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Nova Scotia not Yorkshire! My new home for a year. Been here with my family now for a month and this was my first trip out with the camera. This was taken from Dartmouth looking across to the Halifax city skyline.
Halifax B Mk.III reconstruction at the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington. This composite reconstruction started in 1984 and took 10 years to complete. It includes an 8 mtr section of fuselage from a 58 Squadron Halifax Mk.II ‘HR792’ which crashed on the Outer Hebrides in January 1945 and was subsequently used as a chicken coop for many years before being acquired for the restoration in 1984. The wings are from a Handley Page Hastings transport ‘TG536’, and the nose and tail sections were largely fabricated from scratch by the restoration team. The port side of this aircraft, visible on this photograph is painted to represent ‘LV907’ ‘Friday the 13th’ (NP-F) which completed 128 operations with 158 Squadron. The starboard side is painted as 'NP763' (H7-N) an aircraft of 346 'Guyenne' Squadron, Free French Air Force. This squadron was one of two French bomber squadrons based at RAF Elvington during WWII.
On my morning photowalk, I explored some of the downtown, but also their wonderful wonderful waterfront. It's quite extensive, and I wasn't able to explore the entirety of it. Oddly, even though there are many world-class attractions there, I was QUITE taken by the little village of sea cans that were converted to shops.
Taken from a print in my collection, no further details known.
The first station in halifax was opened by the Manchester and Leeds Railway, later Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, on July 1st 1855 as Halifax Shaw Syke. The station was resited and renamed Halifax August 7th 1850, the old site becoming a goods depot. Perrmanent building at the new site opened June 23rd 1855. In the 1870s the Great Northern Railway built a line from Halifax LYR to their line from Skipton to Bradford. Between 1885 and 1886 the station was enlarged with separate facilities for the GNR and LYR. In June 1890 the station was renamed Halifax Old Station to distinguish it from the Halifax St Paul's and North Bridge stations. On 30th September 1951 the Old Station was renamed Halifax Town and on June 12th plain Halifax.
On our second day in Halifax for the Unison Choruses Festival, I started the day with a short walkabout in the downtown and waterfront prior to the start of the event as I had some time to kill before festival delegate registration began. There weren't any actual festival concerts until the evening, but I needed to connect with the organizers ahead of the busy days to come.
New to Reays, I believe YJ62JWL is now owned by Arriva Bus & Coach (dealers) and is used by them as a courtesy vehicle to replace vehicles in for work to be done. Here it is in a misty Halifax Bus Station about to work an early Halifax-Dewsbury service for Arriva Yorkshire, who have had this vehicle on loan before.
This aircraft, flying out of RAF Sandtoft near Scunthorpe on a cross country navigation exercise , crashed after having an engine fire (whilst flying at 12000 feet) into the flank of Glendhu hill near Kielder Res.
Of the seven crew ,three survived by parachuting to safety .....there are stories that say the rest of the crew failed to get out in time because they were trying to rescue the tailgunner who was stuck in the tail turret .
This though can be little more than conjecture and any number of other reasons could have prevented the crew from escaping . The whole truth will probaly now never be known .
The men who died in the crash were
P/O Herbert George Haddrell Pilot
Sgt John Neilson Flt.Eng
W/O Maurice Fredrick James A/G
W/O Geoffrey Symonds A/G
those who successfully bailed out were
Sgt John Mahony Nav
Sgt Reid W/Op
and Sgt Hammond A/G
The crash site is a very very long way from anywhere and the surrounding terrain is difficult to traverse . One plus from this is that a large amount of wreckage still remains spread through the forest . Trees damaged in the crash can still be seen even after 70 years .
I also made a very short video at the site
It shows what its like far better than my shots do .
View from the MacDonald Bridge on Barrington Street, towards downtown Halifax, Canada.
Shooting this was very difficult: every time a car went by, the bridge shook! I had to limit the exposure time and shoot between the passing cars. At the same time I wanted some traffic on the streets below, which made timing extra difficult.
Shooting data: ISO 400, 20mm, f/16, 4s.
A bus with history - see tags! Now with Coach Travel Services, Huddersfield. Seen here on duty for Crossley Heath School, Halifax.
Halifax Harbour is a large natural harbour on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, Canada.
Located in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Halifax Harbour is considered to be the second largest ice free harbour in the world, although this claim is also contested by roughly a half dozen other harbours, depending upon how harbour limits are delineated.
The harbour is called chebucto by the Mi'kmaq Nation and runs in a northwest-southeast direction.
Based on average vessel speeds, the harbour is strategically located approximately one hour sailing time north of the Great Circle Route between the Eastern Seaboard and Europe. As such, it is the first inbound and last outbound port of call in eastern North America with trans-continental rail connections.
The harbour is largely formed by a drowned river valley which succumbed to sea level rise since glaciation. The Sackville River now empties into the upper end of the harbour in Bedford Basin, however its original river bed has been charted by the Canadian Hydrographic Service throughout the length of the harbour and beyond.
*Wikipedia
Halifax Transit 2012 NovaBus LFS artic #753 is seen finishing a rush hour run on route 52. It is rare to see an articulated Bus out of Ragged Lake on the 52, usually the artics on this route are Burnsides
Looking north west from Beacon Hill over Dean Clough Mills, with North Bridge, and above it the Burdock Way viaducts carrying the A58 at centre. To the right centre is Boothtown and the Range Bank flats, and beyond is Ovenden. The rows of houses in the middle are Woodside. Beyond Dean Clough's tall chimney is Lee Mount with St George's church. Shroggs Park is visible above the houses at Lee Mount and to the left of St George's. Just visible top right horizon is the former Withens pub. Foreground is North Bridge Leisure Centre and the Charlestown flats lower right.
It's still possible to hear the Gardner engine's roar in Halifax when B162WUL is rostered for the Sainsbury's free bus run.
Operated by: Halifax Transit
Built in: 2010
Manufacturer: Nova Bus
Model: LFS Artic
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A Halifax Bedford OB Utility (ex Macbraynes, Scotland) Is seen on the new flyover with a Hillman imp and a Mini for company.
1:76 Scale. OO Gauge.
Bus is by Oxford Diecast and has been altered.
Mini by Oxford Diecast.
Hillman imp by Base Toys.
Diorama home made.
SK68LZH pauses in Warley Road, a typical Halifax streetscape. Beyond is Wainhouse Tower, originally conceived as a mill chimney in an early attempt at smoke control, bringing smoke from John Wainhouse's works in the valley bottom through a flue/pipe to the chimney. It was not a success. Wainhouse wanted his chimney to be a thing of beauty and added stairs and viewing galleries. The tower is now owned by Calderdale Council, and it is opened for public ascent on a few days each year.