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12th October 2018 at the Royal Festival Hall (Bar level 2), London SE1.
Friday Lunch (free event).
Country: Britain. Style: Contemporary Folk.
Lineup: Dan Walsh (v/banjo/g).
Dan Walsh is from Stafford and was attracted to the Banjo by hearing Irish trditional music. However, the teacher he found played melodic clawhammer style. He has gone on to apply this approach to a variety of different musical styles including Bluegrass, Americana and even Hindustani Classical. He was part of a duo with harmonica player Will Pound, and in 2014 joined the Urban Folk Quartet. At this concert he mainly performed his own songs.
More information: www.danwalshbanjo.co.uk/, www.facebook.com/danwalshmusic.
The spice levels here range from a kid-friendly -1 to an unadvised 10. I went for 3 to see what the curry actually tasted like. It was good. Spiciness doesn't really suit Japanese curry.
During the early days of the Colosseum, ancient writers recorded that the building was used for naumachiae (more properly known as navalia proelia) or simulated sea battles. Accounts of the inaugural games held by Titus in AD 80 describe it being filled with water for a display of specially trained swimming horses and bulls. There is also an account of a re-enactment of a famous sea battle between the Corcyrean (Corfiot) Greeks and the Corinthians. This has been the subject of some debate among historians; although providing the water would not have been a problem, it is unclear how the arena could have been waterproofed, nor would there have been enough space in the arena for the warships to move around. It has been suggested that the reports either have the location wrong, or that the Colosseum originally featured a wide floodable channel down its central axis (which would later have been replaced by the hypogeum)
Inside the engine room
From the Behind-the-Scenes Tour around Tower Bridge: Towers, high-level Walkways and Victorian Engine Rooms down to its hidden depths, normally out of bounds to the public...views from the Glass Floor and high-level Walkway, then the original steam engines, accumulators and boilers in the Victorian Engine Rooms...the Bridge’s operational areas including the Control Cabin, Machinery Room and the immense Bascule Chambers, which house the 422-ton counterweights.
Built between 1886 and 1894, the Bridge has spent more than a century as London's defining landmark, an icon of London and the United Kingdom.
A huge challenge faced the City of London Corporation - how to build a bridge downstream from London Bridge without disrupting river traffic activities. To generate ideas, the Special Bridge or Subway Committee was formed in 1876, and a public competition was launched to find a design for the new crossing.
Over 50 designs were submitted to the Committee for consideration, some of which are on display at Tower Bridge. It wasn't until October 1884 however, that Sir Horace Jones, the City Architect, in collaboration with John Wolfe Barry, offered the chosen design for Tower Bridge as a solution.
It took eight years, five major contractors and the relentless labour of 432 construction workers each day to build Tower Bridge under the watchful eye of Sir John Wolfe Barry.
Two massive piers were built on foundations sunk into the riverbed to support the construction, and over 11,000 tons of steel provided the framework for the Towers and Walkways. This framework was clad in Cornish Granite and Portland Stone to protect the underlying steelwork and to give the Bridge a more pleasing appearance.
When it was built, Tower Bridge was the largest and most sophisticated bascule bridge ever completed ('bascule' comes from the French word for 'seesaw'). These bascules were operated by hydraulics, using steam to power the enormous pumping engines. The energy created was stored in six massive accumulators, meaning that as soon as power was required to lift the Bridge, it was always readily available. The accumulators fed the driving engines, which drove the bascules up and down. Despite the complexity of the system, the bascules only took about a minute to raise to their maximum angle of 86 degrees. Find out more about this process.
Today, the bascules are still operated by hydraulic power, but since 1976 they have been driven by oil and electricity rather than steam. The original pumping engines, accumulators and boilers are now on display within Tower Bridge’s Engine Rooms.
[TowerBridge.org.uk]
My favourite Christmas image. I took this a few years ago on a very foggy morning. It was something of a Sherlock Holmes tale where the fog was so thick that you could only see 50 feet (yes thats imperial) in front of you. It was probably my best every morning of bird watching as I saw everything from Robins, Stonechats, Mute Swans and even Snipe on the Levels - they were all too afraid to fly too far as they couldn't see and kept flying around in circles. This little chap settled on a teasel and was polite enough to stay still for a while - perhaps he didn't see me as I was dressed in camo gear - or perhaps he was watching me... perhaps he was Santa's little messenger.
The pebbles that build up on the beach at the Stade in Hastings has to be levelled before the fishing boats are launched.
This is a six week class for a first time beginner, The quilt can be made by hand or by machine only one yard of light and 1 yard of dark are needed for the top and binding. It is a great size for a baby, so the backing could be flannel or minky.
WPI Facilities and Grounds Department double checks that everything is level before the concrete is poured.
GRD 2000 Perso-Arabic Workshop with Leland Hill, VCU Qatar. Process photos of introductory level graphic design students enjoying an afternoon with type from another world.
S&DJR class 7F as realised by Railworks 2 train simulator.
This medium length van train seems to be presenting few problems here.
Beckley Court. New student accommodation block under construction in Plymouth, Devon. 16 April 2016.
2019-05-16: A delegate during the High Level Consultation at the AfDB headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
2019-05-16: Mr. Dominique Lebastard, AfDB Executive Director, France during the High Level Consultation at the AfDB headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
A high-level stakeholder dialogue on illegal wildlife trade was held in the WCS Central Park Zoo, New York on 3 March 2015 to mark the World Wildlife Day.
Photo credit: UNDP
NS 4093 4110, LR70.
Second Geodetic Levelling, Scotland (1936-52).
Flush bracket G141 was used during the second geodetic levelling of Scotland, and was levelled with a height of 192.506 feet (58.68 metres) above mean sea level (Newlyn datum). It was included on the Ayr to Dunlop levelling line. Geodetic line G.204, levelled during 1937. The surveyor's description was NE angle of hall, at junction of roads, Kilmaurs.
This marker was relevelled as a tertiary bench mark and last verified in 1961. The OS Online Archive gives the description "U F Church Hall, W side of Crosshouse Road, NE angle".
SITE VISIT
Flush bracket on front elevation of brick built church by right edge. Access via open gateway. Bracket painted white over dark red but still readable and in good condition.
Photographed: 8th October 2016, GRP.
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Neighbouring Flush Brackets
G140 - Knockentiber, School : 1.13 miles to the SW. (X)
G142 - Buistonend : 1.29 miles to the north.
G139 - Crosshouse, Church : 1.92 miles to the SW.
G422 - Little Cutstraw : 2.82 miles to the NE. (X)
G423 - Oldhall : 2.88 miles to the NE.
G138 - Gatehead : 2.99 miles to the south. (X)
G143 - Stewarton, School : 3.20 miles to the north. (X)
G144 - Hillhouse : 3.68 miles to the north.
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(X) = destroyed
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Nearest Triangulation Pillar
S4217 - South Onthank : 1.10 miles > SE.
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