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I've been hearing bits and pieces about Fleet Foxes and their new album, Helplessness Blues in the news lately and it again spurs controversy and questions about "free music dowloading" and all of that. I'm a person who spends quite alot of money on records but I will say I like to hear a record first and I also can appreciate the idea of an honor system-the songs are available and if you like them you should support the musicians/band by buying the album. I know alot of people are struggling economically but it makes sense if you value art and music to support it to me.
Thoughts?
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Roadworks fleet lined up in the Caldicot depot. Continual fleet upgrades has many of these have moved on to new owners but still work on. The Erf and Foden are still at it!
This is a Hutson Brothers postcard showing the scene from Fleet Street looking east towards Ludgate Circus and Ludgate Hill with St. Paul’s Cathedral in the distance. The postcard was posted in January 1936, but the photograph is from 1930. The Star newspaper was a London evening newspaper and I can just remember the news vendors call of “Star, News and Standard”, referring to the Evening News and the Evening Standard. The Star was taken over by the Evening News in 1960. The placard on the back of the paper van refers to the death of Dr. William Sandford Whitcombe aged 65, the Harley Street specialist. On 16th April 1930 he was found at his home in Holland Road, Kensington, suffering from extensive burns from which he later died, the inquest was told that he took the drug Veronal for his insomnia and had apparently collapsed onto a gas fire receiving the burns injuries. The Doctor’s wife was represented at the inquest by a Mr. Fearnley-Whittingstall, now where have I heard that name before? Mr. Oswald, the West London Coroner, found that Dr. Whitcombe had been overcome by a dose of Veronal which had caused him to accidentally fall onto the gas fire. The drug, Veronal, was the first synthesized Barbiturate which was available commercially and was the sleeping pill of choice although prolonged use leads to an accumulation in the body and can cause an inadvertent overdose. The City of London police constable on traffic duty is wearing a white cape to aid his visibility when directing traffic, I think that the City of London police was the only force to issue white capes, but I may be wrong about that.
Arriva Merseyside SL64 JHO 4618
Fleet: 4618
Reg: SL64 JHO
Operator: Arriva Merseyside
Route: 10A - Liverpool One
Depot: St Helens
Livery: Arriva Interurban
Type: ADL Enviro 400/ E40D
Location: Liverpool Lime Street
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The wide angle lens has made this high level shot of Willowbrook Dominator FKM305V look very top heavy. Five Metrobuses Five Dominators and Five Titans were part of an NBC trial in the area in 1979, but issues at Park Royal would see the Titans replaced with VRs, which NBC made do with until the Olympain appeared. M&D of course went on to acquire more Dominators from East Staffs.
ARRIVA North West Volvo Olympian / Northern Counties 3311 - R311 WVR, the last survivor of a batch of 22 purchased by MTL Merseybus in 1997 and branded as 'The Millennium Fleet' works a route 84 short from Crewe to Nantwich in the autumn of its career (literally). This example outlasted its last remaining sisters by some four months despite not being refurbished or repainted into the new livery like some of its peers, The bus has been sold to Peoplesbus of Liverpool and thus will return to its former stamping ground. This was the last bus in Winsford's allocation to carry the old corporate livery.
Ex NZR engine L509, Portland fleet number 8. Made in 1877,
Ex NZR engine D143 made in 1874 By Neilson.Portland Cement fleet number 1.
Second row
Ex NZR engine L508 ,Made in 1877
Peckett made in 1957.Portland Cement Works fleet number 5.Made in 1924.
Several workmen awaiting their next task.
CIS Fleet over Geonosis
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Arriva inherited a batch of standard 9.7m Metrobuses from Maidstone & District. Whilst not unique in the Arriva fleet, they were a distinctive element of the Arriva Southern Counties division. This fictional example is a long-wheelbase 10.5m version, a variant that was never built. It carries the later discontinued 'serving Surrey & West Sussex' strapline (18-Apr-14).
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This is my 1st part of my entry to the Global Challenge 3 at LCC.
Paul von Brickenstein is preparing his fleet to beat the wizards. The Magic Islands are far away so they probably need a lot of food and rum. And some weapons would be also helpful. But what will happen at the Magic Islands ? Are weapons out of steel and wood powerful enough to beat these mighty wizards ?
After 25 years at its present location, Aldershot Bus Station will close for good at the end of this week. To mark this occasion, the opportunity was taken today (03/05/2023) to recreate a scene that would have occurred around 10 years ago. When Stagecoach took over Fleet Buzz in 2011 they kept the identity for 3 years and repainted a number of their own buses into the distinctive yellow and black livery. One such bus was AE51VFV, now lovingly restored by James Bell. It is seen here in the bus station as it would have been seen on the Route 72 to Reading. Some town shots conclude this afternoon jolly.
Port Huron, Michigan, USA
bulk carrier
flag: United States [US]
owner: Great Lakes Fleet, Inc.
length: 768ft
built: 1952
Operator: Reading Buses
Make/Model: Scania N280UD/Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 MMC-CBG (H47/28F)
Registration Number: YN66 EZS
Fleet Number: 705
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Between 2009-2010, close photography friends and I found ourselves monomaniacally obsessed with documenting the last days of the Suisun Bay Mothball Fleet (which is now largely scrapped). These trips were not officially sanctioned. In fact, we received a lot of grief because of it. Despite that, it was one of the proudest moments of my life. Countless volunteers, museums, and small organizations had made efforts to save these maritime time capsules to no avail - despite their monumental efforts. The ships' contribution to bay water pollution didn't help in their preservation cause.
Thousands upon thousands of seamen and women remember these ships, but only a small fraction of the ships remain to be remembered. Pictured here is the mess hall floor of the U.S.S. Glacier. The Glacier was an improved icebreaker, but only larger and more powerful. Its bow had the characteristic sloping nose, enabling the ship ride up heavy ice and break it with the weight of the vessel. When built, Glacier had the largest capacity single armature DC motors ever installed on a ship and could break ice up to 20 feet thick.
We were almost apprehended on this ship, but she protected us at a critical moment. I will always miss this majestic ship's hidden nooks and crannies, its crows' nest and the numerous hand-painted murals designed by the Coast Guard crew.
We lose things constantly. At the very least, society should allow us to document them, but that - too - rarely happens quickly enough...
Model: MAN TGX 26.480 Euro6 6X2-2 BLS
VIN: WMA18XZZ1GP068559
1. Registration: 2015-09-18
Company: Lars Larsen, Skrosbjerg, Tureby (DK)
Fleet No.: -
Nickname: -
License plates: AW72056 (sep. 2015-?)
Previous reg.: n/a
Later reg.: n/a
Retirement age: still active at time of upload (jun. 2018)
Photo location: Motorway 501 (Aarhus Syd Motorvejen), Viby J, Aarhus, DK
Going up the steep hill leading sw out of Aarhus past Viby and Stautrup. Underpowered and/or heavily loaded trucks often struggle here.
Tip: to locate trucks of particular interest to you, check my collections page, "truck collection" - here you will find all trucks organized in albums, by haulier (with zip-codes), year, brand and country.
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Wondering what happened to the old fleet of carts? I was, too. Luckily, a couple of carts poking out beyond the left edge of the building caught my eye. Driving over there, what do we find but the entire old fleet, hanging out along the store's left-side exterior wall! I didn't take the time to count these, but suffice to say, there's a lot :P
I suppose I could have taken one home, but 1) we weren't in our truck at the time, 2) that would likely be highly visible as well as frowned upon, and 3) even though the carts did sit out here for a few weeks and I could have taken one at a later time, I simply wouldn't have had a place to put one. Nevertheless... I did still entertain the idea for a moment or two, just because XD
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These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
Because we can. A run out in preserved former Stagecoach Dennis Dart SLF / Plaxton Pointer 2 B37F 33306 AE51VFV in August 2024.
Fleet Street is a major street mostly in the City of London. It runs west to east from Temple Bar at the boundary with the City of Westminster to Ludgate Circus at the site of the London Wall and the River Fleet from which the street was named.
The street has been an important through route since Roman times. During the Middle Ages, businesses were established and senior clergy lived there; several churches remain from this time including Temple Church and St Bride's. The street became known for printing and publishing at the start of the 16th century, and it became the dominant trade so that by the 20th century most British national newspapers operated from here. Much of that industry moved out in the 1980s after News International set up cheaper manufacturing premises in Wapping, but some former newspaper buildings are listed and have been preserved. The term Fleet Street remains a metonym for the British national press, and pubs on the street once frequented by journalists remain popular.
Fleet Street has a significant number of monuments and statues along its length, including the dragon at Temple Bar and memorials to a number of figures from the British press, such as Samuel Pepys and Lord Northcliffe. The street is mentioned in several works by Charles Dickens and is the home of the fictional murderer Sweeney Todd.
Fleet Street is named after the River Fleet, which runs from Hampstead to the River Thames at the western edge of the City of London. It is one of the oldest roads outside the original city and was established by the Middle Ages. In the 13th century, it was known as Fleet Bridge Street, and in the early 14th century it became known as Fleet Street.
The street runs east from Temple Bar, the boundary between the Cities of London and Westminster, as a continuation of the Strand from Trafalgar Square. It crosses Chancery Lane and Fetter Lane to reach Ludgate Circus by the London Wall. The road ahead is Ludgate Hill. The street numbering runs consecutively from west to east south-side and then east to west north-side.[1] It links the Roman and medieval boundaries of the City after the latter was extended. The section of Fleet Street between Temple Bar and Fetter Lane is part of the A4, a major road running west through London, although it once ran along the entire street and eastwards past St Paul's Churchyard towards Cannon Street.
The nearest London Underground stations are Temple, Chancery Lane, and Blackfriars tube/mainline station and the City Thameslink railway station. London Bus routes 4, 11, 15, 23, 26, 76 and 172 run along the full length of Fleet Street, while route 341 runs between Temple Bar and Fetter Lane.
Early history
Fleet Street was established as a thoroughfare in Roman London and there is evidence that a route led west from Ludgate by 200 AD. Local excavations revealed remains of a Roman amphitheatre near Ludgate on what was Fleet Prison, but other accounts suggest the area was too marshy for regular inhabitation by the Romans. The Saxons did not occupy the Roman city but established Lundenwic further west around what is now Aldwych and the Strand.
Many prelates lived around the street during the Middle Ages, including the Bishops of Salisbury and St Davids and the Abbots of Faversham, Tewkesbury, Winchcombe and Cirencester. Tanning of animal hides became established on Fleet Street owing to the nearby river, though this increased pollution leading to a ban on dumping rubbish by the mid-14th century. Many taverns and brothels were established along Fleet Street and have been documented as early as the 14th century. Records show that Geoffrey Chaucer was fined two shillings for attacking a friar in Fleet Street, though modern historians believe this is apocryphal.
An important landmark in Fleet Street during the late Middle Ages was a conduit that was the main water supply for the area. When Anne Boleyn was crowned queen following her marriage to Henry VIII in 1533, the conduit flowed wine instead of water. By the 16th century, Fleet Street, along with much of the City, was chronically overcrowded, and a royal proclamation in 1580 banned any further building on the street. This had little effect, and construction continued, particularly timber. Prince Henry's Room over the Inner Temple gate dates from 1610 and is named after Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, eldest son of James I, who did not survive to succeed his father.
The eastern part of the street was destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666, despite attempts to use the River Fleet to preserve it- Fire damage reached to about Fetter Lane, and the special tribunal of the 'Fire Courts' was held at Clifford's Inn, an inn of Chancery at the edge of the extent of the fire, to arbitrate on claimants' rights. Properties were rebuilt in the same style as before the fire.
During the early 18th century, a notorious upper-class gang known as the Mohocks operated on the street causing regular violence and vandalism. Mrs Salmon's Waxworks was established at Prince Henry's Room in 1711. It had a display of macabre and black-humoured exhibits, including the execution of Charles I; a Roman lady, Hermonie, whose father survived a sentence of starvation by sucking her breast; and a woman who gave birth to 365 children simultaneously. The waxworks were a favourite haunt of William Hogarth, and survived into the 19th century. The Apollo Society, a music club, was established in 1733 at the Devil Tavern on Fleet Street by composer Maurice Greene.
In 1763, supporters of John Wilkes, who had been arrested for libel against the Earl of Bute, burned a jackboot in the centre of the street in protest against Bute. It led to violent demonstrations and rioting in 1769 and 1794
Tanning and other industries declined sharply after the River Fleet was routed underground in 1766. The street was widened during the late-19th century, when Temple Bar was demolished and Ludgate Circus was constructed. The headquarters of the Anti-Corn Law League were based at No. 67 Fleet Street, and a blue plaque marks the location.
Printing and journalism
Publishing started in Fleet Street around 1500 when William Caxton's apprentice, Wynkyn de Worde, set up a printing shop near Shoe Lane, while at around the same time Richard Pynson set up as publisher and printer next to St Dunstan's Church. More printers and publishers followed, mainly supplying the legal trade in the four Inns of Court around the area, but also publishing books and plays.
In March 1702 the first issue of London's first daily newspaper, the Daily Courant, was published in Fleet Street. It was followed by the Morning Chronicle. The publisher John Murray was founded at No. 32 Fleet Street in 1762 and remained there until 1812, when it moved to Albemarle Street. The popularity of newspapers was restricted due to various taxes during the early 19th century, particularly paper duty. Peele's Coffee-House at No. 177–178 Fleet Street became popular and was the main committee room for the Society for Repealing the Paper Duty, starting in 1858. The society was successful and the duty was abolished in 1861. Along with the repeal of the newspaper tax in 1855, this led to a dramatic expansion of newspaper production in Fleet Street. The "penny press" (newspapers costing one penny) became popular during the 1880s and the initial number of titles had consolidated into a few nationally important ones.
By the 20th century, Fleet Street and the area surrounding it were dominated by the national press and related industries. The Daily Express relocated to No. 121–8 Fleet Street in 1931, into a building designed by Sir Owen Williams. It was the first curtain wall building in London. It has survived the departure of the newspaper in 1989 and was restored in 2001. The Daily Telegraph was based at No. 135–142. These premises are both Grade II-listed. In the 1930s, No. 67 housed 25 separate publications; by this time the majority of British households bought a daily paper produced from Fleet Street.
In 1986 News International owner Rupert Murdoch caused controversy when he moved publication of The Times and The Sun away from Fleet Street to new premises in Wapping, East London. Murdoch believed it was impossible to produce a newspaper profitably on Fleet Street and the power of the print unions, the National Graphical Association (NGA) and the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades (SOGAT), was too strong (an opinion endorsed by the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher). All Fleet Street print staff were sacked and new staff from the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union were brought in to operate the presses at Wapping using modern computer-operated technology, rendering the power of the old unions obsolete. The resulting Wapping dispute featured violent protests at Fleet Street and Wapping that lasted over a year, but ultimately other publishers followed suit and moved out of Fleet Street towards Canary Wharf or Southwark. Reuters was the last major news outlet to leave Fleet Street, in 2005. In the same year, The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph announced they were returning to the centre of London from Canary Wharf to new premises in Victoria in 2006.
Some publishers have remained on Fleet Street. The London office of D.C. Thomson & Co., creator of The Beano, is at No. 185. The Secretariat of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association is at No. 17, as is Wentworth Publishing, an independent publisher of newsletters and courses. The Associated Press has an office in Fleet Street as did The Jewish Chronicle until 2013 when it moved to Golders Green. The British Association of Journalists is based at No. 89 while Metro International are at No. 85.
Though many prominent national newspapers have moved away from Fleet Street, the name is still synonymous with the printing and publishing industry. In the adjacent St. Brides Lane is the St Bride Library, holding a specialist collection relating to the type and print industry and providing courses in printing technology and methods. On the wall of Magpie Alley, off Bouverie Street, is a mural depicting the history of newspapers in the area.
The last two journalists to work for the Dundee-based Sunday Post, left in 2016, as the paper closed its London offices.
Modern history
Despite the domination of the print industry, other businesses were also established on Fleet Street. The Automobile Association was established at No. 18 Fleet Street in 1905. Since the post-Wapping migration, Fleet Street is now more associated with the investment banking, legal and accountancy professions. For example, The Inns of Court and barristers' chambers are down alleys and around courtyards off Fleet Street itself and many of the old newspaper offices have become the London headquarters for various companies. One example is Goldman Sachs, whose offices are in the old Daily Telegraph and Liverpool Echo buildings of Peterborough Court and Mersey House.
C. Hoare & Co, England's oldest privately owned bank, has been operating in Fleet Street since 1672. Child & Co, now a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Bank of Scotland, claims it is the oldest continuous banking establishment in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1580 and has been based at No.1 Fleet Street, adjacent to Temple Bar, since 1673. The law firm Freshfields moved to No. 65 Fleet Street in 1990.
Cultural references
The barber Sweeney Todd is traditionally said to have lived and worked in Fleet Street in the 18th century, where he would murder customers and serve their remains as pie fillings. An urban myth example of a serial killer, the character appears in various English language works starting in the mid-19th century. Adaptations of the story include the 1936 George King film, the 1979 Stephen Sondheim musical, and the 2007 Tim Burton film based on the musical, all titled Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Fleet Street is mentioned in several of Charles Dickens's works. The eponymous club in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, more commonly known as The Pickwick Papers, is set in the street, as is Tellson's Bank in A Tale of Two Cities. The poet John Davidson wrote two works in the late 19th century titled the Fleet Street Eclogues. Arthur Ransome has a chapter in his Bohemia in London (1907) about earlier inhabitants of the street: Ben Jonson, the lexicographer Doctor Samuel Johnson, Coleridge, Hazlitt and Lamb; and about Temple Bar and the Press Club.
Fleet Street is a square on the British Monopoly board, in a group with the Strand and Trafalgar Square. One of the Chance cards in the game, "You Have Won A Crossword Competition, collect £100" was inspired by rival competitions and promotions between Fleet Street-based newspapers in 1930s, particularly the Daily Mail and Daily Express.
(Wikipedia)
Fleet Street ist eine Straße in der City of London, England. An ihrem westlichen Ende befindet sich der Grenzpunkt zur City of Westminster, die Temple Bar, an dem die Fleet Street zum Strand wird. Benannt ist die Straße nach dem Fluss River Fleet, der unterirdisch kanalisiert wurde.
Fleet Street war seit dem 18. Jahrhundert traditionell die Heimat der britischen Presse. Bereits die erste Tageszeitung Englands, der Daily Courant, hatte ab 1702 ihren Redaktionssitz in einem Gebäude in der Fleet Street. In den nächsten fast 300 Jahren gesellten sich viele weitere Zeitungen und Nachrichtenagenturen hinzu. Dies änderte sich erst, als der Medienunternehmer Rupert Murdoch 1986 mit dem Umzug seiner Pressegruppe nach Wapping begann. Heute sind in die Gebäude vor allem Anwaltbüros und Gerichtskanzleien eingezogen. Obwohl die meisten großen Tageszeitungen und Nachrichtenagenturen unterdessen weggezogen sind, wird Fleet Street immer noch als Synonym für die britische Presse benutzt.
(Wikipedia)
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Model: MAN TGX 26.480 Euro6 6X2/2 BLS
VIN: WMA24XZZ1FW203382
1. Registration: 2014-11-07
Company: ERA-Transport, Odense SØ (DK)
Fleet No.: E 34
Nickname: -
License plates: AR29967 (nov. 2014-dec. 2018)
Previous reg.: n/a
Later reg.: CJ44679 (apr. 2019-jan. 2022)
Retirement age: 7 y 2 mo*
Photo location: Motorway 501 (Aarhus Syd Motorvejen), Viby J, Aarhus, DK
*retirement date very recent, so may still return to service.
When ERA-Transport was bought by, and merged into AncoTrans in mid 2018, this MAN, like many others, followed along, but in the months that followed, some of the assets were sold on, including this one. It was bought in spring 2019 by Thomas B. Pedersen out of Odense, given a new red/silver livery and fleet number "TBP 12" (photo here flic.kr/p/2o2SZxZ ) and remained there until retired in January 2022.
Going up the steep hill leading sw out of Aarhus past Viby and Stautrup. Underpowered and/or heavily loaded trucks often struggle here.
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Retirement age for trucks: many used trucks are offered for sale on international markets. If sold to a foreign buyer, this will not be listed in the danish motor registry, so a "retired" truck may or may not have been exported. In other words, the "retirement age" only shows the age, at which the truck stopped running on danish license plates.