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Gut ist es wenn du ab und an mal gezwungen bist woanders hin zu gehen, denn sonst würde die Kamera nichts lohnenswertes sehen...
This is Aston Road in Birmingham near Aston University at Gosta Green. It is obvious that a lot of the area has been cleared and soon this end of Aston Road will become the A38M Aston Express way, a direct link to Spaghetti Junction.
In this view the HP sauce factory is visible, above the road in the centre. The express way will carve a path through next to it giving drivers a distinctive whiff of their famous sauce. Sadly that factory has also been lost to us.
If it were possible to repeat this view today all that is visible would be vehicles heading to or from Spaghetti Junction (or just a traffic jam).
Gravelly Hill Interchange (to give it the correct name) was opened on 2 May 1972, construction started in 1968
Copyright Geoff Dowling Circa 1969: All rights reserved
Gut ist es wenn du ab und an mal gezwungen bist woanders hin zu gehen, denn sonst würde die Kamera nichts lohnenswertes sehen...
Gut ist es wenn du ab und an mal gezwungen bist woanders hin zu gehen, denn sonst würde die Kamera nichts lohnenswertes sehen...
Gut ist es wenn du ab und an mal gezwungen bist woanders hin zu gehen, denn sonst würde die Kamera nichts lohnenswertes sehen...
The 'old' picture shows Aston Road at the Gosta Green End from approximately the junction with Dartmouth Street looking towards Aston Cross. The pillar box still has the metal plate on the top pointing to the Post Office which clearly had been closed. Aston Auto Motors were still trading, they were a large firm of motorcycle dealers that had a BSA main agency. Just about visible at the end of the block of buildings is the factory of HP sauce at Six Ways Aston, a delight to the nose! As can be seen from the present day picture none of this view survives, it was demolished when the Aston Expressway and the feeder roads for it were built. Photo 1973.
The new picture is at Dartmouth Circus, the older view was taken where the Endeavour Coach is. The centre of the circus has a Boulton and Watt beam engine, built in 1817 for the Grazebrook Works (Ironmasters) in Netherton, it was a blowing engine rather than a pump.
Copyright Geoff Dowling; all rights reserved.
* The older picture has been seen before but the new shot fitted so well I thought a past and present would work.
Gut ist es wenn du ab und an mal gezwungen bist woanders hin zu gehen, denn sonst würde die Kamera nichts lohnenswertes sehen...
Photograph of the side view of a tenement on the corner of Arthur Street and the Pleasance. The focus of the picure is the advertsiements of all kinds that cover nearly the entire side of the building. At the bottom left of the building is a Tobacconist and Newsagent. There are two boys in the foreground one in short trousers reading the adverts and one standing at the edge of the road facing the photographer.
My daughter and I had breakfast outside today
The Our Daily Challenge group has chosen Dining al fresco as today's topic.
This is Aston Road at the Gosta Green End looking towards Aston Cross. Non of this view survives as it was demolished when the Aston Expressway and the feeder roads for it were built. The pillar box still has the metal plate on the top pointing to the Post Office which had clearly closed. Aston Auto Motors were still trading, they were a big motorcycle dealers that had a BSA main agency. Just about visible at the end of the block of buildings is the factory of HP sauce at Six Ways Aston, a delight to the nose! Photo 1973
Copyright Geoff Dowling; all rights reserved.
*I know the picture is not straight but to straighten it some of the picture would be lost and I don't want to do that.
A pleasant meal – the book is Volunteers by Richard Van Emden about the men who joined the British Army in 1914
Gut ist es wenn du ab und an mal gezwungen bist woanders hin zu gehen, denn sonst würde die Kamera nichts lohnenswertes sehen...
Gut ist es wenn du ab und an mal gezwungen bist woanders hin zu gehen, denn sonst würde die Kamera nichts lohnenswertes sehen...
Two intrepid abseilers use oxy-acetylene torches to remove the HP Sauce sign from the Birmingham factory.
See also here.
Today is National Fish & Chip Day so I'm having fish & chips with peas and broad beans for my lunch.
The topic for today's Daily Challenge is Selective Colour.
nao and the boy were having an afternoon nap....the mother in law was out...left alone to fend for myself....
if i could have found the bloody tin opener this would have heinz baked beans with it! i'd brought them all the way from england.
i know it's not anywhere near a full english (i'll try harder next time), but it was a pretty good off the cuff effort.
I've dragged the old slr out of retirement and i'm glad i did....
Fish, chips, peas, broad beans, a couple of pickled onions and a dollop of HP sauce – a feast :)
This photograph comes to you courtesy of the letter P, it is the sixteenth picture I have taken for the group: February's Alphabet Fun: 2017 Edition.
The hereios of the We're Here! group have paid a visit to the Pickle vision group today.
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A folder issued by HP Sauce, then based at Aston Cross, Birmingham, suggesting ways to improve sales by window display. These suggestions were by E J Green FGI and the leaflet also notes help from Dennison Victor Co (makers of crepe paper) and C & T Harris, the bacon makers of Calne. The products showing include the sauce, other HP products and showcards. Two other names can just be discerned; the Midland Vinegar Company who manufactured the products and Garton, the grocer who created the recipe for the sauce in the 1890s.
I opened a new bottle of HP sauce today, I had fish, chips, peas and broad beans for lunch. Living on my own it takes a while to use up a whole bottle and there are other things that I get through slowly. I wonder when I will open the last bottle of something? And later there will be half used packets and bottles left to be cleared out of the cupboards. As one gets older one becomes more aware of one's mortality.
You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy.
Since migrating from England in 1955, my parents always still used HP Sauce, a legacy passed on now as I can't live without it.
The original recipe for HP Sauce was invented and developed by Frederick Garton, a grocer from Nottingham in 1895.
He called the sauce HP because he had heard that a restaurant in the Houses of Parliament had begun serving it.
HP Sauce has a malt vinegar base, blended with tomato, dates, tamarind extract, sweetener and spices, notably one of the few sauces using tamarind.
It usually is used as an adjunct to hot or cold savoury food, or as an ingredient in soups or stews.
It is now owned and produced by H.J. Heinz in Elst, the Netherlands, although HP Sauce is still produced in the UK (in Sachet form) at H.J. Heinz's Telford Factory.
It will be on my dinner TONIGHT.
For Fulla T -
SOOC - exposure bias about -2 to get rid of the bright ceiling down light, and flash bias about -1 so that the bottle wasn't washed out. I wanted to keep the highlight just on the bottle. Bottle sitting on the edge of the kitchen bench, and held the camera down low below bench height to get the angle.
My Country Theme
Begins With Letter H Challenge
Hasselblad 500CM
Zeiss 80mm f/2.8 Planar
Fuji PRO 400H
Exposure: f/8, 1/500
O'Malley's on Main, Seal Beach, CA.
Took a trip to CA this week and re-visited some of the places we went to last year on our trip including this Irish Pub for some lunch. Shot a couple of rolls of 120 and 35mm each and think I got some nice shots. Downside was a dropped Yashica Electro and a prematurely opened A12 back on my Hasselblad which surely ruined the last shot that I waited around 20 minutes and the right light to take!
Anyway, this shot was from last years visit, enjoy :)
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Happy New Year to all my lovely contacts! The bacon sandwich & a cup of tea - the perfect hangover cure on a New Year's day :)
This is the first of my daily challenge images....... not sure I will make it to 31 - or even 3(!) - my breakfast went cold in the process and that's not a good thing ;)
These are the Houses of Parliament where HP Sauce comes from. ;) Well, not really, it used to come from Aston, Birmingham, I'm not sure where it comes from now.
The weather was rather gloomy and wet for most of my visit and I expected nothing less. The clouds make for a more interesting background. The face of the clock on the Elizabeth Tower is quite something and the sound of Big Ben is something to experience.
Donmouth Local Nature Reserve is a beach site in the historic Old Aberdeen part of the City where the River Don meets the sea.
A great place to see seals and a range of interesting birds. The beach area has changed over time as the river has changed its course. There are lots of interesting plants in the dunes and beach area. Bird hide is an excellent shelter from which to watch the wildlife. The paths run across King Street to the Brig 'o Balgownie., the original bridge in to the City from the North, then down the other side of the river to the sea.
The site was designated a Local Nature Reserve in 1992
Paths are good although wheelchair access to the beach would be difficult as the boardwalk can get covered with sand.
There is plenty of free car parking on the Beach Esplanade and at the car park in Donmouth Road. There are cycle racks on Beach Esplanade
Bridge Of Don has five spans of dressed granite, and rounded cutwaters that carry up to road level to form pedestrian refuges. The spans are 75 feet (23 m), with a rise of 25 feet (7.6 m).
It was widened in 1958-59, from 24 feet (7.3 m), to 66 feet (20 m) by the construction of a new concrete bridge adjacent to the old one.
It now carries four lanes of the A956 road, and is the last bridge on the River Don before it meets the sea. The bridge is just downstream from a substantial island in the river. Around the area of the bridge is the Donmouth Local Nature Reserve, designated as a LNR in 1992.
Near to the bridge are a number of World War II era coastal defences, including a pill box.
Mudflats
Mudflats are formed when fine particles carried downstream by the river are deposited as it slows down before entering the sea, and to a lesser extent by fine particles washed in by the tide. The sand spit at the mouth of the Don provides shelter from the wind and waves allowing this material to build up. The mud flats are a very rich and fertile environment. Despite their rather barren appearance they support a surprisingly diverse invertebrate fauna which includes; worms, molluscs and crustacea. These invertebrates are vitally important to wildfowl and wading birds within the estuary.
Salt marsh
Along the upper shore of the south bank saltmarsh has developed. This habitat would once have been much more extensive prior to the tipping of domestic and other refuse in the area and the formation in 1727 of an artificial embankment to prevent flooding of the river into the Links. This habitat is now reduced to a narrow strip of vegetation along the river margins upstream from the Powis Burn.
The species composition of the salt marsh varies according to the salinity of the water i.e. the proximity to the sea. Close to the Powis Burn this habitat is dominated by reed sweet-grass (Glyceria maxima) with reed canary-grass (Phalaris arundinacea), sea club-rush (Scirpus maritimus), spike-rush (Eleocharis palustris), hemlock water-dropwort (Oenanthe crocata) and common scurvygrass (Chochlearia officinalis).
Further inland reed sweet-grass continues to dominate but hemlock water-dropwort is more abundant with meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria) and valarian (Valariana officinalis),
Sand dunes
Sand dunes are found in the more exposed parts of the estuary at the river mouth. Again, this habitat was once much more extensive in this locality with dune grasslands stretching from Aberdeen Beach inland as far as King Street, southwards from the estuary of the Dee, northwards to the Sands of Forvie and beyond. Many of the dunes formed part of Seaton Tip, and following tipping the area was grassed over. Other areas have been formally landscaped to form golf courses or planted with native trees in 2010 to create a new woodland area.
Some remnants of the natural dune flora can be seen in the 'roughs' on the Kings Links golf course and near the mouth of the river.
Above the high water mark, fore dunes with thick clumps of the pioneer grass species including sea lyme grass (Elymus arenarius) and marram grass (Ammophila arenaria) occur. Few other species are able to cope with the shifting sand. The largest area of these young dunes is to the north and west of the headland. Further inland where the dunes are sheltered from the actions of the wind and waves, and soils are more developed, more stable dunes are present supporting a more diverse grassland habitat.
Strand line plants which are able to tolerate occasional coverage by sea water include sea rocket (Cakile maritima), frosted orache (Atriplex laciniata), sea sandwort (Honkenya peploides) and knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare). Bur-reed (Sparganium sp.) has been recorded; presumably washed down by the river.
Marram grass (Ammophila arenaria) and sea lyme grass (Elymus arenarius) dominate the fore dunes. The latter species is not native to this area but appeared in 1802. It is thought to have been unintentionally introduced into the area by fishing boats. For a number of years it remained uncommon but from 1870 onwards it spread rapidly along the coastline (Marren, 1982).
In the more stable dunes red fescue (Festuca rubra), sand sedge (Carex arenaria), yellow rattle (Rhinanthus minor), wild pansy (Viola tricolour), harebell (Campanula rotundifolia), bird's-foot-trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) and lesser meadow-rue (Thalictrum minus) are abundant. Small amounts of kidney vetch (Anthyllis vulneraria), valerian (Valeriana officinalis) and spring vetch (Vicia lathyroides) are present.
Scattered willows (Salix sp.) and sycamore (Acer pseudoplantanus) have seeded into this area. Gorse (Ulex europaeus) scrub has colonised the dunes in some areas and appears to be spreading.
Scrub
This habitat is almost entirely artificial with only the gorse scrub on the inner dunes being a semi-natural habitat. Alder and willow were planted along the south bank of the river in about 1970 and these shrubs are now generally well established. Further shrub planting on the south bank was carried out in 1990.
Willow (Salix sp.) and alder (Alnus glutinosa) were planted in the 1970's along the south bank of the River Don eastwards of the Bridge of Don. The trees to the west of this strip are doing considerably better than those to the east. More recent planting was carried out in 1990 with hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna), blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) elder (Sambucus nigra), goat willow (Salix caprea) and alder.
Underneath the scrub neutral grassland is present with cocksfoot (Dactylis glomerata), false oat-grass (Arrhenatherum elatius), cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris), sweet cicely (Myrrhis odorata), hedge woundwort (Stachys sylvatica) and hedge bindweed (Calystegia sepium).
Grassland
Much of the grassland within the reserve is formed on imported soil and is intensively managed. This includes grassland on the north and south sides of the Esplanade. Daffodils are present in the grassland on the north side of the road. On the north bank to the east of the Bridge of Don is rank grassland on a steep south-facing slope. This is unmanaged and contains some patches of scrub.
Rough grassland is present on the headland. This area has been modified by tipping, with rubble to the east and with grass cuttings to the west. The grassland contains a mixture of neutral grassland, dune grassland, ruderal, and introduced garden species. This area attracts flocks of seed eating birds in late summer and autumn.
Improved grassland is present on the headland and along the south bank of the estuary downstream from the bridge of Don. Much of this vegetation has developed on imported soil and contains a high proportion of ruderal species and garden escapes. On the headland, broadleaved dock (Rumex obtusifolius), nettle (Urtica dioica), coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara), spear thistle (Cirsium vulgare), cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris), hemlock (Conium maculatum) and hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) are abundant. Sweet cicely (Chaerophyllum bulbosum) is widespread and in late summer fills the air with the scent of aniseed.
To the south of the Esplanade the grassland is managed with an annual cut.. The grassland does flood to form pools. Early in the year cuckoo flower (Cardamine pratensis) is common, meadow foxtail (Alopecuris pratensis)is known to occur around the margins of these pools.
Woodland
Semi-mature woodland is present on the steep sided south bank of the river upstream from the Bridge of Don. Most of this woodland has been planted in the mid 1930's though some older oak and elm trees are present. These may be relicts of former woodland cover. The woodland in the reserve is part of a strip of woodland along the River Don corridor which continues upstream from the Brig 'o' Balgownie.
Woodland is present on the south bank upstream from the Bridge of Don.
Much of the woodland consists of even aged stands with willow (Salix sp.), sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus), ash (Fraxinus excelsior), beech (Fagus sylvatica) and alder (AInus glutinosa). At the top of the slope mature oak (Quercus sp.) and elm (Ulmus glabra) are present. The ground flora contains tufted hair-grass (Deschampsia caespitosa), red campion (Silene dioica), ramsons (Allium ursinum) and lady fern (Athyrium felix-femina) .In a few areas dense shading is caused by the trees and in these areas the ground flora is poor.
On the north bank scattered trees are present, mainly willow and sycamore with some scrub.
On our way back home from a recent holiday in Wellington, we chose the eastern route out of the City and beyond, which takes you through the Hutt Valley and up and over the 550 meter summit of the Rimutaka Pass to reach the Wairarapa region of New Zealand's North Island. One of the principal tourist destination towns on State Highway 2 is Greytown. We stopped there for a late Breakfast/early lunch (Brunch) at The Main Street Deli Cafe.
Seen here is the "Main Street Deli Cafe Breakfast", comprising.....
Poached Eggs
Tomatoes
Bacon
Mushrooms
Hash Brown Potatoes
Breakfast Sausage
Served on toasted Ciabata bread
My verdict? Very filling and very good.
All the best cafes have HP sauce available in a proper bottle!
Didn't eat again until we got home a good number of hours later!!
"Castle Rock Taproom & Kitchen is a unique bar concept, celebrating Nottingham's famous Castle Rock Brewery" states the East Midlands Airport website.
Or it can be used to get a cooked breakfast at 04:13 on a Saturday morning after security.
Other people like to use it for drinking heavily before boarding a flight. The sight of people downing pints at this time of morning turns my stomach... but you might as well start as you mean to go on if you have having a certain type of holiday.
www.castlerockbrewery.co.uk/real-ale-at-east-midlands-air...
Well, certainly not proper lighting, but man I had a craving. And even though they're not difficult, it's not something I often make so I figured I'd take a picture for posterity.
fresh made juice (oranges, apple, pineapple, lemon, ginger, grape, papaya, carrot), fresh ground and brewed Colombian dark roast (in my treasured Ken's House of Pancakes mug).
Scotch baps with a spreading of Cheez-Whiz, free range golden yolk eggs, a generous amount of Franks Red Hot sauce ('cause i put that $#!& on everything), a few drops of HP sauce and some seared shaved honey ham.
accompanied by potato cakes with butter and fresh cracked pepper and coarse salt.
OMG!! i would eat this EVERY morning, but i don't think i should!!!
petroglyph coasters courtesy of the Big Island of Hawai'i (canoe pictured)
plate by Mikasa
glass by Real Canadian Superstore