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Class40 40185 creeps through Guide Bridge station with a very short train. 30/07/1976.
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Otsego Lake Front Lighthouse Cooperstown, NY is not a listed Aid to Navigation but Swimming, boating & fishing are popular recreational activities at this scenic 8 Mile Long lake with many bays.
The railway companies were prolific publishers of leaflet and guide books to places served by their lines and, for the pre-Grouping London & North Western Railway, the Lancashire coast resorts along with the Isle of Man, were important tourist destinations. If Blackpool was 'the most famous and wonderful health and pleasure resort in the world' then the neighboring attractions of St. Annes, Lytham and Fleetwood were certainly for the more genteel and Southport was England's 'seaside garden city' - as well as having a 'thoroughly up to date sewage works' so the drainage was second to none.
Further up the coast Morecambe was also keen to spend a paragraph describing it's sewage works - as well as the sweep of the bay that looked out across to Furness and the Lakes, a destination that also get a mention along with neighbouring Lancaster. The Isle of Man was, of course, reached by a splendid steamer service and upon arrival at "The Gem of the Sea" there was no end to the restorative powers to be found..
The cover is very much in the later style of LNWR publications that marked a move away from a more staid pre-WW1 'frame' design and here there's a hint, just a hint, of a 'flapper' taking the air.
Approaching Histon
Following the trackbed of the 1847 Cambridge to St Ives ‘branch’, the Cambridge Guided Busway now provides a leisurely cruise through the Cambridgeshire Fens. At 16miles, I believe it’s the world’s longest guided busway.
Once upon a time, my husband and I had three short stays in Lima: before and after walking the Inca Trail, and again after a trip to the head of the Amazon (more on those travels some other day), and were based each stay at a charming hotel in the beautiful coastal suburb of Miraflorés.
This let us explore some of the sights around Lima.
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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells. --To Autumn. by John Keats
5x7" ambrotype, 5 seconds at f11, the original about a stop underexposed. An ambrotype is a wet collodion positive on glass with a black backing, in this case stove paint. Lens was a 300mm Fujinon W on a 1950s Kodak Specialist 2 camera.
The field guide is primarily concerned with interpreting Latin gang graffiti as black gang graffiti of the period was not as developed and nuanced. No known examples of black graffiti are included in this set.
Apparently "tagging" and "taggers" were not on the police radar as yet, at least not in Southern California. While it could be argued that tagging is not "gang" graffiti, it would have certainly rated mention here, if for no other reason than to distinguish to two.
Hybrid Hadfield unit comprising vehicles from sets N°6 and N°8 leaves Guide Bridge station on the 23rd February 1984.
Point of Air Lighthouse, Talacre Beach, Dee Estuary, North Wales.
I tip my hat to D50Manchester for this. We were on our way back home from a few days in North Wales when I spotted the signpost for Talacre Beach and remembered his wonderful shot of this same lighthouse.
;-) Only when I have come to paste a link in from his 'stream that I have realised the more than striking similarity of composition. This is entirely unintentional - my sincere apologies to you D50Manchester! (A big thank you for bringing this beautiful landscape to our attention though - we were knocked out by the place!!)
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John served as our guide for 3 days on Mt. Mulanje. I only saw him break a sweat once, and he never seemed to be breathing heavily.
Like most Mulanje guides, John started by carrying firewood down the mountain as a boy, and eventually went through the training course to become a certified guide.
This is at the overlook near Thuchila Hut, looking towards Chambe Peak. John had told me a couple days before that this was his favorite lookout on the whole mountain. I could see why.
One of my favourite stations to photograph at was Guide Bridge there was allways something going on and plenty of Class 40,s to photograph plus Class 76,s going on and off the stabling point all in all a good day out, seen here is Class 40 40134 coming through with a mixed goods train. In the time i was there i managed to photo Class40,s 40028 40033 40050 40106 40122 40172 40195 plus Class 76,s 76001 76011 76012 76030 76031 76034 76036. 17/7/1979. O happy days. KC.
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A dmu, 54501 leading, from Manchester Piccadilly to New Mills approaches Guide Bridge and find business brisk in both passengers and parcels.
The line swinging off to the left is for Stockport.
This week's Humble Offering of Humbility is brought to you by I'S BUSY! So here's a Kansas Cityscape. It's a view from the 20th floor of my work. Alas, it's a vantage I'll no longer have as we're moving offices (hence the busyness). So I decided to take you on a little note tour to help spice it up/make it as annoying as possible.
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"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be," Jane Austen. Seattle, Wash. iPhone 3Gs.
This is the front cover to the Border Forest Park one of a series of guides were issued for by the state owned Forestry Commission and that included The Border, Snowdonia, Cambrian Forests, Glamorgan Forests, The Forest of Dean & Wye Valley, Westbirt Arboretum, the New Forest and Bedgebury Pinetum.
At the time these forests were being managed to redevelop the nation's home timber stocks after wartime depletion and the conifer monoculture that often prevailed was to be heavily criticised. That said the Forest Parks, along the National Parks, were and still are a remarkable national asset for leisure and recreation.
This front cover is dominated by a very period scene of foresters amongst the Border landscape and still using traditional methods of felling and transportation at a time when mechanisation of both activities would have been in full swing. The artist is the wonderful George Edward Mackley (1900 - 1983) who, in my opinion, is one of the best of the many British mid-20th century artists who rediscovered wood engravings. This is a boxwood engraving and even allowing for printing and reproduction it is a fine piece of work. Oh that modern guides, where issued, still were of this standard of artistry and production.
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Once a solid Class 40 job, 37030 runs a Widnes cement empties back towards Earles Sidings through Guide Bridge on 30th November 1983.
Re-edited 19/4/24
Be my guiding light......
This has to go down as one of the toughest photos I have ever captured. After walking down to the lighthouse in the pitch black, we sat, drank tea, and simply had our breath taken away by the light show in the sky!
A truly amazing experience to see :)
My last two shots on Sunday 15th March 1981, taken as we returned from Manchester, show class 76 1500v dc electric locos stabled in the down sidings at Ashton Junction, Guide Bridge.
Ektachrome frame 16. APR81 (round corner mount) adj 1
A 33 departure from Birmingham is framed by two elements of the ILS localiser aerial array. The localiser provides ‘fly left / fly right’ guidance to landing aircraft to help keep them on the centreline. A separate glidepath array provides ‘fly up / fly down’ guidance in the vertical plane.
Guide stone east of Carlooze Bridge.
St Austell (modern) - a town in Cornwall.
St Austell - derived from the ancient Celtic/Cornish language meaning sh*t Hole.*
*Allegedly.