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A quick snap of Pinky with some visiting pallets, including a chap from the building trade from the looks of things.
When i started snapping Pinky i intended it to be a regular weekly thing, being as that was where i had to go every weekend and i had a fair bit of time to wait before my stuff was ready. Now though, things have changed and this bit of the route is covered by someone else. I still have work to do nearby but whether i'll have time to pop in and visit depends on how the rest of the day goes. I'm hoping to keep up the series but the timing is likely to be a bit sporadic. Oh well, change has to be here i suppose...
"Kuehne+Nagel Volvo FM 460 coupled to a three axle fridge trailer waiting to deliver to the Sudbury branch of Waitrose parked on Sudbury lorry park
I guess if i had walked to the other side of the road the front of Eddie Stobarts Volvo Fh would have been green seen leaving the nestle Purina pet food factory at Sudbury with a three axle curtain sider
The skylight-covered loading dock at the James A. Farley Building will be a pedestrian walkway connecting 34th Street and 31st Street in the planned Moynihan Station.
The James A. Farley Building, New York City's General Post Office (Zip Code 10001), located at 421 Eighth Avenue and occupying eight acres across two full city blocks, consists of the old general post office building and its western annex. The Farley Post Office holds the distinction of being the only Post Office in New York City that is open to the public 24 hours/7 days a week.
The James A. Farley Building was constructed in two stages. The original monumental front half, boasting the longest giantr order Corinthian colonnade in the world, was built by William M. Kendall of McKim, Mead & White from 1908-1913 and opened for postal business as the Pennsylvania Terminal in 1914. The imposing design was meant to match in strength the colonnade of Pennsylvania Station that originally faced it across the avenue. An unbroken flight of steps the full length of the colonnade provides access, for the main floor devoted to customer services is above a functional basement level that rises out of a dry moat giving light and air to workspaces below. Each of the square end pavilions is capped with a low saucer dome, expressed on the exterior as a low stepped pyramid.
In July 1918, the building was renamed the General Post Office Building and was doubled in space in 1934 by James Farley, replacing the 1878 Post Office at Park Row and Broadway. In 1982, the building was renamed once more as the James A. Farley Building. Farley was the nation's 53rd Postmaster General and served from 1933 to 1940. As a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 1940, he was only the second Roman Catholic to receive delegates towards such a nomination after Alfred E. Smith. Farley also served as a campain manager to both Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and is considered the finest Athletic Commissioner/Boxing Commissioner in New York State history.
The building prominently bears the inscription: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." Commonly mistaken as an official motto of the United States Postal Service, it is actually taken from Herodotus' Histories (Book 8, Ch. 98) and describes the faithful service of the Persian system of mounted postal messengers under Xerxes I of Persia.
Moynihan Station, a planned train terminal, would expand Penn Station into the Farley Post Office Building. Plans for the expansion of the the busiest train station in the country, serving more than 550,000 daily passengers, the busiest train station in the country with more than 550,000 daily passengers. It has since gone through a portracted series of delays and redesigns over the years. Phase I of the current plan, "Moynihan Moving Forward", broke ground in 2010 and, with work occuring only on nights and weekends, is expected to be complete by 2016. The phase consists of mostly below-grade, transportation infrastructure improvements including the expansion of the Long Island Rail Road West End Concourse under the Farley building steps to serve Amtrak and New Jersey Transit platforms, new entrances through the Farley Building, and improved ventilation. The second phase includes a sky-lit grand hall with 1 million square feet of retail space. The Farley Building's facade will remain untouched, and it will retain retail postal lobby services . However, all mail processing operations will be relocated one block away to the Morgan Processing and Distribution Center.
The United States General Post Office was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1966.
National Register #73002257 (1973)
Walking around Birmingham with nothing much new to take photos of from New Street to Broad Street. Briefly ended up at Brindleyplace where I saw this Lamborghini Huracan.
Parked in a Loading Bay.
Maybe the Billionaire or Millionaire owner did not realise that they shouldn't park there as this red super car is not an authorised vehicle or a service vehicle!
Wonder if it got a ticket from the Police?
Maybe it would end up getting crushed?
It was on Cumberland Street.
"Strictly authorised parking only"
"Service vehicles only"
It is not necessary for a humdrum building to look commonplace, but it's just as well that most of them do. If every minor building looked as good as this we should become blasé about them. Distinction needs mediocrity.
This little warehouse with its two loading bays is in Braggs Lane, Lawford's Gate, Bristol.
Can't believe I forgot to upload these shots (from when I put up the ones from the same set of photos).
Shots of the various bridges from the National Sealife Centre to the Sheepcote Street Bridge.
Pub by the canal in Brindley Place called The Malt House. Famous for in 1998 when President Clinton had a beer here during the G8 conference in Birmingham (19g8).
All these canals meet here by The Malt House and The National Sealife Centre.
The Malthouse is a new pub, but its name reflects the fact that a brewery stoof near this spot. The pub itself is built into the shell of the Kingston Building, built in 1803 as a nail warehouse. If you look back as you cross the small footbridge you can see the old warehouse frontage, with its high sashed windows. The remains of loading bays can also be seen: many warehouses were built facing directly on to the canals, with loading bays giving direct access to the barges.
Above passage from "Walks Through History Birmingham" by John Wilks
Published in 2012 as the cover of a canal map of the BCN.
Bill Clinton drank here during the G8 in 1998 aka 19g8
The Malthouse is a new pub, but its name reflects the fact that a brewery stoof near this spot. The pub itself is built into the shell of the Kingston Building, built in 1803 as a nail warehouse. If you look back as you cross the small footbridge you can see the old warehouse frontage, with its high sashed windows. The remains of loading bays can also be seen: many warehouses were built facing directly on to the canals, with loading bays giving direct access to the barges.
Above passage from "Walks Through History Birmingham" by John Wilks
I'm not sure what happened but when i got there they definitely were not on speaking terms and he was apparently trying to chat up an annoying silver Bim who remained entirely unimpressed.
Home of the original UK Gladiators 1992-2000
The NIA is a large arena owned by the NEC Group. It is by the Birmingham Canal Navigation Main Line in Birmingham. Close by it is The Malt House, and on the other side of the Birmingham Canal Navigation Main Line The National Sealife Centre. It is situated close to Old Turn Junction.
The NIA was opened in 1991.
The Malthouse is a new pub, but its name reflects the fact that a brewery stoof near this spot. The pub itself is built into the shell of the Kingston Building, built in 1803 as a nail warehouse. If you look back as you cross the small footbridge you can see the old warehouse frontage, with its high sashed windows. The remains of loading bays can also be seen: many warehouses were built facing directly on to the canals, with loading bays giving direct access to the barges.
Above passage from "Walks Through History Birmingham" by John Wilks
Rare old traffic signal mounted at the entrance to a loading bay in Murray Street, Perth. At the time of installation it was open to traffic but has since been converted to a pedestrian mall
Thankyou to RS 1990 for identifying the make!
west face, last sun, very cold day. Abandoned Philadelphia Warehousing and Cold Storage, erected 1890. Loading docks and smokestack detail are in 1890 plans at link.
Cellarhead Stoke on Trent based Shirleys Transport Ltd Scania coupled to a three axle tanker leaving the Nestle Purina Pet Food factory at Sudbury
Kuehne+ Nagel in the colours of Waitrose DAF CF 75/310 parked in Waitrose supermarket car park on Sudbury Lorry Park