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Tom Keifer (w/ Bullet Boys, Girlschool, The Answer, John Corabi, Joel Hoekstra's 13) @ Monsters of Rock Cruise (Day 5) on February 6, 2017
Many years ago, as a school child, to find some answers to questions I had about old street lighting, I wrote to Stanton plc as Stanton Ironworks had become. Stanton Ironworks, near Nottingham, had become one of the UK's main manufacturers of street lighting columns - not in steel as may have been expected but in the new 1930s technology of spun concrete street lighting columns and brackets. They continued in business with a variety of styles and designs up into the 1980s when concrete standards went 'out of fashion'. This was largely due to the fact that when hit, concrete columns do not deflect and so inflict damage to vehicles and occupants - as this catalogue shows but making a point here about the fact their columns would stand such a passing blow.
Concrete lamp standards became popular due to several factors; initial cost and a seeming lack of maintenance was one as unlike steel columns these did not require painting on a regular basis. Another was architectural fashion and design; concrete could be moulded into so many shapes and forms and some eraly bracket designs were fanciful to the point of becoming ridiculed in the world of industrial design. This afflicted Stanton less than their great rival, Concrete Utilities of Ware, whose early works were quite something to behold! By the 1950s design had swung back to simplicity and utilty and Stanton's designs, like others, would mirror this shift. In addition the technology of production was better understood and so manufacturing became more economical in terms of materials. These were the inner steel wire and sections used to tension or stress the column with the concrete centrifugally spun around the 'outline' of the column in a mold.
In response to my childhood letter some kindly soul at Stanton photocopied pages from this earlier catalogue dating to around 1950; there are mentions of wartime damage to installations and the designs are before the early/mid 1950s simplification of columns and brackets that would be marketed as Stanton 8's and 9's. These are scans of photocopies and so can be a bit blurry but I think they are of enough interest to post here.
I have posted some single pages from this catalogue earlier and may now delete these older scans. These pages show one of the most popular designs, the Stanton Type 6, that came in two designs; the 6A with the angular column and the more popular and possibly post-war design the 6B. They were also available with double brackets as seen on the following pages. The 6A was rarer, I recall an installation on Old Walsall Road in West Bromwich and a few in Mayfield, Edinburgh. One hangs on next to the WCML at Rugby.
For many years large numbers of these columns survived having been 'sleeved' with metal brackets due to failure of the bracket and sprocket/spigot - thses being the weakest point of concrete column designs. As new PFI schemes sweep the country even these modified columns are now a rarity.
In front of Bi-rite. Notice the large paper flowers on the left of the image. The K-sun can be seen on the vase they are in.
(This is an answer from Kimberly's 37th Birthday Skullduggery. See www.deeptrouble.com/2014/08/13/kimberlys37th/ for details )
The door marked E & the answer is on the post in the foreground.
(This is an answer from Kimberly's 37th Birthday Skullduggery. See www.deeptrouble.com/2014/08/13/kimberlys37th/ for details )
This tablet in Vancouver's Stanley Park close by the Japanese Canadian War Memorial commemorates the contribution to Canada's war effort in the Great War by 222 Canadians of Japanese descent. Fifty-four paid the ultimate price for doing their bit for Canada; thirteen distinguished themselves by being awarded the Military Medal for gallantry.
National Day of Action ANSWER Coalition NO WAR ON IRAN Protest in front of the White House in the 1600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington DC on Saturday afternoon, 4 February 2012 by Elvert Barnes Protest Photography
Visit ANSWER Coalition at www.answercoalition.org/national/
Visit Elvert Barnes PROTEST PHOTOGRAPHY 2012 at elvertbarnes.com/protestphotog2012
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2015/2/11(Wed)
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CREEP OUT
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DIE BIRTH
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SLIGHT SLAPPERS
SOUL DISCHARGE
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KaOS KITCHEN
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Nope, but they do it on the shore.
We were waiting to go ashore but there was a bear on the shore, so we sat in the rain and took pictures instead. Since this bear was on Baranof Island, we identified it as a Brown Bear.
Of note, we were very lucky with weather. This was really the only rain we got, and temperatures in the 60-70 range...while at home in Texas, it was over 100.
Kelli answers questions from our national High School Musical Theater Program students.
For more info on our summer program, please visit: www.okcu.edu/music/academy/hsmtp.aspx