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With it's solo student pilot keeping an eye on the ball - Southampton University Air Squadron Grob Tutor G.115E G-BYVA turns onto finals to Boscombe Down's enormous hard runway
Carrying UK civil markings under a PFA run by Babcock, these UAS Tutors operate from there using either the parallel grass runway or the concrete depending on the task in hand and traffic
Replacing the Scottish Aviation Bulldog the Tutor has been in service as the RAF's elementary trainer for the last 20 years along with providing Air Experience and in use by the University Air Squadrons but is now gradually being replaced by the new Grob Prefect - now coming into fleet-wide service
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Church of St Mary , Higher Brixham Devon has solid roughcast walls with some details in exposed, squared and coursed red sandstone & others in limestone, probably from Beer.
This building is probably the third on the site of a Celtic burial ground. It is assumed that Christian Saxons settled here shortly after 926AD
The wooden Saxon church was succeeded by a Norman church 14 feet wide with walls 28 inches thick, the foundations of which were discovered in January 1892 when excavations were made to install hot water pipes.
The actual date of the present building is not recorded, but the pillars are so close in design to those in Totnes church (known to have been in the course of construction in 1432) that many experts feel the 2 churches had the same architect.
It consists of a nave, north & south aisles, north & south transepts, chancel, north and south chancel chapels, three stage west tower & south porch. There is a stair turret at the west end of each aisle with battlemented tops;
The south porch is single-storeyed with diagonal buttresses and battlements. It has a restored pointed-arched limestone doorway with heavily-weathered holy water stoup to its right. Inside are stone seats and a Beer stone star vault springing from corner shafts; centre boss carved with Virgin Mary flanked by angels; further bosses at intersections. 2 carved with animals, the rest with flowers.
Re-roofed by Ashworth in 1867, restored by Tait & Harvey in 1905.
Fixed to south wall of south transept is a stone sundial with rounded top, this filled with a happy gilded face with sun rays instead of hair. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/s8iT5r6vEf
The tower has a clock on each side added in 1931, the one to the west is more ornate of 1740 with names of wardens , W Clarke and L Edwards. The west doorway is of medieval Beer stone, heavily moulded and with pointed arch. The second stage has a statue of the Virgin Mary. North and south faces each have a large blocked window in lowest stage.
Inside the aisled nave is flanked by Beer stone arcades . There are small, pointed-arched, chamfered red sandstone doorways to each of the aisle stair turrets, that to north now blocked.
Ogee-headed Beer stone piscinas in chancel and north transept, both with carved basins and stone shelves; that in chancel has the arms of Bishop Courtenay of Exeter (1478-87).
The north transept (later converted to Churston family pew) has screen of fluted wooden columns removed from former south gallery of 1792;
The early 14c Beer stone font has an octagonal base buttressed by 3 grotesque animals. It is surmounted by a Gothic font cover dated 1908.
Under the tower the original clock mechanism (now out of use) of 1740, with maker's plate of William Stumbels, Totnes.
At either side of chancel, piercing the walls with chancel chapels, are late-medieval stone tombs. That to north has quatrefoil-panelled base and carved ogee canopy with traces of old paint with inscribed top of grey stone, said to be for William Hille, vicar 1464-87. The tomb to the south also has panelled front; panelled interior with vaulted canopy; but no inscription, in place of effigy an early-medieval stone coffin lid. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/626QnZbUQj
The north chancel chapel has 3 ornate 17c monuments to the Upton family of Lupton. In south chancel chapel there is a white marble monument of c1720 to Anne Stucley, in the form of a cartouche with a pair of skulls at the base;
All but the north window of the north transept contain Victorian or early 20c stained glass.
Paula Goodfellow CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/30974
"back in the air: a mediation on higher ground" by lakwena.
part of colab temple, transforming the "undiscovered" roof top space into the artists garden.
Hear my cry Oh Lord.
Attend unto my prayer.
From the ends of the earth I will cry unto Thee.
When my heart is overwhelmed;
lead me to the rock and is higher than I.
Psalms 61:1-2
My favorite prayer. I first found this when my younger brother was diagnosed with cancer at 17. He is the healthiest person I know today and this prayer has gotten me through many tough times ever since... Dad's surgery went really well... He should be out of critical care today. Thank you so much for your prayers :)
Belfast (/ˈbɛl.fɑːst/ or /ˈbɛl.fæst/; from Irish: Béal Feirste, meaning "mouth of the sandbanks") is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, on the River Lagan. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 286,000. Belfast was granted city status in 1888.
Belfast was a centre of the Irish linen, tobacco processing, rope-making and shipbuilding industries: in the early 20th century, Harland and Wolff, which built the RMS Titanic, was the biggest and most productive shipyard in the world. Belfast played a key role in the Industrial Revolution, and was a global industrial centre until the latter half of the 20th century. Industrialisation and the inward migration it brought made Belfast the biggest city in Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century, and industrial and economic success was cited by unionist opponents of Home Rule as a reason why Ulster should fight to resist it.
Today, Belfast remains a centre for industry, as well as the arts, higher education, business, and law, and is the economic engine of Northern Ireland. The city suffered greatly during the period of conflict called "the Troubles", but latterly has undergone a sustained period of calm, free from the intense political violence of former years, and substantial economic and commercial growth. Additionally, Belfast city centre has undergone considerable expansion and regeneration in recent years, notably around Victoria Square.
Belfast is served by two airports: George Best Belfast City Airport in the city, and Belfast International Airport 15 miles (24 km) west of the city. Belfast is a major port, with commercial and industrial docks dominating the Belfast Lough shoreline, including the Harland and Wolff shipyard, and is listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) as a global city.
Name
The name Belfast is derived from the Irish Béal Feirsde, which was later spelled Béal Feirste. The word béal means "mouth" or "rivermouth" while feirsde/feirste is the genitive singular of fearsaid and refers to a sandbar or tidal fordacross a river's mouth. The name would thus translate literally as "(river) mouth of the sandbar" or "(river) mouth of the ford". This sandbar was formed at the confluence of two rivers at what is now Donegall Quay: the Lagan, which flows into Belfast Lough, and its tributary the Farset. This area was the hub around which the original settlement developed. The Irish name Béal Feirste is shared by a townland in County Mayo, whose name has been anglicised as Belfarsad.
An alternative interpretation of the name is "mouth of [the river] of the sandbar", an allusion to the River Farset, which flows into the Lagan where the sandbar was located. This interpretation was favoured by Edmund Hoganand John O'Donovan. It seems clear, however, that the river itself was named after the tidal crossing.
In Ulster Scots the name of the city is Bilfawst or Bilfaust, although "Belfast" is also used.
History
The site of Belfast has been occupied since the Bronze Age. The Giant's Ring, a 5,000-year-old henge, is located near the city, and the remains of Iron Age hill forts can still be seen in the surrounding hills. Belfast remained a small settlement of little importance during the Middle Ages. John de Courcy built a castle on what is now Castle Street in the city centre in the 12th century, but this was on a lesser scale and not as strategically important as Carrickfergus Castle to the north, which was built by de Courcy in 1177. The O'Neill clan had a presence in the area.
In the 14th century, Cloinne Aodha Buidhe, descendants of Aodh Buidhe O'Neill built Grey Castle at Castlereagh, now in the east of the city. Conn O'Neill of the Clannaboy O'Neills owned vast lands in the area and was the last inhabitant of Grey Castle, one remaining link being the Conn's Water river flowing through east Belfast.
Belfast became a substantial settlement in the 17th century after being established as a town by Sir Arthur Chichester, which was initially settled by Protestant English and Scottish migrants at the time of the Plantation of Ulster. (Belfast and County Antrim, however, did not form part of this particular Plantation scheme as they were privately colonised.) In 1791, the Society of United Irishmen was founded in Belfast, after Henry Joy McCracken and other prominent Presbyterians from the city invited Theobald Wolfe Tone and Thomas Russell to a meeting, after having read Tone's "Argument on Behalf of the Catholics of Ireland". Evidence of this period of Belfast's growth can still be seen in the oldest areas of the city, known as the Entries.
Belfast blossomed as a commercial and industrial centre in the 18th and 19th centuries and became Ireland's pre-eminent industrial city. Industries thrived, including linen, rope-making, tobacco, heavy engineering and shipbuilding, and at the end of the 19th century, Belfast briefly overtook Dublin as the largest city in Ireland. The Harland and Wolff shipyards became one of the largest shipbuilders in the world, employing up to 35,000 workers. In 1886 the city suffered intense riots over the issue of home rule, which had divided the city.
In 1920–22, Belfast became the capital of the new entity of Northern Ireland as the island of Ireland was partitioned. The accompanying conflict (the Irish War of Independence) cost up to 500 lives in Belfast, the bloodiest sectarian strife in the city until the Troubles of the late 1960s onwards.
The Troubles
Belfast has been the capital of Northern Ireland since its establishment in 1921 following the Government of Ireland Act 1920. It had been the scene of various episodes of sectarian conflict between its Catholic and Protestant populations. These opposing groups in this conflict are now often termed republican and loyalist respectively, although they are also referred to as 'nationalist' and 'unionist'. The most recent example of this conflict was known as the Troubles – a civil conflict that raged from around 1969 to 1998.
Belfast saw some of the worst of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, particularly in the 1970s, with rival paramilitary groups formed on both sides. Bombing, assassination and street violence formed a backdrop to life throughout the Troubles. The Provisional IRA detonated 22 bombs within the confines of Belfast city centre in 1972, on what is known as "Bloody Friday", killing eleven people. Loyalist paramilitaries including the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) claimed that the killings they carried out were in retaliation for the IRA campaign. Most of their victims were Catholics with no links to the Provisional IRA. A particularly notorious group, based on the Shankill Road in the mid-1970s, became known as the Shankill Butchers.
In all, over 1,600 people were killed in political violence in the city between 1969 and 2001. Sporadic violent events continue as of 2015, although not supported by the previous antagonists who had reached political agreement in 1998.
IMO, this is the best vantage point of the Bay Bridge that you can see, terrestrially. Get a helicopter, and we can talk.
A few minutes later and the cloud had grown. The north westerly breeze was sending the Irish Sea shower clouds over Liverpool Bay and on to Cheshire.
When dreaming I'm guided through another world
Time and time again
At sunrise I fight to stay asleep
'Cause I don't want to leave the comfort of this place
'Cause there's a hunger, a longing to escape
From the life I live when I'm awake
So let's go there
Let's make our escape
Come on, let's go there
Let's ask can we stay?
Can you take me higher?
To the place where blind men see
Can you take me higher?
To the place with golden streets
Although I would like our world to change
It helps me to appreciate
Those nights and those dreams
But, my friend, I'd sacrifice all those nights
If I could make the Earth and my dreams the same
The only difference is
To let love replace all our hate
So let's go there
Let's make our escape
Come on, let's go there
Let's ask can we stay?
Up high I feel like I'm alive for the very first time
Up high I'm strong enough to take these dreams
And make them mine~~~Creed
Bain News Service,, publisher.
John Brown
[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Identified as business manager of the Metropolitan Opera Company based on LC-B2-3722-2.
File print in Biographical File.
Photograph shows John Brown (1881-1967), business comptroller of the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
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
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.28246
Call Number: LC-B2- 4829-8
Compared with the photo bellow I was higher in the island but still not in the top. Here you
can see farther inside the district. :¬)
Recreio district, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Have a great rest of Sunday! :¬)
Don't worry, you'll never fall down, my friend
When your head is in the clouds,
gravity is someone else's problem.
For once, I've been higher then them!
Location: Valle Orco, Parco Nazionale del Gran Paradiso, Piemonte, Italy
Canon EOS 60D with Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM, single shot
Rescanned at higher resolution with better colour and image quality
Deep in the French countryside on the mainline south to Toulouse. This line abounds with sharp curves, steep gradients, large viaducts and justified electrification even in the midst of World War II
Sybic 26106 passes near Auniac with the 10:21 Paris - Port Bou
Apologies to French enthusiasts, I recorded the train workings in a UK type format, have long since lost all my SNCF timetables and can no longer confirm the train number which is normally used to annotate French photos
My little Charlotte wanted to say hello to everyone!
The weather has been awful so there aren't many opportunities to take pics of my dollies, but I hope you enjoy this one ♥
Have a nice day!
Not sure how many photos went into this, over 100, I suspect. I've been avoiding showing people, or any people in an amount because I wanted to make it perfect but, I'm not going to be able to do that, I'm not good enough at Photoshop. I'll have to go back and take it again.
This is the attic, sort of, of a grain store, bottom half of the photo is horizontal at eye-line, top half goes straight up. The stairs used to follow up on the right but someone had an attack of the batshits and ripped the stairs apart and threw half of them down the stairwell leading up to this floor. I am approximately 20m above nothing, standing on ricketty, pigeon shit covered floorboards.
Oh my....you have no idea how many pictures I have to sort through and post from over the Holidays. Trust me, it's a lot! 😲
Anyway, I figured I'd start with this one from a couple of days ago. Daisy is showing off the new shoes I bought her for Christmas. (There are a couple other pairs we'll get to soon as well...) As you may have noticed, the heels are quite high. Four inches, in fact.
You know how some people make New Year's resolutions? Well, this year I made a resolution that Daisy will learn to walk more elegantly in higher heels...and will wear them on a more regular basis going forward. What's that, you say? Most people make New Year's resolutions for themselves?? Well that may be fine for others, but around here, I make them for Daisy...and she follows through. The beauty of my system is that unlike most people who fail miserably with their resolutions....mine are guaranteed to STICK! 😜
#58 Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27P1M 'Flanker' frozen in time and posterized. This Flanker is from the 831st Guards Tactical Aviation Brigade, RIAT 17.
A very pleasant day of learning and sharing with a global higher education community from:
-FACENS Brazil
-Newton Paiva University
-São Paulo State University (UNESP)
-Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
-Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
-Brazilian Association for International Education - FAUBAI
-Consulate General of Brazil, New York
-Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica
-Las Américas Institute of Technology (ITLA)
-Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo
-Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA)
-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH)
-Lebanese American University (LAU)
-Ibero
-ITAM
-Linkoping University
-Isik University
-and NYIT
The door of the 15c porch bears the marks of bullets, possibly fired by some of Sir Thomas Fairfax’s troops when Place Barton, the home of the royalist Chudleighs near the church, was taken by Parliamentary forces in 1646. Possibly greater effort was made , as James Chudleigh after starting as a keen Parliamentary officer changed sides later - his father Sir George Chudleigh also a Parliamentary man when the Civil War broke out, resigned his comission and went over to the King, garrisoning the manor house.
- Church of St John the Baptist, Higher Ashton Devon
Picture with thanks - copyright Michael Garlick CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7231328
Spring hasn't really reached the forest yet, but luckily there is always some colour a bit higher up on the rocks. :-)