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This book is on my wish list. I'm copying and pasting the contact information and details here, so it will be easy to find later.
208 pages, full color, over 400 pictures, full color, high quality offset- print. Not available through book stores.Printed December, 2004. Author will autograph it, if requested.
Barbieletter@t-online.de
I was given access to the factory in Dursley in November 2008 and took this selection, showing the various stages of the assembly of the renowned Lister Diesel engines.
i just got back from a trip to see my family in cincinnati and chicago (we also managed to spend three days in ann arbor, michigan -- nice town!). lots of new photos to come soon! :)
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03/06/2010 - The Daily Shoot
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Lists guide an eye in a linear way: menus, recipes, etc. As you're out and about today, find a list and make a photo.
My Mother-in-law's grocery list.
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St Andrew's Church, Church Lane, Chew Stoke, Briston BS40 8TU (Bath and North East Somerset)
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
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Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1129632
Date first listed: 21-Sep-1960
District: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish: Chew Stoke
Diocese of Bath and Wells
National Grid Reference: ST 55682 61952
Details
Parish church. C15, extensive restoration of 1862. Coursed squared sandstone and limestone rubble, C19 work in snecked rubble, limestone dressings and ashlar parapets, lead roofs with raised coped verges and cross finials, missing to east. West tower, nave, north aisle and chapel, south aisle and chapel, south porch, chancel. Perpendicular style. 3-stage tower has pointed arched west door, hood mould with mask stops, large 3-light window above with continuous hood mould, 2nd stage has smaller 2-light window with hood mould at all sides, 3rd stage has 2-light bell-openings with Somerset tracery to all sides, to south a small ogee- headed hollow-chamfered window; plinth, weathered diagonal buttresses, moulded string courses, octagonal stair turret with lancets to south-east, top string course with gargoyles, embattled panelled parapet, central image niche with image to each side, crocketed pinnacles at corners, ribbed spirelet with similar parapet and pinnacles over stair turret. 4-bay north aisle has 2-light windows to north and one 3-light to west with hood moulds, weathered diagonal buttresses, plinth, cornice with masks and gargoyles and embattled parapet; north chapel has 3-light north window with flat head and hood mould, small door and lancet, steps to cellar, 3-light east window, buttresses, cornice and embattled parapet. 3-bay south aisle has 2-light west window, two 3-light south windows, to right with transom and lower lights with 4-centred arched heads, cornice, parapet and buttresses as to north; centre bay has porch, pointed arched door with jamb shafts, diagonal weathered buttresses, cornice and gargoyles, C19 pierced stone traceried parapet, C20 double doors. South chapel has 4-light south window with hood mould and flat head, tracery as on south aisle window, cornice, gargoyles and embattled parapet, 3-light east window with hood mould and mask stops. Chancel has 3-light east window, section of cornice and gargoyles to each side, rain water chutes, buttress to each side and finial to gable. Interior: tower has tierceron vault with large circle in middle, mask bosses, one said to be a woman with rabbit's ears, tower arch with 2 broad wave-mouldings. Nave has 4-bay south arcade cut through former wall, with pointed chamfered arches, 4-bay north arcade has piers with 4 shafts and hollow moulding between, pointed arches, angel to each side at springers and spandrels of arches; 4-bay arched-brace and collar roof, one row of purlins, brattished wall-plates, angel corbels and along wall-plates; 156 angels in all. North and south aisles have 4-bay roof as nave; pointed arch from each aisle and nave to chancel and chapels, south aisle has small 4-centred arched door with heavy fillet to tower. South chapel has 5-bay ceiled roof with moulded ribs, wide pointed north arch to chancel; north chapel has 2-bay roof with principal rafters, collar, one row of purlins, brattished wall-plate, 2 pointed arches to chancel as in north arcade. Chancel has 2-bay roof as nave, with leaf bosses on arched-brace, piscina to south, C19 stone and marble reredos. Porch has common rafter and collar roof, C19 pointed arched double doors, inset carved woman with anchor to left, removed from Whalley Court. Fittings: C19 pews with poppy-head bench ends in nave and aisles; C19 stone Perpendicular pulpit in nave; C19 stone and polished stone font on stem in south aisle; eagle lectern in nave incorporating large crystal fragment; C19 carved wooden chest (used as altar) in south chapel; Royal Arms over west door; 4 hatchments and stone tablet in tower recording gifts to parish and subscriptions for charity school. Marble tablet in south aisle to John Gray, 1851, by Tyley of Bristol; marble tablet with urn in north chapel, C18, inscription illegible. (Sources: Pevsner, N. : Buildings of England : North Somerset and Bristol. 1958).
© Historic England 2020
Official list entry
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1097088
Date first listed: 23-Aug-1955
Statutory Address : CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET
Location
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET KINGSTEIGNTON TQ12 3BQ
County: Devon
District: Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish: Kingsteignton
National Grid Reference: SX 87174 72856
Phone: 01626 355127
Details
Parish church. C15, thoroughly restored in 1865 (Pevsner). Local grey limestone rubble tower and 3 westernmost bays of the south aisle; porch snecked local grey limestone, the rest red sandstone ashlar, probably C19. Freestone and granite dressings, slate roofs. The surviving medieval fabric (west tower and arcades), is C15 Perpendicular. The church appears to have been thoroughly rebuilt in 1865, including the external walling, and re-roofed. Plan of nave, chancel, north and south 5-bay aisles, west tower, south west porch, north east vestry. Chancel with set back buttresses with set-offs, some white stone dressings. 5-light C19 Perpendicular style east window with a hoodmould; chamfered priest's doorway with a rounded arch. Separately-roofed gabled north-east vestry with a C19 3-light Perpendicular style east window with a hoodmould. Some evidence of rebuilding on the east wall round the window, blocked opening on north side. Red sandstone north aisle with 3 buttresses and a rectangular rood loft stair turret with a lean-to stone roof. Four 4-light C19 Perpendicular windows with hoodmoulds; chamfered doorway with a rounded arch in the first bay from the west, 3-light C19 Perpendicular west window with hoodmould; brick chimney shaft on north west corner of the aisle. The 2 easternmost bays of the south aisle are red sandstone ashlar with some white stones, the 3 westernmost bays and the plinth throughout are local grey limestone rubble; set back buttresses. The 3-light east window and two 4-light eastern windows on the south side are C19 Perpendicular with heavily cusped tracery, the other aisle windows are more conventional C19 Perpendicular. The remnants of a door jamb are visible between the first and second bays from the east, west of this there is a string course. Snecked local grey limestone porch with a coped gable and rounded moulded outer doorway with a hoodmould. The inner face of the doorway has C19 cable moulding of uncertain date, C19 roof. Good circa C16 2 plank studded inner door in a doorway with a cranked head, the jambs and arch richly carved with vine foliage and the carving of the right hand jamb includes a hand. 3-stage battlemented west tower with corner pinnacles and set back buttresses, the grey limestone rubble is varied with some blocks of red sandstone. Internal north west stair turret with slit windows. The west face has an arched granite west doorway with an unusual moulding profile and an unusual uncusped 4-light granite west window with uncusped head tracery. The window, in a freestone architrave, may be an C18 replacement. Chamfered bellringers' opening on east face; 2-light chamfered belfry openings on all sides, clock on north face. Interior 5-bay C15 Beerstone arcades with rounded arches and piers with corner shafts. No chancel arch; ceiled waggon roofs to the aisles without bosses appear to be C19, similar chancel roof with bosses. Nave roof C19 unceiled waggon with bosses and a brattished wall plate. Plain rounded tower arch springing from plain imposts with secondary piers abutting the arch at the east. The chancel has a C19 crested stone reredos with a central cross carved in relief and local marble shafts on either side. the reredos is extended to north and south as panels carved with the symbols of the evangelists above a dado of local marble. C19 aumbry chancel furnishings C20. C19 pulpit, comtemporary with the reredos, open-fronted with 4 local marble octagonal shafts with good carved capitals. C15 octagonal font, the bowl carved with quatrefoils, the stem with flamboyant blind tracery. Sections of the wainscot of the C15 road screen survive with paintings of saints. The chancel has some good ledger stones used as floor slabs including one commemorating the Reverend Richard Adlam, died 1670 with a remarkable verse addressed to death: "Damn'd tyrant! Cant prophaner blood suffice?/ Must priests that offer be the sacrifice?/ Go tell the Genii that in Hades lie/ They triumph o'er this secret Calvary/ Till some just Nemesis avenge our Cause/and teach this hell-priest to revere good lawes"/. Wall monument on south wall commemorating Richard Carpenter, died 1697; a black marble inscription tablet with white marble pilasters, a broken pediment and urn above and armorial bearings below. Wall monument to Christopher Beeke, died 1798 on the north wall with a marble obelisk with an urn in relief and inscription panel below. The south wall of the south aisle has 2 white marble wall monuments signed "Nixon and Son" commemorating Samuel Whiteway, died 1837, and Samuel Whiteway, died 1847; 2 C17 wall monuments commemorating James Clifford of Ware, died 1685 and Thomas Hele of Babcombe. The north wall has 3 gabled Gothic Revival monuments: one commemorating the Reverend Nicholas Watts, died 1849, signed A. Mather, Gt. Marlborough St., London; the remaining 2 are a pair on either side of the north door, commemorating Lucinda Widborne, died 1855 and Charlotte Watts, died 1874. East window and east window of south aisle by the Hardman Company, easternmost window of south side by Drake of Exeter. Part of the early C16 rood screen was removed to the Chantry (formerly the vicarage) in the circa 1820s and is still there.
© Historic England 2022
I was given access to the factory in Dursley in November 2008 and took this selection, showing the various stages of the assembly of the renowned Lister Diesel engines.
Into Sandwich before then for a wander and drop off the orchid picture for framing.
Its been a while since we were in the town, and lots to see and snap.
A good two hours spent wandering around, randomly snapping.
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Sandwich is a historic town and civil parish in the Dover District of Kent, south-east England. It lies on the River Stour and has a population of 4,985.[1] Sandwich was one of the Cinque Ports and still has many original medieval buildings, including several listed public houses and gates in the old town walls, churches, almshouses and the White Mill. While once a major port, it is now two miles from the sea due to the disappearance of the Wantsum Channel. Its historic centre has been preserved.[2] Sandwich Bay is home to nature reserves and two world-class golf courses, Royal St George's and Prince's. The town is also home to many educational and cultural events. Sandwich also gave its name to the food by way of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, and the word sandwich is now found in several languages.
Before Sandwich became a Cinque Port, the ancient Saxon town of Stonar on the bank of the Wantsum estuary, but on the opposite side of the mouth of the River Stour, was already well established. It remained a place of considerable importance but it disappeared almost without trace in the 14th century. The ruins of the major Roman fort of Richborough are close by. It was the landing place of the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 43.[4] In 2008, an archaeological dig proved that this was a defensive site of a Roman beachhead, protecting 700 metres of coast.[5]
In 1028 King Canute (c. 995–1035) granted a charter to the monks of Christ Church, Canterbury, to operate a ferry across the river and collect tolls. In 1192, returning from the Third Crusade, Richard the Lionheart was jailed by the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI. Henry released Richard in February 1194. On 13 March 1194, Richard landed at the port of Sandwich and came back to England.[6] On 21 May 1216, Prince Louis of France landed at Sandwich in support of the First Barons' War against King John.[7][failed verification] The Battle of Sandwich occurred just off the coast in 1217.
The Port of Sandwich is no stranger to odd events in English history. It was here that the first captive elephant was landed in England by the emperor Claudius.[8] Later another elephant was landed here, in 1255. The prize beast arrived at Sandwich quayside, delivered as a gift to the English monarch Henry III from the French king, and was then taken on foot to the king's menagerie in the Tower of London. The journey through Kent is reported to have proceeded without incident, except when a bull in a field by the roadside took umbrage at the great beast passing and attacked it. In one move, the animal was thrown by the elephant and killed outright.
The Guildhall, in the town square, was built in 1579. Work in 1812 encased the building in yellow brick, this was removed 100 years later in 1912, when the south-west wing was also added. Further alterations were undertaken later in the 20th century. It contains antique panelling and paintings, particularly within the council chamber. It is a Grade II* listed building.[33] It includes a stained glass window in the courtroom, showing Queen Elizabeth I arriving at Sandown Gate in 1573, which was added in 1906.[34] The courtroom is still used regularly for civic functions, such as 'Mayor-making', and available to hire as a wedding venue.[35][36]
The Admiral Owen is a pub in a two-storey, 15th century timber-framed building. It was refronted in the 18th century, but this work preserved the overhang of its first floor on a Bressummer and massive corner post with three brackets.[37] The nearby Crispin Inn was originally called the Crispin and Crispianus. It has similar timber framing and was built in the 16th century.[38] Across the road on the quay is the Bell Hotel, which underwent major rebuilding in the 18th and 19th centuries. There has been a Bell Inn on the quay since the 14th century.[39]
The three pubs cluster around The Barbican which was built in the late 14th century. It consists of 2 round towers, with chequered work of stone and flints. A narrow road passes between the towers with a semi-circular timber barrel roof over it. A small 2-storeyed 20th-century house built on to north side of the north west tower was occupied by the toll collector for the bridge.[40] The Sandwich Toll Bridge was built in 1773 of Portland stone with a Dutch type timber raised platform which was replaced in 1892 with an iron swing bridge.
For some time now Mr Fox has suspected the worst... something so awful he hoped it couldn't be true....but today came the proof.
Santa's gone senile! The annual Naughty List was published and Mrs PB's name was on it. It's a well known secret that polar bears don't go on the naughty list. They are not the kind of bear you want to tell they're not getting a Christmas present!
However, if this wasn't enough, even more compelling evidence that Father Christmas had gone doo-lally came when they read the rest of the list;
Mr Shaun
Seamus (and not Shortbread)
Miss Lemuriana
Teddy
The Land of the Couch
Mrs Aaberg
Mr Jube
Mr Theodore
Mr Flt. Lt. Bear
Mrs Emily
Big Momma
Miss Hatts
Miss Doko
Uncle Jago
None will be getting presents.
It was all a bit too much for Mrs PB; whose shrieks in disgust could be heard resonating.
While consoling his distraught, and now rather angry polar bear, you could tell Mr Fox was already hatching a plan...
The question is - will he be able to save Christmas!
Their first three full-length albums are examples of the death/doom style, although the latter two incorporated some melodic and gothic elements. However, with the release of the albums Icon (1993) and Draconian Times (1995), Paradise Lost also became known as pioneers of the gothic metal subgenre. In accordance with the change in musical approach, vocalist Nick Holmes changed his singing style. He used a death grunt on the band's first three albums, but on Icon refined his voice to have a cleaner tone. Later (circa 1997), the band began experimenting with electronic styles but after four albums reverted again to gothic metal.
Their line-up has remained stable for such a long-standing heavy metal band, consisting of singer Nick Holmes, guitarists Greg Mackintosh and Aaron Aedy, and bassist Steve Edmondson. Holmes and Mackintosh are the principal composers, with almost all of the band's songs credited to them. During the years, the band has only changed drummers, with original member Matthew Archer replaced in 1994 by ex-Marshall Law drummer Lee Morris In March 2004, Morris left the band. Jeff Singer took Morris' place and has played on all subsequent releases, though he was not listed as a permanent band member until the release of the single "The Enemy" in 2007. In a recent video interview, Mackintosh and Holmes revealed that Singer had already auditioned for the band when Archer left, but they chose Morris instead because "[Singer] had a pink drumkit"
Herrmann, Ralf (Ed.), TypoJournal, Issue 2. Jena: Typografie.info (2010).
The second issue of TypoJournal is set in Malabar. Headlines and arrows are from Ralf Herrmann's Wayfinding Sans Pro. Franziska Jähnke and Ralf Herrmann designed the issue.
Digital printing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUmRhwNGzS8
Christmas Special: The Naughty List with Derpy Hooves & Snowcatcher
Derpy discovers she is on Santa’s naughty list! A normal pony would clean up her act, but fortunately Derpy is definitely not normal. Such “slander” requires a chaotic trip to the North Pole.
The statue of Charles Pelham Villiers seen in West Park, Wolverhampton.
It looks quite deteriorated. Could do with a restoration. It is located in the middle of the two halves of the West Park Boating Lake.
It's a Grade II Listed statue.
Listing Text
WOLVERHAMPTON
SO90SW WEST PARK
895-1/5/362 Villiers Statue
03/02/77
GV II
Statue of Rt.Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers. 1878. By W.Theed
the younger. Ashlar. High plinth supports figure in C19 dress
and holding scroll, against draped stand. Inscription to
front:CHARLES PELHAM/ VILLIERS/P.C.,M.P./BORN 3RD JANUARY
1802,/DIED 16TH JANUARY 1898./ AGED 96 YEARS. Inscription to
rear records his political career; he was M.P. for
Wolverhampton for 63 years. The statue was moved from its
original position in Snow Hill in 1931. West Park was laid out
on the former Broad Meadows racecourse, 1879-80, by V.H.
Vertegans.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London:
1974-: P.326; Wolverhampton Borough Council: Report on West
Park: 1989-; Register of Parks and Gardens).
Listing NGR: SO9057199156
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
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The Bridge and Cascade.
Grade I listed.
Cascade I Bridge and cascade. Designed with a single arch by Robert Adam in 1761. Redesigned, with three arches in 1764. Executed 1770- 1771. Ashlar. The bridge has three round-arched spans with moulded hoodmoulds. Fluted roundels in the spandrels. Projecting piers with apsed niches and moulded sill band. The tops of the piers with swags. Fluted frieze and dentil cornice. Balustraded parapet the balusters divided into three units per span. Cast iron balusters. Steep road approaches with the end walls curving outwards and downwards. End piers. Rubblestone cascade to east.
Listing NGR: SK3126840716
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1335352
The Bridge by Robert Adam
Kedleston Hall is an English country house in Kedleston, Derbyshire, approximately four miles north-west of Derby, and is the seat of the Curzon family whose name originates in Notre-Dame-de-Courson in Normandy. Today it is a National Trust property.
The Curzon family have owned the estate at Kedleston since at least 1297 and have lived in a succession of manor houses near to or on the site of the present Kedleston Hall. The present house was commissioned by Sir Nathaniel Curzon (later 1st Baron Scarsdale) in 1759. The house was designed by the Palladian architects James Paine and Matthew Brettingham and was loosely based on an original plan by Andrea Palladio for the never-built Villa Mocenigo. At the time a relatively unknown architect, Robert Adam was designing some garden temples to enhance the landscape of the park; Curzon was so impressed with Adam's designs, that Adam was quickly put in charge of the construction of the new mansion.
World War II
In 1939, Kedleston Hall was offered by Richard Curzon, 2nd Viscount Scarsdale for use by the War Department.[1] Kedleston Hall provided various facilities during the period 1939–45 including its use as a mustering point and army training camp. It also formed one of the Y-stations used to gather Signals Intelligence via radio transmissions which, if encrypted, were subsequently passed to Bletchley Park for decryption.
National Trust
In the 1970s the estate was too expensive for the Curzon family to maintain. When Richard Nathaniel Curzon, 2nd Viscount Scarsdale died, his cousin Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale offered the estate to the nation in lieu of death duties. A deal was agreed with the National Trust that it should take over Kedleston while still allowing the family to live rent-free in the 23-room Family Wing, which contained an adjoining garden and two rent-free flats for servants or other family members.
External design
The design of the three-floored house is of three blocks linked by two segmentally curved corridors. The ground floor is rusticated, while the upper floors are of smooth-dressed stone. The central, largest block contains the state rooms and was intended for use only when there were important guests in the house. The East block was a self-contained country house in its own right, containing all the rooms for the family's private use, and the identical West block contained the kitchens and all other domestic rooms and staff accommodation. Plans for two more pavilions (as the two smaller blocks are known) of identical size, and similar appearance were not executed. These further wings were intended to contain, in the south east a music room, and south west a conservatory and chapel. Externally these latter pavilions would have differed from their northern counterparts by large glazed Serlian windows on the piano nobile of their southern facades. Here the blocks were to appear as of two floors only; a mezzanine was to have been disguised in the north of the music room block. The linking galleries here were also to contain larger windows, than on the north, and niches containing classical statuary.
If the great north front, approximately 107 metres in length, is Palladian in character, dominated by the massive, six-columned Corinthian portico, then the south front (illustrated right) is pure Robert Adam. It is divided into three distinct sets of bays; the central section is a four-columned, blind triumphal arch (based on the Arch of Constantine in Rome) containing one large, pedimented glass door reached from the rusticated ground floor by an external, curved double staircase. Above the door, at second-floor height, are stone garlands and medallions in relief. The four Corinthian columns are topped by classical statues. This whole centre section of the facade is crowned by a low dome visible only from a distance. Flanking the central section are two identical wings on three floors, each three windows wide, the windows of the first-floor piano nobile being the tallest. Adam's design for this facade contains huge "movement" and has a delicate almost fragile quality.
Gardens and grounds
The gardens and grounds, as they appear today, are largely the concept of Robert Adam. Adam was asked by Nathaniel Curzon in 1758 to "take in hand the deer park and pleasure grounds". The landscape gardener William Emes had begun work at Kedleston in 1756, and he continued in Curzon's employ until 1760; however, it was Adam who was the guiding influence. It was during this period that the former gardens designed by Charles Bridgeman were swept away in favour of a more natural-looking landscape. Bridgeman's canals and geometric ponds were metamorphosed into serpentine lakes.
Adam designed numerous temples and follies, many of which were never built. Those that were include the North lodge (which takes the form of a triumphal arch), the entrance lodges in the village, a bridge, cascade and the Fishing Room. The Fishing Room is one of the most noticeable of the park's buildings. In the neoclassical style it is sited on the edge of the upper lake and contains a plunge pool and boat house below. Some of Adam's unexecuted design for follies in the park rivalled in grandeur the house itself. A "View Tower" designed in 1760 – 84 feet high and 50 feet wide on five floors, surmounted by a saucer dome flanked by the smaller domes of flanking towers — would have been a small neoclassical palace itself. Adam planned to transform even mundane utilitarian buildings into architectural wonders. A design for a pheasant house (a platform to provide a vantage point for the game shooting) became a domed temple, the roofs of its classical porticos providing the necessary platforms; this plan too was never completed. Among the statuary in the grounds is a Medici lion sculpture carved by Joseph Wilton on a pedestal designed by Samuel Wyatt, from around 1760-1770.
In the 1770s, George Richardson designed the hexagonal summerhouse, and in 1800 the orangery. The Long Walk was laid out in 1760 and planted with flowering shrubs and ornamental trees. In 1763, it was reported that Lord Scarsdale had given his gardener a seed from rare and scarce Italian shrub, the "Rodo Dendrone".
The gardens and grounds today, over two hundred years later, remain mostly unaltered. Parts of the estate are designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest, primarily because of the "rich and diverse deadwood invertebrate fauna" inhabiting its ancient trees.
Beverley Railway Station
Beverley railway station serves the town of Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Hull to Scarborough Line and is operated by Northern who provide most passenger services from the station.
History and description
Beverley station was opened in October 1846 by the York and North Midland Railway leased Bridlington branch of the Hull and Selby Railway. The original station was designed by G.T. Andrews.
Beverley gained junction status nineteen years later in 1865 when the North Eastern Railway completed the Market Weighton to Beverley section of the York to Beverley Line.
The station was also planned to be the junction for the North Holderness Light Railway. This intended railway was given an Act in Parliament for 'transferring to the company the North Holderness Light Railway Company; and for other purposes, North Eastern Railway Bill [Lords].' The act was passed on 8 June 1899, but the NER never built the line.
The York to Beverley Line closed as a result of the Beeching Axe on 29 November 1965.[3] The station received listed building status in 1985.
The station has a staffed ticket office, which is open Mondays to Fridays from 07:00 until 17:00 and until 13:30 on Saturdays (closed Sundays). A ticket machine is also provided. There is a waiting room and cafe in the main building next to the ticket hall and a shelter on the opposite platform. Step-free access is available to both platforms, though the southbound one is reached via a manned barrier level crossing. Train running details are offered via digital display screens and timetable posters.
More info found here:-
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverley_railway_station
For more information on the history and photos see:-
This was taken on a colour film and developed in Ilfosol 3 (B&W developing fluid) for an hour.
lister park bradford
I was given access to the factory in Dursley in November 2008 and took this selection, showing the various stages of the assembly of the renowned Lister Diesel engines.
This year I write a short wish list. I bought a new EOS5D MKII - now I´m broke. So my last hope is the christ child.
My list began with:
- 100 Macro 1:28 IS USM
- Speedlite 580 EX II
-