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The superb FMM 714J on display at the Steam and Transport Festival 2019. Historic Dockyard Chatham.
The 1296cc engine in the 13/60 models gave a much needed
boost in performance over the earlier 1147cc and 948cc power units. A long time since I drove any of the Herald models now.
Baya Weaver bird working its nest on a palm tree in a garden near Ludhiana, Punjab.
Once the nest is partially built, the male hangs from it and courts females by flapping its wings. The nest is completed after a female accepts courtship and joins the nest for breeding.
CSF 984L at the Festival of Steam and Transport 2019. Historic Dockyard, Chatham.
The paperwork on the windscreen tells the story of recovering the car from a farm barn, rebuilding it and then driving the Dyane to Kazakhstan rally style, raising money for charity by doing so. All done with a 602cc engine for power.
The area of the central theme of the film A Bridge Too Far, although a different bridge had been used in the film.
John Frost Bridge was opened in 1948, built in the same style as the famous bridge in Operation Market Garden. That had originally been built in the period 1932-35, so a relatively young bridge in 1940 when the Dutch destroyed it and the Germans rebuilt it.
Major-General John Dutton Frost was in command of the small Airborne force that actually made it to the bridge at Arnhem from the drop zones so far away from the town. The battle raged from 17th September until 26th September 1944. The Airborne forces were overwhelmed by the numerically superior and well equipped German Army units in the area.. Had the Allied ground forces working their way up from inside the Belgian border via the other famous bridge at Nijmegen been about 12 hours ahead in their push towards Arnhem the outcome would probably have been different. ¾ of the 1st Airborne Division was effectively wiped out in this one action. A force of over 10,000 men reduced to around 2,000 by deaths, capture or wounded. The bridge at Arnhem was about 60 miles inside the German lines. The Dutch had destroyed the bridge in 1940 and it took the German forces until August 1944 to rebuild it. A pontoon bridge had been used at this important crossing point of the lower Rhine for the intervening years.
The 1st Airborne Division had been formed in late 1941 and disbanded in November 1945.
Photo taken in 2019
Black-headed Jay perched on a tree stump near Kausani, Uttarakhand.
In recent times, this bird can be spotted foraging around wooded areas near human settlements where garbage is often dumped. Another indication of the interference of human activity with nature.
SN64 CNK on a diversionary route out of Southend-On-Sea due to an accident in Victoria Avenue.
Hadleigh based First Essex's 47530 in East Street Prittlewell, Essex.
GJN 421N at the Rochford Hundred Agricultural Society's Ploughing Match 2019. Held at Hall Farm, Little Stambridge Hall Road near Rochford, Essex.
The Ford 3000 tractor was produced over a 10 year period in the USA, Belgium and Basildon, England.
In September 1944 the German pontoon bridge was about in line with the building seen across the canal beyond the current bridge. The building was used to house a 88mm gun.
The starting point of the ground offensive element of Operation Market Garden in September 1944.
The bridge photographed here is a post war construction. When the Allied Forces took control of this area on 10th September 1944 a German built pontoon bridge was in place here replacing the original bridge destroyed in 1940 to slow down the German advance.
Crossing the Bocholt-Herentals Canal this is Bridge Number 9, taken and protected by the 615th Field Squadron, RE, known as Joe's Troops. Crossing the bridge the road leads to, Valkenswaard, Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem. If the ground troops taking this route had not been ordered to stop for overnight resting the result of Operation Market Garden may well have achieved its objectives. Being 12 hours late appears to have been the difference .
In the Protestant Church at Driel, Netherlands hangs this memorial to the 1st Airborne Division for their part in the September 1944 landings and bitter fighting at Arnhem (A Bridge Too Far).
Photo taken in 2019.
Chequered Keelback snake swimming in the lake at Harike Wildlife Sanctuary, Punjab.
The snake looked to be six feet long - which is an unlikely size for a keelback - and seemed to be going after an egret foraging on a hyacinth island. That made me think that it was a python. But back home, a closer look at the image presented a different story altogether.
Code For America Summit 2018
May 31 + June 1
Oakland, CA
Drew Bird Photography
San Francisco Bay Area Photographer
Have Camera. Will Travel.
drew@drewbirdphoto.com
This timber framed and weather boarded signal box appears to be from the 1890's. Taken out of service in 1994, and now in very poor condition. Chelmsford Station is in an elevated position above the rooftops of the nearby buildings. This signal box sits above platform 2 buildings, so that makes it around 5 storeys above street level.
Code For America Summit 2018
May 31 + June 1
Oakland, CA
Drew Bird Photography
San Francisco Bay Area Photographer
Have Camera. Will Travel.
drew@drewbirdphoto.com
LFZ 9051 at the Europa Bus Centre, Belfast. The excellent bus interchange leads directly to the equally good Great Victoria Street Railway Station.
Photograph taken in September 2019.
NK 2791 displayed at the Festival of Steam and Steam 2019, Historic Dockyard, Chatham.
The information board for this car says that the 4 seater tourer bodywork is by James Young. It also says that main Bentley production didn't really start in any numbers until 1923, making NK 2791 a very rare car.
The main frontage of this pub/restaurant is facing on to Southend Road, Rochford, Essex. This side view was taken in Sutton Road.
Anne Boleyn herself was a local girl.
Overlooking the area now called City Beach. The new-ish housing in the distance mainly sits on the footprint of the former gasworks. The ugly white tall posts on the right house colour changing lights. To be fair they do look better after dark, but still a poor replacement for the famous Golden Mile illuminations from decades ago.
The very good Hadleigh based LT52 XAB of First Essex.
Transbus Trident / Plaxton President.
First Essex's 33191 on the A13 London Road in Leigh-On-Sea, Essex.
A986 SYE taking part in the Ensignbus Vintage Running Day 2018. Photographed in Upminster.
The rear engined B15 Leyland Titan was produced from 1977 to 1984.
A relatively young station in its current format. The rebuilt station opened in 1995 to serve central Belfast during a major overhaul of railway operations within the city. Although Great Victoria Street Station is in the form of a terminus station, through trains between Bangor and Portadown do call in here. Two island platforms that make up platforms 1-4.
In view is a 3 car DMU of the Class 4000 operated by N.I. Railways.
Photo from September 2019.
5 gallon pyramid topped can from the interwar period.
Displayed at the Buckingham shire Museum, Aylesbury.
Hadleigh based SN64 CNC Wright Streetlite DF micro-hybrid facing the camera. Arriva's 3964 VDL SB206 Wright Commander, GN04 UGB, heading in the opposite direction.
I'm starting to hate all that ugly concrete on the left from the late 1960's every time I see it now.
Z7015 developed a fault just after getting in to position for take off from Old Warden Airfield, Bedfordshire.
A Canadian built aircraft that spent many years as an instructional airframe. It was returned to flying condition with the Shuttleworth Collection and Imperial War Museum working together to achieve a return to the skies on 16th September 1995. Unfortunately it stayed on the ground for the Flying Festival 2019. Still good to see it though.
JUF 377E displayed at the Festival of Steam and Transport 2019. Historic Dockyard Chatham, Kent.
A lookalike MG TF.
Information from the sheet on the windscreen says that this car may be the oldest roadworthy Gentry. It was completed in 1975. Has been rebuilt since then. A new chassis, engine from a Triumph Dolomite 1500TC, 4 speed gearbox with overdrive and and Spitfire 1500 rear suspension.
The DVLA has this car registered as 1967, which I assume was when the original doner Triumph chassis was made.
It is still possible to buy a Gentry kit car like this today. Ownership of the production rights have changed many times over the years. Now mainly based around Ford components rather than the original Triumph parts.
This is know as the Sevastopol Cannon and is located in Oaklands Park, City of Chelmsford, Essex.
It is one of over 300 Russian cannons captured by Allied forces during the Crimean War, 1853-56. Queen Victoria decided to give some of them to towns and cities in the United Kingdom, including Chelmsford. The cannon was cast in 1806 and just over 100 years later it was fired as a prank by students in 1908. At that time it was located outside of the Shire Hall in the centre of the then town. In 1937 the cannon was moved to Oaklands Park where it has remained.
The restoration of the disused Folkestone Harbour Station and Folkestone Harbour Arm in to a major tourist attraction is well under way. It is starting to look really good.
For far too many years the pavement by this bus stop suffered with a big puddle every time it rained.
Wonderful narrow street in the older part of Aylesbury. The scene is enhanced by the quaint shop called Fruity Tooty.
Plenty of London Underground connections within this photograph taken from North Weald Station. The track was formerly part of the Central Line. Prominent is steam locomotive Metropolitan E Class No 1 from 1896. On the right is a 1959 rolling stock driving motor car 1031, based on the more famous 1938 rolling stock.
Easy to forget just how far out of London the underground railway system reached above ground, and still does.
BJB 381B displayed at the Festival of Steam and Transport 2019. Historic Dockyard Chatham.
Derived from the sucessful Triumph Herald car, the Courier van was only produced from 1962 to 1964. I hadn't realised that it had been such a short production run until now.
Early in the day at the Big Wheels 2018 event held at Labworth Car Park and presented by Canvey Island Transport Museum, Essex.
Photo taken in 2018.
On the Jubilee Beach section of the foreshore also refered to as City Beach.
The name on the makers plate, W and E Moore Ltd, was based in High Street Poplar, East London. Established in 1863 and still trading in the mid 1950's. I don't know about after that. They made hand operated and steam powered winches and are described as ship smiths.