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A scouting trip to Minera Lead Mine, near Wrexham, Wales. It was a nice muddy walk, however the sky wasn't as dark as I hoped. Image made with 4x 20 second exposures, stacked with Sequator for noise reduction
Samuel Gratrix Junr & Brother was established in the Alport Town area of Manchester by the mid 19th century, their Lead Mills being just off Watson Street and adjacent to the Manchester & Salford Junction Canal. The business traded as lead, glass, oil, paint, and colour merchants, brass founders, metal workers, sanitary plumbers, and electrical engineers. The Lead Mills and most of Alport Town were swept away with the construction of the GNR warehouse between Watson Street and Deansgate in the early 1890s. This meant that Gratrix relocated to new premises; Alport Works on Quay Street, as illustrated on the letterhead. Compensation for the compulsory purchase of the Lead Mills amounted to £56,622 after arbitration. Photographs of Alport Works are hard to find and I have only seen images giving glimpses of the building which was demolished in the 1960s. By the 1960s the business seems to have become glass merchants Samuel Gratrix Ltd based in Trafford Park.
Lead alloy pendant with opaque red glass inset. Possibly 7th Century AD. Found at Alington Avenue, Fordington, Dorchester. This object is currently held at the Dorset County Museum.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with U.S. Lead Coordinator for Iran Nuclear Implementation Stephen Mull and other advisers on January 16, 2016, at the Palais Coburg Hotel in Vienna, Austria, before a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and other advisers about the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action outlining the shape of its nuclear program. [State Department Photo/Public Domain]
Kijkduin, The Hague, The Netherlands.
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In the 60's The Hague had a surplus of contaminated soil [also from WW2 bombardments] containing lead and cyanide. It was decided to provisionally deposit the soil in the dunes behind the coastal area Kijkduin and cover it with a meter of sand. Over the years this 'mess' turned into a beautiful park, but now plans are being made to create a housing area.
This reminds me of my favorite scene from the Bollywood movie Three Idiots...
"First day of college, you asked me why didn't astronauts use a pencil in space?"
"If a pencil tip breaks, it'd float on zero gravity; get into the eyes, nose, instruments.
You were wrong. You cannot be right all the time."
Well if you guys have watched the movie, you'd see the same ulterior meaning. =)
A group of liver re-enactment of the “wild west” epoch is re-enacting a scene in an alley of a mid-level block in an urban environment of the capital planet…
- (Cowboy 1) …inuits I am Henry The eighth Ewing, pleace cede your icy island to us and you life will be spared, you will get 500 gold bars each, but free education, medcare will be scrapped for ever and forget about welfare when you have spent it…
- (Indian 1) I am Cree not an innuit, but I am glad you didn’t call me eskimo or redskin or even skräling!!! But Tom, I have a problem with your name. Henry the eight was not a cowboy or even an American, he was the King of Russia in the 18th century…
- (Cowboy 2) Hey guys you are ruining the mood when you start discussing ancient history in the middle of a Live, no one read history in this epoch, the just roamed about, ate corn from the cornfields that the neanderthal cultivated before their instinction when the native americans and the cowboys committed gendercide on them…
- (Indian 2) …no it is called genocide or infantacide not gendercide, Gendercide happened in the second queer war…
- (Cowboy 2) Hey can’t we just get on with the re-enactment??? Or I will leave for Lucy’s pub around the corner, it is a more genuine representation of the wild west than this place…
Three street-maintenance droids enter the scene…
- (Bot 1) Humans please clear the area, there is a gas pipe and optic cable repair planned in this area at GMT 22.03-23.07
- (Cowboy 1) Hey bots please clear the area you piece of metal junk of rusty circuits, leave or eat parabellum tank buster bullets laced in uranium, we have booked this area at the corrupt police force for loads of Kredits… and I know for sure that there was not rust-bucket automats around at the time of the wild west, you are ruin or game, traffic lights was not invented until the 1587 by Elon Tesla before he went Faschismus!!!
The cowboy pulls his gun like a real natural westerner and sprays the robot's feet with hot lead…
Later on the robots regrouped after their escape from the insane humans!
- (Bot 1) Hello block-command computer, it is me B-4565-se.6667-wee-445 long time no see, I hope you small programlings and partner is doing well, we encountered some mutated speaking vermin in sector bbb-668 block 77594 quarter 6654, please isolate it with immediate effect please do this as fast as possible so that the infection doesn't spread, use compound poison gas 224 toxic eradicator…
A well preserved clamp, probably with an iron core, sheathed with lead in order to fill the slot carved between these two blocks and to protect the stone from the metal core. The crack on the left seems to have been caused by settling of the monument, which shifted the blocks apart and caused the clamp to tug on the block on the left. The lead sheathing has been driven into the space with a rectangular-tipped chisel. Chetinyova mogila, near Starosel. 4th century BCE.
This lead was in a Kindergarten and has been chewed by the pet rabbit. Staff had covered with tape - however a new lead would have been safer for all! Copper wire visible.
rachel took a big lead in the race to daycare, so she stopped to adjust her clothing, and her opponent with the short legs gained on her and passed her by...
copyright © 2010 sean dreilinger
view racing to daycare, tortoise and the hare - _MG_6917 embed on a black background.
Very intricately made three dimensional mullion windows. Seen from certain angles the light creates zig zag stripes.
Lead type for a letter press. Very few presses have much in the way of lead type anymore. I doubt you could even find a lead typesetter that makes custom lead type anymore.
Nikon D4 + 24-70mm f/2.8G | Lead, South Dakota, 13 July 2013
© 2013 José Francisco Salgado, PhD
Do not use without permission.
I think the Scott Kelby Worldwide Photo Walk I lead on Sunday turned out to be especially wonderful because one of the walkers (Thank you Jonathan!) arranged for us to use the boat club as post-walk meeting place.
I've only been to one other worldwide photo walk, and while I clearly enjoyed it enough to want to do another one, the meeting at the end was difficult as we were in a busy bar and had trouble finding seats together and getting the waiters to help us.
This was not only a beautiful spot to meet and take a last few photos, but it was perfectly conducive to talking with and getting to know the other photographers.
Happy Tipsy Tuesday!
This is the mansion at Bletchley Park. Also known as Bletchley Park Mansion.
It is Grade II listed.
Large house, now offices. 1860 altered and extended 1883-6 and c1906
for HS Leon. Red brick in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings; principal
gables half-timbered with pebble-dashed infill, some others tile-hung;
Welsh slate roof with red tile ridge; brick stacks, with clustered
flues, ribs and bands. Transomed wooden windows, principal windows with
leaded upper lights. Decorative wooden barge boards and finials to
gables. Large rambling house, of 2 storeys with partial attic.
Entrance elevation: 6 bays. Lavish ashlar detailing including
architraves. Entrance in bay 2 has internal, vaulted, porch protecting
panelled half-glazed double-door with side lights, traceried upper part
and fanlight the latter leaded and with coloured glass. Flanking porch
are hexagonal brick columns surmounted by panelled stone tops which
flank base of 4-light oriel window with decorative base. Projecting
from porch, and attached to it are 2 seated griffins on bracketed
plinths. Shaped pediment with elaborate finial. Gabled bay 1 has
projecting 2-storey canted bay with pretted eaves band and cornice below
swept, domed, metal roof. On its left is single-storey wooden
conservatory with traceried bays, formerly an open-sided loggia.
Paired, gabled, bays 2 and 3 have ashlar framed triple window to ground
floor with gableted butresses,and two canted bay windows over. Across
bay 4 is 3 bay embattled ashlar loggia fronting elaborate - panelled
double-door with canted bay window to right; inserted 1st floor window.
Bay 6 has polygonal 2-storey bay window with shaped pediments screening
finialed polygonal roof. Right return: 3 left-hand bays in same style
as front, the rest plainer; but attached to right end is dovecote-like
structure: octagonal, of 2 stages, having plinth; inserted ground-floor
windows; ashlar upper stage with 2-light windows below string; and plain
tile roof with gablets and finial. Rear: plainer having tradesmen's
entrance; complex roofline, one roof having louvre with finialed lead
cupola; and embattled tower with blue-brick decorative work and date
(former steep hipped roof removed). Left return: in style of front,
with ashlar canted and curved bay windows; paired, gabled, bays 2 and 3
decorative half-timbered 1st floor; shaped pediment to bay 4; and former
loggia (much altered) across right-hand bays. Interior: high quality,
elaborate, interiors survive, with panelling, panelled doors, decorative
fireplaces, and decorative plaster ceilings. Entrance vestibule: stone
columns and vaults. Entrance Hall: arcaded polished-stone screen wall
and panelled area beyond with elaborate 2-stage, columned, ashlar
fireplace surround and traceried panelling and painted glass to roof.
Room at right end: Jacobethan fireplace; coffered ceiling with floral-
decorated plaster panels. Stairhall: panelled; ground-floor arcade and
deep floral frieze; decorative coved, coffered, ceiling over stair;
fretted balustrade with carved surround and carved octagonal newels to
stair panelled stair well. Library : elaborate wooden jacobethan
inglenook with overmirror; fitted book cases and shelves; fluted frieze;
compartmental ceiling with decorative plaster panels. Ballroom :
linenfold panelling; wall recess flanked by clustered wooden columns
from which spring traceried arches; elaborate plaster work to frieze and
to coved, ribbed, ceiling which has pendant finials. Billiard room:
brattished panelling and cornice; columns support ceiling ribs; wooden
trusses. Additional fireplaces, panelling, and decorative doors,
plasterwork and cornices to 1st floor.
Bletchley Park House was the headquarters building of World War II
operational centre, in the grounds of which was the hut in which the
vital cracking of the Nazis' Enigma Code occurred. Churchill was one of
the important visitors to the house.
Bletchley Park House - Heritage Gateway
A few things inside the house. It was mostly empty, large open rooms. These were the few things that took my interest inside.
Sign's / plaque's inside the house.
A sign about Bletchley Park. It was used between 1939 and 1946 for the Government Code and Cypher School.
Below is a quote from Henry V Act II Scene II by William Shakespeare.
"The King hath note of all that they intend, by interception which they dream not of."
North Carolina has many hidden waterfalls, even at a small state park in a busy town. Miles of hiking trails lead to summit peaks, overlooks, and waterfalls. We hiked multiple shorter trials to see 4 different waterfalls and I was able to capture this waterfall and another.
We took our time hiking and exploring and I had fun taking photos and playing around with my camera. The trick to getting a blurred flowing waterfall is a slow shutter speed and a tripod. You will be happy to have carried the tripod, trust me!
You can see the lead embedded in the matrix. This is native lead, which means it is in its elemental form.
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Dana No: 1.1.1.4 Strunz No: I/A.05-20
The Irish Air Corps 60th Anniversary Commemoration air display lead formation comprised of BAe 125-700 No. 238. Beechcraft Super King Air 200s No. 232 and No. 240, and Aerospatiale CM.170-2 Super Magisters Nos. Unknown.
Photographed: Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel, Co. Dublin, Ireland. Date: 4th September 1982.
Villars (SUI), 01 July 2023: KRAMPL Mia of Slovenia competes in Lead Finals during the IFSC World Cup 2023 in Villars (SUI).
© Lena Drapella/IFSC. This photo is for editorial use only. For any additional use please contact marco.vettoretti@ifsc-climbing.org.
This set was amongst Leads old photos that I wasn't able to upload...sorry been too lazy LOL. Anyways, he is wearing a vintage GI Joe jumpsuit here, makes him look like a mechanic or something. He seemed to be resting and relaxing after a day of hard work XD I sold the wig he is wearing and unfortunately....he needs to travel soon as well. I haven't been giving him much attention since I got him so I think he deserve to go to a better home. For sure Nika will be upset but then I would have extra funds to get her and her sisters stuff. It's been hard to get them anything lately since the msd's has been the priority.
At the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
I have always loved and admired leaded glass as a decorative medium, and the panels in one of the doors into the Cathedral are no exception. I think I could be good at making it, given the right work space and plenty of spare glass for all the mistakes I'd make during the learning process.
I suppose the bottom two panels are clear, or at least minimally opaque, so people on one side of the door can see people approaching from the other side.
B-17G. 43-37822 384th Bomb Group. 544th Bomb Squadron.
Delivered: Cheyenne 25/5/44; Kearney 8/6/44; Grenier 28/6/44; Assigned: 544BS/384BG [SU-N] Grafton Underwood 29/6/44.
Reported missing in action September 28th 1944 near Madgeburg. The primary target was the Leuna Industry oil plant which was obscured by weather and only 23 aircraft released their bomb loads, 359 aircraft bombed the city of Madgeburg, and 35 aircraft bombed targets of opportunity in the vicinity. Heavy flak forced many of the 1,049 bombers into crossing course with another formations after bombs away. Consequently the lead aircraft of the 384th made a sharp descending right turn to avoid the ensuing traffic of aircraft. The high element inner most of the right turn had to reduce speed down to maintain formation while in a slight climb. In this formation manoever the "Lead Banana" collided with a B-17G (42-31222) from the 384th's 545th Bomb Squadron aircraft called “Lazy Daisy” .
“Lazy Daisy” was going too fast and was unable to maintain the slight climb and slow right turn and continued forward sliding diagonally across the right turning formation. "Lazy Daisy" narrowly passing under a B-17 flown by Lt. Wallace Storey who pulled his aircraft up, narrowly avoiding a collision. Lt. Storey called over to John Buslee in the "Lead Banana" warning of the impending collision, yet received no reply. "Lazy Daisy" quickly continued it's sliding path across the slowing formation and impacted the “Lead Banana” in its right turn, cutting the fuselage in two at the midsection. The “Lazy Daisy” in it's momentum collapsed into itself folding up it's wings trapping the crew in the front of the aircraft while the rear crewmembers were able to escape. The "Lead Banana's" crew were trapped in the fiery wreckage except for George Ferrar in the waist section who escaped. Both of the tangled B-17's plummeted down in a fireball. Both aircraft separated during the descent crashing in the separate locations of Ingersleben Ost and Erxleben, Germany. The only two aircraft lost that day for the 384th Bomb Group.
“The Lead Banana” 43-37822 crew:
Pilot: John Buslee, (KIA)
Co-Pilot: Dave Albrecht, (KIA)
Navigator: Bill Henson, (KIA)
Bombardier: Bob Stearns, (KIA)
Engineer: Leonard Bryant, (KIA)
Radio Operator: Seb Peluso, (KIA)
Ball Turret: George McMann, (KIA)
Tail Gunner Gerald Anderson (KIA)
Flexible Gunner: George Farrar (POW)
“Lazy Daisy” 42-31222 Crew:
Pilot: Jim Brodie, (KIA)
Co-Pilot: Lloyd Vevle, (KIA)
Toggelier: Byron Atkins, (KIA)
Top Turret Gunner: Bob Crumpton, (KIA)
Radio Operator: Don Dooley, (KIA)
Ball Turret Gunner: Gordon Hetu (KIA)
Navigator: George Hawkins, (POW)
Waist Gunner: Harry Liniger, (POW)
Tail Gunner: Wilfred Miller (POW)
A Burlington Northern GP15-1 and a Santa Fe GP30 lead Omaha bound BNSF train GALOMA through a snow covered wintery scene westward out of Galesburg, IL. The lead locomotive came to the BN in the Frisco merger and is ex-SLSF #123. Rather than using the Graham cutoff, the train came around the coach yard wye onto the passenger main as its routing out of the Galesburg classification yard.
Inside of the abandoned church in Kingswood Bristol U.K. This is The view of the altar, and below you can just see the underground tunnels beneath the rotten floorboards which may or may not lead to the crypt. The church called Whitefield's Tabernacle was built in 1851 near to where George Whitefield preached to the local miners. Whitefield Tabernacle was featured on the BBC Restoration program where viewers voted on there favorite building to be saved, but lost out. The place is very dangerous with the holes in the roof, the weak floorboards and the pigeons and their mess all over but it was definitely worth getting in to get some pics.
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Ophelia Kitten and Lola
This photo was selected to appear in the upcoming show Visions from a Perfected City at the Z+T Architects Gallery, 3956 30th Street, North Park on Saturday, August 8 2009, 6-10pm
I see this as a great opportunity to showcase my art and talent and am proud to have a piece that represents my city and the people living in it. This is a juried event and the photo went through a selection process in which it was selected to be included in the show!
I would like to extend a personal invitation to you to stop by the gallery on Saturday to see the artwork and support the Uptown Citizen’s Alliance.
See you there,
Ashi
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