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Buttermere is a lake in the Lake District in North West England. The adjacent village of Buttermere takes its name from the lake. Historically in Cumberland, the lake is now within the county of Cumbria. Owned by the National Trust, it forms part of its Buttermere and Ennerdale property.
The lake is 1.25 miles (2,010 m) long by 0.25 miles (400 m) wide, and is 75 feet (23 m) deep.[1] It has an elevation above sea level of 329 feet (100 m). It is situated towards the head of the valley of the River Cocker and is surrounded by fells, notably the High Stile range to the south west, Robinson to the north-east, Fleetwith Pike and Haystacks to the south-east and Grasmoor to the north-west.
The village of Buttermere stands at the north-western end of the lake, and beyond this is Crummock Water. There is a path around the lake which is about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) long, and at one point runs through a rock tunnel beneath the locality of Hassness. Access is by road, from Cockermouth in the north-west; from Borrowdale via the Honister Pass; or from Braithwaite and the Newlands Valley via Newlands Hause.
There are two possible origins for the name "Buttermere":
One, that Buttermere means "the lake by the dairy pastures" (from the Old English "butere mere"). Whaley suggests this as the correct interpretation: " 'butter lake, the lake with good pasture-land', from OE 'butere' 'butter', conveying the fertile nature of the flat alluvial land at both ends of the lake, plus 'mere' 'lake',..."[2]
Two, that it is the corrupt form of a personal name. Robert Ferguson asserts in his 1866 work, "The Northmen in Cumberland and Westmoreland" that Buttermere derives from the Old Norse personal name "Buthar", as in "Buthar's mere" (lake). This accords with local tradition, which says that the valley of Buttermere was part of the holdings of an 11th-century Norse chieftain called "Buthar" (sometimes spelt "Boethar"). Large numbers of Vikings settled in the Cumbrian area during the 9th and 10th centuries and many names in the area are of Norse origin: streams are termed 'becks', from the Old Norse bekkr; mountains are 'fells', from the Norse fjall; waterfalls are forces, from fos; ravines are 'gills'; valleys are 'dales', from dalr (ON); and small lakes are termed 'tarns', which derives from tjorn, meaning teardrop. Whaley suggests that the personal name interpretation is incorrect, but notes that the Victoria County History "deemed it 'not disputed that the family of the Scotic ruler, Bueth or Boet, held its own against the Norman intruder', with possession of the barony of Gillesland, for fifty years after the Norman Conquest.
From his hidden stronghold at Buttermere, it is said that Jarl Buthar conducted a campaign of running resistance against the Norman invaders, from the time of William the Conqueror's Harrying of the North in 1069 right up until the early 12th century. In 1072 King William set up a garrison at Carlisle, but the isolated garrison needed constant reinforcement and supplies. It is claimed that the Cumbrians fought a guerrilla war against the Normans for almost half a century, attacking supply wagons, ambushing patrols and inflicting great losses upon them in terms of money, material and men.
The extent to which Jarl Buthar is a semi-mythological figure is unclear. He is apparently mentioned in 12th-century Norman documents, but much of his story appears to be based on local legend and archaeology, later enhanced by Nicholas Size's popular dramatised history (see below).
Jarl Boethar's campaign and a final battle at Rannerdale (c.f. Ferguson, "Ragnar's dale") between the Normans and the Anglo-Scandinavian Cumbrians led by the Jarl is the subject of a dramatised history by Nicholas Size, called The Secret Valley: The Real Romance of Unconquered Lakeland, published in 1930.
Rosemary Sutcliff's YA novel Shield Ring, published in 1956, imagines the lives of Jarl Buthar and his band of Cumbrian rebels, and their last stand against the forces of a Norman army under the command of Ranulf le Meschin, Lord of Carlisle and later Earl of Chester, nearly 50 years after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. It was clearly inspired by Nicholas Size's history, which it closely follows.
Mary Robinson (1778–1837), known as the "Maid of Buttermere" and the subject of Melvyn Bragg's novel of that name, was the daughter of the landlord of the Fish Inn in Buttermere village.
"Why IS a raven like a writing desk?" asked adolescent Alice.
The ashen, addled American author avoided answering.
Quoth the raven: "Anymore!"
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Built in 1935. the Harold C. Foreman House, situated on the Pasquotank River in Elizabeth City (Pasquotank County), North Carolina, is a fine a fine example of the Tudor Revival style house in architecture. The most prominent feature is the garage with a steeply pitched roof, a front wing of the house; it is not a separate building but is an integral part of the home, perhaps indicating the social significance of the automobile. The house is asymmetrical, 1 1/2 stories tall with a main cross gable with a combination of windows--many of the dormers in pairs; a pair of Tudor diamond windows is on the garage, facing the street. Three large chimneys accent the roofline. Throughout is the use of skintled brick, that is bricks projected or recessed beyond the wall surface. It appears the skintling on this house consists of projecting bricks in an irregular placement. [ www.bricksalvage.com/blog/skintled-brick--a-style-from-th... ] The entrance, not especially visible, is small and covered with the characteristic steeply pitched roof. At the time of the nomination form, the roof had hexagonal shingles on the roof. That doesn't exist in these photos.
The house was designed by nationally known architect Stratton Hammon (1904-1997) of Louisville, Kentucky. It was erected by contractor William S. Chesson, Jr. for Harold C. Foreman, a lumberman who apparently preferred brick as the building material of his home. According to Zillow, the building has 2,444 square feet on a 3/4-acre lot; it has three bedrooms and 3 baths. It's a contributing structure in the Riverside Historic District of Elizabeth City, The district was entered on the National Register of Historic Places March 11, 1994 with reference ID 94000165. A pdf file of the nomination form is found at files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/PK0832.pdf
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So this is a 677 second single exposure, which is about 11 minutes. My reason for doing a single, long exposure as opposed to multiple 30 second shots and stacking was so I could capture the transition from dark night sky to dawn, and also have the glow of Kilauea be more pronounced. In a stacked set, the sky wouldn't have this vibrant blue color (nor the brighter sky along the horizon), and the glow wouldn't be as bright.
The downside to this approach is that it's very high risk. Basically, I had to guess on settings and stand around for 11 minutes for a shot that could be way overexposed or underexposed. You don't really get a chance at a mulligan, as there is such a small window when you can see the dawn sky AND the stars. In this case, I got lucky!
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I know what you’re thinking… it feels as though this image was animated…
So let me come clean and tell you exactly what I have done to
get these results…
1. I think his right eye was injured and perhaps this is why he was so timid…
it looked like it was damage… So I repaired it in CS Photoshop…
2. I used My LED Flashlight and painted this Yellow Jacket… Now this is
important… You can use your “Dodging Tool” to create highlights, some call this painting with light… BUT as you know, I paint with light using a LED Flashlight… As a matter of fact I have different color LED lights to paint with…
See “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star...” www.flickr.com/photos/66179962@N00/872862956/
This is the way I paint with light!
3. Remember what I said about saving you images in CMYK and downloading in this format… it does enhance colors…
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Pulau Pangkor is an island off the coast of Perak in north-west peninsular Malaysia, reached by ferry from Lumut (a small coastal town that links to Ipoh, or from Sitiawan). It has a land area of only 8 square kilometers, and a population of approximately 25,000 islanders. It is heavily promoted as a low-key tourist destination by the Malaysian government, but fishing and fish products remain major industries.
Historically, Pangkor was a refuge for local fishermen, merchants and pirates. In the 17th century, the Dutch built a fort in an effort to control the Perak tin trade. In 1874, it was the location of a historic treaty between a contender to the Perak throne and the British government (The Pangkor Treaty), which began the British colonial domination of the Malay Peninsula.
Pangkor is famous for its fine beaches and a mix of low budget to 5 star accommodations. Teluk Nipah and Coral Bay on the north west of the island is extremely popular with travellers from Europe. The quality of sand is far more superior in the Pasir Bogak Beach as compared to elsewhere on the island. The sand is golden brown, quite similar to most leading prime beaches.
Since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Indonesia, Thailand and to a lesser extent the West Coast of Malaysia in December 2004, there has been less local tourists visiting Pangkor.
In 2006, a biotechnology centre, a joint venture of Global Hi-Q Malaysia S/B and Hi-Q Bio-Tech International (Taiwan) Ltd has began operations with initial investments of RM100million (USD30m). Their operations include fish farming, aquaculture and the first harvest is expected in 2009.
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Isola di Sant'Antioco - Sud Sardegna
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Stanford....Is University....Universally Known As A Prestigious Temple For Learning....
"S" Is The Logo, stands for 'STUDY., ' STATUS'....."D"....stands for DREAM,,,,,DESTINY,,,,DESIGN,,,,
Romance at the Italian Riviera. The love couple standing on a tower which was used for a big wheel-mounted cannon during WW-II. "Make love not war." Dedicated to my Personal Italian Travel Advisor: Angela Lobefaro. Thank you for the travel tips :)
Photo taken from the Bunker (Le Batterie) e ritorno during our walk from San Rocco to San Fruttuoso. The remains of German anti-aircraft gun emplacements.
Romantisch zoenen op een plek waar tijdens de 2de wereldoorlog een groot kanon stond. Je kan de draaicircel aan linkerzijde nog duidelijk zien. "Make love not war" een slogan die gericht is tegen oorlog in het algemeen.
It is days about which we think that it had been better not to have got up of the bed. It dawns raining, the cloggings are endless, you come running to all sites, you forget the mobile in the car, do not find the keys … does it you sound? This very day we have lived through someone of these situations BUT, we us have not come below and why? Because ONLY we have to throw a glimpse to ours around and to agree us of the philosophy that we like to continue … to focus not in the "difficulties" but in the "solutions" and first of all not to lose the positive attitude. Sometimes the " law of Murphy " us slope does it arrives but … what is not said!
(Hay días en los que pensamos que hubiera sido mejor no habernos levantado de la cama. Amanece lloviendo, los atascos son interminables, llegas corriendo a todos sitios, te olvidas el móvil en el coche, no encuentras las llaves… ¿os suena? Hoy mismo hemos vivido alguna de estas situaciones PERO, no nos hemos venido abajo y ¿por qué? Porque SÓLO tenemos que echarle un vistazo a nuestro alrededor y acordarnos de la filosofía que nos gusta seguir…enfocarnos no en las “dificultades” sino en las “soluciones” y ante todo no perder la actitud positiva. A veces la “ley de Murphy” nos lo hace cuesta arriba pero…¡qué no se diga!)
Leila Gabandé.
Staindrop is a village and civil parish in County Durham, England. It is situated approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) north east of Barnard Castle, on the A688 road. According to the 2011 UK Census the population was 1,310, this includes the hamlets of Cleatlam and Killerby.
Around the year 1018, King Canute gave the manors of Raby and Staindrop to Durham Priory. In 1131 Prior Algar granted the manor to an Anglo-Saxon named Dolfin "son of Uhtred", the earliest recorded direct male ancestor of the great Neville family which built as their seat Raby Castle in the north part of the manor. The grant was possibly merely a confirmation of the holding by this family from before the Norman Conquest of 1066. When doing homage to the Prior for his holding he reserved his homage to the kings of England and of Scotland and to the Bishop of Durham and was "no doubt a man of consequence", probably an aristocratic Northumbrian of high birth. In February 1203-4 King John confirmed to the prior and convent all their privileges and vast possessions, including "Staindrop and Staindropshire with the church".
The village has two schools, Staindrop Church of England Primary School with approximately to 170 pupils aged 3–11, and Staindrop Academy, a coeducational secondary school with over 500 pupils aged 11–16, which also houses a community gym, opened in 2020.[
The last remaining public house, The Wheatsheaf is a former coaching inn, former pubs include The Black Swan, and The Royal Oak. Other amenities in the village include a SPAR convenience store, a newsagent housing the local post office, tea rooms, hairdressers and several holiday cottages.
The Staindrop Carnival, an annual parade and fair, celebrated its centenary in 2020.[22] The village football team, Staindrop F.C. play in the Darlington Sunday invitation league, an affiliate of the Durham County Football Association in 2020-2021 they completed a famous double by winning the Alan Rusk trophy as well as the league cup. Raby Castle Cricket Club play in the Darlington & District Cricket League A, having remained unbeaten and winning the league title in the 2019 season
This is our beautiful :) They are as different as their colors :) But each in his favorite :) I decided to do some winter pictures for the memory with them :)
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This is taken at Burton Green, a small village near Coventry which is about to be devastated by HS2.
The wall is a bridge abutment from an occupation bridge over the long closed Kenilworth Junction to Berkswell Railway. This old railway is now a cycle path and footpath, or it was. Ahead of the distant walkers the route is blocked for "enabling works" and to make sure nobody dares walk onward a man in full hi-vis suit hard hat and walkie-talkie is sitting on a chair behind a protective 2 metre high fence. Walkers and cyclists then leave the flat well surfaced path for a long rough detour up the hill side to arrive on the road where they can marvel at a row of newish houses awaiting demolition. What will the locals gain from HS2? s*d all.
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66787 is on hire to Victa Railfreight for shunting duties at Dove Holes Quarry to cover for problems with 37716 as it stands with a rake of DB liveried MMA wagons while behind 66766 has arrived with the 4M11 0930 Washwood Heath- Peak Forest empties while in the background 66789 can just be seen between the trees on 25th Sept 18
The ring ouzel is a mainly European member of the thrush family Turdidae. It is a medium-sized thrush, 23–24 centimetres in length and weighing 90–138 grams. The male is predominantly black with a conspicuous white crescent across its breast. Females are browner and duller than males, and young birds may lack the pale chest markings altogether. In all but the northernmost part of its range, this is a high-altitude species, with three races breeding in mountains from Ireland east to Iran. It breeds in open mountain areas with some trees or shrubs, the latter often including heather, conifers, beech, hairy alpenrose or juniper. It is a migratory bird, leaving the breeding areas to winter in southern Europe, North Africa and Turkey, typically in mountains with juniper bushes. The typical clutch is 3–6 brown-flecked pale blue or greenish-blue eggs. They are incubated almost entirely by the female, with hatching normally occurring after 13 days. The altricial, downy chicks fledge in another 14 days and are dependent on their parents for about 12 days after fledging.
This rose is so beautiful, but I tell ya, it has such a wide variety of colors in it, it's difficult to say just what color it is! Would you like to hazard a guess?! lol It's crazy! Hope you enjoy it though!
Rose Garden
Point Defiance Park
Tacoma, Washington
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As Coco said “take one thing off before you leave the house” or words to that effect, lol. Anyhow, that’s how I’m feeling about my makeup. It’s not practical to take something off so I’m starting with less. Wish me luck! Lol
Seen in Slough in May 2018 is First Berkshire Mercedes-Benz Citaro O530 B40F 64032 LK07CCE heading for Britwell on service 1.
Here is my quilt from the Simply Solids: a modern {bee}. I love it so much! Thanks to the lovely ladies in the Carmine group who made some of the blocks for me. The back is improv piecing....imagine! me doing improv!
There is a certain beauty to be found in places where human endevour literally meets the natural world. These pioneer locations right on the edge of the boreal forest in Southern Yukon offer a sense of just how reliant and connected we are with the natural world.
Photo taken with the Canon EOS R and RF24-105mm f/4.0L hand held. All raw converion was completed in DxO PhotoLab 6.0.1 with additional post processing and B&W treatment completed in Nik Silver Efex Pro 3 using one of my own unique presets.
This is the first of Maria's epiphyllum plants to bloom this year. It still boggles my mind that a flower that looks like this comes from a plant that for most of the year is an unimpressive looking cactus leaf.
I photographed this using a YN560-III in a 24 inch softbox at camera left at 8 o'clock. Fill light came from a small mirror at camera right. The flash, in manual mode, was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Over the years, I've taken quite a few "Epi" pictures, and they're in my Epiphyllum Flowers album, if you like that sort of thing.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157680754580643
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. In the description for that set, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash. www.flickr.com/photos/9422
This is super crazy_ the first known tracks of life on land ~515 million years ago in the Cambrian era. Look closely at this busy slab to see quite a number of trackways from two (2) (!!) kinds of trace fossils. Models of the animals are at the top of the slab.
Found in 1983 in a quarry north of Kingston Ontario, were two different species of hand-sized to foot-long creatures crawling around in numbers and making visible tracks on wet parts of windblown sandy beach. Left is Climatichnites, the trackway left by a large sluglike animal and right is Protichnites, the trace fossil for a 16-legged arthropod. Makes you wonder what these critters were grazing on.
And these are large, well-developed and highly-evolved animals with chronological room for even earlier creatures perambulating ashore.
Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Museum is geotagged.
Allow me to promote the latest global geocience offering, a very informative and photogenic coffee-table book published by Nimbus.
Four Billion Years and Counting, Canada's Geological History
(which has a bit of the back story for this find)
A second interesting trace fossil read is
_ Dinosaurs Without Bones, Dinosaur Lives Revealed by their Trace Fossils _ by Anthony J. Martin (2014)
This is an uncropped version of an earlier post. I originally thought it was too "busy" and was trying to call more attention to the sculpture of the Thinker, quietly unperturbed by the motley crowd, so I cropped it. Now, I'm liking this version better.
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Elton Hall is an extensive, mostly Gothic castle complete with towers and turrets, and home to the Proby family since 1660. Thomas Proby acquired the site of the Hall and built a fine Restoration house between 1665-8, which incorporated the medieval chapel and gatehouse of the original manor house. He married a local heiress, Frances Cotton, which enabled him to build this ambitious new home, and was created a baronet in 1662. In the 18th century it was made yet more Gothic and then further additions were made in the 1850s.
The gardens were the work of Meredyth Proby, based on a design made in 1911 by A.H. Hallam Murray and then redesigned in recent years. There is some fine topiary, deep borders and an impressive modern water feature - all of which would have been so much better in the sunshine…
Da una mia foto, che potete vedere nei commenti, alla creazione digitale, con Bing Image Creator. In questo caso lo stile suggerito è quello di Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Nei canili ci sono tanti cani che vi aspettano: adottate, non comprate.
From a photo of me, which you can see in the comments, to digital creation, with Bing Image Creator. In this case the suggested style is that of the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat.
In the kennels there are many dogs waiting for you: adopt, don't buy.
This is my first encouter with this tern and a delight it was to see with a small breeding colony present on these lagoons. Unfortunately they rarely came close enough for decent shots. Laguna de Fuente de Piedra, Málaga Province, Andalucía, Spain. 2017-07-03.
This is part of a larger series of floral portraits. If interested, more of this series can be found at my website. I also have a Facebook page for the series, here: www.facebook.com/BuckChristensenFloralPortraits
Hohenzollern Castle is the ancestral seat of the imperial House of Hohenzollern near Hechingen, in the Southwest of Germany.
The first fortress on the mountain was constructed in the early 11th century. Over the years the House of Hohenzollern split several times, but the castle remained in the Swabian branch, the dynastic seniors of the Franconian-Brandenburgian cadet branch that later acquired its own imperial throne. This castle was completely destroyed in 1423 after a ten-month siege by the free imperial cities of Swabia. A larger and sturdier structure was constructed from 1454 to 1461, which served as a refuge for the Catholic Swabian Hohenzollerns, including during the Thirty Years' War. By the end of the 18th century it was thought to have lost its strategic importance and gradually fell into disrepair, leading to the demolition of several dilapidated buildings.
The final castle was built between 1846 and 1867 as a family memorial by Hohenzollern King Frederick William IV of Prussia. Architect Friedrich August Stüler based his design on English Gothic Revival architecture and the Châteaux of the Loire Valley.
Among the historical artifacts of Prussian history contained in the castle are the Crown of Wilhelm II, some of the personal effects of King Frederick the Great, and a letter from US President George Washington thanking Hohenzollern descendant Baron von Steuben for his service in the American Revolutionary War.
maybe the last one this year?
LESS IS MORE is the topic for Tuesday 11th October 2016 Group Our Daily Challenge
Battle of Princeton 249th anniversary living history/reenactment.
"British Regulars is a term commonly used to describe the Napoleonic-era British foot soldiers who were known for their distinct red uniform and well-disciplined combat performance. These soldiers were members of the regular army, as compared to irregular military such as private armies or mercenaries.
Known famously in British folklore as the "Red Coats", the hardened soldiers were the backbone of the British Army in the 18th and the 19th centuries. There is no universally accepted explanation as to why the British wore red.
The classical British Regulars were most famous for their actions at the Battle of Culloden (1746), the Seven Years' War (1756–1763), the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), the Peninsular War (1808–1815), the War of 1812 (1812–1815) and the Waterloo campaign (1815). During the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815), the British Regulars were a well-disciplined group of foot soldiers with years of combat experience, including in the Americas, the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and the War of 1812.
Most of the British Regulars were between the ages of 18 and 29, and over 60% were 5 feet 4 inches (1.63 m) to 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 m) tall. At the time, the British government did not allow enlisted men to be older than 45.
Although typically under English command, many of the enlisted Regulars were either Scottish or Irish. A small number of Regulars were from Prussia and other states of the German Confederation. From those multiple origins also came the two different schools of thought: the American and the German. The American school focused on open-formation light infantry tactics, which were well suited for areas of rough terrain, and dense forested areas, which were best suited against enemies that had no cavalry or artillery. It also favoured infantry ranks of two deep and the use of light infantry with rifles. The German school focused on disciplined close-drill order, which was well suited for the vast European Plain. That approach was preferred in large battlefields if the enemy had large numbers of cavalry and artillery. It favoured infantry ranks of three deep and the use of smoothbore muskets.
In April 1775, during Paul Revere's midnight ride, Revere's warning, according to eyewitness accounts of the ride and Revere's own descriptions, was "The Regulars are coming out!", in reference to the British Regulars.
After 1855, starting in India and gradually extending to other colonial outposts, the scarlet uniforms were often replaced with khaki on campaign for the tactical reason of camouflage. However, it was not until 1902, with the introduction of a universal khaki service dress, that scarlet was officially abandoned as the campaign dress for European operations." (Wikipedia)
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More is less.
The pawn is a valuable piece in the game of chess. Despite their lack of strength there are more of them so More is Less
"Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine..."
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The mighty IS-3 tank at The Tank Museum's Tankfest even in Bovington.
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Semaphore Beach, Adelaide, Australia
Monday 13th April 2009
For Monday Blues, here's another photo from our Adelaide trip [even though I'm back in Perth and so is my mind].
I'm sorry to post and run - I feel really tired. I'll be around to visit tomorrow. Until then, Happy Monday everyone! HMB!!
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a helicopter? Surely it isn't Superman!
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The S100 is a side tank designed by Col. Howard G. Hill.
In 1942, the USATC ordered 382 S100s from Davenport Locomotive Works of Iowa, H. K. Porter, Inc, of Pittsburgh and Vulcan Iron Works of Wilkes-Barre. They were shipped to the British War Department in 1943. They were stored in Britain until 1944. After D-Day, most went overseas but some remained in store.
After the war, The Southern Railway bought 15 S100's (14 for operational use and one for spare parts) and designated them USA Class. They were purchased and adapted to replace the LSWR B4 class then working in Southampton Docks. SR staff nicknamed them "Yank Tanks".
For fifteen years the entire class was used for shunting and carriage and van heating in Southampton Docks. They performed well and were popular with the footplatemen, but the limited bunker capacity often necessitated the provision of relief engines for some of the longer duties. Two examples were fitted with extended bunkers to address this problem in 1959 and 1960, but a more ambitious plan to extend the frames and build larger bunkers was abandoned in 1960 due to the imminent dieselization of the docks. They also often suffered from overheated axleboxes which was less of a problem when shunting but prevented them from being used on longer journeys.
A more serious issue was the condition of the steel fireboxes originally fitted to the class which rusted and fatigued quickly. This was partly due to their construction under conditions of austerity, and the hard water present in the docks. This came to a head in 1951 when several had to be laid aside until new fireboxes could be constructed. Thereafter there were no further problems.
During the mid 1960s six examples were officially transferred to ‘departmental’ duties and renumbered. These went to Redbridge Sleeper Depot (DS233), Meldon Quarry (DS234), Lancing Carriage Works (DS235 and DS236), and Ashford wagon works (DS237 and DS238; where they were named Maunsell and Wainwright).
Nine examples remained in service until March 1967[24] and five of these survived until the end of steam on the Southern Region four months later. Two of these engines, 30065/DS237 and 30070/DS238, were sold to Woodham Brothers in South Wales in March 1968. However, before they could make their journey, their bearings ran hot and were declared "unfit for travel" which led to the two tank engines being dumped at Tonbridge. Five months later, they were taken to Rolvenden when they were purchased for preservation on the Kent and East Sussex Railway.
At the moment, both locomotives are o.o.s. with no date known for return to traffic, ironically, it is the condition of their fireboxes which gives concern.
Information above chiefly from Wikipedia. Photograph from a slide by Ray Gell.
Belton House is a magnificent country house near Grantham in Lincolnshire that has been described as one of the finest examples of an English country house in existence. It consists of a mansion within formal gardens that encompass avenues that lead to follies that are contained within a larger outer wooded area.
The Brownlow and Cust families were associated with the property for some 300 years since they first bought the land in the late 16th century. The Belton House mansion was built in 1685 – 1688 via the fortunes made from sheep farming and the law by the owners of the estate. Sir John Brownlow and his wife decided to have the property built in the Carolean (thus called due to the currently reigning monarch Charles II) style as opposed to the contemporary Baroque style and there has been some controversy as to who the design can be attributed to. Some claim that Sir Christopher Wren provided the design whereas others claim William Winde.
Keris is an asymmetrical dagger in Malay Archipelago culture, which is famous for its distinctive wavy blade (although many have straight blades as well). Its distinctive blade-patterning achieved through alternating laminations of iron and nickelous iron (pamor).
Shot 4 from 1st April shoot. This is not Mars...it is actually Acton near Newry. An inversion layer in the early morning light. I am not sure about the overhanging branch. Any comments? The early start was worth it just for this scene alone...breath taking. The valleys in this area seem to be prone to this inversion layer effect. Grass frost slow to lift as the sun rises.