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Two firebugs (Pyrrhocoris apterus) mating - something they either enjoy very much or need serious pointers on effectiveness about from most any other species as these guys can go at it for hours - and sometimes more. I have no idea who decides who has to walk backwards but they actually get around coupled together like this.
Great Western HST Class 43 Power Cars 43156 and 43015 pass through Southcote Junction near Reading as 0Z77 on an Old Oak Common to Laira move.
An image made on my iPhone.
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1950's style back-to-back downstairs toilet and bath complete with black watermark to indicate the amount of bath water allowed.
Octoebr 2017
East Midlands Railway buffered HST power car no. 43423, 'Valenta'. reverses back onto the depot at Leicester to join classmate no. 43073, 'Neville Hill HST Depot', to run back to Neville Hill after delivering three mk3 coaches for the 125 group on 7th November 2020.
Now in the care of the National Trust, this is the last remaining court of back-to-back dwellings in the city of Birmingham. Each of the immaculately restored houses recreates a different period in the history of the court and recalls the lives of those who lived there.
Located at 50-54 Inge Street and 55–63 Hurst Street, the historic court seen here was opened in 1840 and has become one of Birmingham's most popular tourist attractions.
This gentleman was one of the volunteer tour guides at the National Trust property in Birmingham - The back to back house on Hurst St.
He was a delightful man though reluctant to have his photo taken. I wasn’t sure if I should try harder to get him to let me take his picture. He told me he was always being asked to pose for the camera and didn’t feel like it on the day we visited. I did persist, gently, and he relented. We went out into the yard area of the property and this photo, one of three I took, is the result.
It was late in the afternoon and the light was dropping quickly, so I had to up the ISO to get a decent shutter speed. But the result is still pleasing.
I like the photos and hope the viewer does too. If he gets to see them I hope he does too. :-)
You can find out more about the National Trust here…http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ and more on the back to backs here… www.nationaltrust.org.uk/birmingham-back-to-backs/
Sunshine and sunny flowers on Sunday, so different from today.
Much better viewed large.
Thank you for your favourites. :O)
Insight Tours are running a week-long special passenger train tour from Sydney to Adelaide and Port Augusta.
Double ex-Victorian S class took over in Goulburn for the second leg of the tour westbound. Here seen roaring into Yarra, just 10 minutes into their shift.
A magnificent sight and sound.
Now in the care of the National Trust, this is the last remaining court of back-to-back dwellings in the city of Birmingham. Each of the immaculately restored houses recreates a different period in the history of the court and recalls the lives of those who lived there.
Located at 50-54 Inge Street and 55–63 Hurst Street, the historic court seen here was opened in 1840 and has become one of Birmingham's most popular tourist attractions.
The meerkats are among my favourite animals at our local zoo and I usually spend more time in front of their enclosure than anywhere else. Usually I take photos of them through the glass fence which allows me to be on the same level as my subjects. Unfortunately the day of my last visit at the zoo was very cold and the glass was covered by frost. Therefore I had to take the photos over the fence although I would have preferred a lower angle.
Unfortunately with the shadows starting to lengthen, East Midlands Railway buffered HST power car no. 43423, 'Valenta', leads three former EMR Mk3 coaches and non-buffered EMR power car no. 43073, 'Neville Hill HST Depot', under Swain Street Bridge and into Leicester station working 5Z43 Neville Hill to Leicester empty stock on 7th November 2020 in the rapidly fading afternoon lighting.
The stock was being delivered to the 125 group.
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A lady looking old beyond her years is taking a last look at the back-to back house where she grew up.
Many of these courtyards were partially demolished whilst a few of the houses were still actually occupied. Sometimes repairs were done on houses which would be demolished within a matter of weeks, in this picture the lavatory block has been rebuilt and has a gleaming new roof, maybe it was even done as another squad were bricking the windows up.
People who were displaced from the Inner Ring were shipped out to Castle Vale into one of the huge tower blocks, which were built on the old Castle Bromwich airfield. In a brilliant piece of short-sightedness the railway station at Castle Bromwich was closed in 1965, just when it was needed.
This was hardship yet people rarely moaned unlike today's society when hardship seems to mean "I haven't got a big plasma telly".
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