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DISCLAIMER: Photo was taken from before the open depot gates. At no point did I enter the depot property.
Amazingly, an InterConnect Gemini showed up at Foster Street yesterday! Just when I'd given up all hope in photographing one under Stagecoach ownership, per the tracker yesterday, one had come to, of all places, here! The RoadCar fleet in Skegness has always interested me ever since I really got into spotting in 2018, and its such a shame that I'll never likely get one of these in proper service in this old livery - if at all - so despite half of the bus being totally blocked off, I'm happy to, at least, have this. But it does beg the question... why is it here?
For some reason over here at Foster Street, in among a number of new possibilities that the depot now brings, Stagecoach Lincolnshire RoadCar's 'Interconnect'-liveried 16939, a 2006 Volvo B7TL Wright Eclipse Gemini new to Lincolnshire RoadCar's 'Coastal Connect' service as, very briefly, their 921, is seen here over the pits in the Hull depot. But what could it be here for? I remember this bus being the subject of much attention by one or two of the staff here... could it be either regular maintenance or, dare I say, a repaint?
Eclipse 21215 put in an appearance on the 103, looking a little strange in Beachball livery but borrowing the front access panel from a Local liveried bus. At one time this bus was branded for the 103, as the Cliffsider, although the route doesn't go by the sea so I don't really know where it got that name from.
Lincoln bus station, 24.2.23
16910 heads through Mablethorpe for it's end point of The Ferryboat Inn before the return journey back to Skegness on the Interconnect 59
The last bus I needed from the trio of ALX400s at Gainsborough depot, finally spotted and photted here on 3.7.20 as it enters Lincoln down Carholme Road with a 106.
Unlike the other two, this one doesn't have Stagecoach logos on the front or sides, though it does appear to be as shabby as 418 around the rear. Maybe this one is due for a refresh now that 17719 has had one?
A couple of different InterConnect vehicles here, with Gainsborough's E400 MMC 10890 arriving with a 100 and (Grimsby's or Scunthorpe's?) Volvo B7RLE Wright Eclipse parked up in the sunshine on 23.6.20. Usually I just see the MMCs in the purple, but this time around not only was there an Eclipse but a couple of E400s from Skegness too - the only ones missing were a Scania and a B7TL!
FX06AOC Volvo B7TL/ Wright Eclipse Gemini.
Stagecoach East Midlands (Skegness) 16941
InterConnect service 6 Skegness to Lincoln.
For a few days in a row there was a 'peak time' around 17:20 to 17:40 where several things would happen in a short space of time, with Stagecoach workings from other depots showing up (56, 100, 103, 107 and a NIS Gainsborough decker), the arrival of a Brylaine IC5, an Andrew's rail replacement, a JBT rail replacement, a couple of PC Coaches movements including one of their coaches over the flyover, two eastbound intermodal trains, an eastbound EMR unit plus all the variety that the standard Stagecoach Lincoln buses provided. I went out to get as much as I could each day, but with so much going on I never managed to get everything! Still, for this upload I bring you what I caught amidst Lincoln's public transport 'rush hour'.
An afternoon of spotting around Lincoln bus station isn't complete without an InterConnect 5 and here is one of those, with YJ57 EGY which has been a regular performer on this route of late. Oddly, despite being a later model of Tempo with the cooling grille on the nearside it has the same front axle as the early model, even though I've seen 07 registered ones that have the late-model axle. This was new to Konect Bus, so did they specify all their Tempos with the old-style front axle? It must annoy the Brylaine engineering staff to deal with early and late model Tempos, plus a mix of both!
19.3.21
Waiting in Chapel St Leonards bus station is Volvo B7TL number 16915. It received a fresh repaint in November 2018 and gained the blue version of the Stagecoach fleet name, usually applied to the white area of a vehicle, in April 2019.
Grimsby depot had something a little more special than the normal E300 appearing on the 53... yes, it may be one I've seen before but it's always nice to have an Eclipse to liven things up! The driver's clearly not one for photographs, what with both me and [https://www.flickr.com/photos/190713720@N06] there at the bus station exit - or perhaps he's just showing off his dance moves?! Still, here's 21273 getting underway for its journey to Grimsby, departing Lincoln bus station on 14.6.21
Stagecoach East Midlands (Skegness) 15811 FX12BBV, Scania N230UD Alexander Enviro 400 in Interconnect livery. Leaving Skegness on the A158 .
10738 quickly went from being some unusual foreign visitor to a staple of the 56 that I've now seen more times than I care to count. Being the only E400 MMC around (that isn't one of the Gainsborough InterConnects) it certainly stands out and here on 12.2.21 I captured it laying over in the bus station after sunset.
The InterConnect 5 has changed a bit since I last saw it... sort of.
Like the InterConnect 7 I saw in Skeg at the end of summer, the IC-prefixed route number has been swapped with a B-prefixed one, presumably standing for Brylaine (or BinterConnect?!). Unfortunately, this means it's now got a number in the same series as the Stagecoach Bakkavor works contract routes. While the chance of any kind if mix-up is probably low realistically, the clarity of the 'IC' prefix is gone, and it does leave you wondering why the change was even necessary in the first place.
The other change I'd already bore witness to, in that the route into and out of Lincoln is now up past the County Hospital rather than entering from the south like before. Only at the time, it was a necessary change due to Pelham Bridge being closed, and the IC5 was going that way as a diversionary route. The bridge reopened, but the conventional route didn't change back. However. a weekday B5X variant and the Saturday B5s (covered by Black Cat Travel and PC Coaches) still run to the original IC5 route.
Entering the city by what is now the standard way for the route, Optare Tempo YK57 FHM makes its way down Pelham Street towards the bus station on 22.9.22
In October 2018 a repaint of the former Lincolnshire RoadCar Volvo B7TL Vyking bodied fleet, allocated to Skegness depot began. This example is identifiable as having been painted at Hull depot because of the characteristic red fleet numbers applied on the sides of the vehicles there.
The colours are those of the revised InterConnect branding and can also be seen on sister vehicles 16913 & 16915. The logo and lettering - "connecting people with places InterConnect" has not been reapplied to date, (April 2019) on any of the vehicles treated to a repaint in the last six months. These include four Enviro 400 Scanias and three Wright Eclipse Geminis, all of which are based at Skegness. Some have not even received a Stagecoach fleetname, such is the inconsistency! Only one East Lancs Vyking here, numbered 16907 is still to be given a fresh coat of paint at the time of writing.
The location of the photograph is Burgh le Marsh on a less common working for the type from Lincoln.
Volvo B7TL East Lancs Vyking repaints :-
October 2018
16902, 16905 at Lincoln
16908, 16911 & 16912 at Hull
November 2018
16909 (1st time in Stagecoach standard colours) & 16910 at Scunthorpe
16904 & 16915 at Lincoln
January 2019
16906 at Lincoln
March 2019
16913 at Lincoln
16914 at Scunthorpe (allocated to Scunthorpe & 1st time in Stagecoach standard colours)
Stagecoach Lincolnshire 19014, a 2006 ADL Enviro 400, was seen at Grimsby Riverhead Exchange on a service 51 to Louth. New to Stagecoach Manchester in 2006. Smart repaint this, looks much better with the blue bumper.
Quoting Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Aichi M6A1 Seiran (Clear Sky Storm):
Aichi chief engineer, Toshio Ozaki, designed the M6A1 Seiran to fulfill the requirement for a bomber that could operate exclusively from a submarine. Japanese war planners devised the idea as a means for striking directly at the United States mainland and other important strategic targets, like the Panama Canal, that lay thousands of kilometers from Japan. To support Seiran operations, the Japanese developed a fleet of submarine aircraft carriers to bring the aircraft within striking distance. No Seiran ever saw combat, but the Seiran/submarine weapons system represents an ingenious blend of aviation and marine technology.
This M6A1 was the last airframe built (serial number 28) and the only surviving example of the Seiran in the world. Imperial Japanese Navy Lt. Kazuo Akatsuka ferried this Seiran from Fukuyama to Yokosuka where he surrendered it to an American occupation contingent.
Transferred from the United States Navy.
Manufacturer:
Aichi Aircraft Company (Aichi Kokuki KK)
Date:
1945
Country of Origin:
Japan
Dimensions:
Overall: 460 x 1160cm, 3310kg, 1230cm (15ft 1 1/8in. x 38ft 11/16in., 7297.2lb., 40ft 4 1/4in.)
Physical Description:
Wings rotated back, folded back to lie flat against the fuselage. 2/3 of each side of the horizontal stabilizer also folded down, likewise the tip of the vertical stabilizer.
Here's Hull MAN Enviro 300 24192 in Lincoln on 26.1.23, on loan to Skegness and on a 56 working. Oddly this is painted differently to the other one I've seen (24194) as the rear circle is noticeably smaller and the black window surround doesn't curve up with the rear window.
If there's InterConnect purple I'm likely to be taking a photo of it, and when there are two InterConnect vehicles from different depots side-by-side then what better opportunity for a photo? 10899 is making tracks for Gainsborough before (inter)connecting for Scunthorpe while 19208 is waiting for its departure time when it'll be off to Horncastle and connecting for Skegness. Through travel is achieved by simply staying on the bus, even if the information on the blind might imply that you change to a conveniently timed connecting service - it's likely that the European '50km' loophole is the reasoning behind the strange blind layout, with routes split at intermediate destinations to have two shorter routes rather than one long one. I don't know if there are any InterConnect routes where this doesn't apply, but for continuity of the brand they could (and possibly do) still use the 'connecting for' blind layout since a purple IC liveried bus isn't always guaranteed.
17.12.20
Brylaine Optare Tempo YK57 FHM sets off for Coningsby with an InterConnect 5 on 2.4.21
On Bustimes I've seen the Brylaine fleet have had numbers for a month or-so now (as do PC Coaches in fact), yet I've never seen these numbers displayed on the vehicles so I assume they are for administrative/ticket machine purposes only?
FX10AFN - Scania N230UD / ADL Enviro 400.
NK57DWA - ADL Trident 2 / ADL Enviro 400.
Stagecoach East Midland (Skegness) InterConnect livery.
Well, at least this one's nearly in full frame. But sometimes, it's photos like this where I ask myself… why? Why did you take it like that? I believe this to have been my first InterConnect vehicle I've seen in person since I opened my eyes to basic bus spotting, and while I can't say I blew it, I... think it could've been better. But back then, I wasn't quite so sure on framing, and I'm sure it would've been difficult to get this in full shot in somewhere like Scunthorpe Bus Station. Glad I've learned my ways now, though.
Likely the first InterConnect vehicle I ever saw, Stagecoach Lincolnshire RoadCar's 'InterConnect'-branded 15510, a 2009 Scania N230UD ADL Enviro 400, is seen here parked up at Scunthorpe Bus Station among two native vehicles to the small North Lincolnshire town. Since then, sadly, this has been debranded in favour of the new E400MMCs and merely plies its trade in standard old Stagecoach livery on regular service around Worksop.
Hull based decker (on loan to Skegness) 10738 and Lincoln E200 36711 in Lincoln bus station on 25.2.21
As one of the showpiece main rooms of Billilla mansion when male guests came to call, the billiard room is one of the grandest rooms in the house. With an interconnecting door between it and the adjoining dining room, whilst the women retired to the feminine surrounds of the drawing room, the men could retreat to this strictly male preserve with their brandy and cigars and discuss business over a game or two of billiards.
Although part of the original 1878 house and featuring some High Victorian detailing, the billiard room did not escape the 1907 redecoration, and as a result it also features some very fine Art Nouveau detailing.
The Billilla billiards room is also one of the most intact rooms in the whole house, as it still features its original and ornate Victorian carpet and the original walnut Alcock and Company billiard table and scoreboard.
A very masculine oriented room, the walls feature Victorian era dark wood dado panelling about a third of the way up the walls. Above that the walls are simply painted, and even to this day they still feature marks where chalked cues once rested. Original ornate Victorian gasoliers that could be swiveled into position still jut from the walls above the dado panelling. With their original fluted glass shades remaining in place, the gasoliers still have functioning taps to increase or decrease the gas supply.
The room is heated by a large fireplace featuring an insert of beautiful tube lined Art Nouveau peacock feathers, once again quietly underlining the fact that this is a man's room.
The Victorian era carpet of the billiard room is still bright and in remarkably good condition for its age. It is thick and dyed in bright colours in a pattern designed to imitate ornate floor tiles.
The ceiling of the billiard room is decorated with ornate stylised foliate Art Nouveau patterns and mouldings of leaves. Whilst Art Nouveau is often referred to as a feminine style, the ceiling of the billiard room shows how when applied in a particular way it could also be very strong and masculine.
Suspended over the walnut Alcock and Company billiard table the gleaming polished brass foliate style gasolier has subsequently been electrified and features five of its six green glass shades.
One of the few more feminine touches to what is otherwise a very masculine room are the stained glass lunettes over the billiard room's three windows. In keeping with other original windows of the house, they feature a single flower, in this case a red tulip.
Alcock and Company Manufacturers was established in 1853 when Melbourne was still a very new city of less than twenty years old. they still manufacture billiard tables from their Malvern establishment today.
Built in High Victorian style in 1878 for successful gold miner Robert Wright, Billilla mansion was originally a thirteen room mansion erected on seven and a half acres of land.
When economic boom turned to bust in the 1880s, the property was purchased in 1888 by wealthy New South Wales pastoralist William Weatherly who named it Billilla after his land holdings and established a home there for his wife Jeannie and their children Violet, Gladys and Lionel.
The house was substantially altered by architect Walter Richmond Butler in 1907, extending the house beyond its original thirteen rooms and adding the Art Nouveau façade seen today.
After William Weatherly's death in 1914, his wife, who was much younger, remained living there until her own death in 1933. She bequeathed the property to her daughter, Violet, who maintained the home with reduced staff until her own death in 1972.
The property was purchased in 1973 by the Bayside Council who subsequently used Billilla as a historical house with guided tours, a wedding and events venue, a school and finally in 2009 as an artist's precinct in the property's outbuildings. Billilla is a beautiful heritage property retaining many of its original features thanks to its long private ownership still incorporating a stately formal garden and the magnificent historic house.
Billilla, at 26 Halifax Street, Brighton, is one of Melbourne’s few remaining significant homesteads, built on land which had originally been owned by Nicholas Were. The house has a mixture of architectural styles, featuring a Victorian design with Art Nouveau features and has exquisite formal gardens, which retain much of their original Nineteenth Century layout.
Billilla retains many original Victorian elements and a number of outbuildings still stand to the rear of the property including the butler’s quarters, dairy, meat house, stable garden store and coach house.
Billilla was opened to the general public as part of the Melbourne Open House weekend 2022.
Billilla was used as a backdrop in the 1980 Australian Channel 10 miniseries adaptation of Sumner Locke Elliott's "Water Under the Bridge". It was used at the Sydney harbourside home of Luigi, Honor and Carrie Mazzini.
Quoting Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Hawker Hurricane Mk. IIC:
Hawker Chief Designer Sydney Camm's Hurricane ranks with the most important aircraft designs in military aviation history. Designed in the late 1930s, when monoplanes were considered unstable and too radical to be successful, the Hurricane was the first British monoplane fighter and the first British fighter to exceed 483 kilometers (300 miles) per hour in level flight. Hurricane pilots fought the Luftwaffe and helped win the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940.
This Mark IIC was built at the Langley factory, near what is now Heathrow Airport, early in 1944. It served as a training aircraft during the World War II in the Royal Air Force's 41 OTU.
Donated by the Royal Air Force Museum
Manufacturer:
Date:
1944
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Wingspan: 12.2 m (40 ft)
Length: 9.8 m (32 ft 3 in)
Height: 4 m (13 ft)
Weight, empty: 2,624 kg (5,785 lb)
Weight, gross: 3,951 kg (8,710 lb)
Top speed:538 km/h (334 mph)
Engine:Rolls-Royce Merlin XX, liquid-cooled in-line V, 1,300 hp
Armament:four 20 mm Hispano cannons
Ordnance:two 250-lb or two 500-lb bombs or eight 3-in rockets
Materials:
Fuselage: Steel tube with aircraft spruce forms and fabric, aluminum cowling
Wings: Stressed Skin Aluminum
Horizontal Stablizer: Stress Skin aluminum
Rudder: fabric covered aluminum
Control Surfaces: fabric covered aluminum
Physical Description:
Hawker Hurricane Mk. IIC single seat, low wing monoplane ground attack fighter; enclosed cockpit; steel tube fuselage with aircraft spruce forms and fabric, aluminum cowling, stressed skin aluminum wings and horizontal stablizer, fabric covered aluminum rudder and control surfaces; grey green camoflage top surface paint scheme with dove grey underside; red and blue national roundel on upper wing surface and red, white, and blue roundel lower wing surface; red, white, blue, and yellow roundel fuselage sides; red, white and blue tail flash; Rolls-Royce Merlin XX, liquid cooled V-12, 1,280 horsepower engine; Armament, 4: 20mm Hispano cannons.
• • • • •
Quoting Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Northrop P-61C Black Widow:
The P-61 Black Widow was the first U.S. aircraft designed to locate and destroy enemy aircraft at night and in bad weather, a feat made possible by the use of on-board radar. The prototype first flew in 1942. P-61 combat operations began just after D-Day, June 6, 1944, when Black Widows flew deep into German airspace, bombing and strafing trains and road traffic. Operations in the Pacific began at about the same time. By the end of World War II, Black Widows had seen combat in every theater and had destroyed 127 enemy aircraft and 18 German V-1 buzz bombs.
The Museum’s Black Widow, a P-61C-1-NO, was delivered to the Army Air Forces in July 1945. It participated in cold-weather tests, high-altitude drop tests, and in the National Thunderstorm Project, for which the top turret was removed to make room for thunderstorm monitoring equipment.
Transferred from the United States Air Force.
Manufacturer:
Date:
1943
Country of Origin:
United States of America
Dimensions:
Overall: 450 x 1500cm, 10637kg, 2000cm (14ft 9 3/16in. x 49ft 2 9/16in., 23450.3lb., 65ft 7 3/8in.)
Here we have the last bastion of InterConnect Geminis, in the shape of 16939 seen at Lincoln bus station on 13.7.21, setting off with a 56 back to its home town of Skegness. With four of the ex-Road Car Geminis still in service, you may be wondering why this is the 'last'. Well, that's because 16939 is the last Gemini left in InterConnect purple and white, what with the mighty 16941 being in Beachball (well, sort of), 16943 being the Lincoln open topper and 16944, I have on good authority from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/190713720@N06], is now at Hull in Local livery. Yes, you heard that right.
So of the two Geminis left at Skeg, this is the only one in InterConnect livery. Also, all the Road Car Geminis are now in different liveries.
Fully branded InterConnect E400 19196 is shown exiting Skegness bus station with an InterConnect 59 to Mablethorpe, which is the main route between the two Lincolnshire seaside towns. Also running between the two is the Grayscroft 12, but that service only has three journeys in each direction per day, and only on select days of the week! Needless to say, the Stagecoach offering is the more popular of the two.
31.8.22
Painted in Lincolnshire InterConnect livery.
Stagecoach East Midlands
ADL Enviro400
NK57DWW (19210)
Skegness Interchange
17 June 2021
As one of the showpiece main rooms of Billilla mansion when male guests came to call, the billiard room is one of the grandest rooms in the house. With an interconnecting door between it and the adjoining dining room, whilst the women retired to the feminine surrounds of the drawing room, the men could retreat to this strictly male preserve with their brandy and cigars and discuss business over a game or two of billiards.
Although part of the original 1878 house and featuring some High Victorian detailing, the billiard room did not escape the 1907 redecoration, and as a result it also features some very fine Art Nouveau detailing.
The Billilla billiards room is also one of the most intact rooms in the whole house, as it still features its original and ornate Victorian carpet and the original walnut Alcock and Company billiard table and scoreboard.
A very masculine oriented room, the walls feature Victorian era dark wood dado panelling about a third of the way up the walls. Above that the walls are simply painted, and even to this day they still feature marks where chalked cues once rested. Original ornate Victorian gasoliers that could be swiveled into position still jut from the walls above the dado panelling. With their original fluted glass shades remaining in place, the gasoliers still have functioning taps to increase or decrease the gas supply.
The room is heated by a large fireplace featuring an insert of beautiful tube lined Art Nouveau peacock feathers, once again quietly underlining the fact that this is a man's room.
The Victorian era carpet of the billiard room is still bright and in remarkably good condition for its age. It is thick and dyed in bright colours in a pattern designed to imitate ornate floor tiles.
The ceiling of the billiard room is decorated with ornate stylised foliate Art Nouveau patterns and mouldings of leaves. Whilst Art Nouveau is often referred to as a feminine style, the ceiling of the billiard room shows how when applied in a particular way it could also be very strong and masculine.
Suspended over the walnut Alcock and Company billiard table the gleaming polished brass foliate style gasolier has subsequently been electrified and features five of its six green glass shades.
One of the few more feminine touches to what is otherwise a very masculine room are the stained glass lunettes over the billiard room's three windows. In keeping with other original windows of the house, they feature a single flower, in this case a red tulip.
Alcock and Company Manufacturers was established in 1853 when Melbourne was still a very new city of less than twenty years old. they still manufacture billiard tables from their Malvern establishment today.
Built in High Victorian style in 1878 for successful gold miner Robert Wright, Billilla mansion was originally a thirteen room mansion erected on seven and a half acres of land.
When economic boom turned to bust in the 1880s, the property was purchased in 1888 by wealthy New South Wales pastoralist William Weatherly who named it Billilla after his land holdings and established a home there for his wife Jeannie and their children Violet, Gladys and Lionel.
The house was substantially altered by architect Walter Richmond Butler in 1907, extending the house beyond its original thirteen rooms and adding the Art Nouveau façade seen today.
After William Weatherly's death in 1914, his wife, who was much younger, remained living there until her own death in 1933. She bequeathed the property to her daughter, Violet, who maintained the home with reduced staff until her own death in 1972.
The property was purchased in 1973 by the Bayside Council who subsequently used Billilla as a historical house with guided tours, a wedding and events venue, a school and finally in 2009 as an artist's precinct in the property's outbuildings. Billilla is a beautiful heritage property retaining many of its original features thanks to its long private ownership still incorporating a stately formal garden and the magnificent historic house.
Billilla, at 26 Halifax Street, Brighton, is one of Melbourne’s few remaining significant homesteads, built on land which had originally been owned by Nicholas Were. The house has a mixture of architectural styles, featuring a Victorian design with Art Nouveau features and has exquisite formal gardens, which retain much of their original Nineteenth Century layout.
Billilla retains many original Victorian elements and a number of outbuildings still stand to the rear of the property including the butler’s quarters, dairy, meat house, stable garden store and coach house.
Billilla was opened to the general public as part of the Melbourne Open House weekend 2022.
Billilla was used as a backdrop in the 1980 Australian Channel 10 miniseries adaptation of Sumner Locke Elliott's "Water Under the Bridge". It was used at the Sydney harbourside home of Luigi, Honor and Carrie Mazzini.
As one of the showpiece main rooms of Billilla mansion when male guests came to call, the billiard room is one of the grandest rooms in the house. With an interconnecting door between it and the adjoining dining room, whilst the women retired to the feminine surrounds of the drawing room, the men could retreat to this strictly male preserve with their brandy and cigars and discuss business over a game or two of billiards.
Although part of the original 1878 house and featuring some High Victorian detailing, the billiard room did not escape the 1907 redecoration, and as a result it also features some very fine Art Nouveau detailing.
The Billilla billiards room is also one of the most intact rooms in the whole house, as it still features its original and ornate Victorian carpet and the original walnut Alcock and Company billiard table and scoreboard.
A very masculine oriented room, the walls feature Victorian era dark wood dado panelling about a third of the way up the walls. Above that the walls are simply painted, and even to this day they still feature marks where chalked cues once rested. Original ornate Victorian gasoliers that could be swiveled into position still jut from the walls above the dado panelling. With their original fluted glass shades remaining in place, the gasoliers still have functioning taps to increase or decrease the gas supply.
The room is heated by a large fireplace featuring an insert of beautiful tube lined Art Nouveau peacock feathers, once again quietly underlining the fact that this is a man's room.
The Victorian era carpet of the billiard room is still bright and in remarkably good condition for its age. It is thick and dyed in bright colours in a pattern designed to imitate ornate floor tiles.
The ceiling of the billiard room is decorated with ornate stylised foliate Art Nouveau patterns and mouldings of leaves. Whilst Art Nouveau is often referred to as a feminine style, the ceiling of the billiard room shows how when applied in a particular way it could also be very strong and masculine.
Suspended over the walnut Alcock and Company billiard table the gleaming polished brass foliate style gasolier has subsequently been electrified and features five of its six green glass shades.
One of the few more feminine touches to what is otherwise a very masculine room are the stained glass lunettes over the billiard room's three windows. In keeping with other original windows of the house, they feature a single flower, in this case a red tulip.
Alcock and Company Manufacturers was established in 1853 when Melbourne was still a very new city of less than twenty years old. they still manufacture billiard tables from their Malvern establishment today.
Built in High Victorian style in 1878 for successful gold miner Robert Wright, Billilla mansion was originally a thirteen room mansion erected on seven and a half acres of land.
When economic boom turned to bust in the 1880s, the property was purchased in 1888 by wealthy New South Wales pastoralist William Weatherly who named it Billilla after his land holdings and established a home there for his wife Jeannie and their children Violet, Gladys and Lionel.
The house was substantially altered by architect Walter Richmond Butler in 1907, extending the house beyond its original thirteen rooms and adding the Art Nouveau façade seen today.
After William Weatherly's death in 1914, his wife, who was much younger, remained living there until her own death in 1933. She bequeathed the property to her daughter, Violet, who maintained the home with reduced staff until her own death in 1972.
The property was purchased in 1973 by the Bayside Council who subsequently used Billilla as a historical house with guided tours, a wedding and events venue, a school and finally in 2009 as an artist's precinct in the property's outbuildings. Billilla is a beautiful heritage property retaining many of its original features thanks to its long private ownership still incorporating a stately formal garden and the magnificent historic house.
Billilla, at 26 Halifax Street, Brighton, is one of Melbourne’s few remaining significant homesteads, built on land which had originally been owned by Nicholas Were. The house has a mixture of architectural styles, featuring a Victorian design with Art Nouveau features and has exquisite formal gardens, which retain much of their original Nineteenth Century layout.
Billilla retains many original Victorian elements and a number of outbuildings still stand to the rear of the property including the butler’s quarters, dairy, meat house, stable garden store and coach house.
Billilla was opened to the general public as part of the Melbourne Open House weekend 2022.
Billilla was used as a backdrop in the 1980 Australian Channel 10 miniseries adaptation of Sumner Locke Elliott's "Water Under the Bridge". It was used at the Sydney harbourside home of Luigi, Honor and Carrie Mazzini.
Oh, you thought it was over? Not yet!
After having missed getting a photograph of this bus about three times over the course of Hull Fair, I made a last-minute trip to Hull Interchange with this intention: I will get the InterConnects today, so help me God. And after nearly two hours of waiting after missing the double decks and this single deck by mere minutes, I got them... and then some. I can rest easy knowing now that the bus that had constantly escaped me has now been captured on the last night of the fair.
Stagecoach Grimsby-Cleethorpes' 21274, a 2009 Wright Eclipse Urban new to First Chester & Wirral as 69498, then previously under the ownership of Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire for - ironically - the Chester Park & Rides, is seen here on loan to Stagecoach in Hull to cover for the native buses on Hull Fair duties, serving the 14 to Falkland Road. You can tell this is certainly no Hull bus from a mile away.
Stagecoah 15176 (YN64 XTD) in 'interCONNECT' livery arrives at Lincoln on route 53A from Grimsby on 6th August 2015. The incorrect and pointless use of upper case and lowers case in the branding ISofCOURSEcompletelyUNACCEPTableANDtheDESIGnersSHOULDbeFIRED
Taken from Lee on Solent.This is part of the National Grid's major new energy infrastructure project, known as IFA2 (Interconnexion France-Angleterre 2), linking the United Kingdom's electricity transmission network to France. The link will help enhance the security, affordability and sustainability of energy supply to both countries.
More here....
Stagecoach InterConnect liveried Enviro 400 MMC 10898 departing Lincoln bus station for Gainsborough on route 107. I've only ever seen these on the 100 so to see one on the 107 is something a little different - I always associated the 107 with Plaxton President operation but then I haven't seen that many 107s so MMCs may well be the norm and the Plaxtons the exception.
I wonder what Stagecoach's new livery will mean for InterConnect? Perhaps there will be buses in the new livery style but with purple fronts instead of blue? Then again, InterConnect strikes me as a little unusual in that plenty of routes that claim to be IC ones on bustimes.org then run with 'bog standard' beachball liveried vehicles - but since these 67 plate MMCs and the E400s transferred to Skegness are painted in the purple livery, the brand is far from dead. Meanwhile, purple B7TLs are having the IC branding removed but staying in the purple livery - it does seem a little confusing!
16.3.20
The surplus InterConnect MMCs stray onto other Gainsborough routes on a daily basis, and sometimes one gets onto the 107 board which runs onto the 573 school route in Lincoln. Here, 10899 is doing just that, heading away from Lincoln city centre over Pelham Bridge to the south on 28.4.23
Much duller than a couple of days prior. Weather was pretty grim, too...
As one of the showpiece main rooms of Billilla mansion when male guests came to call, the billiard room is one of the grandest rooms in the house. With an interconnecting door between it and the adjoining dining room, whilst the women retired to the feminine surrounds of the drawing room, the men could retreat to this strictly male preserve with their brandy and cigars and discuss business over a game or two of billiards.
Although part of the original 1878 house and featuring some High Victorian detailing, the billiard room did not escape the 1907 redecoration, and as a result it also features some very fine Art Nouveau detailing.
The Billilla billiards room is also one of the most intact rooms in the whole house, as it still features its original and ornate Victorian carpet and the original walnut Alcock and Company billiard table and scoreboard.
A very masculine oriented room, the walls feature Victorian era dark wood dado panelling about a third of the way up the walls. Above that the walls are simply painted, and even to this day they still feature marks where chalked cues once rested. Original ornate Victorian gasoliers that could be swiveled into position still jut from the walls above the dado panelling. With their original fluted glass shades remaining in place, the gasoliers still have functioning taps to increase or decrease the gas supply.
The room is heated by a large fireplace featuring an insert of beautiful tube lined Art Nouveau peacock feathers, once again quietly underlining the fact that this is a man's room.
The Victorian era carpet of the billiard room is still bright and in remarkably good condition for its age. It is thick and dyed in bright colours in a pattern designed to imitate ornate floor tiles.
The ceiling of the billiard room is decorated with ornate stylised foliate Art Nouveau patterns and mouldings of leaves. Whilst Art Nouveau is often referred to as a feminine style, the ceiling of the billiard room shows how when applied in a particular way it could also be very strong and masculine.
Suspended over the walnut Alcock and Company billiard table the gleaming polished brass foliate style gasolier has subsequently been electrified and features five of its six green glass shades.
One of the few more feminine touches to what is otherwise a very masculine room are the stained glass lunettes over the billiard room's three windows. In keeping with other original windows of the house, they feature a single flower, in this case a red tulip.
Alcock and Company Manufacturers was established in 1853 when Melbourne was still a very new city of less than twenty years old. they still manufacture billiard tables from their Malvern establishment today.
Built in High Victorian style in 1878 for successful gold miner Robert Wright, Billilla mansion was originally a thirteen room mansion erected on seven and a half acres of land.
When economic boom turned to bust in the 1880s, the property was purchased in 1888 by wealthy New South Wales pastoralist William Weatherly who named it Billilla after his land holdings and established a home there for his wife Jeannie and their children Violet, Gladys and Lionel.
The house was substantially altered by architect Walter Richmond Butler in 1907, extending the house beyond its original thirteen rooms and adding the Art Nouveau façade seen today.
After William Weatherly's death in 1914, his wife, who was much younger, remained living there until her own death in 1933. She bequeathed the property to her daughter, Violet, who maintained the home with reduced staff until her own death in 1972.
The property was purchased in 1973 by the Bayside Council who subsequently used Billilla as a historical house with guided tours, a wedding and events venue, a school and finally in 2009 as an artist's precinct in the property's outbuildings. Billilla is a beautiful heritage property retaining many of its original features thanks to its long private ownership still incorporating a stately formal garden and the magnificent historic house.
Billilla, at 26 Halifax Street, Brighton, is one of Melbourne’s few remaining significant homesteads, built on land which had originally been owned by Nicholas Were. The house has a mixture of architectural styles, featuring a Victorian design with Art Nouveau features and has exquisite formal gardens, which retain much of their original Nineteenth Century layout.
Billilla retains many original Victorian elements and a number of outbuildings still stand to the rear of the property including the butler’s quarters, dairy, meat house, stable garden store and coach house.
Billilla was opened to the general public as part of the Melbourne Open House weekend 2022.
Billilla was used as a backdrop in the 1980 Australian Channel 10 miniseries adaptation of Sumner Locke Elliott's "Water Under the Bridge". It was used at the Sydney harbourside home of Luigi, Honor and Carrie Mazzini.
NK57DVX - 2007, Alexander Dennis Enviro 400.
New to Stagecoach North East 19194.
Stagecoach East Midlands (Scunthorpe) inter connect livery.
Stagecoach Lincolnshire 19197, a 2007 ADL Enviro 400, was seen in Skegness Town Centre, whilst operating a service 56 to Horncastle and Lincoln. New to Stagecoach North East.