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Rock Legend - Rick Springfield - Age: 74 - 2/22/24
Amazing Showman - incredible opening night show
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Springfield
*[left double-click for a closer-look - Day 1 - Royal Theater - 7:00 PM]
OK, so I've done the Sail-Away, the 'Port' in the Dominican Republic, and some sunrises/sunsets along this five-day cruise. NOW, it's time for: The Artists at Sea - Twenty Amazing Bands! Will be posting in no particular order: the wide stage-shots & then the verticals. This was our 7th consecutive Rock Legends Cruise. Epic Music Cruise. Enjoy.
Rock Legends Cruise XI - February 22nd-26th, 2024
------- Annual Rock Music Festival at Sea Benefit ---------
Independence of the Seas - Royal Caribbean Cruise Line
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_of_the_Seas
---- Miami - Dominican Republic - Miami - (five days) ----
20 Bands! - Five Day Party! - three stages! - 60 Shows!
Concerts all day-and-night from 10:00 AM to 2:00 AM
2024 Bands: Sammy Hagar & The Circle - Billy F Gibbons
Bret Michaels - Rick Springfield - Collective Soul - Geoff Tate
Jefferson Starship - Last In Line - The Immediate Family
The Kentucky Headhunters - Canned Heat - Mononeon
Vanessa Collier - Gary Hoey - Duane Betts & Palmetto Motel
Robert Jon & The Wreck - Anthony Gomes - Two Wolf
Mathew Curry - Jax Hallow - Gary Hoey's All Star Jam
*Rock Legends VII - (Feb 2019) - Cruise Video Montage
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pIMWuGq2WI&feature=youtu.be&...
*ALL proceeds from ALL the Rock Legends Cruises go to NAHA :
Native American Heritage Association, a non-profit organization
dedicated to fighting hunger and providing basic life necessities
to families living on Reservations in South Dakota, U.S.A.
2024 Rock Legends Cruise XI slide-show: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBhjDw
*[this was our 7th consecutive (annual) Rock Legends Cruise
(1-year postponed w/ covid). We already booked RLC XII 2025
w/Robin Trower - Burton Cummings! Next year will be: 8 of 12!]
"And in the end, the love you take, is equal
to the love you make" ---Paul McCartney
Willamette Heights Park is the home of Springfield's monolith. Now hidden in the trees, graffitied, and a party site, long ago the big "S" would have been visible from the valley floor.
Springfield Union Station as it appears today. The clock tower was part of the original station, removed in 1946 and rebuilt in a 2007 renovation. Besides the IC, Union Station served the B&O, CP&St.L and St.LP&N.
The line up at the Amtrak station in Springfield, MA with F40PH #280 and another, maybe #216? in 2000. - from my slide
D383 XRS
Leyland Olympian/Alexander RL H47/30F
Preserved, ex Springfield Bus & Coach, Grappenhall, Cheshire
Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, Quainton, 31 May 2010
New to Alexander Northern
Springfield had a pair of these Olympians that were bought by United Counties in 1991, both of which went into preservation in the Midlands before returning to service with Lawsons of Corby. An O-licence is now held in the name of Springfield Bus & Coach (West Anglia), based initially in Corby but now in Brackley, but there is no evidence that this bus has ever operated on it.
This original book from 1895 was offered by an e-Bay seller over a decade ago. It was only in 2015 after a long period of deliberation that I decided there might be someone else who would be interested in this arcane knowledge about Springfield, MA, as it appeared back in 1895. The fragile book was carefully disbounded, its pages carefully scanned, and upon completion the pages were carefully collated and archived in a mylar sleeve. It was published by a New York publisher so likely there are other extant copies. My sole purpose is to share it with the public with those who have an interest in the topic. (I found it fascinating) Since the book dates from 1895 and I know of no other editions, it is copy-right free and thus does not infringe on anyone's intellectual property rights. Thanks for your interest; questions or comments are welcome.
Broomhall : Springfield School
Springfield Primary School, Broomspring Lane, Broomhall, Sheffield, 1875.
By Innocent & Brown.
Enlarged 1892 & 1897 by CJ Innocent.
Built as Springfield Board School for the Sheffield School Board.
Grade ll listed.
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Springfield Junior and Infant Schools, Cavendish Street, Sheffield
Grade II Listed
List Entry Number: 1247048
Listing NGR: SK3462586938
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1247048
www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-456196-springfield-ju...
I was lucky enough to be invited to a private railway in the Midlands. It was also a great opportunity to catch up with Lawrie so we met at the railway. The owner foolishly said, what would you like to see... We compromised on everything but kick us out when we become a pain.
Ruston 20DL 213834/42
What a fabulous atmosphere - the locos are well-cared for but still have that industrial feel and they have a real job to do - horsefeed and supplies in: by-products out. As you can see there are a variety of realistic trains available to use and not a passenger carriage or steam loco to be seen. It took me right back to my visits to German Peatworks, especially with the Diema in the weeds.
Tasco red dot. Accurate 6" 1911, if I say so myself. Pictures by Sabarika: www.spectralphotoandart.com
Catalog #: 15_001985
Title: Springfield-Hall Bulldog
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: No 6, PW R-985, 6th Thompson, Robert Hall
Collection: Charles M. Daniels Collection Photo
Album Name: 32, 37, 38, 39 Races
Page #: 9
Tags: National Air Races, Robert Hall, Springfield-Hall,
PUBLIC COMMONS.SOURCE INSTITUTION: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Public Square was platted in 1823, and it remains the heart of the City of Springfield. The Old State Capitol, along with the Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices and numerous other historic buildings surround the square.
30-06 Springfield reloads
Brass: Remington Peters
Primers: Federal #210 Large Rifle
Powder: 54.5 gr IMR4350
Bullet: 168 gr Hornady BTHP Match
COAL: 3.230"
In 1841 Springfield Hospital opened on 14th June as the first Surrey County Lunatic Asylum for Paupers in the London Borough of Wandsworth, Tooting. In 1938 97 acres of land had been purchased of an estate, Springfield Park which was so named due to the spring running through it. The original buildings were designed by Middlesex County surveyor Mr W. Moseley who had also previously designed the sprawling Middlesex Asylum in Hanwell.
Springfield was a fine specimen to behold in its time with state-of-the-art design features such as steam which was circulated through the galleries to keep the hospital at a constant temperature and hot air which was injected through the floors. The administration block was impressively designed, surrounded by a corridor plan layout and grand sweeping lawns (with a stone carved fountain) which flanked the original reception area although this has since been drastically modernised and now serves as the back of the site. Lunacy and melancholia were but a few of the commonly diagnosed symptoms being treated and numbers during the asylum's peak capacity reached just over 2000 patients and staff.
In 1856 a patient named Daniel Dolley was accidentally killed in the asylum under the orders of medical superintendant, Charles Snape during a routine hydrotherapy chastisement. The patient who was 65 had been acting hyperactively previously that day and was subjected to 28 minutes of cold water showering. Orders were given for the treatment to be followed with the administration of 2 grains of potassium antimony tartrate which is a poisonous crystalline compound often used in the treatment of parasitic infections and which can cause severe gastric inflammation. Daniel Dolley suffered a fatal convulsion only a few minutes after the treatment ceased.
Charles Snape was later charged with manslaughter, however the jury later stated that he had no case to answer and he was sent back to work at Springfield.
Recent years have seen the Institution at the focus of a great deal of media attention and controversy due to a high number of violent crimes relating to Springfield patient 'escapees'. The Freedom of Information Act revealed that 30 patients have escaped from secure wards in the hospital since 2005. In 2009 the Hospital has already experienced 2 absconds and 1 escape, one of whom is a rapist named Barrington Gordon as reported by a London Paper.
Much to the outrage of local residents the hospital boasts that it is not a high security facility but is only medium secure, yet the hospital receives 'day trips' from criminally insane patients from maximum security facilities such as Broadmoor. Perhaps the successful rehabilitation and support provided by a hospital of this scale is easily overlooked when it is overshadowed by so many systematic safety failures.
Springfield certainly appears to be a strange mix of open wards where people are free to 'walk through' in stark contrast to other areas that resemble a maximum security facility with courtyards penned off by curved edged fencing. In February 2009 a convicted killer named Paul Caesar who was on unescorted leave within the hospital grounds absconded and committed suicide on rail tracks.
In 2004 a patient who had escaped stabbed a man to death in Richmond Park. Another sad incident happened in 2000 when a patient named Anthony Josef was discharged only to stalk and murder his social worker, Jenny Morrison, who cared for him. Again, in 2006 a patient randomly killed fitness instructor Matthew Carter. And previously in 2003 a male nurse named Mamade Chattun was brutally beaten to death in the Hospital lobby by patient, Joseph Cann who had been sectioned the previous day.
The hospital accepted a fine of £28,000 in court and pleaded guilty to neglect resulting in Mamade's inability to seek any help or alert the authorities during the frenzied attack; he was provided with no attack alarm or radio for his safety and the nearby wall alarm was broken as were several others around the hospital.