not just the main operator, Potteries Motor Traction, but a plethora of indpendent operators who lasted for many years. It also includes a wealth of information as to the many pottery companies, ancilliary industries as well as the still important coal, iron and steel industries that made the City a famously 'smoky' place.
One of the plates in the guide shows 'scenes from the six towns' and here are three of them. Burslem, Swan Bank and Moortown Road, is shown with a couple of 'buses heading across the junction - the one in front being what looks like a wartime Utility Guy Arab. There's some fine street furniture with a street lamp looking Revo Electric in style, along with a set of traffic signals.
Fenton's Victoria Place looks very "Sunday morning" and here the street lighting remains high pressure gas. The final photo shows one of the centres of municipal governance, the Town Hall in Hanley.
The official handbook to the City of Stoke on Trent in Staffordshire, world famous centre of the pottery industry and the edition published in the immediate post-war period, 1947. Most local authorities produced such handbooks designed to both inform local residents of services and amenities as well as to entice vistors of both a commercial or tourist nature. It is fair to say that this for Stoke is honest in that it casts the net of tourist attractions in a wide ring around this industrial centre - that said, Staffordshire and neighbouring Derbyshire do have some very scenic delights!
The City and County Borough of Stoke on Trent was an unusually early example of local government amalgamation on a large scale in the UK prior to the 1974 local government reorganisation. Although relatively small alterations to borough boundaries, and the annexation of smaller authorities by neighbouring larger ones was common, the creation of the new County Borough in 1910 was more akin to contiental practices, such as in Germany and Wuppertal. As early as 1888 there had been pressure to reorganise the numerous small authorities in the north of Staffordshire, possibly as a County of Staffordshire Potteries. This never took off but in 1910 the six towns of Stoke-upon-Trent, Hanley, Burslem, Longton, Tunstall and Fenton amalgamated as the new County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent. It expanded and was raised to City status in 1925 and gained the office of Lord Mayor in 1928. The long term aim of including the neighbouring Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme was always thwarted due to that town's opposition and indeed even in the 1974 reorganisation they remained separate authorities.
The handbook needless to say contains much information about the city's municipal services that included gas and electricity supply although the guide being published months before nationalisation of both industries would have been the last edition to include them thus. This advert is for the City's Gas Department that had been formed as a muncipal undertaking very late on in 1922 when it acquired private companies. The main works at Eturia also acquired bulk supplies from local coking plants to supplement supply.
The Department had the usual range of retail properties to sell appliances and it, like the City's Electricity Department, played an importnat role in the switch from highly polluting coal fired pottery kilns to 'cleaner' fuels such as gas.
The one unusual omission for such a city was the fact that local public transport services remained in the hands of a 'private' operator who had taken over from the franchised tramways and indeed, Stoke was noted for not just the main operator, Potteries Motor Traction, but a plethora of independent operators who lasted for many years. It also includes a wealth of information as to the many pottery companies, ancilliary industries as well as the still important coal, iron and steel industries that made the City a famously 'smoky' place.
The official handbook to the City of Stoke on Trent in Staffordshire, world famous centre of the pottery industry and the edition published in the immediate post-war period, 1947. Most local authorities produced such handbooks designed to both inform local residents of services and amenities as well as to entice vistors of both a commercial or tourist nature. It is fair to say that this for Stoke is honest in that it casts the net of tourist attractions in a wide ring around this industrial centre - that said, Staffordshire and neighbouring Derbyshire do have some very scenic delights!
The City and County Borough of Stoke on Trent was an unusually early example of local government amalgamation on a large scale in the UK prior to the 1974 local government reorganisation. Although relatively small alterations to borough boundaries, and the annexation of smaller authorities by neighbouring larger ones was common, the creation of the new County Borough in 1910 was more akin to contiental practices, such as in Germany and Wuppertal. As early as 1888 there had been pressure to reorganise the numerous small authorities in the north of Staffordshire, possibly as a County of Staffordshire Potteries. This never took off but in 1910 the six towns of Stoke-upon-Trent, Hanley, Burslem, Longton, Tunstall and Fenton amalgamated as the new County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent. It expanded and was raised to City status in 1925 and gained the office of Lord Mayor in 1928. The long term aim of including the neighbouring Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme was always thwarted due to that town's opposition and indeed even in the 1974 reorganisation they remained separate authorities.
The handbook needless to say contains much information about the city's municipal servcies that included gas and electricity supply although the guide being published months before nationalisation of both industries would have been the last edition to include them thus. Here the Electricity Department sells its wares in its final few months. The first area of the city that had started to generate electricity had been Hanley in 1894 (and the early trials and tribulations of such power stations are surprisingly well shown in an Arnold Bennett short story!) and in 1910 when the County Borough was formed this brought together this and two other smaller stations. Work was started on a new power station for the authority and this was commissioned in 1913 with later extentions. The station was 'selected' by the Central Electricity Board after 1926 and operated under the direction of the CEB in 1934. By then the station was generating under the auspices of one of the Joint Authorities set up to consolidate the industry, the North West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority. The Corporation's Department purchased supplies from them and distributed it to domestic and industrial users.
Given the smoky nature of pottery production there had been a real push to turn to alternative fuels for kins and local potters Wedgwood, were to famously shift to the use of electricity in their new works at Barlaston.
The one unusual omission for such a city was the fact that local public transport services remained in the hands of a 'private' operator who had taken over from the franchised tramways and indeed, Stoke was noted for not just the main operator, Potteries Motor Traction, but a plethora of indpendent operators who lasted for many years. It also includes a wealth of information as to the many pottery companies, ancilliary industries as well as the still important coal, iron and steel industries that made the City a famously 'smoky' place.
I realise that this is in the wrong format, but it could be cropped if chosen .My second chose could be used as black mil too!This is just a good Memory.Hope you enjoy
Alex Bowerman
Local Accession Number: 2012.AAP.355
Title: Handbook of birds of eastern North America
Created/Published: New York : D. Appleton & Co.
Date issued: 1890-1920 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 50 x 35 cm.
Summary: A bird perches on a branch.
Genre: Book & magazine posters; Lithographs
Subjects: Birds
Notes: Title from item.
Date note: Date supplied by cataloger.
Statement of responsibility: T. A.
Collection: American Art Posters 1890-1920
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, A Ready-Reference Book of Chemical and Physical Data, 29th Edition (1945)
I was rereading www.flickr.com/photos/wanderflechten/38842769211/ in which he mentions being taken to a “…new book that immediately became my bible, the CRC Handbook of Physics and Chemistry, a thick, almost cubical book of nearly three thousand pages, containing tables of every imaginable physical and chemical property, many of which, obsessively, I learned by heart.”
Prompted me to look through my old copy. The 2nd entry in “The Elements” (page 283) is Alabamine
Also listed is Masurium.
“In 1931 a group of chemists… reported that they had detected the previously unknown element below iodine in the periodic table. They decided to call it alabamine, after the US state of Alabama, but their claim was mistaken. The element was first produced at the University of California in 1940… Although they reported their discovery they were unable to carry on with their research due to World War II and the demands of the Manhattan project…Only in 1947 were they able to name it astatine.”
Nature's Building Blocks www.flickr.com/photos/wanderflechten/38842768711/
“The discoverers of americium chose an unusual way to announce their discovery: in a children’s radio show in the USA called “Quiz Kids’, broadcast on 11 November 1945. The guest scientist on the panel that week was a 33 year old chemist, Glenn T. Seaborg…Americium came to light as part of the Allied project to develop nuclear weapons, so its discovery was kept secret until the end of World War II.”
footnote in tungsten - “Although elements 93 and 94, neptunium and plutonium, were created in 1940, their existence was not made public until after the war. They were given provisional names…of “extremium” and “Ultimium,” because it was thought impossible that any heavier elements would ever be made. Elements 95 and 96, however were created in 1944. Their discovery was not made public in the usual way - in a letter to Nature, or at a meeting of the Chemical Society - but during a children’s radio quiz show in November 1945, during which a twelve-year-old boy asked, “Mr. Seaborg, have you made any more elements lately?””
“Technetium occupies the place below manganese in the periodic table, and it long tantalized chemists because it could not be found despite reports to the contrary.” of “dvyum, lucium and nipponium, but none of the claims was substantiated. A report of its discovery by a team of German chemists in 1925 appeared to have more credibility than most - they named it masurium - but it has always been assumed that they were wrong, although it now appears they might have been correct.”
The Ford Eight and Anglia Handbook with Spanner.
The Ford Eight and Anglian Handbook from the Pitman's Motorists' Library first published in 1935, this being the 1953 reprint. Found among my late mother's effects, this and the spanner were no doubt the property of my late father who had been a motor mechanic for the middle part of his working life.
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX9V, available light from a large window.
A classic edition of the Official Boy Scout Handbook, copyright 1979, 10th printing, 1986. Cover art, "Come and Get It" by Norman Rockwell, who featured Boy Scouts in dozens of his paintings.
By William "Green Bar" Hilcourt, revered as "the Scoutmaster to the World."
Interesting book this, in the same style as the LCT driver's handbooks that preceded it.
The handbook features details of services, including night services and staff buses, as well as details on where low bridges are situated, which gear to use on certain hills, and where the various controls were in buses and what certain warnings meant.
From the Paul Graney Collection. This is Graney's pocket sized photographic handbook and diary 1939.
ANTICIPATION is the topic for Wednesday July 20, 2011
I no longer fear the anticipated inevitable.
ourdailychallenge
A rather glorious and beautifully produced (it is bound in slik tape) handbook describing the industrial and municipal services of the Lancashire borough of Salford and lavishly illustrated to show scenes of the borough and various industrial activities. It is obviously aimed at VIP visitors to the Civic Hall at the 1924 Briitsh Empire Exhibition at Wembley and as well as Salford's claims to fame and importance it includes descriptions of the various colonies and Dominions and their trade with Lancashire.
Salford was an important industrial centre in its own right, albeit often overshadowed by its neighbour Manchester, and indeed in 1926, two years after this publication, the County Borough was raised to City status matching that of its neighbour. Salford also shared the the spoils of the Manchester Ship Canal, that incredible engineering feat that had made landlocked Manchester one of the largest port facilities in the UK - if only because a large acreage of the docks themselves was administratively in Salford. It meant that the borough was well placed as an entrepot - handling imports and exports via rail and road links across the south and south east Lancashire conurbation. Needless to say cotton, raw in and finished goods out, made up a major part of this trade.
The book also describes Salford's municipal services such as transport, gas and electricity - seen as vital in 'selling' the borough to potential investors and traders. This advert is for the Corporation's Electricity Department that at the time was based in the rather old-fashionedly named "Electricity Works" at Frederick Road in Pendleton. This was fairly close to the town's major electric tramway depot and, as usual, the start of supply was tied up with the electrification and operation of the borough's tramways in 1901.
Here the site, convinient for both the railway and canal that it sat hemmed in between, was not conducive to expansion and by the early 1920s the Corporation looked for and settled upon a new site for a major generating station - Agecroft, further to the north on the River Irwell. As the advert notes - "a modern super power house" was soon to be opened and indeed a year later, in 1925, with great civic pomp, Agecroft A station was commissioned. After nationalisation in 1948 two extensions to the station, B and C, were constructed and the site continued to produce power until decommissioning in 1993.
I do like the telegraphic address - Ampsal!
featured page in Veronica Lawlor's book
The Urban Sketching Handbook
: Reportage and Documentary Drawing