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“Neither these bonds nor I can be broken... Pity I can’t say the same about you, runt.”
Once a labourer, then slave, then test subject; bound in manacles engineered to be completely immune to physical or conjured force, Troddon barely endured his tribulations.
Now free solely by being overlooked in an administration error: he is nobody. Nothing.
Yet - tired, half-blind, shackled and alone - dragging the entirety of his burden with him, Troddon plods onward with a whimsical grin on his face.
Not because of any idealistic, puerile hope for a brighter future.
When not only the world, but fate itself is against you, there can be no light in a tunnel that has no end.
He gets up and carries on, simply because while he does: he hasn’t lost.
* Warning: Makes a great morning alarm.
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Thought I'd make a Self-MOC that’s representative of an in-universe species that’s not yet-another-blimmin-Toa, so here’s a Skakdi (Piraka).
Had a blast with the colours, especially the Metallic Blue, and blocking the black to represent skin – these abs are plastic-hard.
India Photographic Journey, Day 10 : Maharashtra
A woman labour carrying stacks of bricks on top of her head and stepping up of a kiln at one of the country's traditional brick factory in Bhosalewadi village, 25 km to the north of Karad city, Maharashtra, India.
As we progress through the story of the building of the Ross Bridge (1836), we'll zoom in and out on various aspects of the characters' lives and the bridge itself.
In this monochrome we see the direct work of three men, and perhaps dozens of their fellow convict labourers. The strong piers and breakwaters of the bridge (here is one example from the north face) were designed by the colonial architect of the time, John Lee Archer (1791-1852).
Archer's life began in Kent, born to an engineering family. He commenced his apprenticeship as an architect in London at the age of 18. In December of 1826 adventure beckoned, and he was recommended for the position of Colonial Architect to Van Diemen's Land. He arrived in August of the next year to take up the position and was responsible for the design of most government projects for the next ten years. His most notable achievements were the Tasmanian Parliament House and the Penitentiary Chapel at Port Arthur, designed along the lines of Jeremy Bentham's Model Prison.
In 1838, two years after the great triumph of the Ross Bridge, his position was abolished owing to a decline in colonial revenue. But Archer was a flexible man, and moved to Stanley on the north west coast to take up a position as police magistrate. Here he drew the first ever map of Circular Head. He died aged 61 in 1852 and is buried in the Old Stanley Graveyard.
The is no evidence that Archer spent much time at all in Ross or on the project for the bridge. That supervisory role was left to the military commander in Ross (we'll meet him in the next episode). But the man principally entrusted with Archer's designs and bringing them into fruition was convict stonemason, James Colbeck (1801-1852). I'll get to how Colbeck was assigned to this role soon, but when I tell you that before his arrest he worked on the building of Buckingham Palace, then you know why he was so sought after.
By pure coincidence both Archer and Colbeck died in the same year, but on different sides of the world! [I told you this story would be fascinating.] Yes, the former convict Colbeck would die a free man back in the England of his birth.
Colbeck was born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, and became a stonemason. His talent was so pronounced that at the age of just 21 he was given the opportunity of a lifetime to work on Buckingham Palace in London. He worked there from 1822 to 1825. His wife and young son remained in Dewsbury, however, and soon Colbeck decided to leave London and return to Yorkshire. It was to have near fatal consequences.
Work was hard to find, and in order to feed his family he resorted to burglary. Soon after he was caught and in 1828 sentenced to life in prison in Van Diemen's Land (the harshest sentence this side of hanging). We have no idea what happened to his poor wife and family, and it is unlikely he ever saw them again. Arriving in the colony in 1829, Colbeck was assigned various road building tasks on a chain gang, but at least he did get to help build the New Orphan School in Hobart.
In 1831 the old wooden Ross Bridge was falling down. Local grazier William Kermode (we see him immortalised on the stone bridge as well - see the tag) and several leaders petitioned the government to build a new bridge. Colbeck had done some assigned work on Kermode's property, and when it was learned that he had worked on Buckingham Palace, Kermode immediately set out to have permission granted for Colbeck to be the foreman of the new project.
So the placement of every stone you see in the photograph above was the responsibility of James Colbeck, convict. And those stone icons you see here were designed and carved by Daniel Herbert, and his story provides one of the most fascinating tales in the entire history of the colonial convict enterprise.
Both Colbeck and Herbert were emancipated after completing the bridge. In 1841 Colbeck received a free pardon. The last reference to him in Tasmanian history was the 1843 census where he was listed as living in the West Tamar. But by 1850 he had returned to Wakefield in Yorkshire and was remarried. His death is registered on 17 February 1852 and he was buried in St. Matthews burial ground, Dewsbury. [My Yorkshire Flickr friends might like to look him up.]
Nappers Bridge and the Lake Bonney Hotel.
William Napper a farm labourer from Guernsey arrived in SA on the Oriental in 1855 when he was 28 years old. With his friend William Parnell they tried working as timber cutters for the passing riverboat trade along the Murray. Their wives and families joined them. In 1859 William Parnell built the Lake Bonney Hotel to capitalise on the travellers passing overland with their livestock. In 1863 Napper purchased 80 acres of land and the hotel buildings from. William’s first wife Ann died in 1869 and his second wife died in 1877 just after they had moved to become the licensees of the Overland Corner Hotel. It is not clear but the Lake Bonney Hotel probably closed when Napper left it. The hotel had eleven rooms, some with magnificently built chimneys and a store hut nearer Lake Bonney. Napper’s private residence which still stands was located in front of the old store and cellars. William Napper returned to the deserted Lake Bonney Hotel in the 1880s to operate it as an accommodation place. He died here in 1907 and was buried nearby in the Overland Corner Hotel cemetery just north of the old hotel.
This building is the old store and cellars.
Taken at dusk after the sun had set.
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Nappers Bridge and the Lake Bonney Hotel.
William Napper a farm labourer from Guernsey arrived in SA on the Oriental in 1855 when he was 28 years old. With his friend William Parnell they tried working as timber cutters for the passing riverboat trade along the Murray. Their wives and families joined them. In 1859 William Parnell built the Lake Bonney Hotel to capitalise on the travellers passing overland with their livestock. In 1863 Napper purchased 80 acres of land and the hotel buildings from. William’s first wife Ann died in 1869 and his second wife died in 1877 just after they had moved to become the licensees of the Overland Corner Hotel. It is not clear but the Lake Bonney Hotel probably closed when Napper left it. The hotel had eleven rooms, some with magnificently built chimneys and a store hut nearer Lake Bonney. Napper’s private residence which still stands was located in front of the old store and cellars. William Napper returned to the deserted Lake Bonney Hotel in the 1880s to operate it as an accommodation place. He died here in 1907 and was buried nearby in the Overland Corner Hotel cemetery just north of the old hotel.
This building is the hotel.
Friendly labourers, still in very good spirits, wait hopefully for work in the snow outside Xingshang colliery at Hegang on 7th January 2002.
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China, Xian, "Terracotta Warriors & Horses", a collection terracotta sculptures, of estimated in 2007 of 8.000 soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses & 150 cavalry horses, the majority of which remained buried in the pits nearby Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum, showing the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BCE & whose determination was to guard the emperor in his life after death.
The figures were discovered on 29 March 1974 to the east of Xi'an in Shaanxi province by farmers digging a water well. The sculptures vary in height according to their roles, with the tallest being the generals.
For centuries, occasional reports mentioned pieces of terracotta figures & fragments of the Qin cemetery –roofing shingles, bricks & pieces of building materials. This discovery encouraged Chinese archaeologists to investigate, revealing the largest pottery figurine group ever found in China.
According to the texts of historian Sima Qian, work on the mausoleum began in 246 BCE soon after Emperor Qin at aged 13 ascended the throne. The project eventually involved estimated 700,000 workers.
Sima Qian, in his most noted work, Shiji, finished a century after the mausoleum's completion, wrote that the First Emperor was buried with palaces, towers, officials, valuable artefacts & astonishing objects. According to Sima Qians account, 100 rivers had their flow simulated by mercury & above them the ceiling was adorned with heavenly bodies below which were the features of the land. High levels of mercury were found in the soil of the tomb mound, giving credence to Sima Qian's account.
The terracotta army figures were manufactured in workshops by government labourers & local craftsmen using local resources. Heads, arms, legs & torsos were created separately & then assembled. In those times of tight imperial control, each workshop was required to inscribe its name on items produced to ensure quality control.
The figures are life-sized & vary in height, uniform, & hairstyle in accordance with rank. Most originally held real weapons such as spears, swords, or crossbows. Originally, the figures were also painted with bright colours, variously decorated pink, red, green, blue, black, brown, white & lilac. The coloured lacquer finish, individual facial features & weapons used in producing these figures increased the figures' realism.
Most of the original weapons were looted shortly after the creation of the army, or have rotted away, while the colour coating flaked off or greatly faded.
An estimated 80 to 90% of the army & related terracotta items are still covered with soil & not excavated in order to protect, also it would take decades to assemble the bits & pieces since the statues are broken.
However, the whole place is really impressive & should be visited if you get a chance.
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Migrants walking on the Ludhiana-Delhi Highway (NH-44) near Ludhiana, Punjab, during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
In this unfolding human tragedy, children were probably the worst affected. Leaving the place that they grew up in and knew as home, holding their parent's hand to walk endlessly, and without being able to fathom the uncertain future their families were heading into, their plight insufferable yet unspoken.
Venkatesh Rao is from India and is in his late 40’s. Together with few other Asian men he takes care of a part of constructing a new dhow or repairing a damaged one.
This image was taken by getting inside the dhow with prior permit.
Dubai, UAE
Similar to other small laneway-streets in the downtown area, Glasgow Street contains row houses built to accommodate workers that immigrated from the British Isles in the latter decades of the 19th century. When the first five houses appeared on the street in 1889, three of them were occupied by labourers, one who earned his living as a painter, and another as a piano maker. These small Second-Empire style houses provided reasonably priced accommodation for immigrant families. Second-Empire houses were very popular in Toronto during the 1870s. Their Mansard roofs, as opposed to peaked roofs, provided more interior space for large families. Unlike the Second-Empire row houses on Draper Street, which were built of brick, the dwellings on Glasgow Street were frame construction.
A rural labourer tying his turban at a farmers' protest site near Ludhiana, Punjab.
The turban is an important functional as well as symbolic head gear in most of South Asia. For the affluent, it is a symbol of their social stature and power. But for the poor, it is a part of their everyday attire that is very versatile in its functional usefulness.
*This was clicked before the farmers called off their protest after the government repealed its new farm laws that the farmers were opposing.
The Belper East Mill (1912) completely overshadows the North Mill. A fortress-like, seven-storey building with four corner turrets, Italianate tower and rows of windows, it was constructed by the English Sewing Cotton Company in 1912 in the distinctive Accrington red-brick, which had by this time become the preferred building material for textile mills - whether built in Lancashire or elsewhere.
It is built around a steel frame, which by 1912 had long been entirely free-standing; unlike William Strutt’s structures, which relied on the walls of the building to support them. No scaffolding was used to build the East Mill. Despite this, there were few accidents during construction. The only death recorded in the press was of labourer Edward Frost of Bonsall, struck by lightning whilst inserting a steel girder in the ground just a week into the project.
Today the building, although used for offices, is largely empty and in a run-down condition.
Belper is perhaps most famous for its place in the Industrial Revolution, and the presence of the imposing mills that once dominated the town and its people.
It was the mills of Jedediah Strutt, on land bought for him by William Slater, that transformed Belper and brought prosperity to the town which before then was more of a hamlet.
From a farming background in South Normanton, Jedediah worked as a wheelwright before perfecting the Derby rib machine with his brother-in-law William Woolatt. Building on early success with Richard Arkwirhgt at Cromford, Strutt moved on to build the Belper mills from around 1775.
I understand that the first to be built was the South Mill, around 1776, then the North Mill (1784-1786) which is the only one of Strutt's mills to stand today and even that has been replaced due to a fire in 1803.
Across the road from the first site were built the West Mill (1795) and other mill buildings joined by a gangway that is now thought to have provided protection for the Counting House, also a Round Mill Building, a Reeling Mill and a Junction Mill.
North Mill, 1804, is the oldest of the two remaining mills - West Mill, South Mill, and Round Mill, were demolished. The largest and most prominent mill building in Belper today, East Mill, was not in fact a Strutt property but was built by the English Sewing Company in 1912.
Nappers Bridge and the Lake Bonney Hotel.
William Napper a farm labourer from Guernsey arrived in SA on the Oriental in 1855 when he was 28 years old. With his friend William Parnell they tried working as timber cutters for the passing riverboat trade along the Murray. Their wives and families joined them. In 1859 William Parnell built the Lake Bonney Hotel to capitalise on the travellers passing overland with their livestock. In 1863 Napper purchased 80 acres of land and the hotel buildings from. William’s first wife Ann died in 1869 and his second wife died in 1877 just after they had moved to become the licensees of the Overland Corner Hotel. It is not clear but the Lake Bonney Hotel probably closed when Napper left it. The hotel had eleven rooms, some with magnificently built chimneys and a store hut nearer Lake Bonney. Napper’s private residence which still stands was located in front of the old store and cellars. William Napper returned to the deserted Lake Bonney Hotel in the 1880s to operate it as an accommodation place. He died here in 1907 and was buried nearby in the Overland Corner Hotel cemetery just north of the old hotel.
A woman carries bricks during unpacking of the kiln. Millions of labourers, mainly women, are employed in India's controversial brickmaking industry, renown for it's poor working conditions and below legal rates of pay.
At the first brickworks where I asked to take photos, the management were very hostile, but nearby, another yard was most welcoming. They said it was a family run business, and the team of men and women seemed to have a more relaxed routine, although there's no denying that the work is back-breakingly hard.
Sobering fact - Workers earn Rs150 (just over $2) for every 1000 bricks carried.
Serampore, north Kolkata. West Bengal. India.
November 2017. © David Hill.
On Gordon Point are the remains of Fort Ballance, a defence site that was once Wellington's primary source of protection against sea-borne invasion. Built in 1885 following fears of an impeding war with Russia, Fort Ballance is one of the best preserved of a string of nineteenth century coastal defences constructed to protect New Zealand from a naval attack. In 1885, the Government, reluctantly acknowledging that they could not rely solely on Britain for protection, commissioned engineer Major Henry Cautley to design a series of fortifications to protect the country's main ports.
Fort Ballance, Wellington's main fortification, was built by the Armed Constabulary, day labourers and prison inmates. Erected on the former site of Te Mahanga Pa the fort was named after the then Minister of Defence, John Ballance [1839-1893]. In the event of war Fort Ballance was to prevent enemy ships entering the inner harbour and provide covering fire for the minefield between Gordon Point and Ward Island. Supported by positions at Kau Point and Point Halswell, when fully armed, Fort Ballance had more guns than any other fort in New Zealand.
It was a busy market so couldn't help out with this blob. Its distracting though but still thought of posting it. Have a nice day everyone.
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Name: William Townsley
Arrested for: not given
Arrested at: North Shields Police Station
Arrested on: not given
Tyne and Wear Archives ref: DX1388-1-81-William Townsley
This image of Townsley seems to have been supplied by the Gateshead Constabulary to the police at North Shields.
An image of his accomplice, Luke Swailes is available here www.flickr.com/photos/twm_news/27190318155/in/album-72157....
The Shields Daily News for 29 September 1906 reports:
“THEFT OF JEWELLERY AT NORTH SHIELDS. TWO MEN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.
This morning at the North Shields Police Court, before Captain J. Sanderson and Mr G.H. Stansfield, Luke Swailes (60), general dealer and Wm. Townsley, a young man, both of Gateshead, were charged with stealing, on the 27th of November 1905, from Welbury House, Preston Park, three bracelets, a neck chain, locket, ring and brooch, value £20, the property of Ethel Annie Freeth.
Swailes was further charged with receiving from Wm. Townsley a gold expansion bracelet and watch value £6, the property of Alfred John Freeth, well knowing the same to have been stolen. Mr G W Chapman represented Swailes.
Ethel Annie Freeth said that on Sunday, November 26th, she left her watch and bracelet in a drawer in the bedroom, together with the other articles mentioned in the charge. On the afternoon of the next day she missed them and gave information to the police.
Elizabeth Irvin, dressmaker, 84 Grey Street, said that in November last she was employed at the Elms, Preston Park, which was next door to Freeth’s house. On the afternoon of the 27th, she saw a man prowling about in front of the sitting room window and took good notice of him. On January 30th, she identified him among six men at Gateshead Police Station and now identified him as the prisoner Townsley.
Edward Surtees Chisholm, manager of the New Gateshead Inn, North Street, Gateshead, stated that he had known the prisoner Swailes for several years. He was a respectable general dealer. He came to witness’s house one Tuesday in November or December and offered him the watch bracelet for £2. The witness bought it for that sum which he thought was a fair price.
Detective Radcliffe said he was present at the Gateshead Police Station when Miss Irvin identified Townsley. The prisoner said “I can soon get out of that, I was in hospital at the time.” On Friday 21st, he arrested Swailes on a warrant. When witness read the warrant over to him he said, “He (Townsley) must be a scoundrel. This is some more he has put on to me.” Later he said, “I have only to say that Townsley is a thorough scoundrel. I am as innocent as a child unborn.” Witness showed him the watch bracelet and told him that that was what he was charged with receiving. He replied, “I have never seen it before.” In the cell he said, “I think the best thing in a case of this kind is to plead guilty. Chisholm knew as well as I did that I got it from Townsley. He asked me if it was straight and I told him he would not get it for £2 if it had been.” Neither of the prisoners, when charged this morning, had anything to say.
The prisoner Swailes gave evidence on his own behalf. He said that he was 50 years of age and a general dealer and lived at 4 Towns Street, New Gateshead. About Christmas the accused Townsley came to him. Previous to that he did not know the man. Townsley asked him if he would buy a bracelet, as he wanted the money to go to Scotland. Asked where he had got it, he said he found it sometime since at Jesmond on a seat. He asked £2 for it, and witness telling him that all the money he had upon him was 35s, Townsley at once handed it over for that price. At Chisholm’s bar next day witness offered it for sale to him and he bought it for £2. Witness thought that would be about the value of the article and did not for one moment imagine it had been stolen. From what he was, however, told later he has very reason to think that the bracelet had been stolen. Afterwards from time to time witness advanced Townsley’s mother small sums of money. Eventually he stopped lending her money, whereupon she made a charge against him to the Gateshead Police. He was tried on that charge at Durham Assizes and acquitted. When charged last Friday week with the offence now being dealt with he did deny that he bought the bracelet from Townsley. He did this because he was afraid of getting Chisholm into trouble. Later he admitted that he had sold it.
Cross-examined by the Chief Constable (Mr. J. H. Huish) Swailes admitted that when arrested he did not know that the bracelet was in the hands of the police.
The prisoner Townsley reserved his defence.
Both prisoners were committed for trial at the Quarter Sessions. Townsley who was in charge of warders, was conveyed to Newcastle Gaol to await trial. Swailes was admitted to bail in his own recognisances of £50 and one surety of £50.
Townsley is at present undergoing a sentence of three years penal servitude for burglary at Hedgeley Heath and was brought before the magistrates on a Home Office order."
The Shields Daily News for 19 October 1906 reports:
“William Townsley, 22, labourer, pleaded guilty to having stolen £20 worth of jewellery at Tynemouth on Nov. 27, 1905, the property of Miss Ethel Annie Freeth of Preston Park, North Shields. Luke Swailes, 59, dealer, pleaded not guilty to a charge of having received the jewellery, well knowing it to have been stolen. Mr Griffith Jones prosecuted and Mr Mundahl defended the accused Swailes.
The jury found Swailes guilty and he was sentenced to three months’ hard labour.
Townsley, who is currently undergoing a sentence of three years’ penal servitude at Stafford Prison, was sentenced to a similar term, to run concurrently with the sentence he is now serving”.
These images are a selection from an album of photographs of prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court between 1902 and 1916 in the collection of Tyne & Wear Archives (TWA ref DX1388/1).
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This remarkable sculpture near Preston, was designed to represent the tidal waters of the Ribble Link. It was installed by artist Denis O’Connor
Ribble Millennium Link