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This is woollen fleece sheared from sheep, sitting in a shearing shed, far north of Sydney, in a town called Windy.
Sheep shearing is the process by which wool is cut off sheep, an activity that is usually done to a sheep once a year. This usually takes place inside a shearing shed, with proper mechanisms in place to ensure a smooth process per sheep. Woollen fleece is sheared using blades or using machines. The blades resemble knives to some extent and the machines resemble hair clippers. In this particular shearing shed, we found quite a few machines for shearing.
About the shed: The shearing shed at West Warrah, later known as “Windy”, was built in 1902, with 44 stands. It started as a steam engine run shearing but was later replaced by electricity in 1938. Designed using the best practice principles of the time and incorporating then cutting edge technology, this shed played a historical role in the development of the fine wool industry in the colony of NSW. The woolshed is a landmark dominating the entrance to Windy Station, one of the most profitable and important historical pastoral stations in NSW.
Sheep shearing is not practiced in this shearing shed anymore. It is under consideration to be granted heritage status.
Shearings BF16XOZ (851) is a Mercedes Benz Tourismo. Seen at Sheffield Bus Station, BF16XOZ was new to the company.
Changing pace from my recent trip photos... thought I would throw in some action with an image from our state fair.
The sheep hand shearing contest draws major crowds yet the organizing of them has become increasingly more difficult. This art has become limited with fewer contestants over time as well as getting all the sheep needed when the time of the fair coincides.
Both the men and ladies who do this task have very muscular physiques as shown here - it takes strength to hold the animal as well as cautiously clip them with the sharp shears.
I wondered if he used the shears on his own head.
Shearings (Readybus, Wexham, Buckinghamshire)
BJ16 KXR
Mercedes-Benz Tourismo M.
Kings Statue, Weymouth.
We went to the far for sheep shearing. Wauchope, Saskatchewan, Canada. 16 April 2023
2025-26: Judge merit award out of 999 entries in Photocrowd 'Environmental Portraits with context and Character' in December 2025.
2023-24: Scored 29/37 in CAPA's Prairie Zone competition
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.
Seen heading north bound on the M1 motorway at Milton Keynes is a Mercedes-Benz Tourismo M of Shearings of Wigan delivered new to Shearings in 4/2017.
New as Greater Manchester PTE f/n 117 in April 1975, Leyland National HNE 647N joined the Shearing fleet soon after deregulation in October 1986. Seen in the Gower Street yard at Wigan c1987.
From 1989-1991 the British Coach Rally was held in Southampton, centred in Mayflower Park.
Here, Shearings of Wigan FAP Sanos S315 (Ensign Charisma) G894VNA is seen at the 1990 event. The Sanos was a Yugoslavian licence-built Mercedes O303. A total of 27 examples entered UK service between 1988-92 with Shearings taking a pair (G894/5VNA). They were marketed by dealer Ensign as the Charisma.
Shearings Holidays: 689 (DF53 LRL) a Ford Transit minibus, used for feeder services and painted in blue fleet livery. It is captured here parked up at South Mimms Services on the M25 motorway.
© James E. Lowe.
Date: 23rd September 2006.
Ref No. DSCF5112/JL.
The Benjamin Sheares Bridge is the longest bridge in Singapore spanning 1.8km and tallest at 29 metres
As I parked the car at Toddington Services (M1 Northbound) today (10/04/2016), I couldn't help but notice that on the rear of two Shearings Mercedes-Benz Tourismo coaches were non-UK registration plates. Closer inspection revealed that the pair were being delivered to the UK and were carrying Salzburg, Austria, trade plates!
Both coaches had chassis details in the windows. These were:
[Coach S7IVN] = WEB63247523000706;
[Coach S4KAC] = WEB63247523000707.
No doubt in time we will discover their UK identities.
UPDATE:
[Coach S7IVN] = WEB63247523000706 = BF16XOS (Shearings 832);
[Coach S4KAC] = WEB63247523000707 = BF16XOT (Shearings 848).
Me with my sheep shearing handpiece . Lit with a Godox tt520 flash and softbox at 90 degrees left of camera .
One of the batch of 30 brand new design Tourismo M/2s to arrive at the Shearings fleet, BU18YTB-147, making the turn on Torquay's Cary Parade. The new coaches feature this new blue livery with the white swoops.
Company: Shearings of Wigan
Registration: BU18YTB
Fleet Number: 147
New: 2018
Chassis: Mercedes-Benz Tourismo M/2
Bodywork: Mercedes-Benz C48Ft
Location: Cary Parade, Torquay
Exposure: 1/640 @ f7.1 200ISO
Date: 19 June 2018
Ina 1995, Shearings received a mixture of Jonckheere Deauville and Van Hool Alizee bodied Volvo B10M-62s. One of the former, 612 (M612 ORJ), was seen on Brighton seafront on 23rd October, 1995, during its first year.
Shearings Coaches have been stop off at Largs every Tuesday afternoon for hour before head's back to Rothesay.