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What if the #savelibraries campaign had taken place in World War One? How might it have been fought? I found some posters - some well known, others not - from the period and adapted them. I hope you enjoy them and find them useful.
Parliamentary Recruiting Committee in 1915.
Step into your place. English propaganda poster by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London, shows a column of soldiers marching into the distance, while being joined in the foreground by men in a variety of civilian attires. Lithograph by David Allen & Sons Ld., Harrow, Middlesex, 1915.
From the Artist Posters Collection at the Library of Congress More propaganda posters | More artist posters [PD] This picture is in the public domain
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Finalist: Citizen Participation
Photo by Kuntal Kumar Roy
This picture was taken at Kolkata in a polling booth where most of the voters are from the Muslim community. Enthusiasm is reflected among female voters, especially female youth. The minority vote played a vital part in the formation of government during the April 2014 general election in India.
Part of the new Imagineered interactive queue at Peter Pan's Flight at the Magic Kingdom. There are several new fun opportunities to stay entertained while waiting to board the attraction.
Soon there will be a queue to see the queue. Currently closed for 6 hours, the queue stretches from Lambeth Bridge to Southwark Park, and current waiting times are estimated 15 hours.
Sad situation and it's always the patient's that suffer..
2 hour wait to get our patient in the hospital..
Glad of a cappuccino after before heading to next one..
We work for Yorkshire Ambulance Service in and around the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire.
It’s a great job and I feel very honoured to be able to help people at their point of need.
Check out the website for all sorts of info re YAS and the work we do.
www.yas.nhs.uk/our-services/emergency-ambulance-service-999/
Protected with 'Spraylat', former USAF/USN & USMC McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantoms stored at AMARC near Tucson in Arizona back in 1996
Many ended their days after conversion to QF-4 unmanned aerial targets for use in live missile testing
Scanned Kodak 35mm Transparency
Three British traditions in one; queueing, on a Bank Holiday weekend, at a Pembrokeshire countryside fair. Marvellous!
Hand-held while wandering about in a rebooted heatwave. Modest amends in Post; white balance; contrast; reduction of blacks.
More to see at Pelcomb Portraits.
The British Ironwork Centre goes strong on Made in Britain. At it's heart is cake, and everything else around it is British and iron or metal.
Lord knows what they will do if Scotland gets independence and Great Britain ceases to be.
Wincheser Cathedral's Outer Close, with the ridiculously long queue for the Christmas Market in the background!
Its Chaos again!
At the beginning of October Winchester Cathedral had already started to put up their ice-rink and Christmas market, this was the lead up to what will be almost four months of total chaos for the local residents of Kingsgate Village (A term that seems to have been originally revived/invented by the organisers of the Christmas market a few years ago) who need to get through the Cathedral's Inner Close. So far we have had to dodge a herd of vans and fork-lifts carrying the parts of the garden sheds they use as stalls to market the same expensive tat (Does it really need 23 stalls selling scarves hats and gloves?) and over-priced food each year.
Now the thing is open it is frequently almost impossible to get through from the High Street carrying a load of heavy shopping without making a long diversion round it and the narrow pavement in Peter Symonds Street gets congested with people from the Market or trying to avoid it, at the weekends every local pub in the immediate area will be full of it's customers with no seats available.
Even in the section of street between the Square and the Buttercross gets very congested at peak periods during the weekends (Not helped by Café Monde extending their outer row of tables into the ‘roadway’ part of the pedestrian precinct area) this is something that really is starting to become unacceptable! It is also very notable that the removal of the raised curbs some years ago in the section of the top end Square means that people just tend to wander out into the road without any regard to traffic driving into the Square or delivery vehicles struggling to turn round.
The number of vehicles ignoring the one way signs is also very noticeable, cyclists especially seem to totally ignore them, despite the fact that the corners into Great Minster Street and from Peter Symonds Street are blind corners for car drivers (The police and the P.C.O.S seem to totally ignore this breach of traffic regulations even when it happens right in front of them!), although this is not just down to the Christmas market it does exacerbate the situation and is something that needs to be addressed before the inevitable serious accident happens!
The whole thing is the wrong size and in the wrong place, when it is packed with people it is difficult to move towards the limited exits, the front one of which is very narrow (Not helped by the number of people who do not seem to know which side is left!. A ‘Keep left sign at the market entrance to this passage might remind them!) In the event of an emergency or panic, such as a hut catching fire near the top corner, the resulting crush and risk of people getting trampled would be downright dangerous. (This is in direct contrast to Salisbury's version which has wider aisles and an open surrounding area and also sells reasonably priced items that people actually do want to buy). I also really do not understand the number of people that will happily take their small dogs into this lot, no-one can see them till the poor things get trodden on! A case for the R.S.P.C.A. perhaps?
Despite having been told about it in the past the paths leading to the Cathedral’s Outer Close from the High Street are still in an unsafe condition, the one leading from St. Maurice’s Culvert between the Hotel and Magdalene Collage has had paving stones missing for well over a year now, leaving water filled holes which are not immediately obvious in the dark. The paved part of path from the gate opposite the William Walker is still very uneven in places, with a huge trip hazard by the tree where the paths join and it is becoming very notable that the paved path from the front of the Cathedral to the Square in front of the museum is also starting to break up, with more and more slabs coming loose, a small section of this has been closed off with barriers (Creating a further obstruction very close to one of the ‘Costermongers’ barrows which protrudes into the path anyway) but all that has done is caused more slabs to come loose further along.
At the entrance by the bollards to the passage under the buttresses also has some bad dips and very badly worn steps in it, in the close packed crowd trying to get into the market at peak times and weekends these are not easily seen and I would hate to think what could happen if someone trips over one of these, probably bringing down others around them.
At night the part surrounding the market's food area will attract its usual compliment of rats. The goods on sale in the stalls does not seem to have changed much in ten years and most of it seems to be the same expensive tat, but I suppose if you want pre-rusted garden ornaments or a festive paella pan then maybe you get what you deserve.
Sitting outside the Slug and Lettuce on Saturday (I was lucky enough to find a seat!) it was very noticeable that a very high percentage of the people exiting from the Cathedral’s Outer Close were not carrying anything and therefore had not actually found anything that they wanted there!
Although the organisers have made some improvements from the first few years the amount of litter and rubbish overflowing from the bins in the Cathedral grounds and in the immediate surrounding area is unsightly to say the least, the refuse and food scraps from the stalls in the food area (Which is sold at rip-off prices, compare with the prices on the stalls in the High Street) attract rats and vermin at night when it goes quiet, in the past the Cathedral authorities have denied this but having seen them myself on quite a few occasions I get the impression that they are just covering up.
Parking in Winchester is limited at the best of times and the park and ride schemes outside the city are unable to deal with the extra load, the buses put on to service park and rides cannot cope at peak periods and also contribute to the jammed up traffic in the city's narrow streets. At weekends it gets worse with long queues waiting to get in (Last Sunday the queue extended back into Market Street!) and the coach loads of people it brings into the city also jams up the Broadway and High Street, to the detriment of a lot of the shops and regular stalls that are in it and causes frustration to the local inhabitants who are unable to do their normal shopping.
This will be the 12th year it we have had to put up with this thing, and the whole shebang seems to go on for ages as they start putting up the market and ice rink in October, originally running for just a fortnight it now opens just after the middle of November, the market closing a few days before Christmas and the rink a few days after New Year, it then takes till almost the end of January to dismantle it all again after which we are left with a mess that resembles a First World War battlefield which ruins the whole appearance of what is normally a very peaceful and beautiful place, it takes until around mid July to recover. I really think that they should start to think of the effect their market has on their neighbours!
Thought I'd try something different with this shot in B&W.
As we sailed out of Whangamata Harbour, there was a swarm of surfers all queuing to get on the next wave. The clouds in the sky looked spectacular and I think add some drama to the shot. There was a storm brewing in the distance........