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Hooking up steel plates that are being loaded into the ARRC operated "Atlantic Project II" at the Nova Natie Terminal at the Churchill dock at the port of Antwerp.
Erie Basin Park
Designer: Lee Weintraub Landscape Architecture
Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York
The park was part of the deal when IKEA wanted to build on the 22-acre Todd Shipyard property in Brooklyn's Red Hook. The park is a nearly one mile long waterfront esplanade. Four huge gantry cranes were incorporated into the design as well as other nautical artifacts. What was lost was a 700-foot-long dry dock, known as Graving Dock No. 1, filled in by Ikea for a parking lot. The dock has been outlined in Belgian-block paving stones and a small segment was preserved near the water’s edge.
The design called for 558 trees, wildflowers and grasses that are maintained by IKEA. IKEA also provides security for the park which is open from dawn until dusk. When you exit from the free (paid for by IKEA) water taxi service you walk through the park.
The big blue building in the background is the IKEA store.
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My new crochet hooks - a gift from Dan ♥
I've been learning to crochet (slowly!) for a couple of weeks now, but up until this afternoon I've been using my mother's hooks. Dan bought me this set off evil-bay last week.
This little guy was great. He asked me to take his picture then went to get his little chair from inside the house and posed for me.
Brian Hook, U.S. Special Representative for Iran and Francis Fannon, Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Energy Resources address the media in the Press Briefing Room at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on April 22, 2019. [State Department photo by Michael Gross/ Public Domain]
"By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream"
— Virginia Woolf
Canon 400D, ISO 100, Sigma 10-20mm, 94 Seconds @ f/25. Used an ND Filter, Graduated ND and a polariser
Like this image, took it the same day as this. Despite the cloudless sky we stayed to take pictures at sunset anyways, I think it was worthwhile :)
Entered this image into the Carrick Camera Club Photographer of the year competition for this weeks meeting. Judges advice was to brighten the foreground, I had tried before but it looked false, made another stab at it now and did a better job.
Hook Lighthouse – The oldest original operating lighthouse in the World.
The existing tower dates from the 12th century, though tradition states that Dubhán, a missionary to the Wexford area, established a form of beacon as early as the 5th century. The headland is known in Irish as Rinn Dubháin, St. Dubhán's Head. However, the similar-sounding Irish word 'duán' means a fish hook, hence the English name. It is known locally as "the Hook."
The tower was built by Strongbow's son-in-law William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, who succeeded Strongbow as Lord of Leinster. Pembroke had established a port in the town of New Ross, approx. 30 km up river. In order for his new port to be successful and for ships to safely reach their destination, Pembroke had a 36m high tower built at the mouth of Waterford Harbour. The exact year of construction is not known, but Pembroke first came to the region in 1201 and the first map that shows the lighthouse serving its function is dated 1240, so construction must have taken place between these dates.
‘By Hook or by Crook’
The well-known phrase ‘by hook or by crook’ is said to have originated from Oliver Cromwell’s vow to take Waterford by Hook (on the Wexford side of Waterford Estuary) or by the village of Crooke, on the Waterford side.
The inside of my crochet hook case with the flaps opened out.
The pattern for the crochet hook case is called' Leentje's Crochet Hook Case'. It was designed by Marleen Hartog and is availiable free on ravelry.
Another image taken outside of a house identified elsewhere as 'Park View' and thought to be at 192 Springfield Road, Chelmsford.
See more images from this fascinating Edwardian Hook family album.
Spotted on a tombstone at the local cemetery. I have no clue for what use. Maybe the stone was heavy.....
Carved tomb in the north transept - "Here under lieth the body of John Croker , late of Hooke Norton, esquire, who deceased the sixthe day of March Anno Dni 1568 "
John born c1501, was the son of Thomas Croker and Alice 1566 daughter of Geoffrey Dormer of Thame and 2nd wife Alice flic.kr/p/fFFhVJ daughter of Bartholomew Collingridge of Towersey and Alice Fitzalan
He m c1526 Isabel daughter of Elizabeth & Robert Skinner
Children
1. Margery m 1550 Edward Hawten of Swalcliffe 1594 , son of Edward Hawtayne & Millicent/ Elizabeth Pierson - Church of St Peter, Hook Norton Oxfordshire
Off The Hook
A bit of a museum piece this old telephone which I found in a plastic bag in a cupboard in our garage this morning. When they were in common use Arthur C Clarke was writing science fiction books in which people used futuristic personal communicators. Now, of course, almost everyone carries a smart phone of one kind or another. Indeed it seems that children are now born with one attached to one ear!