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Let’s Make America Grade Again.
This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera with a Carl Zeiss Distagon 1:4 f=50mm lens and Zenza Bronica 67mm SY48•2C(Y2) filter using Adox CHS 50 ART film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
The Grade II* Listed Holy Trinity Church, in Swallow a village in West Lindsey, Lincolnshire.
The oldest part of the church dates from the period of the Norman conquest or perhaps slightly earlier. The lower portion of the tower is in Saxo-Norman style; the west door has a rounded Romanesque arch, as has the window above it. The much wider arch dividing the tower from the nave has typically Norman dog-tooth carving, but this may be partly or wholly Victorian restoration.
A carving on the south wall of the tower may be part of the original 14th-century rood, thought to be broken during the Reformation. William Andrew, the rector from 1564 to 1612, supported the reformation and may have been responsible both for this and for the change of dedication from St Salvatoris to Holy Trinity. The remains of the rood were unearthed in the churchyard and placed in the tower early in the 20th century.
In 1553 the church was reported to have three "gert bells" and one sanctus bell. However, the steeple collapsed sometime before 1663, and falling bells destroyed the south aisle. In 1670 both aisles were demolished and the following year the three bells were sold to cover the £140 cost of demolition and restoration, an incident referred to in the local rhyme:
“You must pity poor Swallow people
Who sold the bells to mend the steeple”
Sir Philip Tyrwhitt, who paid the cost initially, reportedly bought one bell and undertook to buy another. The bell was cast by Thomas Warner and Sons of London in 1864. The steeple was again restored in 1868, when the upper part of the tower was built in neo-Norman style.
The nave was originally built in the 13th century, but much of the current construction is Victorian. The carving around the south door dates from the 1880s. The font is genuinely Norman, dating from the late 11th or early 12th century.
Information Source:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow,_Lincolnshire
britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101165346-church-of-holy-tri...
With the impressive Grade 1 listed St Andrew's Church at Helpringham in the distance, Freightliner Class 66/5 No. 66528 Madge Elliot MBE - Borders Railway Opening 2015 passes by with 4L85, the 11:18 Tinsley – Felixstowe North intermodal working on 24th March 2023.
A small business jet can be seen close to the edge of the top of frame.
A cool and cloudy day in the UK today - although there’s the potential for a damaging weather event later on. Either way, it’s an ideal opportunity to take my new British Retro skirt out for a spin. I have several tartan items in my collection now, but I’m loving the muted grey and purple colours of this one.
At 02:40 in the morning, a mid-spring snow storm is seen laying down a good amount of snow in the higher elevations of the Allegheny Mountains of western Pennsylvania.
In this middle of the night time long exposure, a unknown westbound Norfolk Southern train struggles up the 1.7% grade on #2 track past the tower and eastbound signals at Middle Grade Tower (MG).
The train was lead by NS 2645 & GMTX 9094, with helpers 6325 & 6310 shoving on the rear as they struggled on wet rail, heavy fog, and falling snow.
Looking for all purposes like a ghost, MG Tower stands in the fog as the PRR Position lights glow with the passage of another train while the lights of the helpers "help" to light up the scene.
First off, photographed with permission as it is on private property. Neat old grader, no builder information available, it was animal towed and converted to be machine towed. Fascinating piece of antique machinery. Click to view it fullsize.
The Saluda Grade is the steepest standard-gauge mainline railway in the USA and opened in July 1878. The three mile railway grade ranged from 3.7%- 4.7%.
The railway line was constructed to connect Spartanburg, South Carolina, Asheville and North Carolina through the Blue Ridge Mountains. It has been out of service since 2001.
Since 2001 the vibrant green vegetation around the railway has started to rapidly grow over the tracks and in some sections completely engulfed the railway. Beneath some of the railway it has been heavily eroded, which has caused many railway ties to become detached from the railway lines.
Teaching is great, but grading, not so much. Today's grading challenge is getting through a stack of midterms. Not sure that I'm going to make it.
Taken for OurDailyChallenge: Your Daily Challenge.
A McCloud River Berry Job grinds away up the grade from Lake Britton. The train is nearing Cayton siding, where a diatomaceous earth reload was established in 1986.
Old towed grader rusting away next to one of dozens of barracks buildings on the mostly abandoned Army Air Corps base in the Utah salt desert, Wendover, Utah.
to see more of this important atomic bomb base check out my album here: www.flickr.com/photos/19779889@N00/albums/72157601973705978
Happy Window Wednesday!
For the Saluda Grade faithful: This tunnel/underpass goes under Saluda grade, it allows Pearson Falls Road to pass under the grade while bridging Joel's Creek. Fascinating find whule checking out Saluda Grade. Saluda Grade is the steepest standard-gauge mainline railway grade in the United States. Owned by the Norfolk Southern Railway as part of its W Line, Saluda Grade in Polk County, North Carolina, gains 606 feet (185 m) in elevation in less than three miles between Melrose and Saluda. Average grade is 4.24 percent for 2.6 miles (4.2 km) and maximum is 4.9% for about 300 feet (91 m).
CN 2016 leads an ore train down the grade to Two Harbors, MN, where the cars will be pushed onto the ore dock and dumped to fill the pockets on the dock in order to load the lakeboats.
Five of New Jersey's iconic Arrow III MUs destined for the rural hills of Somerset County zip west through the Lackawanna Railroad's historic Roseville Cut.
This feat of railroad engineering was part of a massive grade separation project started in 1901 to remove all at-grade road crossings on the Morris & Essex branch between Newark and South Orange with a combination of cuts, bridges and elevation. The train is seen here running just east of the former Roseville Avenue Station, the station in which the cut received its name.
NJT 433 @ Roseville Cut, Newark, NJ
NJTR Arrow III 1321
This toy Road Grader is around 57-58 years old
Almost as old as i am !
I am very proud to see that it survived all the extreme work i gave it in the garden making roads between the cabbages
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As you can see its a bit overdue for a" Dulux Recondition" (repaint). 😄
During the beautiful last light of August 16, 1995, Montana Rail Link's LM (Laurel-Missoula Manifest) crawls up 2.2 percent grade of Mullan Pass at Austin, Montana, with a gleaming F45 No. 391 in the lead.
Circa early 17th century - Flitwick Manor in Flitwick, Bedfordshire on 01 August 2021. Grade II star listed.
Now a hotel and part of the Best Western Premier Collection. Looks rather nice.
Some of the older cars visiting the Flitwick Lockdown Car Show were parked next to the Manor.
The following is from the Historic England website.
Name: FLITWICK MANOR
Designation Type: Listing
Grade: II*
List UID: 1137690
House. Original structure built earlier C17, probably for Edward Blofield. Reworked c.1736, extended late C18 and at various dates in C19. Some reworking 1936 by Sir Albert Richardson. E block is c.1736 of red brick with some vitrified headers, encasing the C17 structure. Later additions also in variety of red brick. 1872 addition of colourwashed concrete blocks. Clay tile roofs. Complex plan, original 2-storeyed block running N-S, with later additions of varying heights to NW, SW and SE angles. E elevation, RH part: 6-bay facade in slightly irregular arrangements. Tall panelled parapet in front of steep-pitched hipped roof. 5 flush sashes per floor, all with glazing bars, under gauged brick flat arches. First floor 2nd bay has blind window. Parapet panels continue the window arrangement. Doorway to ground floor 2nd bay. 6-moulded-panel door in moulded surround with open pediment on cut brackets. Brick bands at first floor and eaves level. Substantial C17 red brick ridge stack of 4 linked square-section shafts. E elevation LH part: reworked and extended late C18 and C19, to form pair of projecting gables. RH gable retains C18 work at junction with main elevation, the front part of the gable being of later C19 chequered brick. Flush sashes to earlier part, sash in reveals to later part, all with glazing bars. LH gable, apparently late C18, has blind window to each floor. Its S elevation has 2- storeyed canted bay, with sashes with glazing bars under gauged brick flat heads. N elevation: 2 storeys and attics. Mansard roof behind plain parapet. Centre of wall partly rebuilt 1936. Sash windows with glazing bars, 4 to ground floor, 5 to first floor. First floor ones are flush sashes under gauged brick flat heads. LH one narrower than others. Ground floor ones C19 under cambered heads. Attic has 3 box dormers with 3-light leaded casements. Integral brick stacks and brick coping to both gables. S elevation: 1872 qabled addition has canted bay to ground floor, tripartite sash with glazing bars to first floor, and pierced decorative bargeboards. SW block: now dining room, retains original 2-light Gothick window to E gable attic. Others replaced with Venetian windows in 1936. Interior: main block entrance hall has inglenook fireplace served by the C17 stack, and C17 half-height panelling. Main block RH ground floor room has mid C18 panelling and moulded cornice. Plainer panelling to room above. Ground floor SE room (with canted bay) has late C18 Adam style decoration with pilasters and cornice. Fairly plain C18 and C19 staircases.
The church is a grade I listed building situated on the west bank of the River Sowe at the southern end of the village, surrounded by an extensive churchyard. Built of red sandstone ashlar, it consists of chancel, north chapel, vestry, nave, south aisle, and west tower, and dates from the latter part of the 12th century.
This photograph was taken with a Pentax 6 x 7 medium format camera and a 55mm wide angle lens fitted with an orange filter. The film was Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO and professionally developed and scanned.
Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1270186
Date First Listed : 20 June 1972
This mid 19th century public house contains some 18th-century material, and is rendered with a slate roof. The main part has two storeys and three bays. In the left bay is a cart entrance, to the right is a doorway with a segmental head approached by two steps, and flanked by two casement windows. In the upper floor are sash windows. To the right is a three-storey bay with a casement window in each floor.