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Thompson B1 61264 steams past Burrs with the 3P20 Parcels Group's rake during a photo charter at the East Lancashire Railway.
Locomotive: LNER Thompson B1 Class 4-6-0 61264.
Location: Burrs Country Park, near Bury, Lancashire.
Charleston Farmhouse and Garden, located on the South Downs outside the village of Firle, near Alfriston, East Sussex, was the home or weekend and holiday retreat of Bloomsbury Group figures Vanessa Bell and Clive Bell, Vanessa’s companion Duncan Grant, and Vanessa’s children, Quentin and Julian, from 1916 until the 1960’s. On a Friday afternoon in July, we toured Charleston with Flickr contact Penwren, who graciously met us in Alfriston and first showed us the village and church in Firle, where Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and Quentin Bell are buried.
Photography is not allowed in the house itself, so these pictures are of the garden only. The house itself was indescribable, with every square inch covered in enchanting Modernist artwork of all kinds, and the guided tour, lasting over an hour, was outstandingly well presented and informative.
Penwren added the following comment to one of the pictures in this set: Sir Peter Shepheard, in charge of the restoration (of the garden in the 1980’s), has described it as an "apotheosis of the traditional English cottage garden." He wrote notes to remind himself to "avoid neatness". Like the house, it was not intended to be tasteful or restrained. Interestingly, the garden has been organic since the 80s.
The story of Charleston and its occupants is told very well in the book Charleston, a Bloomsbury House and Garden, by Quentin Bell and his daughter, Virginia Nicholson (Frances Lincoln – paperback edition 2004). Alibris.com had numerous copies available in August, 2008 at: www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=1025402 &matches=16&a...
We also enjoyed two small books published by Snake River Press and available by mail or in person at the excellent Much Ado Books in Alfriston: Bloomsbury in Sussex, and 20 Sussex Gardens (https://muchadobooks.com)
The list of visitors reads like a Who's Who of English intellectual and artistic life in the first half of the 20th Century: Leonard and Virginia Woolf (Vanessa's sister), Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes, T.S. Elliot, Benjamin Britten are just a few.
These (originally) olive green mail boxes belonging to the US Postal Service can be found in various, apparently random, locations. They are temporary storage boxes for letter carriers. They can be stocked with "relays," sacks or trays of mail for a delivery route, allowing the carrier to restock en route without either carrying a huge load or returning to a post office for more of the day's mail to deliver.
I remember being puzzled as a kid by the grammar of the statement found on some of them, "Not for deposit of mail." What kind of mail is "Deposit Of?"
This one does not look like it's in recent use.
Intentional failure to see the big picture
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104 S. Cherokee St. Jonesborough, Tn
This building was originally built around 1888 as a saloon. The "Mail Pouch" sign was painted on the side around 1895, and restored in 1994.
Dear Santa🎅
I can explain it.....
Do you already have your wish list ready?
Love and Peace for each of you .... Juli
Graceful curves, and great lighting fixtures, all in a staircase! I wanted to climb to the top to get a photo of the light fixture, but I didn't want to push my luck, I didn't belong there, but I was glad I took the chance. I was greatly rewarded. It might seem silly, but I've never been so excited or impressed by such a simple thing like a set of stairs in an office building before. I could have sat in a chair for a half hour just admiring the lines, the lighting, and the color in here.
Yeah, I guess I'm a geek. (laugh)
(Mail Pouch tobacco factory, Wheeling, WV)
Will snail mail become trilobite mail - a fossil of history?
This image could be used to illustrate a magazine article about whether the new technology of emails and texting will completely replace the traditional postal delivery of letter mail.
Conrail 3004 - 3354 - 6809 pass under the CPL signal bridge at Leetsdale, PA with Mail-9H on January 23, 1993. The 3004 is an old NYC unit.
Jump aboard the miniature Mail Rail train and travel through the tunnels underneath London's Mount Pleasant sorting office. The track stretches all the way from Paddington to Whitechapel.
During the First World War, the Mail Rail tunnels were used to store art treasures belonging to the Tate, British Museum and National Portrait Gallery to protect them from German attacks.
So it's a happy Mabby Mail day :D Not only fun Mab Graves goodies but her new little poodle arrived too!!!!
In Lapland you can see mailboxes along the roads like these. Sometimes the local residents are checking for mail. But the mailboxes do look a bit out of place with the ice and snow.
couldn't find any red barns nearby so had to settle for these 2 "homes" for the mail... 😊
(note: sky was a bit gray with all the smoke in the air)
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British Railways Class 7P 46100 "The Royal Scot" passing Prestatyn on 1z46 0953 Crewe - Holyhead on 13/01/2025
We are aboard the mailboat J.W. Westcott on the Detroit River approaching the Great Lakes Fleet Roger Blough with a delivery of mail and supplies. The 1972 built Blough measures 105' wide x 858' long and is most likely loaded about 26 ft deep with an ore load for Conneaut, Ohio - June 16, 2006.