View allAll Photos Tagged managed
This is from the first roll of 35mm that I managed to squash into my Coronet 4-4.
The technique was first seen when Alspix nailed it at the end of last year. Even armed with an explanation and proof that it worked I still managed to make a complete mess of these photos!
1. Light-leaks...lot's of light-leak!
2. Even with a special piece of plastic inside to count the sprocket clicks I managed to overlap the first half of the film like the one above. It was only when I realised I was taking about the 54th photo on a 36 roll that I realised that my attempt at counting sprocket hole clicks was pathetic. I then over compensated and ended up with one photo in the space that could have taken three! Ho hum...
However, two good things came of the experiment...
1. I really like this photo.
2. I got to use my new lenses that I had previously purchased to use with the Lomo LC-A. The are made by Kaligar and were intended to fit onto a Kodak instamatic camera. The come with a small internal ring to make the lenses fit with particular Kodak Instamatics; it just so happens that these rings make the lenses fit perfectly on the Coronet 4-4 Mark II.
So, this photo, however badly wound on, shows the same subject with each of the three lenses attached.
If it turns out to be the only decent photo on the roll then I'll be happy to have just this one.
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva Meets with Green Entrepreneurs in Norrsken House, Kigali, Rwanda.
IMF Photo/Kim Haughton
26 January 2023
Kigali, Rwanda
Managed to get down to the Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain Surf Ironwoman Series at Newcastle Beach for an hour today.
Shoot with the Canon 7S + 70-200mm f/4 IS + 1.4 extender.
View a slideshow of the entire set here.
There was more than a hundred people waiting outside the Disney Store this morning. Fortunately most of them were after the Mickey merchandise, and I got picked in the raffle for Jasmine. Several collectors that I knew were also there, but none of them got picked. I selected the first doll that was handed to me at the register, since she looked perfect. I didn't bring my camera, so no photos from the release. She is #425 of 4000. I show her boxed, and with the inner box taken out and the front viewing window taken off. She is very beautiful and my second most favorite doll from the series. She is first one that I managed to get from the store raffle, so I could take her home on release day. I will debox her tomorrow.
Jasmine Disney Designer Collection Premiere Series Doll - Limited Edition
US Disney Store
Released online and in stores 2018-10-20
Sold out online in less than 5 minutes
$109.95
Item No. 6003040900545P
Managed to snap these two in the back garden of John & Angies in Stroud, Gloucestershire......H.H., Pentax K10D, SMC DA 55-300mm ED lens
H.H.
We managed to get up to The Lake District for a few days at Easter. We got away from work on Good Friday afternoon and spent three hours covering 110 miles, the M61 and M6 were very slow or stopped. As ever once there we soon left the hassle behind. We were using a B&B that we used very regularly for ten years until the owner passed away quite suddenly. Now under new ownership it has been totally gutted and refurbished, it’s very nice but twice as expensive.
We were out in good time on Saturday, it was dull and cool but very calm. I’d deliberated for ages as to where to walk, wanting to avoid the worst of the Easter crowds. It was the busiest I’d seen the Lakes for a long time amd the North Lakes in particular had stunning weather, the South Lakes had dense fog in places until the afternoon and was much cooler – but not cold. Parking in Patterdale we headed up Arnison Crag, on to Birks aiming for St Sunday Crag. This was where it started to go wrong. I got a sudden pain in my right ankle, near a previous serious ankle injury, it’s not unusual to get a bit of pain in this ankle but it got worse. My ankle felt like it was in a vice. On the plus side the cloud which was very low initially was clearing higher at the same speed that we were climbing. We scrambled over Cofa Pike through some snow on to Fairfield and for a change the summit was clear with glorious views. I had to undo my gaiter and slacken my boot, my ankle was swelling and bruising. I took paracetemol and carried on – I didn’t have much choice really. We walked to Hart Crag out to Dove Crag, back to Hart Crag as we wanted to head down over Hartsop above How. We stopped for a quick sandwich and pot of lemon tea before heading down the rocky path. By now I was suffering but still able to walk fairly fast. The yomp back along the road to Patterdale was tough. We covered 11.5 miles in around five hours, which was OK for a first walk in the mountains for a while. We drove to Keswick wanting to get to Brysons tearooms for cake and coffee. Keswick was packed and sunny and we had to walk in half a mile, that was painful, my ankle was agony until I got it loosened up. Toasted Plum Bread, apple pie and ice cream and coffee made up for the grief.
On Sunday I knew I couldn’t walk much. I was applying Ibuprofen Gel regularly but it was going to be a car and camera day. There was dense fog when we set off so I decided we needed to be somewhere attractive when it started to clear, I just didn’t know when that was going to be. We drove into Langdale and the fog broke to reveal Blue sky and the top of the Langdale Pikes, it was fantastic. I immediately thought of Blea Tarn and drove up the pass out of Langdale. I expected to find, as is usual, tripods in a row, with photographers clicking away. There wasn’t a soul, it was so calm and peaceful – and beautiful – I couldn’t believe my luck. I limped as fast as I could to the Tarn, unfortunately an overnight camper, who I chatted with about the beauty, reflections and the camera I was carrying, did her best to encourage her dog into the water and she got in to get washed. It was so calm that the ripples would cross the entire tarn and spoil the photos. I shot as quick as I could, moving away from her all the time. I think I had around 15 minutes at the most before a breeze – that I couldn’t feel – started to ripple the water. The reflections disappeared and it was over. Without the bad ankle I would have missed this tranquillity as we would have been toiling up out first climb of the day. The fog stayed put in the South Lakes but we headed north over Dunmail Raise to blue sky and 17 degrees.
On Monday after 36 hours of Ibuprofen I felt that my ankle would stand a six or seven miler – but where? We had very thick fog in Ambleside so again I drove over Dunmail Raise and again it was fantastic. I could see the chance of some good photos around Thirlmere but I had to get waterside at a point where the view wasn’t obstructed with saplings and bushes growing out of the water. This was easier said than done, it took three attempts to get a decent location. I had reflections, hanging mist, water and mountains – and wet feet again, fortunately I had my walking boots and socks to put on for the walk ahead. After my photo chase we parked at Steel End and headed up the steep nose of Steel Fell. It’s a tough climb but the view over Thirlmere was great. We could see the wall of fog to the south and I was looking forward to getting to the top, hoping that we would be able to see over it with mountains poking out of a sea of white. This was exactly as it was, the Lion and the Lamb on Helm Crag looked like an island in the sea of mist. We walked along the ridge to Calf Crag with clear views to the north and a sea on mist to the south, it looked like the right choice again. We were going to head down Wythburn back to Thirlmere. Wyth Burn runs through a secluded hanging valley through an area called The Bog. I’ve walked down here a few times and at first glance it looks dry – they didn’t name it The Bog for nothing – it is extremely wet. It doesn’t matter how high you walk to avoid it – you can’t! We were wet above the gaiters by the time we got back and it was tough on the ankle. Brysons here we come, another beautiful hot day in Keswick but back to work tomorrow.
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, Jerome Powell, Chair of the Federal Reserve, Paschal Donohoe, Finance Minister of Ireland, and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organization, participate in a seminar on the global economy moderated by CNBC’s Sara Eisen, Co-Anchor of Closing Bell, during the 2021 Spring Meetings from the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cliff Owen
8 April 2021
Washington, DC, United States
Photo ref: CO201341.ARW
Tom Keene, Managing Editor, Bloomberg Television & Radio, USA, Gita Gopinath, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington DC, Jim Hagemann Snabe, Chairman, Siemens, Germany; Member of Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum and Mariana Mazzucato, Professor, University College London (UCL), United Kingdom captured in the What Next for Global Growth? session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 25 May. Congress Centre - Sanada Room. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Sikarin Fon Thanachaiary
Managed to get most of this guy into focus, lost just a little bit in the tail but I like the detail in the antennae, so I kept this shot. I believe this is diplocladius cultriger.
Seymour, CT USA
I'm wide awake at 5:40 am. I really have to figure out this weekend sleeping in thing. I hear it's good stuff. Though I'm really not complaining. I love these early quiet mornings when the rest of the world is still asleep. I do my usual Sunday morning lounging for a while then head into the kitchen. I start in on the birthday cake making. A co-worker turned 50 and as I told him that is a cake-able offense. While the cake bakes I make the strawberry goo that will hold together my fresh strawberry pie. With the cakes out of the oven and the goo cooling, I head in to do coat number two in the den. There is a rather disastrous moment where I spill a not small quantity of paint all over the closet door and across the carpet. Thankfully I'd already decided the carpet was coming out. The second coat looks great. I'm in love. I get all the brushes and rollers cleaned and set aside to dry. Finally the fresh strawberry pie gets finished and put into the refrigerator to set up. That is going to be an awesome dessert. It's then that I realize a nap is in order. I lay down and am deeply asleep almost immediately. I don't wake up for 90 minutes. Wow. I have a popcorn lunch. It's too hot for other food. Then I set about the considerable task of washing all the dishes I've managed to dirty in one short morning. And then I dirty some more as I make frosting. It has to go into the fridge to set up a bit. It's way too soft for assembling. In the meantime my friend D calls and we spend 45 minutes catching up. There is lots of work conversation from both of us. I sometimes wonder if I drone on too much about work. There are fun topics discussed as well. Funny dreams, funny parents, my ice cream for dinner invention. We agree to do that sometime later in the week. It's not like you have to twist my arm. We say goodbye and I'm back into the kitchen to assemble the cake. I get layers stacked and an initial coat on the exterior before it need to go back in the fridge. Fifteen minutes later and I can finish up. It looks so yummy. It's chocolate mayonnaise cake with chocolate buttercream. I usually don't tell people the mayonnaise part. They get a funny look and I have to explain that mayonnaise is just eggs and oil so it really is not that unusual. They don't usually buy it but they somehow manage to finish off their slab of cake. Hmm. I have to get some of these chairs out of my house. The mess has taken over and it makes me twitchy. Elise is taking my old kitchen chairs so I get as many of those into my car as possible. I'm impressed that I get three in the backseat. Now I can re-distribute chairs around the house and at least find a portion of my living room floor. That is better. I make my way over to my garden. I'm sure it needs a good soaking. I get there and I realize I'm too late. My eggplant has died. I'm wondering if something ate it. It looks like the stem was nibbled in half and the top is now laying on the ground looking very sad. Take out shredded beef tostada salad enjoyed following a very cool and refreshing shower. A call to grandma. A piece of pie. Oh, my I did a good job. I think about watching a movie but I fear I will fall asleep five minutes into it. Instead I make it a rather early Sunday night.
This was the first time that we all managed to go on a vacation together. The 7 of us hopped in a van and drove from Houston to Orlando and spent 7 days enjoying all that Disney and Universal had to offer. It was an amazing trip. www.mikevictorick.com
www.twitter.com/mike_victorick
Managed to get some shots of the Supermoon setting while photographing sunrise at Merritt Island NWR
Custom Prints Available
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva participates in an afternoon meet-and-greet with new staff members at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
9 June 2022
Washington, DC, United States
Photo ref: CH220609023.arw
Managed to get out for a walk to day, met this character we had a chat about the wildlife on the nature reserve.
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva rehearses her IMFC Plenary speech at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
20 April 2022
Washington, DC, United States
Photo ref: CH220420109.arw
16 year old, toothless cat brought in a gift to share, was a dead sparrow last week, anyway Mr Blue Fairy Wren managed to find his way out safely after flying about lounge for a bit.
Finished at Rickmansworth on the Northbound platform on this day. Luckily managed to make it back home before any drama ensued with the ongoing signal failures in the Lords and Baker Street area.
All Rights Reserved, as stated. Re-posts are with expressed permission only.
You may not use this image, edit it or alter it in any way (and as a result, claim the image or the derivative as your own). And it's not for Tumblr / weheartit.com either.
Executive Director Ita Mannathoko greets Julius Maada Bio, President of Sierra Leone
IMF Photo/KIM HAUGHTON
28 September 2021
, ,
Photo ref: KH210928108.jpg
Derwent Walk Country Park and Derwenthaugh Park
The Derwent Walk Country Park is an amazing place owned and managed by Gateshead Council.
It is about the size of 146 football pitches and contains woodlands, meadows, wetlands and riverside all linked by a series of waymarked walks.
The Country Park runs from Swalwell to Rowlands Gill through the River Derwent Valley and is made up of several countryside sites joined together including The Derwent Walk and Derwenthaugh Park.
The Derwent Walk follows the route of the former Derwent Valley Railway which once carried iron ore and passengers between Consett and the River Tyne.
Derwenthaugh Park is the reclaimed site of the former Derwenthaugh Coke Works which was reclaimed for people and wildlife over 21 years ago.
The Coast to Coast Cycle Path (C2C) National Cycle Network No 14 runs through the Country Park.
There are 2 visitor centres with cafes, 2 bird hides, public toilets, 7 car parks and lots of opportunities for people to get out and about including for those with access disabilities, walkers, runners, cyclists and horse riders.
Wildlife
The ancient woodlands of the Derwent Valley hold a wide variety of wildlife - carpets of springtime wood anemones and celandines, many birds including green and great spotted woodpecker, nuthatch and sparrowhawk plus the occasional glimpse of animals such as fox, badger and roe deer. The flowers found in the hay meadows support butterflies like the common blue and meadow brown. The Derwent Walk is home to blackcap and whitethroat, heard singing in summer, and bullfinches and flocks of siskins seen feeding in the winter. The River Derwent supports a wide range of wildlife including kingfisher, dipper and otter.
Bird hides
There are bird hides at the following locations:
Thornley Wood
Overlooks a bird feeding station. Car parking at the Thornley Woodlands Centre.
Far Pasture Ponds and Shibdon Pond
Overlook wetland areas. Far Pasture - car park beside the hide.
All hides are kept locked and keys are available for purchase from the Thornley Woodlands Centre and the Development and Enterprise Helpdesk at Gateshead Civic Centre. The hides are wheelchair accessible.
Northern Kites Project
Between 2004 and 2006 ninety four red kites were released into the lower Derwent Valley as part of the Northern Kites Project. Kites began to breed in the north east in 2006 after an absence of 170 years. The Northern Kites Project was managed by English Nature and the RSPB in partnership with Gateshead Council, the National Trust, Northumbrian Water and the Forestry Commission with additional funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the SITA Environmental Trust.
History of the Derwent Walk
Derwent Valley Railway
The Derwent Valley Railway was opened in 1867 by the North Eastern Railway Company.
The construction of the railway was a major engineering feat including the construction of a deep 800m long cutting near Rowlands Gill and 4 viaducts
Nine Arches Viaduct
The Nine Arches Viaduct is 150m long, and was built because the Earl of Strathmore would not allow the railway to pass through the Gibside Estate.
At its peak in 1914 the railway was carrying over half a million passengers a year with a regular goods traffic of timber, bricks and coal to the staiths at Derwenthaugh and iron ore on the return trip to Consett.
As road traffic became more efficient and suffered competition for passengers from buses, the service declined and finally closed in 1962
The railway is commemorated in the Geordie folk song about an ill-fated train journey from Rowlands Gill, Wor Nanny's a Mazer.
Winlaton Mill Ironworks
The Country Park at Winlaton Mill was part of a large complex thought to have been one of the earliest 'factories' in Europe. Winlaton Mill Ironworks were built by Sir Ambrose Crowley in the 1690s.
Crowley's Ironworks is considered by some as being able to make a claim of being the birthplace of the industrial revolution as it was several years ahead of Abraham Darby's Ironworks at Coalbrookdale at Shropshire.
The goods produced by Crowley played a role in the development of the British empire as the Royal Navy had a need for iron goods including ship nails.
At its height the Crowley works employed up to 1,000 people. Crowley provided housing for his workers and the village had its own set of 'laws', an early form of social security, a health service, a school and widow's pensions - all over 200 years before such things were available nationally.
Winlaton Mill Ironworks was designated as a national Scheduled Ancient Monument in 2004
Very little of the Ironworks can be seen today but in 2019 conservation was carried out on part of a visible structure - Crowley Dam. The Dam which can be viewed from adjoining paths, was designed by John Smeaton - the 'Father of Civil Engineering'. The Dam controlled the level of water used by the ironwork's watermills and can be seen in the paintings by JMW Turner of the Derwent Valley in 1817.
The Butterfly Bridge
The originally Butterfly Bridge was built in 1842 by local stone mason John English. Lang Jack as he was known, also worked on the original Scotswood Bridge.
The stone bridge was replaced by a steel and timber decked bridge in 1950 but this was destroyed by the floods of 2008.
Near to the Bridge are the remains of the house of Flour Miller George Eavan's. This was the last remaining property at the village established by Crowley.
Hollinside Manor
Hollinside Manor is a 13th century manor house situated east of the Nine Arches Viaduct. It was the home of the Harding family for 200 hundred years during which time the manor became known as the 'Giants Castle' since the residents were very tall. The estate passed on to George Bowes of Gibside in 1730 for the sum of £10,000. Hollinside Manor is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Clockburn Lonnen
Difficult to imaging now but this path now a bridleway was once the main highway from the north to Durham. It crossed the Tyne at Newburn then passed to Winlaton via Blaydon Burn and from there to Winlaton Mill.
Cromwell's army of 16,000 men passed this way on their way to the Battle of Dunbar on 15 July 1650.
Gateshead is a town in the Gateshead Metropolitan Borough of Tyne and Wear, England. It is on the River Tyne's southern bank. The town's attractions include the twenty metre tall Angel of the North sculpture on the town's southern outskirts, The Glasshouse International Centre for Music and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. The town shares the Millennium Bridge, Tyne Bridge and multiple other bridges with Newcastle upon Tyne.
Historically part of County Durham, under the Local Government Act 1888 the town was made a county borough, meaning it was administered independently of the county council.
In the 2011 Census, the town had a population of 120,046 while the wider borough had 200,214.
History
Gateshead is first mentioned in Latin translation in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People as ad caput caprae ("at the goat's head"). This interpretation is consistent with the later English attestations of the name, among them Gatesheued (c. 1190), literally "goat's head" but in the context of a place-name meaning 'headland or hill frequented by (wild) goats'. Although other derivations have been mooted, it is this that is given by the standard authorities.
A Brittonic predecessor, named with the element *gabro-, 'goat' (c.f. Welsh gafr), may underlie the name. Gateshead might have been the Roman-British fort of Gabrosentum.
Early
There has been a settlement on the Gateshead side of the River Tyne, around the old river crossing where the Swing Bridge now stands, since Roman times.
The first recorded mention of Gateshead is in the writings of the Venerable Bede who referred to an Abbot of Gateshead called Utta in 623. In 1068 William the Conqueror defeated the forces of Edgar the Ætheling and Malcolm king of Scotland (Shakespeare's Malcolm) on Gateshead Fell (now Low Fell and Sheriff Hill).
During medieval times Gateshead was under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Durham. At this time the area was largely forest with some agricultural land. The forest was the subject of Gateshead's first charter, granted in the 12th century by Hugh du Puiset, Bishop of Durham. An alternative spelling may be "Gatishevede", as seen in a legal record, dated 1430.
Industrial revolution
Throughout the Industrial Revolution the population of Gateshead expanded rapidly; between 1801 and 1901 the increase was over 100,000. This expansion resulted in the spread southwards of the town.
In 1854, a catastrophic explosion on the quayside destroyed most of Gateshead's medieval heritage, and caused widespread damage on the Newcastle side of the river.
Sir Joseph Swan lived at Underhill, Low Fell, Gateshead from 1869 to 1883, where his experiments led to the invention of the electric light bulb. The house was the first in the world to be wired for domestic electric light.
In the 1889 one of the largest employers (Hawks, Crawshay and Company) closed down and unemployment has since been a burden. Up to the Second World War there were repeated newspaper reports of the unemployed sending deputations to the council to provide work. The depression years of the 1920s and 1930s created even more joblessness and the Team Valley Trading Estate was built in the mid-1930s to alleviate the situation.
Regeneration
In the late noughties, Gateshead Council started to regenerate the town, with the long-term aim of making Gateshead a city. The most extensive transformation occurred in the Quayside, with almost all the structures there being constructed or refurbished in this time.
In the early 2010s, regeneration refocused on the town centre. The £150 million Trinity Square development opened in May 2013, it incorporates student accommodation, a cinema, health centre and shops. It was nominated for the Carbuncle Cup in September 2014. The cup was however awarded to another development which involved Tesco, Woolwich Central.
Governance
In 1835, Gateshead was established as a municipal borough and in 1889 it was made a county borough, independent from Durham County Council.
In 1870, the Old Town Hall was built, designed by John Johnstone who also designed the previously built Newcastle Town Hall. The ornamental clock in front of the old town hall was presented to Gateshead in 1892 by the mayor, Walter de Lancey Willson, on the occasion of him being elected for a third time. He was also one of the founders of Walter Willson's, a chain of grocers in the North East and Cumbria. The old town hall also served as a magistrate's court and one of Gateshead's police stations.
Current
In 1974, following the Local Government Act 1972, the County Borough of Gateshead was merged with the urban districts of Felling, Whickham, Blaydon and Ryton and part of the rural district of Chester-le-Street to create the much larger Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead.
Geography
The town of Gateshead is in the North East of England in the ceremonial county of Tyne and Wear, and within the historic boundaries of County Durham. It is located on the southern bank of the River Tyne at a latitude of 54.57° N and a longitude of 1.35° W. Gateshead experiences a temperate climate which is considerably warmer than some other locations at similar latitudes as a result of the warming influence of the Gulf Stream (via the North Atlantic drift). It is located in the rain shadow of the North Pennines and is therefore in one of the driest regions of the United Kingdom.
One of the most distinguishing features of Gateshead is its topography. The land rises 230 feet from Gateshead Quays to the town centre and continues rising to a height of 525 feet at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Sheriff Hill. This is in contrast to the flat and low lying Team Valley located on the western edges of town. The high elevations allow for impressive views over the Tyne valley into Newcastle and across Tyneside to Sunderland and the North Sea from lookouts in Windmill Hills and Windy Nook respectively.
The Office for National Statistics defines the town as an urban sub-division. The latest (2011) ONS urban sub-division of Gateshead contains the historical County Borough together with areas that the town has absorbed, including Dunston, Felling, Heworth, Pelaw and Bill Quay.
Given the proximity of Gateshead to Newcastle, just south of the River Tyne from the city centre, it is sometimes incorrectly referred to as being a part of Newcastle. Gateshead Council and Newcastle City Council teamed up in 2000 to create a unified marketing brand name, NewcastleGateshead, to better promote the whole of the Tyneside conurbation.
Economy
Gateshead is home to the MetroCentre, the largest shopping mall in the UK until 2008; and the Team Valley Trading Estate, once the largest and still one of the larger purpose-built commercial estates in the UK.
Arts
The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art has been established in a converted flour mill. The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, previously The Sage, a Norman Foster-designed venue for music and the performing arts opened on 17 December 2004. Gateshead also hosted the Gateshead Garden Festival in 1990, rejuvenating 200 acres (0.81 km2) of derelict land (now mostly replaced with housing). The Angel of the North, a famous sculpture in nearby Lamesley, is visible from the A1 to the south of Gateshead, as well as from the East Coast Main Line. Other public art include works by Richard Deacon, Colin Rose, Sally Matthews, Andy Goldsworthy, Gordon Young and Michael Winstone.
Traditional and former
The earliest recorded coal mining in the Gateshead area is dated to 1344. As trade on the Tyne prospered there were several attempts by the burghers of Newcastle to annex Gateshead. In 1576 a small group of Newcastle merchants acquired the 'Grand Lease' of the manors of Gateshead and Whickham. In the hundred years from 1574 coal shipments from Newcastle increased elevenfold while the population of Gateshead doubled to approximately 5,500. However, the lease and the abundant coal supplies ended in 1680. The pits were shallow as problems of ventilation and flooding defeated attempts to mine coal from the deeper seams.
'William Cotesworth (1668-1726) was a prominent merchant based in Gateshead, where he was a leader in coal and international trade. Cotesworth began as the son of a yeoman and apprentice to a tallow - candler. He ended as an esquire, having been mayor, Justice of the Peace and sheriff of Northumberland. He collected tallow from all over England and sold it across the globe. He imported dyes from the Indies, as well as flax, wine, and grain. He sold tea, sugar, chocolate, and tobacco. He operated the largest coal mines in the area, and was a leading salt producer. As the government's principal agent in the North country, he was in contact with leading ministers.
William Hawks originally a blacksmith, started business in Gateshead in 1747, working with the iron brought to the Tyne as ballast by the Tyne colliers. Hawks and Co. eventually became one of the biggest iron businesses in the North, producing anchors, chains and so on to meet a growing demand. There was keen contemporary rivalry between 'Hawks' Blacks' and 'Crowley's Crew'. The famous 'Hawks' men' including Ned White, went on to be celebrated in Geordie song and story.
In 1831 a locomotive works was established by the Newcastle and Darlington Railway, later part of the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway. In 1854 the works moved to the Greenesfield site and became the manufacturing headquarters of North Eastern Railway. In 1909, locomotive construction was moved to Darlington and the rest of the works were closed in 1932.
Robert Stirling Newall took out a patent on the manufacture of wire ropes in 1840 and in partnership with Messrs. Liddell and Gordon, set up his headquarters at Gateshead. A worldwide industry of wire-drawing resulted. The submarine telegraph cable received its definitive form through Newall's initiative, involving the use of gutta-percha surrounded by strong wires. The first successful Dover–Calais cable on 25 September 1851, was made in Newall's works. In 1853, he invented the brake-drum and cone for laying cable in deep seas. Half of the first Atlantic cable was manufactured in Gateshead. Newall was interested in astronomy, and his giant 25-inch (640 mm) telescope was set up in the garden at Ferndene, his Gateshead residence, in 1871.
Architecture
JB Priestley, writing of Gateshead in his 1934 travelogue English Journey, said that "no true civilisation could have produced such a town", adding that it appeared to have been designed "by an enemy of the human race".
Victorian
William Wailes the celebrated stained-glass maker, lived at South Dene from 1853 to 1860. In 1860, he designed Saltwell Towers as a fairy-tale palace for himself. It is an imposing Victorian mansion in its own park with a romantic skyline of turrets and battlements. It was originally furnished sumptuously by Gerrard Robinson. Some of the panelling installed by Robinson was later moved to the Shipley Art gallery. Wailes sold Saltwell Towers to the corporation in 1876 for use as a public park, provided he could use the house for the rest of his life. For many years the structure was essentially an empty shell but following a restoration programme it was reopened to the public in 2004.
Post millennium
The council sponsored the development of a Gateshead Quays cultural quarter. The development includes the Gateshead Millennium Bridge, erected in 2001, which won the prestigious Stirling Prize for Architecture in 2002.
Former brutalism
The brutalist Trinity Centre Car Park, which was designed by Owen Luder, dominated the town centre for many years until its demolition in 2010. A product of attempts to regenerate the area in the 1960s, the car park gained an iconic status due to its appearance in the 1971 film Get Carter, starring Michael Caine. An unsuccessful campaign to have the structure listed was backed by Sylvester Stallone, who played the main role in the 2000 remake of the film. The car park was scheduled for demolition in 2009, but this was delayed as a result of a disagreement between Tesco, who re-developed the site, and Gateshead Council. The council had not been given firm assurances that Tesco would build the previously envisioned town centre development which was to include a Tesco mega-store as well as shops, restaurants, cafes, bars, offices and student accommodation. The council effectively used the car park as a bargaining tool to ensure that the company adhered to the original proposals and blocked its demolition until they submitted a suitable planning application. Demolition finally took place in July–August 2010.
The Derwent Tower, another well known example of brutalist architecture, was also designed by Owen Luder and stood in the neighbourhood of Dunston. Like the Trinity Car Park it also failed in its bid to become a listed building and was demolished in 2012. Also located in this area are the Grade II listed Dunston Staithes which were built in 1890. Following the award of a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of almost £420,000 restoration of the structure is expected to begin in April 2014.
Sport
Gateshead International Stadium regularly holds international athletics meetings over the summer months, and is home of the Gateshead Harriers athletics club. It is also host to rugby league fixtures, and the home ground of Gateshead Football Club. Gateshead Thunder Rugby League Football Club played at Gateshead International Stadium until its purchase by Newcastle Rugby Limited and the subsequent rebranding as Newcastle Thunder. Both clubs have had their problems: Gateshead A.F.C. were controversially voted out of the Football League in 1960 in favour of Peterborough United, whilst Gateshead Thunder lost their place in Super League as a result of a takeover (officially termed a merger) by Hull F.C. Both Gateshead clubs continue to ply their trade at lower levels in their respective sports, thanks mainly to the efforts of their supporters. The Gateshead Senators American Football team also use the International Stadium, as well as this it was used in the 2006 Northern Conference champions in the British American Football League.
Gateshead Leisure Centre is home to the Gateshead Phoenix Basketball Team. The team currently plays in EBL League Division 4. Home games are usually on a Sunday afternoon during the season, which runs from September to March. The team was formed in 2013 and ended their initial season well placed to progress after defeating local rivals Newcastle Eagles II and promotion chasing Kingston Panthers.
In Low Fell there is a cricket club and a rugby club adjacent to each other on Eastwood Gardens. These are Gateshead Fell Cricket Club and Gateshead Rugby Club. Gateshead Rugby Club was formed in 1998 following the merger of Gateshead Fell Rugby Club and North Durham Rugby Club.
Transport
Gateshead is served by the following rail transport stations with some being operated by National Rail and some being Tyne & Wear Metro stations: Dunston, Felling, Gateshead Interchange, Gateshead Stadium, Heworth Interchange, MetroCentre and Pelaw.
Tyne & Wear Metro stations at Gateshead Interchange and Gateshead Stadium provide direct light-rail access to Newcastle Central, Newcastle Airport , Sunderland, Tynemouth and South Shields Interchange.
National Rail services are provided by Northern at Dunston and MetroCentre stations. The East Coast Main Line, which runs from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh Waverley, cuts directly through the town on its way between Newcastle Central and Chester-le-Street stations. There are presently no stations on this line within Gateshead, as Low Fell, Bensham and Gateshead West stations were closed in 1952, 1954 and 1965 respectively.
Road
Several major road links pass through Gateshead, including the A1 which links London to Edinburgh and the A184 which connects the town to Sunderland.
Gateshead Interchange is the busiest bus station in Tyne & Wear and was used by 3.9 million bus passengers in 2008.
Cycle routes
Various bicycle trails traverse the town; most notably is the recreational Keelmans Way (National Cycle Route 14), which is located on the south bank of the Tyne and takes riders along the entire Gateshead foreshore. Other prominent routes include the East Gateshead Cycleway, which connects to Felling, the West Gateshead Cycleway, which links the town centre to Dunston and the MetroCentre, and routes along both the old and new Durham roads, which take cyclists to Birtley, Wrekenton and the Angel of the North.
Religion
Christianity has been present in the town since at least the 7th century, when Bede mentioned a monastery in Gateshead. A church in the town was burned down in 1080 with the Bishop of Durham inside.[citation needed] St Mary's Church was built near to the site of that building, and was the only church in the town until the 1820s. Undoubtedly the oldest building on the Quayside, St Mary's has now re-opened to the public as the town's first heritage centre.
Many of the Anglican churches in the town date from the 19th century, when the population of the town grew dramatically and expanded into new areas. The town presently has a number of notable and large churches of many denominations.
Judaism
The Bensham district is home to a community of hundreds of Jewish families and used to be known as "Little Jerusalem". Within the community is the Gateshead Yeshiva, founded in 1929, and other Jewish educational institutions with international enrolments. These include two seminaries: Beis Medrash L'Morot and Beis Chaya Rochel seminary, colloquially known together as Gateshead "old" and "new" seminaries.
Many yeshivot and kollels also are active. Yeshivat Beer Hatorah, Sunderland Yeshiva, Nesivos Hatorah, Nezer Hatorah and Yeshiva Ketana make up some of the list.
Islam
Islam is practised by a large community of people in Gateshead and there are 2 mosques located in the Bensham area (in Ely Street and Villa Place).
Twinning
Gateshead is twinned with the town of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen in France, and the city of Komatsu in Japan.
Notable people
Eliezer Adler – founder of Jewish Community
Marcus Bentley – narrator of Big Brother
Catherine Booth – wife of William Booth, known as the Mother of The Salvation Army
William Booth – founder of the Salvation Army
Mary Bowes – the Unhappy Countess, author and celebrity
Ian Branfoot – footballer and manager (Sheffield Wednesday and Southampton)
Andy Carroll – footballer (Newcastle United, Liverpool and West Ham United)
Frank Clark – footballer and manager (Newcastle United and Nottingham Forest)
David Clelland – Labour politician and MP
Derek Conway – former Conservative politician and MP
Joseph Cowen – Radical politician
Steve Cram – athlete (middle-distance runner)
Emily Davies – educational reformer and feminist, founder of Girton College, Cambridge
Daniel Defoe – writer and government agent
Ruth Dodds – politician, writer and co-founder of the Little Theatre
Jonathan Edwards – athlete (triple jumper) and television presenter
Sammy Johnson – actor (Spender)
George Elliot – industrialist and MP
Paul Gascoigne – footballer (Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Lazio, Rangers and Middlesbrough)
Alex Glasgow – singer/songwriter
Avrohom Gurwicz – rabbi, Dean of Gateshead Yeshiva
Leib Gurwicz – rabbi, Dean of Gateshead Yeshiva
Jill Halfpenny – actress (Coronation Street and EastEnders)
Chelsea Halfpenny – actress (Emmerdale)
David Hodgson – footballer and manager (Middlesbrough, Liverpool and Sunderland)
Sharon Hodgson – Labour politician and MP
Norman Hunter – footballer (Leeds United and member of 1966 World Cup-winning England squad)
Don Hutchison – footballer (Liverpool, West Ham United, Everton and Sunderland)
Brian Johnson – AC/DC frontman
Tommy Johnson – footballer (Aston Villa and Celtic)
Riley Jones - actor
Howard Kendall – footballer and manager (Preston North End and Everton)
J. Thomas Looney – Shakespeare scholar
Gary Madine – footballer (Sheffield Wednesday)
Justin McDonald – actor (Distant Shores)
Lawrie McMenemy – football manager (Southampton and Northern Ireland) and pundit
Thomas Mein – professional cyclist (Canyon DHB p/b Soreen)
Robert Stirling Newall – industrialist
Bezalel Rakow – communal rabbi
John William Rayner – flying ace and war hero
James Renforth – oarsman
Mariam Rezaei – musician and artist
Sir Tom Shakespeare - baronet, sociologist and disability rights campaigner
William Shield – Master of the King's Musick
Christina Stead – Australian novelist
John Steel – drummer (The Animals)
Henry Spencer Stephenson – chaplain to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II
Steve Stone – footballer (Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa and Portsmouth)
Chris Swailes – footballer (Ipswich Town)
Sir Joseph Swan – inventor of the incandescent light bulb
Nicholas Trainor – cricketer (Gloucestershire)
Chris Waddle – footballer (Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur and Sheffield Wednesday)
William Wailes – stained glass maker
Taylor Wane – adult entertainer
Robert Spence Watson – public benefactor
Sylvia Waugh – author of The Mennyms series for children
Chris Wilkie – guitarist (Dubstar)
John Wilson - orchestral conductor
Peter Wilson – footballer (Gateshead, captain of Australia)
Thomas Wilson – poet/school founder
Robert Wood – Australian politician
Managed to hear this GSW drumming in the garden yesterday. A few grab shots and then he flew leaving me with this hole in the tree.
Forex Village is one of the best sites for finding out information about the best forex managed account managers on the internet, and they regularly carry out reviews of forex managed account service providers, ensuring a quality service for the readers
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva participates in her press conference at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
20 April 2022
Washington, DC, United States
Photo ref: CH220420069.arw
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva meets Carl-Henric Svanberg, Chair of the European Round Table and Frank Heemskerk, Secretary -General of the European Round Table at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Kim Haughton
10 February 2022
Washington, DC, United States
Photo ref: KH221002019.jpg
Managed to find some Amethyst Deceivers last season, their beautiful colour amazes me every time I see them!
Managed to find a really sweet vintage style floral print which complements this salmon pink colourway of the Paper Dolls fabric by Alexander Henry.
Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report team with host, Denise Salcedo, were invited to come out again and cover the arrivals for the Thirst Project’s 7th Annual Thirst Gala at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Honored at the event
Director and Producer Catherine Hardwick
Actor Ansel Elgort
Get the Story from the Red Carpet Report Team, follow us on Twitter and Facebook at:
www.facebook.com/RedCarpetReportTV
www.youtube.com/MingleMediaTVNetwork
About the Thirst Project
The Thirst Project is the world's largest youth water organization. Thirst Project is a nonprofit organization that travels across the United States speaking at schools to educate students about the global water crisis. 100 percent of all student and public donations raised go directly to funding freshwater wells on the ground in developing nations and impoverished communities to provide people with safe, clean water. The Thirst Project has made a bold commitment to do what no organization has ever done before and give the entire nation of Swaziland safe, clean drinking water within a decade. Swaziland has the single-highest-density HIV/AIDS population of any country in the world, and water plays an incredibly critical role in effectively treating and managing AIDS. The organization has already provided over 306,000 people safe, clean drinking water through 1800 water projects in 13 countries in the last eight years. Find out more at www.thirstproject.org
For more of Mingle Media TV’s Red Carpet Report coverage, please visit our website and follow us on Twitter and Facebook here:
www.facebook.com/minglemediatvnetwork
www.flickr.com/MingleMediaTVNetwork
Follow our host, Denise on Twitter at twitter.com/_DeniseSalcedo
September 13, 2009
Beth Miller won Women’s 1/2/3 race while Dan Vaillancourt won the Men’s P/1/2. Mark Alden, CRCA/Blue Ribbon-Translations.com won the 40+, Matt Doron, Global Locate, the Cat 3, Lyn Frampton the Women’s 3/4,Al Blanchard, Westwood Velo the 50+, Matt Sack the Cat 4A and Danny Habig the Cat 4B, Mark McCarthy the 60+,and Kevin Rooney, CRCA, the Cat 5.
racers....
Jerry Ascolese Cycles 54 - YSG Racing
Bogdan Blai www.SpinCityTeam.net
Miguelangel Blanco
Bill Blank Watchung Wheelmen/High Gear
Michael Boardman Signature Cycles/Rock Star Video Games
Jacob Bobrow university of vermont
Kevin Brubaker CRCA/Pacifico-Hincapie Sportswear
Joaquin C De Baca KISSENA
Patrick Campbell Westwood Velo/Trade Manage Capital
Romel Campbell WestWood Velo
Anthony Canger CRCA/Sid's-Cannondale
David Carr CRCA/Setanta
Chris Chapman Westwood Velo
Jeff Cline EECT
Bryan Dobes Westwood Velo / Trade Manage Racing
Matthew Doran GLOBAL LOCATE RACING
William Doyle-Capitman Kissena Cycling Club
Paul Eisele Max Power Cycling
Jesus E. Espitia CRCA/Blue Ribbon - Translations.com
Myles Fennell 3D Racing Team/Tom's Atlantic Cyclery
Mark Fontanilla Liberty Cycle
Raul Galliano Westwood Velo-Trade Manage Racing
Steven Goldman Westwood Velo - Trade Manage Racing
Pavel Gonda New York University
Ben Harris CRCA/Jonathan Adler
Corey Hilliard Chelsea Bikes
Brendan Housler Minerva Design Cycling / GVCC
Nick Iacovelli Colavita Racing
Jeffrey Ingraham CRCA/Sanchez-Houlihan Lokey
Herb Jimenez Jimenez Velo Sport
Gregory Lafiura
John Landino DeathRow Velo
Todd Lippin 3D Racing Team/Tom's Atlantic Cyclery
Arland Macasieb Jimenez Velo Sport
Tadeusz Marszalek Sommerville Sports
Mike Monastero CRCA Babylon Bike
Kuria Njenga Westwood Velo
Peter Ognibene GS Park Ridge/Cyclesport
Radames Parissi JIMENEZ VELO SPORT
Steven Persak Liberty Cycle
Michael Prokopec miyashoji
James Ruhl babylon bike
Brian Sacawa Kelly Benefit Strategies/LSV Amateur Cycling
Sender Sakajani Team Sotheby's / Strictly Bicycles
Dennis Schwandtner Kreb/EECT
Tom Shebell Rocket Racing/YSG
Abraham Soler Foundation
Tim Spence CRCA/Axis
James Stevens GS Gotham/Toga
David Stires Century Road Club of America
Terry Totemeier U.S. Army/Central Wheel-GHCC
Lawrence Uhrlass EECT
Hammean Walker CRCA Major Taylor Iron Riders
Andrew Walsh CRCA/Foundation
Tron Witt CRCA/Jonathan Adler Racing
Zak Abdullah CRCA/FGX Racing
Naoufal Alaoui Brooklyn Arches
Breogan Alvarez CRCA/NY Velocity
Jimmy Andrello CRCA/Foundation
John Anthony NYSketches
Walter Archer
Matt Armstrong
Alexander Barouh Kissena Cycling CLub
Sean Barry
Michael Beckerman CRCA/FGX Racing
Kusmanto Beham
Myles Billard Vicious Cycles
Ira Blumberg CRCA/Setanta
David Bowen CRCA/Organic Athlete
Ian Byrd CRCA/Setanta
Chad Casselman CRCA/FGX Racing
Brian Collet CRCA/Sanchez-Houlihan Lokey
Peter Conroy CRCA/NYVelocity
Clint Dager University of Delaware
Aaron Deutsch Brooklyn Arches
Bryan Dougherty Kissena
Benjamin Fackler CRCA/NYVelocity
Adam Francis
Steven Fritz CRCA / Teany Cycling
David Gardiner Kissena
Benjamin George Connecticut Coast Cycling
Chris Gurr CRCA/Setanta
Robert Haber CRCA/FGX Racing
Paul Italiano GS Gotham/Toga
Matthew Jackson
Eric Kuo CRCA/Setanta
Christopher Leong CRCA/NYVelocity
Jonathan Leong CRCA / Teany Cycling
Benjamin Lesnak NY Sketches
Leonides Lopez jimenez velo sports
James Mahlmann
Steven Marmo crca/setanta
Carlos Martinez www.SpinCityTeam.net
George Mastrogiannis CRCA/Sanchez-Houlihan Lokey
Anthony Mazzella Sanchez Houlihan Lokey/CRCA
Todd McLoughlin Kissena
Clayton McPhail CRCA/NY Velocity
Mark David McPherson Kissena
Eli Mernit GS Gotham/Toga
David Miller
John Miller Champion System p/b Cycles Gladiator Wine
Angel Molina Chelsea Bicycles Team
Matthew Montesano Kissena Cycling Club
Shane Moran Westwood Velo
Philip Nerges Jimenez Velo Sport
Jorge Orrego Strictly Bicycles
Brian Pan
Phil Penman CRCA / Teany Cycling
Don Peretz Watchung Wheelmen
Daniel Reiners Kissena Cycling Club
Guillermo Rincon Chelsea Bicycles Team
Alistair Rogers East End/ Kreb Cycle
Jonathan Sebat East End/Kreb Cycle
Etienne Shanon CRCA/Foundation
Mark Spottiswood GBSC / Babylon Bike Shop
Joe Steele Brooklyn Arches
Joshua Storck Brooklyn Velo Force / GQ Racing
John Suscovich CRCA/NYVelocity
John-Taki Theodoracopulos
Crihs Thormann kissena cycling club
David Trumpf CRCA/FGX Racing
Roy Vaccaro Jimenez Velo Sport
George Vlahogiannis JIMENEZ VELO SPORT
James Westman
Stuart Wilkins EAST END
Benjamin Woodbury Brooklyn Velo Force/GQ Racing
eter Alford CRCA
David Anthony CRCA/NYVelocity
Eloy Anzola Kissena Cycling Club
Nathan Archibald none
Jack Baranski CRCA/OrganicAthlete
Todd Brilliant CRCA/Setanta
Dean Brizel CRCA/Sanchez Houlihan-Lokey
James Brosnan CRCA/NYVelocity
John Buenaventura CRCA/NYVelocity
Eric Carlson Westwood Velo / Trade Manage Capital
Brian Cesaratto
Bladdymir Coronel Westwood Velo-Trade Manage Racing
Michael Desmarais University of Vermont
Michael Dimson Yorktown Cycles/Tarmac Cycling
Gregory Donovan Kissena Cycling Club
Gary Eveland Quaker City Wheelmen/Breakawaybikes.com
Craig Fleischer East End/Kreb Cycle
Miguel Flores Chelsea Bicycles Team
Christian Forsyth CRCA/Setanta
Gregory Fowlkes CRCA/Rapha Racing
Bryan Fried crca/nyvelocity
Andrew Gillis Unione Sportiva Italiana
Paul Goldman CRCA / Teany Cycling
Craig Goodstein CRCA/Sanchez-Houlihan-Lokey
Patrick Grehan Kissena Cycling Club
Seth Gross CRCA/NYVelocity
Andy Guy Tri-State Velo
Rick Hall CRCA / Teany Cycling
Mark Heithoff Signature Cycles/Rockstar Games/CRCA
Shawn Herndon Signature Cycles/Rockstar Games
Michael Innusa east end/kreb cycle
Mitchell Jacaruso CRCA/NYVELOCITY
John Jackson Skylands Cycling
Jordan Jan Brooklyn Velo Force / GQ Racing
Barry Kaplan Watchung Wheelmen
Phil Karavidas westwood velo
Hanjiro Kawai BCA
Tom Krol Cheshire Cycle Racing
Claude Laberge Liberty Cycle
Paul Lestage Yorktown Cycles / Tarmac Cycling
Thomas Mattioli Western Union/CRCA
Peter McCormick CRCA/OrganicAthlete
Gregory McCoy Yorktown cycles/Tarmac cycling
James Mernin CRCA/Kingpin Racing - HJD
Chris Mooney none
Juan Nunez VO2MaxOut.COM
Michael O'Neill
Owen Oconnor East End/Kreb Cycle
Maurice Osorio kissena cycling club
David Parker Signature Cycles/Rockstar Games
Reginald Rasch CRCA/FGX Racing
Russell Raymundo
David Regen CRCA/OrganicAthlete
David Richman CRCA/Kingpin Racing-HJD
Jeffrey Robins CRCA/NYVelocity
Timothy Rogers CRCA/FGX Racing
George Romonoyske East End / Kreb Cycle Cycling Team
Adam Rosenthal CRCA/Kingpin Racing-HJD
Arthur Roulac CRCA/Sanchez Houlihan Lokey
Reed Rubey CRCA / Teany Cycling
Bruce Schwartz Signature Cycles/Rockstar Games
Christopher Schwenker East End/Kreb Cycle
Steven Senne Boston Road Club
Joel Simon Brooklyn Velo Force/GQ Racing
Leszek Sniadowski Organic Athlete
Warren St John NY Velocity
Etsu Taniguchi CRCA / Teany Cycling
Niko Triantafillou CRCA / Teany Cycling
Jay Vincent Zama Racing
Timothy Voake CRCA
Joseph Wiener Kissena Cycling Club
Steven Winfield Signature Cycles/Rockstar Games
Jeffrey Alpert CRCA/NYVelocity
Gregg Beimler
Sonny Bindra CRCA/NYVelocity
Robert Bonelli DC Racing / Sebago
Scott Burch Organic Athlete NYC
Jim Cleary GS Park Ridge
Roy Currie SMAC
Mark Cywin Propeller Racing
Nicholas David Propeller Racing
Shawn Erickson Tenafly Bicycle Workshop/Road Dawgz
Aaron Essner
Jesus Flores chelsea bicycles team
Pedro Furtado Signature Cycles/Rockstar Games
Leonard Galati CRCA/NY Velocity
Jay Goldwein CRCA
Luis Gonzales
Matthew Graham 3d racing
Russ Green 3D Racing Team/Tom's Atlantic Cyclery
Lorenzo Grippo Tarmac Cycling
Jud Heugel
Ian Japal Yorktown Cycles/Tarmac Cycling
John Kladis yorktown cycles/tarmac cycling
Nicholas Malter F.D.N.Y.
Jim Marrone USI
Israel Martinez chelsea bicycles team
Matthew Matassa
Michael Novich
Juan Orrego Strictly Bicycles
Myles Partellow yorktown cycles / Tarmac cycling
Victor Perez Chelsea Bicycles Team
Michael Petermann none
Jaroslaw Prokop
John Ragel crca
Luis Ramirez
Kevin Rooney CRCA
Patrick Ruane 3D Racing
Kristian Saether EAST END/KREB
Andrew Schmidt
Travis Skinner propeller racing
Jose Soriano CRCA
Carlos Sosa Chelsea Bicycles Team
Warren St John NY Velocity
Chris Thorpe
James Triano
Alexander Vogenthaler
Tim J. Walsh CRCA/Signature Cycles
William Weiss Velocity
James Williams CRCA/NYVelocity.com
Harry Zernike CRCA/New York Velocity
Jonathan Zimmerman CRCA
Mark Alden CRCA/Blue Ribbon-Translation.com
Peter Askin Cafeteros Cycling Club
Geoff Bickford CRCA/Axis
Scott Bodin TARGETRAINING
Robin Bolduc Ride With Randall
Paul Carbonara Century Road Club /Axis
Todd Cassan Westwood Velo
Thomas Cromie Sleepy Hollow
Mark Czarnecki Laurel Bicycle Club
D.j. Dart
Carlos Gonzalez CRCA
Kurt Gustafsson CRCA / AXIS
Peter Hines CRCA / Jonathan Adler Racing
Roy Hutchinson Kissena
Danny Inoa Brooklyn Velo Force/GQ Racing
Charles Issendorf Champion System
Michael Joseph Colavita Racing
Lennard Katz Kissena Cycling Club
James Keaveny none
Troy Kimball Westwood Velo
Kenneth King CRCA/Die Hard-Think Racing
Robert Lattanzi Westwood Velo
Gregory Lee CRCA
Max Lippolis TARGETRAINING/ FASTAR
Robert Lombardi Brooklyn Velo Force/GQ Racing
Thomas Luzio Deno's Wonder Wheel
Jerry Martinez global locate
Alessandro Matteucci Brooklyn Velo Force / GQ Racing
Jan Micko german bicycle club
Matt Murphy GS RETROVELO
Anthony O'Malley CRCA/Diehard-Think Racing
Jon Orcutt CRCA/Axis
Thomas Pennell CRCA/Blue Ribbon - Translations.com
Christopher Peterson CRCA/Sanchez-Houlihan Lokey
Eutimio Quintero CRCA/ Foundation
James Regan Northeastern Hardware/CJCT
Carl Reglar
Keith Ryan CRCA-AXIS
Cliff Saper crca/ Sanchez Houlihan Lokey
Haluk Sarci Deno's Wonder Wheel
Pascal Sauvayre CRCA/Pacifico-Hincapie Sportswear
Will Schneider VO2MAXOUT.COM Training Systems
Leigh Sorrells Fioradifrutta/Masters
David Taylor CRCA/Blue Ribbon-Translations.com
Jerry Truppelli Colavita Racing
Phill Vermette Caboto Velo
John Wain
Ralf Warmuth Westwood Velo
Andrew Williams RUUD Racing / TVC
David Wilson Northeastern Hardware/CJCT
Mark Adler Tokeneke
Al Blanchard Westwood Velo
Kevin Butler GS Park Ridge
Greg Campi 3D Racing Team/Tom's Atlantic Cyclery
Reb Cole cafeteros
William Crowley CRCA/Die-Hard-Think Racing
Carlos Cruz colombia
Damian Dicostanzo Deno's Wonder Wheel
Mark Durso Zephyr Cycle
Tom Guimond CRCA/Rockstar/Signature
Michael Haddad Signature Cycles / Rockstar Games
Jose Hernandez Colavita Racing
Kenneth Hochman Deno's Wonder Wheel Cycling
Ken Johnsson Pawling Cycle & Sport
Richard Kazimir Century Road Club of America
Robin Kinney Team Somerset
Jeff Knisely Cafeteros Cycling Club
Chuck Litty Bethel Cycle Sport Club
Bob Meikle Mystic Velo Club
Kevin Mosher C B R C
Doug O'Neill Deno's Wonder Wheel
Cleofus Price gs gotham
Brian Rafferty Deno's Wonder Wheel
Ricardo Sanchez KISSENA CYCLING CLUB
Philip Soroka crca/Organic Athlete
Robert Stern CRCA/ WesternUnion
Hajo Thiele Cafeteros Cycling Club
William Thompson CCC/Keltic Const/Zanes Cycles
Lawrence Towner Liberty Cycle
Tom Bridges Favatas table rock tours
Chuck Dominick onondaga cycling club
Michael Patterson
Stephen Sirico Laurel/get carter.com
Roger Aspholm Westwood Velo
Thomas Bencivengo Sommerville Sports World Team
Blair Berbert Kelly Benefit Strategies/LSV Amateur Racing
Brian Breach Brooklyn Velo Force / GQ Racing
Franklin Burgos western union
Brett Cleaver Sommerville Sports
David Costa Anthem Sports Elite Development
Matt Cuttler CRCA/Jonathan Adler Racing
David Freifelder Westwood Velo/Trade Manage Racing
Eneas Freyre TARGETRAINING
Todd Hesel Kelly Benefit Strategies/LSV Amateur Racing
Matthew Howard CRCA/Empire Cycling Team p/b Northwave
David Hoyle CCNS
Christopher Johnson Above Category Racing
Matthew Johnson CRCA/Empire Cycling Team p/b Northwave
Christopher Kohnle CCNS
Erin Korff CRCA/AXIS
Matt Lorenz Army
Damien McCabe Melania
Kevin Molloy CRCA/Empire Cycling Team p/b Northwave
Austin Moran TARGETRAINING p/b confabricate.com
J.p. Partland Kissena Cycling Club
Kyle Peppo CRCA/Jonathan Adler Racing
Karl Rahn CRCA/Empire Cycling Team p/b Northwave
Dan Vaillancourt Colavita/Sutter Home
Chris Worden CCB Racing
Jeff Zygo MVP Health Care Cycling
Sarah Chubb Sauvayre CRCA/Comedy Central-Sid's Bikes
Caryl Gale Deno's Wonder Wheel
Kimberly Geist Team Alliance Environmental
Kristen Gohr Colavita Racing Inc.
Dara Kiese CRCA/Radical Media
Deb Killmon CRCA/Signature Cycles-Rockstar Games
Becky Koh CRCA/Comedy Central-Sid's Bikes
Donna McMahon CRCA/Radical Media
Ann Marie Miller CRCA Sanchez Houlihan Lokey
Maria Murphy GS RETROVELO
Andrea Myers CRCA/Comedy Central-Sid's Bikes
Ashley Prine CRCA/Radical Media
Erica Adelberg CRCA/Radical Media
Dawn Burrell Colavita
Joanne Cabello CRCA Sanchez Houlihan Lokey
Colleen Conway CRCA / Teany Cycling
Ruth Dickinson Philadelphia Ciclismo
Renee Engelhardt CRCA/NYVelocity
Xieyue Fan CRCA Sanchez Houlihan Lokey
Gabrielle Fisher CRCA/Sanchez-Houlihan Lokey
Nancy Ford USI
Lisa Gizzarelli Hudson Valley Velo Club
Anneliese Haines CRCA/NY Velocity
Stacy Jargowsky crca/sbr multisports
Cynthia Lo TriLife Racing
Kristin Lotito CRCA/Sanchez-Houlihan Lokey
Emily Maynard CRCA/Radical Media
Caitlin Olson
Lindsey Paluska CRCA/NYVelocity
Edie Perkins Kissena Cycling Club
Althea Grace Pineda crca
Jennifer Solomon East End Cycling Team
Andrea Urist CRCA/Sanchez Houlihan-Lokey
Kathleen Vedock
Well, I managed to get to the gym this morning so I guess that was my spiritual hit of the day - all that yoga!! No, only kidding ~ running on a treadmill, cross-trainer then the bike, stretches and then 20 minutes in the steam room.
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
Our Daily Challenge - SPIRITUAL .....
Somehow I managed to blag my way around the yard at Heally Mills one Sunday morning. I was given an orange flack vest and told to be careful.
Regrettably these were the last pictures taken on my old Ixus as the quality had clearly dissapeared. That being said at least I have a collection of pictures taken in what was by this time nothing opther than a graveyard. It was sad to sse the 56's lined up, rotting away and awaiting their fate.
This picture was taken from inside one of the cabins looking out at 56068.
Bare Rock was our destination for the walk. Cloud was coming in a bit but managed to get a couple of photos with some sun.
Also a photo taken from the same place in 1990.
Main Range National Park, Queensland.
Forex Village is a leading source of information on managed forex accounts, including reviews of all the latest forex managed account managers, and performance reviews
Managed to make a sunrise (well, shortly after!) whilst in Sri Lanka. This is easily the most convenient landscape photography shoot I've ever done, given that this was shot from the balcony of our hotel in Kandy! I managed to roll out of bed, get the camera and tripod, put some shorts and T Shirt on and open the balcony doors, to be greeted by the sight of pockets of mist across the Sri Lankan landscape - gorgeous!
Two Jack Lake is just outside Banff. We'd managed to book the last free campsite at Two Jack Lakeside, and I took the chance to take some pictures in the early morning.
I was up a bit late and missed the light I'd been hoping for. Next time I'll need to take an alarm clock.
This 360° High Dynamic Range panorama was stitched from 63 bracketed photographs with PTGUI Pro, tone-mapped with Photomatix, processed with Color Efex, and finally touched up in Aperture.
Original size: 20000 × 10000 (200.0 MP; 1.03 GB).
Location: Two Jack Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva conducts her press conference during the 2021 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
13 October 2021
Washington, DC, United States
Photo ref: CH211013005.arw
Images accepted by my representing agency Arcangel. www.arcangel.com Available for use through Rights Managed licenses. See more of my work at Arcangel:
'Views in Camera, 2017'; Photographs taken around the Sheffield area in the last year, Part II - 223Mby MP4 video
** This is a 6min video so has to be downloaded to see the full version as only 3 minutes are shown in the Flickr interface.
** For non-Pro Flickr users, the download limit appears to be 3 minutes on download as well, and so there is a link here-
www.rail.tightfitz.com/Video/Views_in_Camera_-_II-conv.mp4
to obtain the full version for non-Pro users, right click the link and select 'Save Link As' to save the file to the desktop.
Well, the Xmas and New Year festivities are over, we managed just one day of snow, last Friday, the 29th December and since then, bad weather has arrived in the form of 'Storm Eleanor' prevails and we have had a couple of days of heavy rain and high winds, for the UK that is. As my end-of-year Flickr 'Xmas Card', this time around its the second part of the 'Views in Camera' piece, the last was uploaded on August 31st and the scene commenced at a cold and wet Woodhead Tunnel portal, last January, see-
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/36942529635/
This, follow-up set, is an eclectic miscellany of shots taken between the end of August last year near, after the last video was finished and this one commences in an area just north-east of the centre of the city of Sheffield, close to the River Don in Neepsend, Shalesmoor and Millsands, commencing 3rd September, through to late October last year. The bulk of the 2nd half of the video was shot in the Millsands area of Sheffield on one late, sunny Sunday morning on 15th October and, like much of Sheffield, this area has seen a large down-turn in the once thriving heavy industries over the last 30 or so years. Some of these buildings are still in use, others have been re-used/purposed, and others demolished so this set of pictures is an attempt to grab a a record of what's left, before it goes forever. An earlier review of the desperate scene in Sheffield from the early 1980s to 1990s can be found in Adrian Wynn's great book on the subject, 'A View of Sheffield', published by Pickard Communications in 2007 and is highly recommended for a good view of what the changing scene was like in those days. In addition, Berris Conolly, another local photographer, has two books out, 'River Don, Seventeen Bridges' from views in 1989 & 2009 and 'Sheffield Photographs 1988-2008', published in 2008, see-
The video is in approximately 10 sections and is in chronological order of the 66 images taken and whilst there is some reference to the railways in this second video, most of the material is related, post the 1980s and 1990s changes, with what is still left to photograph from those times. As such this was series was prompted by the book indicated above, Adrian Wynn's book on Sheffield, from pictures taken in the late 1980s and early 1990s and theses provided a location for some of the shots here, to see for myself, how much things had changed over the past 30 years. I was thinking today, whilst gearing up to prepare this narrative, that Adrian has captured some very good historical records of the area which can be seen in the video; this not only being just a record but containing very pointed and stark political comment on those times.
1. Langsett Road. The very first shot can be found in Adrian's book with what was then, a boarded up derelict building next to the Masons Arms with the first of the three boards seen in his shot declaring- 'For Thou Can not Worship Both Money and The Lord. Evil Thatcher. Pension Snatcher' and on the third board, off to the right, 'For God's Sake, Vote Labour'. As the photograph shows here, the area to the right of the Mason's Arms has now been re-developed though the pub is still in the same style, if not in livery. Another obvious change in this, when compared to Adrian's shot in 1990, the 'wires are up', as the Sheffield SuperTram now plies this route along Langsett Road. The red brick section of the building on the right was where the first painted caption declared the choices between money and the Lord...
2. Burgoyne Road. These shots were taken whilst moving south-east along Langsett Road and this is another of the pictures which features in Adrian's book. The site is now bereft of the St. Bartholomew's Church which at the time of the 1989 picture was stood at the bottom of the road with, behind it then, the towering edifice of one of the Neepsend gas holders with folk atop the then popular 'Sheffield Ski Slope' visible. The church at that time was in the process of being demolished and so the gas holder was easy to see; since then, a year or so ago, that gasholder has now also been demolished and the Sheffield Ski Slope has also gone, gutted by fire a few years ago; the land is currently being considered for redevelopment into another sports facility. As a tribute to the old church, on the left at the side of the white Mercedes hatchback, stands the St. Bartholomew's Church centre.
3. Love Street. Moving towards the River Don and an area centred on one of Adrian's pictures taken on 'Love St', the street itself still extant and still with many old buildings around it, though from the look of some of them now; their time must be coming soon. The John & Matthew Woollens building can be seen in the third shot on the right, 'Bone Cutters' by all accounts but that went out of business as long ago as 1874 after which it became a Signage business run by one of the Woollens family, Edwin James, from Rotherham. The 2nd of the 3 'Love St' pictures shows the one most corresponding to Adrian's shot of the 'Cherry Flan' cafe which stood on the corner where the railings mark the edge of the car park. In his picture from 1992 and in this one, the still extant and thriving, Sheffield Workhouse, now called 'Mayfair Court', with many a flat up for sale within... also known as 'the Doss House' it was built in 1908 for single, down-and-out men... Also in the 2nd picture, some 'wag', has put up a poster for 'The Lady Boys' from Bangkok, appearing in Sheffield from time-to-time, this for two weeks at the end of November, 2015. To the left of the 'Lady Boys' sign is the land once occupied by the Britannia Works which were off to the left of the 'Cherry Flan' in Adrian's picture but the works are featured elsewhere in his book. The last shot of the 3, looks back along 'Lurve Street' and shows the 'new builds' which have gone up here-abouts behind the old 'Woollens Signs' building.
4. Well Meadow Street. Another series of shots prompted by one of Adrian's pictures, this time its the area around Well Meadow Street and this has changed, and is still changing, significantly. Adrian's picture in 1992, had its own pastel, colourful feal to it, taken in flat light and the 1st picture here, of a set of 9, reflects less of that feel but at least the buildings are being renovated and the view, apart from the 'yellow' roller door in the earlier picture, is pretty much the same; the roller door was at the bottom of the road where now palisade fence has been erected. Already on the lower right, some of the buildings have been let out with the area at the top of the street having been redeveloped into flats. The houses on the left which were actually derelict by 1992 with the windows boarded up, are finally being renovated; its good to see this happening where its still possible to retain the old history of the place. The second shot shows a closer view where the yellow roller door into the works of Samuel Peace & Sons Ltd. once stood, the area has now been opened out though the fence is a rather ugly replacement. The 3rd, 4th & 5th shots show the view up Well Meadow Street, which here runs parallel to Netherthorpe Road, and looks towards the new student accommodation near the large intersection at Western Bank and the University of Sheffield. The 6th shot looks back along the full length of the redevelopment with more graffiti'd hoardings up on the left, in preparation for more land to be given over to student accommodation and such like. In the 7th shot, the wooden canvasses erected around derelict land along Brownell Street, are an ideal location for the graffiti artists to have a field-day with their tagging and in some respects it does brighten up an otherwise glum area. The last 2 in the set of 9 at this location look back from the other side of the palisade fence seen earlier, and now on the site of the old Samuel Peace & Sons Ltd. Steel & File manufacturers; the University Arts Tower is in the background looking up Meadow Well Street once more. The final shot, to confirm where we are, with the presence of the camera, and me I guess, attracting some suspicion from the owners of the 'Hot Chilli' food establishment, who were clearly concerned about what was going on, until I explained what it was all about, and showed them, a copy of Adrian's 'A View of Sheffield', which resulted in them being highly interested in same picture from 1992. A link to more information about this important area and its conservation, can be found here-
www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/topic/7358-well-meadow-...
5. Cornish Street. In the same year, Adrian photographed the area closer to the River Don and the next 4 shots show the current scene along Cornish Street, Neepsend, it too not having changed much in layout since the earlier picture from 1992. There has however, been a good deal of 'tidying up' undertaken when compared to the derelict scene which pervaded many places in Sheffield in the 1980s and early 1990s. Serendipitously again, as walking along the street to find the same view as the earlier picture, and some 'interest' came along in the form of 'woman and child on bike', peddling along away from the river behind us, with the George Barnsley & Sons works, 'the world’s largest producer of files and cutting tools for the shoemaking industry', over on the right. Again, in Adrian's 1992 picture, the building was already in a sorry looking state with windows on the ground floor boarded up and the street and pavements looking worse than they do here. The house ahead of the cyclist at that time was also boarded up but now it has been re-opened and that area, right next to the river is looking, once more, to be on the up-and-up. The chimney stack in the background is now part of Cornish Place and from Wikipedia-
'...The building was formerly the factory of James Dixon & Sons, a Britannia metal, Sheffield plate and Cutlery manufacturer. In the late 1990s the disused building was cleaned and converted into apartments, it is regarded as the most impressive cutlery works that still stands in Sheffield[1] and rivals the cotton mills of Lancashire and the West Riding in terms of architectural quality and heritage. The most impressive parts of the building are the east and west ranges which have Grade II* listed status while the rest of the works have the lower Grade II rating. The 'Cornish' in the buildings name is thought to derive from the manufacture of Britannia metal which is made up of 93% tin which came from Cornwall...'
Moving around the corner and the state of the main building can be seen in the next 3 of the 4 pictures taken here. There are also further details about George Barnsley & Sons', here-
www.bcd-urbex.com/george-barnsley-sons-cornish-works-shef...
and here-
www.aworldinruins.co.uk/george-barnsley--sons
6. Bardwell Street. Not far away, and venturing closer to the railway in this part of the town, the next 5 pictures are centred around the Bardwell Street area and this road passes along under the MSLR's line form Sheffield Victoria, via Woodhead, to Manchester Piccadilly or, it did once! The first of the 5 pictures shows the well graffiti'd building which was once occupied by the Cannon Brewery and is now set to become ... more student accommodation; though the process seems a little slow. The next shot of the 5 reflects the one most closely resembling Adrian Wynn's shot, one of the oldest in his book and taken in 1982 and in his shot, being 1982, the Woodhead line is electric overheads are still present, complete with cables, but not for very much longer. Some of the buildings along Bardwell Street have also been demolished so it was difficult to get this shot exactly correct, the two camera lenses were also of somewhat differing focal length. The older picture was taken with at a wider focal length with the camera further along the road towards the railway over-bridge; this I didn't do as all the detail would then have been missed out due to the demolition of the buildings on the left in the present picture. There are still lots of identifiable features between 1982 and this, taken in October last year, 35 years apart, the arch of the MSLR's railway bridge being just visible at the end of the wall of the building on the right. The line formation is now of course overgrown with birch trees along its sides, but with the single line to Deepcar still present and in use, carrying the nightly steel train from the Aldwarke steelworks for rolling at Stocksbridge Works. Graffiti tag'ers have been out and about again, festooning the derelict parts of buildings with their bright artwork and with the 'House Skate Park', just around the corner near the black car, opposite the old Canon Brewery building, the Skating building also suitably decorated, see the shots in the end-of-last-year video, here-
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/24276897661/
and the last of the 5 pictures in this series. The last two pictures of the 5 are taken from close to the indoor, 'House Skate Park' at the end of Bardwell Street and the line of the MSLR's Woodhead route can be clearly seen, being demarked by the line of tree-growth, marching up the 1-in-100 slope to the left and up towards Woodhead Tunnel. The panorama in the last of the 5 shots shows the end of Bardwell Street, now Road of course, in Neepsend with House Skate Park on the right, with its colourful outside adornments and yet more derelict buildings on the left. It seems devastating removal of old industry in and around Sheffield has left a nightmare of a problem for the planners to find a new use for, particularly the vast spaces of land these firms once used to occupy on the periphery of the town and closer to the centre, old Victorian buildings which also be dealt with, in one way or another; usually by demolition and re-use.
7. Burnaby Street. Another five shots taken on the bank up to Walkley and once more reflecting a shot taken by Adrian in his book 'A View of Sheffield - pictures from 1982-1992', this one taken in 1982 on Burnaby Street when much of this area was being re-developed on a grand scale to renew time-expired, and unwanted, 1960s housing. It took a while to try and get the angle exactly correct with respect to the 1982 which features, along with a single house being demolished in the centre foreground, the still extant U-shaped block of flats at Regent Court, painted white and right next to the River Loxley which flows into the River Don at Hillsborough. From the angle of the shadow of the northern-most, left, section of the 'U' shaped structure, I walked along the top of the bank until the angle matched and these 5 shots show the change in fortunes of the whole area since Adrian took his picture in 1982. The scene in the background of the 5 pictures looks over northwards towards Owlerton and Wadsley Bridge and the line of the Woodhead Route, the Stocksbridge Branch as it now exists. The 3rd and 4th of the five pictures is clearly getting closer but in Adrian's shot, the end of the U-shaped building has its 'top' facing the camera so clearly this shot isn't quite far enough along to the north. These pictures pan around to the north-east a little and reveal the hill rising to the Ski Slop area on the far right at Parkwood Springs but still the angle isn't quite right. The last of the shots, in my view, is just about spot-on. The end of the white Regent Court building is now facing directly towards the camera and at a realistically good angle down the bank towards the building; the re is even a somewhat similar house in the centre foreground, not in the process of being demolished, which doesn't look unlike the style of the one in the 1982 picture. This last picture was taken on the steps leading down to Hammerton Close from Lonsdale Lane withing spitting distance of Burnaby Street. The woodland in the left background of this picture are on the outliers of Beeley and Great Hollins Wood which runs on the north side of the Stocksbridge branch line through Middlewood and Oughtibridge and on through Wharncliffe Side to Deepcar and the exchange sidings at Ellen Wood which allows steel stock to be taken into the Samuel Fox steelworks at Stocksbridge.
8. Graffiti Millsands Area. Another derelict site on a fast-filling out area right next to the river at Millsands, a colourful extravaganza of graffiti tagging art which will be liked and hated in equal measure. This is a series of 18 shots taken at the derelict building site which sat amidst a plethora of old industrial businesses which were also festooned about the Sheffield area.. Here, this site was in and surrounded by- the Eclipse Patent Roof Glazing Works, the Don Confectionary Works, Millsands Forge & Rolling Mills, next to the river of course, and the Eclipse Lantern Works; Eclipse being, I guess the outfit that still makes hack saw blades. The artworks/tags here are set about a site which at this time during the middle of October, was still resplendent with Buddleia and other vegetation which, along with the still extant signage form past uses and the red brickwork, all conspired to make a garden scene with the paraphernalia of Sheffield's continued re-development, rising in the background. And this can be seen to good effect in the last shot in the series of 18 where a local heads towards the river with the old Eclipse Lantern Works behind her to the left and the Eclipse Glazing works off on the far left; the Lantern Works have now been partly taken over by car rental firm, EuropCar. I enjoyed photographing this area and liked the feel which was brought about by the combination of all the elements, old and new, constructed or natural and with the added bonus of reminders of past 'do's and dont's'...
9. The River Don Area. From the Graffiti on Bridge St. to the River at Millsands and yet more iconic buildings, with the odd hark back to the past once again, taken from Adrian Wynn's book. Almost the last picture in that book, taken looking towards the old Bridgehouses Goods depot, see-
www.disused-stations.org.uk/s/sheffield_bridgehouses/
west of the then closed Sheffield Victoria Station, is somewhat reflected in the 1st of the set of 18 pictures here, taken walking along the riverside and back. This first of 3, rendered in B/W, showing the Aizlewood Mill, with the Victoria Station site in the background, shows the changes in just over 30 years, the most noted changes being the closure of Victoria Station and the complete removal of the Bridgehouses Goods Depot, part of one of the goods depot buildings pokes into the picture of Adrian's, taken in 1986; the land on which the Goods Depot was located is still up for sale. The 2nd of the 3 shots shows a wider view along the river with, in turn, the Harlequin Public House, which the GCRS uses for their Sheffield meetings, the Aizlewood Mill and beyond that, the 'New Testament Church of God' building. At far left, the green bridge, installed when the Sheffield ring road was built, carries the now single line through the Victoria Station site, up to Deepcar; a set of arches which comprise the Wicker Arches, march off towards the right from the bridge. The last of the first three in the set of 18, is a close up of the old and new bridges, the older one carrying the lines to the north-west and just above this bridge deck is the northern portal of the Spittal Hill Tunnel, see-
www.flickr.com/photos/134774261@N07/33357890945
which carried 'Fiery Jack', the shunting locomotive with its 4 wagons between the Midland's Wicker Station, off to the right near the tall background building, and at this end, connecting with the MSLR's line to Manchester. The 1986 picture in Adrian Wynn's book, due to the complete lack of vegetation around the station site in those days, clearly shows the western portal of the tunnel, just under the Bridgehouses Goods building awning. After this, further views along the river from Nursery St., a close-up of the splendid Aizlewood Mill followed by Riverside House and then a view looking towards the railway bridge over the main road at Wicker. Following on from that, a short tour of the splendid structures which stand at the side of the River Don and the Upper Don Walk; the first showing the scene crossing Blonk St. bridge and looking towards Lady's Bridge and West Bar with the Exchange Brewery, occupied by the Tennant Brothers at one stage and with, in the 1960s and 1970s, that distinctive odour of fermenting hops, pervading the air in this area. Looking the other way, east towards Attercliffe and in the background on the arches, the Midland Main line passes over the River Don with the red-brick Victoria Hotel just beyond the white pedestrian bridge. A B/W rendition follows showing the scene looking past the Holiday Inn Express and the road up to the old Victoria Station site which is now blocked from view, taken in August 2017. Immediately following this shot, a very similar shot taken on my old Praktika film camera during the Sheffield Rag week 'goings on' in mid-September, 1968; the whole of the area then was open to view up to the Victoria Station site with Victoria Station Road running along the back beneath the series of black poster awnings; only the far left one having anything pasted on it... maybe 'SAVE OUR STATION'! The Effingham St gasometer is in the background and the square chimney close to the station site can be seen and this artifact is still in-situ today. The general state and mess the River Don was in at this time can be easily seen and its not clear to me whether it was a good idea wallowing around in the filth that was terms a river; much has changed since this time of course and now the River Don is 'clear as a bell'. The means of access, for those in the 'Rag Week Boat Race', can be seen and as I recall, this was my last picture here before heading off and delivering the goods, i.e. all the money I had collected for the 1968 Rag Week Magazine, full of useful venue information, advertising and to be frank, shear filth in terms of the cartoon jokes! Moving back along Castlegate now at the other side of the river and the splendid buildings on the eastern side of the river come into view, this glorious red/grey brick edifice at either side of Lady's Bridge was
Castle House but is now, partly, 'Cut Price Carpets' complete with 21st century appendage, a satellite dish; neglecting that, didn't the Victorians do well! The weir at Lady's Bridge is next, looking back towards the Victoria Station site and this one, for me, is very appealing in its colour and grandeur. Now on the opposite side of the river to earlier, some of the less impressive structures, still extant, one with square chimney, a soupçon of graffiti and green metal window frames. The 'New Testament Church of God Family Life Centre' now occupies a building not far from its rather impressive church, with two folk sat chatting over 'stuff' alongside the slowly flowing water of the Don; a beautiful scene. And, lastly is this almost final set, the camera now points once more across the river to the Aizlewood Mill on the right and the The Harlequin Freehouse on the left and under normal circumstance, that's where I would have headed next except there was a further shot I thought it worthwhile attempting to take to complete this second series of the 'Views in Camera'.
10. Rutland Road. Parkwood Springs. Unfortunately, the shot I had anticipated taking, from the site of the old Neepsend Engine Shed just off Rutland Road, which in the past had been easily accessible by walking across a piece of open ground, had now been completely taken over by a new-build industrial building and not only that, the space was all nicely palisaded off, the building occupying the whole of the space. This was just behind the camera in this final shot and, as luck would have it, on the other side of the road, 'there's a picture there', flashed straight into mind as a building on Botsford St., just a 'stones-throw' north of the M.S.L.R.'s now single line formation to Deepcar, was in view and with suitable brick-work, graffiti and blue van, probably makes a better picture than the rather mundane one I was thinking of showing just a set of rails disappearing towards the Sheffield Victoria site! Some heavy gradient filtering required in this one as the sun continued in full throttle and the shadows split the scene in half still, a worthy piece to end this 2nd of the 'Views in Camera' Video...
Although I have used as reference, 'A View of Sheffield, pictures 1982-1992' and this has been useful, there are many more images from this period in Adrian's book which speaks of the enormous changes which were taking places in Sheffield in the 1980s and 1990s and I can only recommend this for further viewing; the half dozen or so 'Then' pictures which I have used as reference, reflecting on a small portion of that 35 years ago vista.
A very Happy New Year to all interested views, many thanks for the comments and information provided over the last year, appreciate it all and am looking forward to a new, but maybe differently-accented, 2018...
E.& O.E.
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, IMFC Chair Magdalena Andersson, and Communications Director Gerry Rice participate in a press briefing during the 2021 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Allison Shelley
14 October 2021
Washington, DC, United States
Photo ref: AS211014058.ARW
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva participates in the G7 African Ministerial meeting during the 2022 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
12 October 2022
Washington, DC, United States
Photo ref: CH221012107.arw
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and Deputy Secretary Sabina Bhatia participate in the IMF Inspired event with Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai from the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
12 April 2022
Washington, DC, United States
Photo ref: CH220412002.arw
Managed this shot through two layers of glass just as the CRJ was departing. In the background is the KF Aerospace graveyard with mainly Convairliners present.
I managed to snag my absolute favourite fashion doll - Colette - for a cheap price on eBay. She'll be nude, but I have no use for the fashions she comes with. She'll also be rerooted with a caramel brown.
Dayle and Reese - I am so excited to be getting Reese. Dayle I'm getting because she has that Rufus Blue face going on, and a tan, blonde Rufus Blue is super exciting. Plus I love her outfit.
This is the first time I've been collecting these girls and been able to buy them at preorder, so I'm REAAAALLLY excited, and can't wait for them to get here. I have a growing collection of IT girls, and I finally have enough to call a collection lol.
UGH THE WAITING. Colette should be here soon though. OMG COLETTE. She's so gorgeous.
Clarksdale, est. 1848, pop. 17,962
full text of marker here
• built as 8-room G.T. Thomas Hospital for African Americans • adaptive reuse as 21-room Riverside Hotel, originally men-only, 1944 • designed by Z.L. "Momma" (Ratliff) Hill, longtime owner & proprietor • Momma Hill took in a young Ike Turner after his widowed mother suffered a nervous breakdown • designed dresses for Turner's background singers, The Ikettes • died, 1997 • son Frank "Rat" Ratliff & wife Joyce took over hotel
• during 70s "Rat" managed Subway Lounge, popular blues joint in Riverside basement • in later years was recipient of Sunfower River Festival's Early Wright Blues Heritage Award, 2003, and Juke Joint Festival's Miss Sarah Award, 2013 • daughter, Zelena "Zee" Ratliff, took over after Frank's death, 2013 -Rat Pack St Louis
• Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Ike Turner & Robert Nighthawk all lived here • hotel is airconditioned, doesn't take credit cards, has no in-room Internet, cable TV, phones or private bathrooms • dressers & bed frames all original • provided comfortable lodging for traveling African American bluesmen who had few choices in mid-century South, and just one in Clarksdale
• now a preferred destination of blues fans • rooms named for Sam Cooke, Pops Staples, John Lee Hooker, Rev. Martin Luther King, Bessie Smith • other notable guests: John F. Kennedy Jr., Blind Boys of Alabama, Duke Ellington, Rev. C. L. Franklin, Howlin' Wolf, Joe May, Peck Curtis, Joe Willie Wilkins, Raymond Hill
• If I put new furniture or change the rooms, it would not appear to be the place the musicians stayed. That’s the way the building was built. It stays like that. If I change it, I might as well close them doors because people want it that way. -Frank Ratliff, Edge Boston
• video: The Riverside Hotel (6:11) • Riverside Hotel, Clarksdale Institution, Celebrates Hospitality and Music -Huffington Post • Sleeping with Muddy Waters -Black Cat Bone & Mojo: Finding the Blues • Frank "Rat" Ratliff obituary • Clarksdale Historic District, National Register 09000763, 2009 • Coahoma County designated part of Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area, 2009
• Clarksdale-born Ike Turner rehearsed his band & recorded demos at the Riverside • their landmark song "Rocket 88" was credited to Jackie Brenston (1930-1979) and his Delta Cats, who were actually Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm with Turner on piano
• versions of song's origins have Brenston as writer or Ike Turner writing the song with or without Brenston, either at the Riverside Hotel and/or on the road: We started writing the song in the car. By the time we got to Memphis, we was almost finished writing it, and we finished writing it in the studio. It took me 10 or 15 minutes to put the music together. - Ike Turner, We Like Ike, 2001
• produced by Sam Phillips (1923-2003), Memphis Recording Service • released by Chess Records, Chicago, Chess 1458, 03-05-51 • Phillips claimed "Rocket 88" first ever rock 'n roll record • others hold differing opinions • Brenston said song based on 1947 Jimmy Liggins hit, Cadillac Boogie (2:39): If you listen to the two songs, you'll find out they're both basically the same. The words are just changed. • original recording of "Rocket 88" (02:54) • also influenced by Pete Johnson's 1949 Rocket Boogie 88 (2:32), named for newly launched Oldsmobile Rocket 88 automobile
• Ike Turner (1931-2007) bio -Gibson USA • Ike Turner, aka Icky Rennut, Lover Boy, in Wikipedia • The History of Rock 'N' Roll in 25 Songs -Hunter Schwarz, rhombus • The Number One "Rocket 88 -Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
• 26 Sep, 1937, "Empress of the Blues" Bessie Smith (1894-1937), died in Ward 1 of G.T. Thomas Hospital, now Riverside Hotel's Rm 2 • the 5'9"/200 lb. artist's career had been in decline, her popularity having crested c. 1929 • in midst of a comeback, was featured performer in E. S. Winstead's touring tent-show, Broadway Rastus • listen: I'm Wild About that Thing, 1929 (2:50)
• in early AM, she had been en route to a performance in Darling, MS when critically injured in a car crash • 10 mi. N of Clarksdale on Hwy. 61, her old wood-framed Packard collided with a slow-moving truck • at the wheel was her lover, Richard Morgan, ex-bootlegger associated with Al Capone & uncle of jazz musician Lionel Hampton • Morgan uninjured • truck driver fled scene
• white surgeon Dr. Hugh Smith & fishing buddy Henry Broughton soon came upon wreck • Dr. Smith attended Bessie; Broughton set out to call for ambulance • the patient went into shock; Dr. Smith decided to drive her to Clarksdale himself • before he could move the unconscious singer to his parked vehicle, a car crashed into it • driver and passenger injured • an ambulance & a hearse finally arrived, almost simultaneously, one responding to Broughton's call, the other to truck driver's.
• 11 Nov, 1937, Down Beat magazine ran story by John Hammond (1910-1987), crusader for racial equality & Bessie's record producer • claimed she died in Memphis of blood loss after whites-only hospital refused to treat her • no evidence to support story • local ambulance crew would know not to try white hospital: See, they didn’t send no ambulance to get a colored person in those days. Just a hearse so they wouldn’t have to make two trips if the person just happened to die on the way to the hospital. After Bessie died, newspaper up North said she was refused at the white hospital, but that makes no sense. -"Rat" Ratliff (told to John Rogers, 2012)
• African American hearse driver Willie George Miller rushed Bessie Smith to (black) G.T. Thomas Hospital where her arm was amputated • she died, hours later, at 11:30 AM • nevertheless, the counterfactual story blaming Smith's death on racism went viral, reiterated by news & entertainment media, e.g., Edward Albee's 1960 play, The Death of Bessie Smith • the myth continues to circulate
• Dr. Hugh Smith's 1971 eyewitness account of accident, audio (43:01) • video: Blues Legend Bessie Smith's only film appearance, 1929 2-reel short, St. Louis Blues (15:47) — singing begins at 6:49 • The Death of Bessie Smith by Chris Albertson, author of 1972 bio, Bessie • Who Killed Bessie Smith? -American Blues Scene • Chris Albertson interview -Jerry Jazz Musician
• Broadway Rastus, Bessie Smith's last engagement, was vaudeville review created in 1915 by black actor/writer/producer/director Irwin C. Miller (1884-1975) • lead character Rastus "Broadway" King, always scheming to make easy money, played by Miller in blackface • versions of show ran through 1928, occasionally performed for white audiences
• "They proved that that a first-class colored show can get by in the South. The people are good-looking and young, have good wardrobe on and off, and their ability is second to none; in fact the company could give pointers to many attractions that have played the city this season. The show is in two acts and sixteen scenes, all of which is provided with especially-bui)t scenery. A cast of forty people makes up the company, and it includes... Irvin C. Miller himself." -A. Jackson, 1921 review of Broadway Rastus New Orleans performance in Billboard magazine
• Broadway Rastus purchased by Fayetteville, NC producer Emerson Stowe Winstead (1893-1943), owner of Winstead's Mighty Minstrels (1931-1955) • performers from show appeared in 1947 film, Pitch a Boogie Woogie • poster • video: The Making Of... (58:47) — movie begins at 16:22 • list of entertainers who appeared in blackface
• Bessie Smith performed in Winstead's minstrel show in early 30s • returned to star in his fateful 1937 edition of Broadway Rastus • contract said to have been for $700/wk + 5% of gate
• 7000 fans attended Bessie Smith's funeral • though she had been highest paid black enterainer of the day, estranged husband, security guard Jack Gee, said to have allowed grave to go unmarked • in 1970, singer Janis Joplin — who idolized Smith — partnered with an NAACP official to provide a tombstone
• They say Bessie died because no hospital would take her, but that’s not right at all. They brought her here, right here, laid her up in the front room of the hospital. -Frank "Rat" Ratliff (1943 - 2013)