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Work continues to secure the bank along the Severn, here at Awre Crossing, a grab lifts some of the old steel netting from a work train, thats been removed from the cliff .
Octochrome
Circa 1912
Octochrome is a trade name for a type of postcard distributed by the American News Company that was printed in black colotype over seven different lithographic tints. These German made cards are characterized by a sharp look with hard clean colors that emphasize blues and reds (metro postcard)
It is the weekend. Again.
And with Jools suffering a relapse in her chesty cough, we slept late and I said I'd go to Tesco first thing, before coffee, and she could get dressed in her own time.
So I grabbed my coat, the shopping bags and shopping list, put them in the car and drove to Tesco. First up was to fill the car with petrol, then drive round to park up, get a trolley and head into the store, grabbing a scanner on the way in.
Apart from the weekly things, I got some stuffing mix and more blocks of butter for Christmas. Meaning that apart from the fruit and veg and milk, we are all abut done here.
Yay us.
Back home for coffee, unload the car and put shopping away, before finally having breakfast 1 of fruit then bacon butties and brews for breakfast 2.
That's better.
The plan for the day was for some local churchcrawling. After some internet research I had the name of the keyholder at Bekesbourne, I called but was told she was out but would be back "soon". OK, in which case we would visit some other nearby churches and go there last.
Not far to Barham from Chez Jelltex, just along the A2, overtaking lorries and slow cars until we turned off at Wootton, down past the filling station and into Barham, stopping on the road beside the church.
Barham is always open, I thought, no worries here. As I got out all my camera gear and lugged it over the road and through the churchyard.
Round on the north side, we arrive at the porch and I find the door is locked after all. No news of a keyholder, but next week there is a coffee morning. If we feel OK after our COVID booster, we might go along.
Its a short drive along the Elham Valley to Bridge. And yes there is really a place called Bridge, and it does have a bridge. A bridge in Bridge, which takes the old Watling Street and high road over the bed of the Nailbourne.
Bridge never lets us down. And indeed it was open, door ajar, and soon a warden came and put all the lights on so snapping was easier. I'd not missed much on previous visits, but with a new-ish lens, it was always worth in redoing shots. I did have the big lens with me, great for details of carvings and in stained glass windows, which I photograph enthusiastically.
From Bridge, its a five minute drive to Patrixbourne.
I wanted to come back here to take close up details of the Tympanum and rose window from the outside, so it wasn't too much of a loss that the door was locked after all.
The rose window here is of the same design as at Barfrestone, so wanted to follow up the detailed shots of the one there and do the same at Patrixbourne.
So, I set about getting my shots and rattle off a couple of hundred.
Back to the car, and next village along is Bekesbourne, where I had called earlier. The keyholder lives in a "large while building opposite the church", the website said. Yes, it's a palace.
An actual palace.
So, there was scruffy me shambling up the large door, ringing the bell and asking if the church keyholder was in.
She wasn't.
And her husband wasn't too keen on letting me have it.
Now I know how to get it, there'll be plenty of other times.
I leave, but on the way back to the main road, a large Audi passes us, and pretty much the only place she could be going was the palace: should we go back?
No, there'll be other times.
I then thought that we could go back via Denton. I had not been to there for five years, and could be just a short detour.
St Mary Magdalene is not visible from the road through the village. It is hidden behind a copse of mature trees, and the small churchyard spreads out beneath the trees.
THere is a small sign pointing to the parish church from the main road, but if you don't know its there, you past it before you see it.
A track leads of the driveway to Denton Court, leading over a meadow towards the copse of tree and the church.
I parked on the drive and walked over, but people had driven through the gateway to the church before, but I walked.
We head home, back along the A2, but calling in at Jen's to do some admin. That done it was back home, all back by one, and ready for some more World Cup action from the sofa.
Lunch was pizza and beer, done in ten minutes and easy as anything, so the main task of the day was to fight my heavy eyelids that threatened to send me to sleep.
Argentina beat Mexico in a bad tempered game, then France beat Denmark 2-1, by which time it was nine and time for bed.
Phew.
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DENTON is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Eleham.
¶The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen, consists of one isle and a chancel, having a square tower at the west end, in which there are three bells. This church, though small, is neat. In the chancel is a memorial for Sir Anthony Percival, obt. 1646, and dame Gertrude his wife, obt. 1647. On a brass plate fixed to the north wall, a memorial for John Boys, esq. late patron of this church, and attorney-general for the duchy of Lancaster, obt. 1543. Inscriptions on brass, for the Petitts, of Dandelion. A memorial on an antient stone, for James Brooker, of Madekin. A monument for Phineas Andrews, esq. of Denton, and patron of this church, obt. 1661, and for John Andrews, his eldest son and heir, of the Inner Temple, obt. 1667. A monument for Wortley Whorwood, son of Sir William, of Sturton castle, bart. lord of this manor, and patron of this church, who married Anne, daughter of Sir Edward Dering, bart. obt. 1703. In a window on the south side are the arms of Oxenden, impaling in several shields those of Twitham, Barton, Ratlinge, Yonge, Wenderton, and Broadnax. In the body, a memorial for John Dix, of Milton, obt. 1728. Against the north wall is a stone cross, fixed in the wall, with very antient letters, defaced and illegible. In the church-yard, adjoining to the garden of the mansionhouse, is a remarkable building, erected as a mausoleum by Thomas Whorwood, esq. for himself, who lies buried in it, and for his family. It has several whimsical figures on the top of it, and under an inscription for him, obt. 1745.
The advowson of this church has always been an appendage to the manor of Denton, and continues so at this time, Samuel Egerton Brydges, esq. being the present patron of it.
It is valued in the king's books at 5l. 19s. 4½d. and the yearly tenths at 11s. 11¼d. but it is now of the yearly certified value of 59l. 3s. 0¾d. In 1588 here were thirty-four communicants, and it was valued at fifty pounds. In 1640 the like number of communicants, and it was valued at eighty pounds. There are five acres of glebe land.
www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol9/pp358-364
There can be little doubt that Denton Church is of Saxon foundation. An entry in the Doomsday Book states that “at Danetone (Denton) there is a Church”. At the time of the Doomsday Book, the Manor and Parish were in the possession of Odo, Bishop of Baieux, who was also Warden and Constable of Dover Castle. There are no visible remains today of this original Saxon Church.
The Church which is dedicated to St Mary Magdalene, is situated to the South of the village next to Denton Court and is reached via a footpath from the driveway to the Court.
The building is very small and has one aisle, a chancel and a small square tower at the west end. It is built of flint, chalk and mortar and the chancel is rendered without. The present Church is largely of 13th Century construction as evidenced by the simple form of the building itself – the chancel arch and the lancet windows have been renewed at a later date but the building remains typically characteristic of the small early English village of the period. The interior is plastered, with panelling against the North wall by the side of the pews there. There are two niches for a rood screen above the chancel step. The font is of stone on a single pedestal.
The chancel has three windows, one of which is very low. Most of the glass is modern, but there is an ancient piece of stained glass above the priest’s door. The glass is supposed to be part of a formed window and depicts the head of Christ.
The church has a porch on the north side and the seats of which are dedicated to the dead who fell in the 1914 – 1918 war.
There were originally three bells in the tower. The middle one became cracked and was unfortunately sold in 1870 and so spoiled the Mediaeval peel.
The church holds a fete every year at the Village Hall
Unloading a ship from overseas. Engaging in international trade.
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Owen Witteveen prepares to unload his engine Woody at the turntable while Peter Jones' loco sits in the foreground.
DVR 55th Birthday Day 1.
One of the best gigs I got on the I&O was running a work train. Unlike the road where you're on call, this job had a set schedule and daytime hours!
Here we are on the Adrian and Blissfield, unloading used ties after picking them up all day.
Image taken August 1998 and scanned from a negative.
Try this one fun thing to do in a public restroom: spread some peanut butter on a sheet of toilet paper and drop under the stall wall of your neighbor and say, "Oops, could you hand that back to me please?"
The equipment containers are unloaded from the transport train in the MIK112 facility building.
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Copyright 2012 EUMETSAT.
The support team unpack the IT equipment for installation in the Baikonour offices.
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Copyright 2012 EUMETSAT.
The T-shirt tells you that the guy on the truck was here during our National Jamboree in 2007 - Jiingijamboree.
Photo: Björn Wiklander / Scouterna
Kandahar, Afghanistan, 31 July 2005
Unloading a backhoe
Soldiers, serving with Operation Archer, unload a backhoe for use by the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) from a cargo plane in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Canada is extending its military presence with the deployment of a Canadian-led PRT to Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan to reinforce the authority of the Afghan Government in and around Kandahar and will assist in the stabilization of the region.
Approximately 1000 Canadian Forces personnel are deployed to Kabul and Kandahar as part of Joint Task Force Afghanistan (JTF-A). The JTF-A will continue to maintain a secure and stable environment in the Kabul area of operations in the period leading to and shortly following the National Afghanistan Parliamentary Election (NAE).
Canadian Forces Image Number IS2005-1224
By Sgt Roxanne Clowe with Canadian Forces Combat Camera
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Kandahar (Afghanistan) le 31 juillet 2005
Déchargement d'une pelle rétrocaveuse,
Des soldats, affectés à l’opération Archer, déchargent une pelle rétrocaveuse d’un avion-cargo, à Kandahar, en Afghanistan, à l’intention de l’équipe provinciale de reconstruction (EPR).
Le Canada prolonge la présence de ses militaires à Kandahar, dans le sud de l’Afghanistan, en y déployant une EPR dirigée par des Canadiens afin de renforcer l’autorité du gouvernement afghan à Kandahar et dans ses environs et travaillera à la stabilisation de la situation dans la région.
Environ 1 000 membres du personnel des Forces canadiennes sont déployés à Kaboul et à Kandahar dans le cadre de la Force opérationnelle interarmées en Afghanistan (FOIA). La FOIA continuera d’assurer un environnement sûr et stable dans la zone d’opérations de Kaboul pendant la période menant aux élections parlementaires nationales en Afghanistan et peu après celles ci.
Image des Forces canadiennes numéro IS2005-1224
Par le Sgt Roxanne Clowe avec Caméra de combat des Forces canadiennes
NOAA’s GOES-T, the third in the GOES-R Series of advanced weather observing and environmental monitoring satellites, arrived in Florida today to begin final preparations for an early 2022 launch.
Shipping a satellite is no small feat. GOES-T is the size of a small school bus and weighs over 6,000 pounds! The spacecraft team at Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colorado, where GOES-T was built, carefully packed the satellite in a special shipping container that protected its sensitive instruments and functioned as a miniature cleanroom during transport. GOES-T was then driven to Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora, Colorado, where it hitched a ride aboard a C-5 Super Galaxy aircraft to Kennedy Space Center.
Learn more: go.usa.gov/xeWCD
Photo Credit: NASA/Elizabeth Wilk
Our Amtrak NRHS Special unloads at Madras, Oregon. The UP Bend Local (on the next track) departed on our arrival, only to derail a few miles north of Madras, blocking our return passage to The Dalles. Dave Stanley photo ©2025
After the station pilot had shunted the car carriers from the arriving overnight sleeper service the passengers get to drive off there classic cars !
From the Ralph J. Vaccaro Collection (COLL/5245) at the Marine Corps Archives and Special Collections
OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH
Watched by the ESA team, the cargo was offloaded by staff from the Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG), from Thales Alenia Space and the Antonov crew.
Credits: ESA–M. Shafiq
Amsterdam Schiphol is very well-known for being an efficient and well-run airport around the world. Before the passengers even left the plane, the luggage and cargo is already being unloaded.
A section of the 43rd Bomb Group unloads their cargo. Judging by the muddy conditions, this was probably taken at Leyte. (Leon D. Brown Jr. Collection)
CIMMYT staff unload a newly-arrived seed shipment. All seed arrivals are quarantined until samples have been passed by CIMMYT's Seed Health Laboratory.
Photo credit: CIMMYT.
For more information, this photo was part of a slideshow accompanying the story "The Journey of a Seed" in CIMMYT's August 2008 e-news, available online here:
Researchers Jonathan Mays and Pierson Hill unload the equipment used to set up two drift fence arrays at four sandhill habitat sites in northern Florida. This work is part of our status survey for upland snake species that have been petitioned for federal listing: Florida pine snake, southern hognose snake and eastern diamondback rattlesnake. Last year, we trapped over 6,500 amphibians (22 species) and reptiles (36 species) at our four sandhill sites. In the first month of the 2015 survey season, researchers have trapped 13 pine snakes (1 recapture), two diamondbacks, and one southern hognose snake. The team will continue trapping through June 2015, and will likely continue to the survey in September/October 2015. To report sightings of these rare upland snake species, visit our website.