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Part of a large batch of vintage negatives I purchased at an estate sale. They seem to be mostly NJ, 1930s and 1940s. If you recognize a building, please comment and let me know where it is.
Founded in 1824, whisky from the Cardhu distillery now makes up a large part of Johnnie Walker's blended whisky. They also distill their own single malt (starting in 2006), which is pretty damn good.
There are a lot of things sad about this letter. The content itself is sad. The font is sad.
The writer's reasons are banal and she expresses them in banal prose - that in itself is touching, that she's pouring her heart out in the basic workmanlike style of the form letter.
But it's the fact that she typed it that really gets me. I have an image in my mind of Georgia Ann leaned over an old IBM word processor (the kind that lets you see the words on a tiny little screen before it prints them like a typewriter), composing a letter that will end an entire era of a man's life.
Nothing found on the back indicating who this man was. The photographer is S,B. Van Ness Photograoher out of Great Bend, PA
Not sure of the date either. My best guess is somewhere between 1880-1900. If anyone could date this for me I would appreciate it.
Photograph was bought at a flea market on Sunday June 1, 2008 at the Regional Market in Syracuse, NY
So i finally found a BP petrol station and in my opinion, it wasn't a good one; until night fell that is.
Quite happy with this shot. Only a digital image, but i have a film shot too.
All comments welcome.
Found 126-format Kodachrome slide dated July 1968. At first glance it looks to be the same as THIS GROUP taken a year earlier, but closer inspection shows that only three of them are the same. (and only one is wearing the same dress).
Found 126-format Kodachrome slide dated June 1967 showing a young girl with an older woman outside a church.
The Bass Hall performance center facade, seen through a window in Barnes & Noble bookstore in Fort Worth, Texas.
Sony RX100
Found Agfachrome slide dated February 1984 showing the view from the stern of a ship. Norwegian fjords perhaps?
Part of a large batch of vintage negatives I purchased at an estate sale. They seem to be mostly NJ, 1930s and 1940s. If you recognize a building, please comment and let me know where it is.
Found Fujichrome slide dated January 1989 showing a sign "Stanhope". Stanhope is a village in the Derbyshire Peak District.
I recently purchased a bag of negatives at an estate sale. Most are WW2 era photos taken in Germany. I'll add more information as I'm able to identify locations.
A slide of St Ives in 1962 from someone's holiday in Cornwall. In a Kodachrome II cardboard mount hand inscribed "St Ives 1962".
The Sloop Inn is one of the oldest in Cornwall, dating from c. 1312
Amongst a batch of slides I found in a Paterson slide box I bought in a charity shop some years ago. Some were from Cornwall and the Scilly Isles, some from a boat trip on the Soar and Trent and others from Paris. Cornwall and Paris are dated 1962, the Soar and Trent ones 1963.
York was already an important centre in Roman times, when it was known under the name of Eboracum. The Vikings, who took over the area later from the Angels , in turn adapted the name to Norse Jórvík.
After the Anglian settlement York was first capital of Deira and later Northumbria, and by the early 7th century, York was an important royal centre for the Northumbrian kings. Following the Norman Conquest York was substantially damaged in response to regional revolt. Two castles were erected in the city on either side of the River Ouse. In time York became an important urban centre as the administrative centre of the county of Yorkshire, as the seat of an archbishop, and at times in the later 13th and 14th centuries as an alternative seat of royal government. It was an important trading centre.
York prospered during much of the later medieval era; the later years of the 14th and the earlier years of the 15th centuries were characterised by particular prosperity. During the English Civil War, the city was regarded as a Royalist stronghold and was besieged and eventually captured by Parliamentary forces under Lord Fairfax in 1644. After the war, York retained its pre-eminence in the North, and, by 1660, was the third-largest city in England after London and Norwich.
The first church here was founded in 1055 and dedicated to Saint Olaf. After the Norman Conquest the church came into the possession of William the Conquerer´s companion Alan Rufus who granted the lands to Abbot Stephen from Whitby. In 1089 the foundation stone of the new Norman church was laid. The foundation ceremony was attended by bishop Odo of Bayeux and Archbishop Thomas of Bayeux. The monks moved to York from a site at Lastingham. In 1137 the abbey was badly damaged by a great fire. The surviving ruins date from a rebuilding programme finished by 1294.
St Mary's Abbey was the largest and richest Benedictine establishment in the north of England and one of the largest landholders in Yorkshire. During the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII; it was closed and subsequently substantially destroyed. In November1539 the Abbey surrendered £2,085 and 50 monks to the Crown.
The Rotor programme was developed to advance the wartime radar technology in detecting and locating fast-flying jets. It was approved by the Air Council in June 1950. The first stage of the programme, Rotor 1, was to technically restore existing Chain Home, centrimetric early warning, Chain Home Extra Low and Ground Controlled Interception Stations and put them under the control of RAF Fighter Command. There were three main components to the Rotor Stations: the technical site, including the radars, operation blocks and other installations; the domestic site, where personnel were accommodated; and the stand-by set house, a reserve power supply. The technical site for RAF Neatishead Rotor Station was located at TG 346 184. Crew were accommodated at RAF Coltishall and the stand-by set house was located at TG 342 200.
The two main constructions at Rotor stations were the operations block and guardhouse. Operations blocks were the largest structures built at Rotor stations. They were constructed of reinforced concrete and designed to withstand 2,000lb bombs. The outer walls and roof of the Rotor operations blocks were 9ft 10in thick and the internal walls between 5.9in to 1ft 11in metres wide. The exterior was coated with an asphalt damp course and surrounded by a 5.9in brick wall. The roof was usually flush with the ground surface and up to 14 ft 2in of earth was mounded on top. The operations blocks, identified by a 'R' prefix, contained technical equipment, domestic facilities, workshops and a plant for air conditioning and gas filtration, all within a single complex.
Four of the blocks (R1-R4) were underground constructions designed for the more vulnerable sites on the east and south-east coasts. Others were semi-submerged (R6) or above ground (R5, R7-R11) heavily protected structures built to withstand 1,000lb bombs. The guardhouses were designed to resemble ''bungalows''. They were single-storey buildings capped with a flat, concrete roof, above which a pitched roof contained water tanks. They were generally constructed of brick, but were built to blend in with the local architectural style. The guard rooms also contained an armoury, store, rest room and lavatories. Those associated with underground operations blocks featured a projecting rear annex that housed a stairwell leading down to an access tunnel.
Aerial photography from 1965 shows the R3 operations bunker at the site, as well as a Type 13, a Type 7 and four Type 14 radar plinths. A range of ancillary buildings survive. The area is part of an active base and museum. In March 1947 the station was established as a Sector Operations Centre. Between 1961 to 1963 the station was reduced to care and maintenance and was then reopened as a Master Radar Station. A fire in 1966 destroyed the underground operations complex and the station was closed until 1974 with a new data-handling system occupying the original Happidrome. In 1994 the Air Defence Radar Museum opened at the site, which also continues to serve as an operational base.
Personal experience of working at Neatishead communicated by email states ''I was posted there as a sgt in 1973 and it was fully operational, T85, T84, HF200 and more all working. Furthermore, the other half of my Locking entry was posted there in 1971 and all worked on the operational radars, txs and rxs. I left in 1976 and visited again in 1977. T85, stuff of legends, 60Mw with all 12 Txs running''. Detailed history of the 50 years of the founding of RAF Neatishead 1941-1991. R30 operations room, R12 Radar equipment building and R3 underground operations block; Listed. For the designation records of this site please see The National Heritage List for England. Decommissioned 2006 and sold. Feb 2013, 25 acres of the site were again sold. The Air Defence Radar Museum was not part of the sale.
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