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Leyland Olympian Double Decker bus.
Fleet number 30025
A 747 JRE
Seen in Newcastle Bus Station
On 12th July 2003
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon participates in a Scottish business and innovation showcase in Beijing. During the event the First Minister witnessed the signing of deals worth £43 million to Scottish firms. She is pictured here with representatives of Distrify Media and their Chinese partners. the firm is the first European video-on-demand provider to sign a distribution deal in China, to deliver Future TV (digital arm of China’s CNTV) videos online including mobile apps and Smart TV. The deal is worth £25m to Distrify and will create 20 new jobs in Scotland and 10 in China.
First Midland Red Wright Street Lite DF 47517 SN64CFV seen n Worcester Crowngate Bus Station with Service 365S
Seen 17/5/21
Whilst a young train spotter, some of my first early efforts at railway photography with a 120 film Box Camera. Taken sometime in the mid 1950s. Reproduced here for historical interest only.
No. 30851 "Sir Francis Drake" (With shorter smokebox) at Nine Elms.
Camera: Conway 120 Box.
Kodak Pancromatic X
First PMT
Scania L94UB Wright Floline S\Decker bus
Fleet number 60196
X 253 USH
Seen at Newcastle bus Depot
Saturday 30th June 2012
First Manchester (Rusholme depot) SN14TTZ 33850 seen on Palatine Road, Northenden wearing Manchester bee's whilst running service 41 to Sale Metrolink stop
Wood smoke from wood stoves lying low under the ridge due to a low pressure system, clouds with first morning light at sunrise, Webster County, West Virginia, USA
Picture Of Macy's Balloons Being Inflated Prior To The Night Of The 2018 Macy's Thanksgiving Parade At 79th Street At Columbus Avenue In New York City. Photo Taken Wednesday November 21, 2018.
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I have not been feeling too well lately. It would seem that I have developed a minor peanut-allergy and it has affected me in several (painful) ways.
Anyway, I'm on the mend now thanks to some super-size antihystamines, so I've finally been able to get out and do some photography.
An old subject I'm afraid, but at least it's a new(ish) view of my favourite Swansea architecture!
A beautiful 1850s stone and limestone church in the west end of Cincinnati made for a great start to VCX4!
The Acqua Felice is one of the aqueducts of Rome, completed in 1586 by Pope Sixtus V, whose birth name, which he never fully abandoned, was Felice Peretti. The first new aqueduct of Early Modern Rome, its source is at the springs at Pantano Borghese, off Via Casilina. Its length is fifteen miles (24 km), running underground for eight miles (13 km) from its source, first in the channel of Aqua Alexandrina, then alternating on the arches of the Aqua Claudia and the Aqua Marcia for seven miles (11 km) to its terminus at the Fontana dell'Acqua Felice on the Quirinal Hill, standing to one side of the Strada Pia, so as to form a piazza in this new part of Rome. The engineer was Giovanni Fontana, brother of Sixtus' engineer-architect Domenico Fontana, who recorded that the very day the new pope entered the Lateran, he decided that he would bring water once again to the healthful hills of Rome, which had remained waterless and sparsely inhabited, largely by monasteries, since the Roman aqueducts had been destroyed in the sixth century. From the source, which Sixtus purchased, there was only a very small fall, and the work required an underground conduit as well as an aqueduct carried on arches. The work was completed within eighteen months, at the same time that Sixtus was engaged in laying out the street plan that would provide the arteries of modern Rome. By October 1586, water was running at his Villa Montalto, and by 1589 it was filling no less than twenty-seven public fountains. The three-arched Fontana dell'Acqua Felice (designed by Domenico Fontana, 1587) marked the entry of the new water source into Rome, with the conventional mostra or showy terminus: "what makes a fountain a mostra is not essentially its size or splendor, but its specific designation as the fountain that is a public memorial to the whole achievement of the aqueduct. Even in the seventeenth century this fountain was considered as being in very bad style (pessimo stile)," Siegfried Giedion reporter "and it is scarcely conceivable that such mediocrity was possible only two decades after the death of Michelangelo". Its disproportionately large attic, a billboard for the triumphant inscription, has an unbalanced stagey flatness; its proportions may be unfavorably compared to the Arco Scalette, Vicenza, erected in 1576, probably designed by Andrea Palladio. Arco Salette, Vicenza, 1576, attributed to Andrea Palladio, for comparison.The allegories are resolutely Biblical, avoiding classical pagan allusions in publicising the modern pope who demolished the Septizonium to make way for his avenues linking the major Christian monuments of Rome, the pilgrimage basilicas. Any mostra had its practical aspect in providing public water supply for its rione (the city's administrative areas). The marble basins, flanked by Egyptian lions that spit water, served as reservoirs for local inhabitants; marble barriers keep animals from polluting the water: for them there is a special basin nearby. Next to the fountain Sixtus installed two long basins for washing laundry, and a covered washhouse where women might enjoy privacy.
Dichen Lachman and Erica Cerra during their panel on the first day of the Survival 2 convention organized by Starfury. April 8, 2017.
All photos were taken by Andrada M. Do not take them without permission.
First Potteries
Optare Solo
Fleet number 53155
CN 06 BXH
Service 8
Seen in the New Hanley bus station
Tuesday 16th April 2013
A bright flower, a beautiful and merry contrast in the garden. Today the first flower opened. / 'n Heldere bloem, 'n mooi en vrolijk kontrast in de tuin. Vandaag ging de eerste bloem open
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Leyland Olympian D\Decker bus
Fleet number 30036
G 760 XRE
Service 34A Hanley ~ Newcastle ~ Chesterton
Seen in Hanley
2007
Scania K114IB Irizar new 7/2004 as First Coaches 23204. Taken in Newport Bus Station. On National Express
First Manchester (Bolton depot) SN12ADV 33657 seen on John Dolton Street, Manchester on service 36 to Bolton Interchange
Woke this morning to the first snow of the season. There's always something special about the first snow. The question is, will it stay or will it go?
Clarksville was incorporated in 1784 and by the early eighteenth century was a village of forty families. Dr. Gideon Blackburn, an itinerate Presbyterian minister, preached outdoors in a place south of Clarksville called Tompkins Grove. He organized First Presbyterian Church on May 25, 1822. The first congregation of fourteen initially worshipped in private homes and later in the new brick Court House on the downtown square. The Court House served as the meeting place for the church for almost 20 years. By 1835 the congregation had outgrown that venue, and worshippers wanted their own church building. They raised $2,300, and Lucinda Elder donated land at the present site of Third and Main Streets. In 1840 the first church building opened and, by 1844, the membership had reached 120.
As the congregation continued to grow it became obvious a new larger structure was needed. Under the direction of Dr. J.B. Luton, minister from 1872-1897, the old walls were removed to make way for a neo-gothic building of pressed brick and stone. The new church housed a sanctuary with stained glass windows which included a beautiful rose window, the pews, pulpit, communion table and chandeliers, all featuring Christian symbols. Below the sanctuary was a lecture hall. In 1876 the cornerstone was laid, and two years later the building was completed for $43,285.15.
First Presbyterian was part of the Southwestern Presbyterian University until that school moved to Memphis in 1925. The University provided ministers when the regular pastors were absent. Ministerial students from the University often taught Sunday school. The church benefited from this rich intellectual connection.
By 1950 once again First Presbyterian needed to expand and included construction of the Education Building and the Chapel on the west side of the 1878 sanctuary. During the 1960's, rooms were added to the north end of the education building, and the sanctuary underwent a significant renovation including air conditioning. Additionally, the kitchen was remodeled and the Memorial Garden created.
Reverend George Gracey became the pastor in 1974 and served First Presbyterian for over 30 years. With much admiration and respect, the congregation bestowed the honor of Pastor Emeritus on Reverend Gracey in 2009, the only time in its history. Beginning in 1990, the congregation began a capital campaign to address not only church needs but important community needs as well. While the extensive renovations to the church were being completed the church met at the American Legion Building. By June of 1992 the congregation returned to the beautiful sanctuary. In 1993 the congregation voted to purchase the old Clarksville City Street Department at 215 Foster Street, near the church. In 1996 the church voted to use this location to build the Activities and Outreach Center. The AOC has a basketball court, Sunday school rooms, a Boy Scout meeting room, and a kitchen and dining area. It houses Loaves and Fishes, which today serves over 50,000 meals annually.
After organizing a capital campaign, the church purchased a new organ in 2006. The church also raised enough funds to build a cabin at Camp NaCoMe, the Middle Presbytery's church camp, where our children, youth, and adults participate in various camps throughout the year. Dr. David Forney served as pastor of First Presbyterian Church from August 2007through August 2010. Rev. Mary Margaret Flannagan served as associate pastor from May 2008 through May 2010. Rev. Dr. David Handley (Dave) is currently serving as the interim pastor. Our mission is to invite all to join us on the journey of discipleship, with Christ as our Savior and Guide; to grow in knowing God's love, and share it with each other, our community, and the world
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Dennis Dart ALX200 Alexander
Fleet number 40151
X 994 FFA
Service 25 Keele Uni ~ Newcastle ~ Hartshill ~ Stoke ~ Stoke Station ~ Hanley
Seen in Stoke
Wednesday 15th Feb 2012
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Volvo B7RLE Wright Eclipse Urban S\Decker bus
Fleet number 66843
MX 05 CGK
25 Gold Service bus
Service 25
Seen in Hanley
Saturday 1st December 2012