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Meet Me Half Way Photos that are taken at the Sunny's studio
You know I want you
It's not a secret I try to hide
I know you want me
So don't keep sayin' our hands are tied
You claim it's not in the cards
And fate is pullin' you miles away
And out of reach from me
But you're here in my heart
So who can stop me if I decide
That you're my destiny?
What if we rewrite the stars?
Say you were made to be mine
Nothing could keep us apart
You'd be the one I was meant to find
It's up to you, and it's up to me
No one can say what we get to be
So why don't we rewrite the stars?
Maybe the world could be ours
Tonight
You think it's easy
You think I don't wanna run to you
But there are mountains
And there are doors that we can't walk through
I know you're wondering why because we're able to be
Just you and me within these walls
But when we go outside, you're gonna wake up and see
That it was hopeless after all
No one can rewrite the stars
How can you say you'll be mine?
Everything keeps us apart
And I'm not the one you were meant to find
It's not up to you
It's not up to me
When everyone tells us what we can be
How can we rewrite the stars?
Say that the world can be ours
Tonight
All I want is to fly with you
All I want is to fall with you
So just give me all of you
It feels impossible
It's not impossible
Is it impossible?
Say that it's possible
How do we rewrite the stars?
Say you were made to be mine?
Nothing can keep us apart
'Cause you are the one I was meant to find
It's up to you
And it's up to me
No one can say what we get to be
And why don't we rewrite the stars?
Changing the world to be ours
You know I want you
It's not a secret I try to hide
But I can't have you
We're bound to break and my hands are tied
~The Greatest Showman
Dammit, the volume dial of this Fender Showman vintage guitar amplifier only goes up to 10.
In the window display of the vintage amp specialist Sweet Amps, Well Street, Hackney.
I am brave, I am bruised
I am who I'm meant to be, this is me
Look out 'cause here I come
And I'm marching on to the beat I drum
I'm not scared to be seen
I make no apologies, this is me ...
Text: This is Me from The Greatest Showman
This chap was at the New Forest show demonstrating his wonderful farm machinery, All in perfect working order.
The Buffalo Bill Dam stands in Shoshone Canyon on the Shoshone River just 6 miles upstream of Cody Wyoming. The dam is anchored in Archean granites and gneisses that were part of Wyoming when it was a separate microcontinent about 2.5 billion years ago.The north side of the canyon is known as Rattlesnake Mountain. Cedar Mountain is on the south side. These mountains are part of a large faulted anticline that formed during the Laramide mountain-building episode around 70 million years ago.
America’s first ever mass concrete dam rose 325 feet high above the canyon floor which made it the tallest dam in the world at the time of its completion. The arch dam was constructed between 1904 and 1910. It was one of the first arch dams in the U.S. to be designed using a mathematical method of analysis. Engineer Edgar Wheeler considered changing water surface elevations, variation in temperature and deflection issues. This allowed him to determine the distribution of loads both horizontally and vertically. This was the forerunner of the Trial-Load Method of arch dam stress analysis which is the predecessor of today's computerized systems. The dam is a constant-radius arch concrete structure with a radius of 150 feet and a crest length of 200 feet. Twenty-five percent of the dam is composed of hand-placed rocks, called plum stones, weighing 25 to 200 pounds each.
Prior to irrigation the Big Horn Basin was a dry desert averaging only 7 to 12 inches of rainfall per year. Despite the low rainfall the area has rich and deep soils. Visionaries like showman Colonel William F. (Buffalo Bill) Cody saw the potential benefit to irrigating the arid land and raising agricultural crops. In 1897 and 1899 Colonel Cody and his associates acquired from the State of Wyoming the right to take water from the Shoshone River to irrigate about 169,000 acres of land in the Bighorn Basin. They began developing a canal to carry water diverted from the river, but their plans did not include a water storage reservoir. Colonel Cody and his associates were unable to raise sufficient capital to complete their plan. Early in 1903 they joined with the Wyoming Board of Land Commissioners in urging the federal government to step in and help with irrigation development in the valley.
The Shoshone Project became one of the first federal water development projects undertaken by the newly formed Reclamation Service, later to become known as the Bureau of Reclamation. After Reclamation took over the project in 1903, investigating engineers recommended constructing a dam on the Shoshone River in the canyon west of Cody.. Originally called the Shoshone Dam it was renamed in 1946 the Buffalo Bill Dam in honor of one of its biggest proponents, Buffalo Bill.
In the early 1900s, building a large dam in a remote location offered many challenges. Concrete was placed and cured despite below-zero temperatures, requiring steam fittings to carry heat to the construction site. To excavate the dam abutments on the sheer walls of the canyon, workmen risked their lives, hanging from spider lines connected to cableway towers. Seven workman died during the construction of the dam over the six year period. Manpower was limited on the sparsely populated frontier. Contractors and laborers had to be imported and trained. Thousands of tons of materials had to be delivered to the site over the precipitous canyon road. But despite all theses obstacles, the dam was completed in 1910.
Because of its historical significance, Buffalo Bill Dam was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is also a National Civil Engineering Landmark.
Between 1988 and 1993, the height of the dam was raised another 25 feet to its present total height of 350 feet.
This photo taken on Great Dam Day 2021,
References:
usbr.gov/gp/multimedia/publications/buffalo_bill_brochure...
www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/buffalo-bill-dam-wyoming
www.asce.org/about-civil-engineering/history-and-heritage...
Slaidburn Showmans
Burrell “Dreadnought” and Foden “Prospector” Showmans Engines looking immaculate outside the Hark To Bounty, Slaidburn, during the 40th anniversary Steam and Vintage Vehicle Display in the village.
This Beautiful Steam Engine was made by "Fowler" in 1927 ..It was seen in all its Glory at the Driffield Steam Fair in East Yorkshire ..
Burrell Showmans Road Locomotive 3285, "King George V", photographed at Astle Park Traction Engine Rally.
One of my favourite features of the show is waiting until sundown when the traction engines light up while powering the funfair.
one of the highlights of Astle park was these five showmans engines. I had only seen 2 in a row before at this location by the gallopers
Originally The Grosvernor Cinema - built and owned in 1922 by the most famous Bloxwich resident Pat Collins, Showman, President of the Showman’s Guild, Alderman, Mayor and MP in his lifetime. Pat Collins died in 1943. Between 1935 and 1959 it was known as The Odeon Cinema. In May 1959 it closed and became derelict. It was used for several other businesses, including Flix nightclub. Eventually in 2015 Wetherspoons rebuilt the inside and retained the Art Deco frontage, and named it ‘The Bloxwich Showman’ in honour of Pat Collins. Originally Bloxwich was in Staffordshire, but in the 1970s boundary changes it was in the West Midlands.