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A Federation house, circa 1916, with a slate roof.
Discovered today along Pibrac Avenue, Warrawee, in Sydney.
Friday, 20th November, 2020.
Warrawee is a suburb of situated between Wahroonga and Turramurra, on the upper North Shore of Sydney. The name 'Warrawee' is believed to have come from an Aboriginal word meaning 'rest a while, stop here or to stand'. The suburb has a great deal of architectural history, with a number of houses designed by prominent architects. The earliest significant homes were Pibrac (1888), Cheddington (1890) and Wirepe (1893).
Anyway, I was there this morning for my first "walk" with the Turramurra walking group (a Heart Foundation walking group), followed by superb coffee from the very funky Kipling's Garage Bar Cafe, at Turramurra. This is an old motor mechanic's garage that has been converted into a cafe!!
And next week I am venturing aboard a walking group in Killara. So I will need to locate the East Killara shops, being the starting point.
And I also belong to the Wahroonga walking group which starts at the cool 'Patina Cafe'.
Working from home does have its advantages in terms of time flexibility. But who knows when we will all be ordered back to the office!!
My Samsung Galaxy S20+ mobile phone camera.
Processed in 'Snapseed'.
Milwaukee, WI
Spare bikes at the mechanic's station, waiting to be pressed into service during the Tour of America's Dairyland.
Stopped by my mechanic's to schedule an oil change, and he let me nose around the shop. :-) The wagon is his latest addition.
Had this sat on my shelf for ages after building it, but wanted to get a good picture of it to edit and upload as I'm very proud of the build and want to do it justice! Hope you all enjoy this!
*posted for my dear friend El Diablo
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Slatanic Mechanic's group is free to join - bikini is free - taxi above
The sheep camp traveled with the herds from the summer to the winter range. The mechanic's pit is in the foreground.
Excerpt from www.wefhs.myhamilton.ca:
The East Flamborough Township Hall, virtually unaltered from the day it was constructed, is one of the finest examples of a mid-Victorian civic building in rural Ontario. Built of locally quarried limestone, the building consists of two rectangular storeys and a gabled roof crested by a cupola that distinguishes it as a public building. Construction of the hall began in 1856 after the town council agreed to appoint Messrs Stewart, Foster, and Morden to form a committee and seek a suitable price and site for a Town Hall. Walter Grieve, a Waterdown stonemason designed the plans, and John Graham, a carpenter was awarded the construction contract. By December 1857 the building was finished and found "satisfactory" by the Council.
Over the years the hall became an important part in the civic and social life of the village. In 1858 the Episcopalian Church had use of the Gallery for their worship, in 1860 the Waterdown Mechanic's Institute Library rented space. From 1858 the hall was used for elections, in the early 1900s the second floor was used by members of the Loyal Orange Lodge and during the 1920s it housed classrooms for senior students. In 1979 the building became the home of the Waterdown Library.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Public_Library
Toronto Public Library (TPL) is a public library system in Toronto, Ontario. It is the largest public library system in Canada, and in 2023 had averaged a higher circulation per capita than any other public library system internationally, making it the largest neighbourhood-based library system in the world.[6][7] Within North America, it also had the highest circulation and visitors when compared to other large urban systems.[8] Established as the library of the Mechanics' Institute in 1830, the Toronto Public Library now consists of 100 branch libraries[1] and has over 26 million items in its collection.[8][9][10][11]
History
The first subscription library service to open in the city was on 9 December 1810, at Elmsley House.[12] During the Burning of York in April 1813, several American officers under Commodore Issac Chauncey's command looted books from the library. Discovering his officers were in possession of the stolen books after they returned to Sackets Harbor, Chauncey ordered the looted books returned to York. The stolen books were returned in two crates, although by the time they arrived, the library had already closed. The books were auctioned off in 1822.[12]
The Toronto Mechanics' Institute in 1884. A library was established at the Institute in 1830, whose collection was later absorbed into the Toronto Public Library in 1884.
In 1830, a library was established in the York Mechanics' Institute. In 1882, the provincial legislature, under Premier Oliver Mowat,[13] passed The Free Libraries Act, 1882.[14][15] A public campaign for a free library in Toronto preceded a referendum on the question, held on 1 January 1883, in which Torontonians voted in favour of creating a city library.[13] Alderman John Hallam, whom historian Barbara Myrvold describes as having an "almost idolatrous regard for books", was a principal booster for the new library.[16]
In 1884, the Mechanic's Institute's collection became the Toronto Public Library. James Bain was the first chief librarian and he supplemented the collection with $15,000 worth of books purchased on a trip to England in late 1883.[17]
Between 1907 and 1916, ten libraries were built with funds from the Andrew Carnegie Trust.[18] Several of these Carnegie libraries continue to be used by the public library; one, the original Central Reference Library, is now the Koffler Student Centre at the University of Toronto.[19]
Henry Cummings Campbell was Chief Librarian of the Toronto Public Library from 1956 to 1978, and the first Chief Librarian to hold a professional library degree. He is credited with having contributed to the expansion of the library and its adaptation to an increasingly dynamic and multicultural city.[20]
The Toronto Reference Library was merged with the other library boards of Toronto following Metropolitan Toronto's amalgamation in 1998.
During the amalgamation of Metropolitan Toronto in 1998, the individual library systems of all the Metro municipalities and of Metro itself were merged into the Toronto system:[21][22]
East York Public Library, established 1967, 5 branches
Etobicoke Public Library, established 1950, 13 branches
North York Public Library, established 1955, 19 branches
Scarborough Public Library, established 1955, 19 branches
York Public Library, established 1967, 6 branches
Metropolitan Toronto Public Library, established 1967, 1 branch
The old Toronto Public Library, established 1883, 33 branches
This made the Toronto Public Library the largest library system in North America, serving a population of 2.3 million people with 98 branches at the time.
In 2004, a new library was opened in the St. James Town neighbourhood of Toronto, bringing the total number of branches to 99. In 2014, the city's 100th library was constructed and opened in Scarborough City Centre.[23]
On 27 October 2023, a ransomware attack was detected which brought down various online services, including the TPL website.[24][25][26] While the library remained open with wireless internet available, public computers and services on its website were offline. Confidential information of some staff members was exposed in the breach.[27]
when I lived in Italy, every time I went to the airport, or to the seaside, I used to drive past a beautiful bike and motorbike mechanic's shop in a town called Paese, just outside Treviso. On one of the last trips before coming to Spain, I decided that the shop would probably disappear before I next had a chance to photograph it, so I stopped and asked the owner, Giovanni Bortolo (who competed (and won an event?) in the 1960 Olympics) if he minded me taking a few photos... which he didn't. He said he was too old to be doing the job and he didn't care much about the rubbishy bikes he was now expected to repair and he didn't think he'd carry on much longer.
I bought a bicycle pump for €5, probably contributing to the sorry state of affairs.
Completing a full day of operations, the crew of East Broad Top Mikado #16 takes their engine past the "stone house" in the yard at Rockhill Furnace, PA, on their way to the engine house, just ahead. The stone house predates the railroad by more than a century and was once a private residence in this little town. When the railroad moved in, they apparently saw value in this sturdy building and made it their Master Mechanic's Office. In the preservation era, this structure has been largely used as a storage facility, but with the rebirth of the East Broad Top Railroad under the new EBT Foundation, one of the near-term goals is to return this structure to its former function. With 5 more Mikados in line for restoration, the Master Mechanic can likely use the additional space, not to mention the view.
This image was captured during an April, 2023 photo shoot at the East Broad Top Railroad, organized by Lerro Photography and featuring the newly restored EBT Locomotive #16, which is one of two EBT Mikes that had not run since the mid-1950s.
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
The first building on the museum site was constructed in 1865 as an athenaeum with the purpose of providing a space for cultural and learning opportunities for the Hawke’s Bay community. The Hawke’s Bay Philosophical and Mechanic's Institute was based in this building during the early 19th century and contributed ideas on art and science to the province. The 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake considerably damaged the institutes’ collections but the building was one of few to remain standing. The earthquake underscored Hawke's Bay's need for a purpose-built art gallery and museum for the safekeeping of the region’s treasures. In 1936 a new building was constructed with funds raised from the Hawke’s Bay community. It was designed by architect James Augustus Louis Hay.
In 2006 the Napier City Council took over management of Hawke's Bay Museum. Douglas Lloyd Jenkins was appointed director and the name of the institution changed to Hawke's Bay Museum & Art Gallery. The Hawke's Bay Museums Trust was re-formed to become a Trust that holds the museum's collections for the benefit of the community. In July 2010 the Hawke's Bay Museum & Art Gallery closed to undertake a three-year redevelopment project. The completed MTG Hawke’s Bay facility opened on 21 September 2013 and incorporates the two older buildings on the site with a new wing designed by architect Richard Daniels. The building recently won two architectural awards in the annual New Zealand Architecture awards, in the categories Public Architecture and Heritage for the Gisborne and Hawke’s Bay region.
a mechanic's work table
The Bocholt Textile Factory
Forum for textile culture
More than 20,000 spindles once turned at the Herding Spinning Mill. Today, the imposing brick building is a forum for textile culture, where the story of textiles, past and present, is brought to life. Special exhibitions offer insights into the technology and show off fashion design and international textile art. Function rooms and a glass rooftop café provide space for events.
In close proximity to this is another site, the Weaving Mill. Here you can smell the oil and hard work, and the looms rattle so loud that you can't help but cover your ears. In the huge weaving hall, the drive belts still set more than 30 historic machines in motion. Materials are produced here on a daily basis for the tea towels and tablecloths of our historic collection.
In a worker's house, complete with cultivated garden, you can get to know the meagre everyday life of workers' families.
I've made no secret of my ongoing venture into uncovering the history of this unusual low mileage, high # of owners Sierra - with a surprise hire car past. With a V888 form, online detective work and some fantastically helpful emails from previous owners, I've amassed 'the life' of a car provided only with x2 MoTs & V5.
Coming as no surprise, the Sierra started life with Godfrey Davis Europcar Ltd, in Watford. Twelve months later the Cain family of Tamworth took delivery of C58 VLX, their nearly new car. By the end of ’87 the Sierra had already been passed down from Mr Cain to his daughter – of whom seldom covered 150 miles a year and owned the car until mid-2011.
In her advancing years Miss Cain began to struggle with the size of the Sierra and it's lack of power steering, leading her to arrange the purchase of a new car from her local Nissan dealer. The story goes, staff mocked her Ford Sierra (Standing at 38,500 miles) when it was presented for trade-in – distraught, she declined the deal and took back the Ford.
Explaining her experience with the garage that maintained the Sierra for many years, a deal was established and the car was sold to them. From here it became an enthusiastic young mechanic’s first car and spent most of its time with him on L plates. Upon passing his test, he was met with cripplingly high insurance premiums which forced the sale of the car by early 2013/43,500 miles.
Moving on to another enthusiast, the car spent two months in Burton-on-Trent before changing hands again. This time, the President of the Glamorgan Classic Car Club took on the car as a temporary classic, he also had the rusting arches treated before selling in November 2014 at 46,500 miles.
The Sierra’s 7th owner, based in Wembley covered 200 miles over four months of ownership before selling off his car collection. Leaving owner #8: My good self.
*Not my photo - sent in by a previous owner.
The Swordfish V was the first ship built by Miles after taking over Doohan’s shipyard, following the older mechanic’s reluctant retirement in 2079. Miles took the Swordfish V as an opportunity to make all the changes and upgrades to the original ship that Doohan had always resisted: bigger engines, a second plasma cannon, more modern internal hardware; the lot. Miles’ “upgrades” though mostly served to make the spaceplane much more difficult to fly, particularly in the hands of a less-capable pilot.
I enjoyed SHIPtember a great deal this year, so thought I would build something for Nnovvember too! I also recently finished rewatching the always-excellent Cowboy Bebop (the anime, not the more recent Netflix adaptation), so thought I would combine the two, and build this Vic Viper variant of the Swordfish II. I also wanted to build a starfighter with retractable landing gear, which was something I have not really done before.
I have a second VV in the works too that I should hopefully finish and upload in the next week or so.
Going through old stuff and ran across a pic of the shop I ran for a number of years. Pretty typical day.
It's mid-November, and that means two things around here: 1) the clocks "fall back" (done & dusted) and 2) the winter tires need to go on the cars.
One of the benefits (ha!) of working from home is that I can do things like put the winter tires on my wife's car over my lunch hour, rather than schlepping to a mechanic's or car dealership.
Getting outside and doing a little manual labour in the brisk fall air is a nice change of pace from staring at a computer screen all day. Tackling it over lunch means I won't have to do it on the weekend. Win-win.
Queenscliffe (pop 3,000). After the pastoral era the Borough of Queenscliffe was declared in 1863 when the town was already a sizeable. Its location at the entrance to Port Phillip Bay was strategically important. Pilot boats helped ships navigate the dangerous entrance. The town had two lighthouses by 1863 as the early sandstone one of 1844 had been replaced by a white painted stone lighthouse in 1863. At the same time a black basalt second lighthouse was erected within the fort precinct. Some sources say with imported Scottish bluestone however, other sources say the black basalt came from Footscray! The first pilot to tend his services to shipping began work in 1838 and by 1840 the settlement had four pilots. They lived in tents on the shores and they helped with six major shipwrecks before 1863. It was a treacherous place during a storm. By the late 19th century pleasure boats plied the waters mainly across to Sorrento. But Queenscliffe was also fortified to protect Port Phillip Bay. In 1863 three guns were placed here and the first part of the fort was built between 1863 and 1869. Once the railway from Geelong reached the town in 1879 and troops could be quickly moved there if needed further fortifications were erected. Two gun batteries and the Fort were completed in 1882. Then a garrison of troops, engineers and naval men were stationed there. The keep was finished in 1885 and the defensive gorge was dug in 1886. The colonies especially feared attack from Russia in the 1880s. The troops remained in place from 1883 to 1946. It became a museum in 1982. The fishing village of Queenscliffe was surveyed and named after Queen Victoria in 1853. A town pier followed shortly after land sales. The first houses, a group of ten, were built in 1853 for the pilot service men. A school, hotel and church opened in 1854 and the post office gained a telegraphic link to Melbourne in 1855. The first Mechanic’s Institute was erected in 1859. When the borough council was formed in 1863 it had 250 residences. The town has three museums – the Historical Museum in the Info Centre (free); the Maritime Museum (about $10); and the Fort Museum highlights the strategic and military history ($12). In the 1880s Queenscliffe became a popular summer retreat for Melbournians and hotels and guest houses dotted the town. Holidaymakers arrived by train or steamer.
It seemed as this style of Mercedes-Benz SL, the R107 series, was available for nearly 2 decades from the 1970's to the 1980's. We in the US received the ones with round sealed beam headlights whereas the European models were equipped with the better-fitting and better-looking headlights that were styled for the car.
This aged but rather straight one was spotted at the local mechanic's shop, probably waiting for the owner to claim it.
It was illuminated nicely by the lights at the tennis club across the street.
About to watch Michael Myers kill and steal a mechanic's jumpsuit for the 8th time... and based on the trailer, I may quite possibly witness the most bad ass version Laurie Stroud ever!
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This building has a brick front facade and is constructed in an Art Deco design with a curved stepped parapet. The brickwork has now been painted but the overall character is retained of an original Art Deco building.
The garage was constructed around 1940 and the building was used until recent years as a mechanic workshop (Wilcannia Auto Repairs); which is appropriate given its original function, as a regional garage.
This structure is one of a small number of inter-war buildings in Wilcannia, and its detailing echoes the prevailing aesthetics of the day, reflecting the growth of Wilcannia at that time based on the prosperity of the wool industry.
Aboriginal History of Wilcannia:
Wilcannia is located on the Darling River, about halfway between Bourke and Wentworth. The river is known as Barka by the local Aboriginal people or Barkandji, literally people belonging to the Barka, and it is surrounded on all sides by Barkandji speaking people. The people from along the Barka and varying distances either side from near Bourke down to Wentworth all recognised the Barkandji language as their primary language, but they were divided into subgroups with different dialects of this one language. The Barkandji language is very different from all the neighbouring languages including the adjoining Ngiyampaa/Ngemba to the east, the Kulin, and Murray River languages to the south, and the Yardli and Thura-Yura language groups to the west and north.
Barkandji have a unique culture and depended heavily on the grinding or pounding of seeds on large grinding dishes or mortars and pestles, such as grass, portulaca, and acacia seeds. In the riverine areas, there is a strong emphasis on aquatic plant food tubers and corms, and fish, yabbies, turtles, mussels, and shrimps as well as water birds and their eggs. Insect foods were also important, such as parti or witchetty grubs along the rivers and creeks, and termite larvae in the Mallee country. Large and small canoes were cut out, necessitating ground edge axes, and string manufacture for fish nets, hunting nets, bags, and belts was an important part of the culture. The Wilcannia area still shows tangible evidence of traditional life in the form of canoe trees, coolamon trees, middens, heat retainer ovens, ashy deposits, stone tool quarries and artefacts.
Thomas Mitchell led the first exploring party to reach Wilcannia and gave the Barkandji their first unpleasant taste of what was to come. Mitchell travelled via the Bogan to the Darling River near Bourke and then down the river to Wilcannia then Menindee, reaching it in July 1835. Mitchell was harassed by Barkandji as he did not understand that he had to properly negotiate permission for use of water, grass, land to camp on etc., and in addition his men were abusing women behind his back and breaking all the rules. He gave them names such as the Fire Eaters and the Spitting Tribe as they tried to warn him off. His comments show that the Barkandji groups he met occupied "different portions of the river", and that they owned the resources in their territories including the water in the river. The exclusive possession enjoyed by the Barkandji and the need to obtain permission before using any of their resources is demonstrated by the following comment about the "Spitting Tribe" from the river near Wilcannia:
"The Spitting Tribe desired our men to pour out the water from their buckets, as if it had belonged to them; digging, at the same time a hole in the ground to receive it when poured out; and I have more than once seen a river chief, on receiving a tomahawk, point to the stream and signify that we were then at liberty to take water from it, so strongly were they possessed with the notion that the water was their own"
A hill 15 kilometres north of Wilcannia was named Mount Murchison by Mitchell and this became the name of the very large original station that included the location that was to become Wilcannia township.
In 1862 the area northwest of Mount Murchison Station was still frontier country with continual conflict. Frederic Bonney was based at Mount Murchison homestead and then nearby Momba homestead from 1865 to 1881 and he bluntly states in his notebooks that in this period "natives killed by settlers - shot like dogs"
Bonney recorded extensive detail about the lives, language, culture, and personalities of the Aboriginal people at Mount Murchison/Momba and left us with extremely significant series of photos of Aboriginal people taken in this period. He does not elaborate about the way the station was set up except for his comment above. Frederic Bonney not only respected and looked after the local people but he sympathised with them, worked with them, and respected them. The Bonney papers and photographs are a treasure of information about the Aboriginal people living there between 1865 and 1881. Bonney published a paper in 1884 but long after he had returned to England to live he campaigned for the better treatment of the Aboriginal people, and he tried to educate the public about the complexity of Aboriginal culture.
Bonney names about 44 individual Aboriginal people living at Momba in this period, and one group photo from the same period shows a total of 38 people. Descendants of some of the people Bonney describes still live in Wilcannia and surrounding areas today.
Aboriginal people worked on Moomba and Mount Murchison Station, and from very early times fringe camps grew up around Wilcannia. The land straight across the River from the Wilcannia post office was gazetted as an Aboriginal Reserve, and this became the nucleus of a very large fringe camp that grew into a substantial settlement spaced out along the river bank in the 1930s to the 1970s. By 1953 the Aboriginal Welfare Board had built a series of 14 barrack-like and inappropriately designed houses in an enlarged reserve, now an attractive tree lined settlement known as the Mission (although never a mission it was beside a Catholic School and clinic, thus the name). Today Aboriginal people are the majority of the population of the vibrant, creative, and culturally active town of Wilcannia, and the main users of the post office facilities.
Wilcannia History:
The first secure pastoralists at Mount Murchison were the brothers Hugh and Bushby Jamieson of Mildura Station on the Murray, who in 1856 took up Tallandra and Moorabin blocks, later extended with other blocks and named Mount Murchison Station. Captain Cadell's paddlesteamer Albury was the first to travel up the Darling, landing flour and other stores for the Jamiesons at Mount Murchison in February 1859. The Albury then loaded 100 bales of wool from their woolshed and brought it down to Adelaide. At this time there were no other stations on the Darling between Mt Murchison and Fort Bourke. A little later:
"An enterprising attempt has just been made by Mr. Hugh Jamieson, of Mount Murchison, to bring fat sheep speedily to Adelaide. Mr. Jamieson having chartered Captain Cadell's steamer, Albury, that vessel was prepared, and received on board at Mildura 550 fine fat sheep. These were landed at Moorundee last Tuesday, after a rapid passage of two days, all the sheep being in splendid condition when put ashore"
Jamiesons sold in 1864 to Robert Barr Smith and Ross Reid from Adelaide. The brothers Edward and Frederic Bonney were leasing some adjacent blocks and possibly worked at Mount Murchison for these owners. In 1875 they bought the Mount Murchison/Momba complex, one of the largest stations in New South Wale. In 1865 it was known as Mount Murchison, in 1881 it was all known as Momba, later splitting into smaller stations. The original Mount Murchison Station homestead block was also known as Head Station or Karannia, the Barkandji name for the area just north of the town near where the Paroo River comes into the Barka. The original Mount Murchison woolshed was located on what is now Baker Park, Wilcannia, which is adjacent to the current Post Office.
The site of Wilcannia was selected on Mount Murchison Station in 1864 by John Chadwick Woore, who was appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands of the Albert District in 1863 and was based at Wilcannia. The town was proclaimed in 1866 and in the 1870s it became a coaching centre for prospectors exploiting the region's gold, copper, silver, and opal resources, and the administrative, service, and shipping centre for the pastoral industry. Wilcannia was incorporated as a municipality in 1881, and around this time it became New South Wales biggest inland port and Australia's third largest inland port (after Echuca Victoria and Morgan South Australia). 'The Queen of the River' or 'Queen City of the West'. At the height of its prosperity around 1880, the town boasted a population of 3,000. According to the Register of the National Estate, during 1887 alone, 222 steamers took on 26,550 tonnes of wool and other goods at Wilcannia wharves. The value of goods coming down the Darling River in 1884 was 1,359,786 pounds, and included over 30,000 bales of wool. The customs house, another Wilcannia stone building now demolished, located immediately between the Post office and the river bank and wharfs, took 17,544 pounds in customs duties in 1889. Paddlesteamers gradually declined, particularly after the 1920s, although a few continued to trade up and down the river into the 1940's, still remembered by elderly Wilcannia residents.
Wilcannia in the 1870s and into the 1900s was the centre of the pastoral and mining boom of the far west of New South Wales, and it was the centre of the paddlesteamer river trade from the Upper Darling to the Murray River and outlets such as Adelaide and Melbourne. The frequent dry seasons and lack of water in the river led to other methods of transporting goods being used, such as camel trains, but when the water came down the river trade always returned. The river trade built Wilcannia's fine buildings, but it was also its undoing, as the New South Wales government intervened to reduce the river trade because goods were moving to and from Adelaide and Melbourne, not Sydney.
Plans to improve navigation on the river were suggested in 1859 after Captain Cadell's first successful voyage up the Darling that was followed by other paddlesteamers. Cadell gave evidence at a New South Wales Select Committee that the Darling would be become reliable for boats if a system of locks were built at very reasonable cost that would hold back water during the drier seasons. The plans to build locks along the Darling River to make navigation more consistent were investigated again and again, but were not realised because the New South Wales government believed trade would benefit Victoria and South Australia.
After the opening of the Sydney to Bourke railway line in 1885, Wilcannia lost its status as the major commercial centre of the Darling River. The trade from the far North West New South Wales then tended to go to the railhead at Bourke and straight to Sydney. There were plans in the 1880s for the railway to be run from Cobar to Wilcannia, however this plan was continuously put off. Plans for a railway to Wilcannia continued to be made throughout the 1890's and early 1900's, and including a proposal from Cobar to Broken Hill then linking to South Australia as the Great Western Railway. In 1907 "a large petition was forwarded to Sydney from Wilcannia for presentation to the Premier urging immediate construction of the Cobar-Wilcannia Railway, and subsequent extension to Broken Hill".
The New South Wales government attempt to stop trade leaking out of the state resulted in their refusal to build a railway to Wilcannia (as goods tended to go to Wilcannia and down the river), or to extend the railway to South Australia for the same reasons. The bend in the river on the north side of town celebrates this government intransigence by its name "Iron Pole Bend", the iron pole said to have been placed at the surveyed location of the proposed railway bridge. New South Wales eventually built a railway through the low population Ivanhoe route to the south of Wilcannia reaching Broken Hill in 1927, and even then it stopped at Broken Hill and did not join the South Australian line until 1970. The link between Broken Hill and the South Australian railway was provided from 1884 to 1970 by the narrow gauge private railway 'the Silverton Tramway', which also took trade from Wilcannia.
The combination of missing out on the railway and locking of the river, the severe drought on 1900 - 1901, and the damage to the pastoral economy by drought, rabbits, and over grazing, led to a down turn in Wilcannia's prospects, leaving the fine stone buildings such as the post office languishing as tangible reminders of a time when Wilcannia was known as the "Queen City of the West" and was the largest inland port in New South Wales and the third largest inland port in Australia.
Source: New South Wales Heritage Register & Central Darling Heritage Trail.
Another never shown February 2008 angle on the BAE1-11 closing out its life being disassembled by students at the jet mechanic's school at the former Castle AFB. Nice of the airport manager to just let us night photography weirdoes run wild out there, no problem. One minute of full moon and sodium vapor security lights, with red/green-gelled flashlight.
At a mechanic's garage, I looked up & realized the garage door, opened & lifted to the ceiling, had reflective windows. This is what I saw & I had to click this photo!
"Mechanic's Special"
Changed a few small things and I'm actually really liking it as it is, but I'll still likely redo the Volksrod! Wheel design is from Adam.
The Allen socket end of a rusty brake caliper slide pin(or guide pin, or guide bolt) . I think the rust and corrosion gives it a lot of character. I found it laying on the road. By it's condition it's been there a while. My hope is it dropped off the back of a mechanic's truck, and didn't drop out of the disc brake assembly of a passing vehicle! The end on outside width of the pin is 1.6cm.
File: 2023005-0110
Shelsley Walsh, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, Saturday 3rd June 2023.
About the photograph.
Those two mechanics were pushing the Gould GR55, a single seater, open wheeled, race car with 2500cc engine, to the pre-start line. They stopped to wait for their turn to move forward, while other cars moved ahead as it is their turns. Notice the left mechanic’s feet in a relaxed position.
The right mechanic is seen bringing along a portable battery pack, and I am not a car enthusiast, I only know just basics, so I’m guessing the purpose of this battery pack is to start the car in case it stalled at the starting line.
The car is driven by Edmund Burgess.
The event they are attending is called the Best of British event during the weekend, at the Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb track.
I shot in colour, but it was a very strong sunny day, and I mistakenly had my white balance set wrong, however I used Adobe Lightroom to convert it into black and white, and then use Adobe Photoshop to crop the shots, for a story-telling feel to the photos.
About Shelsley Walsh.
Shelsley Walsh is a motorsports speed hill climb track in Worcestershire, and organised by the Midland Automobile Club (MAC).
It is one of the oldest motorsports event, having started in 1905, and held events every year, except for the two World Wars.
It is also a notably steep course by today’s hill climb standards, rising 328ft / 100m over its 1000 yards / 914 metres length.
The track and course do not belong to MAC, it is leased from the local landowner. The original lease ran for 99 years, and in 2005, a new lease was signed for the next 99 years.
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This building was erected in 1898 for the Alma Mechanics’ Institute which was the forerunner of Technical Colleges and Adult Learning. It was a very important community centre for residents of South Broken Hill.
The Alma Mechanics Institute building was restored between 1987-1990 from a near-ruinous condition. The building was saved by one councillor’s vote and became one of the first restoration projects undertaken by the Broken Hill City Council and is now known as the South Community Centre.
‘Alma’ was the original name for South Broken Hill, named for a battle in the Crimean War of 1854.
Source: Visit Broken Hill (www.visitbrokenhill.com/Trails/Silver-Trail/82.-Alma-Mech...)
Spiral staircase from the Mechanic's Institute Library. This looks much better with the larger version.
The Studebaker Avanti is a personal luxury coupe manufactured and marketed by Studebaker Corporation between June 1962 and December 1963. A halo car for the maker, it was marketed as America's only four-passenger high-performance personal car.(Wikipedia)
Came across this car at the parking lot of my mechanic's garage. Didn't realize its significance in automotive history.
Enjoying the user experience of this lens with the T/S functionality. Still getting used to it and loving the results. One thing to remind myself is not to go crazy on the T/S functionality, it can be overdone. Using this lens at 0/0 setting provides very good imagery, sharp! The 45mm focal length offers a great perspective.
View other shots taken with this lens here. Small but a growing collection.
View other cars and automotive related pictures here.
National Historic Site of Canada - Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterborough_Lift_Lock
www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=11449...
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent%E2%80%93Severn_Waterway
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterborough,_Ontario
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Nikon Nikkor 18-135mm 1:3.5-5.6 G ED-IF AF-S DX
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Abandoned mechanic's shop, Puget Sound, WA. Right after I took this, a gentleman with burn marks on his teeth arrived. We called out that we were there, so we wouldn't startle him. He apologized for the condition of the place when we told him we were taking pictures. We apologized for intruding. He explained that the shop had closed when the highway moved.