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The Badaling section of the Great wall gives a good indication of the amount of labour that must have been expended to construct the wall. This is gate/tower #8 on the north section and as far as the public is permitted access.
By the time we reached the upper limit of the access, the crowds had thinned out.
The start of building the Great Wall dates from the Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC - 476 BC).
During the early period of Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), the government moved its capital from Nanjing to Beijing.
Afterwards the emperor Zhudi attached great importance to the rebuilding of the Great wall as a key defense project against the northern invaders.
A famous general, QiJiGuang, was named as supervisor general for the construction of Badaling Great Wall project. General QiJiGuang was known for his leadership in the battle against Japanese pirates in the East China Sea.
The Ming government spent eight years building the Badaling Great Wall.
Its been a while since I've posted anything; however, that is not an indication of non-activity! On contrary, I have been very busy both with preparing my Fareham train layout for Brickworld Chicago (in June) and finishing off some MOCs in time for my next show: Ottawa TrainExpo 2015 (Apr 24-26).
This photo shows a WIP of one of two British Rail Class 73 "electro-diesels" I am building. The electro-diesels nominally work off of 3rd rail DC for traction power; however, these locos had a diesel engine for operation off of 3rd rail territory or within unelectrified yards. This ability, along with its compatibility to operate with virtually any Southern region EMU, made this an extremely versatile locomotive. Many Class 73s are still in service today since introduction in 1962. This version illustrated here is in the so-called "large logo" British Rail blue livery--I am modelling it based on number 73 142 "Broadlands". I have an OO-gauge scale model of 73 142 made by Lima--so I guess its a bit of a nostalgic nod to one of my early model trains. I am also building a handsome Pullman livery version of this locomotive as it appeared when operated with the Orient Express trains (73 101 "Royal Alex").
I've struggled with this locomotive for quite some time, in particular the front end cab roof. Luckily Lego has introduced one of my favourite elements: the 1x2 bow slope. This element has allowed me to sculpt the roof more to my liking. The rest of the locomotive (as well as her sister 73 101 "Royal Alex" in Pullman livery) have undergone a few iterations of rebuilding. The key changes are as follows:
1) Revised cab roof
2) Revised roof panels - modular and stronger
3) Underframe details
4) New bogies
5) Steel handrails - made from recovered TLG train wheel axles and retained with TLG elastic bands.
The stickers are placeholders for now until I am happy with the final build. I'm going to have to revise the battery box covers by lowering them to make room for the "large logo" BR numerals for example.
Finally, for the sake of completeness, I confess to the following "sins":
1) Cut whip antenna elements for the front handrails and for some underframe details
2) Cut minifig horsewhips for the multiple unit jumper cables on the front
Sorry, I can't help it! Detail trumps purity sometimes--but I try not to overdo it! ;)
An indication of the tight pathing at Birmingham New Street as the mid-platform signal has already turned to amber for the next train with the previous occupant of Platform 6, Transport for Wales(TfW) Class 158s No. 158841 (leading) & 158832 seen passing the signal at the platform end, having already passed the intermediate starter signal. The service is TfW 1J11 1009 Birmingham International - Aberystwyth on 8th January 2010. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
Traders indication: P13134.
The 4-door Amazon P120-series was designed by Jan Wilsgaard and introduced in 1956.
The 2-door P130-series coach was presented in Oct. 1961.
131 indicates a special version.
1986cc engine runs on LPG,
1084 kg.
Volvo P131 production: 1968-1970.
Official first admission of this car: May 22, 1968.
New Dutch license number: Autumn 1972.
Amsterdam-O., Oosterpark, Nov. 27, 2014.
© 2014 Sander Toonen Amsterdam | All Rights Reserved
"For if the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also "
James 2:26
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I don't know if it's appropriate to share it with in this public page, but I am not
mentioning names or make indication who it is. But this is just simply airing
my deepest concerns in writing.
I don't necessarily aim at getting reactions or feedbacks regarding this I wrote.
As it gets so complicated to read and understand this. I'm not even sure if
anyone reads this as I do sometimes skip reading what people put under
their photos when I'm in a hurry . So I knew what it's like . Let's face it,
most of us are having time constraints and I understand it all.
Anyway , maybe it's better few or no one reads this
at all to only misunderstand me or for the worse think I am the
dark villain hiding in white robe. This is simply a form of coping
mechanism I do to ventilate things a little bit more but
maintaining anonymity with the person concern whilst
expressing my stand in the Lord .
I prayed and approached dearly an extended family whom I thought has gone astray
from walking with God. This person was used to be born-again Christian, we go
in the same church , we were baptized underwater together as a group . But
now this person was completely transformed to a different persona than what
she used to be. She go to night clubs, heavy partying with the ungodly friends,
and from her posted pictures alone , is worrying me , as they surely weren't
something of familiar modesty and of anyone living walking with the
ways of God. Base from my observations alone, it gets me burdened
of this person for some time .
After this person's crumbled marriage , then followed few failed relationships.
Then being in a live-in relationship right now , is just like submitting to the
commands of the devil over-again, another fornication on the plate .
It another defeat coming on this person .We can't always with
live chronically lying too. Having continually /wilfully sinning in life is making
portals of darkness and demons to oppress our lives. Having known
the commandments of God , this person is aware of what she's doing .
My heart broke of how this person have gone through . Instead of knowing
it is the time to cling on to the Lord closer , rather it gets her farther and
farther from the Lord. I am not condemning but we have to judge
righteously as we are told - that from my discernments this person
needs pure deliverance .
An unmarried union still fall under fornication . I am deeply saddened
this person has completely backslidden from God.
As believers we are told in the Book of Isaiah that we have the accountability
of warning people whose ways are doomed to the pits of hell if they would not
repent. Being a christian like many us are and claim to be , we should not remain
like an undercover agent - an under cover christian . Many do shy
away or are embarrassed to say the name of Jesus so they can please people
and gain approval of the world . You see many Christians- to- be are friends
of the world. Some take on the ideas of political correctness , moral relativism
which eradicates moral absolutes , that which is completely contradicting the
commandments of God .
If we don't warn our love ones according to God's ways, we
have their blood in our hands because we didn't take our duty to
warn them. Many are men pleasers as most of us are , because we
are afraid to offend and hurt people in case it goes the other way
around. But then we are not pleasing God . We tend to compromise the work
of God by fear of possible retributions from people we love should we interfere.
Giving warnings to people we care about , if all done by pure love , I believe
is our duty as Christians . It's our duty of love if only possible to snatch away
all our loves ones from going to the pits of hell.
We can not force anyone to follow the Lord but we can give encouragements .
Choosing God is a personal decision and individual choice from the heart.
The act of reminding the person you care about is a duty. Should this person perish
then you've washed your hands from your accountability, and you've done your part .
So going back to this extended family member , my cares was taken
badly by this person. Despite how I said it to her with love and gentle words .
She virtually pushed me back and justified herself going to church and still claim
she is a Christian and that God is love and that with God there is peace.
That she said when God is peace, that I should not talk to her like it .
That what I am talking to her wasn't of peace , then it should not be of God.
Then she flush me out / blocked me out. This person is in my prayers of
deliverance .
We can't follow the Lord when one foot also dancing with the world and enjoying
all music offered to devils. Most musicians , bands singing for the world today
are for the world not for the Lord. In fact many do engage with occult practices
dark covenants - yet millions are hooked with their music.
Friendship of the world is an enemy of God, pure and simple.
"You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the
world is enmity with God? whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is
the enemy of God."
James 4:4
Most churches nowadays are giving sermons about God and His very nature full of
love but they're avoiding sermons of conviction of sins and call for pure repentance.
People with itchy ears like to listen to sermons like this , as everything is ok ,
even then living with the ways of the world is ok, too. These churches have big
followings as people feel comfortable with the sermons . The great apostasy is
happening and many are falling into the trap of world deception and are heading
to pits of hell.
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Interesting Discussions : ( repost )
Tribulation-Now Radio, 14th July 2013 - Alien Human Hybrids Living
Tribulation-Now Radio, 19th June 2013 - Inside the Gates of Heaven with Oden
EXPOSED Satan's Last Days Hybrid Breeding Program - Part 1 Biblical Framework
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Après indication d'un amateur de photo et d'oiseau je me suis presente à Laval où il y a un oiseau rare. Un chardonneret élégant. Pourquoi rare? car cet oiseau vient d'Europe mais en vente dans les petshop. Il est surement un échappé et il semble très bien vivre notre hiver, en voici un en liberté.
After indication given by a photographer and bird lover I showed up in Laval where there is a rare bird. An European goldfinch. Why rare? because this bird comes from Europe but on sale in the petshop. I presume he did a breakaway and it seems to live well our winter, here is one in freedom.
Standing along the railbanked portions of the ex Monon...A semaphore remains in the same position it was left in; after seeing its last train over a decade ago.
NS train 21Z, aka "The Zipper" (Rutherford, PA to Chicago, IL, 63rd St., Park Manor Yard) is hauling the mail, literally, through downtown Brimfield, Indiana on NS' ex-LS&MS Chicago Line on a fine summer day. The restricting indication on the NYC tri-light signal for the #2 main is due to the last eastbound that passed.
A Stop signal indication for northbound movement on Track 1 at CP IRIS has got CSX L78902 slowly coming to a halt on the last mile of their trip before reaching CSX’s Hialeah Yard. The engineer aboard brings #CSX5394 [ES40DC] and their 37 loaded limerock hoppers to a gentle halt, holding for TriRail traffic at Metrorail Transfer Station. Despite their signal being at IRIS, the crew holds their train just short of the CP 71ST ST signal to avoid blocking road traffic along E 17th St while they wait for a favorable signal indication.
Set up between the fronds of a cluster of small trackside palm trees, armed with the D7500, a burst of shots would produce the perfect photo of the slowing L78902 framed between them. In true Florida fashion, the lead ES40DC completes the scene; a class of locomotive that has plagued Florida for years at this point. It’s regarded as the most unfavorable type of power to have lead a train—let alone a road local—for how bland it’s become, especially if based out of a terminal for a prolonged period of time… as is the case with 5394. Personally, I didn’t mind if it was for testing a new photo spot, although the odds could be better.
CSX L78902 would hold short of E 17th St for four minutes while a TriRail Downtown Link train got itself prepped for another revenue run out of Metrorail Transfer Station. A favorable signal indication would be given to L78902 at 18:16, the engineer promptly knocking off the brakes and throttling out of their stop to complete their days’ worth of work at the Yard.
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Hialeah, FL
SFRTA Mainline
Date: 04/02/2024 | 18:11
ID: CSX L78902
Type: Local
Direction: Northbound
Car Count: 37
1. CSX ES40DC #5394
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Disclaimer:
The following Pingo images were taken in 2018.
Before my trip I was researching the Pingos and found no indication on the internet in regards to visitation rules. There also were no signs up anywhere locally or at the viewing platform once I visited.
I now see there are rules prohibiting the climbing of the Pingos from the base up, signed this March 2021 by the Parks Superintendent.
I have mixed feelings about that. On one hand I see excessive visitations by too many people [since it is marketed to mass tourism] may cause some wear or establish a trail. I was very conscience about not leaving any footprints or cause any damage and on one of the Pingos I found a large piece of plastic, the wind had likely carried up here, which I took back out.
Since it became a Canadian Landmark under Parks management, a viewing platform has been built in a location that gives a very panoramic view of the larger Pingos with no human structures visible. I’m not a friend of board walks and platforms in natural landscapes. They are in many ways eyesores to me as a photographer and aesthetically a small trail has much less impact. But in this location I found both rather well designed. To get to the boardwalk, one needs to organize a boat ride or have a watercraft to get to the Parks dock, which at that time was damaged and difficult to land on.
On the other hand I think it was [could be] an incredible experience to use these Pingos as lookout, just like generations of Inuk have done. The thing missing in these coastal regions are high points. So I can see why these Pingos had an importance for hunters to scan the ocean for game, ships, ice-conditions etc.
The lack of any high-points in Tuktoyaktuk itself, along the coast or the highway leaves something to be desired. Short of flight-seeing the coast from Inuvik, one does not get a picture of the beautiful Arctic coast.
The top of the Pingos are mostly sand with peat at some places and the sides covered by dense tundra shrubs, berry bushes, Labrador tea and some grasses on the top. I noticed some faint footprints in the sand on top, which obviously disappear with the wind/rain and annual thawing/freezing cycles these hills are constantly exposed to. The science behind these ice-cored hills is described in detail in a study paper by J. Ross Mackay:
Pingos of the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula Area
t.ly/Xs9U
and this video by Stephen Wolfe:
Pingo Distribution, Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula Region, Western Canadian Arctic
So these photos are very special to me, as I or others may not be able to document/experience these magnificent ‘ice-hills’ again without breaking the law. Drone flying is also banned within the Landmark.
2018 Road Trip to Tuktoyaktuk, NWT via Dempster Highway and the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway or ITH (Tuk Highway).
This fortified gateway is an indication that Saint-Paul de Vence was a key border stronghold. Saint-Paul's ramparts were constructed in the 16th century on the order of François I and have remained intact. The entrance is protected by a tower with machicolations and an arrow slit from the 14th century - a vestige of medieval town walls.
A machicolation is a floor opening between the supporting corbels of a battlement, a projecting parapet or the vault of a gate, through which stones or other material, such as boiling water, hot sand, quicklime or boiling cooking oil, could be dropped on attackers at the base of a defensive wall.
An arrowslit (often also referred to as an arrow loop, loophole or loop hole, and sometimes a balistraria) is a narrow vertical aperture in a fortification through which an archer can launch arrows or a crossbowman can launch bolts.
Dos días y aproximadamente 50 Km. después, encontramos una señal que ponía: - "530 Km SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA" - ( ¿?)
En Güemes, Cantabria (Spain)
An indication of the rapid increase in the habitation of Britains canals and rivers. High property prices and rents are the most evident factors.
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Great Egret (Casmerodius albus) - Tosohatchee Wildlife Management Area, 3365 Taylor Creek Rd, Christmas, Florida
Hunting for frogs, bugs & little fishies.
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mark, object, or other indication of the existence or passing of something: remove all traces of the old adhesive | [mass noun]
The Striated Pardalote is more common than people usually think, with its call the first indication of the presence of this brightly coloured little bird. There is considerable variation in plumage characteristics across the range of this species. All birds have white eyebrows with a yellow spot in front of the eye, olive-grey backs and a white stripe in the wing. In different parts of the country, the wing stripe may be narrow or wide, the coloured spot at the front end of this stripe may be red or yellow, and the black crown may have or lack fine white stripes. Both male and female are similar in plumage. Young birds also resemble the adults, but are notably paler, particularly on the crown and face.
This lunar indication lights the way for a eastbound at Hammond, Indiana. Actually it lets the crew know there is a favorable indication around the corner at Hohman Interlocking. From the looks of all the new signalage in the area, I suspect this won't be around much longer.
Pentax 67 on Fuji Astia 100. February 12, 2018.
ORTAHISAR AND ORTAHISAR CASTLE
Ortahisar is picturesque stone houses, narrow streets and lovely churches as well as the castle-like rock formation after which the town is named. This 90m high natural fortress, a prominent landmark in the region – honeycombed with caves and tunnels, camouflaged by nature without the slightest indication of human presence inside – has partly crumbled away revealing some of its interior. Today it has been restored and the peak is accessible by a staircase. The Ortahisar Castle offers a magnificent panorama over the fairy chimneys of Hallacdere and the snowy peak of Mt. Erciyes.
Cappadocia World Heritage List;
In a spectacular landscape, entirely sculpted by erosion, the Göreme valley and its surroundings contain rock-hewn sanctuaries that provide unique evidence of Byzantine art in the post-Iconoclastic period. Dwellings, troglodyte villages and underground towns – the remains of a traditional human habitat dating back to the 4th century – can also be seen there.
Brief synthesis
Located on the central Anatolia plateau within a volcanic landscape sculpted by erosion to form a succession of mountain ridges, valleys and pinnacles known as “fairy chimneys” or hoodoos, Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia cover the region between the cities of Nevşehir, Ürgüp and Avanos, the sites of Karain, Karlık, Yeşilöz, Soğanlı and the subterranean cities of Kaymaklı and Derinkuyu. The area is bounded on the south and east by ranges of extinct volcanoes with Erciyes Dağ (3916 m) at one end and Hasan Dağ (3253 m) at the other. The density of its rock-hewn cells, churches, troglodyte villages and subterranean cities within the rock formations make it one of the world's most striking and largest cave-dwelling complexes. Though interesting from a geological and ethnological point of view, the incomparable beauty of the decor of the Christian sanctuaries makes Cappadocia one of the leading examples of the post-iconoclastic Byzantine art period.
It is believed that the first signs of monastic activity in Cappadocia date back to the 4th century at which time small anchorite communities, acting on the teachings of Basileios the Great, Bishop of Kayseri, began inhabiting cells hewn in the rock. In later periods, in order to resist Arab invasions, they began banding together into troglodyte villages or subterranean towns such as Kaymakli or Derinkuyu which served as places of refuge.
Cappadocian monasticism was already well established in the iconoclastic period (725-842) as illustrated by the decoration of many sanctuaries which kept a strict minimum of symbols (most often sculpted or tempera painted crosses). However, after 842 many rupestral churches were dug in Cappadocia and richly decorated with brightly coloured figurative painting. Those in the Göreme Valley include Tokalı Kilise and El Nazar Kilise (10th century), St. Barbara Kilise and Saklı Kilise (11th century) and Elmalı Kilise and Karanlık Kilise (end of the 12th – beginning of the 13th century).
Criterion (i): Owing to their quality and density, the rupestral sanctuaries of Cappadocia constitute a unique artistic achievement offering irreplaceable testimony to the post-iconoclastic Byzantine art period.
Criterion (iii): The rupestral dwellings, villages, convents and churches retain the fossilized image of a province of the Byzantine Empire between the 4th century and the arrival of the Seljuk Turks (1071). Thus, they are the essential vestiges of a civilization which has disappeared.
Criterion (v): Cappadocia is an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement which has become vulnerable under the combined effects of natural erosion and, more recently, tourism.
Criterion (vii): In a spectacular landscape dramatically demonstrating erosional forces, the Göreme Valley and its surroundings provide a globally renowned and accessible display of hoodoo landforms and other erosional features, which are of great beauty, and which interact with the cultural elements of the landscape.
Integrity
Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia, having been extensively used and modified by man for centuries, is a landscape of harmony combining human interaction and settlement with dramatic natural landforms. There has been some earthquake damage to some of the cones and the pillars, but this is seen as a naturally occurring phenomenon. Overuse by tourists and some vandalism have been reported and some incompatible structures have been introduced.
The erosional processes that formed the distinctive conical rock structures will continue to create new fairy chimneys and rock pillars, however due to the rate of this process, the natural values of the property may still be threatened by unsustainable use. The cultural features, including rock-hewn churches and related cultural structures, mainly at risk of being undermined by erosion and other negative natural processes coupled with mass tourism and development pressures, can never be replaced. threats Some of the churches mentioned by early scholars such as C. Texier, H.G. Rott and Guillaume de Jerphanion are no longer extant.
Authenticity
The property meets the conditions of authenticity as its values and their attributes, including its historical setting, form, design, material and workmanship adequately reflect the cultural and natural values recognized in the inscription criteria.
Given the technical difficulties of building in this region, where it is a matter of hewing out structures within the natural rock, creating architecture by the removal of material rather than by putting it together to form the elements of a building, the underlying morphological structure and the difficulties inherent in the handling of the material inhibited the creative impulses of the builders. This conditioning of human effort by natural conditions persisted almost unchanged through successive periods and civilizations, influencing the cultural attitudes and technical skills of each succeeding generation.
Protection and management requirements
The World Heritage property Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia is subject to legal protection in accordance with both the Protection of Cultural and Natural Resources Act No. 2863 and the National Parks Act No. 2873. The entire territory between the cities of Nevşehir, Ürgüp and Avanos is designated as a National Park under the Act No. 2873. In addition, natural, archaeological, urban, and mixed archaeological and natural conservation areas, two underground towns, five troglodyte villages, and more than 200 individual rock-hewn churches, some of which contain numerous frescoes, have been entered into the register of immovable monuments and sites according to the Act No. 2863.
Legal protection, management and monitoring of the Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia fall within the scope of national and regional governmental administrations. The Nevşehir and Kayseri Regional Conservation Councils are responsible for keeping the register of monuments and sites, including carrying out all tasks related to the legal protection of monuments and listed buildings and the approval to carry out any restoration-related works. They also evaluate regional and conservation area plans prepared by the responsible national and/or local (i.e. municipal) authorities.
Studies for revision and updating of the existing land use and conservation plan (Göreme National Park Long-term Development Plan) of 1981 were completed in 2003. The major planning decisions proposed were that natural conservation areas are to be protected as they were declared in 1976. Minor adjustments in the peripheral areas of settlements and spatial developments of towns located in the natural conservation sites including Göreme, Ortahisar, Çavuşin, Ürgüp and Mustafapaşa will be strictly controlled. In other words, the Plan proposes to confine the physical growth of these towns to recently established zones. Hotel developments will take into account the set limits for room capacities. Furthermore, the plan also suggested that local authorities should be advised to review land use decisions for areas that have been reserved for tourism developments in the town plans.
Preparation of conservation area plans for the urban and/or mixed urban-archaeological conservation sites within the historic sections of Göreme are in place and provide zoning criteria and the rules and guidelines to be used in the maintenance and restoration of listed buildings and other buildings which are not registered, but which are located within the historic zones. Similar planning studies for the towns of Ortahisar and Uçhisar are in place. Once finalised, a conservation area plan for the urban conservation area in Ürgüp will be in place. All relevant plans are kept up to date on a continuing basis.
Appropriate facilities aimed at improving the understanding of the World Heritage property have been completed for the subterranean towns of Kaymaklı and Derinkuyu, and are required for Göreme and Paşabağı.
Monuments in danger due to erosion, including the El Nazar, Elmalı, and Meryemana (Virgin Mary) churches, have been listed as monuments requiring priority action. Specific measures for their protection, restoration and maintenance are required at the site level.
While conservation plans and protection measures are in place for individual sites, it is recognised by the principal parties responsible for site management that an integrated Regional Plan for the Cappadocia Cultural and Tourism Conservation and Development Area is required to protect the World Heritage values of the property. Adequate financial, political and technical support is also required to secure the management of the property.
www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/world-heritage/cappadocia/
Whitley Bay is a seaside town in the North Tyneside borough in Tyne and Wear, England. It formerly governed as part of Northumberland and has been part of Tyne and Wear since 1974. It is part of the wider Tyneside built-up area, being around 10 miles (16 km) east of Newcastle upon Tyne. Two notable landmarks are the Spanish City (a domed building on the seafront) and St. Mary's Lighthouse, the latter on a small island near the town.
Whitley was first mentioned around 1100 when King Henry I conferred it with other possessions on the Priory of Tynemouth being referred to in ancient documents and maps before that date as Witelei, Wyteley, Hwyteleg, Witelithe, Wheteley, Wytheleye, Whitlaw, Whitlathe and Whitlag. Whitley is also referred to in the charters of King Henry II, King Richard I and King John, confirming to the priors their possessions and liberties.
Whitley was connected with the Crusades when Pope Nicholas IV granted to Edward I the first-fruits and tenths of all ecclesiastical possessions for six years to defray the expenses of an expedition to the Holy Land. A valuation was made of the spiritual and temporal goods of the Priory on 26 March 1292, when the yearly rents from Whitley were returned as 20 shillings, and the tithes as 9 marks.
About the beginning of the 14th century, the manor of Whitley was held from the Prior of Tynemouth by a singular feudal service called the Conveyes which seems to have originated from John de Whitley. Richard de Emeldon, eighteen times Mayor of Newcastle and seven times its representative in Parliament, was the Lord of the Manor of Whitley in 1333.
On 9 April 1345, Edward III granted Gilbert de Whitley a licence to crenellate his manor house at Whitley. To crenellate a house was to place battlements on it. Before this could be done, the sanction of the Crown was often sought. Although battlements were often largely symbolic, in this instance it is probably an indication of the degree of insecurity felt even this far south during the Edwardian wars with Scotland. The licence and crenellations were an indication of status. Only 2% of the small tower houses of the sort Gilbert built had licences. The 'sanction' of the crown was a sought-after bonus, but not a requirement.
After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Whitley was held under the Crown for a time. By a grant of Edward VI dated 8 December 1551, it came into the hands of Dudley, Earl of Warwick who was created Duke of Northumberland. It remained in the Percy family until 1632 after which time the area appeared to be let at a yearly rental to various holders until it came into the possession of the Duke of Somerset on his marriage in 1682 with Elizabeth, the heiress of Joscelyn, the 11th Earl of Northumberland. Whitley subsequently passed by inheritance to her granddaughter Elizabeth Seymour who had married Sir Hugh Smithson, a Yorkshire baronet, afterwards created Duke of Northumberland. Whitley has since been retained by descendants and the present Duke of Northumberland is the Lord of the Manor and principal landowner.
Monkseaton, which forms the greater part of the north west of the district, is also very old and its industries were common with those of Whitley being chiefly coalmining and limestone quarrying.
From the late 19th century and into the 20th century, the adverse effects of the decline of local coal mining and dependent industries in the area were ameliorated by the emergence of Whitley as a seaside holiday resort. The opening of the North Tyne Loop railway line in 1882, connecting the coastal villages to Newcastle, benefited the tourism industry. The line, now followed by the present Metro system, included a new railway station in the centre of the town, and another at Monkseaton. Both stations remain in use as Metro stations. Whitley Bay remains a popular holiday resort, with a caravan park operated by Parkdean Resorts for both holidaymakers and holiday home owners.
The parish church is St. Paul's Church. It was provided by the Duke of Northumberland when the parish of Tynemouth was divided in 1860 and it was consecrated in 1864.
The Whitley and Monkseaton Local Board was established in 1873. The district of the Local Board became the Urban District of Whitley and Monkseaton.
The town was known as Whitley until the 1890s, by which time confusion with Whitby, in North Yorkshire, regularly caused mail to be misdirected. The final straw came in September 1901 when a former resident died in Edinburgh and his body was to be buried in St Paul's churchyard, Whitley. Unfortunately, the body was mistakenly transported to Whitby, thereby delaying the funeral. When the council asked residents for suggestions of a new name, the most popular choice was Whitley Bay. Though since known officially as Whitley Bay, many residents still refer to the town as 'Whitley'.
On 1 January 1944, the Whitley and Monkseaton Urban District became the Whitley Bay Urban District and on 5 March 1954 it was granted a Royal Charter of Incorporation as the Borough of Whitley Bay. The charter was presented by The Princess Royal at a ceremony in the town on 14 April 1954.
The Local Government Act 1972 abolished the borough, with Hartley in the north of the borough becoming a part of Blyth Valley district in Northumberland, and the majority of the town including Whitley Bay and Monkseaton forming part of the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside in the Tyne and Wear area. The town is in the constituency of Tynemouth.
Whitley Bay is around 10 miles east of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is bounded by the coastline of the North Sea to the east. Tynemouth is 3 miles south.
St Mary's Island, a tidal island at the northern tip of the town, is the site of a lighthouse, one of the town's landmarks. Coal seams are exposed in the cliffs next to the beach just North of St Mary's Island and it is possible to pick up coal from the beach at low tide. The coal seams in the cliffs extend all the way to Seaton Sluice.
The Tyne and Wear Metro yellow line runs through the town with Whitley Bay, Monkseaton, West Monkseaton and Cullercoats stations serving the town. A Metro journey to Newcastle city centre takes around 25 minutes, via South Gosforth or Wallsend.
The main bus operators in the town are Stagecoach North East, Go North East and Arriva Northumbria. Until the late 1990s, Arriva owned and operated a bus station and depot in the town. This closed in 1998, and the Park View Shopping centre sits on the site of both this, and the old Post office building.
The local weekly newspaper, The News Guardian, is published by Johnston Press and printed on the presses of the Sunderland Echo in nearby Sunderland. The alternative free weekly paper is the Chronicle Extra, formerly known as the Herald and Post.
There are two high schools in the town, Whitley Bay High School and Monkseaton High School. The town is one of the few remaining in the UK that operates on a three-tier system, with first, middle and high schools.
On 20 February 2007, North Tyneside Council announced plans to regenerate the Spanish City and Whitley Bay. At the core of the plan was the redevelopment of the Spanish City site with its iconic dome, completed in 1912. For many years it was home to a theme park with rides and attractions, until falling into decay following the closure of the theme park in 2000. The Spanish City was reopened in July 2018.
Recent civic improvements include, a skatepark opened in the Panama Dip in 2008, a children's play park on Whitley Park in 2007, refurbishment of the swimming pool and the Playhouse both re-opened in 2009. A new library (behind the main street in the town centre) with a tourist information office, and joint service centre on the site of York Road was completed in 2013.
Whitley Bay F.C. play at the town's Hillheads Park, adjacent to the ice rink. The Hillheads stadium in the west of the town and holds approximately 4,500 spectators with 250 seats in the main stand. Now playing in the Northern League Division One, the club won the FA Vase (amateur FA Cup) in 2002, beating Tiptree United at Villa Park, Birmingham.
Whitley Bay reached the FA Vase final again in May 2009, when the club beat Glossop North End 2–0 at the new Wembley Stadium. They retained the trophy the following year by beating Wroxham 6–1 at Wembley in the final of the 2009–10 FA Vase. In May 2011 they made it an unprecedented three in a row, and four wins in total this time beating Coalville Town 3–2.
Whitley Bay Ice Rink is home of Whitley Warriors Ice Hockey Club. The team enjoyed success together with local rivals Durham Wasps at a national level during the 1980s and early 1990s.
Whitley Bay Rockcliff RFC play at the Lovaine Avenue ground in Hillheads. Founded in 1887 as Rockcliff RFC, and still generally known as "Rockcliff", they were originally based on the seafront in the Rockcliff area of the town, prior to moving along the seafront to the site later occupied by the Spanish City. In 1907 they moved to the present site in Lovaine Avenue. The years immediately after formation and up to the First World War were the most successful in the club's history, when they were one of the strongest sides in England, beating the world-famous Barbarians in 1892, and producing a number of international players including E.W "Little Billy" Taylor, who captained England in the 1890s. The introduction of the league structures in the late 1980s saw the club climb into the north east leagues in the early 1990s. The club now plays in the Durham and Northumberland Division 2.
The Rockcliff ground was the home of the short-lived Dirt Track or Speedway venture in the spring of 1929. The first venue on Tyneside, it was not as popular as the sister track at Gosforth Stadium which opened early summer and was closed after only two months, when the operator Tyneside Speedways Ltd went into liquidation.
There are a number of Christian denominations and mosques in the town:
Baptist church
Roman Catholic church (Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle)
St Edward's
St Mary's
Church of England (Diocese of Newcastle)
St Alban's, Earsdon
St Mary's, Monkseaton
St Paul's
St Peter's, Monkseaton
Free Church
The Bay
Acorn Community
Methodist church
St John's
United Reformed Church
St Andrew's, Monkseaton
Mosques
Whitley Bay Islamic Cultural Centre[18]
North Tyneside Bangladeshi Community Association.
Notable people
Main page: Category:People from Whitley Bay
Gladstone Adams – inventor of the windscreen wiper and former mayor
Kate Adie – News reporter & Chief News Correspondent, BBC News (1989–2003). Presenter, From Our Own Correspondent, BBC Radio 4. Born in Whitley Bay.
David Gilford Armstrong – eminent animal nutritionist who was born and raised here
Michael Bridges – former Newcastle United and Sunderland football player
Ann Cleeves – author
Denis Coe – politician
John Coxon – footballer
L Devine – Singer-songwriter
Sam Fender – Singer/Songwriter, former pupil of Whitley Bay High School Sixth Form
Graham Fenton – footballer
Toby Flood – England rugby union international
John Gilroy – artist of Guinness advertisement fame
Tom Hadaway – playwright
W. E. Johns – author of Biggles (c. 1925)
Ian La Frenais – comedy writer (The Likely Lads, Porridge, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet)
Graham Laws – Football League referee
Will Lenney – YouTuber
John Middleton – actor (Emmerdale)
Tim Palmer - Record Producer
Peter Ramage – Queens Park Rangers and former Newcastle United player – former pupil of Whitley Bay High School
Andrea Riseborough – actor
Laura Spence – Whitley Bay state school student rejected by Oxford University who later attended Harvard University in the USA
Steven Taylor – footballer
Steve Tupling – former footballer
Stephen Tompkinson – actor, lives in Whitley Bay
Hilton Valentine – guitarist, The Animals
Shirley Webb – athlete
Emily Hilda Young – novelist
Television
In the 1960s, the BBC television series Come Dancing included regional finals broadcast from the Empress Ballroom, Whitley Bay.
Whitley Bay was also featured in the 1980s children's television series Supergran.
Scenes in the early 1990s BBC detective series Spender were filmed in the town and one episode was primarily set at the Whitley Bay Ice Rink. The 2006 BBC sitcom Thin Ice was also filmed in the town and at the ice rink.
Several episodes of ITV's Vera were filmed in the town, including The Rendezvous Cafe and the sea front.
Over the years, scenes from the children's TV series Byker Grove were filmed in the town.
Film
Parts of the 1976 film The Likely Lads were filmed in the town.
The 2000 film Purely Belter included scenes filmed at the bingo hall adjacent to the Spanish City Dome. Some of the external shots show what remained of the theme park at that time. The town also features in 2013 film The Cullercoats Fishlass, produced by local company ACT 2 CAM, in which Charles Elderton tries to persuade the Spanish City owners to let his troupe perform there, despite the Sunday licensing laws.
Whitley Bay Film Festival 2010–present. A community annual event. Patron Ian La Frenais.
Radio
The Whitley Bay Municipal Orchestra, conducted by Percival Goffin, was regularly broadcast on radio by the BBC in the 1930s, from the Winter Gardens, Whitley Bay. In 1968, BBC Radio 4's Morning Service, was broadcast from St Paul's Church. In 1992, the Radio 1 Roadshow was broadcast from The Links in the town and in 2001, the Radio 1 Dance Party also came from The Links.
Music
The video for Tina Cousins's single "Pray" was filmed at St Mary's Lighthouse, the Spanish City, along the sea front and in an alley behind Whitley Bay Baptist Church. The Spanish City is also referenced in the Dire Straits song "Tunnel of Love". Journey South recorded scenes for the video of their single "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" on the seafront and at the Rendezvous Cafe.[citation needed]
The rock band Tygers of Pan Tang formed in Whitley Bay in 1978.
Literature
Whitley Bay is the main location for Ann Cleeves' crime novel The Seagull.
Tyne and Wear is a ceremonial county in North East England. It borders Northumberland to the north and County Durham to the south, and the largest settlement is the city of Newcastle upon Tyne.
The county is largely urbanised. It had a population of 1.14 million in 2021. After Newcastle (300,125) the largest settlements are the city of Sunderland (170,134), Gateshead (120,046), and South Shields (75,337). Nearly all of the county's settlements belong to either the Tyneside or Wearside conurbations, the latter of which also extends into County Durham. Tyne and Wear contains five metropolitan boroughs: Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, North Tyneside and South Tyneside, and is covered by two combined authorities, North of Tyne and North East. The county was established in 1974 and was historically part of Northumberland and County Durham, with the River Tyne forming the border between the two.
The most notable geographic features of the county are the River Tyne and River Wear, after which it is named and along which its major settlements developed. The county is also notable for its coastline to the North Sea in the east, which is characterised by tall limestone cliffs and wide beaches.
In the late 600s and into the 700s Saint Bede lived as a monk at the monastery of St. Peter and of St. Paul writing histories of the Early Middle Ages including the Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
Roughly 150 years ago, in the village of Marsden in South Shields, Souter Lighthouse was built, the first electric structure of this type.
The Local Government Act 1888 constituted Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead and Sunderland as county boroughs (Newcastle had "county corporate" status as the "County and Town of Newcastle upon Tyne" since 1400). Tynemouth joined them in 1904. Between the county boroughs, various other settlements also formed part of the administrative counties of Durham and of Northumberland.
The need to reform local government on Tyneside was recognised by the government as early as 1935, when a Royal Commission to Investigate the Conditions of Local Government on Tyneside was appointed. The three commissioners were to examine the system of local government in the areas of local government north and south of the river Tyne from the sea to the boundary of the Rural District of Castle Ward and Hexham in the County of Northumberland and to the Western boundary of the County of Durham, to consider what changes, if any, should be made in the existing arrangements with a view to securing greater economy and efficiency, and to make recommendations.
The report of the Royal Commission, published in 1937, recommended the establishment of a Regional Council for Northumberland and Tyneside (to be called the "Northumberland Regional Council") to administer services that needed to be exercised over a wide area, with a second tier of smaller units for other local-government purposes. The second-tier units would form by amalgamating the various existing boroughs and districts. The county boroughs in the area would lose their status. Within this area, a single municipality would be formed covering the four county boroughs of Newcastle, Gateshead, Tynemouth, South Shields and other urban districts and boroughs.
A minority report proposed amalgamation of Newcastle, Gateshead, Wallsend, Jarrow, Felling, Gosforth, Hebburn and Newburn into a single "county borough of Newcastle-on-Tyneside". The 1937 proposals never came into operation: local authorities could not agree on a scheme and the legislation of the time did not allow central government to compel one.
Tyneside (excluding Sunderland) was a Special Review Area under the Local Government Act 1958. The Local Government Commission for England came back with a recommendation to create a new county of Tyneside based on the review area, divided into four separate boroughs. This was not implemented. The Redcliffe-Maud Report proposed a Tyneside unitary authority, again excluding Sunderland, which would have set up a separate East Durham unitary authority.
The White Paper that led to the Local Government Act 1972 proposed as "area 2" a metropolitan county including Newcastle and Sunderland, extending as far south down the coast as Seaham and Easington, and bordering "area 4" (which would become Tees Valley). The Bill as presented in November 1971 pruned back the southern edge of the area, and gave it the name "Tyneside". The name "Tyneside" proved controversial on Wearside, and a government amendment changed the name to "Tyne and Wear" at the request of Sunderland County Borough Council.
Tyne and Wear either has or closely borders two official Met Office stations, neither located in one of the major urban centres. The locations for those are in marine Tynemouth where Tyne meets the North Sea east of Newcastle and inland Durham in County Durham around 20 kilometres (12 mi) south-west of Sunderland. There are some clear differences between the stations temperature and precipitation patterns even though both have a cool-summer and mild-winter oceanic climate.
Tyne and Wear contains green belt interspersed throughout the county, mainly on the fringes of the Tyneside/Wearside conurbation. There is also an inter-urban line of belt helping to keep the districts of South Tyneside, Gateshead, and Sunderland separated. It was first drawn up from the 1950s. All the county's districts contain some portion of belt.
Although Tyne and Wear County Council was abolished in 1986, several joint bodies exist to run certain services on a county-wide basis. Most notable is the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Authority, which co-ordinates transport policy. Through its passenger transport executive, known as Nexus, it owns and operates the Tyne and Wear Metro light rail system, and the Shields ferry service and the Tyne Tunnel, linking communities on either side of the River Tyne. Also through Nexus, the authority subsidises socially necessary transport services (including taxis) and operates a concessionary fares scheme for the elderly and disabled. Nexus has been an executive body of the North East Joint Transport Committee since November 2018.
Other joint bodies include the Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service and Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, which was created from the merger of the Tyne and Wear Archives Service and Tyne and Wear Museums. These joint bodies are administered by representatives of all five of the constituent councils. In addition the Northumbria Police force covers Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.
There have been occasional calls for Tyne and Wear to be abolished and the traditional border between Northumberland and County Durham to be restored.
Tyne and Wear is divided into 12 Parliamentary constituencies. Historically, the area has been a Labour stronghold; South Shields is the only Parliamentary constituency that has never returned a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons since the Reform Act of 1832.
Newcastle and Sunderland are known for declaring their election results early on election night. Therefore, they frequently give the first indication of nationwide trends. An example of this was at the 2016 European Union referendum. Newcastle was the first large city to declare, and 50.6% of voters voted to Remain; this proportion was far lower than predicted by experts. Sunderland declared soon after and gave a 62% vote to Leave, much higher than expected. These two results were seen as an early sign that the United Kingdom had voted to Leave.
Offshore Group Newcastle make oil platforms. Sage Group, who produce accounting software, are based at Hazlerigg at the northern end of the Newcastle bypass. Northern Rock, which became a bank in 1997 and was taken over by Virgin Money in November 2011, and the Newcastle Building Society are based in Gosforth. The Gosforth-based bakery Greggs now has over 1,500 shops. The Balliol Business Park in Longbenton contains Procter & Gamble research and global business centres and a tax credits call centre for HMRC, and is the former home of Findus UK. The Government National Insurance Contributions Office in Longbenton, demolished and replaced in 2000, had a 1 mile (1.6 km) long corridor.
Be-Ro and the Go-Ahead Group bus company are in central Newcastle. Nestlé use the former Rowntrees chocolate factory on the east of the A1. BAE Systems Land & Armaments in Scotswood, formerly Vickers-Armstrongs, is the main producer of British Army tanks such as the Challenger 2. A Rolls-Royce apprentice training site is next door.[18] Siemens Energy Service Fossil make steam turbines at the CA Parsons Works in South Heaton. Sir Charles Parsons invented the steam turbine in 1884, and developed an important local company. Domestos, a product whose main ingredient is sodium hypochlorite, was originated in Newcastle in 1929 by William Handley, and was distributed from the area for many years.
Clarke Chapman is next to the A167 in Gateshead. The MetroCentre, the largest shopping centre in Europe, is in Dunston. Scottish & Newcastle was the largest UK-owned brewery until it was bought by Heineken and Carlsberg in April 2008, and produced Newcastle Brown Ale at the Newcastle Federation Brewery in Dunston until production moved to Tadcaster in September 2010. At Team Valley are De La Rue, with their largest banknote printing facility, and Myson Radiators, the second largest in the UK market. Petards make surveillance equipment including ANPR cameras, and its Joyce-Loebl division makes electronic warfare systems and countermeasure dispensing systems such as the AN/ALE-47. Sevcon, an international company formed from a part of Smith Electric, is a world leader in electric vehicle controls. AEI Cables and Komatsu UK construction equipment at Birtley.
J. Barbour & Sons make outdoor clothing in Simonside, Jarrow. SAFT Batteries make primary lithium batteries on the Tyne in South Shields. Bellway plc houses is in Seaton Burn in North Tyneside. Cobalt Business Park, the largest office park in the UK, is at Wallsend, on the former site of Atmel, and is the home of North Tyneside Council. Swan Hunter until 2006 made ships in Wallsend, and still designs ships. Soil Machine Dynamics in Wallsend on the Tyne makes Remotely operated underwater vehicles, and its Ultra Trencher 1 is the world's largest submersible robot.
The car dealership Evans Halshaw is in Sunderland. The car factory owned by Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK between North Hylton and Washington is the largest in the UK. Grundfos, the world's leading pump manufacturer, builds pumps in Sunderland. Calsonic Kansei UK, formerly Magna, make automotive instrument panels and car trim at the Pennywell Industrial Estate. Gestamp UK make automotive components. Smith Electric Vehicles originated in Washington. The LG Electronics microwave oven factory opened in 1989, closed in May 2004, and later became the site of the Tanfield Group. Goodyear Dunlop had their only UK car tyre factory next to the Tanfield site until its 2006 closure. BAE Systems Global Combat Systems moved to a new £75 million factory at the former Goodyear site in 2011, where they make large calibre ammunition for tanks and artillery.
The government's child benefit office is in Washington. Liebherr build cranes next to the Wear at Deptford. The outdoor clothing company Berghaus is in Castletown. Vaux Breweries, who owned Swallow Hotels, closed in 1999. ScS Sofas are on Borough Road. There are many call centres in Sunderland, notably EDF Energy at the Doxford International Business Park, which is also the home of the headquarters of the large international transport company Arriva and Nike UK. Rolls-Royce planned to move their production of fan and turbine discs to BAE Systems' new site in 2016.
A small indication of my overwhelming happiness in not having to take a pic 'o the day tomorrow!
And whoa, selfies are rough -- ten seconds to run to position and let loose the balloons and confetti. LOL
365/365!
Perhaps an indication of why the transfer of these two olympians back to Harrogate is quite unbelievable. B251NVN on the "united" working of the 36 into Leeds. Its now no less than Transdev Harrogate`s No 125 via a round about way but this was 18 years ago in April 1995. Remember before mobiles, facebook and foreign ownership of bus companies ? Olympians did drop onto this service but preferred choice for many years was the national, bristol VR and then Leyland Tiger in the final days. It maybe just me but i like wipers together in the middle...if i was driving this it would feel like i had an itch with them left like this.
This little collection of video clips gives an indication of the starling murmurations at Brighton Pier yesterday. I've not worked out how to video them to show the true majesty of the spectacle, but you can get an idea...
Silverton:
The first indication of silver–lead mineralisation in the Barrier Rangers came in late 1875 with the discovery of galena by Julius Charles Nickel and Dan McLean while they were well sinking on Thackaringa Station, near the South Australian - New South Wales border.
In 1879 John Stokie established a store at Umberumberka, 19 km north of Thackaringa. He continued prospecting and discovered silver–lead veins nearby, which he pegged with Edward Pegler in November 1881. A 100 ton parcel of ore was shipped to England for a 40% profit. The following October the Umberumberka Silver Lead Mining Company Ltd was floated with nominal capital of £20 000. Umberumberka was the second area of silver–lead mineralisation discovered in the Barrier Ranges and the new company was the first to be publicly floated. The town of Silverton soon developed close to the mine and became the main settlement of the growing silver field.
Silverton was surveyed in 1883, by which time Australia had a population of 2, 250, 194. By September that year, the population of Silverton was 250, and by December 1883 it had doubled. That year the Day Dream Mine opened and attracted an additional population of 400 - 500 people. In 1884 1,222 mineral leases, 937 business permits and 114 miners' rights were issued. That same year 6,000 tonnes of ore were extracted and the town acquired its own newspaper, the Silver Age.
By 1885 - 1886 the town's population had reached 3,000. Silverton was proclaimed a township in 1885 and a municipality the following year. In 1885 a short-lived smelter was established at Day Dream Mine, operating for only a year. In 1892 the Umberumberka Mine closed, followed by the Day Dream Mine. The Pioneer Mine at Thackaringa closed in 1897. By 1901, after miners had moved to the richer fields at Broken Hill, the town went into decline and only 286 people remained. Today the town has a population of around 50 people, most of whom work in tourism.
The Silverton Tramway Company:
The Silverton Tramway Company, a rare private railway of 50klms in length, was incorporated in New South Wales October 14, 1886 and the line was completed and opened for traffic on January 12, 1888. One of only two privately owned railways in the state, the tramway was originally founded to transport ore from local mines in the Broken Hill and Silverton region into South Australia. The company soon branched out, not only carrying ore from the mines but freighted other goods and offered a passenger service which accounted for a third of their business.
The company serviced travellers on long trips heading interstate to Semaphore (Adelaide) to the Largs Bay Holiday Camp and excursions for local community groups often conveying passengers to Silverton and McCulloch Park (at Stephens Creek) for the day and returning to Broken Hill in the afternoon. When traveling to South Australia the train would travel from Broken Hill, through Silverton and then to Burns which is on the New South Wales side of the border of Cockburn (a town divided by the NSW/SA border).
In 1927 the New South Wales government completed the railway from Sydney to Broken Hill, thus joining the Silverton Tramway and completing the link from Sydney to Adelaide. It played a strategic role in the trans-Australia network until 1970, when it was surpassed by the New South Wales Government Railways (Indian-Pacific). From 1888-1970 it was critical to the economic functioning of Broken Hill, by providing the key transport of ore to the Port Pirie smelters. It played a significant role in the politics and recreation of Broken Hill, and a crucial role at times of water shortage in Broken Hill.
Today, Silverton resides in the Unincorporated Area of New South Wales (NSW) and so does not feature a City Council. It is run by the Silverton Village Committee, who to this day hold their quarterly meetings in the Silverton Municipal Chambers.
Source: Silverton NSW (www.aussietowns.com.au/town/silverton-nsw), New South Wales Heritage Register & Discover Broken Hill (discoverbrokenhill.com.au/silverton-nsw/historic-building...), "The pathway to Broken Hill: Early discoveries in the Barrier Ranges, New South Wales, Australia" by Kenneth George McQueen, and 'Aplin, Graeme; S.G. Foster; Michael McKernan, eds. (1987). Australians: Events and Places. Broadway, New South Wales, Australia: Fairfax, Syme & Weldon Associates. p. 97'
No indication anywhere as to artist or purpose of the work, but someone decided that it would be a good idea to adorn an apartment building on a Leuven street corner with this original artwork.
Don’t they have student pranksters in this town anymore, who could put some clothes on him? Or at least a Trump wig...
The poor man hangs there in all kinds of weather. Looks like he is even gathering moss!
Edit: While browsing in a bookstore, I discovered, years later, who the sculptor is: Peter Vanbekbergen (°1962), Gevelsculptuur, ceramics
He also did Paep Thoon.
As an indication of how life was all those years ago - we three photters were in the area and decided to try our luck at a visit toMerehead Quarry. The outside sidings part was okay but we fancied being actually in the quarry terminal. Bless FY they let us round under supervision and wearing hard hats. As can be seen here with Arnie Furniss. the further one from the camera. On the nearer shunter can be seen rather large tanks. Obviously the length of loaded wagons needed a bit of stopping power!
There is a colour version of this on flickr - not sure which shows it the better.
This former Monon Railroad semaphore signal now gives a clear indication in a museum in Salem, Indiana. It was located along the Monon in Salem.
By all indications, Italian decision-making is done with care and much deliberation. So thorough, they go to work twice a day. Lunch can be their biggest meal, but dinner - that's a three hour affair. Hey, they've gotten on doing it this way for a couple thousand years...
Who needs the rush anyway?
Outside Buca di Sant'Antonio - where, incidentally, we had a really wonderful meal. Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
The year indication of the foundation of this old clothmakers' guild factory in yellow brick on a base of contrasting red brick. The date is set in a semi-circular arch on a continuous brick molding. The factory building was executed in a conventional utility style architecture which one can find all over German-speaking mid Europe.
I discovered this factory building during a bicycle ride. This building houses now the Dampfmaschine Rosswein Museum (museum for stream machinery).
See also: dampfmaschine-rosswein.de/
About the history of the use of year stones in architecture:
English: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_plate
Dutch: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muuranker
And: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaartallen_op_gebouwen
Rosswein, South of Döbeln (former DDR), Stadtbadstrasse on river Freiberger Mulde, Aug. 10, 2014.
© 2014 Sander Toonen Amsterdam/Halfweg | All Rights Reserved
Olympus E-510; 14-42mm F3.5-5.6;
1/160s; f10; ISO400 (raw to jpg)
May be...... I lose my way at the peak on that day, but finally found destination by following the light direction.
The conductor of a westbound CSX intermodal train stands to check the signal indication at the west end of the CP 194 interlocking in Berea, Ohio. The train is headed directly into the late day winter sun.
Like a bright beacon among the dwarf plants surrounding it, Parry's Primroses (Primula parryii) provide some brilliant color and an indication of wet soil in the alpine tundra of James Peak. Parry's primrose is named for Charles Christopher Parry, explorer and botanist who made numerous plant collections in the southwestern U.S. in the mid-1800's.
James Peak commemorates Edwin James who was one of the first Euro-American naturalists to travel through the southern Rockies with the Stephen Long expedition of 1819-1820. Nearby peaks are named for botanists Parry, Asa Gray, and John Torrey. There was a time when scientists, and more importantly their works, were held in high esteem in the U.S....
Disclaimer:
The following Pingo images were taken in 2018.
Before my trip I was researching the Pingos and found no indication on the internet in regards to visitation rules. There also were no signs up anywhere locally or at the viewing platform once I visited.
I now see there are rules prohibiting the climbing of the Pingos from the base up, signed this March 2021 by the Parks Superintendent.
I have mixed feelings about that. On one hand I see excessive visitations by too many people [since it is marketed to mass tourism] may cause some wear or establish a trail. I was very conscience about not leaving any footprints or cause any damage and on one of the Pingos I found a large piece of plastic, the wind had likely carried up here, which I took back out.
Since it became a Canadian Landmark under Parks management, a viewing platform has been built in a location that gives a very panoramic view of the larger Pingos with no human structures visible. I’m not a friend of board walks and platforms in natural landscapes. They are in many ways eyesores to me as a photographer and aesthetically a small trail has much less impact. But in this location I found both rather well designed. To get to the boardwalk, one needs to organize a boat ride or have a watercraft to get to the Parks dock, which at that time was damaged and difficult to land on.
On the other hand I think it was [could be] an incredible experience to use these Pingos as lookout, just like generations of Inuk have done. The thing missing in these coastal regions are high points. So I can see why these Pingos had an importance for hunters to scan the ocean for game, ships, ice-conditions etc.
The lack of any high-points in Tuktoyaktuk itself, along the coast or the highway leaves something to be desired. Short of flight-seeing the coast from Inuvik, one does not get a picture of the beautiful Arctic coast.
The top of the Pingos are mostly sand with peat at some places and the sides covered by dense tundra shrubs, berry bushes, Labrador tea and some grasses on the top. I noticed some faint footprints in the sand on top, which obviously disappear with the wind/rain and annual thawing/freezing cycles these hills are constantly exposed to. The science behind these ice-cored hills is described in detail in a study paper by J. Ross Mackay:
Pingos of the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula Area
t.ly/Xs9U
and this video by Stephen Wolfe:
Pingo Distribution, Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula Region, Western Canadian Arctic
So these photos are very special to me, as I or others may not be able to document/experience these magnificent ‘ice-hills’ again without breaking the law. Drone flying is also banned within the Landmark.
2018 Road Trip to Tuktoyaktuk, NWT via Dempster Highway and the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway or ITH (Tuk Highway).
We're at XN Tower on the Toledo Subdivision. The dispatcher has an I&O train lined back to their main off the CSX main track. The lunar white "Restricting" signal governs the switch to the I&O (former DT&I) track.
This shot of the Temple of the Emerald Buddha gives some indication of just how hectic it was at the Grand Palace when we visited back in July. This made photography difficult in some ways but it also presented a lot of opportunites to shoot some candid shots of tourists.
In addition to the usual bus loads of tourists the Palace was also swamped with Thais who were visiting to pay their last respsects to the king who was lying in state in a seperate part of the Palace.
Click here to see photos from this and a previous trip to Thailand : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157600177340620
From Wikipedia : "Wat Phra Kaew, commonly known in English as the Temple of the Emerald Buddha and officially as Wat Phra Si Rattana Satsadaram, is regarded as the most sacred Buddhist temple (wat) in Thailand. The Emerald Buddha housed in the temple is a potent religio-political symbol and the palladium (protective image) of Thai society. It is located in Phra Nakhon District, the historic centre of Bangkok, within the precincts of the Grand Palace.
The main building is the central phra ubosot, which houses the statue of the Emerald Buddha. According to legend, this Buddha image originated in India where the sage Nagasena prophesized that the Emerald Buddha would bring "prosperity and pre-eminence to each country in which it resides", the Emerald Buddha deified in the Wat Phra Kaew is therefore deeply revered and venerated in Thailand as the protector of the country. Historical records however dates its finding to Chiang Rai in the 15th century where, after it was relocated a number of times, it was finally taken to Thailand in the 18th century. It was enshrined in Bangkok at the Wat Phra Kaew temple in 1782 during the reign of Phutthayotfa Chulalok, King Rama I (1782–1809). This marked the beginning of the Chakri Dynasty of Thailand, whose current sovereign is Vajiralongkorn, King Rama X.
The Emerald Buddha, a dark green statue, is in a standing form, about 66 centimetres (26 in) tall, carved from a single jade stone ("emerald" in Thai means deep green colour and not the specific stone). It is carved in the meditating posture in the style of the Lanna school of the northern Thailand. Except for the Thai King and, in his stead, the Crown Prince, no other persons are allowed to touch the statue. The King changes the cloak around the statue three times a year, corresponding to the summer, winter, and rainy seasons, an important ritual performed to usher good fortune to the country during each season."
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Crocus / Krokus
in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
Explored: 01.03.2009
If the rocker panel and wheel wells are any indication, this old car was going to be someone's pride and joy. Primered after metal or bondo work to remedy the rust prone areas, and wearing "recent" license plates, it must have been a drive-and-restore effort.
Now, however, this 1959 Edsel corsair just sits in a quiet Eastern Washington town. The work-in-progress status is in limbo, abandoned for some other effort, or maybe even lack thereof.
Even if that last owner has moved on, I applaud them for recognizing this as an usual car worth saving. Though Edsels still bear a stigma as Ford's folly, they are now enjoying a resurgence. Likewise, four-door sedans are often overlooked, but in the 1959 Edsel Corsair lineup, even they are rare. While almost 45,000 Edsels were sold that year, only 9,318 of them were Corsairs, made in four body styles. Four-door sedans are, as usual the most common, but even then only 3,694 were made. While not a tiny number, it can be used to illustrate the variety in classic car collectibility. At one of only 3,700, this is just another old car left to sit, while at the same time, one of 77,000 1965 Mustang fastbacks are snatched up like hotcakes. It's all relative.
Silverton:
The first indication of silver–lead mineralisation in the Barrier Rangers came in late 1875 with the discovery of galena by Julius Charles Nickel and Dan McLean while they were well sinking on Thackaringa Station, near the South Australian - New South Wales border.
In 1879 John Stokie established a store at Umberumberka, 19 km north of Thackaringa. He continued prospecting and discovered silver–lead veins nearby, which he pegged with Edward Pegler in November 1881. A 100 ton parcel of ore was shipped to England for a 40% profit. The following October the Umberumberka Silver Lead Mining Company Ltd was floated with nominal capital of £20 000. Umberumberka was the second area of silver–lead mineralisation discovered in the Barrier Ranges and the new company was the first to be publicly floated. The town of Silverton soon developed close to the mine and became the main settlement of the growing silver field.
Silverton was surveyed in 1883, by which time Australia had a population of 2, 250, 194. By September that year, the population of Silverton was 250, and by December 1883 it had doubled. That year the Day Dream Mine opened and attracted an additional population of 400 - 500 people. In 1884 1,222 mineral leases, 937 business permits and 114 miners' rights were issued. That same year 6,000 tonnes of ore were extracted and the town acquired its own newspaper, the Silver Age.
By 1885 - 1886 the town's population had reached 3,000. Silverton was proclaimed a township in 1885 and a municipality the following year. In 1885 a short-lived smelter was established at Day Dream Mine, operating for only a year. In 1892 the Umberumberka Mine closed, followed by the Day Dream Mine. The Pioneer Mine at Thackaringa closed in 1897. By 1901, after miners had moved to the richer fields at Broken Hill, the town went into decline and only 286 people remained. Today the town has a population of around 50 people, most of whom work in tourism.
The Silverton Tramway Company:
The Silverton Tramway Company, a rare private railway of 50klms in length, was incorporated in New South Wales October 14, 1886 and the line was completed and opened for traffic on January 12, 1888. One of only two privately owned railways in the state, the tramway was originally founded to transport ore from local mines in the Broken Hill and Silverton region into South Australia. The company soon branched out, not only carrying ore from the mines but freighted other goods and offered a passenger service which accounted for a third of their business.
The company serviced travellers on long trips heading interstate to Semaphore (Adelaide) to the Largs Bay Holiday Camp and excursions for local community groups often conveying passengers to Silverton and McCulloch Park (at Stephens Creek) for the day and returning to Broken Hill in the afternoon. When traveling to South Australia the train would travel from Broken Hill, through Silverton and then to Burns which is on the New South Wales side of the border of Cockburn (a town divided by the NSW/SA border).
In 1927 the New South Wales government completed the railway from Sydney to Broken Hill, thus joining the Silverton Tramway and completing the link from Sydney to Adelaide. It played a strategic role in the trans-Australia network until 1970, when it was surpassed by the New South Wales Government Railways (Indian-Pacific). From 1888-1970 it was critical to the economic functioning of Broken Hill, by providing the key transport of ore to the Port Pirie smelters. It played a significant role in the politics and recreation of Broken Hill, and a crucial role at times of water shortage in Broken Hill.
Today, Silverton resides in the Unincorporated Area of New South Wales (NSW) and so does not feature a City Council. It is run by the Silverton Village Committee, who to this day hold their quarterly meetings in the Silverton Municipal Chambers.
Source: Silverton NSW (www.aussietowns.com.au/town/silverton-nsw), New South Wales Heritage Register & Discover Broken Hill (discoverbrokenhill.com.au/silverton-nsw/historic-building...), "The pathway to Broken Hill: Early discoveries in the Barrier Ranges, New South Wales, Australia" by Kenneth George McQueen, and 'Aplin, Graeme; S.G. Foster; Michael McKernan, eds. (1987). Australians: Events and Places. Broadway, New South Wales, Australia: Fairfax, Syme & Weldon Associates. p. 97'