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Great looking bright moon tonight!
Just received my Astronomical Calendar 2014 yesterday. Created by Guy Ottewell at Furman University. For more info - UniversalWorkshop.com!
Moon - Feb 2 2015. Cross-quarter day. Halfway between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox.
Full moon tomorrow (Feb 3 at 23:09UT)
Astronomy information from the Astronomical Calendar 2015 by Guy Ottewell Furman University.
The moon-Jupiter-Venus show is underway (show times vary by location). And it’s spectacular! We won’t see its kind for another 44 years.
By Joe Rao
SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist
posted: 21 November 2008
11:04 am ET
The most spectacular celestial sight during these final days of November is reserved for the early evening sky, as Jupiter and Venus, the two brightest planets, draw closer together.
The waxing crescent moon will join the planets on the first evening of December for a striking celestial trio.
One of my astronomy mentors, Dr. Kenneth L. Franklin (1923-2007), a former Chairman and Chief Astronomer at New York's Hayden Planetarium, often made reference to our "dynamic and ever-changing night sky." Such an eloquent description certainly fits our current evening sky, as we now have a celestial summit meeting in the making in the western evening twilight.
For the remainder of November, evening skywatchers can watch as each evening Jupiter and Venus slowly converge on each other in the southwestern sky, right after sunset. The two planets will appear a similar distance apart on both the evenings of Nov. 30 and Dec. 1. They will be so close you'll be able to stretch your arm out and, with your thumb, blot both of them out.
After Dec. 1, like two celestial ships passing in the night, the planets will slowly separate, but there will still be one more eye-catching sight to see. For on that very same evening, those who gaze toward the south-southwest sky for up to about two hours after sunset arise will be treated to a spectacular sight as Venus, Jupiter and the crescent moon cluster closely together. The trio will form a wide isosceles triangle, with Venus at the vertex.
It should prove quite a spectacle for naked eye, binoculars, or camera. Imagine the astrological significance that the ancients might have ascribed to a celestial summit meeting such as this! Moreover, for much of Europe, the moon will actually appear to cross in front of Venus resulting in a rare occultation.
Writing of this spectacular celestial configuration in Guy Ottewell's 2008 Astronomical Calendar, Fred Schaaf calls the sight "stunning," adding that "they will draw all eyes their way."
The moment of closest approach for Venus and Jupiter will actually come during the early morning hours of Dec. 1, unfortunately when this "dynamic duo" is below the horizon for North America. They'll be separated by just over 2-degrees, which correspond to roughly one-half the distance that separates Pollux from Castor, the "Twin Stars" of Gemini (The width of your fist, held at arm's length roughly corresponds to 10-degrees).
Generally speaking, at least for the next few years, conjunctions between Venus and Jupiter come in pairs. The first conjunction takes place in the morning sky, usually followed about 10 months later by another in the evening sky. Then, two and a half years later, Venus and Jupiter are again in conjunction, again in the morning sky. On Feb. 1 of this year, Venus and Jupiter were paired-off in the morning sky. After Dec. 1, Venus and Jupiter will next get together again in the morning sky on May 11, 2011. And ten months later, in March of 2012 they will again pair off in the evening sky right after sundown.
Present day roads in Rockwood overlayed onto an 1877 Peel Atlas map (Burnhamthorpe).
Note: the overlay is not perfect but it gives you an idea...
Francis W Shaver 150 acres - Marblethorne Crt, Garnetwood Chase, Garrowhill Trail, Palisades, part of Rathburn & Bough Beeches & Carscadden & Beechknoll, Garnetwood Park, part of River Millway & Tapestry Trail
Mrs. Elizabeth Coates 100 acres - part of Carscadden & Beechknoll & Claypine Rise
Estate of J. Wadsworth 100 acres - Ponytrail Dr, part of Claypine Rise, Mahogany Row,
Dr. Moses H. Aikens (Aikins) 200 acres - Fieldgate Drive, Tahoe Blvd, Buckhorn Gate, Audubon, Chalkdene Grove, Saltdene Terrace, Branchwood Park, Rowntree Crt,
Charles Doherty 200 acres - Eastgate Parkway, Lewes Way, part of Maple Ridge, Corkstone Glade, Copesholm Trail, Rockwood Road, Anworld Place,
Robert Currie 50 acres - Ottewell Cres, Hartfield Grove, Grazia Crt,
George Chadwick 50 acres - Esso Gas Station, Rockwood Mall, part of Bough Beeches Blvd, Poltava Cres,
Allen Craig 100 acres - Eastgate Parkway, Canada Post (Gateway)
I found the PDF version of Dixie: Orchards to Industry by Kathleen Hicks. The book has a section on Burnhamthorpe.
www.mississauga.ca/file/COM/9635_DixieBook_PartFour.pdf
or
www.mississauga.ca/file/COM/9635_DixieBook.pdf for the whole book.
Mississauga Heritage also has an article on Burnhamthorpe.
NCB colliery, Fordbridge Lane, South Normanton 1981. On the evening of Tuesday, 15 February, 1937, Clarence Dye and eleven other men were working at the coal face of the Waterloo Seam at South Normanton Colliery. Just after 9 pm the roof began to weight. Mr Dye' s statement, made at the colliery three days later, depicts in graphic detail what followed; 'I ordered the men out. All came out into the loader gate. As the weight got worse, ordered them further up the gate. When we were twenty-four yards up a gust of wind came and clouds of dust. I shouted to the men near the switch box to switch all power off. I was sent flying also by the other men. When the dust cleared I ordered men to get stretchers and telephoned the pit bottom for ponies and tubs. I ordered men out of the gate. I returned to the face with Jonathan Waltho into the left bank because that was where the explosion seemed to come from. The weight seemed to start in the left bank. We reached approximately fifteen yards from the cutter in dust and foul air. Cutter man Johnson crawled by us. There were lights against the cutter and we shouted, Can you get? Thornley and Ansell shouted, Which way is the gate? We shouted, Come down towards us, which they did'. It was not long before this help arrived. At 9.35pm Mr J.G. Mein, the colliery manager, was telephoned at home. Within five minutes he was at the colliery. He rang the Mansfield Rescue Station. The brigade turned out and simultaneously Mansfield Station alerted the Chesterfield Brigade. The Mansfield rescue team went down the pit at 10.11 pm followed, at 10.14pm, by the Chesterfield team. The team spent twenty minutes making enquiries about the direction and condition of the affected area. Truswell drew them a sketch map of the district on the team's receiver box, told them that eight men were left inbye, and that they would be in the left hand bank of the conveyer face. At 7.15 am they returned, reporting an un-passable fall some eight hundred yards inbye. However, there was a slight current of air blowing through the fall and the team went back with a canary to test for gas. The test proved negative. Mr Mein telephoned H.M.I. Felton with this information. He gave permission for explorations to be suspended so those workmen could concentrate on removing the fall on the coalface. He insisted, however, that no workman should go beyond the fall either on the face or in the tailgate. The reaction to the tragedy was overwhelming. Messages of sympathy and condolence flooded into South Normanton by letter and by telegram. Company records list 132 sympathisers who sent messages and to whom a personal or a circular reply was sent. On 5 March a parish meeting was held to establish a relief fund for the dependants of the deceased and injured. The fund was started by a donation of one hundred guineas from the South Normanton Colliery Company. The final total was just less than £850. All monies received, less necessary expenses, were paid to the dependants. The inquest on Sam Hill, Willis Lambert, John Marriott and Henry Willis had opened on 20 February, that on Everett Reeves, Frederick Pride and John Vardy, who were buried for five days, on 22 February. The eighth victim, Percy Ansell, had died from his injuries in Mansfield General Hospital. When the inquest resumed at the Council Offices, Alfreton, on Friday, 12 March, the Chesterfield coroner, Dr R.A.Macrae, sat with H.M. Divisional Inspector of Mines, Mr J.R.Felton, and a jury. The first witness, Dr S.J.Halpin, who had been called to the colliery on the night of 15 February, testified that in the case of seven of the deceased the cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning and burns. During the enquiry the jury heard that the presence of gas in the Waterloo Seam was an unusual occurrence. There were five possible theories about the source of that naked light as a result of shot-firing; from one of the lamps; an electrical fault; friction; or from someone smoking. William Truswell' s testimony removed all doubts about the shot firing! The possibility of faulty lamps was quickly dismissed. Mr Pickering testified that two electric lamps had been found near the coal cutter and a flame lamp near to Henry Willis's body. He had had them examined at the testing station in Sheffield, where they were found to be satisfactory. There were three possible sources of an electrical spark: the power cables; the coal cutter, and the conveyer motor. William Truswell, Leslie Ottewell and Clarence Dye all testified that the current had been switched off after the explosion. Mr James Cowan, Electrical Inspector of Mines, said there was an old defect in the outbye cable but that it had been insulated by sheathing in black tape, there was a defect in the conveyer system: four set-screws had not been screwed home properly on one of the covers on the motor, leaving a gap of sixty to seventy thousandths of an inch. But, he concluded, 'after the close investigation I have made, I am satisfied that electricity played no part in this explosion!' The remaining theory was that someone had been smoking. Certainly there was evidence that smoking materials were taken underground, despite both regular and random searches. Police Constable Tansley said he had found cigarettes on the bodies of some of the men when he had examined them. The spent match led Mr Pickering to conclude that the explosion had been caused by someone smoking. When further questioned, Mr Pickering, though remaining convinced that illegal smoking was the cause, admitted that he had 'no direct evidence that the explosion was caused by the striking of a match'. There was, in fact, 'no direct evidence' to link any theoretical cause to the actual occurrence. The jury had no alternative hut to return the verdict they did. 'We cannot find the cause of ignition of the explosion. South Normanton Colliery closed in 1952.
The memorial is located in Queen Street Swimming Baths, Derby (now closed)
TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEMBERS OF THE DERBY SWIMMING CLUBS WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR, 1914 – 1919.
F. G. ALLEN
F. J. BEER
K. BEMROSE
J. D. BLACK
J. E. BRAMHAM
J. BROOKS
A. BROWN
P. F. BURROWS
S. V. CHATTERTON
W. DANKS
B. DAWES
J. H. DICKERSON
B. C. S. DIXON
W. DOWNING
A. FELL
T. FINCH
L. FISHER
H. E. FITCH
W. GENT
E. HARDY
E. HARFORD
W. HARRISON
J. HATTON
W. H. HILL
V. HOPE
V. HORNSBY
H. JENNINGS
S. KERRY
J. E. KILMARTIN
H. V. LANCASTER
T. LYMM
A. MACKLIN
W. J. D. McCARTEN
R. MOON
H. MOORCROFT
A. V. ORME
H. D. OTTEWELL
T. PORTER
N. POWELL
B. B. REED
J. ROBERTS
R. A. ROE
R. W. SEPHTON
H. SLACK
P. SMEDLEY
A. STATHAM
J. TATAM
A. M. THOMPSON
F. TOLLEDAY
A. WALTERS
J. WHELAN
C. WIBBERLEY
C. WITT
Picture featured in this magazine article: www.smart-magazine.com/en/repurposed-phone-booths/
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A new chain of coffee shops has launched in Brighton in two red phone boxes.
Red Box Coffee is the brainchild of local Brighton businessmen Eddie Ottewell and Steve Beeken, who have taken over the phone boxes under BT’s Adopt a Kiosk scheme.
The scheme allows local charities and community groups to buy underused red phone boxes from the company for just £1. The two phone boxes near Brighton’s Pavilion Gardens have been transformed into cafes supplying locals and tourists with coffee and ice cream.
Eddie Ottewell and Steve Beeken started the Thinking Outside The Box Charitable Trust two years ago with the intention of bringing new life to old phone boxes, and making a positive contribution to the community. They approached BT and proposed the idea of developing unused telephone boxes into retail units.
Starting in their home city of Brighton the trust is working with homeless charity Friends First, which helps people to break cycles of homelessness, dependency and unemployment. Ten per cent from every Red Box Coffee shop purchase will go to Friends First.
home.bt.com/news/bt-life/bt-phone-box-coffee-shop-opens-i...
A new chain of coffee shops has launched in Brighton in two red phone boxes.
Red Box Coffee is the brainchild of local Brighton businessmen Eddie Ottewell and Steve Beeken, who have taken over the phone boxes under BT’s Adopt a Kiosk scheme.
The scheme allows local charities and community groups to buy underused red phone boxes from the company for just £1. The two phone boxes near Brighton’s Pavilion Gardens have been transformed into cafes supplying locals and tourists with coffee and ice cream.
Eddie Ottewell and Steve Beeken started the Thinking Outside The Box Charitable Trust two years ago with the intention of bringing new life to old phone boxes, and making a positive contribution to the community. They approached BT and proposed the idea of developing unused telephone boxes into retail units.
Starting in their home city of Brighton the trust is working with homeless charity Friends First, which helps people to break cycles of homelessness, dependency and unemployment. Ten per cent from every Red Box Coffee shop purchase will go to Friends First.
The distinctive arts barn of the A.J. Ottewell Community Centre is another interesting historic building in Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada. It is a testament to the rural heritage of Strathcona county. The barn can be found on the Heritage Mile. Another peaceful place to explore in Sherwood Park is the Sherwood Park Natural Area (not shown in photo). Visitors can explore the trails within the forests and wooded areas.
Pictured Under a calm and moon lit night out in the Arabian Gulf HMS Monmouth carried out a night shoot with the use of Paralume Night flares. Honing, and maintaining, the sailors skills the Command put HMS Monmouth’s Force Protection Teams through their paces.
Petty Officer Gunner Dave Copeland and Leading Seaman “Jonny” Hinchcliffe conducted the shoot with a Team of Aimers consisting of nine highly trained personnel.
The shoot was thoroughly enjoyed by all the members taking part, Leading Seaman Hinchcliffe said “It is always good to conduct night serial and I feel the members of the team gained lot from the Exercise, conducting this shoot increased the confidence of the sailors to carry out their Operation duties while on task at the Iraqi Oil Platforms”
An accurate rate of fire onto the paralume target was achieved with over Three Thousand Six Hundred (3600) rounds of 7.62mm calibre fired through the weapon systems.
Lieutenant Commander Paul Ottewell Royal Navy, Monmouth’s Operations Officer said “Live firing practice underpins our readiness to act decisively on the Captain’s orders to deter threats and, if necessary, to neutralise them. Tonight may have been a spectacular sound-and-light show but for those involved it has recharged that vital pillar of courage in the face of the enemy, namely confidence in one’s skill-at-arms. Monmouth will remain on duty in the Arabian Gulf until the spring of 2010. Please Credit Images - LA (Phot) Stuart Hill / MOD.
Edmonton Transit System 2007 New Flyer D40LFR #4683 seen on route 4 at Ottewell Road Northwest and 93a Avenue Northwest.
Pictured Under a calm and moon lit night out in the Arabian Gulf HMS Monmouth carried out a night shoot with the use of Paralume Night flares. Honing, and maintaining, the sailors skills the Command put HMS Monmouth’s Force Protection Teams through their paces.
Petty Officer Gunner Dave Copeland and Leading Seaman “Jonny” Hinchcliffe conducted the shoot with a Team of Aimers consisting of nine highly trained personnel.
The shoot was thoroughly enjoyed by all the members taking part, Leading Seaman Hinchcliffe said “It is always good to conduct night serial and I feel the members of the team gained lot from the Exercise, conducting this shoot increased the confidence of the sailors to carry out their Operation duties while on task at the Iraqi Oil Platforms”
An accurate rate of fire onto the paralume target was achieved with over Three Thousand Six Hundred (3600) rounds of 7.62mm calibre fired through the weapon systems.
Lieutenant Commander Paul Ottewell Royal Navy, Monmouth’s Operations Officer said “Live firing practice underpins our readiness to act decisively on the Captain’s orders to deter threats and, if necessary, to neutralise them. Tonight may have been a spectacular sound-and-light show but for those involved it has recharged that vital pillar of courage in the face of the enemy, namely confidence in one’s skill-at-arms. “
Monmouth will remain on duty in the Arabian Gulf until the spring of 2010. Please Credit Images - LA (Phot) Stuart Hill / MOD.
Gomez rocked my world last night - and the night before!!!
My ears are still ringing and my heart is still buzzin. I have many a photo to go through -
I look and I smile!
Ian Ball, Tom Gray, Ben Ottewell, Paul Blackburn.
Olly Peacock behind the drums
Sally Ottewell and Stephen Chapman look on whilst, Rachael Burgress picks a winner from Pete Maxted's bucket., the Raffle is in aid of the Snowdon Trust www.snowdontrust.org/
www.southwaterbusinesslive.co.uk/
all copyrights reserved ©2012 Art Hutchins ~ Art's Eye photographic©.http://artseyephotographic.zenfolio.com/
Pictured Under a calm and moon lit night out in the Arabian Gulf HMS Monmouth carried out a night shoot with the use of Paralume Night flares. Honing, and maintaining, the sailors skills the Command put HMS Monmouth’s Force Protection Teams through their paces.
Petty Officer Gunner Dave Copeland and Leading Seaman “Jonny” Hinchcliffe conducted the shoot with a Team of Aimers consisting of nine highly trained personnel.
The shoot was thoroughly enjoyed by all the members taking part, Leading Seaman Hinchcliffe said “It is always good to conduct night serial and I feel the members of the team gained lot from the Exercise, conducting this shoot increased the confidence of the sailors to carry out their Operation duties while on task at the Iraqi Oil Platforms”
An accurate rate of fire onto the paralume target was achieved with over Three Thousand Six Hundred (3600) rounds of 7.62mm calibre fired through the weapon systems.
Lieutenant Commander Paul Ottewell Royal Navy, Monmouth’s Operations Officer said “Live firing practice underpins our readiness to act decisively on the Captain’s orders to deter threats and, if necessary, to neutralise them. Tonight may have been a spectacular sound-and-light show but for those involved it has recharged that vital pillar of courage in the face of the enemy, namely confidence in one’s skill-at-arms. “
Monmouth will remain on duty in the Arabian Gulf until the spring of 2010. Please Credit Images - LA (Phot) Stuart Hill / MOD.
Pictured Under a calm and moon lit night out in the Arabian Gulf HMS Monmouth carried out a night shoot with the use of Paralume Night flares. Honing, and maintaining, the sailors skills the Command put HMS Monmouth’s Force Protection Teams through their paces.
Petty Officer Gunner Dave Copeland and Leading Seaman “Jonny” Hinchcliffe conducted the shoot with a Team of Aimers consisting of nine highly trained personnel.
The shoot was thoroughly enjoyed by all the members taking part, Leading Seaman Hinchcliffe said “It is always good to conduct night serial and I feel the members of the team gained lot from the Exercise, conducting this shoot increased the confidence of the sailors to carry out their Operation duties while on task at the Iraqi Oil Platforms”
An accurate rate of fire onto the paralume target was achieved with over Three Thousand Six Hundred (3600) rounds of 7.62mm calibre fired through the weapon systems.
Lieutenant Commander Paul Ottewell Royal Navy, Monmouth’s Operations Officer said “Live firing practice underpins our readiness to act decisively on the Captain’s orders to deter threats and, if necessary, to neutralise them. Tonight may have been a spectacular sound-and-light show but for those involved it has recharged that vital pillar of courage in the face of the enemy, namely confidence in one’s skill-at-arms. “
Monmouth will remain on duty in the Arabian Gulf until the spring of 2010. Please Credit Images - LA (Phot) Stuart Hill / MOD.
Frontman of Gomez, Ben Ottewell, during the band's set at Hydro Connect Festival, held at Inverary Castle, in Argyll. The group celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Mercury Award-winning album, "Bring it On," by playing it through from beginning to end, as their set.
Vocalist Ben Ottewell from British Indie Rock band Gomez perform in Australia at the Palais Theatre, Melbourne on the 11th of January 2009.
Today my the grade 4's from my sons class went on a field trip to Fort Edmonton, located in Edmonton, Alberta.
I very much was taken by the look of this wood-burning stove in a house (the Ottewell Homestead) at the start of 1885 street. I love the smell from the wood-burning stove, and it even reminds me of when I was young, one home we had in the county did have a wood-burning stove that my Mom cooked on!