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Here we go again with an extract from the first half of August 1971
This offering is mainly from attendance at ATC annual camp which in this case was at the then RAF Bicester in Oxfordshire which was an MU (Maintenance Unit).
Noted out on the airfield was Handley Page Hastings WD490 along with ten of Oxford University Air Squadron's Chipmunks. More would be noted as the week went on.
One hangar was a veritable treasure trove containing various historic RAF airframes - not least the Avro Lancaster R5868 which had been on Scampton's gate and that ended up on display in the RAF Museum at Hendon.
David Cains' father photographed her when at Scampton here: www.flickr.com/photos/ayronautica/34227341423/in/photolis... )
No less than seven Spitfires were there too - some will ring bells with those of you that keep an eye such gems, not least K9942 - now in the RAF Museum at Cosford ( Chris England saw her at Abingdon for the 50th Anniversary of the RAF: www.flickr.com/photos/chrisengland/18273520700/in/photoli... )
Lightning F.6 XR752 was also there - roaded in as Bicester was a grass field - not sure why it was there now but it returned to service not long after (see: Les Rodgers superb shot of here here:
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A 'Red Arrows' painted Gnat T.1 XM693 was also in there but it was never a 'Team' member afaik.
A trip out to Old Warden found many of the airframes that still exist and some that are now back in the air, one being Sea Hurricane Z7015 (seen moire recently after rebuild: www.flickr.com/photos/29288836@N00/40152503003/in/photoli... )
plus Spitfire PL983, and the Comet Racer G-ACSS, then non-flying but since painstakingly rebuilt to fly as here: www.flickr.com/photos/29288836@N00/21379718863/in/photoli...
The wonderful Bristol Fighter D8096 was also there
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On the 2nd of August we were out on the airfield taking Air Experience Flights in Chipmunks when overhead flew Royal Navy Fairey Gannet T.5 XG882 (incorrectly logged as 382)
(See Simon Brooke's photo here - though she's in a sorry state but still alive: www.flickr.com/photos/133813370@N04/50136638778/in/photol... )
Later on we went by RAF coach to nearby RAF Upper Heyford for a visit to the USAF's 20th TFW where we were shown around the Hangars, the Control Tower and taken by coach around the perimeter track to view then then 'new' USAF F-111E's Aardvarks - then mostly parked outside as in those days the HAS Shelters had yet to be built!
Sadly no photo's were allowed on base bar those taken from the Tower but eight years later I caught 68-0023 at a Greenham Common show: www.flickr.com/photos/29288836@N00/15660471069/in/photoli...
On that visit - immaculate USAF Convair 51-7901 was parked near the Tower: www.flickr.com/photos/29288836@N00/15089277107/in/photoli... and their base SAR Flight Kaman HH-43 Huskie 62-4535 was also seen (Carl Ford caught her there a year later: www.flickr.com/photos/53277566@N06/23043581636/in/photoli... )
As can be seen from the log - a full compliment of 'Swingers' were seen that day and of note are the tail codes used then: JR, JS and JT each for the three Squadron's assigned. They were eventually replaced by the common and representative code 'UH'.
A pair of USAF Flying Club Cherokees were also noted N8557 & N441J
Two days later and we visited RAF Brize Norton where nine Royal Air Force Air Support Command BAC VC-10's including XV106 which I saw at Dulles sixteen years later: www.flickr.com/photos/29288836@N00/49713608873/in/album-7...
plus twelve RAFASC Bristol Britannias including XM497 (The RAF Museum at Cosford has one painted as '497' but in reality it's an ex Civvie machine that I noted there in 2001:
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along with three Short Belfast transports which were all strewn around the Airfield or on the Terminal Apron.
Belfast XR367 provided some Air Experience for us that day where we spent nearly 3 hours bashing the Brize circuit - seated in a small passenger deck that was immediately behind the cockpit and being invited up to view the proceedings - we got stand behind the crew who were busy flying this Leviathan where it was quite something to experience the view from that vast cockpit!
Unfortunately, not so much so for the remainder of the cadets who'd been installed in a pallet of seats situated in the main cargo hold, between the main undercarriage where the wallowing nature of the fuselage turned many of them 'green' round the gills after a matter of just a few circuits!
(here she is two years before taken by Adrain M.Balch - from Dave Haines collection: www.flickr.com/photos/egbj/5619814695/in/photolist-2hLR9j... )
Avro Shackleton MR.2 WR955 was seen there which may have been on the dump?
The 4th saw us back doing AEF at Bicester and a USAF F-100 Super Sabre coded LT from RAF Lakenheath was noted over in Heyford's circuit. A trip in a 'Chippie' took me out cross country for an approach and overshoot at RAF Halton where outside I spotted various Instructional Airframes - amongst them - eight Sea Vixens, a number of Jet Provosts, a Canberra and a Hunter and no doubt the Comet was also seen but not noted on that trip.
RAF Hercules XV308 and a USAF HC-130H 65-0983 were noted in the area (Jim Leslie caught her beautifully Stateside the latter just 4 years later: www.flickr.com/photos/jimandtina99/31870787090/in/photoli... )
and then on the 6th - as senior NCO at the camp I pulled rank and wangled myself yet another ttrip to Heyford where I filled in several gaps of 'missing' F-111's from my previous trip!
Heading home by a fellow ATC member's VW Beetle we stopped at Heathrow where Gulfstream II N375PK was noted along with Malaysian Singapore Airline's Boeing 707 9N-BBB
At Gatwick we found Aviognex's Tupolev Tu-134 YU-AJA and then a few days later it was back to work at Heathrow via Gatwick where Caledonian Cargo B707 G-AYZZ was noted ( Carl Ford caught her there: www.flickr.com/photos/53277566@N06/16403356436/in/photoli... )
along with Gulfstream II N205M, 5Y-AHE Cessna 337, DC-8 N4906C and Westland Whirlwind G-ATIU
tbc.....
Extracted from a website:
Church of the Assumption - Shiroka Laka
After the Russo-Turkish War of 1828 and 1829, reforms were undertaken by Sultan Mahmut II, giving Christians greater religious freedom, and allowing them to build schools and churches.
Shiroka Laka was one of the first settlements in the Rhodopes that received permission to build a church, in 1834. The location selected had been used for hundreds of years to perform spiritual rituals, sacrifices, and local traditions. Despite opposition from a Turkish officer, Smail Aga and the Muslim population, the village was to begin building the church. On the first day of construction, Smail Aga raised his weapon against the builders and ordered them to stop working. Todor the Crazy replied that the village would revolt and that the foundations would not be moved. The Muslims interfere with every aspect of their work.
This clash ended with a complaint filed in Plovdiv, and a representative was sent to Shiroka Laka to calm tensions and to promote the development of the work, which had to be completed in 40 days. The whole village was involved in the construction of the church and it was completed in 38 days, according to historians. The church is 19 meters long, 12 meters wide and 8 meters high. The walls have a thickness of one meter. Eight columns hold up the leaning roof covered in stone bricks. The massive doors are overlaid with thick iron plate for more protection against attacks and bullets. A 5 to 10 meters high wall also protected the church. The church was consecrated in 1835 and was dedicated to the Assumption.
Extracted from a website:
Shiroka Laka (population 850 inhabitants) is a village-museum, an architectural and ethnographic reserve, well known for its original Rhodope architectural style, musical traditions and history. The natural conditions, uncertainty prevailing in the centuries of the Ottoman rule, the national identity of the people and their economic prosperity were reflected in the architectural style of the houses that belong to the type of a "large Rhodope house". The arched bridges above Shirokolashka River and some of its tributaries add romanticism to the village. The settlement has existed since the 17th century. It is settled at the time of mass conversion to Mohammedanism of the Rhodopean population during the years of Ottoman Yoke. At first the land was inhabited by the tribe Urutzi, who later moved to the Aegean region. The hamlet of Zaevite was firstly inhabited, but later because of a landslide the population moved to the Valley of Lukovitza River, and then to the present place of Shiroka Laka. The name of the village comes from the wide delta of the river of the same name.
Taken 05/04/16; The following is a somewhat lengthy extract from Wiki, but I thought it was worthwhile reading this, given that the remarkable transformation of the area to the north of Kings Cross. Along with Stratford, Railwaylands strikes me as the most changed areas of London of recent times;
"King's Cross railway station ... [and] ... St Pancras railway station ... both had extensive land ("the railwaylands") to house their associated facilities for handling general goods and specialist commodities such as fish, coal, potatoes and grain. The passenger stations on Euston Road far outweighed in public attention the economically more important goods traffic to the north. King's Cross and St Pancras stations, and indeed all London railway stations, made an important contribution to the capital's economy.
After World War II the area declined from being a poor but busy industrial and distribution services district to a partially abandoned post-industrial district. By the 1980s it was notorious for prostitution and drug abuse. This reputation impeded attempts to revive the area, utilising the large amount of land available following the decline of the railway goods yard to the north of the station and the many other vacant premises in the area.
Relatively cheap rents and a central London location made the area attractive to artists and designers and both Antony Gormley and Thomas Heatherwick established studios in the area. In late 1980s, a group of musicians, mechanics, and squatters from Hammersmith called Mutoid Waste Company moved into Battlebridge Road warehouse. They built huge industrial sculptures out of scrap metal and held raves. In 1989 they were evicted by police. In 1992, the Community Creation Trust took over the disused coach repair depot and built it into the largest Ecology Centre in Europe with ecohousing for homeless youngsters, The Last Platform Cafe, London Ecology Centre (after it's demise in Covent Garden), offices and workshops, gardens and ponds. It was destroyed to make a car park for the Channel Tunnel Regeneration. Bagley's Warehouse was a nightclub venue in the 1990s warehouse rave scene on the site of Goods Yard behind Kings Cross stations, now part of the redevelopment area known as the Coal Drops adjacent to Granary Square.
In the 1990s the government established the King's Cross Partnership to fund regeneration projects, and the commencement of work on High Speed 1 in 2000 provided a major impetus for other projects. Within a few years much of the "socially undesirable" behaviour had moved on, and new projects such as offices and hotels had begun to open. The area has also been for many years home to a number of trades union head offices (including the NUJ, RMT, UNISON, NUT, Community and UCU).
The area has increasingly become home to cultural establishments. The London Canal Museum opened in 1992, and in 1997 a new home for the British Library opened next to St Pancras Station. There was a small theatre, the Courtyard. However this had to close in late 2006 as a result of the gentrification of the area caused by a number of regeneration projects here, in this case, Regent's Quarter, across the boundary in Islington. The Gagosian Gallery moved their main London premises to the area in 2004. The London Sinfonietta and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment are based in King's Place, on Battlebridge Basin next to the Regent's Canal. King's Place is also the home of The Guardian and The Observer newspapers, and of the UK Drug Policy Commission.
The area is expected to remain a major focus of redevelopment through the first two decades of the 21st century. The London terminus of the Eurostar international rail service moved to St Pancras station in November 2007. The station's redevelopment led to the demolition of several buildings, including the Gasworks. Following the opening of the new high speed line to the station, redevelopment of the land between the two major stations and the old Kings Cross railwaylands to the rear has commenced, with outline planning permission granted for the whole site. Detailed planning applications for each part of the site are being made on a rolling programme basis. The site is now called King's Cross Central and is one of the largest construction projects in Greater London in the first quarter of the 21st century."
Extracted details (in B&W) from a collaborative collage by Jocelyn Jones, with Marty McCutcheon, Mik Godley, W.T. Richards, and Israel Forbes
Full collage can be seen here...
I don't do a lot of macro work, but I had a little time on my hands today....
Sigma 150mm F/2.8 Macro + 1.4x TC.
MORE MACRO PICS HERE.
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Bridal Veil Falls is on Manitoulin Island in the village of Kagawong, in a small park; Kagawong is 34 kilometers east of the town of Little Current, via Highway 540. The Kagawong River drops approximately 11 meters (36 feet) over a limestone bowl formation into a plunge pool (a nice way to relax on a hot summer day) before continuing on to Lake Huron, less then a kilometer away. Manitoulin Island is part of the Niagara Escarpment.
A Lee Seven5 0.9 (3 stop) soft graduated neutral density filter was rotated ≈45° to cover the sunlit area and balance the exposure. A Lee 'Littler Stopper' six stop solid neutral density filter + a Hoya polarizer (≈ 8 stops neutral density) was used to achieve a 5 second exposure. Processing alchemy with Nik Collection Dfine 2, Viveza (selective burn and dodge) and Color Efex: detail extractor, glamour glow. Finished with Apple Aperture.
Googie architecture is a form of modern architecture, a subdivision of futurist architecture influenced by car culture, the Space Age, and the Atomic Age. Originating in Southern California during the late 1940s and continuing approximately into the mid-1960s, Googie-themed architecture was popular among motels, coffee houses and gas stations. The school later became widely known as part of the Mid-Century modern style, elements of which represent the populuxe aesthetic,[attribution needed] as in Eero Saarinen's TWA Flight Center. The term "Googie" comes from a now defunct coffee shop and cafe built in West Hollywood.
Features of Googie include upswept roofs, curvaceous, geometric shapes, and bold use of glass, steel and neon. Googie was also characterized by Space Age designs symbolic of motion, such as boomerangs, flying saucers, atoms and parabolas, and free-form designs such as "soft" parallelograms and an artist's palette motif. These stylistic conventions represented American society's fascination with Space Age themes and marketing emphasis on futuristic designs. As with the Art Deco style of the 1930s, Googie became less valued as time passed, and many buildings in this style have been destroyed. Some examples have been preserved, though, such as the oldest McDonald's stand that was put on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
The La Concha Motel was a motel that opened in 1961 and closed in December 2003. It was designed by architect Paul Williams who was one of the first prominent African American architects in the United States and was also the architect who designed the first LAX theme building. It was located at 2955 Las Vegas Blvd South Winchester, Nevada and was considered one of the best-preserved examples of 1950's Googie architecture. The La Concha Motel is now restored in Las Vegas' Neon Museum
-Wikipedia
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In the 1930s, industrial works alongside this part of the coastline, extracted magnesia (magnesium carbonate), used in the lining of kilns and incinerators, from dolomitic lime and seawater. Today, all that remains of this industrial site are some derelict buildings, old pipes and the dangerous, magnificent remains of Steetley Pier, a long, derelict structure, which stretches out into the sea here.
To get the most from this beach, check tidal tables and time your visit to coincide with low tide, when a vast amount of golden sand, interspersed with pipes is exposed. The beach is often deserted, and has no restrictions on dog walking.
The sands can be accessed by parking at West View Road and walking through the tunnel which passes under the railway line. Then walk towards the sea, past the former industrial buildings, and turn right, towards the old pier. The beach is backed by a cemetery and further north, by Hartlepool Golf Course, beyond which lies the Durham Coast Nature Reserve. Hartlepool Marina lies to the south of the beach.
There is a fish and chip shop nearby, and more places to eat and shops can be found in Hartlepool.
Hartlepool is a seaside and port town in County Durham, England. It is governed by a unitary authority borough named after the town. The borough is part of the devolved Tees Valley area. With an estimated population of 87,995, it is the second-largest settlement (after Darlington) in County Durham.
The old town was founded in the 7th century, around the monastery of Hartlepool Abbey on a headland. As the village grew into a town in the Middle Ages, its harbour served as the County Palatine of Durham's official port. The new town of West Hartlepool was created in 1835 after a new port was built and railway links from the South Durham coal fields (to the west) and from Stockton-on-Tees (to the south) were created. A parliamentary constituency covering both the old town and West Hartlepool was created in 1867 called The Hartlepools. The two towns were formally merged into a single borough called Hartlepool in 1967. Following the merger, the name of the constituency was changed from The Hartlepools to just Hartlepool in 1974. The modern town centre and main railway station are both at what was West Hartlepool; the old town is now generally known as the Headland.
Industrialisation in northern England and the start of a shipbuilding industry in the later part of the 19th century meant it was a target for the Imperial German Navy at the beginning of the First World War. A bombardment of 1,150 shells on 16 December 1914 resulted in the death of 117 people in the town. A severe decline in heavy industries and shipbuilding following the Second World War caused periods of high unemployment until the 1990s when major investment projects and the redevelopment of the docks area into a marina saw a rise in the town's prospects. The town also has a seaside resort called Seaton Carew.
The place name derives from Old English heort ("hart"), referring to stags seen, and pōl (pool), a pool of drinking water which they were known to use. Records of the place-name from early sources confirm this:
649: Heretu, or Hereteu.
1017: Herterpol, or Hertelpolle.
1182: Hierdepol.
A Northumbrian settlement developed in the 7th century around an abbey founded in 640 by Saint Aidan (an Irish and Christian priest) upon a headland overlooking a natural harbour and the North Sea. The monastery became powerful under St Hilda, who served as its abbess from 649 to 657. The 8th-century Northumbrian chronicler Bede referred to the spot on which today's town is sited as "the place where deer come to drink", and in this period the Headland was named by the Angles as Heruteu (Stag Island). Archaeological evidence has been found below the current high tide mark that indicates that an ancient post-glacial forest by the sea existed in the area at the time.
The Abbey fell into decline in the early 8th century, and it was probably destroyed during a sea raid by Vikings on the settlement in the 9th century. In March 2000, the archaeological investigation television programme Time Team located the foundations of the lost monastery in the grounds of St Hilda's Church. In the early 11th century, the name had evolved into Herterpol.
Normans and for centuries known as the Jewel of Herterpol.
During the Norman Conquest, the De Brus family gained over-lordship of the land surrounding Hartlepool. William the Conqueror subsequently ordered the construction of Durham Castle, and the villages under their rule were mentioned in records in 1153 when Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale became Lord of Hartness. The town's first charter was received before 1185, for which it gained its first mayor, an annual two-week fair and a weekly market. The Norman Conquest affected the settlement's name to form the Middle English Hart-le-pool ("The Pool of the Stags").
By the Middle Ages, Hartlepool was growing into an important (though still small) market town. One of the reasons for its escalating wealth was that its harbour was serving as the official port of the County Palatine of Durham. The main industry of the town at this time was fishing, and Hartlepool in this period established itself as one of the primary ports upon England's Eastern coast.
In 1306, Robert the Bruce was crowned King of Scotland, and became the last Lord of Hartness. Angered, King Edward I confiscated the title to Hartlepool, and began to improve the town's military defences in expectation of war. In 1315, before they were completed, a Scottish army under Sir James Douglas attacked, captured and looted the town.
In the late 15th century, a pier was constructed to assist in the harbour's workload.
Hartlepool was once again militarily occupied by a Scottish incursion, this time in alliance with the Parliamentary Army during the English Civil War, which after 18 months was relieved by an English Parliamentarian garrison.
In 1795, Hartlepool artillery emplacements and defences were constructed in the town as a defensive measure against the threat of French attack from seaborne Napoleonic forces. During the Crimean War, two coastal batteries were constructed close together in the town to guard against the threat of seaborne attacks from the Imperial Russian Navy. They were entitled the Lighthouse Battery (1855) and the Heugh Battery (1859).
Extract from Overloon War Museum Website Netherlands.
This Horsa Glider is a replica of the aircraft deployed during the Second World War. The particular feature of this unit is that original parts have been used to make it complete. There are only two of these specimens available to view today in the world.
This Horsa Glider came from an RAF base near Birmingham. Where it had been in a hangar for a long time, so consequently the Horsa needs a full restoration before it can be go on show in a dedicated location within War Museum Overloon. A team of experts will work on the device in the coming weeks, even the Royal Air Force will make a contribution to ensure that the Horsa Glider will soon be in full glory in the museum.
Leading up to 1946 there are about four thousand Horsa gliders produced. None of these devices has been preserved. This is why this exact replica with original parts is a very special addition to the museum. The Horsa is twenty meters long and has a wingspan of no less than 27 meters.
During the Second World War, in November 1942, Horsa gliders were first used in Norway. Later they also came to the invasion of Sicily, during D-Day, in large numbers during Operation Market Garden with landing zones in and around Wolfheze and Nijmegen and also at Operation Varsity. These devices were not only used to transport airborne troops, but also for means of transport such as Jeeps, trailers, bicycles and motorcycles, but also heavy weapons such as kannuns. With the advent of these wooden gliders troops could land close to their target.