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Constructed during World War II.
Due to wartime shortages of building materials, the shed is clad with flattened kerosene tins.
On a hillside at the San Juan Island Sculpture Park. Fishnet sheep by David Halpern. The white sheep are made from used gill net and the black sheep from seine net. The heads are vintage cedar buoys.
An example of horizontal wind shear affecting a storm cell from building, this is what has an adverse effect on hurricanes in our region this time of year and helps to tame them before they get intense. The updraft of a thunderstorm gets torn apart and is prevented from strengthening and weakens the system, obviously hurricanes are larger than this cell but the same effect tames them, living in the Caribbean everyone is weather aware!! The wind shear is coming from the west whereas our normal trade winds are from the east, the cloud shear is pointing east.
Also a Flickr First - this seems to be the first of the batch to be snapped ...
135 - BU18 YSM
Mercedes-Benz Tourismo M/2 s3 (C48Ft)
Shearings Holidays, Wigan
Gunwharf Road, Portsmouth
08 June 2018
Another image from this great location. The old shearers shed still stands proud but is definitely losing the battle against time.
EOS 5D MKII
EF17-40mm F4L
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Shearings have a batch of new Mercedes Benz Tourismos arriving in a revised version of their blue livery, shown here on 135 (BU18 YSM) as it sets off towards the Isle of Wight this afternoon, 8th June, 2018.
Another visit to Werribee Zoo, another discovery - the old shearing shed.
It is a beautiful old building with loads of charm and history. You can easily imagine it full of shearers, sheep and freshly shorn wool.
I made a reference in a previous posting about the time in 1971 when Shearings Holidays were owned by Jacksons of Altrincham and new vehicles delivered that year were displaying a multitude of fleet names. One such example was VLG138J a 45 seat Plaxton Panorama bodied Ford R192 delivered new in April 1971 and seen here at the Blackpool Coach Rally displaying the Shearings Pleasureways Ribblesdale names.
On Monday 20th July 2020, around 420 coaches descended on London and honked their horns from Earls Court, along the Chelsea Embankment, through Parliament Square and up to Tower Bridge. Their aim was to highlight to the Government the severe financial crisis the industry currently finds itself in with no prospect of any sort of recovery until at least next summer.
I witnessed the parade pass Chelsea Bridge with the lead vehicle passing at 11:00 and the final coach passing some 3 hours later!!
For this event I decided to focus on the coaches themselves.
Shearings acquired 10 Leyland National 2's from Cumberland including a number of examples new to Ribble. Three of the Ribble ones, RHG 883/5/7X, are seen here having been delivered to Workington where Leyland had been contacted to repaint them. The story of how Shearings came to acquire these is one of the more interesting bits of deregulation history but not for the public domain as yet!
While touring Achill Island in Co. Mayo, Ireland, we happened upon a very outgoing sheep farmer who was shearing sheep in a pen. He invited us to watch and I was rewarded with some really neat images, including this closeup. It was a wonderful experience watching this skilled farmer do his work! I will post some more of the images in the coming days.
It is not an easy job, sometimes an "ippon" is necessary !
I don't know if this is the right judogrip , but it did the trick !!
This sheep shearing barn is not longer in service, no doubt it's packed with a lot of Australian history. I was so lucky to be able to photograph it.
Thank you to Ray Jennings for sweeping around to create some dust for us :D
Shearings Mercedes-Benz 0303/Plaxton Paramount 3500 III C51F seen at First Group Port Talbot Depot (Slide By Steve Powell)
Family hair care in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Taken during Windjammer Days in 2018. My title is in no way what I think of this photo.