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a former new to overland and county malmesbury optare seen with greater manchester ? highly unusual for a large concern to buy from a small independent company. who knows more ?!
The City of Overland Park is located in Johnson County, Kansas. In 2010 the city had a population of 173,372 making it the 2nd largest city in Kansas and the largest suburb of Kansas City.
Overland 20 is the latest incarnation of the original Terrahawks supply delivery vehicle..
Built onto Hot Wheels chassis.
Inspired by the Gerry Anderson Series.
Seen here at EMAD base working 3 pods full of supplies.
Vehicle and Diorama scratchbuilt,
Turkey: October 1971
This notorious stretch of road from Horosan to Agri in eastern Turkey has now been abandoned as a new route was opened up later in the 1970s that bypassed the old Tahir Pass. Being a dirt, or gravel road it was never a good surface to drive on — in summer it was hard to see where you were going because of the dust; in the rain it became a river of mud, and in the winter it was under snow for months on end. This road was part of the so-called Eurasian (or Euro-Asian) Highway, yet a lot of it was little more than a farm track. There were more heavy trucks using this road than cars or buses as it was the main trunk route from Europe, eastwards to Iran, Afghanistan, and the Indian subcontinent.
Later in 1971, when I was driving the same bus from London back out to Kabul on this road, it was essential to use snow chains on the rear wheels, from Erzurum to Agri. The landscape is hostile and barren; the climate can be extreme – during that 1971/72 winter the temperature fell to around -40° C. This caused problems with diesel fuel 'icing up' so it was common practice to add a small amount of petrol or paraffin (kerosene) to the diesel tank – not something to be recommended, but sometimes you had no other option. A common sight in the winter was to see a truck stopped, and the driver had lit a small fire under the fuel tank to thaw the diesel.
Composer: Charles D'Albert (1809-1886)
Publication Information: London : Chappell, [ca.1850?]
Catalogue ref: 781.4 DAV
Artist: J. Brandard
Technique: colour lithography
Some of the passengers on the Safaris Overland trip to India, that left London in July 1971. We were waiting, in Lahore, for the usual few passengers who were nearly always late for a departure. From left to right are: Mike, Marie, Sylvia, Hillary, Alan, Dennis and Delicia.
Overlander - Yutong TC9 - YE18 FMA seen on Emerson Way, Newton Aycliffe on September 12th 2018.
This has since passed to Primrose Coaches of Hexham
Our first campsite in Tanzania, near Mbeya.
Note our long wrap skirts. We had just come from Malawi where all women had to wear long dresses and men had to wear stove-pipe trousers, narrow enough that a beer bottle couldn't fit up the trouser leg near the ankles. This was the era of flares, so the guys had to pin/sew jeans so that they were narrow. We bought our wrap material at the Lusaka markets. There were some interesting choices including the face of the Zambian president, Kenneth Kaunda, which I didn't choose!
NB: Thanks to Philip Watson for the ID of the truck.
Last time I visited some twenty months ago, most of All Saints was shrouded in scaffolding and thick plastic, as the tower needed to be shored up.
You must come back when the work is complete the warden told me.
I went back.
And the same warden greeted me, though she didn't remember me.
Large and airy now, showing off the fine Victorian tiles in the Chancel, though the lighting gave my pictures a strong cast. Liked the 1950s windows with over 50 saint's symbols.
Open between 14:00 and 156:00 every summer Saturday afternoon.
You'll get a warm welcome. Worth seeking out.
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In an awkward position, cut off from its village by the railway and bypass and somewhat compromised by the adjoining paper mill. The present church has been extended from its thirteenth century origins, most noticeably by the addition of a tall tower in the fifteenth century. There is a rood loft staircase in the south wall and on a pillar nearby can still be seen an unusual fourteenth-century Crucifixion painted on the stonework within an incised outline. The church was over-restored by Blomfield in 1870 and suffered damage in the Second World War when the medieval glass was destroyed. Fragments that survived have been assembled where possible. New windows were installed, including the thirty-six symbols of the saints in the east window by Hugh Easton (1953), and the Becket Pilgrim window by Moira Forsyth (1966). A large memorial in the south aisle commemorates Thomas Waghorn (d. 1850), who pioneered the overland route to India.
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NORTHWARD from Ditton, on the western side of the Medway, a small part of Aylesford at New Hyth intervening, is Snodland, called in Domesday, ESNOILAND, and in the Textus Roffensis, SNODDINGLAND and SNODILAND.
SNODLAND lies on the western bank of the river, which is its eastern boundary opposite to Burham. The high road from Stroud to Larkfield goes through the village, which is situated about half a mile, and the church about midway from the river. It lies low, and being near the salt marshes, is not either very pleasant or very wholesome. In the southern part of the parish the stream which flows from Birling turns a pa per mill here, and thence flows into the Medway, not far from which is Snodland and New-Hyth common. In the northern part of the parish next to Lower Halling, is the hamlet of Holborough, usually called Hoborow, no doubt for Old Borough, a name implying the antiquity of this place. Many are inclined to believe, that the usual passage across the river in the time of the Romans, was from hence to Scarborough on the opposite shore. However that may be, Holborow was certainly known to them, for in queen Elizabeth's reign, an urn filled with ashes was discovered in digging for chalk on the hill above this place, a sure token of the Romans having frequented it. (fn. 1) In this hamlet Mr. John May resides in a handsome new-built house, near it there rises a small brook, which flows from hence into the Medway, at about half a mile distance. From this low and flat country, on the bank of the river, the ground rises westward up to the range of high chalk hills, where the land becomes poor and much covered with flints. Upon these hills among the woods is an estate, corruptly called Punish, for it takes its name from the family of Pouenesse, or Pevenashe, written by contraction Poneshe, who were possessed of it as high as king Henry the IIId's. reign, in queen Elizabeth's reign it was called Poynyshe, and was then in possession of the name of Brown, who held it of the bishop of Rochester as of his manor of Halling. (fn. 2) About a mile eastward from the above is a farm called Lads, which in king Edward I's. reign, and some generations afterwards, was in the possession of a family of that name, written in deeds of those times, Lad, and Le Lad.
This parish ought antiently to have contributed to the repair of the ninth pier of Rochester bridge.
Sir John Marsham, bart. and Sir Charles Bickerstaff, had a design of supplying the towns of Stroud, Rochester, and Chatham, with fresh water, by bringing it from the spring rising at the foot of Holborough hill, and others thereabouts, by a cut or channel through Halling and Cuxton thither, four miles of which was through Sir John Marsham's own lands, but after they had proceeded two miles, finding some obstructions, which could not be removed, but by an act, one was procured for the purpose in the 1st year of James II. but nothing further was afterwards done in it, for what reason does not appear.
In the year 838, king Egbert, with the consent of his son king Æthelwulf, gave to Beormod, bishop of Rochester, four plough lands at Snoddinglond and Holanbeorge, with the privilege of leaving them to whomever he pleased; and he granted that the lands should be free from all service, to which he added one mill on the stream, named Holanbeorges bourne, and on the hill belonging to the king fifty loads of wood, and likewife four denberies in the Weald. And in the year 841, Ethelwulf, king of the West Saxons, with the advice of his bishops and great men, gave to the bishop two ploughlands at Holanbeorges, in perpetual inheritance, with the like privilege, and that they should be free from all regal service.
Whilst Ælfstane was bishop of Rochester, who came to the see in 945, and died in 984, one Birtrick, a rich man, who lived at Meopham, with the consent of Elfswithe, his wife, made his testament, and gave, after their deaths, his lands at Snodland to St. Andrew's church at Rochester. (fn. 3)
The bishop of Rochester continued in the possession of this place at the time of taking the general survey of Domesday, about the 15th year of the Conqueror's reign, anno 1080, in which record it is thus entered, under the general title of that bishop's lands:
The same bishop (of Rochester) holds Esnoiland. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was taxed at six sulings, and now at three. The arable land is six carucates. In demesne there are two carucates and ten villeins, with six borderers, having six carucates. There is a church and five servants, and three mills of forty shillings, and thirty acres of meadow, wood for the pannage of four hogs. In the time of king Edward and afterwards, it was worth six pounds, and now nine pounds.
When bishop Gundulph, soon after this, following archbishop Lanfranc's example, separated his revenue from that of his priory, this manor, together with Holborough, continued part of the bishop's possessions, and was confirmed to the church of Rochester by archbishops Anselm and Boniface.
On a taxation of the bishop's manors next year, it appeared that Holeberge was a member of the manor of Halling, and had in it one hundred and ninety-seven acres of arable land, valued at four-pence per acre at the most, as there was no marle there. That there were here fourteen acres of meadow, six acres of pasture, which were salt, and three lately made fresh, each acre at eight-pence, and the mill at twenty shillings per annum.
Hamo, bishop of Rochester, in the year 1323, new built the mill at Holbergh, with timber from Perstede, at the expence of ten pounds. (fn. 4) At which time the bishop seems to have had a park here.
The estate of Snodland with Holborow, still continue part of the possessions of the right reverend the lord bishop of Rochester. William Dalyson, esq. of West Peckham, is the present lessee of the bishop's estate in this parish.
THE FAMILY of Palmer, who bore for their arms, Argent, a chevron between three palmers scrips, sable, tasselled and buckled, or resided for some time in this parish, at a seat they possessed in it, called The courtlodge. Several of them lie buried in the church of Snodland, particularly Thomas Palmer, who married the daughter of Fitzsimond, and died anno 1407. Weaver recites his epitaph thus, now obliterated:
Palmers al our faders were
I, a Palmer, livyd here
And travylled till worne wythe age
I endyd this worlds pylgramage
On the blyst Assention day
In the cherful month of May
A thowsand wyth fowre hundryd seven
And took my jorney hense to Heuen
From him descended the Palmers, of Tottington, in Aylesford, and of Howlets, in Bekesborne, now extinct.
The Palmers were succeeded here by the Leeds's, one of whom, William Leeds, lay interred in this church, whose arms, A fess between three eagles, were engraved in brass on his tomb, but they are now torn away; to whom, in the reign of king Charles I. succeeded the Whitfields, of Canterbury. It afterwards passed into the name of Crow, and from thence to the Mays, and it is now the estate of Mr. John May, of Holborough.
VELES, alias SNODLAND, is a manor in this parish, which in the reign of king Edward I. was held as half a knight's fee, of the bishop of Rochester, by John de Pevenashe, John Harange, and Walter Lad, as coparceners, and in the 20th year of king Edward III. Richard Pevenashe, John de Melford, John Lade, and Richard le Veel, paid aid for it.
This manor seems afterwards to have been wholly vested in the family of Veel, called in deeds likewise Le Vitele, and in Latin Vitulus. After they were extinct here, it passed into the name of Blunt, and from that to Turvye, of whose heirs it was held in the latter end of the reign of king Henry VIII. by Richard Harvey. (fn. 5) It passed, after some intermediate owners, by sale to Crow, and from thence in like manner to Mr. John May, whose two sons, Mr. John and William May, of this parish, afterwards possessed it. The latter died in 1777, on which the entire fee of it became vested in his brother Mr. John May, of Holborough, the present possessor of it.
HOLLOWAY COURT is a seat in this parish, which gave name to a family that resided at it. Henry de Holeweye paid aid for it in the beginning of the reign of king Henry III. (fn. 6) His descendant, William de Holeweye possessed it in the 30th year of king Edward I. from which name it passed into that of Tilghman, who were owners of it in the reign of king Edward III. Many of whom lie buried in this church, bearing for their arms, Per fess sable and argent, a lion rampant regardant, doubled queved counterchanged, crowned, as they were painted in very old glass in the windows of this house. Their pedigree is in Vistn. co. of Kent, anno 1619.
Richard Tilghman possessed it in the reign of king Henry IV. and in his descendants it continued down to Edward Tilghman, esq. who was of Snodland, and was twice married; by his first wife he had a son, Francis, and by his second, two sons, the eldest of whom, Whetenhall Tilghman, had part of his father's lands in this parish, which continued in his descendants till about the year 1680, when they were alienated to Sir John Marsham, bart. whose descendant, the right honorable Charles, lord Romney, is the present possessor of them.
¶Francis Tilghman, only son of Edward, by his first wife, was of Snodland, and possessed Holoway-court, where he resided in the reign of king James I. but died without surviving issue. He passed away this estate by sale to Clotworthy, descended from those of that name in Devonshire, and he by will gave it to his sister's son, Mr. Thomas Williams, who alienated it to Richard Manley, esq. who resided here, and dying in 1684, was buried in this church, leaving by Martha, daughter of John Baynard, of Shorne, widow of Bonham Faunce, of St. Margaret's, Rochester one son, Charles, and a daughter, Frances, married to Dr. Robert Conny, hereafter-mentioned. He sold Holloway court to Mr. John Conny, of Rochester, surgeon, son of Robert Conny, gent. of Godmanchester, in Huntingdonshire, and bore for his arms, Sable, a fess argent, cotized or, between three conies of the second. On whose decease his eldest son, Robert Conny, of Rochester, M. D. succeeded to it, and he sold it to Thomas Pearce, esq. a commissioner of the navy, whose three sons and coheirs, Thomas, Best, and Vincent Pearce, conveyed it by sale to Mr. John May, and his eldest son, Mr John May, of Holborough, in this parish, now possesses it.
The church is dedicated to All Saints. It is a small mean building with a low pointed steeple.
The church of Snodland has ever been appendant to the manor. It has never been appropriated, but con tinues a rectory in the patronage of the right reverend the lord bishop of Rochester.
¶Much dispute having arisen between the rector of this parish, and the rector of Woldham, on the opposite side of the river Medway, concerning the tithe of fish caught within the bounds of the parish of Woldham by the parishioners of Snodland, the same was settled, with the consent of both parties, by the bishop of Rochester, 1402, as may be seen more at large in the account of the rectory of Woldham. (fn. 7)
This rectory is valued in the king's books at twenty pounds, and the yearly tenths at two pounds.
Looking south down the Tasmanian Overland Track from the ascent of Cradle Mountain. It takes at least 4 days to walk to the other end of it, but since I was only day-tripping to the most popular of Tassie's peaks, I was just happy that this day was pretty much perfect for the hike.
Turkey: October 1971
The AEC bus (YRC 45) off the road between Agri and Horosan, in north-eastern Turkey. The bus had an underslung AEC AH470 horizontal engine (7.7 litres) and five-speed gearbox. From new it had been part of the Burton-on-Trent Corporation bus fleet in England, before being sold to Safaris Overland for use on the route(s) out to India and back. The main problem with these particular AEC horizontal engines were the 'wet' cylinder liners which made them prone to overheating, and blowing cylinder-head gaskets, when worked hard or in very hot weather – or both. In the hard winter conditions the engine ran perfectly.
Not far from the road is the Aras River; at this spot it is still a relatively young river since it rises in the Erzurum region, but over a thousand kilometers later it empties into the Caspian Sea.
4 cylinder engine
3 spd transmission
140,000 produced in 1916
Fords main rival
Willys-Overland Company Toledo Ohio
Petersen Automotive Museum, Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, USA
For the video; youtu.be/NiGJ8QYdwH8
Overland found on a farm in Central NSW. No cars on this property are for sale, now or in the future, and the owner wishes to remain anonymous.
I like using telephoto lenses for landscapes, they compress the perspective in a way that I find pleasing. This is a short, but very steep walk down a winding path (Especially with a 1kg Sigma 150-500 zoom in tow).
A hot summers Saturday morning sees 6MA8 Overland cruising up the Callington curve with CLP8 on the front on 12-1-1996
Nepal: October 1975
Here is the 45-seater Van Hool bus parked in a small town on the road between Pokhara and Kathmandu. I'd stopped for diesel and was being careful not to buy too much as the bus owner didn't want to sell it with anything like a full tank – not even a quarter full, he'd said. In Delhi, the bus had been cleaned, inside and out; the interior showed no evidence that forty-plus people had recently travelled from Europe in it – apart from a bit of inevitable road dirt, the thing was spotless.
While I was there I had a good wander round, being nosey as usual. To my mind, it's better to explore such places on your own; I found something to eat and then drove on. Several days later, there was to be one last trip to be done – but with the little 20-seater bus – this one was too long for the narrow, twisting dirt road up to the Chinese border.
Pacific National loco NR74 in red Ghan livery heads the Adelaide-bound Overland through Belair station on the evening of 9 March 2006.
This is another shot of our first sunset in Tanzania.Please see my set Africa Overland for more information.
On Scene of a HOUSE FIRE at 10915 West 109th Street in Overland Park on March 8, 2015 at 1457 hours.
Picture ID# 1137
Some of the passengers on the Safaris Overland trip to India, that left London in July 1971. Seen here in Lahore, Pakistan, from left to right are Alan, Marie, Sylvia and Hillary.
Yugoslavia: November 1971
The AEC bus at a roadhouse & truckstop on the Yugoslavian autoput, somewhere between Zagreb and Belgrade. Later on, we stopped for the night at another similar roadside place and most passengers stayed in an inexpensive motel; the remainder decided to save money by sleeping on the bus. We drove through snow until we almost reached the Yugo-Greek border, then headed south to spend several nights in Athens. We then drove back up to northern Greece and rejoined the normal route to the Turkish border. In the winter trips it was desirable to reach the warmer countries as soon as possible. This excellent photo was taken by Isabel, one of the passengers.
UP 1996 the SP heritage unit leads UP train MPRCB as it heads West on Main 1 at Lombard, IL as seen from the fairly new bicycle path bridge that was once the right of way of the CGW.