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Just under nine months after its first proper mainline test run following reinstatement, GB Railfreight's Class 92, 92020 completes the last of its "firsts".
Working the Caledonian Sleeper Up Highlander (1M16) service for the first time, "Milton" (as she was formerly known) spent almost 18 years in store before her miraculous comeback. 020 has now worked all the Sleeper turns under the wires - the job she was brought back to do.
Captured at Hartford with a cheery early morning wave from one of GB Crewe Depot's finest.
The Sacred Heart Roman Catholic church in Ilkley is a remarkable blend of traditional and modern architecture, with an entrance porch and apse in Victorian Gothic and north and south nave extensions dating from the 1970s with a saw-tooth wall arrangement, inspired by Coventry cathedral.
More remarkable still is the complete glazing scheme of contemporary stained glass, all executed in the dalle de verre ('slab of glass') wherein thick chunks of coloured glass are set in a concrete or resin matrix (as opposed to traditional lead). The technique was popular in the 1960s and 70s but sharply declined since, largely due to many such windows latterly suffering from heat expansion, leakages or structural problems.
The exceptional scheme of dalle de verre windows at Ilkley includes both windows with concrete and windows with resin matrixes; The earliest windows are those in the apse which utilise concrete, being the work of Pierre Fourmaintraux of Whitefriars. The remaining windows in the nave were executed with resin and supplied by John Hardman Studios of Birmingham in the late 1970s.
These dalle de verre windows ably illustrate the richness and potential of large scale uses of the technique. Current research will hopefully find solutions to the problems encountered with the technique and may hopefully one day lead to a resurgence in the medium.
Photos by PollyBraden.com
Completed stitched handkerchiefs & hand-written notes by craftivists for M&S board members & other VIPs to be wrapped and ribboned to hand over as gi]fts at the AGM on Tuesday 7th July 2015.
Press Release: Craftivist campaign launches after survey shows 17 percent of British shoppers would shop more often at Marks & Spencers if it paid a Living Wage
The Craftivist Collective is joining forces with ShareAction’s AGM Army this summer to press UK retailers to pay a Living Wage. The campaigners are coordinating a series of “stitch-ins” at branches of Marks & Spencers across the UK, for crafters to sew hand-made messages onto M&S handkerchiefs, to be delivered to the board, celebrity endorsers, and major shareholders of the British retail giant at its annual general meeting at Wembley Stadium on July 7th.
An online poll shows 17 percent of British shoppers would shop more often at Marks & Spencers if it paid staff a Living Wage. (Source: Opinium survey, 12th-16th June 2015, based on 2002 online interviews across the UK).
The first “stitch-in” will take place on June 22 in London at 6:30 pm outside the Marks & Spencers on Liverpool Road, N1 0PR. Another “stitch-in” is scheduled for June 23 in Cardiff, another in Brighton on June 29, and another in Milton Keynes 30th. There will also be stitch-ins in Warrington, Lincoln, and Birmingham amongst others.
The idea of the “stitch-ins” is to show M&S that in addition to major shareholders with billions of pounds under management, its core customer base is also fully engaged and supportive on the issue of the Living Wage, and that they expect the company to show leadership on this basic fairness issue.
Each unique hand-stitched hanky encourages board directors of M&S to commit to paying the Living Wage of £9.15 in London and £7.85 across the UK to all staff. This is a part of ShareAction’s campaign in partnership with Citizens UK to achieve the Living Wage across the FTSE 100 through shareholder activism. Nearly a quarter of FTSE 100 companies have now accredited with the Living Wage Foundation, but no high street retailer has yet signed up.
ShareAction has organised AGM questions on the Living Wage at more than 20 company AGMs so far this year. ShareAction is simultaneously mobilising an Investor Collaborative for the Living Wage made up of institutional shareholders with billions of pounds in British companies, including asset managers, pension funds, charity and faith investors. These large shareholders have written in 2015 to all of the FTSE 100, including M&S, in support of the Living Wage.
Crafters will be giving M&S handkerchiefs with personalised positive messages stitched into them to all 14 board members of M&S, as well as to its largest shareholders, and to the 2014 celebrities who feature in the company’s ad campaign: Annie Lennox, Emma Thompson, Alex Wek, Rita Ora, Dowreen Lawrence, Lulu Kennedy, and Rachel Khoo.
They will also be handing out 250 special handkerchief craft kits with a Living Wage message printed on them to shareholders at the company’s Annual General Meeting, so that shareholders can stitch too, to encourage themselves to support the Living Wage. These kits include an ethical hanky, needle and thread, instructions, and a briefing note on investment risk.
M&S Chief Executive Marc Bolland is paid £2.1million a year. Last year, his company refused to consider a Living Wage at its Annual General Meeting. Later, at a meeting with campaigners, the company again refused to consider paying the Living Wage.
Sarah Corbett, founder of the Craftivist Collective, said: “Marks & Spencer is supposed to be a company with solid values threaded through all that they do, which include paying your workers fairly. We’re sending the board and shareholders these carefully hand-stitched handkerchiefs to encourage the company not to ‘blow’ their chance to support life-changing decisions.”
Catherine Howarth, Chief Executive of ShareAction says: “This craftivist initiative at the M&S AGM is nothing to 'sniff at'. Sarah and her amazing stitchers are devoting hours to creating gifts the M&S board we hope will treasure and remember forever. People adore M&S but they want to see the company step up and become a Living Wage employer. The many big shareholders backing this call know it makes business sense as well as being the right thing to do.”
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Notes for editors:
ShareAction is the UK-based movement for Responsible Investment. For further information, please contact Matt Davis, Director of Communications and Public Engagement at ShareAction on matthew.davis@shareaction.org
Craftivist Collective brings together craft and activism in order to make a difference to individuals and society, exposing and tackling issues of local and global poverty and injustices through provocative, non-violent creative actions. For further information please contact Sarah Corbett, Founder of Craftivist Collective on sarah@craftivist-collective.com
Seven lantern slides from the second part (slides 13-24) of the Pater Pan story
I have loads of old lantern slides, some complete sets and many just random part sets, and many I simply can't identify what set they belong to!
*PELOTON* madison complete bike
BLUE LUG custom
SPEC
Frame: *PELOTON* madison
Front Wheel: *H PLUS SON* the box rim × *GRAN COMPE* small track hub
Rear Wheel: *H PLUS SON* the box rim × *STURMEY ARCHER* S-RF5 5speed hub
Tire: *CONTINENTAL* ultra sport tire (black)
Brake:*DIA-COMPE* brs 101 brake set (white)
Handle: *NITTO* B123aa drop bar
Stem:*NITTO* crystal3 threaded stem (silver)
Bartape: *CINELLI*
Brake Lever: *DIA-COMPE* mx-122 brake lever (white)
Saddle: *SELLE SAN MARCO* concor supercorsa saddle (black)
Crankset: *SUGINO* sugino75 track crankset (silver)
Using a free vintage knitting pattern, fingering weight wool yarn, and size 3 knitting needles and dpns, I handknit this stocking in one month.
Here's the free pattern: www.knitting-and.com/knitting/patterns/christmas/1945-sto...
32 steps.
Diagram in Christmas Book
If you want to see the diagram of this model, go and submit yours in the christmas book and get it! :)
Complete window, depicting Faith , Hope and Charity.
Based on a design by Sir Joshua Reynolds, given by the Saunders Family in 1830.
Apparently Mrs Sarah Siddons an actress was used as the model for Hope.
Kempe added the border and installed the window in its current position in 1896.
October 4, 2019 - The kitchen renovation is finally complete. Window treatments and wood trim installed today and it was worth waiting for.
Filling in a gap in our SR 519 collection with this photo of the project after it was completed in 2010. In the foreground is the Royal Brougham Way Bridge. Just behind the bridge is the I-5/K-90 off-ramp to Edgar Martinez Drive South. Learn more about the SR 519 project at
The Weathering Works website complete with more info, pictures and weathering service pricing can be found here... www.theweatheringworks.co.uk
The Weathering Works are a custom model railway weathering service. Home to weathered model railway items in all gauges we aim to offer exhibition standard weathering at affordable prices. From steam and diesel locos to wagons and vehicles you can find it all here.
The aim of weathering is to give the models a sense of realism that they simply dont have straight out of the box and remove their plastic often toy like appearance. In reality even within a few days of service locos and wagons become dirtied so why not replicate this in model form. From track dirt to exhaust fumes it can all be replicated by TheWeatheringWorks.
As well as selling weathered stock direct both on my site and via eBay I also offer a weathering service by which you send me whatever you would like weathering and i send it back to you weathered to your desires.
Prices for the weathering service can be found on the Weathering service page of my website. This service varies from a dusting of dirt to reflect stock not long in service to a thoroughly uncared for and dirty piece which has chipped faded paintwork etc. A multitude of colours, techniques and mediums are used to enhance the appearance of your stock.
If you have any questions by all means get in touch and i hope you have enjoyed the picture. Thankyou.
25 October 2010
Finally finished. The bed spread is finally finished. I am not sure I love it because I have been working on it for the past month. It is monstrous compared to the afghans I normally work on.
Completed Winter Kitsuke
This is another one of the semi-traditional outfits appearing in the show. The ensemble was meant to display how one would wear kimono in the winter. It features multiple layers, a haori and a wool scarf. While the main components of the outfit are purely traditional, there are details that hint at western infuence; includig riding boots and a paisley pattern on the scarf.
Photo by: Wilma Tanya Archibald
Kimono Dresser: Christina Stoppa (Kurokami-Kanzashi)
The City of Galesburg is a unique town in that it was a planned city whose purpose was fostering religious education. Knox College was the main reason for its existence. The college was granted a charter by the Illinois State Legislature in 1837, but it was not until 1841 that it opened its doors to the first freshman class. Old Main was completed in 1857 and has the distinction of being the only building still standing where a Lincoln-Douglas debate was held, the fifth and most famous of the debates held in 1858.
The town also became the shipping center of the territory. In 1854 the first train rolled into town on the Central Military Tract (now Burlington Northern Railroad). Later, the Santa Fe railroad was persuaded to extend its line from the Mississippi to Chicago to run through Galesburg. In celebration of our railroad heritage, every June “Railroad Days” is held, included in the event are tours of the $83 million Burlington Northern rail yards.
Sling-style camera straps are all I use now, they're great. I also like the PacSafe camera strap for its slimness and low profile shoulder pad, so I combined them! Unfortunately, the strap may not be long enough for some people after this mod. I would've liked a few more inches but it's just about perfect as-is (fully extended).
For those who don't know, the PacSafe has steel cables running through the piping on each side of the webbing. No slash-and-grabs with this strap! I also like how the snaphook locks.
To do it, just remove the stitching at each tri-bar slide (see the "remove_stitcing" photo), disassemble everything, then with one end of the strap, reattach it to the middle bar of the tri-bar slide, as seen in the "sewn_side" picture. The part of the strap that goes over the middle bar wont have the steel running through it, the steel terminates just before the TBS. You can duplicate the hourglass stitching pattern or just use lines. For mine I went with three perpendicular lines of kevlar (yes, overkill :) ) thread.
After that, the other end of the strap goes under the TBS, over the middle bar, then down and out through the other side. You can play around with different configurations. Here, I have the TBS positioned above the shoulder pad.
MY PATLABOR TATTOO IS DONE!
Linework by Matt Decker of Premium Tattoos in Oakland, color by Matt Diana of No Regrets in Champaign.
I fucking LOVE THIS TATTOO.
For more of Matt Decker's work:
www.premiumtattoooakland.com/#artists
For more of Matt Diana's work:
no-regrets-tattoos.com/tattoos/Matt_Diana/
Based on this art by Yutaka Izubuchi from the front of the Patlabor video game for Playstation 1:
Completed Bailey Bridge at the home of Ardean and Carol Anne Kelley.
Part of the Garry Ferguson Album.
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*SALSA*caseroll complete bike
BLUE LUG custom
SPEC
Frame: *SALSA*caseroll BLUE LUG CUSTOM
Headset:*CHRIS KING* nothreadset 1 1/8 inch
Wheels: *VELOCITY*a23 rim × *WHITE INDUSTRIES*t11hub
Tire:*PANARACER*pacera
Brake&shift lever:*SRAM*rival
Crankset: *SRAM*rival
FD&RD: *SRAM*rival
Brake:*TEKTRO*
Handle:*FAIRWEATHER*mod174
Stem:*NITTO*ui-Ⅱ
Saddle:*WTB*purev
Seatclamp:*SALSA CYCLES*lip-lock
Saddle bag:*FAIRWEATHER*seat bag
Chart is an enclosure in the book, Quaker School Girl Samplers from Ackworth by Carol Humphrey, charted by Katie Trendell at An Elne of Lynnyn, published by Needleprint c2006. Stitched by Cathy K on White Edinburgh Linen with AVAS silk.
The Overland Track is one of Australia's most famous bush treks, situated in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, Tasmania. More than 8000 walkers each year complete the track. Officially, the track runs for 65 km from Cradle Mountain to Lake St Clair. However, many choose to add the hike along Lake St Clair as a natural extension, bringing the length to 82 km. The track winds through terrain ranging from sheer mountains, temperate rainforest, wild rivers and alpine plains all in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.
Aside from the main track there are also several alternative side tracks, including to the summits of Cradle Mountain and Mount Ossa, the tallest mountain in Tasmania. Also within reach are a group of tarns called The Labyrinth and Lake St Clair (the deepest lake in Australia). Walkers complete the trail in 5–6 days. This is normally done from north to south, which is the mandatory direction between 1 October and 31 May.
The landscape was all carved by glaciers during the last ice age, and the prominent mountains are composed of dolerite columns. The climate is generally unstable, with temperatures ranging from hot (35+°C) in summer to below zero in winter. Snow can fall at anytime and is common during the winter, especially on the Cradle Mountain Plateau and around Mount Ossa. Rain is very common, sometimes torrential though often settling to days of drizzle.
The most common fauna are Tasmanian Pademelons (native), possums and small rodents most of which are native. Also decidedly present, but not necessarily seen, are quolls, echidnas, tasmanian devils and wombats. There are also the famous Tasmanian leeches. The trail traverses areas of many types of vegetation, including Myrtle Beech forest, Eucalypts forest, Button Grass plains (swamps), alpine herb fields and shrubs and mosses.
(Wikipedia)
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I walked the Overland Track - solo - in May, which means autumn period in Tasmania. And got it all: sunshine, rain, lots of snow, and sunshine again. It was a mysterious adventure on the opposite side of the Earth.
For those who are interested, the itinerary was as follows: Ronny Creek -> Waterfall Valley -> Old Pelion -> Du Cane Hut -> Pine Valley (two nights) -> Echo Point -> Lake St. Clair.
During the second day, I hiked from Waterfall Valley to Lake Will, then continued along Lake Holmes and Lake Windermere to Frog Flats and back to Pelion Plains where I stayed overnight in the Old Pelion hut.