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Similar in form to my chromium specimen, this piece consists entirely of a plumose/botryoidal formation of nickel "crystals". It was most definitely grown in a laboratory, but think that it is still an intriguing and attractive piece - it makes me think of a volcanic ash cloud.
A detail of the small bridge at the entrance to Kansa-gu Shrine, near Lake Tazawa in Senboku-shi, Akita Prefecture, Japan. The decorative element of the railing structure is called giboju or giboshi, which comprises the newel, an upright post structure of oyabashira, on top of which sits a jewel shape, known as hōju, hōju-no-tama or nyoi houju. It resembles the onion domes seen in Western or Baltic cultures, but it is mostly likely the form of the peach, which is the fruit symbolic of immortality and healing, as it signifies the bestowal of blessings on all who suffer, granting wishes, pacifying desires and bringing clear understanding of the Dharma (Buddhist law).
Elemento destacado de la iglesia de San Saturnino de Artajona es su torre campanario situada junto a la cabecera en el flaco meridional. Es alta y de recia estampa, con pareja de troneras apuntadas por lado.
Ol' Muffin Top was hitching a ride on the choo-choo. Riding a Nickel Plate 765 deadhead to the Foamathon at Franklin Park, he was caught searching for an open bar in the early morning hours near B12.
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Somewhat under whelmed by this Gala. At 4 1/2 mile long there hamstrung by the length of the line and only one passing loop to allow trains to pass.
The steep incline from Keighley station provides excellent demonstration of steam power.
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Our Winter Steam Gala is returning for 2017, Friday 3rd March – Sunday 5th March. With the bridge difficulties well and truly behind us and a successful Autumn Steam Spectacular in October including two guest locomotives, ‘Battle of Britain’ class 34053 ‘Sir Keith Park’ and Manor Class 7822 ‘Foxcote Manor’, we are delighted that once again we will be welcoming TWO visiting locomotives to the Railway – LNER B1 Class 4-6-0 61264, courtesy of the Thompson B1 Locomotive Trust, and LMS ‘Crab’ 2-6-0 13065, courtesy of the East Lancashire Railway.
LNER B1 Class 4-6-0 61264
Designed by Edward Thompson, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London North Eastern Railway (LNER), the B1 class was a wartime utility mixed-traffic locomotive for general passenger and freight duties. 61264 was built at the Glasgow works of the North British Locomotive Company and entered traffic at Parkeston Quay, Harwich in 1947 as 1264 in LNER Apple Green livery. During 13 years in Suffolk, hauling express passenger trains to and from London Liverpool Street station.
Withdrawn in 1965 and after use as a stationary boiler, 61264 found itself in Barry scrapyard, the only ex-LNER engine to reside there, and one of only 2 B1s to survive. Purchased by the Thompson B1 Locomotive Trust in 1976. It was to be 21 years before the engine returned to action on the Great Central Railway.
Today the 61264’s home is on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway as a mainline certified engine and regularly works onto the national network to Whitby with occasional railtours across the UK. Thanks to its mainline credentials, 61264 will arrive via our connection with Network Rail at Keighley.
(The photograph below depicts 61264 approaching Mytholmes when it appeared at the 2003 Autumn Gala masquerading as long lost classmate 61244 ‘Strang Steel’.)
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LMS Hughes ‘Crab’ 2-6-0 13065
Designed by George Hughes, Chief Mechanical Engineer these mixed traffic locomotives were the first purely LMS design to be introduced at the grouping, and built at the ex-L&YR works at Horwich and the ex-LNWR works at Crewe.
Having been built at Crewe, 13065 entered service in 1927 at Kentish Town shed in north west London resplendent in LMS crimson lake livery with its number carried on the tender. During the next 39 years it received the number 2765 by the LMS, becoming 42765 under BR and after being based at various sheds throughout the London Midland region was withdrawn from Birkenhead in December 1966.
Barry scrapyard beckoned and it was in 1978 that the locomotive was rescued and moved to Ingrow on the KWVR for restoration. This visit will therefore be somewhat of a home coming. Although some work was undertaken in the Worth Valley, 42765 moved to the East Lancashire Railway and was returned to traffic in 1994. After a second overhaul the engine was unveiled in 2014 in its original livery as 13065.
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Although not fully confirmed, in addition to these visiting locomotives, for 2 days, it is anticipated that we will also have two “old” LMS ‘Black 5’ stalwarts, our own 45212 and 45407 from Ian Riley’s fleet at Bury.
If the visit comes to fruition, and our organisers are working hard to make this happen, both 45407 & 45212 will operate full diagrams on Saturday and Sunday before setting off for mainline railtour duties on the ‘big’ railway.
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Added to these 4, the KWVR ‘home fleet’ will be in action
•BR Standard 4MT 4-6-0 75078
•WD 2-8-0 90733
•Midland 4F 0-6-0 43924
•USATC S160 2-8-0 “Big Jim” No.5820
•LNWR 0-6-2 ‘Coal Tank’ 1054 (Courtesy of Bahamas Loco society)
•Taff Vale Railway O2 0-6-2T 85
•Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0T 1704 ‘Nunlow (Courtesy of Bahamas Loco society)
•Grafton Steam Crane will be in steam and operating in Oakworth Yard
… as well as a range of different coaching stock and goods vehicles.
Working Timetables
As with all our Galas we publish the working timetables for the various workings. The up-to-date version (01/03/17) can be viewed by downloading the 2017 Winter Steam Gala Working Timetable PDF. It is important to note that these timetables take account that 45212 and 45407 MAY be attending and reflect that the situation remains fluid.
The public timetables can be viewed HERE >>
Prices:
Day Rover:
Adult: £24
Concession: £21
Child: £12
Small Family (Adult + 1 Child: £30
Member / Local Adult: £21
Member Concession / Local Concession: £18.50
Member Child / Local Child: £11
2 Day Rover:
Adult: £43
Concession: £37.50
Child: £21.50
Member / Local Adult: £37.50
Member Concession / Local Concession: £33
Member Child / Local Child: £19.50
3 Day Rover
Adult: £60
Concession: £52.50
Child: £30
Member / Local Adult: £52.50
Member Concession / Local Concession: £46
Member Child / Local Child: £27.50
Don’t forget that your Rover tickets allow entry into both museums at RAIL STORY, Ingrow, Museum of Rail Travel and Ingrow Loco.
Full details will be released in due course – watch this space for all future developments.
Guided tours of the Haworth Locomotive Works
Once again we will be running our unique tour behind the scenes in our engine shed and workshop at Haworth, the tours being led by our experienced and knowledgeable volunteer tour guides,. The tours are organised to raise funds to restore the Ivatt 2-6-2T 41241 and although the tours are free, we do ask our guests to consider making a Gift Aided donation, usually in the region of £5 to the KWVR Charity (no 1136853).
Tour times will connect with trains from Keighley arriving at Haworth where you will meet your guide at Haworth Station for your 45/60 minute tour.
Inside the shed you will see Standard 2 78022, Ivatt 41241 and Lancashire and Yorkshire ‘Ironclad’ 0-6-0 no. 957, The Green Dragon in the film The Railway Children, undergoing restoration and investigation – and maybe more.
Archives de la Ville de Montréal / Vue aérienne: 1947-1949
Le détail de cette vue aérienne nous mène au coeur d'un secteur qui, à cette époque était en pleine mutation amenant la disparition des derniers témoins du XIXe siècle montréalais (encore visibles en 1947). Le site, déjà empiété par de nouvelles infrastructures urbaines verra un quartier complet disparaître dans les années 1950, dans la foulée des projets du maire Jean Drapeau, un grand "visionnaire" de la modernité.
A macro shot of a light bulb.
Taken @ 1/1000 Sec Exposure - f/10, to get the coil element of the globe.
Taken for the Pix weekly challenge, Theme: "MACRO - Images of everyday objects."(not flowers nor insects).
Created by Melbourne stained glass manufacturer Ferguson and Urie in 1880 for the opening of the former Saint George's Presbyterian Church, the four northern transept vestibule windows feature quotations from the Bible. Each window, like the other non-figurative windows around Saint George's Presbyterian Church, features design elements typical of their work. This lancet window in the western wall of the vestibule features a latticed "diaper" pattern containing stylised floral designs in yellow. It has a border of coloured squares dispersed with stylised flowers with an inner border of brightly coloured circles, also common element of Ferguson and Urie's windows. The quote "Come unto me all that labour and are heavy laden", comes from the Book of Matthew XI 28 - 29. Written in brilliant orange Gothic script against a black background, the Biblical quote appears in a panel midway down the lancet window.
The former Saint George's Presbyterian Church, which stands on busy Chapel Street in St Kilda East, is a well known and loved local landmark, not least of all because of its strikingly tall (33.5 metre or 110 foot) banded bell tower which can be spotted from far away. In the Nineteenth Century when it was built, it would have been even more striking for its great height and domineering presence. Designed by architect Albert Purchas, the former Saint George's Presbyterian Church is often referred to as his ecclesiastical tour-de-force, and it is most certainly one of his most dramatic and memorable churches.
The former Saint George's Presbyterian Church was constructed on a plot of land reserved in Chapel Street for the Presbyterian Church of Victoria in 1866. Initially services were held in a small hall whilst fundraising efforts advanced the erection of a church. The architect Albert Purchas was commissioned to design the church and the foundation stone for the western portion of the nave was finally laid in April 1877 by Sir James McCulloch. The first service was held in the church on the 1st of October 1877. The first clergyman of the former Saint George's Presbyterian Church was the Reverend John Laurence Rentoul (father to world renown and much loved Australian children's book illustrator Ida Rentoul Outhwaite). However, the swelling Presbyterian congregation of St Kilda and its surrounding districts quickly outgrew the initial Saint George's Presbyterian Church building, so Albert Purchas was obliged to re-design and enlarge the church to allow a doubling in capacity. Robert S. Ekins was the contractor and his tender was £3000.00. It is this imposing church building, reopened in 1880, that we see today. The "Australasian Sketcher with Pen and Pencil" noted that the total length of the building was 118 feet and 6 inches (36 metres), by 40 foot (12 metres) wide and that the striking octagonal tower to the north-west was 110ft 6 in high. It perhaps reflected better the wealth and aspirations of the congregation.
The former Saint George's Presbyterian Church is constructed on bluestone foundations and is built in an ornate polychromatic Gothic Revival style in the tradition of English designers like William Butterfield and John L. Pearson. Built of red brick building, it is decorated in contrasting cream bricks and Waurn Ponds freestone dressings. It features a slate roof with prominent roof vents, iron ridge cresting and fleche at the intersection of the nave and transepts. The front facade of the church is dominated by the slender, banded octagonal tower topped by a narrow spire. The entrance features a double arched portal portico. The facade also features a dominant triangular epitrochoidal (curved triangular form) rose window. The church, like its bluestone neighbour All Saints Church of England, is built to a T-shaped plan, with an aisleless nave, broad transepts and internal walls of cream brick, relieved with coloured brickwork. The former Saint George's Presbyterian Church was one of the first major church design in Melbourne in which polychrome brickwork was lavishly employed both externally and internally.
The inside of the former Saint George's Presbyterian Church is equally as grand as the exterior, with ornamental Gothic Revival polychromatic brickwork, a lofty vaulted ceiling, deal and kauri pine joinery and pulpit and reredos of Keene's cement. The building originally contained a complete set of Victorian stained glass windows by well known and successful Melbourne manufacturers Ferguson and Urie, all of which remain intact today except for one of the non-figurative windows which was replaced by a memorial window to Samuel Lyons McKenzie, the congregation’s beloved minister, who served from 1930 to 1948, in 1949. The earliest of the Ferguson and Urie windows are non-figurative windows which feature the distinctive diaper pattern and floral motifs of Fergus and Urie's work, and are often argued to be amongst the finest of their non-figurative designs. The large triple window in the chancel was presented by Lady McCulloch in memory of the ‘loved and dead’. Another, in memory of John Kane Smyth, the Vice-Consul for the United States of America in Melbourne, has the American Stars and Stripes on the top ventilator above it. An organ by Thomas C. Lewis of London, one of the leading 19th century English organ builders, was installed in the south transept in 1882. It was designed to blend with its architectural setting, with pipework styled to avoid the obstruction of windows. The action of this organ was altered in 1935, but the pipework, and the original sound, have been retained.
Over the years many spiritual and social activities were instituted at Saint George’s, Presbyterian Church some of short duration such as the Ladies’ Reading Club which operated between 1888 and 1893. There were segregated Bible classes for young men and women, the Presbyterian Women’s Missionary Union, formed in 1892, a cricket club and a floral guild. Guilds teaching physical culture for girls, boys and young men began in 1904. They were entirely financed by John Maclellan and the idea extended to other denominations throughout Victoria. John Maclellan died in 1936 and the guilds ceased at Saint George’s Presbyterian church through lack of funds although in 1977 the members of the girls’ guild were still holding bi-annual reunions and raising money for charity. Sadly, the Presbyterian congregations may have been large in the Nineteenth Century, but by St George's Presbyterian Church's 110th centenary, its doors had already closed during the week due to dwindling numbers and an ageing congregation as a result of the general decline in church attendances after the Second World War exacerbated by the changing nature of St Kilda and the decrease in numbers of residents living in the vicinity of the church. So it stood, forlorn and empty and seemingly nothing more than a relic of a glorious but bygone religious past. However in 1990, Saint Michael's Grammar School across the road leased the Victorian Heritage listed building during weekdays, and it was eventually sold to them in 2015. It now forms part of the school's performing-arts complex, and it has a wonderful new lease of life.
St George's Presbyterian Church is sometimes hired out for performances, and I had the pleasure of receiving an invitation to hear Handel's Messiah performed there in 2009. The ecclesiastical acoustics made the performance all the more magnificent. I remember as I sat on one of the original (hard) kauri pine pews, I looked around me and admired the stained glass and ornamental brickwork. I tried without success over several subsequent years to gain access to the church's interior, settling for photographs of the exterior instead, but it wasn't until 2018 that I was fortunate enough to gain entry to photograph the church's interior. The former St George's Presbyterian Church was opened up to the public for one Sunday morning only as part of Open House Melbourne in July 2018. It was a fantastic morning, and I am very grateful to the staff who manned the church for the day and watched bemused as I photographed the stained glass extensively and in such detail.
Albert Purchas, born in 1825 in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales, was a prominent Nineteenth Century architect who achieved great success for himself in Melbourne. Born to parents Robert Whittlesey Purchas and Marianne Guyon, he migrated to Australia in 1851 to establish himself in the then quickly expanding city of Melbourne, where he set up a small architect's firm in Little Collins Street. He also offered surveying services. His first major building was constructing the mansion "Berkeley Hall" in St Kilda on Princes Street in 1854. The house still exists today. Two years after migrating, Albert designed the layout of the Melbourne General Cemetery in Carlton. It was the first "garden cemetery" in Victoria, and his curvilinear design is still in existence, unaltered, today. In 1854, Albert married Eliza Anne Sawyer (1825 - 1869) in St Kilda. The couple had ten children over their marriage, including a son, Robert, who followed in his father's footsteps as an architect. Albert's brother-in-law, Charles Sawyer joined him in the partnership of Purchas and Sawyer, which existed from 1856 until 1862 in Queens Street. The firm produced more than 140 houses, churches, offices and cemetery buildings including: the nave and transepts of Christ Church St Kilda between 1854 and 1857, "Glenara Homestead"in Bulla in 1857, the Melbourne Savings Bank on the corner of Flinders Lane and Market Street (now demolished) between 1857 and 1858, the Geelong branch of the Bank of Australasia in Malop Street between 1859 and 1860, and Beck's Imperial Hotel in Castlemaine in 1861. When the firm broke up, Albert returned to Little Collins Street, and the best known building he designed during this period was Saint. George's Presbyterian Church in St Kilda East between 1877 and 1880. The church's tall polychomatic brick bell tower is still a local landmark, even in the times of high rise architecture and development, and Saint, George's itself is said to be one of his most striking church designs. Socially, Albert was vice president of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects for many years, before becoming president in 1887. He was also an inventor and philanthropist. Albert died in 1909 at his home in Kew, a wealthy widower and much loved father.
The stained glass firm of Ferguson and Urie was established by Scots James Ferguson (1818 – 1894), James Urie (1828 – 1890) and John Lamb Lyon (1836 – 1916). They were the first known makers of stained glass in Australia. Until the early 1860s, window glass in Melbourne had been clear or plain coloured, and nearly all was imported, but new churches and elaborate buildings created a demand for pictorial windows. The three Scotsmen set up Ferguson and Urie in 1862 and the business thrived until 1899, when it ceased operation, with only John Lamb Lyon left alive. Ferguson and Urie was the most successful Nineteenth Century Australian stained glass window making company. Among their earliest works were a Shakespeare window for the Haymarket Theatre in Bourke Street, a memorial window to Prince Albert in Holy Trinity, Kew, and a set of Apostles for the West Melbourne Presbyterian Church. Their palatial Gothic Revival office building stood at 283 Collins Street from 1875. Ironically, their last major commission, a window depicting “labour”, was installed in the old Melbourne Stock Exchange in Collins Street in 1893 on the eve of the bank crash. Their windows can be found throughout the older suburbs of Melbourne and across provincial Victoria.
I'll be painting products for my business (armor, helmets, guns, etc...)
I want to know what is the best type of paint out there (Not for camo, but for painting armor, specifically brickwarriors and minifigcat and brickforge armor).
Also, I want to know how to get a "battle" damaged look on the armor, not too damaged, but I don't want it to look "brand new" if you know what I mean. How would I do this sort of thing?
And should I paint with a toothpick, or very thin paint brush?
I added you if I wanted your opinion. Opinions from other people that aren't added are also welcome.
All I know about the last airbender apart from its existence, is that the elements can be bent, the trailer for the movie had cool effects, and the movie got bad reviews, so if I did something fatally wrong please go easy on me, as I know next to nothing.
Seeing all the negative reviews made me sad because I liked the trailer. So I built this in memory of a scene in one of the trailers.