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The garden at Sissinghurst Castle in the Weald of Kent, in England at Sissinghurst village, is owned and maintained by the National Trust. It is among the most famous gardens in England and is grade I listed.
Sissinghurst's garden was created in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West, poet and gardening writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat. Sackville-West was a writer on the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group who found her greatest popularity in the weekly columns she contributed as gardening correspondent of The Observer, which incidentally—for she never touted it—made her own garden famous. The garden itself is designed as a series of 'rooms', each with a different character of colour and/or theme, the walls being high clipped hedges and many pink brick walls. The rooms and 'doors' are so arranged that, as one enjoys the beauty in a given room, one suddenly discovers a new vista into another part of the garden, making a walk a series of discoveries that keeps leading one into yet another area of the garden. Nicolson spent his efforts coming up with interesting new interconnections, while Sackville-West focused on making the flowers in the interior of each room exciting.
For Sackville-West, Sissinghurst and its garden rooms came to be a poignant and romantic substitute for Knole, reputedly the largest house in Britain, which as the only child of Lionel, the 3rd Lord Sackville she would have inherited had she been a male, but which had passed to her cousin as the male heir.
The site is ancient; "hurst" is the Saxon term for an enclosed wood. A manor house with a three-armed moat was built here in the Middle Ages. In 1305, King Edward I spent a night here. It was long thought that in 1490 Thomas Baker, a man from Cranbrook, purchased Sissinghurst, although there is no evidence for it. What is certain is that the house was given a new brick gatehouse in the 1530s by Sir John Baker, one of Henry VIII's Privy Councillors, and greatly enlarged in the 1560s by his son Sir Richard Baker, when it became the centre of a 700-acre (2.8 km2) deer park. In August 1573 Queen Elizabeth I spent three nights at Sissinghurst.
After the collapse of the Baker family in the late 17th century, the building had many uses: as a prisoner-of-war camp during the Seven Years' War; as the workhouse for the Cranbrook Union; after which it became homes for farm labourers.
Sackville-West and Nicolson found Sissinghurst in 1930 after concern that their property Long Barn, near Sevenoaks, Kent, was close to development over which they had no control. Although Sissinghurst was derelict, they purchased the ruins and the farm around it and began constructing the garden we know today. The layout by Nicolson and planting by Sackville-West were both strongly influenced by the gardens of Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens; by the earlier Cothay Manor in Somerset, laid out by Nicolson's friend Reginald Cooper, and described by one garden writer as the "Sissinghurst of the West Country"; and by Hidcote Manor Garden, designed and owned by Lawrence Johnston, which Sackville-West helped to preserve. Sissinghurst was first opened to the public in 1938.
The National Trust took over the whole of Sissinghurst, its garden, farm and buildings, in 1967. The garden epitomises the English garden of the mid-20th century. It is now very popular and can be crowded in peak holiday periods. In 2009, BBC Four broadcast an eight-part television documentary series called Sissinghurst, describing the house and garden and the attempts by Adam Nicolson and his wife Sarah Raven, who are 'Resident Donors', to restore a form of traditional Wealden agriculture to the Castle Farm. Their plan is to use the land to grow ingredients for lunches in the Sissinghurst restaurant. A fuller version of the story can be found in Nicolson's book, Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History (2008).
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sissinghurst_Castle_Garden and www.nationaltrust.org.uk/sissinghurst-castle-garden
we call this school 8. Its well maintained by the owners who live across the street. but don't step on the property to photograph it - you will be yelled at and threatened
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This is the view just down from the oasthouse where the restaurant/café is situated.
The garden at Sissinghurst Castle in the Weald of Kent, in England at Sissinghurst village, is owned and maintained by the National Trust. It is among the most famous gardens in England and is grade I listed.
Sissinghurst's garden was created in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West, poet and gardening writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat. Sackville-West was a writer on the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group who found her greatest popularity in the weekly columns she contributed as gardening correspondent of The Observer, which incidentally—for she never touted it—made her own garden famous. The garden itself is designed as a series of 'rooms', each with a different character of colour and/or theme, the walls being high clipped hedges and many pink brick walls. The rooms and 'doors' are so arranged that, as one enjoys the beauty in a given room, one suddenly discovers a new vista into another part of the garden, making a walk a series of discoveries that keeps leading one into yet another area of the garden. Nicolson spent his efforts coming up with interesting new interconnections, while Sackville-West focused on making the flowers in the interior of each room exciting.
For Sackville-West, Sissinghurst and its garden rooms came to be a poignant and romantic substitute for Knole, reputedly the largest house in Britain, which as the only child of Lionel, the 3rd Lord Sackville she would have inherited had she been a male, but which had passed to her cousin as the male heir.
The site is ancient; "hurst" is the Saxon term for an enclosed wood. A manor house with a three-armed moat was built here in the Middle Ages. In 1305, King Edward I spent a night here. It was long thought that in 1490 Thomas Baker, a man from Cranbrook, purchased Sissinghurst, although there is no evidence for it. What is certain is that the house was given a new brick gatehouse in the 1530s by Sir John Baker, one of Henry VIII's Privy Councillors, and greatly enlarged in the 1560s by his son Sir Richard Baker, when it became the centre of a 700-acre (2.8 km2) deer park. In August 1573 Queen Elizabeth I spent three nights at Sissinghurst.
After the collapse of the Baker family in the late 17th century, the building had many uses: as a prisoner-of-war camp during the Seven Years' War; as the workhouse for the Cranbrook Union; after which it became homes for farm labourers.
Sackville-West and Nicolson found Sissinghurst in 1930 after concern that their property Long Barn, near Sevenoaks, Kent, was close to development over which they had no control. Although Sissinghurst was derelict, they purchased the ruins and the farm around it and began constructing the garden we know today. The layout by Nicolson and planting by Sackville-West were both strongly influenced by the gardens of Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens; by the earlier Cothay Manor in Somerset, laid out by Nicolson's friend Reginald Cooper, and described by one garden writer as the "Sissinghurst of the West Country"; and by Hidcote Manor Garden, designed and owned by Lawrence Johnston, which Sackville-West helped to preserve. Sissinghurst was first opened to the public in 1938.
The National Trust took over the whole of Sissinghurst, its garden, farm and buildings, in 1967. The garden epitomises the English garden of the mid-20th century. It is now very popular and can be crowded in peak holiday periods. In 2009, BBC Four broadcast an eight-part television documentary series called Sissinghurst, describing the house and garden and the attempts by Adam Nicolson and his wife Sarah Raven, who are 'Resident Donors', to restore a form of traditional Wealden agriculture to the Castle Farm. Their plan is to use the land to grow ingredients for lunches in the Sissinghurst restaurant. A fuller version of the story can be found in Nicolson's book, Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History (2008).
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sissinghurst_Castle_Garden and www.nationaltrust.org.uk/sissinghurst-castle-garden
“Charlestown grew out of the small fishing village of West Polmear, which consisted of a few cottages and three cellars, in which the catch of pilchards were processed. The population amounted to nine fishermen and their families in 1790. Before the harbour was built, trading vessels landed and loaded on the beach. Charles Rashleigh, who moved to Duporth Manor, just outside the village, used plans prepared by John Smeaton to begin the construction of a harbour and dock in 1791. After building the outer pier, he excavated a natural inlet to form the main dock and a shipyard at its inner end that was demolished when the dock was extended. The first dock gates were completed in 1799. To maintain water levels in the dock, a leat was constructed, which brought water from the Luxulyan Valley, some 6.4 km away.”
Samburu National Reserve
Kenya
East Africa
Elephants are a keystone species. It means they create and maintain the ecosystems in which they live and make it possible for a myriad of plant and animal species to live in those environments as well. The loss of elephants gravely affects many species that depend on elephant-maintained ecosystems and causes major habitat chaos and a weakening to the structure and diversity of nature itself. To lose the elephant is to lose an environmental caretaker and an animal from which we have much to learn.
Only a bell and a bird break the silence…
It seems that the two talk with the setting sun.
Golden colored silence, the afternoon is made of crystals.
A roving purity sways the cool trees,
And beyond all that,
A transparent river dreams that trampling over pearls
It breaks loose
And flows into infinity.
Hora Inmensa – Juan Ramon Jimenez
Italy, Venice, Italy, illustrator drawing a sketch of the Canal Grande at the corner of the vegetable market near the Ponte Rialto.
The lagoon city hides many picturesque places offside the tourist roads. If the buildings would be straight, painted & well maintained, I think Venice without this patina, the gondolas & gondolieri, channels, little bridges & the at all-time busy Canal Grande; all these main ingredients altogether express the romantic charm of Venice.
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Finally found one couple with a little modesty. As you can see in the following 2 images, they weren't quite so modest.
47776 'Respected' is captured at Hunt's Lock, along the Weaver navigation at Northwich working 5K44 Manchester Piccadilly - Crewe empty coaching stock which, instead of working direct to Crewe took a round about route via the Mid Cheshire line and reversal at Chester. I can only think to maintain driver route knowledge?
Tug 'Clifton', operated by KD Marine UK and was working on the river with hopper barges Halton & Sutton. One of which can just about be seen in the big lock behind.
As many reading this are aware (among my regular followers, at least) the NHN is a well-maintained operation and trains maintain a steady pace approaching 40MPH from the moment they leave the sand pit. Keeping up on the adjacent roads can be difficult, and you don't want to try and cram too many shots into a single chase as you'll almost certainly get burned. Here, the train trots over the causeway across Union Meadows.
During the Rutting season the dominant Male Bucks attract and maintain female Doe by grunting repeatedly and battling challengers. This takes place in an annual arena called the "stand". Pumped up males can hold a Harem of does for hours at a time until mating takes place. In this scene there is a lull between battles and I imagine the Buck on the right is delivering his sales pitch to the adoring females while fending heckles from stage left. I love this spectator activity !
Bristol Zoo Project, formerly known as Wild Place Project, is a wildlife conservation park in South Gloucestershire. It is run by Bristol Zoological Society (BZS) and was the sister site of Bristol Zoo Gardens until closure of that site in 2022. In summer 2023, Wild Place Project rebranded as "Bristol Zoo Project" following the transition of Bristol Zoo Gardens from their Clifton site. The park has been designed to link specific ecosystems and conservation programmes around the world, current areas include: Bear Wood, Benoué National Park and Discover Madagascar.
Male village weavers construct a woven nest using grass and leaf strips, shaped like a ball with the entrance at the bottom. Females inspect the nest, and if they approve, they move in and lay 2 to 3 eggs. Village weavers derive their name from their skill in weaving nests, and it is common for 8 to 100 males to have nests in the same tree. After mating, the male often leaves to build another nest for a different female. Males can build up to 3 nests in a single breeding season. The female village weaver incubates the eggs alone and raises the chicks. The eggs hatch after about 2 weeks, and once they are approximately 3 weeks old, the nestlings become independent.
Weavers are highly social, engaging in colonial breeding and feeding. They communicate with each other while foraging to maintain flock cohesion and to signal the discovery of food.
They often choose to nest in the same trees as wasps, as a means of deterring predators. The bottom entrance of their nests serves the same purpose.
The garden at Sissinghurst Castle in the Weald of Kent, in England at Sissinghurst village, is owned and maintained by the National Trust. It is among the most famous gardens in England and is grade I listed.
Sissinghurst's garden was created in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West, poet and gardening writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat. Sackville-West was a writer on the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group who found her greatest popularity in the weekly columns she contributed as gardening correspondent of The Observer, which incidentally—for she never touted it—made her own garden famous. The garden itself is designed as a series of 'rooms', each with a different character of colour and/or theme, the walls being high clipped hedges and many pink brick walls. The rooms and 'doors' are so arranged that, as one enjoys the beauty in a given room, one suddenly discovers a new vista into another part of the garden, making a walk a series of discoveries that keeps leading one into yet another area of the garden. Nicolson spent his efforts coming up with interesting new interconnections, while Sackville-West focused on making the flowers in the interior of each room exciting.
For Sackville-West, Sissinghurst and its garden rooms came to be a poignant and romantic substitute for Knole, reputedly the largest house in Britain, which as the only child of Lionel, the 3rd Lord Sackville she would have inherited had she been a male, but which had passed to her cousin as the male heir.
The site is ancient; "hurst" is the Saxon term for an enclosed wood. A manor house with a three-armed moat was built here in the Middle Ages. In 1305, King Edward I spent a night here. It was long thought that in 1490 Thomas Baker, a man from Cranbrook, purchased Sissinghurst, although there is no evidence for it. What is certain is that the house was given a new brick gatehouse in the 1530s by Sir John Baker, one of Henry VIII's Privy Councillors, and greatly enlarged in the 1560s by his son Sir Richard Baker, when it became the centre of a 700-acre (2.8 km2) deer park. In August 1573 Queen Elizabeth I spent three nights at Sissinghurst.
After the collapse of the Baker family in the late 17th century, the building had many uses: as a prisoner-of-war camp during the Seven Years' War; as the workhouse for the Cranbrook Union; after which it became homes for farm labourers.
Sackville-West and Nicolson found Sissinghurst in 1930 after concern that their property Long Barn, near Sevenoaks, Kent, was close to development over which they had no control. Although Sissinghurst was derelict, they purchased the ruins and the farm around it and began constructing the garden we know today. The layout by Nicolson and planting by Sackville-West were both strongly influenced by the gardens of Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens; by the earlier Cothay Manor in Somerset, laid out by Nicolson's friend Reginald Cooper, and described by one garden writer as the "Sissinghurst of the West Country"; and by Hidcote Manor Garden, designed and owned by Lawrence Johnston, which Sackville-West helped to preserve. Sissinghurst was first opened to the public in 1938.
The National Trust took over the whole of Sissinghurst, its garden, farm and buildings, in 1967. The garden epitomises the English garden of the mid-20th century. It is now very popular and can be crowded in peak holiday periods. In 2009, BBC Four broadcast an eight-part television documentary series called Sissinghurst, describing the house and garden and the attempts by Adam Nicolson and his wife Sarah Raven, who are 'Resident Donors', to restore a form of traditional Wealden agriculture to the Castle Farm. Their plan is to use the land to grow ingredients for lunches in the Sissinghurst restaurant. A fuller version of the story can be found in Nicolson's book, Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History (2008).
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sissinghurst_Castle_Garden and www.nationaltrust.org.uk/sissinghurst-castle-garden
Instead of maintaining own locomotives, DB is renting locomotives from private companies. Railsystems RP is one of these companies and their locomotives are really beauties. All having nice liveries, some with heritage liveries like 295 067.
South of Punta Gorda, the Fort Myers Division mainline track condition is significantly improved, allowing for trains to reach speeds of up to 40 mph ‘till Bayshore; since the SGLR’s ‘Murder Mystery Dinner Train’ operates on this stretch of track, it must be kept maintained at a higher standard to allow safe operation of the passenger service, which includes the use of 135 lbs rail and, in some sections, steel ties. The DeSoto Turn’s are permitted to operate at maximum authorized speed as well, making chases on this stretch a challenge.
As for our subject, the Seminole Gulf Railway’s Thursday-edition southbound DeSoto Turn could finally break out of the 10 mph speed restriction that had been holding them back for hours and start pushing 40 mph, the maximum authorized speed for freight trains. Passing by Best Aggregate Carriers, a frequently served SGLR customer, just south of MP AX943 at 10:38, the two ex-LMX B39-8E’s and their 41 car train continue their southbound journey at speed. 15 miles farther down the line at Bayshore, the DeSoto Turn would stop to serve customers at an industrial park before ending their run at Hanson Yard.
Dating back to 1903, the then-named Fort Myers Extension was constructed by the Atlantic Coast Line in an effort to extend the former-Florida Southern Railway’s Charlotte Harbor Division south to Tico and Fort Myers, with the first train arriving at the namesake city on May 10th, 1904. Freight traffic has always been present throughout the lines history and changes in ownership between the ACL, SCL, SBD, CSX and SGLR [starting in 1987]. Although the frequency of said services fluctuated, it still proved to be a vital link connecting southwestern Florida to the Lakeland and Tampa rail hubs, with the Seminole Gulf diligently maintaining rail customers in the greater Fort Myers area allowing for scenes like this to still exist.
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Tropical Gulf Acres, FL
SGLR Fort Myers Division
Date: 08/10/2022 | 10:38
ID: SGLR DeSoto Turn
Type: Local
Direction: Southbound
Car Count: 41
1. SGLR B39-8E #595
2. SGLR B39-8E #593
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© Vicente Alonso 2022
We humans seem to prefer parkland over natural forest and we'll go to considerable lengths to create it. Here, the forest floor has been cleared of all natural vegetation--except for the little strip of goldenrods along the edge--and the hummocks neatly leveled. A carefully maintained lawn takes its place.
I have to admit though, with the morning sun streaming in, I'm drawn to it, even though I find it hard to condone.
The GP40-2 slug set is struggling to maintain 15-20mph as it heads towards Island Avenue Yard with what I would guess to be at least 60-80 cars.
A Minneapolis Northfield & Southern Ford maintainers truck is parked next to the Soo Line depot in Waukesha, Wisconsin back on April 6th, 1985. – The MN&S Railway had been acquired by the Soo Line three years prior so there had already been plenty of time for equipment to be assigned to other locations around the Soo system. ~~ A Jeff Hampton Photograph ©
In addition to the eponyous Ruth Bancroft Garden, Ruth maintained two large gardens on her home grounds, right over the fence from what I call the "Garden." Other than a vast array of Irises, she grew some of her other favorites that would not be part of the dry garden which would open to the public in 1992. (Hard to believe that it's been 40 years since it became public, and it's now 50 years since its inception. So, this is the Golden Anniversary of the entire "project," and harder to believe on a personal basis, we moved 398 miles north when I transferred to northern California and bought this house 1.0 miles from Ruth! I met her once, btw, in 1998 or 99, but very briefly.)
Over last spring and summer, I must have covered the garden grounds over 120 times. During some visits, I would find some of Ruth's old plants growing over the eight foot fence from her property. Other than a few roses (see below), many of the plants I found were fairly exotic. They're atill blooming and draping themselves over and I still hesitate before photographing them. It's almost as though she didn't want anyone to see them, but that can't be true. And so, every once in a while, I would stop and attempt to get a shot of these very tall, very rangy, and very brightly colored plants and flowers. I think the Desert Willow started in her "yard" and has now spread its canopy 100 feet into the Garden and shading darn near every one that I'd like to capture.
This Eyythina is a perfect example. This is a shot of one part of one branch and I've never seen red like this. I mean there are iridescent red cactus flowers, and some red Leucadendrons that when backlit by the sun are almost as red as this, and of course, one rival for redness is my own Kalanchoe blossfeldiana. flic.kr/p/2ngyhd8
Erythrina crista-galli, often known as the cockspur coral tree, is a flowering tree in the family Fabaceae, native to Argentina, Uruguay, southern Brazil and Paraguay. It is widely planted as a street or garden tree in other countries, notably in California. Yes, well, I've been in Calfironia for 60 years, and I never seen another Cockspur Coral Tree - emphasis on tree. Sometimes I wonder about the people who write this stuff up. I mean, yeah, I might embellish from time to time or Monday to Wednesday, but I'm well traveled, and this is flower that Argentinians think looks like a rooster's cockscomb.
"The ceibo (???) is the national tree of Argentina, and its flower the national flower of Argentina and Uruguay.
This species characteristically grows wild in gallery forest ecosystems along watercourses, as well as in swamps and wetlands. In urban settings, it is often planted in parks for its bright red flowers." So, if you can find one at a nursery, or even in the wild, and you live in a swamp or gallery forest (???), give it a shot. But, considering that Ruth's Erythrina is well over 20 years old and still blooming, I would suggest that you want a climate and clay soil that we have in the Diablo Valley. If a plant "takes" in adobe soil, you will have it for life! To remove such a plant, first rent a jackhammer...
Btw, I really didn't know how to treat this photo. I tried a black background, but gave up quickly. There just didn't seem to be a way to make this pop. Blur was more difficult than dark vignettes. So, this was the first of the flowers between April 2021 and today that I tried a "whispy" border. Now, I can't remember how I got the corner effects (I'm using different software today.)
Registration: N583UP
Type: 747-4R7F
Engines: 4 × GE CF6-80C2B1F
Serial Number: 25867
First flight: Nov 24, 1993
UPS Airlines, a major American cargo airline based in Louisville, Kentucky, is among the world’s largest in terms of traffic volume. The history of its parent company, United Parcel Service (UPS), in the air cargo industry dates back to 1929 when it began transporting parcels as baggage on commercial flights. This service ceased in 1931 due to the Great Depression, but in the 1950s, UPS reentered the air travel market with its Blue Label Air service, offering two-day coast-to-coast delivery. UPS Airlines was formally established in 1988 as a subsidiary of UPS.
Currently, UPS Airlines operates flights to 815 destinations worldwide, utilizing the "hub-and-spoke" system. Its primary hub is Worldport at Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville. The airline also maintains several international hubs, including two in North America, two in Europe, three in China, one in Malaysia, and one in the Philippines.
The active fleet of UPS Airlines comprises 291 aircraft, including 43 Boeing 747F aircraft, 13 of which are 747-400F models.
Poster for Aviators
Pastel on newsprint
I made this shortly after I started doing art at age 56. There was no preconceived idea. I just picked up a piece of pastel and started moving my hand and arm on the paper. This is the image that resulted. When I showed it to the teacher of an art class I had just started, he said "What were you on when you did THAT?", lol! The answer: nothing. I was just following the impulses as they popped up within. I made this in the horizontal orientation. It was only after it was done and I turned it to this vertical orientation that I saw that it resembled a serpent.
At the time, and for years prior, I spent many hours each day in mantra meditation, pranayama breathing, and yoga asanas, and had experienced many moments of expanded awareness and bliss. But I knew almost nothing about kundalini or its awakening.
I now know that the Sanskrit word "kundalini" means "coiled one". In the Dharma religions, it is a primal energy, or shakti, located at the base of the spine. Different spiritual traditions teach methods of "awakening" kundalini for the purpose of reaching spiritual enlightenment. Kundalini is described as lying "coiled" at the base of the spine, represented as either a goddess or sleeping serpent waiting to be awakened. ... To me, this image reflects the creative phase of the creation/maintenance/destruction cycle.
Kundalini awakening is said to result in deep meditation, enlightenment and bliss. This awakening involves the Kundalini physically moving up the central channel to reach within the Sahasrara Chakra at the top of the head. Many systems of yoga focus on the awakening of Kundalini through meditation, pranayama breathing, the practice of asana and chanting of mantras. In physical terms, many report the Kundalini experience to be a feeling of electric current running along the spine.
—Adapted from Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini
Also, " ... The Supreme Brahman is described as the swallower, devourer (attā = soul) of the universe; for just as he creates and maintains it, he destroys it also. But where does it go when it is destroyed? One answer may be that it simply vanishes. But the Upanishads are opposed to such an idea of destruction. Only the forms and shapes of the world are gone, but not the being of the world, which is the Being of the Brahman. Then what happens to the world? It is absorbed, assimilated to the Brahman. The Brahman swallows, absorbs, assimilates the world to itself."
—P.T. Raju, Structural Depths of Indian Thought, p. 420
Situated at the intersection of Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico this cemetery dates from the 1880s and located on the Westside of El Paso. One can see the border wall snaking up the mountain on left side of the photo. The black trestles cross over the Rio Grande below. The tiny white speck on the top left is the international boundary marker. These markers are evenly spaced all along the Southern border. The cross at the top of the mountain is Mt. Cristo Rey. Photographed with Canon 2K film camera with Velvia.
Back in time again....to Friday 10th August 2018 for this 'Poignant Image' of Riddles designed BR Standard Class 5MT 4-6.0 No. 73156 (as 73069) outside Loughborough Locomotive Shed Great Central Railway (GCR) Leicestershire.
Why you might well ask? Well it's the second time, in its short life, its experienced the 'Cessation of Steam Power' on Britain's Railways after its construction at Doncaster Works in 1956, withdrawal from Bolton on 24th October 1967 and return to steam, after restoration, on 5th October 2017.
I'll briefly elaborate further...Firstly, as 73069 and last of its class, with LMSR Stanier 8F 2-8-0 48476 it 'Double Headed' a 'Special Passenger Train' in the North West of England on 4th August 1968 - one week before the 'Cessation of Steam' on Britain's Railways.
Over the weekend of 11th and 12th August 2018, GCR held a 50th Anniversary Gala - renumbering two steam locomotives to re-enact this 'Special Train'. I missed the first one when aged 18 - but made up for it 50 years later!
Secondly, now with the current COVID restrictions, Monday 28th December 2020 saw the last day of operations on GCR for the near future - with all trains up to the end of January cancelled. It's the same now for all the UK's Heritage Railways.
We all very much hope it won't be too much longer though before this fine locomotive and all the others steam again!
Beautifully maintained painted Victorians on St. Alphonsus Street are seen in an unexpectedly pastoral view from Kevin W. Fitzgerald Park in the Mission Hill neighborhood. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Casas victorianas bellamenta pintados y mantenidos sobra Calle San Alphonsus se ven en una vista inesperadamente pastoral desde el parque Kevin W. Fitzgerald en el barrio de Mission Hill. Boston, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos.
Excerpt from insearchofsarah.com:
They are lovingly referred to as “The Painted Ladies of Grimsby”, dollhouses or fairy homes – colourfully decorated and proudly displayed like little gingerbread houses; each one is unique with its own style and character. Painted every colour you can imagine – ranging from pinks, yellows, blues and greens, orange, red and purple – these little buildings date back to the 1800s when they were once used as summer cottages.
A Brief History
The Grimsby Beach waterfront was a major summer destination for over 75 years. The history of Grimsby Beach dates back to the mid-1800s when Methodists used to gather here and held week-long revivals during the summer. Many would travel here with their tents to sleep in overnight and listen to preachers during the day.
Gaining popularity, there became a need for more adequate housing, and the cottages were erected in 1875. Two hotels were later built to accommodate the growing number of visitors. There was even an auditorium built to seat 7000 – an astounding number considering the entirety of Grimsby is 28,000 today.
By this time, affluent visitors flocked to Grimsby Beach to enjoy the scenery and picnicking along the lakeside. Numerous activities were enjoyed during the summer, from swimming at the beach, rowboats, fishing (there was even a popular fish and chip stand on the beach!), and watching the ships dock at the pier, including steamers.
In the early 1900s, the group managing the Methodist revivals went bankrupt, but was soon taken over by an American who turned the area into somewhat of an amusement park, complete with a midway, casino, roller coaster and merry-go-round!
Sadly, in the 1920s, a fire destroyed 30 of these cottages and local residents took over the community.
In the 1940s, people started ‘winterizing’ their cottages and making them suitable for year-round living. Once again in the 1980s there was another fire – but a few remaining cottages are lovingly maintained today to keep the charm of their former youth.
It maintains a much quieter atmosphere today – quite a contrast to what it once was – but makes for an enjoyable walk and great photos.
The historic and beautifully maintained revival-style mansion was built in 1851 and occupies 29+ acres. There are 24 rooms including 7 guest bedrooms, 8 full bathrooms and private living quarters on the 3rd floor. Comes with a fully furnished gourmet kitchen. Banquet facility can accomodate up to 200. An octagon banquet hall provides additional opportunities for the owner and adds to the splendor of the structure. There is a cottage with 3 private bedrooms as well as 3 additional structures. The inn is situated in the charming Gaslight Village of Wyoming, NY which features quaint shops and the Appleumpkin Fall Harvest Festival. Letchworth State Park (the “Grand Canyon of the East”) is just a stone’s throw away, where there are many activities such as hiking, hot air ballooning, museums, historical sites and much more! Rochester, Buffalo and Niagara Falls all within about an hour’s drive from this location, giving the new owner access to approximately 2 million people in a 60 mile radius. An hour’s drive (or less) from these cities brings you back to the restful elegance of the Hillside Inn.
Historic Hillside Inn mansion built in 1851. Formerly both a spa in the 1850?s, to private residence, to Bed & Breakfast. Twenty four fully furnished rooms (7 which are guest rooms) with 8 full bathrooms, 13 fireplaces, private living quarters on the 3rd floor of the main house are loaded to the rafters with history and charm. An octagon banquet hall as well as 3 additional structures add to the grandeur of this 29+ acre estate. Could be used for a private estate or Commercial. Visited by Susan B Anthony, The Roosevelt's, and many other historic figures. Mineral water stream on the premises with natural granite. This site is truly picturesque with beautiful surroundings and loaded with history.