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Designed by William R. Glen (ABC’s in-house architect) and opening in 1938, The Regal Cinema (as it was known then) opened on 19 September 1938 with Otto Kruger in “Housemaster” & Jane Withers in “Checkers”. The Regal Cinema was a particularly fine 1,938-seat cinema, with 1,250 seats in the stalls and 688 in the balcony. A shallow stage was provided and four dressing rooms. The proscenium was wide and surrounded by an elaborate plaster fretwork concealing ventilation ducts. On either side were niches containing tall slender figurines which were not dis-similar to the ‘Oscar’ statues.
The cinema was tripled in 1976 (having been renamed ABC in 1961) and reopened on 12 September with 670 in screen 1, the original circle using the original unaltered screen, and 200 and 173 seats in screens 2 & 3 situated under the balcony.
Renamed Cannon and then back to ABC the cinema closed suddenly in 2002 having been bought for use as a nightclub.
It was designated a Grade II Listed building in 2000. This has ensured that all elements of the original (it had survived basically intact) are to be preserved. English Heritage described it as ‘Long curved stone exterior. A handsome surviving classical auditorium. One of the best of the few surviving original ABC auditoria’. However the construction of the nightclub, using the stalls area only, will effectively conceal all trace of the original design.
Work on the insertion of the nightclub began in the Summer of 2002 and the building was still being used as nightclub when this photo was taken in March 2018.
ABC motorcles war ein britischer Motorradhersteller, der 1914 von Ronald Charteris in London gegründet wurde. Mehrere britische Motorradfirmen starteten mit dem Namen "ABC", darunter Sopwith. Die All British Engine Company Ltd. aus London wurde 1912 gegründet und später in ABC Motors Ltd. geändert.
ABC motorcles war ein britischer Motorradhersteller, der 1914 von Ronald Charteris in London gegründet wurde. Mehrere britische Motorradfirmen starteten mit dem Namen "ABC", darunter Sopwith. Die All British Engine Company Ltd. aus London wurde 1912 gegründet und später in ABC Motors Ltd. geändert.
Camera: Rolleiflex 3.5F medium format TLR
Lens: Carl Zeiss 75mm Planar f/3.5.
Film: Delta 100 120 black & white negative.
Development: ID-11 1 + 3 20C/21m.Copyright 2020 Tasmania Film Photography All Rights Reserved
Ian Allan’s ABC London’s Transport (Part 2, Trams and Trolleybuses) with a cover design by A N Wolstenholme published in 1949. Under the signature ANW he produced numerous spot illustrations and cover designs for the Ian Allan ABC range of titles. Much of the work looks like the product of a maestro of the scraper board but he could turn his hand to conventional painting when it was required.
Machapuchare, Machhapuchchhre or Machhapuchhre (from Nepali माछापुच्छ्रे, meaning "fishtail"), is a mountain in the Annapurna Himalayas of north central Nepal. It is revered by the local population as particularly sacred to the god Shiva, and hence is off limits to climbing.
Machapuchare is at the end of a long spur ridge, coming south out of the main backbone of the Annapurna Himalayas, which forms the eastern boundary of the Annapurna Sanctuary. The Sanctuary is a favorite trekking destination, and the site of the base camps for the South Face of Annapurna and for numerous smaller objectives. The peak is about 25 km (16 mi) north of Pokhara, the main town of the region.
Machapuchare has never been climbed to its summit. The only attempt was in 1957 by a British team led by Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Roberts. Climbers Wilfrid Noyce and A. D. M. Cox climbed to within 150 m (492 ft) of the summit via the north ridge, to an approximate altitude of 22,793 ft (6,947 m). They did not complete the ascent, as they had promised not to set foot on the actual summit.[1] Since then, the mountain has been declared sacred, and is now closed to climbers.
A close up of an ABC Islands bear (Ursus arctos sitkensis) or Sitka brown bear taken on Baranof Island. It is a subspecies of brown bear or grizzly bear that resides in Southeast Alaska and is found only on the ABC Islands (Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, and Chichagof Island) . The bear is slightly different to a standard brown bear in that around 6.5% of the X chromosomes from the ABC Islands bears have recently come from polar bears. This is in contrast to 1% of the ABC Islands bears genomes containing polar bear DNA. It is believed that the present polar bear DNA stems from a group of polar bears that were stranded in Southeast Alaska at the end of the last glacial period due to receding ice. Male brown bears migrated to the island and interbred, leaving the phenotype and genotype of these bears to be primarily brown bear.
The story of the ABC islands bear is warning as to the future of all polar bears as the arctic continues to warm at twice the rate of the rest of the world and the fastest rate in measurable history. The media often focuses on the record low summer sea ice coverage which according to NASA is declining at a rate of 13.2% per decade and accelerating. However perhaps more startling is the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) report released in April on the age of arctic sea ice which provides a better indicator of the decreasing thickness of the ice and total ice volume. Ice older than one year covered 61% of the region in 1984, compared to just 34% in 2018. Only 2% of the Arctic’s sea ice is now five years old or older, compared to 30% in 1984. With several consecutive years of winter heatwaves in the arctic, the total surface area of the ice is now shrinking in across all seasons, not just in summer. Seems we are heading for an ice free summer arctic within 10 and 30 years from now.
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