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Chastleton House was built between 1607 and 1612, for Walter Jones, who had made his fortune from the law,[2] although his family were originally Welsh wool merchants. The estate was bought in 1604 from Robert Catesby, although his residence was demolished to make way for the new house and no traces of the original building on this spot remain. The house is built of Cotswold stone, around a small courtyard, called the Dairy Court.
Chastleton House is famous for an episode from the English Civil War in which a loyal wife duped (and drugged) Roundhead soldiers to save her husband. Sarah Jewell, granddaughter of the last owners of the manor, recalls her childhood reenactments of the scene:
"My sisters and I used to love running around searching for the secret room where Arthur Jones, the grandson of Walter Jones, hid after the Battle of Worcester in 1651. Arthur was a Royalist and had been fighting for Charles II but the troops were defeated by Cromwell and Arthur galloped back to Chastleton with Cromwell's soldiers in hot pursuit. His quick-witted wife, Sarah - my childhood heroine - hid him in the secret closet over the porch and although the pursuing soldiers found his exhausted horse in the stables they couldn't find him. Sarah saved Arthur's life by lacing the soldiers' beer with laudanum and saddling up one of their horses for his escape as the soldiers slumbered. My sisters and I used to lie on the bed in the secret room and pretend we could hear the horses galloping towards us. The bed has now gone and the entrance to the room is barred with one of the National Trust's trademarks: a rope
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I built this as an easy maze for my then 2 year old to start on. One year on, and he still comes back to it (so do I). You start at the blue flowers and try to get them back home, but watch out for the crocodile!
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Built 1948 St. Louis Car Company, served in Philadelphia until 1989, painted in tribute to Boston, Massachusetts, "Boston Elevated Railway" colors, owned and operated by MUNI, San Francisco, California.
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The property Avalon was first taken up by John Wright, the founder of Tuncurry, NSW in 1878. At that time the area including the nearby town of Krambach was known as Larry's Flat. John Wright originally called the property Fairview but later it was changed to Avalon because the postal name Fairview was in use for another town.
Avalon Homestead was built in 1901 and was one of several large houses built for the various managers of different businesses operating on Avalon from John Wright's Tuncurry shipyards base. This house pictured above was one of the managers houses and was home to Edwin and Alicia Wright who managed the Avalon Shop.
John Wright also built a house for his own visitation to Avalon called Silverfern. It was to the east of this Avalon home, the site being selected because of its good view and its soil on which he established a fine orchard. In 1891 Sidney Garden Wright purchased Silverfern from his father, having recently returned from the USA where he had married Ina Inez Smith. On Silverfern Sid and Ina raised 10 children before selling most of Silverfern to the Department of Repatriation for soldier Settlement in 1919. Sidney Garden Wight was John and Catherine Wright's eldest son and on his return from the USA he assumed the role of manager of John Wright's large sawmill based at Avalon .
During the sawmilling years of the 1880-90's and early 1900's, with a large sawmill, a shop, hall, a wheat mill, and as many as 30 sawmill worker cottages, John Wright's Avalon was a small private town, bigger than nearby Krambach.
On the sale of Silverfern it was was broken up and in 1919 Sid Wright purchased Logan Leigh on the Wallamba River at Nabiac.
In circa 1918 reduced timber supplies, weakening demand and other problems following John Wright's death, intestate, in 1910 led to the Avalon sawmill being closed. The former wheat mill was dismantled, and reassembled at John Wright's shipyards on the waterfront in Tuncurry and became an engineering shed and Dolph Ohma's Drafting Shed from which many of the ships built at the Wright Shipyards emerged.
When the Avalon mill closed the Tuncurry sawmill became the main supplier of timber to the Wright Shipyards until 1954 by which time the mill was electric. It burnt down however and was not rebuilt. Following the death of Ernest Wright in 1946 the shipyards continued under Ernest Wright's son John for a few more years though until the last Wright Shipyards built boat, the Santa Cruz, was finally launched in 1954, having sat on the blocks since Ernest Wright's death in 1946.
With John Wright's 99 year lease on the waterfront land at Tuncurry coming to an end, the shipyards finally closed in 1958 and the land was entirely cleared and gazetted as John Wright Park in 1966.
Please Note - This photo of Avalon House was taken on the 3rd October 2021 by Jillian Graham.
Jillian kindly gave me permission to publish it here on Flickr.
Built in 1952, eight 3ft 6in gauge articulated cars for Gran Ferrocarril de Venezuela, powered by two Leyland O.600 engines and Wilson epicyclic gearboxes
Built ca.1915 as the Gem Theatre, this structure became the Ritz in 1925. It is now the Ritz Civic Center and is a contributing property to the Blytheville Commercial Historic District. The district was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
The Delta town of Blytheville is one of two county seats to serve Mississippi County (the other being Osceola).
Actually built as a Sea Gladiator but converted during restoration into a straight Gladiator, she still wears her genuine serial.
Operated by TFC and Duxford based, she is seen during maintenance in Hangar 2 (South) at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambridgeshire, UK.
23rd July 2016.
The following info is taken from the ‘Fighter Collection’ website:-
“Our Gladiator, N5903, was the last of 25 Mk.II aircraft built under Contract 773235/38 and delivered in 1939. It is believed that she briefly served with 141 Sqn in October 1939 at Grangemouth, west of Edinburgh, and was then allocated to the Air Ministry Development Pool as a flight trials platform in December 1939. Following this it is understood that N5903 was placed in long-term storage with 27 Maintenance Unit at Shawbury in May 1940, until she moved on to 8 MU at Little Rissington in October 1943 and then subsequently to 61 Operational Training Unit at Rednal in November 1943.
N5903, along with her Shuttleworth sibling Mk.I L8032, was earmarked for meteorological survey work and returned to Gloster at Hucclecote for conversion in January 1944. This conversion did not happen as more modern types took on these duties and the two Gladiators were left forlorn at Hucclecote, which was probably what saved them from being scrapped.
The next few years saw them remain with Gloster, somewhat forgotten whilst the main focus was on the war effort. After the war in February 1946 it is known that famous wartime Ace and future test pilot, R P ‘Bee’ Beaumont, flew our Gladiator, N5903, on four occasions.
In 1950 the Gladiators were handed over to Air Service Training for ground instructional use with N5903 going to Ansty, near Leicester, and L8032 going to Hamble. When the Ansty School closed N5903 saw the pair on a visit to Hamble, and as an ex. Fleet Air Arm Sea Gladiator pilot during the war he had an affinity with the type. Following a successful bid of £1 each he became the proud owner of a pair of somewhat forlorn Gladiators.
Viv Bellamy moved the pair of biplanes to the nearby Eastleigh base of his air charter company, Flightway. It was here that that the task of getting one of the Gladiators back into airworthy condition, unfortunately N5903 was chosen as the donor aircraft in favour of L8032, even giving up her Bristol Mercury VIII engine that had just eight hours logged since being installed.
Following being ‘cherry picked’ to support the successful rebuild of L8032 that culminated in her flight in 1952, N5903 languished in the back of the hangar until both aircraft were sold to Gloster for a token sum of £50. L8032 attended displays across the country for the next few years in the hands of Gloster. Little however, is known about the movements of N5903 in this intervening period. It is assumed she accompanied L8032 when she was presented to the Shuttleworth Trust in 1960. In 1971 N5903 was loaned by the Shuttleworth Trust to the Fleet Air Arm at Yeovilton. She was in a sad state when she arrived at Yeovilton, with no engine, propeller, or spinner.
Following refurbishment work our Gladiator was placed on static display in 1978 at Yeovilton in a spurious Fleet Air Arm colour scheme as Sea Gladiator N2276, complete with a dummy arrestor hook under the rear fuselage, wooden flaps and a glass-fibre spinner.
Following purchase from the Shuttleworth Collection the Gladiator joined The Fighter Collection fleet in 1994, arriving by road at Duxford from Yeovilton on December 1. Due to other priorities within the collection our Gladiator had to take her place in ‘the queue’ and progress with the rebuild was initially slow. By 2004 she started to show signs of real progress following the results of concerted efforts by the TFC Engineering Team and the contracting out of the fuselage woodwork to Skysport Engineering. In 2006 the rebuilt wings were trial-fitted to the fuselage which had her looking much more Gladiator-like once again. 2007 saw the fabric work completed by Vintage Fabrics, who also applied the wonderful 72 Sqn scheme she wears today. As an aside 72 Sqn was the first frontline RAF squadron to be equipped with Gladiators at Hornchurch, Essex in March 1937. The Squadron colour scheme consisted of red and blue bars along the fuselage sides and on the upper surface of the top wing, all of which are faithfully replicated on N5903. In addition to these markings our Gladiator also wears the blue fin and forward tailplanes denoting the personal aircraft of the ‘B’ Flight commander. By late 2007 the re-covered and painted wings were refitted, this time permanently, to the fuselage and N5903 became the main topic of question from the public, mainly “when will she fly?” to which the answer was always a cautious “when she is ready”.
The first post restoration flight for our Gladiator was a low-key affair occurring in the week running up to Flying Legends 2008, on Thursday 10th July, with TFC Chief Pilot Pete Kynsey (PK) the man in the hot seat. Only a few days later N5903 looked resplendent sitting in the sunshine on the flightline garnering a great deal of attention from the visitors to our world famous airshow. It was on the Sunday of the airshow with the flightline walk just about to close, when PK could be found once again strapping himself in and to the delight of the gathered crowds N5903 taxied out and took off for a test flight. Unfortunately due to a number of factors these were the only flights N5903 undertook and she was returned to the hangar. Over the next few years she underwent some minor work which culminated in a test flight on Wednesday 1st May, 2013, with PK at the controls once again. Since then it has been a popular performer, even undertaking the ‘Joker’ routine at Legends on more than one occasion!”
WALNEY LIGHTHOUSE WAS BUILT IN 1790, AND POSITIONED AT HAWS POINT ON THE ISLAND. ITS PURPOSE WAS TO IMPROVE THE NAVIGATION OF THE RIVER LUNE AND ACT AS A GUIDE FOR CARGO SHIPS FROM THE WEST INDIES BOUND FOR THE GLASSON DOCKS. THE LIGHTHOUSE WAS NOT BUILT TO BENEFIT BARROW, AS IT WAS ONLY A SMALL FISHING COMMUNITY AT THIS TIME.
THE LIGHTHOUSE WAS BUILT OF STONE QUARRIED FROM OVERTON IN LANCASHIRE AND TRANSPORTED TO THE SITE BY SHIP. THE OCTAGONAL TOWER IS 70 FEET HIGH AND RESTS ON A CIRCULAR FOUNDATION 20 FEET 6 INCHES IN DIAMETER. THERE ARE 91 STEPS UP TO THE TOP OF THE LIGHTHOUSE. THE ORIGINAL LIGHT WAS AN ARGENT BURNER, A TYPE OF PARAFFIN LAMP.
IN 1909 AN ACETYLENE GASLIGHT SYSTEM WAS INSTALLED WHICH FLASHED AT ONE MINUTE INTERVALS. IN 1953 THIS WAS REPLACED WITH AN ELECTRIC LIGHT WHICH FLASHES AT 15 SECOND INTERVALS. THE NEW LIGHT IS 30 TIMES MORE POWERFUL (450,000 CANDLE POWER) AND HAS A RANGE OF 18 MILES COMPARED TO 13 MILES OF ITS GAS PREDECESSOR. THE ELECTRIC LIGHT WAS FIRST POWERED BY ITS OWN GENERATOR, NOT BEING CONNECTED TO THE NATIONAL GRID UNTIL 1969. THIS GUIDING LIGHT CAN EVEN BE SEEN FROM BLACKPOOL.
ATTACHED TO THE LIGHTHOUSE ARE TWO HOUSES IN WHICH THE KEEPER AND STAFF LIVE. THESE HOUSES WERE ORIGINALLY ONE HOUSE, WHICH WAS BUILT FOR THE FIRST FULL-TIME KEEPER. THE HOUSE WAS DIVIDED INTO TWO IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY. AT THIS TIME THE LIGHTHOUSE’S ONLY WATER SOURCE CAME FROM THE RAIN AND THE ONLY LIGHTING CAME FROM CANDLES.
DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, THE HOUSE WAS USED AS AN OFFICERS' MESS WHEN 170 SOLDIERS WERE ENCAMPED AT THE LIGHTHOUSE AS PART OF THE COASTAL DEFENCE NETWORK. IN 1946 14 PRISONERS OF WAR WERE MOVED INTO THE CAMP. THEY DID ODD JOBS AROUND THE LIGHTHOUSE IN RETURN FOR CIGARETTES AND FOOD. THE REMAINS OF THE BARRACKS ARE STILL VISIBLE.
TODAY THE LIGHTHOUSE IS RUN BY THE PORT OF LANCASTER COMMISSIONERS AND CONTAINS A RADIO BEACON FOR TRINITY HOUSE, FORMING A MAJOR LINK IN THE BRITISH COASTGUARD SYSTEM. ALTHOUGH THE LIGHTHOUSE IS NO LONGER OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, IT CAN BE VIEWED FROM THE OUTSIDE.
Built by Ing. Franišek Netík from Brno, former Czechoslovakia. The front of the car was quite wide; the rear more narrow. The vehicle (and its colours) was simply ugly. It was a five-seater with 3 persons in the front - driver in the middle - and two behind. Rear wheel steering. Top speed 90 kmh. It took Netik 4 years to build the car. The series production, which was planned in Brno Královopolská Engineering Works, was cancelled. The car remained in the stage of a single prototype.
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Built in 1945 as an L-4J Grasshopper with the US military serial 45-4407.
Seen arriving at the ‘L-Birds Back To Normandy’ event at Saint André de l'Eure airfield, to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of D-Day.
Saint André de l'Eure, Normandy, France
8th June 2019
ChME3, the diesel-electric shunting locomotives were being built by ČKD in Chzechoslovakia at 1963-1994 with total produced 8200. Different modifications are still operated primarily in former USSR - Russia, Belarus, Ukraine etc. and Eastern Europe countries of the former The Comecon Economic union trade (CMEA, СЭВ) - Czech, Slovakia, Poland and also in Albania (HSH T669.1), Iraq (DES 3101), Syria (LDE 1500) and even in India (DEC 120).
October Railway division of the Russian Railways, Leningrad Region, Russia
Built on Beeston Crag with neolithic settlements dating back 4000 years. With impressive views over the Cheshire countryside.
Built ca. 1800 in Detroit, Michigan and converted into a millinery shop by Mrs. Elizabeth Cohen after her husband's death. Henry Ford moved the store to Greenfield Village in Dearborn where it may be toured today. Mrs. Cohen's Millinery
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Built in 1758, the historic palace which serves as the Town Hall still retains its original lines and is a harmonious example of late 18th-century architecture
Built in the early 40s. Heavy industry ruled and the US manufacturing capability was second to none. Not that long ago for old guys.
Built on the northern side of the old St Michael's Cathedral, largely destroyed in the blitz of 14th November 1940. Looking to the great entrance canopy of the new cathedral.
The foundation stone of the new cathedral was laid by Elizabeth II on 23 March 1956. It was consecrated on 25 May 1962 by Cuthbert Bardsley, Bishop of Coventry with Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, composed for the occasion, premiered in the new cathedral on 30 May to mark its consecration.
Built in the 4th century B.C. close to the island of Philae and presented to the city of Madrid in 1950. Taken in Madrid, Spain.
1990 Crewe built BO-BO 25 kv electric loco 91105 renumbered from 91005 when refurbished at Bombardier Doncaster in 2002 seen at Harringay in LNER branded virgin livery
Built for Andromeda's Gates on Eurobricks. Check it out! www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=127956
Built in Glasgow in 1899 the former Taff Vale Railway locomotive 85 is pictured at Oxenhope pulling forward prior to running round its train with 52044, having just worked the 11-10 departure from Keighley during the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway's Steam Gala, on March 23rd 2024.
My first container / cargo ship taken and uploaded
IMO: 9193305
MMSI: 211331640
Call Sign: DHBN
Flag: Germany [DE]
AIS Vessel Type: Cargo
Gross Tonnage: 54465
Deadweight: 66971 t
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 294.05m × 32.2m
Year Built: 2000
Read more at www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:133240/...
Kalangadoo.
The large pastoral Kalangadoo station was taken up by John Hunter and his brothers in 1845. The leasehold covered 60 square miles. They built an early homestead which was destroyed in the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires. When the government started surveying and selling freehold land in 1854 the Hunters sold the remainder of their leasehold and freehold lands to Hastings Cunningham. It was at this time that 9,111 acres went to Crouch who created Lowan station with a 10 roomed homestead built near the present boundaries of Kalangadoo. Then in 1871 Cunningham sold his freehold Kalangadoo station to Mr T.H. Morris. It was then less than 10,000 acres in size. Morris immediately built a grand new two storey homestead called Kalangadoo House about 4 kms north east of the town. Morris’ wife occupied the property after his death until she died in 1904 when the government acquired Kalangadoo station for closer settlement. The government created thirty two farms for sale in 1905 and a son of H Morris purchased Kalangadoo homestead and 1,400 acres as his own property. The Morris family finally sold this property for soldier settler blocks after World War Two. Today Kalangadoo House sits on a 50 acre property.
The other big property of the district was Koorine station owned by George and his brother John Riddoch of Glencoe, the Coonawarra Fruit Colony and Yallum Park stations. They dissolved their partnership in 1898 when they had over 75,000 acres of freehold land. When the partnership dissolved George took 20,000 acres to establish Koorine run near Kalangadoo. He became the “laird “of Mount Gambier, Glencoe and Kalangadoo. Brother John kept Yallum Park and the Coonawarra Fruit Colony and winery and became the”laird “of Penola. George Riddoch’s estate did not last long as a huge 20,000 acre property. Much of it was acquired for soldier settler blocks in 1920 after World War One. Riddoch was a great patron of Kalangadoo and donated to the Presbyterian Church and laid the foundation stone and he donated for improvements to the Anglican Church. He opened the new stone school rooms in 1904 and he even opened the cheese factory in Kalangadoo in 1916. It operated until 1952. After he died in 1919 the old Kalangadoo stone Institute was renamed the Riddoch Memorial Hall. (The original iron and wood institute hall opened in 1899 and was replaced by the stone one in 1913.) George Riddoch was a canny Scottish businessman and he subdivided the remainder of his Koorine property into small farmlets for potato growing and pig raising. He first sold 26 farms around Kalangadoo in 1901, then a further 19 farms in 1905 and finally an additional 20 farms in 1906. He took good advantage of the fertile soils and the 750 to 800 mm annual rainfall which meant small properties of 50 acres or so were viable for small scale farming.
Kalangadoo town was surveyed by the government in 1859. Almost all the blocks were purchased by the Leake brothers of Glencoe and the town did not develop. So Kalangadoo East was gazetted in 1892. The railway had passed along the boundary of Riddoch’s property in 1887 so it was a logical place for a town. The early public buildings were: the railway station 1907 which closed in 1985; the Kalangadoo Hotel 1902; the Presbyterian Church 1913; the Methodist Church 1906 (the church hall was erected in 1956); the school 1904; the Catholic Church 1904; the first Anglican Church 1961( the first one built 1915); the first Police Station 1937 and the Post Office 1913.
Built in 1935, this former post office is today a grocery store.
Plymouth, Michigan is a suburban community located in the northwestern corner of Wayne County between Livonia and Ann Arbor.
Guemes Channel. The double hull Eagle Bay is 820 ft. long and has capacity to carry 800,000 barrels of oil.
Lindsey Foss and Garth Foss are Enhanced Tractor Tugs, and were the largest in the world (when built in 1994), featuring Voith Schneider cycloidal propulsion systems. and are specifically designed for tanker escorts.