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I found this Cliff Richard paperdoll in an old Dreamer annual from 1983. I found it so funny, but my sister won't let me cut it out! She's only 14 so she probably doesn't even know who he is! I love that it says "Lime legs are in!" err...
White Cliffs made from chalky limestone on the far South of Corsica Peninsula. The ancient citadelle of Bonifacio was built up right on the cliffs you can see in the middel of the picture.
The Track that runs along the top of the cliffs on Alderney. The seat is a memorial to a past resident (there are a lot of them here).
Taken at Sunset yesterday - bit noisy, sorry.
a drop & run today, sorry. I will catch up with your streams when I can. The internet has been playing up for me!
View my stream LARGE on DARKR it is worth it.
A quick up load of some views of the Cliffs Of Moher taken yesterday. It was another cloudy day but not a bad day.. Off to Galway this morning from Limerick.
Miyagawa-bay is a small creek in the south end of the Miura peninsula.
In Miyagawa-bay, there are a fishing port and yacht harbor and there are rocks and reefs called "Senjoujiki".
宮川湾は、三浦半島の南端にある小さな入り江です。
宮川湾には、漁港とヨットハーバーがあります。
そして、千畳敷という岩礁や岩場があります。
宮川湾岩礁の道
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Bempton Cliffs, Yorkshire, UK. Awesome bird, showed incredibly well putting on an airshow right in front of us. Slow pass with all airbrakes deployed.
Ponderosa Canyon shows off its multicolored hoodoos framed by pine-covered foothills and the Table Cliff Plateau to the north.
Ponderosa Point @ Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
Sir Cliff Richard and The Shadows performs live on stage at the O2 Arena on September 28, 2009 in London, England. (Photo by Simone Joyner/Getty Images)
Geologically, Crich lies on a small inlier of Carboniferous limestone (an outcrop on the edge of the Peak District surrounded by younger Upper Carboniferous rocks).
Quarrying for limestone probably began at Crich in Roman times. In 1791 Benjamin Outram and Samuel Beresford bought land for a quarry to supply limestone to their new ironworks at Butterley. This became known as Hilt's Quarry, and the stone was transported down a steep wagonway, the Butterley Company Gangroad, to the Cromford Canal at Bullbridge. Near there they also built lime kilns for supplying farmers and for the increasing amount of building work. Apart from a period when it was leased to Albert Banks, the quarry and kilns were operated by the Butterley Company until 1933. The gangroad, which descending some 300 feet in about a mile, was at first worked by gravity with a brakeman ‘spragging’ (i.e. slowing) the wheels of the wagons by means of a pole or bar hinged to the rear axle. The wagons were then returned to the summit by horses. However, in 1812 the incline was the scene of a remarkable experiment when William Brunton, an engineer for the company, produced his Steam Horse locomotive. In 1840 George Stephenson, in building the North Midland Railway, discovered deposits of coal at Clay Cross and formed what later became the Clay Cross Company. He realised that burning lime would provide a use for the coal slack that would otherwise go to waste. He leased Cliff Quarry (the name by which the site at Crich was known at the time) and built limekilns at Bullbridge. They were connected by another wagonway including a section known as ‘The Steep’, a 550 yards (500 m) self-acting incline at a slope of 1 in 5.
Cliff Quarry closed in 1957/8 and the eastern end was bought in 1959 by the Tramway Museum. Another part of the quarry reopened in the 1960s operated by RMC and Tarmac for the building of motorways across the country. In 2000 ownership of the active quarry site (Crich Quarry) had been transferred to Bardon Aggregates. However, due to a downturn in sales and after finding the limestone was seemingly contaminated with a substance that turned it a strange colour they closed the quarry in 2010 and it never reopened.
In 1964 (and for 38 years) Rolls-Royce used a separate part of the quarry for dumping low-level radioactive waste such as enriched uranium, cobalt-60 and carbon-14. Following a campaign and blockades by villagers in the Crich and District Environment Action Group, dumping eventually ceased in 2002. In 2004 the Government backed an Environment Agency document that banned further dumping and required Rolls-Royce to ultimately restore and landscape the site.
In 2011 plans were proposed to redevelop the 44-acre site at Crich Quarry into the Amber Rock Resort (a massive water park complex and hotel). At the present time (2020) the site remains derelict. Whilst the machinery has been heavily vandalised the buildings and structures themselves are still there, although much of the old quarry site (opposite the Tramway Museum) is inaccessible due to flooding.