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Hong Kong Transport - Trucks
The Hong Kong Truck Culture
The number of Trucks, Vans* and Special Purpose Vehicles (Light, Medium & Heavy) registered + licenced in Hong Kong seems to fluctuate between 120,000 - 125,000 vehicles and presumably new trucks registered are offset by old trucks being retired or sold over the border in China.
*Vans are classified as Light Goods Vehicles and are not shown in this album
In Hong Kong Trucks are classified as GOODS VEHICLES By the Transport Department - see below
☛Light Goods Vehicles - Goods vehicles of permitted gross vehicle weight not exceeding 5.5 tonnes.
☛Medium Goods Vehicles - Goods vehicles of permitted gross vehicle weight exceeding 5.5 tonnes but not exceeding 24 tonnes.
☛Heavy Goods Vehicles - Goods vehicles of permitted gross vehicle weight exceeding 24 tonnes but not exceeding 38 tonnes.
The major truck types you tend to see in urban areas are trucks carrying construction materials or waste, dump trucks, concrete mixers and all sizes of delivery trucks... outside of the urban areas it is container trucks and large trucks carrying construction materials.
The following brands of Trucks can be seen on the streets of Hong Kong and include:-
Beiben ✚ Bell ✚ CAMC ✚ CNHTC ✚ DAF ✚ Dennis ✚ Dong Feng ✚ FAW ✚ Fuso ✚ Foton ✚ Ford ✚ Hino ✚ Howo ✚ Hyundai ✚ Isuzu ✚ Iveco ✚ JAC ✚ Kato ✚ KIA ✚ Liebherr ✚ MAN ✚ Mercedes Benz ✚ Mitsubishi ✚ Nissan ✚ Renault ✚ Scania ✚ Shacman ✚ Sinotruk ✚ Suzuki ✚ Toyota ✚ UD ✚ Volvo ✚ Zoomlion
Hong Kong is a brand conscious place even for trucks (!) hence the popularity of the European brands, Scania and Man are very popular and even the older trucks look the business and they are utterly reliable.
Isuzu is the market leader in terms of sale volume for all types of trucks.
(Source - The Transport Department, Hong Kong Government)
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Bulk carrier registered in Marshall Islands.
Length: 229 m x 32 m
IMO:
9457464
Draught
(min/avg/max): 1.5 m / 8.8 m /
14.6 m
MMSI: 538007355
Speed (avg./max): 10.8 kn
16.3 kn
Callsign:
V7JH9
Year Built: 2010
Gross Tonnage: 43817
Deadweight: 80705 tons
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National Register Historic District Approved.
Los Angeles Historic Cultural Munument No. 90, July 11, 1971
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St Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church, 1925
621 W Adams Blvd
Albert C Martin, Sr
The story goes that Edward L Doheny was Episcopalian and his wife Estelle Doheny was Roman Catholic. Mrs. Doheny sponsored the building of St Vincent de Paul's Cathedral on the Norhwest corner of Adams and Figueroa across from her husband's church. About this time Mr. Doheny's congregation (numbering about 2,000) had outgrown the old 1894 building. So, not be outdone by his wife, Mr. Doheny sponsored the bulding of a new Episcopal cathedral on the opposite Southeast corner. Both were consecrated in 1925. Whether this romantic story is true is unknown. What is true, is that St John's is as richly appointed inside as St Vincent's is magnificient on the outside. Both cathedrals are built in traditional styles and complement each other beautifully.
St Vincent de Paul's was designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style, with accents in the Spanish (via Mexico) Churrigueresque. The interior is understated elegance, and the ceiling was decorated by John B Smeraldi. The fourty-five foot diameter dome is covered by brighly covered tiles. It was the second Roman Catholic church to be consecrated in Los Angeles.
Wikipedia: St Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Vincent_de_Paul_Church_(Los_Ang...
New to Marfleet, Binbrook in 11/1981 registered BTL485X.(Details from www.buslistsontheweb.co.uk). Acquired by Pennine in 01/1984 via Wings, Sleaford. This has passed through several hands since entering preservation and is seen here on A6131 Keighley Road about to enter Skipton Bus Station, a former Pennine haunt, while at the Aire Valley Transport Group Yorkshire Dales Rally & Running Day on 14/10/2018. © Peter Steel 2018.
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Other name: Niagara Mohawk Building
Syracuse, Onondaga County, NY
detail of lobby mural
The Niagara Hudson Building in Syracuse is an outstanding example of Art Deco architecture and a symbol of the Age of Electricity. Completed in 1932, the building became the headquarters for the nation’s largest electric utility company and expressed the technology of electricity through its modernistic design, material, and extraordinary program of exterior lighting. The design elements applied by architects Melvin L. King and Bley & Lyman transformed a corporate office tower into a widely admired beacon of light and belief in the future. With its central tower and figurative winged sculpture personifying electric lighting, the powerfully sculpted and decorated building offered a symbol of optimism and progress in the context of the Great Depression.
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IDENTIFICATION
Ship Name: AMADEUS DIAMOND
Certification company: Bureau Veritas
Register Number: 01838A
IMO Number: 9201968
MMSI Number:245014000
Call Sign: PBCS
Type & service: General cargo ship
Owner:AMADEUS SILVER BV
Connecting District: ROTTERDAM (RTD)
Flag: Netherlands
Port of Registry: DRUTEN
DIMENSIONS
Gross Tonnage 69:2088
Net Tonnage 69:1168
Deadweight:2800 ton
Overall Length:88.95 m
LPP:84.95 m
Breadth:12.4 m
Depth:5.65 m
Draught:4.35 m
Freeboard:1020 mm
HULL & CARGO
Builder:Scheepswerf Peters B.V.
Country of build:NETHERLANDS
Date of Build:20 Jul 2001
Yard N°:472
Hull Material:Steel
Nb of Watertight Comp.:5
Number of Cont. Decks:1
1, Machinery Aft
HOLDS
Number of Holds:1
Total Capacity of Holds:3877.00
TANKS
LBC:5952
MACHINERY
Propelling Type:Diesel
Licence:WARTSILA
Date of Build::
Date of Build:26 Mar 2001
Builder:WARTSILA NSD CORPORATION
Place of Build (country):Vaasa (FIN)
POWER AND RATING
Total Power (kW):1320 kW
Total Power (HP):1793 HP
PROPELLING MACHINERY
Internal Combustion Engine:1x Wärtsilä 8L20 - 4 stroke single acting 8 cylinder 200 x 280 mm combustion engine 1.440 kW / 1.958 hp at 1.000 rpm
Built: 2001
Builder: Wärtsilä NSD Corporation, Vaasa - Finland
ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION
Frequency:50 Hz
Diesel Generators:2 - 112 kVA - 90 kW - 150 HP
Emergency Generators:1 - 77 kVA - 62 kW - 95 HP
PROPELLERS AND PROPELLERSHAFTS
Propelling system:1 Screw Propeller Solid LB (oil -closed) 5.00 at 241 rpm
SPEED OF THE SHIP
Speed:10.5 kn
Notes
Violations discovered on board
March 08, 2022
On Monday, water police officers found violations of environmental regulations on board the multi-purpose ship "Amadeus Diamond" (IMO 9201968) with home port Druten in the port of Glückstadt. According to the police, when checking the waste water holding tank, it was noticed that 700 liters of untreated waste water were being discharged into the Wadden Sea. There was no processing plant. Bailouts have been set against the chief engineer and the captain. well
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National Register Historic District Approved
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 30
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Oliver P. Posey/Edward L Doheny Mansion, 1899
8 Chester Place, Los Angeles, CA
Theodore Eisen and Sumner Hunt (Manion); Theodore Eisen (Third Floor Ballroom); Alfred F Rosenheim (Pompeiian Room)
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The Doheny Mansion in Chester Place was originally built by the Oliver P Posey family in 1899, by Theodore Eisen and Sumner Hunt. David Gephard and Robert Winter described the house as "rather neutral (could it be considered Chateauesque?)" According to the official Doheny website, it is a blend of styles -- "French Chateauesque [with] elements of Gothic, English Tudor and even California Mission style" -- which all combined makes it pure Californian.
On the day we visited, a film crew was in the house laying plans for an upcoming shoot. We snuck in and took a few pictures of the interior, which is spactacular. The public rooms of the house (unlike the other houses in the park) have been preserved as they were on the day Mrs. Estelle Doheny donated this manson, and the whole of Chester Place, to Mount St. Mary's College. The interior was possibly remodelled in the 1930's in the Regency Style, and if that's the case, it's was done with skill and blends perfectly with the house.
In 1905 the Doheny's added on the most famous room of the house -- the Pompaiian Room. This room was designed by Alfred Rosenheim, and features Tuscan inlayed marble floors, art glass panels, marble columns, and a breath-taking glass dome. The dome is made of 2,836 pieces of gold-favrile Tiffany glass.
After the Teapot Dome scandle, the Doheny's were concerned by the number of reporters camping outside of chester place. The Doheny's then bought out all their neighbors, to make Chester Place a private compound.
If any house is deserving of National Register status, it is this house.
Wikipedia: Edward L. Doheny: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Doheny
Register (Adelaide, SA), Thursday 16 May 1901.
At Koolywurtie an excellent school building of stone, with good porch, large underground tank, and every other requirement, has been built by a liberal-minded farmer.
The 103rd BAY TO BREAKERS RACE in SAN FRANCISCO with over 40,000 registered runners. Lots of fun. Lots of costumes. and some nudity !
OVERHEARD: "I can HEAR you!', older running nudist to the whispering & snickering of the crowd.
OVERHEARD: "Nudity fail. The folks who should not run nude, always do.",
Woman to her hubby after seeing yet another nudity fail.
OVERHEARD: "'Oh they run around the house naked, so it's no big deal seeing the naked runners in the Bay to Breakers:', mom with her kids on the sideline to some other attendees.
OVERHEARD: "The corn tortillas are easier to fling than the flour ones.", Jeffrey Eise , Bay to Breakers runner discussing the art of the flying tortilla at the beginning of the race.
OVERHEARD: "The cheaper the better, so, no to organic, at least when it comes to tossing tortillas.", Jackie Slade.
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I thought I knew Yarmouth, but I heard in a discussion about what was the largest parish church in England, that Great Yarmouth Minster was one that laid claim to that accolade.
Minster? In Yarmouth?
But seems there is much to the town I did not know, and clearly it needs to be further explored. But whilst in the area, riding on trains, I took and hour out to walk from the station to the Minster to have a look, if it was open.
Maybe they are more welcoming to visitors now, but two boards outside announcing the fact, so I went in and was stunned at the size of it, too much to take in really, but it was full of light and I was given a very warm welcome. This made a very lasting impression.
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The Norman-era Minster Church of St Nicholas in Great Yarmouth remains, due to its floor-surface area, England's largest parish church.[1] It was founded in 1101 by Herbert de Losinga, the first Bishop of Norwich,[2] and consecrated in 1119. Since its construction, it has been Great Yarmouth's parish church. It is cruciform, with a central tower, which may preserve a part of the original structure. Gradual alterations effectively changed the form of the building. Its nave is 26 feet (7.9 m) wide, and the church's total length is 236 feet (72 m).
In December 2011, the Bishop of Norwich officially designated it a Minster Church. It is not only used for religious services but is a hub for various other regional and civic events, including concerts by choirs, orchestras and other musical ensembles, art exhibitions and, during festivals and fayres, the church opens permitting stalls and traders inside.
The building, very possibly the town's oldest, is also its most visible, historic landmark. It sits in the central area of Great Yarmouth, close to the house of Anna Sewell.[2] The Transitional clerestoried nave, with columns alternately octagonal and circular, was rebuilt in the reign of King John. A portion of the chancel is of the same date. About fifty years later the aisles were widened, so that the nave is now, rather unusually, the narrowest part of the building. Immediately adjacent are two main graveyard areas: the Old Yard lies directly east behind the church, while the very substantial New Yard stretches for about half a mile to the north.
A grand west front with towers and pinnacles was constructed between 1330 and 1338, but a plague interrupted building extension plans. In the 16th century the ornamental brasses were cast into weights and the gravestones cut into grindstones. Within the church there were at one time 18 chapels, some maintained by guilds, others by private families, such as the Paxtons. At the Reformation the chapels were demolished and the building's valuable liturgical vessels sold off, the proceeds spent to widen the channel of the harbour.
During the Commonwealth period, the Independents appropriated the chancel, the Presbyterians the north aisle, while Churchmen were allowed the remainder of the building. The interior brick walls, erected at this time to separate the different portions of the building, remained until 1847. In 1864 the tower was restored, and the east end of the chancel rebuilt; between 1869 and 1870 the south aisle was rebuilt; and in 1884 the south transept, the west end of the nave and the north aisle underwent restoration.
During the Second World War, the building was bombed and nearly destroyed by fire. It was rebuilt by the architect Stephen Dykes Bower and re-consecrated in 1961. During reconstruction, the church temporarily used St Peter's Church on St Peter's Road. When St Nicholas re-opened, attendance at St Peter's declined until the 1960s, when a growing Greek community had use of it, and in 1981 it became St Spiridon's Greek Orthodox Church.
On 2 October 2011, the Lord Bishop of Norwich Graham James raised St. Nicholas to the status of a Minster Church, so marked on 9 December 2011 during the town's Civic Carol Service. Its formal title is now the Minster Church of St. Nicholas, Great Yarmouth.
On 13 October 2014 a memorial stone was unveiled to commemorate the deaths of thirteen people in 1981 Bristow Helicopters Westland Wessex crash.
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I do like Great Yarmouth. More than anywhere else in East Anglia, with the possible exception of Kings Lynn, you feel that this is a place which has broken the surly bonds of proximity to London, which is, after all, fewer than 150 miles away, and instead yearns out for the sea, and Europe. Yarmouth takes its name from the mouth of the River Yare: tightly crammed onto a narrow tongue of land, surrounded on three sides by water, it retains its endearingly shabby character and a sense of its own singular history, despite the best efforts of the Luftwaffe and the Borough planners, who over the last half-century must rank as some of the most neglectful and bone-headed planners of any of England's medium-sized towns.
Great Yarmouth has a seedy brashness, a jollity which overwrites the hard times it has suffered, and it has suffered indeed: the town lost a greater percentage of its houses to German bombing during the Second World War than any other town in England. The disappearance of the fishing industry led to an unemployment rate of mining town proportions, and the rugged working class character of the town, without any significant areas of middle class villas or suburban metroland, has often been a poor advocate for itself.
Can there be a more hauntingly lovely town centre street in East Anglia than South Quay? On one side are the confident 19th and early 20th century buildings, the town hall, the banks, the merchants' houses, the town pubs, while on the other side is the quay of the steely, silent Yare, the great ships parked opposite the buildings. For Great Yarmouth is still a major port, and the warehouses on the Southtown side remind those who pass beneath the great red brick buildings on the far bank exactly where all this prosperity came from.
And a twenty minute walk will take you across the heart of the town to Yarmouth's wide, white, sandy beaches, for today this is above all else a seaside town, of course. And while the beaches are by no means as lovely as those of Lowestoft ten miles to the south, nothing can beat Yarmouth for the sheer number of its amusement arcades, its fairgrounds, its candy floss stands and its cheap tat shops. Kiss me quick and squeeze me slow: this feels like the seaside used to, like it ought to, before we got all sophisticated about such matters. It reminds me of my childhood. In summer, all Norwich seems to come here for a cheap and cheerful day out, and you cannot get a seat on the train for love nor money.
When I first knew Great Yarmouth as a child in the 1970s, the roads to the north of the town centre were lined with small hotels, and while these certainly still exist, the days when thousands of people came to Great Yarmouth for a two week holiday are now gone. The former hotels are now residential care homes, or divided up into flats and bedsits, which are still not called apartments, thank goodness. The vast coach park immediately to the north of the town centre is still discernible as the site of Yarmouth Beach station, which brought the holiday-makers here. In those days, Great Yarmouth had three railway stations, but now there is only one, with its single line playing host to an hourly shuttle into Norwich.
That the demand for cheap meals and takeaway food has not diminished is testified to by the large population of Greeks, mainly from Cyprus; they started arriving here during the days of the fascist dictatorship and the war in the 1970s. The vast former Anglican parish church of St Peter, redundant in the 1980s, has been happily reborn as the Greek Orthodox church of St Spiridon. Today, especially in the area to the south of the town centre, you are as likely to hear Greek spoken on the streets as English. And what English! This must be one of the last towns in England with a strong, identifiable accent of its own - people do not have Norfolk accents here, they have Great Yarmouth accents, which stand out in the streets of sophisticated Norwich as much as voices from Birmingham or Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
People who have never been here know Great Yarmouth from books, especially the opening few chapters of Charles Dickens's David Copperfield, for here it was that the Peggoty family lived in an upturned boat on the beach, and here it was that David was happy. Dickens was writing in the 1840s about a Great Yarmouth of a quarter of a century earlier, and you will find few traces of Dickens's Yarmouth today. Great Yarmouth underwent a massive building boom in the 1860s, and this and the modern era define its character above all else. But wandering around the Middlegate area you may be struck by how, among the dull and often crass buildings of the 1960s and 1970s, there is occasionally some extraordinary survival, a 16th century house wider at the top than the bottom, perhaps, or an early medieval tollhouse, or a grand 18th century frontage with a perfunctory building tacked on behind. This was the heart of the area destroyed by a succession of German bombing raids in 1941 and 1942. Because of Great Yarmouth's singular situation on a spit of land, its population lived crammed into narrow alleys called rows, many early medieval in origin, the bulk built in the 15th and 16th centuries. This unique medieval townscape of perhaps 140 rows survived up until those fateful nights. It was almost completely destroyed, with a consequent heavy loss of life. Hauntingly, several bombed buildings have been left exactly as they were after the destruction, in a railed off area behind the replacement Unitarian church.
It is easy to forget quite how prosperous Great Yarmouth was during the medieval period. As Bill Wilson reminds us in the revised Pevsner, at the time of the 1334 merchant's tax register, Yarmouth raised more in the subsidy than either Norwich or Lynn, which a hundred years before had been exceptionally prosperous places. Only York, Bristol and London were richer than Yarmouth on the eve of the Black Death; the town had provided three times more sailors for the attack on Calais than London, and in 1348 there were 220 boats on the Yare river mouth. But the following year the Black Death wiped out perhaps two-thirds of the townsfolk, and it would take Yarmouth hundreds of years to recover its former prosperity.
It was at this time that the town walls were completed, and it is still possible to trace the course of the walls today, especially to the south of the town. On three sides, the walls defended Yarmouth from the sea, on which it resolutely turned its back; on the river side, there was no wall. Within the walls, at its widest and most northerly point, the town had its market place, still a busy one, and further north than that, looking down the length of the market place, over the rows, the warehouse, along the river and out to the sea, they built a great church, dedicated to the patron saint of sailors, St Nicholas.
A hundred miles up the east coast is the great port city of Hull, which dwarfs the town of Great Yarmouth, but with which Great Yarmouth otherwise shares very much in common. There, the great late 15th Century church of Holy Trinity is claimed as the country's biggest, which may well be true in terms of its sheer bulk. But here in Yarmouth the medieval merchant wealth had done better than that, and here it was that, in terms of floor area, the burghers of Yarmouth built the largest church in England.
Whereas the Hull church towers over and dominates the medieval street plan, here in Great Yarmouth St Nicholas seems to sprawl, its width and length dwarfing the central tower. Holy Trinity is fully in proportion, a typical late medieval church writ large, but St Nicholas is not. This great building has an idiosyncrasy, and to visit it is to see a church in a new way. There are several reasons for this, not least that this building was largely complete a full 150 years before Holy Trinity. There is no clerestory, and hardly any of the language of Perpendicular which would inform and shape so many of England's great urban churches. The setting of the building below the level of the market place means that the overall impression is of the green of the vast copper roofs. To see it in the low sun of a cold winter's afternoon, with the stone and flintwork glowing and the frost beginning to gleam on the parapets, is to see one of East Anglia's most beautiful urban sights, I think.
Walking around the outside of the building is a not inconsiderable task, and you soon become acquainted with the rhythm of the flintwork, windows and stone dressing, which make it feel that it is all of a piece, which is an illusion, although there are reasons for it. The west front is vast, but hidden by trees and in any case visible only from a minor road.To the east of the chancel is a haunting 1840s gravestone which tells us that beneath this Stone rests two Babes that brought Happiness to their Parents although they are Dead. I wondered if Dickens had ever spotted it. And as you come back round to the south porch you'll find one of England's most unusual 19th century gravestones. It remembers George Beloe, a nine year old boy who was unfortunately drowned when the suspension bridge over the Bure, just outside of Yarmouth, collapsed in 1845. A large crowd had gathered on the bridge to watch a clown float down the river in a barrel pulled by geese, and the bridge collapsed when they surged from one side to the other as he went under. The full death toll was never known, because many of the victims must have been washed out to sea by the fast-flowing current. Seventy-nine bodies were recovered, most of them children. What makes George Beloe's headstone extraordinary is that it depicts, in stone relief, the collapse of the bridge. Now eroded by weather after more than a century and a half, you can still make out the two ends of the bridge, and the eye of God looking down as the deck collapses into the Bure.
Having made your circumnavigation, you can now step through the huge porch, which faces the market place, into the interior of this extraordinary building. You may know already what to expect, but if you do not then you will be struck by how outstandingly light and clean the interior is. As your eyes adjust to the great distances, you may then notice the curious pattern of the arcades which open and close vistas as you begin to wander, as if this was a maze of vast, low rooms. And then you would notice the jaunty, bleached Festival of Britain feel of the furnishings, the acreage of modern glass, most of it very good, and the uncluttered simplicity, and then it will strike you - there is nothing old here.
On the night of 24th June 1942, St Nicholas was completely destroyed by German bombing. All that was left standing were the outer walls and the tower, in danger of collapse. The stonework was utterly calcined by the fierce heat. In a town which had suffered so much over the previous twelve months, it was a greivous loss, and it would be almost twenty years before St Nicholas was open for business again. Essentially, it had to be rebuilt, using the surviving walls and tower. The chosen design was that of a relatively minor architect, but a man who would be responsible for the two great East Anglian church architectural controversies of the 20th Century, Stephen Dykes Bower.
It is inevitable that a comparison should be made with Coventry Cathedral, which also replaced a bombed predecessor. The two buildings are about the same size, the work was carried out over the same period of years in the late 1950s, and the two buildings opened just a year apart. But while Basil Spence's Coventry Cathedral is a fabulous, iconic structure in the spirit of the age and in the full flush of post-war enthusiasm, St Nicholas at first appears little more than an exercise in pedantic and ponderous medievalism. As Bill Wilson points out, the £315,000 awarded by the War Damage Commission here was but a quarter of the money allotted to Coventry, but he also recalls Pevsner's scathing attack on the design: What an opportunity was lost! What thrilling things might have been done inside! A modern interior, airy, noble, of fine materials could have arisen to affirm the vitality of C20 church architecture inside the C13 walls. How defeatist does the imitation-Gothic interior appear, once this has been realized!
And Pevsner was not alone. The main criticism seemed to be that, while the opportunity had not been taken to produce something brave and modernist, the rebuilding was also not true to the principles and details of the Gothic which had been there before. Instead, Dykes Bower made up his own Gothic, particularly in the arcades and tracery. It is a simple Gothic, stripped of detail and without the clutter beloved of the 19th Century revival. Coventry Cathedral's design was startling and newsworthy, and the great artists of the day were commissioned to provide its fixtures and fittings. It has come to represent a city which otherwise projects a rather vague image to the world. But Great Yarmouth is not Coventry, and there is a big difference between the urban church of a relatively small and insular town and the Cathedral of a great diocese. It is perhaps unfair that Coventry's Cathedral is still viewed today as a phoenix risen from the ashes in a way that Great Yarmouth's church can never be, despite the near-identical circumstances. But that's not all. Bill Wilson, writing in 1991, concludes that the problem with the concept is the lack of assertive detail and the fact that so large a space needs to be filled with plenty of furnishings. Unhappily, there are hardly any...
And yet, and yet. When I step into St Nicholas now, I find myself thrilled by the cool light, the almost monastic simplicity. Apart from the hideous organ, the open spaces are barely punctuated, and there is something timeless and eternal about the silence. Dykes Bower's arcades are hardly there, vanishing into the whiteness above and the simplicity of the bare wood roofs. Through the crossing the jewel-like chancel glows, almost beckoning. From the other direction the west window does exactly the same. What Pevsner could not have foreseen is that this building is entirely suited to modern Anglican spirituality which has extended in recent years beyond mere congregational worship. And he also could not have foreseen how we would come to view the simplicity of Dykes Bower's design, the white walls, the lack of detail, the stripped, bleached wood and the cool, hard floors as being exactly symptomatic of the 1960s, the decade which gave this new building its birth. For this, I like it very much, not least because it was reopened on 8th May 1961, the day I was born.
Perhaps best of all I like the range of glass around the east and west windows by Brian Thomas. They are all of a piece, installed for the reopening. There can be few modern schemes outside of the cathedrals on so vast a scale, and yet they are elaborate, detailed and intimate. This great, light building is the perfect setting for them. The east window depicts the Crucifixion, surrounded by scenes from the Passion. In the north aisles are the joyful mysteries of the Christ story, from the Annunciation to the Presentation, while in the south aisles is the salvation story from Adam and Eve to Christ's mission. At the west end are the sacraments.
There are effectively four aisles, two either side of the church, which extend up to beyond the crossing. The aisles each side become conjoined as they flank the nave itself, making the nave appear narrow and tall in comparison, despite what we know to be true of it. The triple lancet of the west window aids this illusion. Below it, the Norman font is from a redundant Wiltshire church, and looks most un-East Anglian. There are small artworks and minor survivals dotted about, but they do not intrude. The early 18th century pulpit came from St George, a few hundred metres to the south, now closed. The pews in the central part of the nave are also from St George, and although they are simple they strike a jarring note. Modern chairs would be better. Dykes Bower screened off the south chancel chapel to create a space for private prayer, and this doesn't work as well as it might, creating an obstruction within the otherwise openness of the east end. The garishly painted organ is also his.
But this is a place to wander - despite the vast scale I found I had circumnavigated the interior three times without really noticing. It struck me then quite how much Dykes Bower must have intended this - he was designing a great town church interior, and looking across the water to Holland and Belgium as much as to anywhere else in England. He wanted a church that opened onto the market place, into which shoppers could come for a sit down and even a prayer, a building whose open spaces would be wandered through. Having told you all of this, I expect you are already making plans to come to Great Yarmouth and visit this church for yourself as soon as you possibly can. You may be aghast to learn, then, that this wonderful structure is hardly ever open to the public. At present, you can only visit on a Saturday morning: otherwise, it is merely the private, vastly-subsidised venue of a small group of Sunday worshippers. Nothing could be more short-sighted, and little could be more shameful.
For, while the mission of the Church of England is increasingly seen as to the whole people of God and not just to its registered members, and churches all over England are making themselves open to pilgrims and strangers wanting to feel a sense of the numinous and even perhaps to be open to a spirituality which may or may not be Christian but which is at least a yearning for God, the people of Great Yarmouth are locked out of their own church from day to day. They can at least visit the Catholic church of St Mary, which has a sign saying, curiously, that the church is open as often as possible, but that is a small Victorian building, and cannot compare with St Nicholas which is, after all, the heart and soul of Great Yarmouth's history, a touchstone down its long generations.
But if you can get inside, and if you stand beneath the crossing looking westwards, the view is typical: clean, clear, full of light and gravitas with a sense of prayerfulness and even of mystery. There is enough to convince. This building does not feel defeatist; if anything, it was a rather brave approach to the problem. But few people saw it like that at the time, and few people did in the years after. It must be said that Dykes Bower did not go out of his way to win friends in the modernist world - as his wikipedia entry says of him, he was a devoted and determined champion of the Gothic Revival style through its most unpopular years. And yet, he had the last laugh. When he finished here, he spent the next two decades overseeing the transformation of the church of St James at Bury St Edmunds into a fitting cathedral for the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. His is the chancel there, his the transepts, the side chapels and the north ambulatory, all in his own faux-gothic style. And when he died in 1994 he left a cool two million pounds to the Diocese for the construction of a huge Gothic central tower over the crossing of the cathedral. The Diocese spent another ten years or so raising the extra needed, which was fairly controversial in those years when the CofE was haemorraging cash left, right and centre. Despite the voices against it, the tower was built, entirely to Dykes Bower's fancy, and the gleaming white edifice now towers over Bury as if it had been there for half a millennium or more.
Simon Knott, October 2010
Bright Angel Lodge, designed in 1935, has a natural, rustic character, and is a Registered National Historic Landmark.
The Bright Angel Lodge as it appears today was designed and built by famous Southwest architect Mary Colter. The Bright Angel Lodge we see today went through many transformations - originally a hotel, then a camp and finally a lodge. All of its changes were to accommodate increased visitation after the arrival of the train in 1901. Under the direction of the Santa Fe Railroad, Mary Colter’s task in designing a fresh look for Bright Angel Lodge was to ensure more moderately priced lodging than was offered at the El Tovar up the hill.
Colter included local flavor in all of her buildings, and especially here at Grand Canyon she drew inspirations from many local sources. Included in the overall theme of this lodge are a couple of historically significant structures that might well have been demolished without her intervention. The Buckey O’Neill Cabin, originally home to one of Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, and the Red Horse Station, which served as the post office for 20 years, influenced the new style of the lodge and can both be still used by guests today.
Though Colter was influenced by history, she knew exactly what she wanted from her builders. And all of her plans had to be completely followed. Builders who worked with Colter had countless stories to tell about her attention to detail and not settling for anything that failed to match her plans and expectations completely. Step inside to visit the history room and discover the geologic fireplace featuring all of the rock layers of the Grand Canyon, from the river cobbles to the youngest rock layer on the rim. During its construction, Colter repeatedly sent men back into the canyon for more rocks of various shapes and sizes and would step in to make changes herself.
Today the Bright Angel Lodge is its own bit of history preserved for visitors to admire and enjoy. Now more than simply a place to stay, its character is a collection of things that have happened here, and it has many stories to tell. NPS Photo by Michael Quinn.
For more information about staying at the Bright Angel Lodge:
www.grandcanyonlodges.com/bright-angel-lodge-408.html
To help plan your trip to the Grand Canyon visit: www.nps.gov/grca/index.htm
Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report team visited the Backstage Creations Celebrity Retreat at the 2016 Emmy® Awards at the Microsoft Theater in DTLA.
Giving Back: In addition to treating presenters and performers to an array of luxury goods, the lounge served as a Giving Suite™ as celebrities who participated helped to raise up to $150,000 in donations to support the Television Academy Foundation.
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The items in the Giving Suite™ included:
· I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!® - Black-ish stars, Anthony Anderson & Tracee Ellis Ross, jumped in the I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!® photo & gif booth and had a blast. They even predicted that they would win an Emmy, holding up a sign that read, “I can’t believe we won!” Emmy performer, Tori Kelly, also had fun in the I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!® photo & gif booth. She held up a sign in her pictures that read, “I can’t believe I’m at my first Emmys!” www.icantbelieveitsnotbutter.com
· Austin Cocktails – Shameless star, William H. Macy, and his wife, Felicity Huffman, loved Austin Cocktails’ premixed cocktails so much that they came back for a second drink. Actor, Will Forte, also came back for seconds and said, “This margarita is better than Bali.” Actress, Minnie Driver, loved the cocktails so much, she said she would be serving it in her own 1930’s sherry glasses. www.austincocktails.com
· Jaybird Freedom – While checking out the Jaybird Freedom wireless headphones, Modern Family’s Ty Burrell said, “Oh, I have a pair of these. They’re great!” Actor, Will Forte, also enjoyed the wireless headphones, stating, “Oh so these will work with my new phone?! That’s great!” www.jaybirdsport.com
· L.A. Star Greens, Perfect 10 organic Superfood – Michael Weatherly loved Perfect 10 organic Superfood by L.A. Star Greens and mentioned that his wife would love it, too. Anthony Anderson tried the product and loved it, as well. He said, “Let me sell this stuff.” www.LAStarGreens.com
· Nu Skin Enterprises - Empire’s Terrence Howard checked out the ageLOC Me from Nu Skin and said, “My wife would love this!” While checking out the ageLOC me, Joel McHale exclaimed, “Does that mean I can have personalized skin care forever?!” www.nuskinusa.com
· Rottet Studio - Shameless star, William H. Macy, and his wife, Felicity Huffman, relaxed in the lounge area designed by Rottet Studio for nearly an hour before the heading to their seats for the show. Downton Abbey’s Michelle Dockery loved her candle from Rottet Collection by Air Aroma. She said, “I love candles. I’d love to have a candle… or maybe two. It smells beautiful.”
· the hinde by kelli bailey – While checking out a leather bag by the hinde, Emmy winner, Regina King, stated, “I’ve never seen anything like it before—it’s terrific!” Downton Abbey’s Michelle Dockery fell in love with the hinde’s leather bags. She said, “The bag is so beautiful on its own. I could see it hanging on a chair in the house. It’s so comfortable that I hardly know it’s on.” SNL’s Leslie Jones picked up a beautiful red bag by the hinde and said she couldn’t wait to wear it. www.thehinde.com
· The Mulia, Mulia Resort & Villas - Nusa Dua, Bali – Actor, Will Forte, was thrilled to receive a trip to the Mulia Resort in Bali. He said, “OMG, that’s amazing. I’m going to Bali right now!” Emmy winner, Regina King, said, “You know what’s crazy? After my win, they asked me what my favorite place to travel was and I said Bali!” www.themulia.com
Celebrities also received:
· Benjamin Steakhouse Prime - Benjamin Steakhouse Prime is the newest addition to the Benjamin Restaurant Group family, opening this fall. Here we combine modern elegance with the steakhouse classics by serving only the best USDA prime steaks, succulent seafood and more from the grill. www.benjaminsteakhouse.com
· ChapStick® - ChapStick® Total Hydration Moisture + Tint, the first-ever tinted lip balm from the experts in lip care, is a tinted moisturizer that enhances the lips' natural color. It is made with 100% naturally sourced ingredients, including advanced ingredients like Rosehip Seed Oil and is available in three shades – Merlot, Coral Blush and Rose Petal. www.shopchapstick.com
· Colgate® Optic White® Toothbrush + Whitening Pen - With the Colgate® Optic White® Toothbrush + Whitening Pen you can get a #DesignerSmile with 5 shades whiter teeth that starts working in 1 day! It’s as easy as…Brush. Whiten. Go.® - No waiting, no rinsing! www.colgateopticwhite.com/toothbrushes/whitening-pen-and-...
· Crane Stationery - Since 1801, heads of state and stately households alike have chosen Crane to celebrate life's grand occasions, both large and small. Be a part of history and celebrate our exquisite craftsmanship with our new 1801 collection of hand-crafted stationery. www.crane.com/stationery/stationery-gifts/cranes-1801-col...
· DELSEY Luggage - MONTMARTRE+ 25” Exp. Spinner Trolley made of ballistic nylon to resist wear and tear featuring an easy-access compartment for a jacket, shoes, or toiletries and double spinner wheels for superior maneuverability. shop.delsey.com/
· Hasbro’s Furby Connect - Get ready to discover a world of surprises with Furby Connect! The digitally-integrated Furby Connect friend from Hasbro interacts with kids through its own hilarious take on songs, videos, and more surprises continually delivered via Bluetooth®. www.hasbro.com/en-us/product/furby-connect-teal:5A8C7598-...
· Icelandic Glacial™ - Natural Spring Water from Iceland. www.icelandicglacial.com
· Inkk Nail Lacquers – Inkk is a luxury, 5-free, vegan and cruelty-free nail lacquer brand specializing in customizable Your Color, Your Name nail lacquers that can be made by anyone straight from their phone or computer. The innovation behind Inkk enables women to wear nail lacquer colors that are personal to them and available when they want. www.yourinkk.com
· Millennium Hotels and Resorts - Discover our World of uniquely spirited hotels with a two-night sojourn at Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles. Complete with dinner for two at Smeraldi’s and VIP amenities. www.millenniumhotels.com
· MIZANI 25 Miracle Milk - 25 Miracle Milk is a lightweight leave-in treatment that provides 25 benefits in just a few sprays. This easy-to-use product preps hair for styling, helps detangle with less breakage, provides moisture, protects against heat damage and is free of paraben, sulfate, drying alcohols and mineral oil. www.mizani.com/products/category/haircare/25-miracle-milk
· Nature’s Bounty Hair, Skin & Nails Gummies - Nature's Bounty® Hair, Skin & Nail Gummies provide you with the vital nutrients your body needs to support your natural beauty from the inside and out.* Our Hair, Skin & Nails Gummies are full of vitamins including Biotin, Vitamin C and Vitamin E to help you feel healthy, beautiful and well. *These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. www.naturesbounty.com
· Red Coat PR & Six Best Selling Authors - Featuring some of today’s Best Selling authors including; Denise Grover Swank, Randi Wilson, Stacy Green, L.P. Dover, Kristie Cook and Amy Miles. Available in print and on all major e-book platforms. redcoatpr.com/emmys2016
· Scarves by Mary DeArment – Silk and cashmere scarves empower women while inviting interesting conversations about the messages embedded in the artwork. Every Mary DeArment design is made with a word; these visual puzzles include socially conscious words/phrases/acronyms such as “peace,” “gender equality,” “STEM,” and “world citizen.” www.scarvesbymarydearment.com
· sérumtologié® - sérumtologié, based in Beverly Hills, CA, is a leading maker of novel and innovative skin care products containing clinically proven ingredients but without the often shockingly high price tag of many other luxury skin brands. Two of the company’s products that have met with strong client acceptance are our groundbreaking C serum º22 and PURE Whipped Chiffon, its companion daily moisturizer. www.serumtologie.com
· Thera Cane MAX Trigger Point Massager – Treat yourself to deep relief from painful, knotted, spasmed muscles. This amazingly simple yet effective self-massager makes it easy to apply pain-relieving deep compression directly to hard, knotted "trigger points" anywhere they occur - breaking up tension even in the hardest-to-reach muscles between your shoulder blades! www.theracane.com
This year’s Giving Suite™ was styled by Rottet Studio. Rottet Studio is an international architecture and design firm with an extensive portfolio of corporate, hospitality and residential projects for the world’s leading companies and brands. In the last decade, Founder Lauren Rottet, FAIA, FIIDA has developed Rottet Studio into one of the finest interior design practices in the United States, which is consistently ranked among the corporate and hospitality Top 100 Design Giants by Interior Design magazine and was recently recognized as one of the Top 3 Most Admired Design Firms in the World. www.rottetstudio.com
Floral arrangements in this year’s Giving Suite™ were created by The Mille Fiori Floral Design. www.themillefiori.com
Uccellino® by Xavier Madera. Xavier Madera is most noted for his creative custom jewelery collaboration with Erykah Badu & Thundercat but he has worked with several high-profile celebrities & celebrity friends throughout recent years. Some of which include Khalil, Lil Nate Dogg, Kaya Jones, Gladys Knight, Kayley Stallings, Boo Boo Stewart, Big Chan, Chris Brown, Marla Gibbs, Jane Seymour, Kyle Richards, Wynona Judd, Yung OFB, Trinity Marquez, Mathew Wayne & Daniella Monet just to name a few. He's also worked with top photographers in the fashion industry; K-rish, Nave Elefano (Inspirawr Music), Sir Jones, D'andre Michael, Bob Delgadillo, Sheri Determan, Gisele (Party by 5) & Gino Studios. Xavier Madera has worked with models from Chris Brown's Legendary Faces Modeling Agency; as well as, top models Leslie Allen & Brianna Michelle. His work has been featured in boutiques and Fashion Houses; Mint Collection, Shoes for the Stars Fashion House, Orange Bone, COLORS and more. He's also had several interviews & write ups in Splash Magazine, Dope Chic Style & other publications. In conjunction with Cindy Marquez (LC1 PR).
Another machine in the cash register museum in Bratislava. An interesting combination of form, function and design.
Beachstone® Diamond Glass Aggregate For Sale - 100% Post Consumer crystal clear glass. Made in the USA. Diverted from Landfill. LEED® 4.0 Compliant.
Uccellino® by Xavier Madera. Xavier Madera is most noted for his creative custom jewelery collaboration with Erykah Badu & Thundercat but he has worked with several high-profile celebrities & celebrity friends throughout recent years. Some of which include Khalil, Lil Nate Dogg, Kaya Jones, Gladys Knight, Kayley Stallings, Boo Boo Stewart, Big Chan, Chris Brown, Marla Gibbs, Jane Seymour, Kyle Richards, Wynona Judd, Yung OFB, Trinity Marquez, Mathew Wayne & Daniella Monet just to name a few. He's also worked with top photographers in the fashion industry; K-rish, Nave Elefano (Inspirawr Music), Sir Jones, D'andre Michael, Bob Delgadillo, Sheri Determan, Gisele (Party by 5) & Gino Studios. Xavier Madera has worked with models from Chris Brown's Legendary Faces Modeling Agency; as well as, top models Leslie Allen & Brianna Michelle. His work has been featured in boutiques and Fashion Houses; Mint Collection, Shoes for the Stars Fashion House, Orange Bone, COLORS and more. He's also had several interviews & write ups in Splash Magazine, Dope Chic Style & other publications. In conjunction with Cindy Marquez (LC1 PR).