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Apr 28 1984
'Robin of Sherwood'
Michael Praed starred in 11 episodes as Robin Hood then left to go to America and joined ‘Dynasty’ as Prince Michael of Moldavia. Recently he has been heard as the narrator of the ‘Timewatch’ documentary series.
(This is the second of a weekly series of flashback photos. I apologise in advance for the inevitable poor quality. This one is scanned from a rather faded 35mm slide).
I love Ireland and the friendly Irish people, especially their ability to laugh at themselves when needs be. The people we were with certainly thought this head-to-head between two school buses on a single-track road somewhere in the west of Eire in 1983 was hilarious.
Just a few years after the construction of the bridge, cracks appeared in the masonry abutments, partly caused by ground movement. Some of the present-day cracks in the cast iron may date from this time, although others are probably casting cracks from defects such as blow holes. Some cracks were pinned with wrought iron straps, but others have been left free. By 1802, the southern stone abutment had to be demolished and replaced with temporary wooden arches before eventually being replaced by iron arches. However, many of the cracks visible in the bridge today have been left untouched. The bridge was over-designed and subsequent bridges, such as those built by Thomas Telford, used much less cast iron. For example, his cast iron arch bridge at Buildwas, upstream from Ironbridge, used less than half the weight for a greater span (130 foot span, 170 tons of cast iron). However, it suffered similar problems of abutment movement and was replaced in 1902.
In 1972, a programme of major repairs took place on the foundations of the bridge. It involved creating a ferro-concrete counter-arch under the river. Inward movement of the bridge abutments had compressed the bridge and caused the centre of the arch to rise by a few feet.[4] This counter-arch resists this compressive force from the abutments.
In 1999-2000, the bridge was renovated again, with replacement of the cast iron road plates with steel plates, and a lightweight top surface.
These renovations, together with recent research, revealed more about the building process and the manufacture of the cast iron parts. While the smaller parts were cast using wooden patterns, the large ribs were cast into excavated moulds in the casting sand. It is now known that 70 per cent of the components were made individually to fit, and as a result each is slightly different from the others. Darby’s workers employed woodworking joints – mortises and tenons, dovetails and wedges – and adapted them to the different properties of cast iron. English Heritage, together with the Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust, carried out a full archaeological survey, record and analysis of the bridge in 1999–2000. A half-size replica of the main section of the bridge was built in 2001 as part of the research for the BBC Timewatch programme which was shown in 2002.
"Saturday Flashback" this week is again a recent photo, but going way, way back in time.
I found this hand tool lying on the ground in the orchard of the Moroccan hotel I stayed in last week. For days afterwards, I kept an eye open for anything similar and never saw anything else like it. It fitted my hand to perfection as a cutting tool, with a knapped and sharpened edge, just like flints that are sometimes found in the UK.
I have had a good rummage around the internet and Manchester Museum has also been consulted. However, there is far less knowledge about ancient African tools and finds than there is about European. It seems likely that the material is actually quartzite, a hard rock that was originally sandstone. Dating is an entirely other matter.
It could conceivably be "acheulean" taking it back hundreds of thousands of years to Neanderthal times. Or it could be "mousterian", roughly between 300,000 and 30,000 years back. THE FACT IS WITHOUT REAL EXPERT SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE I JUST DON'T KNOW AND PROBABLY NEVER WILL.
I'll just call it "very old" and wonder whose hand held it before mine??
How could I resist, especially with that slightly 'arabic' opening!!!
BITH'S JUKEBOX #210
ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN "THE CUTTER"
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I can't find any information about this week's "Saturday Flashback". However, this diptych shows an original gas station clock found in a small-town America garage. The clock was no longer working, but was in-situ and revolved to show it's two faces as the breeze caught it. My guess is maybe from the 1930's???
(Any further information would be appreciated!)
This week’s Saturday Flashback features a painting seen in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (never heard of him!) painted "Fishing for souls" in 1614. Protestants (left) and Catholics (right) are fishing for souls in the river. That the conflict was also political is indicated by the presence of leading political figures on both sides. Sadly, it is not just a flashback, but also relevant to the present day and even more sadly, no doubt relevant to the future as well. Only the venue for the latest round in the long-running religious contest changes. When the painting was made the venue was Holland. Much more recently, it was Northern Ireland. Who knows where the next major flare-up will take place??
Maisy Battery was featured in the recent BBC Timewatch documentary “Bloody Omaha” hosted by Richard Hammond.
Maisy Battery is a previously forgotten German gun battery - part of Hitler's Atlantic Wall in Normandy near Omaha Beach. The buried site was discovered by military enthusiast Gary Sterne after studying a wartime officer's map of the area marked 'Area of High Resistance'.
The Maisy Battery was a headquarters complex for the coastal defence of Omaha Beach and its guns included four 10.5 cm cannons – three in casements and one in a field, it had six 155mm howitzers in open emplacements, a British 25pdr cannon captured at Dunkirk, two 50mm KwK anti-tank cannons, two Renault Tank turret tops mounted into casements – not to mention many machineguns, mortars and rifles.
On D-Day and for two days afterwards, the Maisy Battery fired on American soldiers landing on Omaha Beach - 'Bloody Omaha' - as it has been ever afterwards known. On the morning of the 9th of June 1944 Maisy Battery was captured by the 5th Rangers.
Find out more about the discovery of this historic site at:
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Photograph from the Smithsonian Channel & BBC Timewatch filming of the first excavation of Stonehenge in almost 50 years.
To read blog posts and see video live from the excavation from David Royle, Executive Vice President of the Smithsonian Channel, view his Smithsonian Channel Community profile here.
To learn a great deal more information about the excavation, including videos, visit the Smithsonian Channel Stonehenge
here.
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Another legacy of the British Empire was the construction of railway systems and a typically palatial railway station at the hub of the system. KL Railway Station, an intriguing mix of western and eastern architectural styles, was completed in 1910. I don't have an exact date, but this photograph must have been taken shortly afterwards.
Today the building is still in use. However, it has been downgraded to a relatively minor station, one stop and a few hundred yards down the line from KL's main transportation hub of Sentral Station (sic). To be truthful, it doesn't look that special from inside as your train breifly stops there and few passengers get off or on. However, from the outside it still looks rather marvellous (see below).
Photograph from the Smithsonian Channel & BBC Timewatch filming of the first excavation of Stonehenge in almost 50 years.
To read blog posts and see video live from the excavation from David Royle, Executive Vice President of the Smithsonian Channel, view his Smithsonian Channel Community profile here.
To learn a great deal more information about the excavation, including videos, visit the Smithsonian Channel Stonehenge
here.
(US users only).
This week's "Saturday Flashback" goes back to the summer of 1947. It shows the National Health and Insurance card filled in for my mother when she was working. During World War 2, like many other women, she was employed in a heavy engineering factory doing jobs that previously had been undertaken by those men who were diverted into the Armed Forces. However, once those men were demobbed, many women became out-of-work as the pre-war patterns of employment re-established themselves.
Below, you can see where stamps were affixed each week until she left that employment. In her case, as far as I know, she left as a result of being three-months pregnant rather than for the reason explained above.
A separate card, not shown here, shows a similar set of Unemployment Insurance Stamps.
Welcome to this week's Saturday Flashback. "The Last Picture Show" continues to be one of my favourite films. So I was delighted to find this cinema that started out as a mom-and-pop establishment in 1942 in Marble Falls, TX. It only closed it's doors to film in 2003, reopening a year later primarily as a music venue which it still is to this day.
BITH'S JUKEBOX #235
HANK WILLIAMS SR "COLD COLD HEART"
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This week's Saturday Flashback features the Blue Bonnet Cafe, Marble Falls, TX.....an 83 year old tradition. Kim's grandfather, who will reach his century in a couple of weeks time, used to deliver coffee here early in his career shortly after the estabishment first opened.
They still serve mighty fine pie and coffee!
(This is the third of a weekly series of flashback photos. I apologise in advance for the inevitable poor quality. This one is scanned from a rather faded 35mm slide).
I was attracted to post this not-so-old Cheshire photo (only 27 years old!) by the telephone number "Church Minshull 372". Amazing how ye olde telephone system has changed in such a short number of years!!
I have not been able to find any information about this building or business. If somebody knows any of the history, I would be delighted to read about it below.
This week Hurricane Sandy devastatingly trashed America's eastern seaboard, in some cases even inland for hundreds of miles. From what I have been reading it came as a bit of a shock being so late in the hurricane season, being so far north and being so strong in it's intensity. Frankly, I am genuinely and mightily relieved not to have had to experience such power of nature this season down in the more traditional hurricane hotspot of the Gulf Coast.
Today's "Saturday Flashback" photo shows the high-water mark from Hurricane Ike in downtown Galveston, Texas, where ferocious winds also took a mighty toll en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ike . As I have mentioned in a previous post, Kim, 50 miles inland was without power for three weeks in September 2008.
The photo below gives more of a context to the height that the water reached. By the way, the lower plaque reads "1900 Survivor Storm" referring back to a previous major disaster in which some 8000 people died en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane
Clock, designed by Henry Van de Velde, famous Art Nouveau architect and interior decorator. St.Hubertus Lodge, 1916, house of the Kroeller-Mueller family, Dutch industrialists and art patrons, founders of the Rijksmuseum Kroeller-Mueller in Otterloo.