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This is the gate to the private driveway that I took to access the nude beach. I knew where the nude beach was but I could not figure out how to access it. Internet instructions are not clear at all and the few visitors I saw leaving at the cliff-top were heading south.
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Richard William Gates III, aka Rick Gates, is a former campaign manager for the Trump 2016 campaign and deputy chairman of the Donald Trump Inaugural Committee who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the United States and making false statements.
This caricature of Rick Gates is an original Photoshop painting. The body was adapted from a photo in the public domain from The White House Flickr photostream.
Not where I live but "Mother Nature" does. I visit my son there. He has seen ... rattlesnake, coyotes , 2 bobcats , owls, rabbits, woodpeckers, many lizards, bats , baby bats, scorpions.
Sounds like fun!
Welton Gate Box is situated between Melton Lane and Brough on the Gilberdyke to Hull line.
The gates are normally closed to road users and the signals in the off position. Because of the close proximity of the boxes to one another we see Melton Lane's distant signal sharing the same posts as Welton's home signal. in the opposite direction Brough Easts distant signal is similarly mounted beneath Welton's home peg.
Here the driver gives a wave as 185126 glides by the crossing at 15.19 hrs with 1K16 the 13.41 Manchester Piccadily - Hull Paragon service, seen on Friday 31st July 2015.
Another rest day !!! That's two in two weeks.
I'm very conscious that whilst I have these signalling riches on my doorstep I need to get them visited as soon enough I'll be moving on and they'll be a whole lot trickier to find time to visit. Rest days are few and far between but a concerted effort needs to be made to get out more with the camera.
This one saw a very leisurely start visiting in this order
Hull Paragon
Hessle Road
Welton Gate Box
Melton Lane
Crabley Creek
Five very different boxes
I took a myriad of shots , if and when time allows I'll return with more signalling type shots but for now I have just posted one for each location and all featuring a train.
All visited on Friday 31st July 2015
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lions Gate Bridge
Lions Gate Bridge from the south end in Stanley Park
Coordinates 49°18′55″N 123°8′18″WCoordinates: 49°18′55″N 123°8′18″W
Carries Three lanes of British Columbia Highway 1A/99, pedestrians and bicycles
Crosses Burrard Inlet
Locale Vancouver
West Vancouver
Official name First Narrows Bridge
Maintained by British Columbia Ministry of Transportation
Characteristics
Design Suspension bridge
Total length 1,823 m (5,981 ft)
Height 111 m (364 ft)
Longest span 473 m (1,552 ft)
Load limit 13 tonnes (12.8 long tons; 14.3 short tons)
Clearance below 61 m (200 ft)
History
Designer Charles Nicholas Monsarrat
Philip Louis Pratley
Construction begin March 31, 1937
Opened November 14, 1938
Statistics
Daily traffic 60,000 – 70,000
National Historic Site of Canada
Official name Lions Gate Bridge National Historic Site of Canada
Designated 24 March 2005
Reference no. 11711
Lions Gate Bridge is located in Vancouver
Lions Gate Bridge
Location of Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver
The Lions Gate Bridge, opened in 1938, officially known as the First Narrows Bridge,[1] is a suspension bridge that crosses the first narrows of Burrard Inlet and connects the City of Vancouver, British Columbia, to the North Shore municipalities of the District of North Vancouver, the City of North Vancouver, and West Vancouver. The term "Lions Gate" refers to The Lions, a pair of mountain peaks north of Vancouver. Northbound traffic on the bridge heads in their general direction. A pair of cast concrete lions, designed by sculptor Charles Marega, were placed on either side of the south approach to the bridge in January 1939.[2]
The total length of the bridge including the north viaduct is 1,823 m (5,981 ft). The length including approach spans is 1,517.3 m (4,978 ft), the main span alone is 473 m (1,552 ft), the tower height is 111 m (364 ft), and it has a ship's clearance of 61 m (200 ft). Prospect Point in Stanley Park offered a good high south end to the bridge, but the low flat delta land to the north required construction of the extensive North Viaduct.
The bridge has three reversible lanes, the use of which is indicated by signals. The centre lane changes direction to accommodate for traffic patterns. The traffic volume on the bridge is 60,000 - 70,000 vehicles per day. Trucks exceeding 13 tonnes (12.8 long tons; 14.3 short tons) are prohibited, as are vehicles using studded tires. The bridge forms part of Highways 99 and 1A.
On March 24, 2005, the Lions Gate Bridge was designated a National Historic Site of Canada.[3]
History
Starting about 1890, bridge builders saw that a bridge across the first narrows was becoming a possibility. There were a number who argued against its construction, as many felt it would ruin Stanley Park or cause problems for the busy seaport or that it would take toll revenue away from the Second Narrows Bridge. However, many others saw it as necessary in order to open up development on the North Shore and it was felt that these problems could be overcome. The decision was put to the electorate of Vancouver in 1927, but the first plebiscite was defeated and the idea was put to rest for a short while.
Alfred James Towle Taylor, who had been part of this proposal and still owned the provincial franchise to build the bridge, did not have the finances to purchase the necessary large sections of property in North Vancouver and West Vancouver. However, he was able to convince the Guinness family (of the Irish stout fame) to invest in the land on the north shore of Burrard Inlet. They purchased 4,700 acres (1,902 ha) of West Vancouver mountainside through a syndicate called British Pacific Properties Ltd.
On December 13, 1933, a second plebiscite was held and this time, it was passed by a 2 to 1 margin. After considerable further negotiations with the federal government, approval was finally granted, with the requirement that Vancouver materials and workmen be used as much as possible to provide employment during the Great Depression. The 1933 bylaw authorizing construction included a provision mandating that “no Asiatic person shall be employed in or upon any part of the undertaking or other works.”[4]
The bridge was designed by the Montreal firm Monsarrat and Pratley, which was later responsible for the Angus L. Macdonald Bridge in Halifax, Nova Scotia using a similar design. Other companies involved in the construction of the bridge include: Swan Wooster Engineering, Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin Inc., Canron Western Constructors, Dominion Bridge Company, American Bridge Company.[5]
Construction began on March 31, 1937. After one and a half years and a cost of $5,873,837.17 (CAD), it opened to traffic on November 14, 1938. On May 29, 1939, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth presided over the official opening during a royal visit to Canada. A toll of 25 cents was charged for each car. On January 20, 1955, the Guinness family sold the bridge to the province for $5,959,060, and on April1, 1963 the toll was removed. The newly constructed bridge differed from the current configuration of the bridge as it originally had only two lanes. Yet, as had been foreseen, West Vancouver’s population boomed as a result of the new connection. Thus, to accommodate the increased population, the lanes were divided into three with the middle lane acting as a passing lane. Eventually overhead lane control signals were installed, enabling traffic in the centre lane to be directed in either direction, and facilitating emergency vehicle access by closing off the center lane.
Another difference with the original configuration was that in an effort to recover the expenditure it cost to build the bridge, the Guinness family had toll booths installed. The toll remained on the bridge until April 1, 1963. Changes were made shortly after, as the tolls were removed and overhead lane controls were added. The Guinness family's last involvement with the bridge happened in 1986, when they added lights to the bridge as an Expo '86 gift.[citation needed]
In 1975, the deteriorating north viaduct was replaced with a lighter, wider, and stronger steel deck with wider lanes. This was carried out in sections using a series of short closures of the bridge; each time, one old section was lowered from the bridge and its replacement was put into place.
In 1986 the Guinness family, as a gift to Vancouver, purchased decorative lights that make it a distinctive nighttime landmark. In July 2009, the bridge's lighting system was updated with new LED lights to replace this existing system of 100-watt mercury vapour bulbs. The switch to LEDs is expected to reduce power consumption on the bridge by 90 per cent and save the Province about $30,000 a year in energy and maintenance costs. The approximate cost of this project was $150,000, paid for by the ministry and B.C. Hydro. "The average replacement time of one of the traditional light bulbs was about 72 hours," said the ministry's Jeff Knight. With the new LED bulbs, which are designed to last 12 years, it could be a decade before any work crew is called out to do a replacement.
By the 1990s, it was time for the bridge to be either significantly upgraded or replaced. A number of different proposals were considered, including building a new bridge beside the existing bridge, building a tunnel from Downtown Vancouver to the north shore, or double decking the existing bridge. However, none of the proposals could overcome the City of Vancouver's objections to any increase in traffic into the downtown core and the province's unwillingness to spend much money on the project. In the end, it was decided to upgrade the existing bridge without adding any new lanes.
Traffic was finding the 2.84 m (9 ft 4 in) wide lanes narrow, and the sidewalks were inadequate for pedestrians and cyclists. As a result, the main bridge deck was replaced in 2000 and 2001 – the first time a suspension bridge's deck had been replaced. As with the earlier work, this was facilitated by a series of separate nighttime and weekend closures to replace one section at a time. The old section would be lowered to a barge, and the new one raised into place and connected. The change allowed the two pedestrian walkways to be moved to the outside of the structure and the road lanes were accordingly widened from 3 to 3.6 m (from 10 to 12 ft) each; the new sidewalks are also wider, 2.7 m (9 ft) each instead of 1.2 m (4 ft). Also, the main structural elements were moved to below the bridge deck, thus giving a much more open appearance. The entire suspended structure was thus replaced with little or no interruption in daytime traffic.[6]
Landmark
The Lions Gate Bridge has become a landmark of Vancouver and the North Shore.
The bridge was featured on the first title card of CBC supper-hour newscast Canada Now, but it was replaced with a local image in several markets.
The bridge is often used in television broadcasts as a symbol of Vancouver; most telecasts of NHL hockey games played in Vancouver show the bridge at least once.
The bridge is the namesake of locally founded film company Lionsgate.
The bridge was featured in a short sequence of the film Drawing Flies.
The bridge was featured in the closing sequence of the film Tron: Legacy, released December 17, 2010.
The bridge was featured as the set of 2011 film Final Destination 5 released August 12, 2011.
The bridge was featured in the closing credits of Da Vinci's Inquest.
Bill Gates boasted that it was his bad influence that caused Steve Ballmer (right) to drop out of the B-School. Is that Melinda in front of Steve?
The India Gate, originally called the All India War Memorial, is a war memorial located astride the Rajpath, on the eastern edge of the ‘ceremonial axis’ of New Delhi, formerly called Kingsway. The names of some 70,000 Indian soldiers who died in World War I, in "France and Flanders, Mesopotamia, and Persia, East Africa, Gallipoli and elsewhere in the near and the far-east", between 1914–19, are inscribed on the memorial arch. In addition, the war memorial bears the names of some 12,516 Indian soldiers who died while serving in "India or the North-west Frontier and during the Third Afghan War".[1] The India Gate war memorial, the architectural style of which has been compared with the Gateway of India in Bombay, and the Napoleonic Arc de Triomphe in Paris, was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.[1]
In 1971, following the Bangladesh Liberation war, a small simple structure, consisting of a black marble plinth, with reversed rifle, capped by war helmet, bounded by four eternal flames, was built beneath the soaring Memorial Archway. This structure, called Amar Jawan Jyoti, or the Flame of the Immortal Soldier, has since 1971 served as India’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
From 1903 to 1957, Spinalonga was turned into a Leper Colony. Lepers on Crete – and later across the whole of Crete - were rounded up and sent to the Island.
When you disembark from the boat onto the island, the path from the jetty almost immediately reaches a opening in the old fortress wall, which leads into a long low tunnel, known as Dante’s Gate. The name comes from Dante’s Inferno, and his description of the gate to hell - inscribed with the words “Abandon hope, all ye who enter here”.
And so – as you disembark and almost immediately plunge into this small low stone tunnel, you sense the fear and trepidation of those arriving as lepers to be locked away on the island.
The island of Spinalonga is located at the eastern section of Crete, near the town of Elounda. The name of the island, Spinalonga, is Venetian, meaning "long thorn".
As a part of the their extensive web of fortifications against the Turkish danger, the Venetians constructed the fortress on Spinalonga in 1579 and provided it with no less than 35 canons. In 1584, realising that the coastal fortifications were easy to conquer by the enemies attacking from the vicinal hills, the Venetians decided to strengthen their defence by constructing new fortifications at the top of the hill.
The Venetian fire would thus have bigger throw, rendering Spinalonga an impregnable sea fortress, one of the most important in the Mediterranean basin.
Following the Turkish occupation of Crete in 1669, only the fortresses of Gramvousa, Souda and Spinalonga remained in Venetian hands; they would remain so for almost half a century. Many Christians found refuge in these fortresses to escape persecution. In 1715, during the Eighth Ottoman–Venetian War, the last remaining Venetian outposts on Crete, including Spinalonga, capitulated in exchange for safe departure of their garrisons.
In spite of all this wonderful history Spinalonga is not most famous for it's fortress and it has a much more gloomy claim to fame. From 1903 to 1957 the island was used as a leper colony. It is notable for being one of the last active leper colonies in Europe. This was a place where people with the disease leprosy were forced to live out their lives away from all human contact until the day they died. The last inhabitant, a priest, left the island in 1962 (this was to maintain the religious tradition of the Greek Orthodox church, in which a buried person has to be commemorated 40 days, 6 months, 1, 3 and 5 years after their death).
The island has an aura that is both macabre and poignant. It is now a ghost town, with many of the buildings falling into disrepair, ruins of old Venetian bastions, and the cemetery, final resting place of many sufferers of the disease.
Follow this link to view Spinalonga island in the Google Maps.
The open gate to an empty parking lot in Dennisport on Cape Cod. (This was early in the day.)
Taken in 1981.
Gate E to Fenway Park on Lansdowne Street -- and the street side of Fenway's Green Monster. Baseball returns with the Red Sox's home opener with the Yankees the first week in April.
Revue 35FC (Halina micro 35) with Agfaphoto vista plus 200. Lab C41 processed and scanned. Mabie Forest 27th June.
K Gate after restoration of the 'K's on display at the British Motor Museum in with a sectioned Mini from 1965
Collection: Longbridge
Date: 2017
Reference Number: BMMExhibition-KGate
To enquire about any of our images or for more information, please contact photo@britishmotormuseum.co.uk or visit our photographic website at www.motorgraphs.com/.
This morning we came across this gate while walking in the countryside, near to Saddington, Leicester-shire.
Taken with a Sigma 10-20.
Gated woods road along PA Route 93, Carbon County, at the summit of Broad Mountain in State Game Land 141.
At first glance, the mountaintop forest seems barren and winterlike. Persistently chilly temperatures (enhanced by the high elevation) have delayed spring leaf-out. Close inspection of the forest floor, however, revealed wildflowers, ferns, and other vegetation returning to life.
Photographed using a Sony RX100 IV in RAW. Developed in DxO PhotoLab 6 with inspiration from the DxO Film Pack Time Machine.
If you can visualize it, there used to be a gate hanging on these old hinges and cedar post. It seperated the old homestead from the work area of a small west texas ranch. If you close your eyes and listen closely, you can hear the old gate squeak and slam as a nine year old boy named Gail would run out of the yard at crack of dawn. Then again followed by his best friend a young hound dog pup. The gate was left ajar as they headed out on some wild adventure or expedition of an old indian burial ground; sometimes he would be off to follow his uncle around the oil patch for the day checking lines and pumps and such. As he left you could hear the sound of his fathers voice yelling out reminding him how he always left the gate open.
These post and hinges witnessed his return everyday with the spoils of those adventures - a baby rabbit, a litter of baby skunks, a horned toad, a grass snake, or an old indian war hatchet.
Then when he was older one day he returned home with his beautiful new bride. Her name was Kathryn. She was his pride and joy. The posts were awestruck at her beauty. And proudly received the new couple into her court yard.
Shortly after they were married Gail left thru the gate again one day to go fight in the world's biggest war in history. He was gone a very long time. The gate wondered if he would ever come back. Its post leaned and it drooped in sadness. Then after several years had past Gail returned again. Looking very sharp and handsome wearing his Class A dress uniform he proudly walked back thru this gate to be reunited with his beautiful young wife. The post stood proudly, the gate performed flawlessly, and the hinges sang his praises as he walked thru at last. Afterwards he and his bride moved to their own place and raised a beautiful family of five children.
The Gate and Post continued in their service as Gail's dad (Ira) would rise every morning and pass thru this gate to saddle his horse (Bill) and go work the cattle, feed the horses , mend the fences, and do whatever needed doing.
His wife (Laura) had died two weeks after giving birth to Gail in an old Log Cabin across the other side of the creek from this place. Ira had bought this house in the Town of Ranger, Texas and moved it here from over 20 miles away and put it on the back side of the ranch. He built a picket fence and this gate around the back of the house which faced west.
He was a man of solitude, a man of good character and great sense of humor, and a resourceful man. He loved his son, the land, the cattle, and his horse. Everyone called him Iry. His wife had died just two weeks after giving birh to their only child. So he remained a widower and raised Gail. He worked the land and cattle all the rest of his life. He was a true cowboy.
When Iry left for the nursing home the place was ok at first. Family came by to check on things. The horse (Bill) was fed, the cows were fed and cared for. After a long while when it was obvious that Iry wasn't coming back. The Old gate began to grieve and in tears the hinges were rusted and the old gate was dislodged from its place.
After many years these old post remain waiting for his return, longing to perform their service. On a windy day you can hear the old hinges singing their mournful song as they blow in the wind.