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Interesting. Even under large sizes this looks fine in Lightroom. When you bring it up to a large size in Flickr, there are quality problems on the left edge.
Added to Explore at #281. Thanks all!
Shot taken with an Olympus OM f1.8 lens and Canon extension tubes. Processed with Lightroom and Google Nik Collection software
I thought I would repeat yesterday's effort, but using ISO 800 instead of 1600, because there was a little more light, and a couple of extension tubes to get in tighter, with the same 70-200 F4 Canon lens. Also with the red and yellow segments transposed, from cussedness, I guess. One thing I have proved to my satisfaction is that my Canon 650D can handle ISO up to 800 but not beyond, whereas the 350D it replaced was only good up to ISO 400.
** This is an 8.5 minute video so has to be downloaded to see the full version as only 3 minutes are shown in the Flickr interface.
** For non-Pro Flickr users, the download limit appears to be 3 minutes on download as well, and so there is a link here-
www.rail.tightfitz.com/Video/Barrow_Hill_&_Stavely_Ca...
* Barrow Hill
So, on Saturday May 28th, just before moving on to the Canal Basin at Staveley and the weekend celebrations there, a small diversion was made to call in at the Barrow Hill Shed, to see what was to be seen.. In the first 22 pictures in the video, taken during the normal Shed opening times on the Saturday morning, a series of traction can be seen, and in order this is-
* BR class 40, D212/40012 'Aureol', Works No. 2669/D429, built by The English Electric Company Ltd & The Vulcan Foundry Ltd
* EWS class 37, 37521 & class 08, 08685 plus others behind these two which were not noted
* a line of 5 or more DRS class 20s, numbers unreadable from the angle taken, tut tut, no notebook!
* D5054/24054 'Phil Southern', built in 1959 by British Railways at Crewe Works with Power Unit, Sulzer 6LDA28, see-
www.elrdiesel.info/fleet-24054.php
* D4092, 'Christine', a class 10 0-6-0, diesel shunting locomotive built at Darlington in 1962.
* class 45, 45060, 'Sherwood Forester, more details here-
pioneer-diesels.co.uk/blog/?tag=45060
* Some Harry Needle class 20s with a grey diesel shunter in the foreground
* IEMD 01 shunter
* class 20 GBRf, 20905
* Ruston Diesel Shunter, D2996, 07012, was at Scunthorpe Works, as stated on Wikipedia, but not any more/
* D5814 class 31, 31414, see-
www.brdw.co.uk/class31/class31-414.html
* E3035, class 83, 83012, English Electric/Vulcan Foundry Works numbers 2941/E277, built in July 1961, withdrawn in March 1989
* EWS class 08 shunter, 08685
* Virgin Trains, class 82, 82101
* GCR 506, 'Butler Henderson'
* BR Scot Rail class 37, 37403, 'Isle of Mull', earlier numbers were D6607 & 37307
and with two of the younger enthusiasts, Casper & Oscar, attempting to drive off with one of the diesel locomotives, Casper clearly watching the gauges as he eases the throttle open whilst Oscar engages 'primary drive'... Another BR shunter can be seen in front of 'Butler Henderson', on the form of class 03, 03066. With a few of the innards of Scott Rail 37403, 'Isle of Mull' on the platform at 'Roundhouse Halt' at the region's iconic and the UK's only surviving Roundhouse Locomotive Shed, coded 18D by the LMS and 41E by BR, time to move off to the festivities at the Staveley Canal Basin, in the 2nd part of the video.
* Staveley Canal Basin
Along with the pictures taken here during the afternoon festivities, which were very good, more information can be found relating to the Canal Trust and its partners from, The Chesterfield Canal Trust-
www.chesterfield-canal-trust.org.uk
along with the IWA, the Inland Waterways Association with the Water Recovery Group being part of the IWA-
The trust held its 2016 Canal Festival at the newly refurbished and just recently completed, Staveley Basin, over the weekend of the 28th-29th of May, now, last year. Fortunately the weather was with them and it turned out to be a very successful weekend, see-
chesterfield-canal-trust.org.uk/general-news/
These 2nd set of pictures in this 8.5 minute video, taking up over 6 minutes of the total time, shows the various activities going on at the Canal Basin, some of the attractions of which, I have to say, 'The Urban Gypsies' to my mind were the best. Shots of the various activities, the canal cruisers and folks generally having a good time on and off the water and finally a short excursion along the as yet unfinished section along to where the canal will go under the track-bed of the now denuded 'Seymour Branch line', the canal then following the route alongside the GCR's old London Extension line towards the Rother Valley Country Park. From there the canal will rise up the hill to the western portal of Norwood Tunnel where it will eventually join up with the end of the other section of the canal at Kiveton. For details of this end of the work and a view inside Norwood Tunnel, 164Mby, 10m 28sec, see-
www.rail.tightfitz.com/Video/Norwood_Tunnel_2016-conv.mp4
At present the Canal water flows out of the basin through the town lock and ends up running through a pipe, over-flowing into a rough catchment area where it is finally diverted back from whence it came; the River Rother. This is as far as the navigation goes at the present time and the 1st shot shows 'Seth Ellis', built by Soar Valley Steel Boasts Ltd, having come about and moored up just this side of the temporary dam wall, waiting for its return journey through the lock. Much of the space still looks like a building site but the Canal Trust had made a great effort to make the event safe and look good with plenty of folk about to ask for information.
There were boats a-plenty of one sort or another, cruisers, canoes and more traditional craft. An evening event was the 'Parade of the Illuminated Boats', an after-dark saunter down towards where the Staveley Iron & Chemical works used to be located, opposite Mill Green. More antics from the Urban Gypsies as they 'frolic' about the place and the odd partial view of the Morris Dancing brigade.
There are several interesting characters to see here and there around the lock side and just before the excavator operator, Mr. Oscar A. Aujla, takes the final shot, a look at the yet to be completed route along from the basin overflow to around the corner under Hall Lane and then on to where the canal used to pass under the railway line.
This line, took freight moves from the Midland Line, off to the left, across the canal here and on to Seymour Junction at Poolsbrook, where it branched, the north-east line, with another branch, Oxcroft Junction, to the Oxcroft coal depot at Mill Lane, passing through Clowne, Creswell, Langwith & Shirebrook, the latter with its own branch to the colliery at Thoresby, and then through to Mansfield and points south. The other branch line went south-east to the large pits at Markham & Bolsover, on the east side of the M1 motorway at right next; this once derelict space is now being developed for contemporary industrial use and there was talk of some of this being rail connected again ... but that looks to have come to nothing.
All the tracks from Poolsbrook along to Clowne, Oxcroft Colliery and Markham Colliery have now been lifted, some of it, unofficially, in addition, the signal box at Seymour Junction, still visible on the 1999 and 2007 Google Earth views, was burned down after 2007 and the site has now been cleared. The Canal Trust, I was told, was in negotiations with Network Rail regarding the canal passage under/across the Poolsbrook branch line trackbed, which can be seen towards the end of the video, and as I understand it, NR wanted to maintain the availability of the track bed for future use but this now appears not to be the case. If so it will mean the canal trust does not have to dig another, rather deep, lock to pass under the railway line, though in a way it would be good to keep the layout as it is with a new lock under the track-bed, just in case! but that's a lot of effort if trains are never to run along here again.
The views at the end show the aspect facing towards the canal basin and looking along the now denuded track-bed towards Seymour Junction with, at that time in May, a profusion of wild flowers growing at either side of the track with the canal bridge visible at lower right where the palisade fence, zigzags into the picture; hardly worth having it there anymore! There is a shot of the rusting footbridge over the track-bed the bridge now not really needed and who knows what its fate might be once the canal passes though here with its towpath.
Closer to the basin, on the walk back from the railway formation, a shot of the point at which the canal waters flow back down to the River Rother, the exit from the muddy canal bed being below the large rectangular structures which can be seen on the left in the picture.
Coming to the end of the walk back from the point at which the canal will take its course up along the GC's old London Extension trackbed from Staveley to Killamarsh, an end on view looking into the canal outlet on this side of the town lock, with two of the cruising barges moored up and the 'Ice Cream Man' doing a brisk trade. Finally, Mr. O.A Aujla takes charge of the mechanical digger for the final shots at the canal basin, the Waterway Recovery Group instructing him on how to manipulate a road cone into the air and deposit it somewhere else.
Finally, a look back at the scene along the Poolsbrook Branch from a similar location seen in the earlier shots today. The last two shots show the scene as it looked in February, 2014, just over two years before today's festivities. The 1st looks west, towards the canal basin, with not much in the way of the canal excavation having taken place at this time; though rainwater is accumulating in the course of the canal bed. The track-bed, though weeds are everywhere, is still in its original double-track form and it wouldn't have taken much effort at this stage to re-open this line. The 2nd, and last picture in the video, is the view looking in the opposite direction and south of east towards Poolsbrook and Seymour Junction and again, the lines are in reasonably good condition and could be brought back to life for container use along to the land once occupied by the Markham and Bolsover Collieries; now sadly, it seems, not to be.
Here endeth this 'End-of-Year' piece, though there is another part to follow next in relation to developments with the route of the HS2, and I hope it provides some enjoyment and viewers feel its worth down-loading and taking a look. A very Happy and Prosperous, and hopefully less turbulent, New Year to one and all. Many thanks for your continued interest, remarks, additional information and other comments over last year, I appreciate it all...
Passing the extenstion work underway for longer trains to call at the station, TPE's 802214 at Newton-le-Willows with 9M27 0803 Newcastle to Liverpool on 8th November 2023.
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St Mary at Quay, Key Street, Ipswich
Back in 1999, I said in an early version of this article that St Mary at Quay had surely the most urban and industrial setting of any East Anglian church. It was, and is, a grubby little jewel, and its setting in a sea of concrete and high-rise, surrounded by factories and dual-carriageways, created quite a contrast.
When I first moved to Ipswich in the 1980s, this was a busy area, a hive of industrial activity. Immediately opposite the church was the Cranfield factory; they made animal feed, and a bit further down was Paul, the malsters. To the west was the white tower of Burton, the confectionery factory. On crisp winter mornings the air was full of sweetly fragranced steam, the smell of Wagon Wheels and Jammie Dodgers being made. The waterfront, behind the factories, was increasingly moribund, with the larger boats no longer able to negotiate the lock gates. Still, you might see grain ships from Hamburg, or timber being offloaded from Soviet Russia, the sailors on the decks mysterious as they looked wistfully out at the town centre skyline. At the end of the docks was the Tolly Cobbold brewery, another set of sweet smells and activity.
Today, almost all of that activity and setting has gone. The dock has become a busy upmarket marina, and St Mary sits on the edge of what became the largest building site in the east of England, the regeneration of the Ipswich docklands. Not without controversy, the Waterfront Development changed the face of Ipswich. The vast factory complexes made way for high rise apartment blocks and loft conversions. The brewery has stood empty these last twenty years. There are restaurants and retail spaces, a dance theatre, and most of all a new University.
Although most of the development, which stretches around all sides of the Wet Dock, is no more than ten storeys high, the Mill. a centrepiece tower not far from St Mary which rises to an amazing 25 storeys, is the highest residential block in the east of England. Beside it stands the wine rack, twelve storeys of concrete shell, abandoned when the economy collapsed in 2008 and no doubt one day either to be demolished or finished.
A regeneration scheme on this scale, especially where the land has had hundreds of different owners and must be bought up painstakingly by the developers, inevitably causes a lot of planning blight. To visit this church any time in the last ten years has been to see it surrounded by a wasteland of overgrown empty lots, and only the dual carriageway gives the scene life. And yet, St Mary at Quay is very beautiful, and would be much admired and better known in a different setting. It has a pretty little tower, delicate windows and a beautiful clerestory. There are grand transepts. It is all of a piece, built in the 1450s. The hammerbeam roof is the original. This is Perpendicular writ small.
In Medieval times the dedication of the church was probably to Sancta Maria Stella Maris: Our Lady, Star of the Sea. The wealth of 15th and 16th century merchants like Henry Tooley and Thomas Pounder left their mark, in the form of fine fittings and magnificent memorials. These can now be seen in Ipswich Museum, and there is a replica of the Pounder brass on view in the church.
St Mary at Quay has been out of use for longer than any other Ipswich church. The church was restored rather primitively in the 1870s, but this restoration failed to address the greatest problem of the church. It is built on such marshy soil that it suffered from water ingress. This was worst in warm, wet weather, when the church vaults would flood, filling the building with an unbearable smell.
In 1898 the church closed, and the vaults were dug out and filled in to try and address the problem. But it recurred, causing frequent closures, until one night in 1943 when German bombs fell beside the little church, destroying the windows and causing other major structural damage.
The church closed again, this time never to reopen for regular worship. The fine set of benches went to St Andrew, Ipswich, where they can still be seen. The traditional East Anglian late medieval font went to Brantham, although it has now been returned. The organ went to a church in Norwich. From the 1950s to the 1970s, the church was used as a hall by Ipswich Boys Brigade. Well into the 21st Century, the curious brick partitions in the south aisle were still visible as the remains of their internal dividing walls. You could still see their badminton court marked out in the nave.
After its somewhat turbulent 20th Century, and to its eternal salvation, St Mary at Quay found itself in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust, their only Ipswich church. They gave the building a thorough restoration in the 1990s, and the church was rented out to Ipswich Arts who used it for exhibitions and art 'happenings' and Red Rose Chain Theatre, Ipswich's prominent alternative theatre company, whose home it became for several years. Their banked temporary seating, facing westwards, gave a stunning close view of Ipswich's finest medieval hammerbeam roof. In 2004, the building itself became an installation art project; geiger counters were put outside, and fitted up to the lighting system. They caused a flash of illumination every time background radiation was detected in the docklands air. This was pretty startling if you happened to be driving along the docks road at night, I can tell you.
I first visited the church in the late 1980s, and the most striking impression was of the sense of decay. The walls were blackened, the pillars of the arcades eroded by water ingress. Coming back in 2005 after the restoration, the church was full of light, and completely empty. The nave seemed square, it was so bereft of furnishing.
However, even as I was wandering around inside, it was becoming clear that the CCT's restoration was largely cosmetic. Decades of heavy traffic rolling past a few feet from the door as well as industrial activity on the soft ground around, coupled with the well-meaning but unfortunate misuse of a concrete raft to stabilise the foundations in the 1940s, meant that St Mary at Quay was crumbling and sinking, and something had to be done urgently. The repair bill would run into millions of pounds.
The Churches Conservation Trust went into partnership with the mental health charity Suffolk Mind, who applied for a Heritage Lottery Fund grant to convert St Mary at Quay into a well-being centre. They were awarded an astonishing £3.6 million, but even so a large proportion of the CCT's budget for the east of England was taken up with the project for a couple of years. A glass mezzanine was put up in the south aisle, which leads through to a two-storey glass and flint office extension in the south-east corner. This is rather alarming when viewed from the east, rather spoiling the harmony of the church's unified Perpendicular shape, but it could have been a lot worse. It seems almost to echo George Gilbert Scott's south transept on St Peter at the Waterfront a couple of hundred yards to the west.
Work began in April 2014, and is expected to be completed by the end of 2016. The building has been rebadged as Quay Place, and will be available for hire for exhibitions, concerts and so on. What access there will be for church explorers remains to be seen, although everyone involved in the project when I visited at Open Heritage Weekend in September 2016 seemed very friendly, even though they wouldn't let me go and have a look inside the new extension.
This gorgeous building in Wetaskiwin has obviously had a couple of modern extensions added in 2005, but the history of this building is below.
Knowing that the cells still exist in their original form, I may have to visit during the week when it's open and schedule a tour before I go.
The current City Hall was originally built as a courthouse, and started in 1907, was completed in 1908 at a cost of $75,000. It was one of seven such buildings commissioned by the new Province of Alberta between 1906 and 1912, under the direction of Provincial Architect A. M. Jeffers.
The building was constructed in modern renaissance style, with the outside being composed entirely of red brick. The front steps, the back steps, the columns, and the keystones are constructed of stone, and the foundation is made of concrete and rubble sheathed with sandstone from the Calgary area.
In the early years, the basement of the courthouse contained the jail cells, the caretaker's residence, and the North-West Mounted Police residence. The cells are in their original state, and still contain the original carvings prisoners etched into the brick walls. The caretaker looked after the building and the grounds while his wife looked after the family, as well as feeding the prisoners and the members of the North-West Mounted Police housed there. In 1920, two German field cannons that were seized from Germany at the end of World War were placed on the front lawn of the Old Courthouse. These cannons, presented to the citizens of Wetaskiwin by the Dominion Government of Canada, served to honour the many men and women of this community who volunteered for active service.
In 1983, a new courthouse was built, and the old courthouse sat empty for more than two decades. In the late 1990s, a local developer approached the city with plans to renovate it as City Hall's new home; after several meetings between the parties involved, the old courthouse was purchased by the city and renovation began in 2005. Glass was used to frame the new areas of the building; the brick exterior of the Old Courthouse was left undisturbed. Aside from changes required by Alberta's building codes, the requirements set out by Alberta Historical Resources were followed during the restoration of the original courtroom, which now serves as Council Chambers. The wood panelling was retained, and the cast iron radiators were connected to the new geothermal heating and cooling system. New paint and carpet completed the renovations, and in 2007 the building became Wetaskiwin's new City Hall.
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Something happened to our main yesterday, and the utility repair man determined that it was somewhere between the street and the house. Since that involves extensive digging, he decided to essentially hook us up with a huge extension cord to keep the juice flowing. It just struck me as kind of funny that my whole house is on a big orange cable.
Cheapo Vivitar 70-150mm close up lens bought off ebay for less than £30.00. It's not very sharp when used as a standard zoom lens, but it really is razor sharp when used in the close-up range which is found at 70mm focal length. This image was taken with all 3 extension tubes attached and the lens set to f8, which is where it seems to be at its sharpest. This set up gets me to around 3-4" away from the subject. All in all I'm very pleased with its performance, although it's testing my skills as a photographer as it's a purely manual affair but good fun though.