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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.
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.
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.
CSXT West Springfield to Selkirk manifest train M425 is sliding into view coming down the 1.3% grade into town on Main 1. They will pull up to the interlocking and hold while the Housatonic crew performs their work and presumably to wait for eastbound counterpart M424 which was already by Post Road Junction. This is the classic view toward 1791 ft Day Mountain in Dalton was taken from the Junction Road overpass at CP147 on modern day CSXT’s Berkshire Subdivision, the one time Boston and Albany Railroad mainline.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Sunday, July 14, 2024
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.
Warm light highlights Liverpool's most iconic building - the Royal Liver Building.
The Royal Liver Building is a Grade I listed building located in Liverpool, England. It is part of Liverpool's UNESCO designated World Heritage Maritime Mercantile City. Today the Royal Liver Building is one of the most recognizable landmarks in the city of Liverpool.
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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.
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The lone Grade II listed bottle oven in an advanced state of disrepair dates back to 1832 and is said to be the oldest still standing in the Potteries. It was refurbished in 2007 following a grant of £300,000 from English Heritage and is part of the remnants of the Top Bridge pottery works built in 1773 by Edward Bourne. The history of the three adjoining C18th pottery works (or 'potbanks' as they are referred to locally) the Royal Bradwell, Longport and Top Bridge works is quite complicated and mirrors the histories of most of the manufacturers in The Potteries. The three potbanks on this site were built at different times and evolved organically along the Newcastle to Burslem road, with wharfage at the rear on the Trent & Mersey canal. Small pottery companies have existed in the Brownhills area at Trubshaw Cross, Staffordshire for 350 years or more. The origins of Bradwell Pottery can be traced back to the Elers brothers who brought over the salt glazing process from their native Holland in the C17th. Another family dynasty which lasted right up to 2003 was founded by Ralph Wood who was apprenticed to Master Potter John Astbury in 1730 at the age of 15. Ralph Wood's great nephew John Wood established his own pottery at the Bradwell Works in 1787 and contemporary news sheets reported that his son Ralph Wood III 'continued the firm after his father's murder' - dangerous business, this pottery thing! In the C19th the Wood family were in business as Capper and Wood Ltd at the Royal Bradwell Pottery producing teapots. Arthur Wood became sole owner in 1904 and took over the rest of the Longport Pottery works in 1924. It had been established in 1772 by John Brindley, younger brother of James Brindley Engineer who constructed the Trent & Mersey Canal which opened from Burton-on-Trent as far as Stoke in the same year. The Top Bridge and Longport works were both acquired by John Davenport in 1794 specialising in the production of creamware, later introducing bone china and glass blowing on the same site. John Davenport's sons continued the business until 1887 when the Longport works was sold to Thomas Hughes who already occupied Top Bridge next door and he renamed it Unicorn Pottery. In 1896 Top Bridge was purchased by Price Brothers Burslem Ltd, in turn becoming part of the Arthur Wood Group in 1934. Three years later Arthur's son Gerald Wood bought a controlling interest in Kensington Pottery Ltd, Hanley and moved production into Top Bridge Works alongside Price Bros. In December 1961 the two occupants of the site were amalgamated as Price & Kensington Potteries Ltd and concentrated on the production of tea and coffee sets, renaming the works 'Price's National Teapots'. Changes in lifestyle and foreign competition saw a decreasing demand in the 1990's and unfortunately the Arthur Wood Group went into Receivership in 2003. The brand passed to Rayware Ltd who continue to use the name today on product made in China. The site with the three adjacent potbanks was acquired by Middlesex based property developer Charles Lewis & Co. The historic site has been allowed to progress to a state of terminal dereliction; a process accelerated by a criminally negligent owner, arsonists, petty thieves stealing the fabric of the building brick by brick and capped by Stoke City Council which demolished the main part of Price's National Teapot Works despite the Grade II listing, over a weekend in 2019 because it was deemed unsafe. Taken with a 1976 Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Alpha 1 on Polaroid (TIP) film
Stanford Hall is a stately home in Leicestershire, near the village of Stanford on Avon (which is in Northamptonshire) and the town of Lutterworth.
Ancestral home of the Cave family from c. 1430, the hall was built in the 1690s for Sir Roger Cave, 2nd Baronet. Described by Simon Jenkins as the "perfect William and Mary house", the architect was William Smith of Warwick.
The River Avon flows through the grounds, with a weir downstream, so a small lake is formed.
The aviation pioneer Percy Pilcher built some of his early gliders here in the 1890s; he also built a powered flying machine here that many historians believe was capable of flight, but he was killed nearby in an accident in 1899 before he could try it. An exact replica of Pilcher's "The Hawk" glider is exhibited at the hall.
The stables were added to the east side of the house in 1737 by Francis Smith, who planned a balancing block of offices on the west side, but this was never built.
Mersey Ferries Seacombe Ferry Terminal on reopening day – October 17, 2022. The terminal had been closed for refurbishment since November 2020.
The building is Grade II listed
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Seacombe Ferry and omnibus terminus was constructed between 1930-3 to designed by L St G Wilkinson, the Wallasey Borough Surveyor for the municipally owned Wallasey Ferries and Corporation Motors. These were incorporated into the Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive (MPTE) in 1969 with the combined Birkenhead and Wallasey Ferries being rebranded as Mersey Ferries. Following bus deregulation The MPTE became Merseytravel.
Comprises brick with Portland stone dressings; tiled roofs. Two ranges, one of a single story parallel to the Mersey containing booking and entrance halls, the other returning, of two storeys, containing waiting rooms, workshops and offices which are now being repurpsed as the Eureka Science attraction due to open in 2023.
Both ranges connected by a loggia (defining two sides of a courtyard bus station), supported by paired Doric columns. The riverside range with deep hipped roof and monumental central clock tower, the latter slightly tapering to upper courses, the clock faces over ventilation slits contained within superordinate arches, the stepped plinth, with stripped classical detailing, of stone; all this over a broken pedimented projecting entrance block (all stone) with tall round-headed arch.
Loggia of 3-bays to either side with clerestory windows containing iron chevron- patterned glazing bars. The return range of eleven bays, similarly fenestrated to both ground and 1st floors, with doors treated in the same manner. Outer bays with overhanging eaves; central bays with stepped parapets surmounted by urns and central flagstaff over municipal coat of arms.
Contemporary fittings include bronze lamps. Interior: hall with massive unadorned round-headed arches of three orders (to front range); tie-rod roof; part-glazed.
Several contemporary features include ticket offices with chevron and other art-deco style glazing patterns. A fine restrained composition in the simplified classical style popular at the time. Historical note: the first commercial shore- based Radar station in the world for the navigation of ships was installed at the Seacombe Terminal buildings in 1947.
(Notes from Historic England)
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). 😄
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.
An eastbound Scoot charges up the hill at Mill Neck Curve, braving the wintry conditions. The trees are white with snow on this gorgeous afternoon.
Pulling the grade out of Creston,IL is UP 8196 east, a new ES44AC with a heavy stack load from Global III to West Chicago.
47826 crosses the River Dee approaching Hawarden Bridge station with the Branch Line Society Railtour The Ruby Valentine. The tour was welcomed to the station by a party of cyclists who had stopped wondering why all these people were at the station. Sadly the railtour derailed just around the corner, in Dee Marsh Sidings, curtailing the trip round part of the Merseyrail network.
Circa 1832 - The Pagoda Fountain at Alton Towers, Staffordshire on 10 August 2021.
Grade II star listed.
The following is from the Historic England website.
Name: The Pagoda Fountain and bridge pier
Designation Type: Listing
Grade: II*
List UID: 1192054
Fountain and bridge pier. Circa 1832. By Robert Abraham. Painted cast iron on a stone base. Octagonal plan; in the form of a Chinese pagoda. Octagonal base with five steps, leading to a pagoda of three stages, each stage with openwork sides of fishscale pattern and ogee-headed openings, the upper two stages each have a low balustrade; bracketed roof and canopies with bells hanging from the scrolls at each angle, the tall roof is surmounted by a finial. A stone pier approximately 10 yards to the north formerly supported a bridge which led from the north bank of the Fishpond within which the building stands. The Pagoda Fountain is a copy of the To-ho pagoda in Canton, as illustrated by Chambers and recreated in an essentially C19 and European form.