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When you catch a bus, you notice the driver; and hopefully you'll notice that the bus is clean. But passengers rarely give thought to the many jobs that go on to make sure a bus arrives on time, from scheduling timetables and arranging staff duties, to fixing engine defects and maintaining the building that the buses use as their base.
Here's an example - the tyre fitter going about his business. Most larger depots will have someone whose role revolves around tyre management. Repairs happen, of course, but also tyres are rarely owned outright by the operator - they're often leased from teh manufacturer, and keeping track of whose tyre goes where is a job in itself.
The picture also reminds us that maintaining buses can be heavy, hazardous work - it's completely impossible for one person to lift a bus tyre including the metal wheel, and with pressures much highre than on cars it's important to have a very healthy respect for tyre safety - a bus tyre blowing out at 100 pounds per square inch is a very different prospect than a car tyre puncture at less than 30. This is one reason why most bus tyres must be less than ten years old. Historic vehicles have an exemption from this rule but at the Museum of Transport we take tyre safety very seriously, and tyre management is a key part of keeping our restored buses on the road.
If you'd like to know more about the Museum of Transport Greater Manchester and its collection of vintage buses, go to www.motgm.uk.
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Unit configured with EX3 utility package (auxiliary lighting, LAACG GAUSS cannon, boarding skirts, traction chains).
Now on facebook too!!! XD
Still playing with the convertible objects, this time I discovered that my rainbow hearts afghan can be used as a curtain too!!! Even if it's made of 100% wool (except the light green one which I had to complete with cotton sewing thread) it's laceweight. Looks spectacular in front of the window and makes gorgeous shadows inside! EX3
Drascombe Dabber
The split-rig Dabber offers 118 sq.ft. of sail in the traditional yawl rig of the Drascombe range, offering flexibility of sail plan. Should the wind drop, a small outboard is quite adequate to propel her briskly along, or she can easily be rowed from two positions.
With plenty of stowage space and easy handling the Dabber makes a great little family boat, easily trailed, and quickly rigged.
Her design is derived from traditional clinker built boats, from which the Dabber gains her seaworthiness, easy rowing and excellent shallow water capabilities, for which she is fitted with a handcrafted marine ply drop plate rudder.
The yawl rig has a standing lug mainsail, with a jib set flying with a bowsprit and a mizzen sail mounted on the transom with a bumpkin. Both are easily removed for mooring.
Specification
Overall length: 4.72m (15' 6")
Waterline length: 4.14m (13'7")
Beam: 1.78m (5'10")
Draft (c/plate up): 0.2m (0'8")
Draft (c/plate down): 0.91m (3'0")
Sailing weight: 265kg (585lb)
Towing weight: 500kg (1100lb)
Jib sail area: 1.95 sq.m (21 sq.ft)
Main sail area: 7.71 sq.m (83 sq.ft)
Mizzen sail area: 1.3 sq.m (14 sq.ft)
Total sail area: 10,96 sq.m (118 sq.ft)
Recommended outboard (hp): 2 - 3.5 hp (short shaft)
RCD: D
Persons: 4
CONDORLINE
National Register of Historic Vessels (NRHV).
Certificate no 2126
Status Registered
Function: Fighting Vessel
Subfunction: Pinnace
Location: Topsham
Vessel type: Admiralty Pinnace
Current use: Private use
CONSTRUCTION
Builder: White, J Samuel & Co Ltd, Cowes, Isle of Wight
Built in: 1909
Converted for use as a houseboat: 1983
Hull material: Wood
Rig: Ketch
Number of decks: 1
Number of masts: 2
Propulsion: Motor
Number of engines: 1
Primary engine type: Inboard diesel
Make: (Ford 4D) 80hp Four Cylinder Marine Diesel Engine (2011)
DIMENSIONS
Breadth: Beam: 11.00 feet (3.36 m)
Depth: 3.74 feet (1.14 m)
Length: Overall: 44.26 feet (13.50 m)
HISTORY
Built in 1909 by J Samuel White of Cowes Isle of Wight as an Admiralty Pinnace of timber construction. She was refitted in 1983 with a Honda diesel engine and new decking.
Notes
In 2010, on a residential mooring in London, she is fully equiped as a liveaboard, with hot water, central heating, 240v, 12v and a 24v system for the main engine.We have some information inherited from previous owners, Condorline was built as a Naval Pinnace in 1909 by J.S. White & Co, Cowes. Isle of Wight. Most of her military life seems to have been spent at Chatham with a brief stint with the Police on the Thames in the 1920s.
She was almost certainly back at Chatham during the second World War, and as such it is probable she was in Operation Dynamo but we have not been able to verify this, though she did earn her mooring fees 3 years ago as an extra in the film Dunkirk.She has a two berth aft cabin, with a single and double berth also available in the saloon. There is a relatively new Kabola diesel boiler fitted, which needs a service but this provides hot water and central heating, I lived aboard her comfortably for 4 years on the mooring in London. She has a fridge, basic twin gas hob and ample storage.In the heads there is a sink, shower, Jabsco electric toilet (7 years old) with the option of ejecting waste in open sea or to a holding tank. There is also small twin tub washing machine, that has had little use, there is access through this area to the chain locker.In 2011 a new reconditioned Ford 4D Diesel engine was fitted, it has done less than 30 hours since. In addition the boat came with a BUKH wing engine, this was also removed, new pistons and liners were fitted and the injectors were serviced.I do need to have a new diesel pump fitted, this will be resolved before the sale.
Other features include the main mast and mison mast are less than 8 years old, all was fully rigged in 2013, with a main sail, mison sail, jib and whisker pole. Though quite large and heavy she is perfectly happy under sail only, in light winds.In 2012, the Victron Combi Invertor was installed to give full control of shore power to charge batteries and or at sea to power the boat. She will be sold with a Garmin Navigation and sounder/fish finder (4 years old), hand held and fixed radios, tender and outboard, 12v TV with dvd player.She has some amazing period features, including the panelling to the wheel house, original anchor, windlass, cleats, davits, copper dorade vents, search light etc.
With the end of 2019 now approaching, airlines are now in the process of finalising or adjusting their upcoming S20 schedule which as always will see various capacity and frequency changes... For British Airways, this is one of their biggest schedule changes in a very long time, so massive that in this case will have to split the changes in a number of posts.
The updated schedule British Airways has published is comprehensive, mainly reflecting brand new Airbus A350-1000s and Boeing 787-10s to be delivered, but also reflecting the Boeing 777s that are being refurbished and Boeing 747-400s being withdrawn.
As per Airline Route, here are the following changes which are subject to change for the next 11 routes commencing from 29th March 2020 unless stated otherwise:
-Doha-Hamad International: BA122/123 sees Boeing 787-8s replacing Boeing 787-9s on 20th May 2020 / 23rd May 2020, then operating Wednesdays and Fridays only from 9th October 2020 to 23rd October 2020.
-Grand Cayman-Owen Roberts via Nassau-Lynden Pindling: Effective from 31st March 2020, BA252/253 increases from 4 to 5 weekly flights utilising Boeing 777-200ERs. During the summer season sees 4-class Club Suite configured Boeing 777-200ERs allocated with no specific dates set at present.
-Hong Kong-Chek Lap Kok: Temporary service reduction from twice daily to 12-13 weekly flights owing to ongoing political unrest in Hong Kong; BA31/32 reduces to 6 weekly flights utilising Airbus A380s between 1st June 2020 to 14th June 2020. BA27/28 reduces to 5 weekly flights with Boeing 777-300ERs between 11th May 2020 to 26th May 2020, and between 17th August 2020 to 30th August 2020.
-Houston-George Bush Intercontinental: BA194/195 sees Boeing 747-400s replaced by Boeing 777-200ERs from 29th March 2020 to 3rd August 2020 and on 12th/13th/20th/21st September 2020. Boeing 787-9s operate from 5th August 2020 to 24th October 2020 (except on selected September dates which are covered by Boeing 777-200ERs).
BA196/197 will utilise Boeing 787-9s between 29th March 2020 to 30th May 2020, and Boeing 777-200ERs from 31st May 2020 to 24th October 2020 (except between 19th October 2020 to 21st October 2020 which will utilise Boeing 787-9s).
-Hyderabad: BA276/277 sees 5 out of 7 weekly flights operating by Boeing 787-9s instead of Boeing 787-8s.
-Los Angeles: Between 31st May 2020 to 26th June 2020, BA282/283 will utilise Airbus A380s instead of Boeing 747-400s (previous plan was between 1st October 2020 to 24th October 2020).
-Mumbai-Chhatrapati Shivaji: Service reduction from thrice daily to 19 weekly flights; BA134/135 operates excluding Monday and Thursday, with Boeing 747-400s replaced by Boeing 787-9s between 29th March 2020 to 4th August 2020 (Boeing 787-8s will operate on 4th/11th April 2020 / 30th June 2020 / 1st/21st-26th July 2020) and Boeing 777-200ERs between 5th August 2020 to 24th October 2020 (Boeing 787-9s will operate on 1st/2nd/13th-23rd September 2020 / 4th-24th October 2020).
BA138/139 operates daily with Boeing 747-400s throughout the entire summer schedule, instead of 3-class Boeing 777-200ERs from 8th September 2020.
BA198/199 between 31st May 2020 to 26th June 2020 instead of Boeing 777-200ERs.
-Muscat-Seeb: BA80/81 which became a winter seasonal flight following the S19 changes, will operate for a short period during the S20 from 1st April 2020 to 18th April 2020, utilising Boeing 787-8/9s.
-New Orleans-Louis Armstrong: Effective 31st March 2020 , BA224/225 increases from 5 to 6 weekly flights operating on Tuesday except between 12th August 2020 to 1st September 2020, with selected Tuesday flights operated by Boeing 787-9s instead of Boeing 787-8s.
-New York-John F. Kennedy: Effective 4th April 2020, BA115/176 cancelled on Saturdays, with overall frequency decreased from 56 to 55 weekly flights.
-Newark-Liberty: BA188/189 will see 3-class Boeing 777-200ERs operating on Sundays only, with 6 weekly flights operated by 4-class Boeing 777-200ERs.
This part of the changes sees a number of frequency changes with some flights losing up to 2 weekly flights, whilst others see a frequency increase as popularity rises. The changes mainly reflects aircraft refurbishments ongoing with their Boeing 777-200ERs, whilst still coping with ongoing Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 issues with their Boeing 787s.
In regards to the Boeing 777-200ER refurbishments, there is still currently one example still fitted with Club Suites with the second example due to refitting in January 2020. G-YMMA date for refurbishment has been postponed at present and is currently planned to remain at London Heathrow (this could change after refurbishment), although the airframe is not expected to receive Club Suites, although will receive new Panasonic eX3 in-flight entertainment screen and new World Traveller and World Traveller Plus seats.
Currently, British Airways operates 58 Boeing 777s, which includes 3 Boeing 777-200s, 43 Boeing 777-200ERs and 12 Boeing 777-300ERs. British Airways have 4 Boeing 777-300ERs and 18 Boeing 777-9s on-order.
Yankee Mike Mike Alpha is one of 43 Boeing 777-200ERs in service with British Airways, delivered new to the flag-carrier on 7th January 2000 and she is powered by 2 Rolls-Royce Trent 895 engines.
Boeing 777-236/ER G-YMMA on final approach into Runway 27L at London Heathrow (LHR) on BA252 from Grand Cayman-Owen Roberts (GCM) via Nassau-Lynden Pindling (NAS).
This garage still exists in the present day with all features pretty much identical except for the loss of the pumps, kiosk and island. The pole sign still stands but the UK logo has been replaced with one for Station Garage. The Morris Minor on the external ramps is probably the most interesting car - it's also very unusual in this day and age to see a car ramp outside and not within the main building. We also see a Maestro with a non-matching rear door is trundling past the pumps. Here's the view in the near present day where we see the edges of the pole sign were painted red for the main logo and black for the rest at some point after this photo was taken suggesting this garage did convert to Butler at some point but sadly no photo of that era exists in my collection. www.google.com/maps/@50.6864164,-3.4640776,3a,75y,100.6h,...
u>CONDORLINE
National Register of Historic Vessels (NRHV).
Certificate no 2126
Status Registered
Function: Fighting Vessel
Subfunction: Pinnace
Location: Topsham
Vessel type: Admiralty Pinnace
Current use: Private use
CONSTRUCTION
Builder: White, J Samuel & Co Ltd, Cowes, Isle of Wight
Built in: 1909
Converted for use as a houseboat: 1983
Hull material: Wood
Rig: Ketch
Number of decks: 1
Number of masts: 2
Propulsion: Motor
Number of engines: 1
Primary engine type: Inboard diesel
Make: (Ford 4D) 80hp Four Cylinder Marine Diesel Engine (2011)
DIMENSIONS
Breadth: Beam: 11.00 feet (3.36 m)
Depth: 3.74 feet (1.14 m)
Length: Overall: 44.26 feet (13.50 m)
HISTORY
Built in 1909 by J Samuel White of Cowes Isle of Wight as an Admiralty Pinnace of timber construction. She was refitted in 1983 with a Honda diesel engine and new decking.
Notes
In 2010, on a residential mooring in London, she is fully equiped as a liveaboard, with hot water, central heating, 240v, 12v and a 24v system for the main engine.We have some information inherited from previous owners, Condorline was built as a Naval Pinnace in 1909 by J.S. White & Co, Cowes. Isle of Wight. Most of her military life seems to have been spent at Chatham with a brief stint with the Police on the Thames in the 1920s.
She was almost certainly back at Chatham during the second World War, and as such it is probable she was in Operation Dynamo but we have not been able to verify this, though she did earn her mooring fees 3 years ago as an extra in the film Dunkirk.She has a two berth aft cabin, with a single and double berth also available in the saloon. There is a relatively new Kabola diesel boiler fitted, which needs a service but this provides hot water and central heating, I lived aboard her comfortably for 4 years on the mooring in London. She has a fridge, basic twin gas hob and ample storage.In the heads there is a sink, shower, Jabsco electric toilet (7 years old) with the option of ejecting waste in open sea or to a holding tank. There is also small twin tub washing machine, that has had little use, there is access through this area to the chain locker.In 2011 a new reconditioned Ford 4D Diesel engine was fitted, it has done less than 30 hours since. In addition the boat came with a BUKH wing engine, this was also removed, new pistons and liners were fitted and the injectors were serviced.I do need to have a new diesel pump fitted, this will be resolved before the sale.
Other features include the main mast and mison mast are less than 8 years old, all was fully rigged in 2013, with a main sail, mison sail, jib and whisker pole. Though quite large and heavy she is perfectly happy under sail only, in light winds.In 2012, the Victron Combi Invertor was installed to give full control of shore power to charge batteries and or at sea to power the boat. She will be sold with a Garmin Navigation and sounder/fish finder (4 years old), hand held and fixed radios, tender and outboard, 12v TV with dvd player.She has some amazing period features, including the panelling to the wheel house, original anchor, windlass, cleats, davits, copper dorade vents, search light etc.
The growing decline of commercial aviation continues as airlines begin to park a large selection of their fleet with some airlines going so far to retire their eldest fleet of aircraft much earlier than planned... In the case of British Airways, which has now been hit hard with the US travel ban implemented to combat the spread of COVID-19, the airline will be cutting capacity by up to 75% during April and May this year.
In the past month alone, British Airways has retired 4 Airbus A319s which was the initial plan even prior to COVID-19 becoming an international problem as the carrier continues to take delivery of new Airbus A320/A321neos.
As for their retirement of their Boeing 747-400 fleet, expect them to be retired much quicker with the focus going on the eldest Super Hi-J Boeing 747-400s and the Mid-J Boeing 747-400s with only mild-refurbishment.
The initial plan was for British Airways to retire 5 Boeing 747-400s in 2020, 3 of which are Mid-J configured examples which only received a mild refurbishment (which does not include updated Panasonic eX3 entertainment systems), and 2 Super Hi-J Boeing 747-400s.
This plan has unsurprisingly changed and expect further changes to the retirement schedule as demand continues to fall. The Boeing 747-400 fleet now stands at 31 after G-CIVM became the latest to be withdrawn on 16th March 2020 after working BA78 from Accra.
Interestingly enough, G-CIVM was initially planned to be withdrawn by January 2021, however that was brought forward owing to a drop in demand for air travel but also spare parts of the airline's Boeing 747 fleet is harder to come by. Prior to withdrawal, G-CIVM had accumulated 96,849 flight hours as of May 2019.
Currently, British Airways operates 31 Boeing 747-400s.
Charlie India Victor Mike was delivered new to the flag-carrier on 5th June 1997 and she was powered by 4 Rolls-Royce RB211-524H engines. When delivered new, she was the first Boeing 747-400 not to have carried Landor colours, but carried Japanese-inspired Waves & Cranes World Tail colours until May 2003 when she gained BA's corporate Chatham Dockyard Union Jack colours. In April 2014, she gained Oneworld colours following G-BNLI's withdrawal. She was re-configured into Mid-J configuration in October 2015 and received a light refurbishment in April 2018.
Boeing 747-436 G-CIVM on final approach into Runway 27R at London Heathrow (LHR) on BA54 from Johannesburg-O.R. Tambo (JNB).
Overview
Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1103960
Location
Statutory Address: WIXELS, FERRY ROAD, TOPSHAM, EXETER, EX3 0JH
County: Devon
District: Exeter (District Authority)
National Grid Reference: SX 96477 88042
Details
FERRY ROAD 1. 1092 (West Side) TOPSHAM Wixcels SX 9687 8/824 II 2. C18/C19. Sail-loft or similar building converted into dwelling house. Many antique ¨features¨, eg Dutch gable, wrought-ironwork and stone gateway. Walls of old quay or jetty are of stonework and remain attractive. The building was converted in 1920, dated on rainwater head. Limestone with pantiled roof. Iron casement windows. Interior modern, Included for group value.
© Historic England 2021
On EXPLORE!!! EX3
Now on facebook too!!! XD
Still playing with the convertible objects, this time I discovered that my rainbow hearts afghan can be used as a curtain too!!! Even if it's made of 100% wool (except the light green one which I had to complete with cotton sewing thread) it's laceweight. Looks spectacular in front of the window and makes gorgeous shadows inside! EX3
Those flares - and the buses - say that we're in the 1970s.
When SELNEC took over the municipal bus operators of Greater Manchester in 1969, it took on a huge variety of vehicle makes, styles and sizes. One of the first challenges was to create a 'standard' bus to be bought in quantity, to simplify maintenance and buy in bulk. There were some buses on order from Ashton, Rochdale and Bury Corporations, so SELNEC designed a new body and the first prototypes arrived only a year after SELNEC was formed.
The very first ones were mounted on Leyland 'Atlantean' chassis that Ashton Corporation had ordered, and they were numbered EX1 to EX6 (E for EXperimental). From these prototypes the new GM Standard bus was bought in huge quantities, and the very first production Standard - 7001 - is now restored and on display at the Manchester Museum of Transport. Meanwhile the prototypes, their pioneering work over, were renumbered into the numbers they would have taken under their original orders, and worked a full and ordinary service life. EX1 is now preserved by the Selnec Preservation Society.
Here we see 5469, originally EX4, and in the background 5468 - originally EX3. Both buses will shortly head north out of Ashton bus station, 5469 to Thornham on the road to Oldham, while 5466 will go all the way to Rochdale on the service that was formerly jointly operated by Ashton, Oldham and Rochdale Corporation Transport Departments.
If you'd like to know more about the Manchester Museum of Transport and its collection of vintage buses, go to www.gmts.co.uk.
Over to E&C's main depot in Mold town centre, which was rammed full and hard to get at anything, but luckily there was room for this shot of former SELNEC 'Standard' prototype EX3. Good thing too, as it was the only time I saw it here, and it left the fleet the following year, after which I never saw it again.
Mold depot, 27 December 1986
Rig: Bermudan Yawl
LOA m / ft: 10.40m / 34'
Year Built: 1937
Designer: JM Soper & Son
Builder: B.R. Rigden , Anderson, Rigden & Perkins Ltd of Whitstable, Kent (The Shipyard, Island Wall, Whitstable)
Specifications
Designer: Francis Charles Morgan-Giles
Type of Boat:West Channel One Design
Rig:Bermudan Sloop
Year Built:1950
Built By:Morgan Giles Ltd Strand,Teignmouth, Devon
LOA m / ft:7.92m / 26'
LOD m / ft:7.92m / 26'
LWL m / ft:
Beam m / ft:2.13m / 7'
Draft m / ft:1.28m / 4'2"
Yard No:
Sail Stats: Original Sail Number (W11)
Construction:Carvel planked Mahogany on Oak frames, cast iron ballast keel and teak deck with Iroko toe rails.
Notes
First registered in Lloyds in 1950 (No 183948) as a West Channel One Design. Appears to have been 10th of a class of 11. Two variants built : Type 355 with straight coacroof; Type 400 with doghouse).
First owned by Maj T W Gracey 1950-1953; won Class at Dartmouth Regatta in 1952; won Cruising Association's Knights Cup for Single Handed Voyage also in 1952.
Ownership Record
Major T W Gracey 1950 - 1953
Dr & Mrs Neil Beaton 1954 - 1959
Major K W Hedges 1959 - 1963
Major William Robb 1963 - 1965
Mr R A Broadbeer 1965 - 1967
Mr John D S Leigh 1967 - 1971
Mr Kenneth L J Maund 1971 - 1971
Mr Robert A Sadler 1971 - 1974
Mr Ian M Garland (Sole) 1974 - 1978
Mr Ian M Garland (Co-Owner) 1978 - 1984
Mr Robert C Marley (Co-Owner)
Mr Anthony R Watson (Co-Owner)
Mr Ian M Garland (Sole) 1984 - 1985
Mr Martin C Heap 1985 - Jan 1989
Mr Joseph A Fullerton 1989 - 1992
Mr William F Moore 1992 - 1994
Mr Chris Robson 1994 - 1999
Capt Harry & Mrs Sheila Keay 1999 - 2009
Mr John & Master Johnny Barley 2009 - 2019
Katie McCabe 2020 -
The Morgan Giles Register
© 2021 Teign Heritage Centre
About the sandals:
I've found these fantastic stiletto heels times ago in a second hand shop in nearly unused condition (from the soles it seems to be used only one, max. two times). You already know, that I'm a shop-alcoholic, I had to buy it even if I don't wear high heels and it wasn't exactly my size! XD
I tought to upcycle it one day since I wasn't that in awe for the upside... Well, this week the time is arrived!!! I've crocheted ten granny circles in different colours, stiffened them a little bit (they are keeping the shape better, but not hard as rock), then added the black picot borders for sewing them together... And voilá! @;) With the lace up closure backside and the high composition (arrives exactly under knees) I'm pretty happy about the result and I can declare this creation the sexyest "babukatorium piece" EVER! Lol!
About the bag:
Another lucky find of mine from an Indian market in Italy. Photos can't show how gorgeous the colours are in reality: they are deeeeeep and vibrating... I crocheted other seven circles with the same cotton I used for the shoes and positioned them like a flower mandala on the front of the tote, over the stripes, then attached them with contrasting coloured buttons and double rainbow tulle ribbons in nine colours. EX3
And now an important changing about babukatorium:
Due to the HUUUGE amount of stolen photos Princess Babuka decided to add watermark on each picture starting from today. I'll try to create them in harmony with the pictures for not being too disturbing... Until I find the style that suits me best, please be indulgent with me! I'm not a graphic genius! Lol!
AND TO THOSE WHO HAVE STOLEN MY PICTURES:
SHAME ON YOU! >:(
Now on facebook too!!! XD
Still playing with the convertible objects, this time I discovered that my rainbow hearts afghan can be used as a curtain too!!! Even if it's made of 100% wool (except the light green one which I had to complete with cotton sewing thread) it's laceweight. Looks spectacular in front of the window and makes gorgeous shadows inside! EX3
u>CONDORLINE
National Register of Historic Vessels (NRHV).
Certificate no 2126
Status Registered
Function: Fighting Vessel
Subfunction: Pinnace
Location: Topsham
Vessel type: Admiralty Pinnace
Current use: Private use
CONSTRUCTION
Builder: White, J Samuel & Co Ltd, Cowes, Isle of Wight
Built in: 1909
Converted for use as a houseboat: 1983
Hull material: Wood
Rig: Ketch
Number of decks: 1
Number of masts: 2
Propulsion: Motor
Number of engines: 1
Primary engine type: Inboard diesel
Make: (Ford 4D) 80hp Four Cylinder Marine Diesel Engine (2011)
DIMENSIONS
Breadth: Beam: 11.00 feet (3.36 m)
Depth: 3.74 feet (1.14 m)
Length: Overall: 44.26 feet (13.50 m)
HISTORY
Built in 1909 by J Samuel White of Cowes Isle of Wight as an Admiralty Pinnace of timber construction. She was refitted in 1983 with a Honda diesel engine and new decking.
Notes
In 2010, on a residential mooring in London, she is fully equiped as a liveaboard, with hot water, central heating, 240v, 12v and a 24v system for the main engine.We have some information inherited from previous owners, Condorline was built as a Naval Pinnace in 1909 by J.S. White & Co, Cowes. Isle of Wight. Most of her military life seems to have been spent at Chatham with a brief stint with the Police on the Thames in the 1920s.
She was almost certainly back at Chatham during the second World War, and as such it is probable she was in Operation Dynamo but we have not been able to verify this, though she did earn her mooring fees 3 years ago as an extra in the film Dunkirk.She has a two berth aft cabin, with a single and double berth also available in the saloon. There is a relatively new Kabola diesel boiler fitted, which needs a service but this provides hot water and central heating, I lived aboard her comfortably for 4 years on the mooring in London. She has a fridge, basic twin gas hob and ample storage.In the heads there is a sink, shower, Jabsco electric toilet (7 years old) with the option of ejecting waste in open sea or to a holding tank. There is also small twin tub washing machine, that has had little use, there is access through this area to the chain locker.In 2011 a new reconditioned Ford 4D Diesel engine was fitted, it has done less than 30 hours since. In addition the boat came with a BUKH wing engine, this was also removed, new pistons and liners were fitted and the injectors were serviced.I do need to have a new diesel pump fitted, this will be resolved before the sale.
Other features include the main mast and mison mast are less than 8 years old, all was fully rigged in 2013, with a main sail, mison sail, jib and whisker pole. Though quite large and heavy she is perfectly happy under sail only, in light winds.In 2012, the Victron Combi Invertor was installed to give full control of shore power to charge batteries and or at sea to power the boat. She will be sold with a Garmin Navigation and sounder/fish finder (4 years old), hand held and fixed radios, tender and outboard, 12v TV with dvd player.She has some amazing period features, including the panelling to the wheel house, original anchor, windlass, cleats, davits, copper dorade vents, search light etc.
I bought this simple black cardigan with 2 buttons closure in a second hand shop. It's in very good condition but was too boring...
So I crocheted a rainbow net for adding lenght to the bodice and sleeves and created a fairy pricess with rainbow crinoline, colorful butterfly wings, button flower and tulle bouquet, sequin and bead eyes, french braided ponytail and fringe... EX3
I used recycled yarns (mixed wool and quality acrylic).
My first irish lace project ever! I'm pretty happy about the result! It's just me or it has something from the traditional Hungarian embroidery?! @;)
Made of recycled italian cotton, bordered with black knitted i-cord. The front is a wide black tulle shawl which makes this vest very versatile:
-let it just hang for a hippie-like look,
-or be a real "femme fatale" and cover Your hair with it,
-You can use the tulle part to protect Your shoulders from breezy nights,
-and also goth girls are welcome with this piece since it can be used as a veil!
Oh YESSS, I'll continue to learn irish lace technique, even if the netting part was killing me a little bit and I'm new to tiny crochet hooks, but when I was finally ready with this waistcoat I felt a satisfaction I never had before... Oh yes, I'm in LOVE! EX3
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1170373
Date first listed: 30-Jun-1961
Location
Statutory Address: Parish Church of Saint Margaret,59 Fore St, Topsham, Exeter EX3 0HL
County: Devon
District: Exeter (District Authority)
National Grid Reference: SX 96537 88029
Details
871/8/896 FORE STREET 30-JUN-61 TOPSHAM (West side) St Margaret's Church (Formerly listed as: FORE STREET TOPSHAM Church of St Margaret)
II* Perp tower, the rest rebuilt 1874-6 by Edward Ashworth.
MATERIALS: Random squared grey limestone, red sandstone tower, diaper-patterned slate roofs.
PLAN: Deep cruciform plan with four-bay nave and two-bay chancel. Unusually, the tower is attached to the west side of the south transept, and the main porch is east of the north transept.
EXTERIOR: Facing the street is the east front, with gabled chancel and a lower gabled chapel to its north. A low lean-to chapel and porch sit further back to the south side. The style generally is Geometric Gothic c. 1300, with complex picturesque roofs of patterned slate. The tower is barely visible from the street, and is revealed only from the churchyard to the south. It is low, without buttresses or clear division into stages. It has a three-light window above a door, and a small square-headed bell opening with louvres. The embattled parapet was stepped-up in the centre to accommodate clock faces in 1887. To the east of the tower, the south transept gable has an imposing five-light window with flowing Dec tracery. The nave has lean-to aisles and a clerestory of small oculi with varied tracery (foiled, star-pattern or spheric triangles).
INTERIOR: The chief decorative focus is the chancel roof, of boarded wagon vault form overlaid with a fine net of cusped diaper ribs in rectangular panels. Over the nave, more conventional roofs with arch-braced collar trusses on small hammerbeams. Aisle roofs with unorthodox Y-trusses. The nave arcades have circular piers with moulded capitals and arches, running into heavy plain square piers at the crossing, with big leafy corbels on the responds. Similar corbels support the chancel arch. The western two bays of the nave were cleared and screened off in the 1970s for use as a social area. The north transept was screened off from the nave to serve as an entrance vestibule in 2007; part of a phased reordering of the whole church by Oliver West & John Scott (plans dated 2003). The south transept has in its east wall a row of four upper windows like a clerestory. The north chancel chapel houses the organ loft and a vestry, while the small south chapel is currently still furnished as such (but due to be cleared). Geometric black and white stone floors at the chancel steps, and encaustic tiled chancel. Much of the stone carving was executed by the Exeter workshop of Harry Hems.
PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: Stone reredos of five crocketed gables with some red marble shafts. The backdrop is stencilled with a brocade design. Oak chancel furnishings, Neo-Perp, carefully designed and of good workmanship, 1935. Similar pulpit, perhaps of the same date. The Norman font has a circular bowl with big conical flutes, and on one side a large standing beast or dragon holding an apple (?) in its mouth. The font cover is of spire form, of cut and pierced brass, 1880. In the north transept is a wall clock made by Cuthbert Lee, London, c. 1760, with octagonal face and a Chinoiserie lacquered and gilded case. Dutch brass chandelier with two tiers of eight branches, given c. 1700. Good Royal arms of carved and painted wood with Baroque mantling; arms of the version current 1603-49, 1660-89 and 1702-7. Probably late C17. There is good Victorian stained glass: east and west windows by F. Drake, 1876-7. The south transept south is by Burlison & Grylls, 1907, 'one of their best in Devon' (Pevsner). North transept north by Beer & Driffield, 1876. In the south transept, two fine Greek Revival tablets of black and white marble, by Sir Francis Chantrey, to Lt. Col. George Duckworth (d. 1811, standing figure with an angel of Victory) and to his father Admiral Sir John Duckworth, Bart., d. 1817, including a noble bust and a fine relief of a naval battle. HISTORY: Topsham served as Exeter's port from Roman times. It was a considerable settlement by c. 700, and had a manse associated with the living by 937. The church was re-consecrated in the mid-C15, possibly about the time the tower was built. The church was rebuilt after a fire in 1676, and again in 1874-6, at a cost of £8,550. The architect for this scheme, Edward Ashworth (1814-96), was articled to Robert Cornish of Exeter and was later a pupil of the London architect Charles Fowler. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1842 and practised in Auckland until January 1844. He returned to his home country in 1846 and practised in Exeter where he established a reputation for himself as a church architect.
SOURCES: Cherry, B and Pevsner, N, Buildings of England, Devon, (1989) 820 Stabb, J, Some Old Devon Churches, (1908-16), vol. 3 Lambeth Palace Library, Incorporated Church Building Society, Archive file 079597, (www.churchplansonline.org)
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: St Margaret's Church, Fore Street, Topsham, Exeter is designated at Grade II* for the following principal reasons: * A thoughtfully designed Gothic Revival church by Edward Ashworth, 1874-6 * Picturesque massing and siting, on a shallow clifftop overlooking the Exe estuary * Surviving C15 century tower * Fine Norman font with crude but vigorous carving of a dragon or beast * Two striking Greek Revival monuments by Chantrey * Good collection of fittings (glass, Royal arms, chandelier, font cover etc)
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