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Seen in my set entitled "Mississauga"
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I've often mentioned that I work at RONA, which is a Canadian competitor to Home Depot and Lowes.
When I was growing up, our family business (Pleasant View Farms) was engaged in the wholesale and retail sales of farm and landscaping/nursery supplies: hardware, fencing, pesticides, plants, hay/straw for bedding, containers, firewood, seed, clothing, paint and on and on.
In 2002, after many years in various endeavours (museums, teaching English, marketing, I was accepted in the seasonal department at RONA, where I employed the skills and knowledge that I had garnered so many years before at Pleasant View Farms.
If you visit while I'm at RONA, you'll likely find me in the greenhouse and/or garden centre. I also spend a good deal of time on the seasonal hardware floor.
It's just part-time... a day or two a week, but it suits nicely.
About RONA
wrightreports.ecnext.com/coms2/reportdesc_COMPANY_C1248L300
Rona Inc. The Group's principal activity is to retail and distribute hardware, home improvement and gardening products in Canada. The Group operates in two segments namely Corporate and Franchised Stores and Distribution. The Corporate and Franchised stores segment relates to the retail operations of corporate stores and the Group's share of the retail operations of the franchised stores in which the Group has an interest. The Distribution segment relates to the supply activities to affiliated, franchised and corporate stores. As of 19-Feb-2008, the Group had 77 Big-Box stores, 327 Proximity stores and 235 Specialized stores and 40 specialized ICI.
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RONA History
1982 - Ro-Na purchased the assets of Botanix.
1984 - Ro-Na created a purchasing alliance with Ontario-based Home Hardware Stores Ltd. through Alliance RONA Home Inc.
1988 - Ro-Na merged with Dismat, another building materials company, to create Ro-Na Dismat Group Inc.
1990 - Ro-Na formed an alliance with Hardware Wholesalers, Inc. of Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1997 - ITM Entreprises S.A., a France-based group, invests $30 million in the Ro-Na Dismat Group Inc. ITM becomes a shareholder and forms a purchasing alliance with Ro-Na.
1998 - Ro-Na eliminates the Le Quincailleur and Dismat names and introduces RONA L'express, RONA L'express Matériaux and RONA Le Rénovateur Régional. It also changes its name from Ro-Na Dismat Group Inc. to RONA Inc.
1999 - RONA opens a new warehouse adjacent to its headquarters, measuring 654,000 square feet (61,000 m²), doubling its warehousing capacity and achieving considerable cost savings.
2000 - RONA acquires Cashway Building Centres, with 66 stores. It permanently opens its online store on the rona.ca website.
2001 - RONA acquires 51 Revy, Revelstoke and Lansing stores and thus owning many more stores in the Greater Toronto Area.
2002 - RONA closes a public offering consisting of a total offering of $150.1 million of Common Shares. RONA's Common Shares are then traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "RON".
2003 - RONA acquires Réno-Dépôt Inc. from British Kingfisher plc, including The Building Box stores. RONA also opens its third large distribution center in Calgary, Alberta.
2004 - RONA acquires Totem Building Supplies Ltd., an Alberta company. RONA Dream Home airs on Global. RONA also joins the AIR MILES Reward Program.
2005 - RONA Dream Home 2 airs on Global.
2006 - RONA acquires a majority (51%) stake in Matériaux Coupal Inc..
2006 - RONA acquires Curtis Lumber Building Supplies
2007 - RONA acquires Burnaby, BC based Dick's Lumber
2007 - RONA acquires Nova Scotia based Castle Cash & Carry
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PhotoShop Elements 5: crop, equalize, posterization, rough pastels.
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Pressure is growing on government to act to protect construction workers against the risk of coronavirus.
Workers are still commuting to busy building sites despite the government crackdown on social distancing.
Housebuilding giant Taylor Wimpey is one of the few construction firms that has announced it is closing its sites to prevent the spread of Covid-19,
But Cabinet minister Michael Gove told the BBC building work could continue if it can be done safely in the open air.
Mamiya 6 MF / Mamiya 75/f3.5 / Kodak Ektachrome 100 VS
2009/2/8
日本、東京、渋谷区、渋谷
Reminds me of Ghost in the Shell
Or was it Trowshambury?
FGW unit 150101 leaves Frome North junction behind working 2E20 08.53 Weymouth to Gloucester.
The destination, clearly visible, is the county town of Glocestershire, less than ten miles away is the similarly-sized town of Cheltenham. In May 2024 it was revealed that Gloucestershire County Council had held secret talks to discuss the feasibility of merging Gloucester and Cheltenham into one supercity by means of strategic housebuilding projects between the two.
It is rumoured that in 1988 Wiltshire County Council considered a similar project involving the proposed merger of three 'un-named' towns in the west of the county near the border with Somerset. The story goes that the scheme was abandoned after one concerned councillor urged his fellow council members to watch the 1987 supernatural horror film 'The Gate' and that after watching the fictional depiction of hell on earth being released the scheme was immediately abandoned.
Great building in Orestadt, copenhagen. Have a look at the whole series: pfnphoto.com/new/2013/02/8tallet-copenhagen-orestad/
Cobwebs cleared out and spare bits and bobs being chucked out - I did a clean out in the autumn but this one seems to be a bit fussy about what he/she has collected !
A bit of a tight crop so not as crisp as it could have been .
"Home" by Waddell, Nemee and Bush. Excellent illustrations by Eleanor Osborn Eadie and A. Gladys Peck. Copyright 1936 by The Macmillan Company.. A beginners' reader about constructing a home from blueprint to housewarming.
Most of the houses I photograph are abandoned, derelict and in a state of decay. This one is so brand new the owners haven't moved in yet. One of the more interesting houses to be built on Harris in recent years, in a great location at Scarista, overlooking the Atlantic. It's a neat mix of contemporary and traditional styles, a true labour of love. Owners Alan and Ellen have been living on-site in a camper van during the entire build. The vast majority of work has been carried out by Alan himself.
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One day in the future this will no doubt be abandoned and derelict. Hopefully that won't happen for a very long time!
Lighting: 4 minute exposure. Used an interval timer to set a 60 second delay, giving me enough time to climb over the fence and get inside the house. Then wandered around popping a blue gelled flash in each room.
All exterior lighting c/o the moon.
As an added bonus, managed to get the Big Dipper nicely placed over the house!
Part of my Night Photography set
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What a journey this was - heading East, from Divriği to Kars: 365 miles by rail, on the Ankara–Kars railway - which was built in stages between 1910 and 1939 by two different railway companies, first from the east and then from the west.
Thanks to Jordan Adam for the spot, First Aberdeen in error announced a new service 4 to Portlethen today. The service is effectively an extention of the 3 from Charleston to Asda Portlethen along the old Stagecoach Bluebird 8 route that ran until 2013.
The Stagecoach Bluebird 8 was launched in 2011 by then Stagecoach Bluebird MD Andrew Jarvis - now ultimately running First Aberdeen as part of the new First Scotland MD role. Jarvis spotted a gap in the market to target Cove and Charleston at a time when First were cutting the frequency of its 3 and 21 services that served the area as well as negative publicity about First fares which Stagecoach were undercutting. The area offered future passenger growth with housebuilding underway at Charleston, Marywell, and Schoolhill Portlethen and there were requests in the Cove community for a bus link to Asda and the Portlethen Retail Park. The service did exceedingly well in the peaks mainly stealing passengers off the 21 to Altens but had poor patronage offpeak. It never reached its true potential suffering from the age old problem Bluebird has had in trying to take on First - its drivers are used to just tanking the bus from A to B and are in no hurry to pull into stops unless hailed while First passengers stood back writing it off as a "country bus". The 8 was timed to run the same time as the X7 so tended to just tag behind the X7 at bus stops out of sight. Depot controllers were just as guilty by throwing on Megabus Plaxton Panther coaches with no destination displays at times when First passengers were long used to low floor buses. The journey times to Portlethen were so long it was sometimes quicker for the passenger to stand back and get a 7 bus 15 minutes later. Jarvis left Bluebird in the summer of 2013 and his successor wasted no time in axing the service that autumn.
Jarvis would appear to still believe in the link and a 4 service would be more viable than an 8 as it would still have the 3 passengers to pad it out as far as Wellington Road and then into Charleston replacing the highly unreliable and much complained about 18 service. It would be nicely timed as Stagecoach has just greatly reduced the Portlethen and Marywell services in last months service changes despite Schoolhill being a growth area for the company although AWPR works have badly damaged reliability of late. The Portlethen services have suffered for years with Bluebird poor reliability, frequent network changes and a tendancy for some drivers to run the Portlethen timing point early to compensate delays at Bridge of Dee or Stonehaven. First would certainly be welcomed into Portlethen.
The proposed service 4 could be operated by adding just one bus to the current 3/3G PVR. There would also be the potential to extend the bus to Badentoy Park in the future or to tender for the future proposed bus link to Chapleton of Elsick. The route would mark a serious departure from the gentlemans agreement of 1991 where by neither operator has encroached on the others route, although First may feel the 727 service, again conceived by Jarvis, has very much eroded the Northern Lights 17/18 service in recent years with First retaliating with the 16 service. The 16 has underperformed against the 727 so far but First seem keen to give another roll of the dice by extending it from Union Square to Balnagask allowing the 20 to revert back fixing the reliability problems that have impacted what was once the most reliable route in the network and soak up some of the excessive layover at Union Square added in September for the 16. First also seem to be thinking ahead to the new Lochside Academy that opens off Wellington Road in August for which there will be demand for travel between Torry and Lochside that the 4 will nicely fit.
The question remains as to where First would gain the extra bus for the 4 - could that be at the expense of the 8&9 rumours that continue to fuel which two weeks ago refused to deny.
The 4 move could also be seen as pre-emptive strike against Stagecoach who may be expected to retaliate now they have former First Aberdeen Commericial Manager Daniel Laird at the helm. Certainly the battle for the declining bus market in Aberdeen looks set to hot up.
Of course in true First style its grand plans have been leaked out by its own people - the proposed January 28th service changes were delayed to due to the prospect of industrial action by drivers but First web team in error loaded the timetables up unaware of the delay. Although they were quickly taken down, Google robots had archived the details and they are still on show this evening when you search for it.
Photographed above is First Aberdeen last involvement in Portlethen, as home to its redundant non PSVAR compliant bus fleet in 2016 prior to the scrap man collecting. Vandalised 62194 seen here at Portlethen in October 2016.
Rolleiflex 2.8C / Schneider-Kreuznach 80/f2.8 / Fuji MultiSpeed 100/1000 (exp 2000/3)
2008/11/22
日本、東京、中央区、銀座
Seen in a small promotional book entitled "London Suburbs Old and New", full of 'useful knowledge for health and home' edited by Frank Green and Sr S Wolff, this edition issued in 1934. The guide has an amazing range of advice and information and this included descriptions of various suburban locations, complete with relevant adverts by local developers.
In North London, like so many other locations in Middlesex, the arrival of the railway especially the 'Tube' and Metropolitan, had a dramatic effect on once rural villages as London expanded. Already in place in Victorian and Edwardian times this expansion reached new heights in the inter-war period when "Metroland", as coined by John Betjeman as well as the marketing people at the Met Railway, became reality. Tens of thousands of houses constructed by a multiplicity of often local developers were built and advertised with claims as to construction, features and layout and location - often pushing proximity to the station or bus route. Many were offered with 'attractive' mortgage or purchase arrangements allowing the new and growing middle class of office workers and such to 'buy their own little suburban home'.
Edgware had been the terminus of a rather wndering branch line from Kings Cross station opened by the Great Northern Railway as early as 1867 and that closed, as part of a modernisation project by London Transport that was curtailed after the way, in 1939. The electric tram reached the village in the Edwardian era but the real spur to growth was the arrival of the extension of the Underground line from Golders Green in 1924.
A W Curton were one such builder and developer. The houses seen here in Edgwarebury Lane, were under development by 1935 and were of the more 'upmarket' type, freehold with 'oak panelled dining rooms' and as many as 5 bedrooms. Needless to say your £70 down and £2000 investment would now set you back over a million pounds! The 'descriptive brochure' seen here was produced in several editions as late as 1939.
small shops near the station. Liquor, 100 yen shop, combini, pan-ya, etc and of course tons of bycicles everywhere
DRS 66422, with 4D47 1307 Inverness to Mossend intermodal, threads through the undergrowth at the southern end of the erstwhile Highland mainline at Stanley and will join the stretch of double track of the rival Caledonian Railway leading to Perth.
Sadly, there is little evidence here of the Caley station nor of the remainder of mainline through Strathmore. There is a fair amount of housebuilding currently underway so perhaps a re-opening is feasible?
5th September 2018
An interesting advert for the Cornish Unit Homes system marketed by Sellick, Nicholls & Co Ltd of St Austell, Cornwall, who were effectively the construction arm of the conglomerate English Clays Lovering Pochin & Co Ltd. The main company had been formed from a 1930s amalgamation of several china clay concerns, including the English China Clays Co that was itself a merger of three companies formed in 1919.
Selleck Nicholls Williams had been acquired in 1945 and the company performed well in the post-war years with the need for new housing stock due to both war damage and slum clearances. "Unit" type construction, often using pre-fabricated sections or components, were widely trialled and the Cornish Unit was effectively a form of this - the concrete used was produced from the spoil from the clay pits. By the early 1950s they were one of the most numerous of such construction types and over 30,000 were produced and constructed both for private and municipal clients. The third example seen here is for the City of Hereford and it displays the Mansard style roof line that is typical of Cornish Units homes.
"Home" by Waddell, Nemee and Bush. Excellent illustrations by Eleanor Osborn Eadie and A. Gladys Peck. Copyright 1936 by The Macmillan Company.. A beginners' reader about constructing a home from blueprint to housewarming.
During wartime condiitons and due to the vast number of homes destroyed a programme of constructing prefabricated houses was begun in the UK in an effort to start to deal with displaced persons housing needs in a way that was efficient to deliver. In the post-war years of austerity this need was even greater, allied to a shortage of materials such as steel and of skilled workers, and the idea behind pre-fabrication as a constructional technique was heavily promoted. The idea of being able to easily assemble housing units, largely works built and including basic interior finishes and components, appeared compelling as it allowed a uniformity of construction standards and a lesser need for 'wet trades' to fit them out. I recall this debate continuing to this day in London Underground where the search for 'standardised components' for construction and finishes continues as it does ont he railways.
The idea was sound and indeed many Continental countries and to an extent the US perservered, whereas in the UK many were constructed but seemed destined to problematic life span and constructional issues, such as around insulation. Indeed, the programme of tower block construction using a similar 'panel' construction in the 1960s and '70s came to an apbrupt end given the massive structural failure following the blast at Ronan Point, in east London, where defective and poor workmanship played a major part in the disaster.
This article in the May 1948 issue of Architectural Review, and of very period appearance in terms of typography and graphic design, looks at the Arcon permanent home that seems to have been a continuation of the construction of the Arcon pre-fabricated home. As can be seen this two-story home, in terrace, used a mix of on-site wet trades and supplied components. I'm sure Taylor Woodrow were the company behind this, but I'm not sure. The article shows a prototype group at Cranford Park, Southall, Middlesex. I can find little mention of the Arcon permanent method so I'm not sure how may were constructed or if this group survive? They appear to have used relatively lightweight materials (no doubt to eke out materials and construction time) and also used asbestos in various forms, the latter history of which we are all to sadly aware.
This page is dominated by a fine colour rendering of the scheme by Peter Shepheard.