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Warm evening light on Flint Castle which stands on the Western shore of the River Dee estuary. The castle was built in the 13th Century as part of King Edward I's campaign to conquer Wales.
Excavated from site E2875 Ballymount, N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme, Contract 5.
Photographed by: Sara Nylund, 2009
Client: Kildare County Council
Funding body: National Roads Authority (NRA) with funds from the NDP and Transport 21
A 1967 Chevrolet Chevy II Nova SS, cruising westward on First Street from Saginaw St.
Downtown Flint, Michigan.
Thursday, August 16, 2019
I loved eating at the Lunch Studio for the first time. This charming, retro-themed, downtown restaurant had table service, delicious food, and very reasonable prices.
A place like this would have been unheard of in the downtown area when I was a teenager in the late 1980's / early 90's.
Downtown Flint, Michigan.
Saturday, August 16, 2014.
Mass Transportation Authority is based in Flint, MI.
MTA 2150 is a 2001 Blue Bird CS transit bus
MTA 2150 at the Flint Maintenance Centre on Friday, October 17th, 2014.
A sepia view of the powerhouse and dam at Georgia Power Flint River hydroelectric power plant in Albany, Georgia.
1284-2024 Flint Castle is also famous as the location of a fateful meeting in 1399 between Richard II and his rival to the crown Henry Bolingbroke (later Henry IV), an event immortalised in Shakespeare’s Richard II.
Flint Castle North Wales
www.greatcastlesofwales.co.uk/flint.htm
The castle, as all the other Edward I's castles, was built on the coast to be easiest supplied by sea and occupies a promontory that juts into the river Dee large estuary. Today the river is far from the castle walls, in the middle age it filled the moat at high tide and beside the keep was found a dock where ships berthing and this saved the castle by the attack of Dafydd ap Gruffudd in 1282 and in 1400 by the one of Owain Glyndwr. During the Civil War Flint changed hands several times. It was strongly slighted and used as a quarry for the town houses.
FLINT KNAPPER
The struck flakes are translucent
As fingernails, the same size,
And curved like them, knapped
Onto the ground with sparks.
Held up to the light, against
His stone-chafed thumb,
He scrutinises fissures
And imperfections.
This little skin-thin blade
Rejected, flipped into the ling,
The edge left unserrated
For the sake of a single chip.
And though the tip is marred,
And this thin sliver but
A Bronze Age factory second
The height of history makes me faint;
I treasure what was cast aside
Dizzied by the vertigo of years.
Source material: Inspired by a bronze age scraper which I found on East Porth, Samson, Isles of Scilly on 1st June 2004. The scraper had no secondary working, and had clearly been rejected because of the flaw at its tip.
Clothes and shoes! Sadly his eyes nor his wig have arrived yet. The Fairyland eyes aren't to bad but I love glass eyes so much more... he's still deadly cute though :-)
Every man at different times—and at different volumes—eventually hears that... call of the wild.
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