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The Meteor was the first jet fighter to enter service with the RAF, in 1944. This 2 seater night fighter version was built in 1952 by Armstrong Whitworth in Coventry. Kitted out with airborne interception radar it was delivered to the research station at RAF Defford, part of the Croome estate. In March 1958 it was the last plane to leave Defford and it returned to Croome as a static display in November 2019.
A complete version of its history can be seen here:
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/croome/features/meteor-wd686-ret...
There are many pictures of this aircraft, at different times, on Flickr under the tag wd686.
Arykanda or (commonly Latinized) Arycanda is an Ancient Lycian city, former bishopric and present Catholic titular see in Antalya Province in the Mediterranean Region of Turkey. Arykanda was built upon five large terraces ascending a mountain slope, located near the small village of Aykiriçay, presently on the Elmalı-Finike road.
History
Arycanda is known to be one of the old Lycian cities, as its name ends with -anda, indicative of its Anatolian origin; dating back as far as the 2nd millennium BC.
On the other hand, the oldest remains and finds from the city date from the 6th or 5th century BCE. The site is being excavated and restored by an Ankara University team[1] headed by Prof. Dr. Cevdet Bayburtluoglu since 1971.
Gods and goddesses known to have been worshipped here are:[citation needed] (mostly Greek)
Arycanda survived through Byzantine times, until the 6th century when the settlement moved to a new site south of the modern road, which is called Arif (or Aruf) Settlement in archaeological literature so that it will not mix up with the older site.
Sights[edit]
The necropolis is seen on the slope of the hill, the gymnasium and thermae are located at its foot
Acropolis houses Hellenistic and older remains of the site which include the temple of Helios, bouleterion, prytaneion, upper agora withs its shops, and several excavated houses. The lower city houses most of the Roman remains. These include:
A bath complex on the lowest terrace, still virtually intact in its sequence of arches, next to the gymnasium. The city has 7 different bath houses of various sizes.
Lower Agora, some of the shops in its eastern part can still be seen. It is wide and flat, located to the south of the odeon and was enclosed on three sides by a portico. At its middle are the remains of Tyche Temple.
A theatre, in excellent condition, built during the 1st century BCE. It has 20 rows of seats, divided into 7 sections. At the edge of every row are holes that were used to support protective awnings.
Odeon - 2nd century AD. The main entrance is to the south, though a triple portal. This was once a very ornate building, the interior was lined with orthostats and the walls, orchestra and seats were once covered with coloured marble. A block that was discovered (and now housed in Antalya Archaeological Museum) during the excavations over the portal bears a portrait of the Emperor Hadrian.
A stadium, from the Hellenistic period, that resides above the theatre, in the form of a running track with seats built only on one side. It is smaller than a usual stadium, measuring 106 m. long and 17 m. wide.
Two necropoleis. The one on the entrance to the site is very interesting with its series of richly decorated funerary monuments. The eastern necropolis has barrel-vaulted monumental tombs, temple-tombs and sarcophagi and the western necropolis has rock-cut tombs and barrel-vaulted tombs.
Since it was in the Roman province of Lycia, the bishopric of Arneae was a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Myra, the province's capital. The Second Council of Nicaea (787) were signed on behalf of the absent bishop of Arycanda by his deacon Petrus. Another bishop of Arycanda, Theodorus, took part in the Photian Council of Constantinople
I got her in a terrible state, yellowed with rough sanding all over, nail varnish on her lips and lashes.
Her faceplate was restored by Freefall Creations and she did an amazing job.
Yous wouldn't believe this is the same doll!
Restored and maintained by Swedish Air Force Historic Flight. Airpower 2016. Read my complete report here: www.golfvictorspotting.it/wp/?p=272&lang=en
Restored LB&SC A1 Class 'Terrier' 0-6-0T 54 ''Waddon'' at Eastleigh works in August 1963.
A few 'classic cars' parked in the background..
The loco was donated by British Railways to the Canadian Railway Museum - 'Exporail' - near Montreal, and left the UK soon after this photo was taken..
Ten members of the class have been preserved...
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
Nicely restored Invader in the markings of the "The Hustler" serial 595924 at Tamiami Executive back in 92. Not sure if she is airworthy currently as of 2019.
"You can trust your car to the man who wears the star ".
"Texaco Fire Chief gasoline"
This station was in operation from 1933 to 1999.
There are few homes in Wellington today more readily recognizable than the gorgeous Italianate “painted lady” standing at 226 South Main Street. For nearly a century-and-a-half, the house gazed across the road at a bustling school campus. In 1867, the Union School had first been erected, and evolved over time into McCormick Middle School, which was sadly removed in 2016. By the mid-twentieth century, the once grand residence had fallen into a state of disrepair, and it is therefore fondly recalled by Wellington schoolchildren of that era as “the haunted house.”
The house may or may not be haunted, but its origins are somewhat mysterious, in the sense that they are obscured by the mists of time. The land on which 226 South Main stands is legally defined as block 1, lot 17. In 1852, early Wellington settler Loring Wadsworth first paid taxes on that lot. Wadsworth had been born in Becket, Massachusetts in 1800, emigrating to Ohio in 1821. In later life, he was one of the men charged in connection with the Oberlin-Wellington Slave Rescue of 1858, as he was believed to be an operator on the Underground Railroad. Wadsworth served twenty-one days in jail as a result, and was later elected mayor of Wellington, possibly in recognition of his principled actions. He served as mayor from April 1860 to April 1861, and died in 1862.
Wadsworth owned several lots adjacent to what is today 226 South Main. The 1857 Map of Lorain County, Ohio (which features a detailed inset of Wellington) shows that in that year, he owned block 1, lots 16, 17 and 90, with the family residence located on lot 16. The Greek Revival house that still stands today at 222 South Main is likely one of the older residences in town, erected by Wadsworth and his family as early as the 1830s.
Though Wadsworth died in 1862, his estate continued to be listed as the taxpayer of record on his former land holdings until well into the 1870s. This was not an uncommon practice; I have always assumed that it had something to do with settling the deceased’s estate, though in this instance, a much longer period of time passed than I have seen before. Whatever the financial or legal reasons, Loring Wadsworth was still listed on village tax rolls for block 1, lot 17 in 1871, when the value of the land suddenly jumped–after decades of remaining flat and unchanging–from $42 to $278. This strongly suggests that a house was first erected on the lot sometime in the period of 1870 to 1871.
Loring’s widow, Statira Kingsbury Wadsworth, died in 1871. Even then, the land and property formerly owned by her husband continued to appear in corporation tax records under his name. It was not until 1874–twelve years after Wadsworth died–that the property legally changed hands. In that year, block 1, lot 17, still valued at $278, passed into the ownership of Horace N. Wadsworth, William Gunn and local cheese dealer William D. Minor.
A real estate transfer published in the Oberlin Weekly News showed the sale of lot 17 was made by Benjamin Wadsworth to Horace Wadsworth and William Gunn for $667. Benjamin Wadsworth was the eldest son of Loring Wadsworth. By the end of the nineteenth century, he was known as “the largest landowner among the agriculturalists of Lorain County,” with over one thousand acres and a well-regarded sheep breeding operation. It has been suggested that Benjamin Wadsworth built 226 South Main as a “retirement home” for his own use. Wadsworth was forty-nine years old in 1870, the conjectured date of construction. Wellington tax records from the period show that he owned no property in the village; instead, he maintained a steady holding of 145 acres in lot 24, the southwestern corner of the township. The 1870 federal census shows Benjamin (49), his wife Maria (44), and children Elmer (18) and Jane (12) living in Huntington; in 1880, Benjamin (59) and Maria (54) were still in Huntington, living next door to Elmer and his wife, Mary, both aged 28. While Benjamin Wadsworth was somehow involved in the construction of the house on lot 17, he sold it soon after completion. The three men listed as taxpayers in the 1874 rolls were most likely conducting real estate transactions for profit, rather than purchasing the house for personal use.
In 1875, a small addition was put on the house, increasing its value slightly to $300. That same year, the property was sold again. From that point forward, the taxpayer of record was one Hattie McClaran. Harriet “Hattie” Lovett McClaran (ca. 1845-1889) was the wife of local physician Dr. Thomas M. McClaran. Harriet was born in Shreve, Ohio, approximately thirty miles southwest of Wellington. She and Thomas were married in Holmes County on March 20, 1866. Thomas had served as a private in the 4th Regiment, Co. E, Ohio Infantry of the Union Army. Wounded during his military service, he collected a disability pension later in life. After the war, Thomas decided to attend medical school, and graduated from the University of Wooster Medical Department in 1874. McClaran suffered from lifelong ill health and was frequently mentioned in the local newspapers as traveling to more beneficial climates, apparently without his family.
The 1880 federal census showed five adults and one child living together in the household: Thomas McClaran (37); Harriet McClaran (35); Lillian McClaran (11); servant Annie Spicer (24); and a young couple from Maine called Edward (24) and Lena (23) Everett. Edward was a druggist, perhaps boarding with the physician and his family during an apprenticeship, or while he attempted to establish his own business in the village. Maybe the McClarans found their quarters too cramped once they took in boarders. By 1881, they made major renovations to their home. The Wellington Enterprise commented on the ongoing work, and the tax-assessed value of the property skyrocketed from $300 to $1,890. This strongly suggests that the back wing of 226 South Main was added at that time.
The McClarans’ tenure in the residence did not end happily. They sold the property to John Britton Smith, owner and editor of the Enterprise, in June 1888. They then traveled to Springfield, Missouri, for a visit with their only child, a married daughter. By October, Hattie McClaran was back in Ohio and committed to the Newburgh State Hospital, an asylum in Cleveland. Dr. McClaran briefly returned as well, moving into the American House hotel during his wife’s committal. Tragically, Hattie died by suicide on a home visit with her sister in Wooster, in January 1889. She was buried in Wooster and Dr. McClaran soon returned to Missouri to live with his daughter. He died June 21, 1890 and is buried in Springfield National Cemetery. When he passed, the Enterprise printed a four-sentence remembrance which noted, “He and his faithful wife toiled here for a number of years and as a result of their labors secured a beautiful place to reside on South Main street, expecting to spend the balance of their days here”.
John Britton Smith occupied 226 South Main from 1888 until 1897. When the editor sold the Enterprise and left the village, the owner of the local boot and shoe shop, Hugh Comstock Harris, purchased the residence for himself and wife Ada Bacon Harris. The couple had no children, and when Hugh was elected to serve as Lorain County Treasurer, they also left Wellington, relocating to Elyria sometime after 1901.
As the twentieth century began, the house welcomed its second owner/editor of the Wellington Enterprise. Henry O. Fifield, recently arrived in the village, purchased the property sometime around 1902. Henry and his wife, Emma, lived with their widowed French Canadian daughter-in-law, Alice, and beloved granddaughter, Stella. Stella had been born in Canada and was a talented musician who went on to teach music herself. She was married in the house in 1920, and a front-page article in the Enterprise described the celebrations in great detail. The family home played a starring role: “The bride…advanced through the library to the living room. At the same time the groom…advanced to the living room from the front of the house. The bridal party…then gathered in a bower of evergreens and palms in the large bay window in the living room. This bower was a beautiful creation and the work of Miss Laura Tissot a friend of the bride. After the impressive ceremony, the bridal party was seated in the dining room…They and the guests were served sumptuously by Caterer Gunn of Oberlin”. Was Stella’s well-publicized nuptials the seed that blossomed into a popular story about 226 South Main being enlarged specifically to accommodate a bride descending the front curving staircase?
Henry Fifield lived to see his granddaughter engaged, but died nearly a year before the wedding. The Italianate at 226 South Main remained in the extended Fifield family for the first half of the century, belonging to Stella and her widowed mother, Alice, who later remarried and brought her second husband into the house.
By 1976, the year of America’s bicentennial celebrations, a young local couple who also happened to be deeply committed to preserving Wellington’s past decided that a grand old home that needed love (and a great deal of work!) was exactly where they wanted to spend their married life. Today, 226 South Main Street is haunted no more. Home for more than forty years to beloved residents Tim and Leslie Simonson, its vibrant wine-red color and flower-filled yard are often the backdrop for large gatherings of friends and family. The renovated carriage house at the rear of the property is well-known in the village as the Simonson Clock Shop.
Road map of our trip and some info: www.southernscenicroute.co.nz/
Photos from our road trip down the South Island of New Zealand in January.
After such a beautiful day yesterday today is overcast and mild and by the afternoon the rain came down.. so pleased we visited Arrowtown before the rain. January 26, 2015 New Zealand.
Arrowtown is a historic gold mining town in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand. Arrowtown is located on the banks of the Arrow River.
The Arrow Basin was formed when the great glaciers carved out the Wakatipu Basin.
Local Maori passed through the area on seasonal trips to hunt native birds and extract pounamu (greenstone). Waitaha, the first tribe, were later joined by Kati Mamoe who were driven south after fighting with Kai Tahu. By the 1700s the three tribes were locked together by marriages and peace alliances.
It was not the silver look of the river but the gold it contained that saw Arrowtown evolve. Jack Tewa, a shearer for Rees, was the first to discover gold around May 1861, followed by either William (Bill) Fox or the team of Thomas Low and John MacGregor late in 1862. It is unclear who was next. Being a forceful character, Fox took credit for the discovery and for a while the town was called Fox’s.
Gold eventually became harder to extract and the opening up of the West Coast goldfields in 1865 saw European miners heading for the riches there. This impacted on the Otago economy and in an attempt to restimulate it the Otago Provincial Government invited Chinese miners to come to the Otago goldfields. The Chinese created a separate settlement in Arrowtown, remaining until 1928.
Arrowtown continued to survive after the gold ran out by becoming a farm service town. Although the permanent population declined, during the 1950s it gained a reputation as a popular holiday destination. This saw New Zealand holiday makers restoring the historic cottages and building holiday houses. Most of these have now become permanent residences.
By the turn of the 21st Century Arrowtown had become a popular visitor destination and one of the fastest growing towns in New Zealand.
For More Info: www.arrowtown.com/arrowtown/history/
A friend of mine gave me a box of old model railroad stuff, and these were all busted up in the bottom of the box. Thought they deserved better, so I restored them and added a couple things.
Despite their proximity to the west coast of Africa these islands were apparently entirely uninhabited when Portuguese navigators João de Santarém and Pero Escobar arrived on Saint Thomas’s day the 21st of December 1470. The Portuguese quickly settled the islands and were soon importing slaves from the mainland to work in their newly established sugar plantations. The sugar produced here was of poor quality compared to that from elsewhere and from the beginning of the 19th century was replaced with coffee this crop was in turn largely replaced by cocoa. Slavery in the islands’ plantations or roças carried on until 1875 when it was abolished and replaced with a system of contract labour this did not significantly improve the lives of the island’s labour force and the Portuguese continued to import labourers from their mainland colonies. At the beginning of the 20th century the plight of the plantation workers reached the outside world, protests from the Aboriginal Protection Society and the Anti-Slavery Society prompted William Cadbury to send an agent to the islands to investigate. Possibly to protect his company's own commercial interests and to allow time for them to establish their own plantations in the Gold Coast (Ghana) he chose not to act for some years until after he visited the Islands in 1909 to see for himself. Cadburys and other chocolate companies then started a boycott of Cocoa from the Islands. However little changed for the plantation workers who remained as virtual slaves.
In 1953 descendents of former slaves known as Forros fearing they would be conscripted and forced to work on the plantations protested at Batepa on São Tomé, Portuguese troops attacked the protesters and in the massacre that followed over 1,000 Forros may have been killed. This event sparked the establishment of a liberation movement however despite the Batepa Massacre, unlike in Portugal’s mainland colonies there was no war for independence. Following Portugal’s bloodless Carnation Revolution in 1974 the islands demanded their independence and this was granted the following year.
Although STP's independence had been achieved peacefully the Portuguese plantation owners fled abandoning their plantations and the islands. Soon afterwards the roças were nationalised by STP’s new Marxist government many of them fell in to disrepair during this period.
This old Portuguese plantation house on a cacao plantation Roça Belo Monte at the northern end of Príncipe Island was completely abandoned. It appeared that the owners had simply walked out of the door at independence in 1975 and left never to return. Unable to take their belongings with them. 33 years later the dining room still looked much as I imagine it must have done when they left it.
This photo was taken in 2008 Since then the house has been restored and is now the luxurious Roça Belo Monte Hotel.
I do this work from time to time for seniors who want their valuable photos digitized and restored for postairity.
I restored her. I rerooted her bangs and styled it to resemble Marilyn Monroe's hairdo. I also gave her some highlights and crimped her hair.
A detail of a fresco inside the Church of Aghios Nikolaos, in the upper town of the old city of Mystras. Founded by the Frankish leader Guillaume de Villehardouin, ruler of the principate of Achaea, in 1249, on the slopes of the hill of Myzithra, Mystras was taken over by the Byzantines in 1262 before falling to the Ottomans in 1460. The city state flourished under Byzantine rule for nearly 200 years, becoming a major cultural and literary hub. By the time Greece won its independence in the 1820s, Mystras was a largely abandoned ruin. It has been a UNESCO-listed World Heritage Site since 1989 and parts of the old city have been restored since then.
Nice combination of old and newer equipment on the Scot. Note the cut-down crossed flags head badge and Campagnolo Mk.II Super Record rear derailleur.
She looks way better then yesterday. I have tons of these purple dresses, but none of them have the sparkly skirt thing, or the head band. So naturally being me, who thinks she needs them(lol) made her temporary ones until I find some:) which will be hard because they aren't the easiest things to come across. But these will do for now:) this jasmine doll is really doing it for me:) she's very pretty, and she stands out from the rest. It's her eyes I'm sure. I think she's a first release, but not completely sure. But all the evidence is pointing to that:) and if she is, she's my first 1st release jasmine doll!lol
This mosque is known locally as the Mosque of Abu Hurayra or Hariba as it contains the tomb of the 19th cent Sheikh Abu Hurayra who was buried here in 1852.
Patron: Sayf al-Din Qijmas al-Ishaqi al-Dhahiri, viceroy of Damascus under Qāytbāy (Abu al-Nasr Sayf al-Din al-Ashraf Qāytbāy (the restored)) c.1416/1418-1496, Burji (Circassian) Mamluk Sultan of Egypt (r.1468–1496).
Islamic Monument #114
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SW, Ohio. This truck is being restored by Tim, one of Dan and Joe's relatives. I've seen it a bit further along than it is in this shot, but it still has a ways to go. I'm not sure what type of bed it will have, but it should be majorly sweet when completed.
From Wikipedia: "The REO Speed Wagon (alternatively Reo Speedwagon) was a light motor truck manufactured by REO Motor Car Company. It was an ancestor of the pickup truck.
First introduced in 1915, production continued through at least 1953 and led to REO being one of the better known manufacturers of commercial vehicles prior to World War II. Although the basic design and styling of the chassis remained consistent, the Speed Wagon was manufactured in a variety of configurations (pickup and panel truck, passenger bus) to serve as delivery, tow, dump, and fire trucks as well as hearses and ambulances. Other manufacturers provided refits for adapting the Speed Wagon for specialized purposes. The Speed Wagon used REO's "Gold Crown" series of engines and was well regarded for power, durability, and quality.
While REO produced some wagons based on its automobile chassis (the Model H) starting in 1908 and had organized a division to produce trucks in 1910 with success, the Speed Wagon's introduction in 1915 was a significant step and a sales success. The company was soon offering a variety of Speed Wagon models with many options and by 1925 had produced 125,000.
After years of roughly equal car and truck emphasis, REO shifted its focus completely to trucks, ending automobile production in 1936. Production for the civilian market was suspended during World War II, resuming in 1946."
This heavily restored statue group features the naked (and certainly drunk) Dionysos, god of wine and the much smaller and youthful Eros. Both of Dionysos' arms are modern restorations, as is most of the body of Eros.
I suspect that the smaller figure was originally a satyr, as this is a well-known tableau in sculpture, fresco, mosaic and other media. Further, the right hand of Dionysos may have originally been behind his head in the 'louche' gesture. The restored arm is very awkwardly placed - the traditional gesture would have balanced the statue better visually. See the colossal sculpture group originally from the Baths of Constantine, now in the Palazzo Altemps in Rome.
Roman, 2nd century CE. No known findspot (?).
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Farnese Collection (MANN inv. 6307)
Roger emailed me these photos of my brunette pt 3. He rerooted her and touched up her paint just a bit. Her bangs are original. Looking forward to having her home and back on a body.
An aerial shot of traffic on the BC Highway 4 - Cameron Lake Detour route. The highway remains closed, with an earliest expected opening date on June 24. The detour will remain open until the highway is restored to full capacity. For more information, check DriveBC.ca
Under Willys auspices, Jeep’s first Civvy Street venture, but not a sales success at the time. A very collectible car today.
Restored and shipped from California.
This is a quick phone pic.....until I get the official invite to get more from the owner !
Rememeber monkey bike Steve who owns the dragster bike from last summer......well, this is his.
a year ago, this edge of the marsh at Fairfield Osborn Reserve was choked with himalayan blackberry, an invasive species -- then a bunch of our students attacked it & cleared it out, and now, native marsh grasses have taken back over...
BAe Jetstream 31 G BLKP at the South Wales Air Museum St Athan (EGDX) south Wales, reconstructed by the SWAM volunteers after arriving by road in 2019, built in 1984 at Prestwick and briefly in service with Netherlines also a trainer at Macclesfield College.
First registered in 02/1970, and powered by a 1798cc engine, this nice MG is seen here at Glyndyfrdwy Station, Wales, during the Llangollen Railway Classic Transport Weekend on 07/07/2024. © Peter Steel 2024.
An effort to restore eelgrass beds along Virginia's Eastern Shore began in 2000 with a few seeds from the York River. Today, these seagrass meadows have grown to 6,195 acres—providing a home for an estimated 200,000 bay scallops reared in a hatchery. Image credit: Bob Orth, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
The 1904 C&O railroad depot, restored by the National Park Service in 1995 and used as a seasonal visitor center, is the first part of Thurmond seen when crossing the New River into town; the road from Glen Jean, Fayette County Road 2512, passes to the left of the CSX railroad spur, outside the overhead superstructure of the bridge on the right. Thurmond's commercial district (preceding photo) and site of the former engine house and coaling station are out of sight to the righthand side of this photo (left turn coming off the bridge). The depot replaced the original 1891 depot, which burned in 1899, and the 1915 bridge replaced the 1889 bridge, which was washed away by the 1908 flood.
Thurmond is an old railroad town at the bottom of the gorge. It was a boom town a century ago, when West Virginia coal was in great demand and coal fueled the trains that hauled the coal out of the mines. Thurmond is now part of the New River Gorge National River. The National Park Service (NPS) renovated the old train depot in 1995 for use as a seasonal visitor center, and in 2003 it began efforts to stabilize and preserve remaining buildings of the commercial district, pending eventual restoration or renovation. Declining use of Eastern coal, railroads' move to diesel from steam, and the Great Depression all contributed to Thurmond's decline.
According to an NPS leaflet on Thurmond, "During the first two decades of the 1900s, Thurmond was a classic boomtown. With the huge amounts of coal brought in from area mines, it had the largest revenue on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway . . . [and] Thurmond's banks were the richest in the state. Fifteen passenger trains a day came through town -- its depot serving as many as 95,000 passengers a year. . . . With the advent of diesel locomotives, and less coal coming in from local mines, the town began a steady decline. The many businesses closed down, and most residents moved on. Today, the town of Thurmond remains surprisingly untouched by modern development. It is a link to our past, and a town with many stories to tell."
Other information on Thurmond found on line shows that its population was about 500 in 1930, while the 2010 census shows just 5 residents (down from 7 in 2000). For many years, the only way into Thurmond was by train, as the road to the town was not completed until 1921. The town of Thurmond is a National Register of Historic Places historic district, added to the register in 1984 (#84003520). A fire destroyed one of the town's two hotels in 1930, and in 1931 the National Bank of Thurmond failed. A more complete chronology of Thurmond's rise and decline, also from NPS, includes a map of the town and identification of several buildings.
Ruth Ann and I visited there Monday evening with friend Randall Sanger. Along with Mill Creek Falls (two photos back), Thurmond is another of the New River Gorge sites that we saw on Monday, for the first time, thanks to Randy. Unhappily, part of the Thurmond name on the depot is blocked by the semaphore tower because I positioned myself so that the car parked at end of the depot was screened by the fence.