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On 3 October 1918, the 1st King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry captured Prospect Hill, after Le Catelet and Gouy had been taken by the 50th (Northumbrian) Division, the 6th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the 4th King's Royal Rifle Corps. The cemetery was made by the 50th Division and the 18th Field Ambulance immediately after. Plot I formed the original cemetery but this was increased after the Armistice when graves were brought in, mainly from the battlefields north of Gouy, and almost exclusively of men who died in October 1918.
The cemetery contains 538 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 115 of the burials are unidentified and a special memorial commemorates one casualty believed to be buried among them. A group of graves in Plot IV, Row F, are identified as a whole but not individually. The cemetery also contains the grave of one Commonwealth airman of the Second World War.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker
Long Meadow (1866–68)
Designers: Frederick Law Olmstead & Calvert Vaux
Prospect Park
Brooklyn, New York
© Matthew X. Kiernan
NYBAI10-1927
The first victim of the Beeching Cuts and remains in good structural condition despite the many leaks.
Horrible flat light - so something a little different. The Prospect of Whitby claims to be the oldest pub on the banks of the Thames - it's down in Wapping. Charles Dickens has had a drink here, Samuel Peyps has a room named after him and there's a particular connection with Judge Jeffreys, the notorious hanging judge.
Hamilton.
White settlers first arrived here in the 1820s. It was on the way to the west coast and prospered. By 1844 the town had two breweries, seven inns, a quarry, flour mill and a convict station. This dry area of Tasmania is excellent for sheep and cattle production. The town is known for its many 1840s Georgian style sandstone buildings- all built by convicts before transportation ceased in 1853. Since the 1960s some land has been irrigated from the Derwent River dams. The district also grows opium poppies for medicinal purposes. We hope to have time to visit Prospect Villa, a fine sandstone Georgian house with two Grecian style side additions! Visitors come to Prospect Villa to see the beautiful gardens known for roses, the white garden, the secret garden, the urn garden, the Italian garden and the round garden.
Seen from Prospect Point
Shades State Park is a lovely site located in Montgomery, Parke, and Fountain counties in western Indiana. It is located 47 miles west-northwest of Indianapolis, between Rockville and Crawfordsville.
In the last decades of the 19th century, the area was a resort with a forty-room inn. In the 1930s a man named Joseph Frisz acquired the land in order to protect it and purchased more land around. His heirs sold the land in 1947 to the holding company "Save the Shades," who in turn gave the land to the state to create Indiana's 15th state park.
Originally, the area was known as the "Shades of Death." There is debate as to why it got that name. Some say it was due to the way the trees cast their shadow on the ground below, making it look like a black forest. Others say it was because of a settler's death, although details are unclear and contradictory.
Steep sandstone cliffs within the park were formed when Indiana was covered by ocean hundreds of millions of years ago. Fossils can be found on the nearby sandbars.
Located in the eastern end of the state park, the 470-acre Pine Hills Nature Preserve protects the deep canyons formed by Indian Creek before it enters Sugar Creek. The primary feature in the preserve is the "Devils Backbone," a 100-foot-high stone ridge barely wide enough for the trail to cross. The preserve was the first dedicated nature preserve in Indiana, and was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1968 under the name "Pine Hills Natural Area."
Information from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_State_Park
Radio Rentals has announced plans to exit its retail and online sales operations in South Australia and close its stores over the next two months.
Rental customers are not affected. The consumer rental business, which finances rental contracts through various retailers, including Radio Rentals, is provided by inRent which is owned by a separate entity and is not impacted. Rental customers should visit www.inrent.com.au for further information and FAQs.
After such a long time in business in South Australia, the decision to close our retail operations was a very difficult and emotional one. It was only taken after careful consideration and pursuit of all other strategic options including a sale.
The company will support and counsel employees who are impacted and help them to find new jobs. To that end, an external employment agency is being engaged to assist. We recommend our employees to new employers.
There will be no impact on existing inRent rental contracts. Rental customers will continue to receive the benefits of renting with inRent, including ongoing product servicing and upgrades, and customer obligations under rental contracts are ongoing. Rental customers will be contacted by inRent directly with payment options for customers who currently pay their rental in our stores and FAQs.
The head office at Main North Road, Prospect, will remain open to service rentals and for sales of ex-rental inventory. The other 12 stores throughout South Australia will close around mid-June. Radio Rentals will clear all retail stock over this period.
Radio Rentals started in Rundle Street, Adelaide, in 1958.
“Our success, as a South Australian family owned business was built around generations of wonderful employees, valued customers and business partners and a mission to make electrical and home appliances affordable and accessible to more and more homes and families,” said Managing Director, Nick Palmer.
“We take this moment to thank everyone. We look back with pride on our contribution… the jobs we created, the economic growth that we drove and the choice and services we provided to generations of South Australians.”
All gift cards will be honoured or refunded.
Queensland based counterpart R.T. Edwards will also be affected.
SUMMARY View of several men and women wheeling and riding bicycles in Prospect Park.
CALL# THOM 0057
TITLE Prospect Park [picture] / Edgar S. Thomson.
PUB INFO 1896.
DESCRIPTION 1 photographic print : b & w ; 8 x 10 in.
SERIES Edgar S. Thomson photograph collection
NOTE Date typed on verso: 1896.
Title from typed caption on verso.
CITE AS: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
NOTE Edgar S. Thomson.
INDEXES Folder: 2.
SUBJECT Bicycles -- New York (State) -- New York.
Parks -- New York (State) -- New York.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Prospect Park (New York, N.Y.)
GENRE Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
SUMMARY View of Prospect Park with horse-drawn carriage on curved road in foreground, and three men walking beyond, and portion of the Lake in left background.
CALL# THOM 0077
TITLE Prospect Park [picture] / Edgar S. Thomson.
PUB INFO 1895.
DESCRIPTION 1 photographic print : b & w, gelatin silver ; 6 x 9 in.
SERIES Edgar S. Thomson photograph collection
CITE AS: Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
NOTE On verso: date inscribed: 1895.
Title from inscription on verso.
Edgar S. Thomson.
INDEXES Folder: Folder 3
SUBJECT Horse-drawn vehicles z New York (State) -- New York.
Prospect Park (New York, N.Y.)
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
GENRE Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.