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Creator: Unidentified.
Location: Mackay, Queensland.
Description: A South Sea Islander wedding party in the Mackay district, ca. 1890s. Includes bride, groom, groomsmen and bridesmaids.
View the original image at the State Library of Queensland: hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/89477.
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Britten-Norman Islander, G-HYUK. Shuttleworth 'Best of British' airshow, 17th June 2023, Old Warden, Bedfordshire, UK.
Britten-Norman Islander TR-LZK at the British Aerospace Hatfield open day on 5th July 1980.
Photo by John W. Read.
I was trawling through my back up drives and came across this, which is one my earliest digital images. Shot on a Minolta Dimage with 3mp sensor. All I have done is crop and sharpen.
It was shot at St Just - Land's Airfield and I am all but certain this a Britten Norman Twin Islasnder. My mate Phil will soon put me on the straight and narrow.
Taken during pleasure flight in Hebridean Air Services Britten Norman Islander BN-2B G-HEBO, Prestwick, Scotland 7th September 2014
G-BLDV A 1984 vintage Islander doing a touch and go on RWY34 on what was the warmest day of the year plus 26c but with quite a cross wind
ZH002 Providing the eyes and ears in the skys for the presidential visit along with the Police helicopters which were a airborne long before the VC-25 made an appearance
I decided to improve my original outrigger design (seen here: flickr.com/photos/chrispockster/2772732246/ ) and stick on a sail. I am pretty satisfied with the results, and I didn't have to cut technic tubes or string either.
Earliest civilian Colonists of San Antonio, this nucleus of pioneers from the Canary Islands formed the first organized civil government in Texas and founded the village of San Fernando De Bexar in 1731.
Following a sea and land voyage of over a year, these weary travelers arrived at the Presidio (Fort) of San Antonio early on March 9, 1731, totaling 56 persons, they had emigrated to Texas from Spanish Canary Islands near Africa, by order of King Philip V.
On July 2 they began to lay out a villa (village) choosing a site on the west side of the Plaza De Las Yslas (present Main Plaza) for the church and a site on the east side for the Casa Real (government building). On July 19 the captain of the Presidio, Juan Antonio De Almazan, read to the islanders the decree of the viceroy naming them and their descendants "Hijos-Dalgo"--persons of nobility.
The heads of the 16 families who settled in San Antonio were: Juan Leal Goraz, Juan Curbelo, Juan Leal, Antonio Santos, Jose Padron, Manuel De Nis, Vicente Alvarez Travieso, Salvador Rodriguez, Jose Leal, Juan Delgado, Jose Cabrera, Juan Rodriguez Granadillo, Francisco De Arocha, Antonio Rodriguez, Lorenzo and Martin De Armas, and Felipe and Jose Antonio Perez. (1971) (Marker No. 702)
Real photo postcard of the ferry boat The Islander navigating through a log jam. Back of postcard reads, "Wheeling Island, 1907."
According to "Wheeling Island: A Photographic History," by Robert Schramm, the steam-powered "Islander" replaced a previous river current-powered ferry boat, the "Lea-Board." Schramm writes in a brief history of ferry boat service to Wheeling Island:
"Beginning on May 2, 1830, the Zane brothers employed Mr. Walker Hunter to operate a "Horse Ferry" across the east channel. Two horses located in stalls on the port and starboard side of the ferry boat walked on treadmills which were connected to paddle wheels that drove the boat forward. This Horse Ferry was replaced by a "Lea-Board" ferry in 1832. This ingenious device used a cable stretched across the river to guide the boat, and system of boards or rudders which were placed at an angle to the current of the river. A vector component of the force of the current against these rudders propelled the craft back and forth across the river. About 1840, the Lea-Board ferry was replaced by a steam-engine powered ferry boat known as The Islander. . .
"The point of landing of the ferry boats on the Island side of the river was immediately in front of the residence of Daniel Zane (about at the extreme eastern end of Ohio Street today) and on the city side at the foot of Eleventh Street."
[Schramm, Robert W. Wheeling Island: A Photographic History. Wheeling, WV: Creative Impressions, 2006.]
- image from the postcard collection of the Ohio County Public Library Archives
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