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Optare Solo SR M720SE new to SPT in 2014. Stuarts of Carluke operate it on behalf of SPT on their contracted services for SPT.
YJ66 AOT is an Optare Solo M925 new to the Stuarts of Carluke fleet in September 2016. it is seen here in Lanark on SPT service 191 (Lanark-Biggar).
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Autumn sunrise behind Mount Stuart in the Cascades with the larches in their glory
Equipment:
Camera: Nikon D800e
Lens: Rokinon 14mm Ultra Wide-Angle f/2.8 IF ED UMC
Focal Length: 14mm
ISO Speed: 100
Aperture: f/8
Shutter: mixed
Tripod: Feisol CT-3422 tripod with center column
Ball Head: Arcatech GV2
Filter: none
Processing:
Lightroom 5.2 [color balance, sharpening, etc]
CS6 [composite/2 images, luminosity masking]
Composite notes:
2 exposures blended together in CS6 sky/earth
GN55 FDM is a Volvo B7R/Plaxton Profile new to Kent County Council in September 2005 for their Kent Top Travel fleet. It passed to Coaches Excetera, Croydon in 2012 when Kent CC closed their own bus operations and it is now working in Lanarkshire for Stuarts of Carluke.
Stuart Court almshouses in Recorder Road
This Grade 2 listed group of almshouses was built in 1914 of red brick with a pantile roof. The compound is set back from the street line and has projecting wings turning outwards towards the street. The central bay has stepped Dutch gables with a memorial tablet to James Stuart > Link in the centre bay. James Stuart MA (1843-1913) was awarded an Honorary LL.D by St Andrews University in 1876, and he served as Rector of the University from 1898 to 1901. He was also a Privy Councillor and lived at Carrow Abbey, where he died. He was married to the eldest daughter of JJ Colman, Laura Elizabeth (1859-1920), and from 1898 took over management of the firm. The James Stuart Memorial Garden is across the road from here
SF04 LHU is an Otare Solo M850 new to Henderson, Hamilton in March 2004. It later worked for John Morrow Coaches in Clydebank before re-joining the Henderson of Hamilton fleet. It now works for Stuarts of Carluke on SPT subsidised services following the sudden closure of Henderson Travel.
Volvo Olympian/Alexander R Type new to Ribble in 1997 as their 2259. It later became 16659 in the national Stagecoach series and now works for Stuarts on school services in Lanarkshire.
The M3 Stuart was an American light tank of WWII. Prior to entry of the U.S. into the war it was also supplied to British and Commonwealth forces under lend-lease.
Based on Stuart designs by Dan Siskind (Brickmania), Ross Scott (Rumrunner) and Captain Eugene
Built entirely in Old Dark Gray
Vehicle decals by Bison Decals and Techmod Decals
Monopod, Universal Clip and M1919 by BrickArms
GIW 2269 is a Volvo B10M/Jonckheere Deauville new to Scancoaches, North Acton as L530 XUT in September 1993. It later worked for Gwyn Williams and is now part of Stuart Shevill's fleet in Carluke.
Stuart's turn for photos! And of course, he wanted to show off his room because he is very proud of it ( as am I lol).
It still needs some work but its looking good so far!
USV 803 is a Volvo B12B/Volvo 9700 Prestige new as FJ56 KUC to Group Travel, Audham in October 2006. It joined the Stuarts of Carluke fleet in 2018 and has been reregistered to USV 803.
Seen here outside the Saracen's Head in Dunstable on 9th October 1993 picking up passengers for Downside Estate is Leyland Fleetline THX 481S, one of a number similar vehicles purchased by Stuart Palmer to operate in competition with Luton and District in the early 1990's. Palmer had previously operated coaches since the late 1970's but expanded considerably when the bus routes started.
Scanned from an acquired, un-copyrighted print.
Look for Stuart and Bob to make a soon reappearance here. I know, I know, you can hardly contain your enthusiasm. There may even be a bit of a story to accompany said pictures. And I may get sued. And, I may stop coughing from the bronchitis a couple weeks ago. Who knows.
LSV380 is a Volvo B10M-62/Plaxton Premiere Interurban new to Stagecoach Western as R103LSO (103) in 1997. It later became 52425 in the national Stagecoach fleet numbering system before joining the Stuarts fleet in 2013.
Day 30, January 30th, 2021
Sweet Scruffy Stuart
Stuart has been part of our family for 5 years. He’s lovingly referred to our as “foster failure.” Texas Animal Guardians had pulled him from the Canyon Lake Animal Shelter for an adoption event at PetSmart back on a very cold weekend in January of 2016. Anna had been volunteering with the group on Saturdays, meeting the team at PetSmart and walking the dogs while they were there. We told them that we would foster Stuart that weekend so he didn’t have to go back to the outdoor pen, then once we saw how well he got along with our other dogs, we agreed to foster him long term until he could find a forever family. Well… two days later, we became his forever family. When we adopted him, he was only 8.5 pounds and a little bigger than Lola. The rescue group said he was approximately 2 years old but over the next few months he grew (quite a bit!) and ended up closer to 15 pounds, so we actually think he was a puppy. Stuart bonded the most with Dominic and is now totally Dominic’s dog. He sleeps with Dominic every night. Stuart has a big personality and established himself as the alpha dog in the pack. He’s a very sweet and endearing little dog and we are so glad he’s part of our pack. (Sorry I didn't get his nose in focus... I was too close!)
British postcard in the Colourgraph Series, London, no. C. 237. Photo: George Mannell.
Scottish actor John Stuart (1898-1979) was a very popular leading man in British silent films in the 1920s. He appeared in two films directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
John Stuart was born John Alfred Louden Croall in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1898. He began his stage and screen career directly after World War I service in The Black Watch. He made his film debut in the drama The Lights of Home (Fred Paul, 1920). Other silent films were the drama If Four Walls Told (Fred Paul, 1922) starring Lillian Hall-Davis, the comedy The School for Scandal (Bertram Phillips, 1923) with Queenie Thomas, and the comedy We Women (W.P. Kellino, 1925). Stuart was a very popular leading man in British silent films, though it's hard to gauge that popularity since many of his best films of the 1920s, such as A Sporting Double (1923), Constant Hot Water (1924) and Tower of London (1926), are either inaccessible or nonexistent. He appeared in a silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The Pleasure Garden (1925) was Hitchcock’s directorial debut. Based on a novel by Oliver Sandys, the film is about two chorus girls at the Pleasure Garden Theatre in London and their troubled relationships. Glamorous American star Virginia Valli played the lead. The film was shot in Italy and Germany in 1925 and shown to the British press in March 1926. But it was not officially released in the UK until 1927, after Hitchcock's film The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog became a massive hit in February 1927. Stuart worked several times with director Maurice Elvey. Very popular was their World War I drama Mademoiselle from Armentieres (Maurice Elvey, 1926), featuring Estelle Brody. The film opened in London in September 1926 and was still playing in cinemas around the country until well into 1927. It was reportedly the most profitable British film of 1926 and made an instant star of Brody. The two stars were reunited in the drama Hindle Wakes (Maurice Elvey, 1927), which skilful use of location is considered to give the film a documentary realism feel very unusual in British films of the period. Brody and Stuart co-starred again in Mademoiselle Parley Voo (Maurice Elvey, 1928), a sequel to their earlier hit Mademoiselle from Armentieres (1926), and equally successful. Both films refer to the popular First World War song Mademoiselle from Armentières.
John Stuart’s first sound film, Kitty (Victor Saville 1929) was another successful production. Kitty was initially planned and filmed as a silent, but on its original completion Saville decided to reshoot the latter part with sound. As no suitable facilities were yet available in Britain, Saville, Estelle Brody and Stuart travelled to New York to shoot the new sequences at RKO Studios. The film was released in the form of a silent which switched to sound after the half-way point. Stuart’s next film, Atlantic (1929) was one of the first British films made with the soundtrack optically recorded on the film (sound-on-film). Atlantic was directed and produced by Ewald André Dupont. Three versions were made, an English and a German language version, Atlantik, which were shot simultaneously, and later a French version was made. In England, Atlantic was released in both sound and silent prints. The film was originally made as Titanic but after lawsuits it was renamed Atlantic. The White Star Line, which owned the RMS Titanic, was still in operation at the time. The final scene of the film was filmed as a shot of the liner sinking but it was cut at the last minute as it was feared it would upset Titanic survivors. Then Stuart worked for a second time with Alfred Hitchcock, although indirectly. Elstree Calling (1930) is a lavish musical film revue directed by Andre Charlot, Jack Hulbert, Paul Murray, and Hitchcock at Elstree Studios. It was Britain's answer to the Hollywood revues, such as Paramount on Parade (1930) and Hollywood Review of 1929. Stuart was not appearing in the segments directed by Hitchcock. They really worked together again on Number Seventeen (Alfred Hitchcock, 1932), in which Stuart played the lead. The film is about a group of criminals who committed a jewel robbery and put their money in an old house over a railway leading to the English Channel, the film's title being derived from the house's street number. An outsider stumbles onto this plot and intervenes with the help of a neighbour, a police officer's daughter. On its initial release, audiences reacted to Number Seventeen with confusion and disappointment. Stuart then played Sir Henry Baskerville in the mystery The Hound of the Baskervilles (Gareth Gundrey, 1932), based on the novel by Arthur Conan Doyle and scripted by Edgar Wallace. He was the co-star of Brigitte Helm in The Mistress of Atlantis (Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1932), the English language version of the German-French adventure and fantasy film L'Atlantide/Die Herrin von Atlantis (Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1932) based on the novel L'Atlantide by Pierre Benoît.
John Stuart starred with Benita Hume in the drama Men of Steel (George King, 1932). It was made at Nettlefold Studios under the so-called quota quickie system for distribution by United Artists. In 1927, The Cinematograph Films Act was designed to stimulate the declining British film industry. It introduced a requirement for British cinemas to show a quota of British films, for a duration of 10 years. The result of the act was the 'quota quickie', a low-cost, poor-quality film commissioned by American distributors operating in the UK purely to satisfy the quota requirements. During the 1930s Stuart appeared in a lot of these films. memorable are the drama The Lost Chord (Maurice Elvey, 1933) with Elizabeth Allan and Jack Hawkins, the comedy This Week of Grace Chord (Maurice Elvey, 1933) starring Gracie Fields and Henry Kendall, and Anglo-Italian aviation drama The Blue Squadron (George King, 1934) with Esmond Knight. Stuart co-starred with Fritz Kortner and Nils Asther in Abdul the Damned (Karl Grune, 1935), set in the Ottoman Empire in the years before the First World War where the Sultan and the Young Turks battle for power. He also worked often with director George Pearson, like in the thriller The Secret Voice (1936), and appeared in several parts of the long-running Old Mother Riley series. During the war years, Stuart’s parts became smaller or better said, he matured into character parts. He played a supporting part in the thriller Headline (John Harlow, 1944) with David Farrar as a crime reporter who searches for a mystery woman (Anne Crawford) who has witnessed a murder. Another example is the Gainsborough melodrama Madonna of the Seven Moons (Arthur Crabtree, 1945) starring Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger and Patricia Roc. In 1946 readers of the Daily Mail voted the film their third most popular British movie from 1939 to 1945. During the following decades he played government officials and police inspectors in B-films like the mystery The Ringer (Guy Hamilton, 1952) starring Herbert Lom, and the Science-fiction film Four Sided Triangle (Terence Fisher, 1953). Memorable are the war film Sink the Bismarck! (Lewis Gilbert, 1960) with Kenneth More, the Science-fiction film Village of the Damned (Wolf Rilla, 1960), and the suspense film Paranoiac (Freddie Francis, 1963) from Hammer Films and starring Janette Scott and Oliver Reed. Stuart now only played bit roles. His last part was a cameo in Superman (Richard Donner, 1978). In 1979, John Stuart died in London at the age of 81. He is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London. An accomplished writer, John Stuart penned his autobiography, Caught in the Act, in 1971. His son Jonathan Croall is writing a book about the screen idols of the 1920s, including John Stuart.
Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Wikipedia and IMDb.
Viewed from under the Stuart Causeway, the sun rises ove the Marriott Marina on Hutchinson Island. The photo was taken in Stuart, Florida.
6500 VU is a Mercedes-Benz Vario O816D/Plaxton Cheetah
new to Steel of Addingham in September 2008. It is now in the Stuart's of Carluke fleet with fleet names applied on its previous owners livery.
YJ14 BCU is an Optare Solo M900/B30F new to Stuarts of Carluke in March 2014. It is seen here in Biggar working the service to Lanark.