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Him: That's a nice lens you got there.
Me: Oh, thank you.
Him: Here, take a picture of me!
Me: ..What?
Him: Yeah, here! Go on! *poses*
Me: *click*
Me: Looks good.
Him: Right on. *flashes peace sign*
Bare feet would have been cute in these last two shots...but shoes were a very important element in getting him to cooperate. He HATES the feel of the grass...lol.
tried asking him why he needed 3 bodies for the event but got a weird reaction/response....never did find out...not sure this guy has all his marbles there
Photo taken by Herwart Schneider, slide kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.
München-Riem
November 1988
OD-AGB
Boeing 720-023B
18021 / 173
Middle East Airlines (MEA)
Information from flickr - thanks to Paul:
c/n 18021/173. New to American Airlines as N7535A in 1960. To MEA as OD-AGB in 1973. To Pratt & Whitney Canada as C-FWXI in 1995. Reregistered as N720PW in 2000. Withdrawn from use at Plattsburgh, NY and scrapped in 2008.
Registration details for this airframe:
www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/C-FWXI/489994
This airframe as N7535A with American Airlines at LAX in March 1964:
cdn.jetphotos.com/full/2/57786_1282346002.jpg
N7535A with American Airlines at SFO in April 1968 (later colours):
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/1/0/5/2356501.jpg
OD-AGB with MEA at LHR in 1973 (bare metal, on delivery):
www.airhistory.net/photo/79682/OD-AGB
OD-AGB with MEA at GVA in December 1988 (later colours):
www.flickr.com/photos/85464137@N00/51898450293
This airframe as C-FWXI with Pratt & Whitney at SHN in April 2000:
www.flickr.com/photos/shanair/48924651887
This airframe as N720PW with Pratt & Whitney at Plattsburgh (AFB) (PBG / KPBG) in May 2008:
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/9/5/7/1357759.jpg
N720PW’s cockpit at Plattsburgh Clinton County - KPLB in April 2015:
cdn.jetphotos.com/full/5/79011_1437241242.jpg
Scan from Kodachrome slide.
My apologizes for the twigs obstructing the view here, but i had to take the shot, just as evidence of having seen him if nothing more. This is my first ever sighting of this bird. I'm excited about it and hope there will be more in the future. I didn't even know such a bird existed.
As you can see here, most of my local photography is done in a thicket, intentionally. Lot's of vegetation all around this dead tree, but I choose this spot because you can actually see something from time to time that lands on this tree for whatever reason? At times I'm not even sure of what I'm looking at it's so thick in there, and I have to wait till I get home to blow it up so I can see it.
He popped around in that mess for sometime before I could even attempt a shot. I'm a pretty patient guy at times. The older I get the more patient I become. So now I know this little cutie exist I'll be searching for him. Happy hunting my flickr friends...
Up date, I saw him again today on the 5th of May, completely in the clear. He flew up and perched on a branch close to me, and it was almost like he was doing it to mock me? :^ P He was there for a split second and as soon as I touched the my camera he was gone. Am I getting period, or are these little birds a lot smart than people give em credit for? He was so beautiful, it is forever etched in my mind. I hope the Lord allows me to get a really great photo of him so I can show him to you too. I'm twitter patted. :^ P
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I notice him sitting on a bench-obviously deep in meditation! He looks interesting with his deep purple shirt and bright canary yellow trousers-complemented by his steel grey handlebar moustache and similarly coloured curls. I sit beside him and say hello. No response! The lady in the shop behind tells me he is a really lovely guy –“ loiter around him till he “wakes up”. Thankfully, I did. Shanti Ananda was a devout follower of Paramahansa Yogananda, who is arguably the most preeminent spiritual figure of modern times. From India he went to America, and over 30 years, he taught the art of balanced health and well-being in body, mind and soul. Shanti spent well over an hour telling me all about Kriya Yoga. Shanti does it twice a day-always between 5 and 6am, and 5 and 6pm. There are so many things he enlightens me on. Scientific and spiritual beliefs are totally entwined he informs me. The universe is based on mathematical principles based around these theories. As we go our separate ways-he to Ocean Shores where he lives, I know the “Autobiography of a Yogi” is probably his most treasured possession.
Ellis drew my attention to the blue bridge and I commended him on being so observant, something that is so important for a budding photographer. However as we got closer, he realized the Humber Bay Arch bridge was still white. "It is an optical illusion. Grandma." he explained. Endearing moments made possible by our daily walks due to the pandemic.
"The Humber Bay Arch Bridge (also known as the Humber River Arch Bridge,the Humber River Pedestrian Bridge or The Gateway Bridge) is a pedestrian and bicycle through arch bridge south of Lake Shore Boulevard West in Toronto, Canada" - Wikipedia
praise him, all ye stars of light. praise him, ye heavens of heavens. /
主をほめたたえよ。すべての輝く星よ。 主をほめたたえよ。天の天よ。
(Psalm 148 / 詩篇 148)
© michael fellner 2010 all rights reserved
Taking a short break!!! See you in a few days!!! Wishing you a good time!!!
tunes: björk . big time sensuality www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHuXpWSNa-8&feature=related
i watched him through the quiet pulse of the christmas market in valencia, where lights hung low and laughter flickered like fire. he sat alone, cloaked in a heavy hood and the evening’s chill, his brush dancing delicately across the canvas. the world blurred around him—soft hands and loud steps—but he stayed, focused, lost in his craft. each line he painted seemed carved from his soul, a quiet language of patience and purpose. the scarf curled at his neck like a tether to earth, but his mind drifted elsewhere, where tiny art could bloom unnoticed, untouched.
his hands told stories the crowd would never hear, and in the faint glow of lamps, i froze time.
The Black Revolutionists had tracked him down. They cornered the horrid tyrant at the edge of a cliff.
"SURRENDER, OR PAY", screamed the Revolutionist leader. The king, though in desperate straits, only laughed mockingly, "Ah, ha ha ha, surrender to you? You are all so pathetic!!"
"Withdraw your declaration of anarchy!" shouted another Revolutionist.
"NEVER! I love trendy foolishness and crammed dysfunctionality! Ha ha ha!"
"We want our freedom!" cried the lad with the black flag.
"Well, too bad! You're never going to get it! You'll have to live under awkward tyranny for the rest of your miserable lives!!"
"If we don't get it, you're going to get it!" the black leader yelled, shaking his fist.
"You'll never take me alive! Ha Ha, HA HA HA!!" With his terrible laugh still ringing in the air, the wretchedly insane king hurled himself over the cliff face and tumbled off the rocks, sailing toward the crashing water. His death was not a watery one, however. Before he hit the thundering waves, the giant beast of Aich-tee-yem-ell swallowed him whole.
Thus the end of King Flickr.
What'll we do? I'll tell you what I'm doing. I'm going over to Eurobricks and CC more often from now on! I'm not deleting my account though. 1,100,000 views is nothing to sneeze at or hastily delete.
Hope to see you guys around! (on other sites). :P
~Bro Steven
Photo from the Wilhelm Hell collection, scan kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.
München-Riem
May 1982
D-ABKK (1)
Boeing 727-230/Adv
21113 / 1176
Condor
Note:
D-ABKK (2) was Boeing 737-430 c/n 27005 / 2359 flying with Lufthansa between September 1992 and July 1997.
D-ABKK (3) was Boeing 737-86J c/n 37753 / 3261 flying with Air Berlin between May 2010 and June 2016.
D-ABKK is parked in front of the Lufthansa maintenance hangar.
Information from flickr - thanks to Paul:
Delivered to Condor as D-ABKK in 1975. To Exatco as N853SY in 1989 then to Noble Air as TC-AFD in 1990. To TUR Avrupa Hava Yollari as TC-TCA in 1992 then to Safair as ZS-NOU in 1994. Leased to Inter Air in 1995 then to Comair and operated in British Airways colours in 1996. Withdrawn from use at Johannesburg in 2003 and scrapped.
Registration details for this airframe:
rzjets.net/aircraft/?reg=45930
This airframe as TC-AFD with Noble Air at DUS in April 1990 (bare metal):
www.flickr.com/photos/190105067@N03/50397368336
TC-AFD with Noble Air at HAJ in May 1990:
www.flickr.com/photos/pslg05896/35413923121
This airframe as TU-TCA with TUR at DUS in August 1992:
www.flickr.com/photos/55101137@N02/6988779090
This airframe as ZS-NOU with Inter Air at JNB ca. 1995:
www.flickr.com/photos/120290459@N03/13195744765
ZS-NOU with Phoenix Airways at JNB in 1995:
www.flickr.com/photos/satransport/8485773810
ZS-NOU with Comair/British Airways at JNB in June 1998:
www.airhistory.net/photo/299416/ZS-NOU
ZS-NOU with Comair/British Airways at JNB in June 2000 ("Blomsterang" worldtail c/s):
www.flickr.com/photos/157839500@N04/49165371606
ZS-NOU derelict at JNB in October 2003:
abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1016964
Scan from Kodachrome slide (on Kodak Photo CD).
Photo taken by Klaus Held and kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.
München-Riem
1966-07-19 (19 July 1966)
G-ANBJ
Bristol 175 Britannia 102
12911
Britannia Airways
Britannia Airways Bristol Britannias were regularly seen at Riem in the 1960s. Here, the aircraft is taxiing in to the field along the old viewing terrace after landing on runway 25. It wears the airline’s earlier livery.
G-ANBJ was later noted at Riem on 27 March and 6 June 1970. It had also been seen here on 19 January 1969 - along with three other Britannia Britannias on that day (G-ANBA, G-ANBF, G-ANBL), and on 9 February 1969 along with one BKS and four Britannia Britannias (G-ANBD, G-ANBE, G-ANBF, G-ANBL, G-ANBO).
Information from flickr - thanks to Ken Fielding:
Delivered new to BOAC British Overseas Airways Corporation in Nov-56 as G-ANBJ, it was wet-leased to Malayan Airlines from Feb/Mar-62 and again from Jun/Jul-62. It was stored at London-Heathrow in Nov-62 after just 6 years in service. It was leased to Britannia Airways (previously known as Euravia) in Apr-65 and they bought it in Jul-70. It was retired at Luton in Nov-70 and broken up there in Feb-71.
G-ANBJ with BOAC at NBO in November 1959:
abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1746402
G-ANBJ with Britannia Airways at LPL in May 1965 (no titles or logo):
www.flickr.com/photos/kenfielding/16456313199
Scan from black-and-white print.
You have a new boyfriend, you're trying to impress him, you need a plan for the weekend....
Perhaps the best advice you can receive is to avoid shops at all costs, as it emerges that men get bored after just 26 minutes of shopping. And it's most mind-numbing when you're still perusing the racks long after they've finished... or they're hungry.
** Eight in ten men hate shopping with their partner, 45% avoid at all costs
** Being hungry, thirsty and wishing they were outside cited as reasons
** One in four men simply go home without their partner when they get bored
** Half of all couples end up rowing when they go shopping together
** Men are less likely to 'act up' if promised a treat at the end of shopping trip
~according to a Daily Mail article of 5 July 2013
Makeup and styling by Kelayla.
DSC00662
8 Aug 18
By flinging him across the lawn in the opposite direction, I can sometimes take two full steps before he grabs my heel.
Cavendish Mews is a smart set of flats in Mayfair where flapper and modern woman, the Honourable Lettice Chetwynd has set up home after coming of age and gaining her allowance. To supplement her already generous allowance, and to break away from dependence upon her family, Lettice has established herself as a society interior designer, so her flat is decorated with a mixture of elegant antique Georgian pieces and modern Art Deco furnishings, using it as a showroom for what she can offer to her well heeled clients.
Today however, we are just a short distance from Cavendish Mews, at Mr. Willison’s grocers’ shop. Willison’s Grocers in Mayfair is where Lettice has an account, and it is from here that Edith, Lettice's maid, orders her groceries for the Cavendish Mews flat, except on special occasions like the soirée that Lettice threw for Dickie and Margot Channon’s engagement, when professional London caterers are used. Mr. Willison prides himself in having a genteel, upper-class clientele including the households of many titled aristocrats who have houses and flats in the neighbourhood, and he makes sure that his shop is always tidy, his shelves well stocked with anything the cook of a duke or duchess may want, and staff who are polite and mannerly to all his important customers. The latter is not too difficult, for aside from himself, Mrs. Willison does his books, his daughter Henrietta helps on Saturdays and sometimes after she has finished school, which means Mr. Willison technically only employs one member of staff: Frank Leadbetter his delivery boy who carries orders about Mayfair on the bicycle provided for him by Mr. Willison. He also collects payments for accounts which are not settled in his Binney Street shop whilst on his rounds.
Lettice’s maid, Edith, is stepping out with Frank, and to date since he rather awkwardly suggested the idea to her in the kitchen of the Cavendish Mews flat, the pair has spent every Sunday afternoon together, going to see the latest moving pictures at the Premier in East Ham*, dancing at the Hammersmith Palais or walking in one of London’s many parks. They even spent Easter Monday at the fair held on Hampstead Heath***. Whilst Lettice is away in Cornwall selecting furniture from Dickie and Margot’s Penzance country house, ‘Chi an Treth’, to be re-purposed, Edith is taking advantage of a little more free time and has come to Willison’s Grocers under the pre-text of running an errand in the hope of seeing Frank. The bell rings cheerily as she opens the plate glass door with Mr. Willison’s name painted in neat gilt lettering upon it. Stepping across the threshold she immediately smells the mixture of comforting smells of fresh fruits, vegetables and flour, permeated by the delicious scent of the brightly coloured boiled sweets coming from the large cork stoppered jars on the shop counter. The sounds of the busy street outside die away, muffled by shelves lined with any number of tinned goods and signs advertising everything from Lyon’s Tea**** to Bovril*****.
“Miss Watsford!” exclaims Mr. Willison’s wife as she peers up from her spot behind the end of the return counter near the door where she sits doing her husband’s accounts. “We don’t often have the pleasure.”
Edith looks up, unnerved, at the proprietor’s wife and bookkeeper, her upswept hairstyle as old fashioned as her high necked starched shirtwaister****** blouse down the front of which runs a long string of faceted bluish black beads. “Yes,” Edith smiles awkwardly. “I… I have, err… that is to say I forgot to give Fr… err, Mr. Leadbeater my grocery list when he visited the other day.”
“Oh?” Mrs. Willison queries. “I could have sworn that we had it.” She starts fussing through a pile of papers distractedly. “That isn’t like you Miss Watsford. You’re usually so well organised.”
“Well,” Edith thinks quickly. “It… it isn’t really the list. It’s just that I left a few things off. Miss Chetwynd… well, you see she fancies…”
“Oh, well give me the additions, Miss Watsford,” Mrs. Willison thrusts out her hand efficiently, the frothy white lace of her sleeve dancing around her wrist. “And I’ll see to it that they are added to your next delivery. We don’t want the Honourable Miss Chetwynd to go without, now do we?”
With a shaky hand Edith reluctantly hands over her list of a few extra provisions that aren’t really required, especially with her mistress being away for a few days. As she does, she glances around the cluttered and dim shop hopefully.
“Will there be anything else, Miss Watsford?” Mrs. Willison asks curtly.
“Err… yes.” Edith stammers, but falls silent as she continues to look in desperation around the shop.
Mrs. Willison suspiciously eyes the slender and pretty domestic through her pince-nez*******. She scrutinises Edith’s fashionable plum coloured frock with the pretty lace collar. The hem of the skirt is following the current style and sits higher than any of Mrs. Willison’s own dresses and it reveals Edith’s shapely stockinged calves. She wears her black straw cloche decorated with purple silk roses and black feathers over her neatly pinned chignon. “Is that a few frock, Miss Watsford?” the grocer’s wife continues.
“Ahh, yes it is, Mrs. Willison. I made it myself from scratch with a dress pattern from Fashion for All********,” Edith replies proudly, giving a little twirl that sends her calf length skirt flaring out prettily, and Mrs. Willison’s eyebrows arching with disapproval as the young girl reveals even more of her legs as she does. “Do you like it?”
“You seem a little dressed up to run an errand here, Miss Watsford.” Mrs. Willison says with bristling disapprobation.
“Well, I… I err… I do have some letters to post too, Mrs. Willison,” Edith withdraws two letters from her wicker basket and holds them up in her lilac glove clad hand.
“Well, we mustn’t keep you from your errand, now must we, Miss Watsford? Now what else did you require before you leave?” the older woman emphasises the last word in her sentence to make clear her opinion about young girls cluttering up her husband’s shop.
“An apple.” Edith says, suddenly struck with inspiration. “I’d like an apple for the journey, Mrs. Willison.”
“Very good, Miss Watsford.” the older woman starts to move off her stool. “I’ll fetch…”
“No need, Mrs. Willison!” Frank’s cheerful voice pipes up as he appears from behind a display of tinned goods. “I’ll take care of Miss Watsford. That’s what I’m here for. You just stay right there Mrs. Willison. Right this way, Miss Watsford.” He ushers her with a sweeping gesture towards the boxes of fresh fruit displayed near the cash register.
“Oh Fran…” Edith catches herself uttering Frank’s given name, quickly correcting herself. “Err… thank you, Mr. Leadbetter.”
Mrs. Willison lowers herself back into her seat, all the while eyeing the pair of young people critically as they move across the shop floor together, their heads boughed conspiratorially close, a sense of overfamiliarity about their body language. She frowns, the folds and furrows of her brow eventuated. Then she sighs and returns to the numbers in her ledger.
“What are you doing here, Edith?” Frank whispers to his sweetheart quietly, yet with evident delight in his voice.
“Miss Lettice is away down in Cornwall on business, so I thought I’d stop in on my way through in the hope of seeing you, Frank.” She glances momentarily over her shoulder. “Then Mrs. Willison greeted me. I thought I was going to get stuck with the disapproving old trout and not see you.”
“The weather looks good for Sunday, Edith. It’s supposed to be sunny. Shall we go to Regent’s Park and feed the ducks if it is?”
“Oh, yes!” Edith clasps her hands in delight, her gloves muffling the sound. “Maybe there will be a band playing in the rotunda.”
“If there is, I’ll hire us a couple of deck chairs and we can listen to them play all afternoon in the sunshine.”
“That sounds wonderful, Frank.”
“Well,” pronounces Frank loudly as the stand over the wooden tray of red and golden yellow apples. “This looks like a nice juicy one, Miss Watsford.”
“Yes,” Edith replies in equally clear tones. “I think I’ll have that one, Mr. Leadbeater.”
“Very good, Miss Watsford. I’ll pop it into a paper bag for you.”
“Oh, don’t bother Fr… Mr. Leadbeater. I’ll put it in my basket.”
Frank takes the apple and walks back around the counter to the gleaming brass cash register surrounded by jars of boiled sweets. “That will be tuppence please, Miss Watsford.” He enters the tally into the noisy register, causing the cash draw to spring open with a clunk and the rattle of coins rubbing against one another with the movement.
Edith hooks her umbrella over the edge of the counter, pulls off her gloves and fishes around in her green handbag before withdrawing her small leather coin purse from which she takes out tuppence which she hands over to Frank.
“Here,” Frank says after he deposits her money and pushes the drawer of the register closed. He slides a small purple and gold box discreetly across the counter.
Edith gasps as she looks at the beautifully decorated box featuring a lady with cascading auburn hair highlighted with gold ribbons, a creamy face and décollétage sporting a frothy white gown and gold necklace. She traces the embossed gold lettering on the box’s lid. “Gainsborough Dubarry Milk Chocolates!”
“Can’t have my girl come all this way to see me and not come away with a gift.” Frank whispers with a beaming smile dancing across his face.
“Seeing you is gift enough, Frank.” Edith blushes.
“Ahem!” Mrs. Willison clears her throat from the other end of the shop. “Will they be going on the Honourable Miss Chetwynd’s account, Frank?” she asks with a severe look directly at her husband’s employee.
“Um… no Mrs. Willison. Don’t worry. I’ll be paying for them.” Frank announces loudly. Bending his head closer to Edith, he whispers, “I can see why Mr. Willison has her in here when he isn’t. You can’t get away with anything without her knowing: ghastly old trout.”
Edith giggles as she puts the small box of chocolates and the apple into her basket. “I’ll save them for Sunday.” she says with a smile. “We can share them whilst we listen to the band from our deckchairs.”
Frank smile broadens even more. “Righty-ho, Edith.”
“Righty-ho, Frank.”
“Well, as I was saying, Miss Watsford,” Mrs. Willison pronounces from her stool. “We mustn’t keep you from your errands. I’m sure you have a lot to do, and it is almost midday already.”
“Yes indeed, Mrs. Willison.” Edith agrees, unable to keep the reluctance out of her voice. “I really should be getting along. Well, goodbye Mr. Leadbeater. Thank you for your assistance.” She then lowers her voice as she says, “See you Sunday.”
Both Frank and Mrs. Willison watch as the young lady leaves the shop the way she came, by the front door, a spring in her step and a satisfied smile on her face, her basket, umbrella and handbag slung over her arm.
“Frank!”
Frank cringes as Mrs. Willison calls his name. Turning around he sees her striding with purpose behind the counter towards him, wending her way through the obstacle course of stacks of tins and jars of produce, hessian sacks of fresh vegetables and fruits and boxes of bottles.
“Yes, Mrs Willison?”
“Frank,” she says disappointingly. “I can’t stop you from stepping out with a girl in your own time,” She comes to a halt before him, domineering over him with her topknot, her arms akimbo. “And I’d say the Honourable Miss Chetwynd is foolishly modern enough to let you take her maid out on Sundays.” She looks at him with disapproving eyes. “However, I’d be much obliged if you kept your dalliances to your own time, and kindly keep them out of my husband’s establishment during business hours!”
“Yes Mrs. Willison!” Frank replies, sighing gratefully, now knowing that he isn’t going to be given notice for chatting with Edith during work hours.
“And I’ll make an adjustment to your wages this week for the chocolates.” she adds crisply.
“Yes Mrs. Willison.” Frank nods before hurrying away back to the stock room.
*The Premier Super Cinema in East Ham was opened on the 12th of March, 1921, replacing the 800 seat capacity 1912 Premier Electric Theatre. The new cinema could seat 2,408 patrons. The Premier Super Cinema was taken over by Provincial Cinematograph Theatres who were taken over by Gaumont British in February 1929. It was renamed the Gaumont from 21st April 1952. The Gaumont was closed by the Rank Organisation on 6th April 1963. After that it became a bingo hall and remained so until 2005. Despite attempts to have it listed as a historic building due to its relatively intact 1921 interior, the Gaumont was demolished in 2009.
**The Hammersmith Palais de Danse, in its last years simply named Hammersmith Palais, was a dance hall and entertainment venue in Hammersmith, London, England that operated from 1919 until 2007. It was the first palais de danse to be built in Britain.
***Hampstead Heath (locally known simply as the Heath) is a large, ancient London heath, covering 320 hectares (790 acres). This grassy public space sits astride a sandy ridge, one of the highest points in London, running from Hampstead to Highgate, which rests on a band of London Clay. The heath is rambling and hilly, embracing ponds, recent and ancient woodlands, a lido, playgrounds, and a training track, and it adjoins the former stately home of Kenwood House and its estate. The south-east part of the heath is Parliament Hill, from which the view over London is protected by law.
****Lyons Tea was first produced by J. Lyons and Co., a catering empire created and built by the Salmons and Glucksteins, a German-Jewish immigrant family based in London. Starting in 1904, J. Lyons began selling packaged tea through its network of teashops. Soon after, they began selling their own brand Lyons Tea through retailers in Britain, Ireland and around the world. In 1918, Lyons purchased Hornimans and in 1921 they moved their tea factory to J. Lyons and Co., Greenford at that time, the largest tea factory in Europe. In 1962, J. Lyons and Company (Ireland) became Lyons Irish Holdings. After a merger with Allied Breweries in 1978, Lyons Irish Holdings became part of Allied Lyons (later Allied Domecq) who then sold the company to Unilever in 1996. Today, Lyons Tea is produced in England.
*****Bovril is owned and distributed by Unilever UK. Its appearance is similar to Marmite and Vegemite. Bovril can be made into a drink ("beef tea") by diluting with hot water or, less commonly, with milk. It can be used as a flavouring for soups, broth, stews or porridge, or as a spread, especially on toast in a similar fashion to Marmite and Vegemite.
******A shirtwaister is a woman's dress with a seam at the waist, its bodice incorporating a collar and button fastening in the style of a shirt which gained popularity with women entering the workforce to do clerical work in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries.
*******Pince-nez is a style of glasses, popular in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries, that are supported without earpieces, by pinching the bridge of the nose. The name comes from French pincer, "to pinch", and nez, "nose".
********”Fashion for All” was one of the many women’s magazines that were published in the exuberant inter-war years which were aimed at young girls who were looking to better their chances of finding a husband through beauty and fashion. As most working-class girls could only imagine buying fashionable frocks from high street shops, there was a great appetite for dressmaking patterns so they could dress fashionably at a fraction of the cost, by making their own dresses using skills they learned at home.
This cluttered, yet cheerful Edwardian shop is not all it seems to be at first glance, for it is made up of part of my 1:12 size dollhouse miniatures collection. Some pieces come from my own childhood. Other items I acquired as an adult through specialist online dealers and artists who specialise in 1:12 miniatures.
Fun things to look for in this tableau include:
Central to the conclusion of our story is the dainty box of Gainsborough Dubarry Milk Chocolates. This beautifully printed confectionary box comes from Shepherd’s Miniatures in the United Kingdom. Starting in the Edwardian era, confectioners began to design attractive looking boxes for their chocolate selections so that they could sell confectionary at a premium, as the boxes were often beautifully designed and well made so that they might be kept as a keepsake. A war erupted in Britain between the major confectioners to try and dominate what was already a competitive market. You might recognise the shade of purple of the box as being Cadbury purple, and if you did, you would be correct, although this range was not marketed as Cadbury’s, but rather Gainsborough’s, paying tribute to the market town of Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, where Rose Bothers manufactured and supplied machines that wrapped chocolates. The Rose Brothers are the people for whom Cadbury’s Roses chocolates are named.
Also on the shop counter is an apple which is very realistic looking. Made of polymer clay it is made by a 1:12 miniature specialist in Germany. The brightly shining cash register, probably polished by Frank, was supplied by Beautifully Handmade Miniatures in Kettering in the United Kingdom. The cylindrical jars, made of real spun glass with proper removable cork stoppers which contain “sweets” I acquired as a teenager from an auction as part of a larger lot of miniature items. Edith’s lilac coloured gloves are made of real kid leather and along with the envelopes are artisan pieces that I acquired from Doreen Jeffries’ Small Wonders Miniatures in the United Kingdom. Edith’s green leather handbag I acquired as part of a larger collection of 1:12 artistan miniature hats, bags and accessories I bought from an American miniature collector Marilyn Bickel. The umbrella comes from Melody Jane’s Doll House Suppliers in the United Kingdom. Edith’s basket I acquired as part of a larger lot of 1:12 miniatures from an E-Bay seller in America.
The packed shelves you can see in the background is in fact a Welsh dresser that I have had since I was a child, which I have repurposed for this shot. You can see the dresser more clearly in other images used in this series when Edith visits her parent’s home in Harlesden. The shelves themselves are full of 1:12 artisan miniatures with amazing attention to detail as regards the labels of different foods. Some are still household names today. So many of these packets and tins of various foods would have been household staples in the 1920s when canning and preservation revolutinised domestic cookery. They come from various different suppliers including Shepherds Miniatures in the United Kingdom, Kathleen Knight’s Doll House in the United Kingdom, Beautifully Handmade Miniatures in Kettering and Little Things Dollhouse Miniatures in Lancashire. Items on the shelves include: Tate and Lyall Golden Syrup, Lyall’s Golden Treacle, Peter Leech and Sons Golden Syrup, P.C. Flett and Company jams, Golden Shred and Silver Shred Marmalades, Chiver’s Jelly Crystals, Rowtree’s Table Jelly, Bird’s Custard Powder, Bird’s Blancmange Powder, Coleman’s Mustard, Queen’s Gravy Salts, Bisto Gravy Powder, Huntly and Palmers biscuits, Lyon’s Tea and Typhoo Tea.
In 1859 Henry Tate went into partnership with John Wright, a sugar refiner based at Manesty Lane, Liverpool. Their partnership ended in 1869 and John’s two sons, Alfred and Edwin joined the business forming Henry Tate and Sons. A new refinery in Love Lane, Liverpool was opened in 1872. In 1921 Henry Tate and Sons and Abram Lyle and Sons merged, between them refining around fifty percent of the UK’s sugar. A tactical merger, this new company would then become a coherent force on the sugar market in anticipation of competition from foreign sugar returning to its pre-war strength. Tate and Lyle are perhaps best known for producing Lyle’s Golden Syrup and Lyle’s Golden Treacle.
Peter Leech and Sons was a grocers that operated out of Lowther Street in Whitehaven from the 1880s. They had a large range of tinned goods that they sold including coffee, tea, tinned salmon and golden syrup. They were admired for their particularly attractive labelling. I do not know exactly when they ceased production, but I believe it may have happened just before the Second World War.
P.C. Flett and Company was established in Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands by Peter Copeland Flett. He had inherited a small family owned ironmongers in Albert Street Kirkwall, which he inherited from his maternal family. He had a shed in the back of the shop where he made ginger ale, lemonade, jams and preserves from local produce. By the 1920s they had an office in Liverpool, and travelling representatives selling jams and preserves around Great Britain. I am not sure when the business ceased trading.
Golden Shred orange marmalade and Silver Shred lime marmalade still exist today and are common household brands both in Britain and Australia. They are produced by Robertson’s. Robertson’s Golden Shred recipe perfected since 1874 is a clear and tangy orange marmalade, which according to their modern day jars is “perfect for Paddington’s marmalade sandwiches”. Robertson’s Silver Shred is a clear, tangy, lemon flavoured shredded marmalade. Robertson’s marmalade dates back to 1874 when Mrs. Robertson started making marmalade in the family grocery shop in Paisley, Scotland.
Chivers is an Irish brand of jams and preserves. For a large part of the Twentieth Century Chivers and Sons was Britain's leading preserves manufacturer. Originally market gardeners in Cambridgeshire in 1873 after an exceptional harvest, Stephen Chivers entrepreneurial sons convinced their father to let them make their first batch of jam in a barn off Milton Road, Impington. By 1875 the Victoria Works had been opened next to Histon railway station to improve the manufacture of jam and they produced stone jars containing two, four or six pounds of jam, with glass jars first used in 1885. In around 1885 they had 150 employees. Over the next decade they added marmalade to their offering which allowed them to employ year-round staff, rather than seasonal workers at harvest time. This was followed by their clear dessert jelly (1889), and then lemonade, mincemeat, custard powder, and Christmas puddings. By 1896 the family owned 500 acres of orchards. They began selling their products in cans in 1895, and the rapid growth in demand was overseen by Charles Lack, their chief engineer, who developed the most efficient canning machinery in Europe and by the end of the century Chivers had become one of the largest manufacturers of preserves in the world. He later added a variety of machines for sorting, can making, vacuum-caps and sterilisation that helped retain Chivers' advantage over its rivals well into the Twentieth Century. By the turn of the century the factory was entirely self-sufficient, growing all its own fruit, and supplying its own water and electricity. The factory made its own cans, but also contained a sawmill, blacksmiths, coopers, carpenters, paint shop, builders and basket makers. On the 14th of March 1901 the company was registered as S. Chivers and Sons. By 1939 there were over 3,000 full-time employees, with offices in East Anglia as well as additional factories in Montrose, Newry and Huntingdon, and the company owned almost 8,000 acres of farms. The company's farms were each run independently, and grew cereal and raised pedigree livestock as well as the fruit for which they were known.
Founded by Henry Isaac Rowntree in Castlegate in York in 1862, Rowntree's developed strong associations with Quaker philanthropy. Throughout much of the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries, it was one of the big three confectionery manufacturers in the United Kingdom, alongside Cadbury and Fry, both also founded by Quakers. In 1981, Rowntree's received the Queen's Award for Enterprise for outstanding contribution to international trade. In 1988, when the company was acquired by Nestlé, it was the fourth-largest confectionery manufacturer in the world. The Rowntree brand continues to be used to market Nestlé's jelly sweet brands, such as Fruit Pastilles and Fruit Gums, and is still based in York.
Bird’s were best known for making custard and Bird’s Custard is still a common household name, although they produced other desserts beyond custard, including the blancmange. They also made Bird’s Golden Raising Powder – their brand of baking powder. Bird’s Custard was first formulated and first cooked by Alfred Bird in 1837 at his chemist shop in Birmingham. He developed the recipe because his wife was allergic to eggs, the key ingredient used to thicken traditional custard. The Birds continued to serve real custard to dinner guests, until one evening when the egg-free custard was served instead, either by accident or design. The dessert was so well received by the other diners that Alfred Bird put the recipe into wider production. John Monkhouse (1862–1938) was a prosperous Methodist businessman who co-founded Monk and Glass, which made custard powder and jelly. Monk and Glass custard was made in Clerkenwell and sold in the home market, and exported to the Empire and to America. They acquired by its rival Bird’s Custard in the early Twentieth Century.
Queen’s Gravy Salt is a British brand and this box is an Edwardian design. Gravy Salt is a simple product it is solid gravy browning and is used to add colour and flavour to soups stews and gravy - and has been used by generations of cooks and caterers.
The first Bisto product, in 1908, was a meat-flavoured gravy powder, which rapidly became a bestseller in Britain. It was added to gravies to give a richer taste and aroma. Invented by Messrs Roberts and Patterson, it was named "Bisto" because it "Browns, Seasons and Thickens in One". Bisto Gravy is still a household name in Britain and Ireland today, and the brand is currently owned by Premier Foods.
Huntley and Palmers is a British firm of biscuit makers originally based in Reading, Berkshire. The company created one of the world’s first global brands and ran what was once the world’s largest biscuit factory. Over the years, the company was also known as J. Huntley and Son and Huntley and Palmer. Huntley and Palmer were renown for their ‘superior reading biscuits’ which they promoted in different varieties for different occasions, including at breakfast time.
In 1863, William Sumner published A Popular Treatise on Tea as a by-product of the first trade missions to China from London. In 1870, William and his son John Sumner founded a pharmacy/grocery business in Birmingham. William's grandson, John Sumner Jr. (born in 1856), took over the running of the business in the 1900s. Following comments from his sister on the calming effects of tea fannings, in 1903, John Jr. decided to create a new tea that he could sell in his shop. He set his own criteria for the new brand. The name had to be distinctive and unlike others, it had to be a name that would trip off the tongue and it had to be one that would be protected by registration. The name Typhoo comes from the Mandarin Chinese word for “doctor”. Typhoo began making tea bags in 1967. In 1978, production was moved from Birmingham to Moreton on the Wirral Peninsula, in Merseyside. The Moreton site is also the location of Burton's Foods and Manor Bakeries factories. Typhoo has been owned since July 2021 by British private-equity firm Zetland Capital. It was previously owned by Apeejay Surrendra Group of India.
I had to bribe him with an Orange Mocha Frappuchino to get this shot.
Springers and Caffeine just do not mix, bouncing off the walls!
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Be prepared to get bored with redstart shots… while they're nesting in my garden I just have to make the most of it :) I set up my portable hide overnight and after just half an hour of waiting this morning, this was the first shot I took of him!
Well the Bittern yesterday came fairly close so with a fairly big crop , a reasonable portrait could be had. A privelage to get such an intimate portrait of this secretive heron :0)
Latin name
Botaurus stellaris
Family
Bitterns and herons (Ardeidae)
Overview
A thickset heron with all-over bright, pale, buffy-brown plumage covered with dark streaks and bars. It flies on broad, rounded, bowed wings. A secretive bird, very difficult to see, as it moves silently through reeds at water's edge, looking for fish. The males make a remarkable far-carrying, booming sound in spring. Its dependence on reedbeds and very small population make it a Red List species - one of the most threatened in the UK.
Where to see them
Wetlands with large reedbeds, especially RSPB reserves at Minsmere, Suffolk and Leighton Moss, Lancashire. In winter it can also be watched at viewing sites in the Lea Valley, Hertfordshire.
When to see them
All year round. Most visible in winter at certain sites.
What they eat
Fish, amphibians and insects.
Exposure 0.003 sec (1/400)
Aperture f/5.6
Focal Length 600 mm
ISO Speed 1000
Exposure Bias +1/3 EV
I was out for a walk on the moors this morning with my good friend Mark. I have seen him regularly for more than forty years but we have hardly seen each other during lockdown so today we met for a walk. He's not a birdwatcher, but has an interest, and told me that as a child he once saw a Ring Ouzel near his home in Sheffield. Well today, after a gap of more than 45 years, I managed to show Mark his second ever Ring Ouzel. Alas this one was a juvenile without its distinctive breast crescent, but it chacked a lot, to confirm its identity. Usually at this time of year they feed on Bilberries to fuel the autumn migration to the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. But this year the Bilberry crop is almost non-existent, so this one was making do with unpalatable Crowberries. You can see the distinctive pale edges to the flight feathers that distinguish it from the similar Blackbird. This was on the Peak District Moors near Holmfirth in West Yorkshire.
Ring Ouzel is not a common bird in Britain. There are apparently about 7300 pairs, but it is red-listed because of a >50% decline in the past 25 years. They are mainly a bird of northern moorlands with a handful of birds clinging on around Dartmoor.
Photo from the Stephan Barth collection, scan kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.
München-Riem
September 1983
G-BMON
Boeing 737-2K9/Adv
22416 / 709
Monarch Airlines
Information from airhistory.net - thanks to Gary Vincent:
Bavaria International Aircraft Leasing owned 737 was with Monarch Airlines (G-BMON) in 1980, with sub-leases to Pacific Western Airlines during December - April / May in 1985-86 and Canadian Airlines in 1987-88. The aircraft flew with TAP Air Portugal / Air Atlantis (CS-TEU) when not in Canada during 1988-89. After a short lease to South African Airways, it went to India with Damania Airways (VT-PDB) in 1993 and last flying with Air Sahara 1998 - 2007. It became a restaurant in the Aero Restro Entertainment Center which opened October 30, 2021 in Noida, India.
Registration details for this airframe:
www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/G-BMON/506268
G-BMON with Monarch at LTN in May 1985 (later colours):
www.flickr.com/photos/pslg05896/37422988832
C-GPWC with Pacific Western at LTN in April 1987:
abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1489961
This airframe as C-GPWC with Canadian at GCM in December 1987:
cdn.jetphotos.com/full/5/60709_1542019380.jpg
This airframe as CS-TEU with Air Atlantis at DUB in September 1990:
www.flickr.com/photos/24101413@N03/15634729463
CS-TEU with TAP Air Portugal at AMS in January 1992:
www.airhistory.net/photo/295531/CS-TEU
CS-TEU leased to SAA at JNB in April 1992:
www.flickr.com/photos/157839500@N04/40989527974
This airframe as VT-PDB with Damania Airways at MLA in April 1994:
cdn.jetphotos.com/full/2/28334_1086873339.jpg
This airframe as ex-VT-SIF Air Sahara at DEL in May 2019:
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/9/3/0/6040039.jpg
ex-VT-SIF used as Aero Restro at Garden Galleria Mall, Noida, India, in June 2021:
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/3/9/3/6484393.jpg
Scan from Kodachrome slide.
Photo taken by Herwart Schneider and kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.
München-Riem
November 1986
B-2448
Boeing 747-2J6BM
23461 / 628
Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC)
B-2448 has landed on runway 25 and left the runway via the end, taxiing in to the field.
Information from airhistory.net - thanks to LRS747:
Delivered new to CAAC 10th Dec 1985 and transferred to Air China July 1988. Converted to freighter Dec 1998 for operation by Air China Cargo, then transferred to Uni-top Airlines May 2009.
Stored from 2016 in Wuhan, still there in May 2022.
Registration details for this airframe:
www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/B-2448/527524
B-2448 with Air China at CDG in October 1990:
www.flickr.com/photos/75122977@N05/38145099814
B-2448 with Air China at HKG ca. 1990s (larger logo):
www.flickr.com/photos/darylchapman/5016520412
B-2448 with Air China Cargo at FRA ca. 2000:
www.flickr.com/photos/157839500@N04/49894859343
B-2448 with Uni-top Airlines at PEK in May 2009:
cdn.jetphotos.com/full/5/64595_1629705224.jpg
B-2448 with Uni-top Airlines stored at WUH in April 2020:
cdn.jetphotos.com/full/6/54224_1586786755.jpg
B-2448 along with B-2462 and B-2450 stored at WUH in May 2022:
cdn.planespotters.net/07634/b-2462-uni-top-airlines-boein...
Scan from Kodachrome slide.