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The Grade II * Listed Church of St Peter and St Paul, Church Lane, Reepham, West Lindsey, Lincolnshire.
A parish church built in the early 13th century and mostly rebuilt 1862 by Michael Drury.
Reepham is situated 5 miles (8.0 km) north-east from the city and county town of Lincoln. The village population is approximately 1,250.
The only shop in the village acts as a Post Office, general store and newsagents. There is also a primary school, a Church of England church (St Peter and St Paul), Methodist chapel, and a public house, The Fox and Hounds Inn. The village shares its village hall with neighbouring Cherry Willingham for local meetings and events, and Cherry Willingham Community School serves as the secondary school for the village. A cricket club has its pitch in the village.
A regular bus service provided by the Stagecoach in Lincolnshire (previously Lincolnshire Road Car Company) links the village to Lincoln and the neighbouring villages of Fiskerton and Cherry Willingham. The parliamentary constituency is Gainsborough, where the current MP is Edward Leigh (Conservative).
Although the centre of the village contains very old properties there has been expansion in recent years and in-fill with new houses and bungalows. Oil was discovered a few years ago and nodding donkey oil-wells operate on surrounding farmland as part of the Welton oil field. A gathering station for the oil is situated a few miles outside the village. The oil is transported by railway to refineries at Immingham on the Humber Estuary. There are current plans to store gas underground once the oilfield has stopped producing oil.
The village previously contained a Co-op store, police station, a second pub, doctors' surgery and Reepham railway station, but all have closed. The railway still passes through the centre of the village on the Lincoln/Market Rasen/Cleethorpes line.
For The Rogue Players, JLovely asked us all to make a bucket list of 10 items.
I knew when I saw the theme for today, that my photo was already perfect for it! I took photos at a local cemetery today.
So, here we go...10 things I want to do before I 'kick the bucket'.
I'm going to do my list the same way Mike_B did - a travel list.
I want to travel to....
1. Holland (my dad was born there and I was only there once - when I was little.)
2. Atlantis, Bahamas (went there once on a vacation - it was awesome!)
3. Switzerland
4. Africa, on a photography trip
5. Japan
6. Alaska
7. France
8. Australia
9. Winnipeg (to visit my dad)
10. England
Also - for FGR and the 80s theme.
"Let us die young or let us live forever
We don't have the power but we never say never
Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip
The music's for the sad men"
"Forever Young" by Alphaville
Dutch postcard, 1967 by 't Sticht, Utrecht, no. AX 6305.
Today, it was announced that Dutch singer and actress Liesbeth List (1941) passed away last Wednesday, 25 March 2020. List was known as the Grande Dame of the Dutch chanson, thanks to songs like 'Pastorale', 'Aan de andere kant van de heuvels' (On the other side of the hills), and 'Kinderen een kwartje' (Children a quarter). She became popular during the 1960s and frequently collaborated with Ramses Shaffy. List sang Jacques Brel's chansons in a Dutch translation, and also acted in a few Dutch films. Liesbeth List was 78.
Liesbeth List was born Elisabeth 'Elly' Dorathea Driessen in 1941 in Bandoeng, Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia). Her parents were separated in 1942 when during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, her father was forced to work in coal mines. List and her mother were sent to one of the many camps set up exclusively to contain Dutch occupants of Indonesia. Such camps were known under the Dutch nickname 'jappenkamp' (Jap-Camp). The circumstances in which List and her mother lived in the camp were very hard on her mother, who developed depression. Four years later, the Netherlands freed the East Indies of the Japanese occupation, and List and her mother were set free. They were reunited with their father and husband, but a few weeks later, List's mother committed suicide. List and her father returned to the Netherlands, where her father remarried. His new wife, however, frequently clashed with List. At the age of seven, the child's services took List away. It was thought List's father was deceased, and she was placed in an orphanage. After it was revealed List's father was still alive, she was placed back with her father and stepmother. In 1948, during a trip to Dutch island Vlieland, List's stepmother was told that the owner of a hotel on Vlieland and his wife were seeking to adopt a child. Liesbeth List was subsequently given up by her father and adopted by this couple, whose surname was List.
As a teenager, Liesbeth List was very interested in culture and music. She moved to Amsterdam in 1959, aged 18, where she did a fashion study and had a job as a secretary. She appeared on TV in the talent show Nieuwe Oogst/New harvest, after which she was signed to collaborate with legendary Dutch singer Ramses Shaffy in the theatre show 'Shaffy Chantant'. They first started this show, in which they performed well-known chansons, in 1964. In 1965, the duo was awarded at the Knokke Song Contest in Knokke, Belgium. Their duet 'Pastorale' became a hit at the charts and has grown into an evergreen in the lowlands. This success caused List to focus on a musical career and to release her debut album in 1966. In 1967, Mikis Theodorakis asked her to collaborate on an LP of his Mauthausen Ballad, describing the persecution of Jews during the Second World War in dramatic chansons. The LP was a critical and commercial success. List was also successful with an LP containing cover versions of songs by Jacques Brel: the LP was certified gold.
In 1969, Liesbeth List was awarded a press prize at a television festival in Montreux. The prize was awarded to her for a television show, directed by Bob Rooijens. This foreign acclaim caused List to focus more on international success. She started recording more cover versions of well-known artists, such as Gilbert Bécaud. List's success continued with the release of more LPs and continued acting career in television, film, and stage. In 1972 she made with the American singer, songwriter Rod McKuen the album 'Two against the morning'. In 1973 she recorded in England the album: 'Meet lovely Liesbeth List.' Her album: 'Liesbeth List sings Jacques Brel' was released in the USA in 1972. In 1976, she recorded an album with songs of Charles Aznavour 'Charles Aznavour presents Liesbeth List'. She sang with him the duet 'Don't say a word.' As an actress, she became known for such films as the Dutch thriller To Grab the Ring (Nikolai van der Heyde, 1968) with Ben Carruthers and Françoise Brion, the German drama Zum Abschied Chrysanthemen/Goodbye with Mums (Florian Furtwängler, 1974) with Maria Furtwängler and Christine Kaufmann, and the Knut Hamsun adaptation Mysteries/Evil Mysteries (Paul de Lussanet, 1978) starring Rutger Hauer and Sylvia Kristel. She also appeared in several TV films and series, including the Dutch TV film De liefdeswacht/The love guard (Dimitri Frenkel Frank, 1974) with Ramses Shaffy, and Een heel dun laagje goud/A very thin layer of gold (Dimitri Frenkel Frank, 1978) with Robert Long.
Liesbeth List took a short break when she became pregnant with her first child. She and her husband Robert Braaksma had a daughter, Elisah, in 1983, when List was 41. List ceased her activities to care for her child for six years. Hence in 1988, List made her return to the public eye, starring in a theatre programme titled 'List NU'. In 1990, she started another, similar show, but it gained neither critical nor commercial success, causing List to accept her career had ended. Producer Frank Boeijen revived List's career. She released three more albums since she first contacted him. In 2009 she released a new CD called 'Verloren & Gewonnen'. Liesbeth List has also appeared in musicals, such as 'Eindeloos' (Endless) in 1997 and 'Piaf' in 1999. In the latter production, she played the title role of the legendary French singer Edith Piaf. Ten years later she played Piaf again, but then at a later age. She was awarded a Johnny Kraaijkamp Musical Award for both performances. In 2014 her husband Robert Braaksma passed away. In 2017 there was a musical about Liesbeth List herself, 'Liesbeth de Musical'. The main role was played by Renée van Wegberg. In the same year List announced that she stopped performing, partly because she suffered from a form of dementia. During her long career, List received several major Dutch awards including two Edisons (1971 and 1995) and a Gouden Harp (Golden Harp, 1998). Liesbeth List passed away in her hometown Soest, the Netherlands, at the age of 78.
Sources: NOS (Dutch), Wikipedia (English and Dutch), and IMDb.
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The Grade II Listed Salisbury railway station, in Salisbury, Wiltshire.
There have been three different railway stations in the city of Salisbury, built by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) from 1847 and the Great Western Railway (GWR) from 1856, as well as two further railway stations at Wilton, two and a half miles away.
The LSWR opened their Milford station on the Eastern side of the city on 1 March 1847, with the opening of their branch line from Southampton to passenger traffic. For nearly a decade this was the only rail route to the city, until 30 June 1856 when the GWR opened their branch line from Westbury. On 2 May 1859 the LSWR opened a new station on the south side of the Great Western station, west of Fisherton Street, to coincide with the opening the first section of the Salisbury and Yeovil Railway was opened as an extension of the LSWR's line. As the two railways were built using different gauges through goods traffic had to be unloaded and transhipped in a transfer shed.
In the 1870s the LSWR opened a second platform east of Fisherton Street for services towards London; it had an entrance from the street and was linked to the old platform by a subway. The LSWR station was again enlarged between 1899 and 1902 and the 1870s platform east of Fisherton Street could then be closed.
The (GWR) opened their 7 ft (2,134 mm) broad gauge Salisbury branch line from Westbury on 30 June 1856. The terminus was on the north side of Salisbury on the west side of Fisherton Street. Isambard Kingdom Brunel provided a brick-built station with a wooden train shed to cover the tracks.
The former Salisbury Milford station was used as a goods station until it was closed in 1967 and demolished in 1968. Goods traffic was also handled in goods sheds at the west end of the station – north of the GWR station and south of the LSWR station. A new LSWR marshalling yard was opened on the site of the old platform east of Fisherton Street after it had closed in 1902, but the main LSWR goods depot was kept at the old Milford station until 1967. The former GWR station remained in use as a goods depot and was used until about 1991 as the base for British Rail's exhibition trains.
An engine shed, water tower and turntable were erected on the Milford site from the January 1847 as the line was then open for freight traffic. A replacement engine shed was built by the LSWR at Fisherton Street in 1859. The GWR also built a small engine shed adjacent to their station in April 1858. This was demolished in 1899 to allow expansion of the LSWR station, and a replacement built on the north side of the line. This was closed by British Railways in 1950.
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Category A listed historic townhouses designed in 1791 by Robert Adam. They were constructed 1803-07.
"Charlotte Square is a garden square in Edinburgh, Scotland, part of the New Town, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The square is located at the west end of George Street and was intended to mirror St. Andrew Square in the east. The gardens are private and not publicly accessible.
Initially named St. George's Square in James Craig's original plan, it was renamed in 1786 after King George III's Queen and first daughter, to avoid confusion with George Square to the south of the Old Town. Charlotte Square was the last part of the initial phase of the New Town to be "completed" in 1820 (note- the north-west section at Glenfinlas Street was not completed until 1990 due to a long-running boundary dispute). Much of it was to the 1791 design of Robert Adam, who died in 1792, just as building began.
In 1939 a very sizable air-raid shelter was created under the south side of the gardens, accessed from the street to the south.
In 2013 the south side was redeveloped in an award-winning scheme by Paul Quinn, creating major new office floorspace behind a restored series of townhouses.
Edinburgh Collegiate School was located in Charlotte Square.
The garden was originally laid out as a level circular form by William Weir in 1808.
In 1861 a plan was drawn up by Robert Matheson, Clerk of Works for Scotland for a larger, more square garden, centred upon a memorial to the recently deceased Prince Albert, the consort of Queen Victoria.
The commission for the sculpture was granted in 1865 to Sir John Steell. The main statue features an equestrian statue of the prince, in field marshal's uniform, dwarfing the four figures around the base. It was unveiled by Queen Victoria herself in 1876. The stone plinth was designed by the architect David Bryce and the four corner figures are by David Watson Stevenson (Science and Learning/Labour), George Clark Stanton (Army and Navy) and William Brodie (Nobility). The statue was originally intended to go in the centre of the eastern edge of the garden, facing down George Street.
This remodelling featured major new tree-planting which took many years to re-establish.
The central open space is a private garden, available to owners of the surrounding properties. For the last three weeks in August each year Charlotte Square gardens are the site of the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
The railings around the gardens were removed in 1940 as part of the war effort. The current railings date from 1947.
On the north side, No. 5 was the home of John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute (1881–1947), who bought it in 1903 and gave it to the National Trust for Scotland on his death. It was the Trust headquarters from 1949 to 2000. Bute did much to promote the preservation of the Square.
Nos. 6 and 7 are also owned by the National Trust for Scotland. No.6, Bute House is the official residence of the First Minister of Scotland. In 1806 it was home to Sir John Sinclair creator of the first Statistical Account of Scotland. No. 7 was internally restored by the Trust in 1975 to its original state, and is open to the public as The Georgian House. The upper floor was formerly the official residence of the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. The building includes one fireplace brought from Hill of Tarvit in Fife in 1975.
West Register House, formerly St. George's Church, forms the centre of the west side. It was designed by the architect Robert Reid in 1811, broadly to Adam's plan. The church opened in 1814 and was converted to its current use in 1964. It is one of the main buildings of the National Records of Scotland.
The New Town is a central area of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. A masterpiece of city planning, it was built in stages between 1767 and around 1850, and retains much of its original neo-classical and Georgian period architecture. Its best known street is Princes Street, facing Edinburgh Castle and the Old Town across the geological depression of the former Nor Loch. Together with the Old Town, the New Town was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995.
Edinburgh (/ˈɛdɪnbərə/; Scots: Edinburgh; Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Èideann [ˈt̪uːn ˈeːtʲən̪ˠ]) is the capital of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian on the Firth of Forth's southern shore.
Recognised as the capital of Scotland since at least the 15th century, Edinburgh is the seat of the Scottish Government, the Scottish Parliament and the supreme courts of Scotland. The city's Palace of Holyroodhouse is the official residence of the monarch in Scotland. The city has long been a centre of education, particularly in the fields of medicine, Scots law, literature, philosophy, the sciences and engineering. It is the second largest financial centre in the United Kingdom (after London) and the city's historical and cultural attractions have made it the United Kingdom's second most visited tourist destination attracting 4.9 million visits including 2.4 million from overseas in 2018.
Edinburgh is Scotland's second most populous city and the seventh most populous in the United Kingdom. The official population estimates are 488,050 (2016) for the Locality of Edinburgh (Edinburgh pre 1975 regionalisation plus Currie and Balerno), 518,500 (2018) for the City of Edinburgh, and 1,339,380 (2014) for the city region. Edinburgh lies at the heart of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland city region comprising East Lothian, Edinburgh, Fife, Midlothian, Scottish Borders and West Lothian.
The city is the annual venue of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. It is home to national institutions such as the National Museum of Scotland, the National Library of Scotland and the Scottish National Gallery. The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1582 and now one of four in the city, is placed 20th in the QS World University Rankings for 2020. The city is also known for the Edinburgh International Festival and the Fringe, the latter being the world's largest annual international arts festival. Historic sites in Edinburgh include Edinburgh Castle, the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the churches of St. Giles, Greyfriars and the Canongate, and the extensive Georgian New Town built in the 18th/19th centuries. Edinburgh's Old Town and New Town together are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, which has been managed by Edinburgh World Heritage since 1999." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
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Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1270180
Date First Listed : 20 June 1972
Originally built around 1865 as a bank with attached manager's house, later a bank and offices, it is in limestone with slate roofs. Both parts have three storeys, the former house has four bays, the left bay recessed, and with a pediment above the other three bays, and the bank has three bays. Most of the windows in both parts are sashes. In the centre of the bank is a recessed porch flanked by Tuscan columns and pilasters, and with a modillioned cornice. The windows in the middle floor have pediments, and in the middle floor of the former house they have cornices.
The capitol building in singapore was listed for preservation in August 1983 by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and acquired by it in 1983-1984 so that it would be preserved as part of a future development.
Its use as a movie theatre ended with its last movie screening on 29 Dec 1998 when Shaw Organisation, its tenant since 1984, returned it to the URA. In 2000, the Singapore Tourism Board took over the building to explore alternative uses for it, but plans to turn it into a home for an arts group did not bear fruit.
On April 3 2008, it was reported by Xinyi Hong that the Capitol building will be redeveloped along with its stretch of adjoining buildings in 2009. It is said the area has not 'fully maximised its development potential'.
oh well, good thing i've got my capitol building shot for coming generations to see =) this hdr image is from 3 exposure and tone mapped in photomatix with extra layering in photoshop for good measure.
Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1210343
Date First Listed : 13 March 1995
A late 18th century house, later used as offices, in sandstone with a slate roof. It has three storeys over a basement and a front of three bays. The doorway in the right bay has a moulded architrave, an inscribed frieze, and a cornice on fluted consoles. The windows are sashes with plain surrounds.
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1210343
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed_buildings_in_Lancaster,_Lancashire
The Grade I Listed Ashby de la Zouch Castle, a ruined fortification which is managed by English Heritage, in the town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire.
The castle was built by William, Lord Hastings, a favourite of Edward IV, after 1473, accompanied by the creation of a 3,000-acre park. Constructed on the site of an older manor house, two large towers and various smaller buildings had been constructed by 1483, when Hastings was executed by Richard, Duke of Gloucester. The Hastings family used the castle as their seat for several generations, improving the gardens and hosting royal visitors.
During the English Civil War of the 1640s, Henry, a younger son in the Hastings family, became a Royalist commander in the Midlands. He based himself out of the castle until he was forced to surrender it after a long siege. A fresh rebellion occurred in 1648, leading Parliament to slight the castle to prevent it being used militarily: the two towers were irreparably damaged with gunpowder and undermining. Parts of the remaining castle were turned into a new house and continued to be used by members of the Hastings family for many years, although they moved their main residence to Donington Hall.
The castle became famous after it featured in Sir Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe in 1819, and its owner, Francis Rawdon, opened the ruins to visitors. Restoration work was carried out over the course of the next century, but by 1932 the Rawdon family could no longer afford to maintain the castle. It passed into the guardianship of the Ministry of Works, who carried out extensive repairs and opened the castle gardens before ownership was later transferred to English Heritage.
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/ Decorate the Christmas tree
/ Watch more Christmas movies
/ Go to a Christmas market in Germany
/ Bake cookies
/ Look up some Christmas recipes and make a Christmas meal
/ Write and send Christmas cards
/ Watch a Harry Potter marathon
/ Look for an ugly Christmas sweater
/ Photograph more!!
So what's on your bucket list? :)
#71: As of 4/9/19, of my 1600+ pics, this is listed as #71 in most # of views.
This is part of a series of pics taken while trying on different outfits to go with a pair of Guess natural-beige tall pumps I bought not long ago from DSW.
After a bunch of pics with booties and opaque tights, for me this is the return of sheer hosiery, with which I don't normally show this much leg. This patterned, short dress, though, is so cute, and a great match with these new heels, that I gave it a go revealing a little more thigh here.
As usual, I also like with this dress my color-coordinated accessories: beige and gold jewelry, sparkly scarf, wide belt and a purse matched with the heels.
Let me know what you think... :-)
WBRE-TV Wilkes-Barre PA program listings from January 1953, the station's first month of broadcasting.
this was not easy at ALL... but, in my initial run through of who to bring to blythecon....... here's where i'm at.
margaux and her giant hair have no business at all making such a trip... but, we'll see....
if you have any special requests.... lmk. i'm trying not to bring any stock girls, beyond miss a and parco... b/c with the # of people attending i'm sure that all the stock girls will be covered!
um... crap, i already noticed two girls who were on my handwritten list that somehow got overlooked while i was doing this..... FML
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Grade 11 Listed Building
GV II
Bank. 1893, by WW Gwyther. Sandstone ashlar. French Renaissance style. Rectangular plan at right angles to street. EXTERIOR: 3-and-half-storeys; 3:1 windows. Low plinth of red granite, string-courses between floors, a prominent cornice, a parapet with balustrades over the first and third bays, and a pavilion roof over the entrance bay finished with a wrought-iron corona. The entrance bay to the right has a Tuscan porch with raised lettering: BANK on the frieze and an enriched swan-neck pediment, protecting a round-headed doorway with keyed architrave and foliated metal tracery in the fanlight also lettered: BANK. Canted bay windows at first and second floors; and a pilastered and pedimented attic window in front of the pavilion roof, with scrolled supporters on flanking parapets with urn terminals. The 3-window portion to the left has pilasters to the ground floor (the outer with channelled rustication); an Ionic screen at first floor in front of recessed windows which have moulded architraves with triple keystones; shorter windows at second floor with shouldered architraves; and 3 attic dormers, that in the centre with a pilastered and segmentally-pedimented architrave. Windows at second floor and attic level are 1/1 sashes, but the others have altered glazing. Gable chimneys and ridge chimney. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SD3353917292
Philip Mayer "The tall brown building in the middle is the RBS Bank, built in 1893 as a bank."
Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1145692
Date First Listed : 14 April 1969
Built around 1788, the house is in limestone with bands, an eaves cornice, and hipped slate roof. There are three storeys with cellars, and three bays. In the left bay steps lead up to a round-headed doorway with a Gibbs surround, and a recessed door with a fanlight. The windows on the front are sashes, and the cellar windows are blocked. In the right return is a full-height bay window with a semicircular plan containing curved sashes.
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1145692
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The Grade II * Listed York Railway Station, York, North Yorkshire.
Despite the small size of the city, York is one of the most important railway stations on the British railway network because of its role as a key railway junction approximately halfway between London and Edinburgh. It is few miles north of the point where the Cross Country and Trans-Pennine routes via Leeds leave/join the ECML connecting Scotland and the North East with southern England, the North West and the Midlands. The junction was historically a major site for rolling stock manufacture, maintenance and repair.
The first York railway station was a temporary wooden building on Queen Street outside the walls of the city, opened in 1839 by the York and North Midland Railway. It was succeeded in 1841, inside the walls, by what is now York old railway station. In due course, the irksome requirement that through trains between London and Newcastle needed to reverse out of the old York station to continue their journey necessitated the construction of a new through station outside the walls. This was the present station, designed by the North Eastern Railway architects Thomas Prosser and William Peachey, which opened in 1877. It had 13 platforms and was at that time the largest station in the world. As part of the new station project, the Royal Station Hotel (now The Royal York Hotel), designed by Peachey, opened in 1878.
In 1909 new platforms were added, and in 1938 the current footbridge was built and the station resignalled.
The building was heavily bombed during the Second World War. On one occasion, on 29 April 1942, 800 passengers had to be evacuated from a Kings Cross-Edinburgh train which arrived during a bombing raid. On the same night, two railway workers were killed, one being station foreman William Milner (born 1900), who died after returning to his burning office to collect his first aid kit. He was posthumously awarded the King's commendation for gallantry. A plaque in his memory has been erected at the station. The station was extensively repaired in 1947.
The track layout through and around the station was remodelled again in 1988 as part of the resignalling scheme that was carried out prior to the electrification of the ECML shortly afterwards. This resulted in several bay platforms (mainly on the eastern side) being taken out of service and the track to them removed. At the same time a new signalling centre (York IECC) was commissioned on the western side of the station to control the new layout and also take over the function of several other signal boxes on the main line. The IECC here now supervises the main line from Temple Hirst (near Doncaster) through to Northallerton, along with sections of the various routes branching from it. It has also (since 2001–2) taken over responsibility for the control area of the former power box at Leeds and thus signals trains as far away as Gargrave and Morley.
Love the look of this motor. Can't tell you how many cars I've shot that have this motor in some form.
Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1072404
Date First Listed : 23 September 1950
The fish stones are probably from the 18th century. They are two slabs raised on legs, constructed of stone. They were used by market traders selling fish. They are placed in a line with the stocks, market cross, whipping post and war memorial.
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A remarkable survivor in everyday industrial use, even in the late 1980's, was this 2ft gauge 4-wheel diesel-mechanical Lister (Works No.7954 built in 1936). The driver is just clambering on board ready to propel a single peat car onto the moss at Adams Peat Products, Chat Moss, Irlam, on 26th May 1989. This loco was rarely used in the latter years and it was therefore a stroke of luck to find it in use on this occasion. The system was closed down around October 1999. The Lister is now privately preserved in Ripon, North Yorkshire on the Ripon & District Light Railway.
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In loving memory of Alfred Lister died January 17th 1895 on board the ship ‘Belfast’ in the Bay of Bengal on a voyage to Calcutta aged 20 years. Robert James Lister died November 21st 1902 aged 33 years & Edith Annie his daughter died September 7th 1897 aged 7 months.
He was the son of Tees Pilot Stephen Lister and Hannah Mary and was born in march 1873. When he died he was buried at sea.
In the 1881 census he was visiting William and Elizabeth Robinson at Avison's yard, Albion Street in Castleford West Yorkshire Mr Robinson was a glass bottle blower who had been born in Robin Hood's Bay.
The Listers were living at 43 Marton Road in 1891.
Robert Lister - Tees Pilot Son of Stephen and Hannah Lister brother to William Robinson Lister and Stephen Douglas Lister {all Tees Pilots} as was their father and Grandfather Robert Lister{Stockton-Tees and His son Thomas Lister as was Robert's brother John Lister Pilot mentioned in the History of Middlesbrough by William Lillie as having a house built in Feversham Street he died in Hartlepool 1860.
He was the son of Tees Pilot Stephen Lister and Hannah Mary and was born in march 1873. When he died he was buried at sea.
In the 1881 census he was visiting William and Elizabeth Robinson at Avison's yard, Albion Street in Castleford West Yorkshire Mr Robinson was a glass bottle blower who had been born in Robin Hood's Bay.
The Listers were living at 43 Marton Road in 1891.
Robert Lister - Tees Pilot Son of Stephen and Hannah Lister brother to William Robinson Lister and Stephen Douglas Lister {all Tees Pilots} as was their father and Grandfather Robert Lister{Stockton-Tees and His son Thomas Lister as was Robert's brother John Lister Pilot mentioned in the History of Middlesbrough by Wiliam Lillie as having a house built in Feversham Street he died in Hartlepool 1860.