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The old pier at Lavender Bay, Sydney
Photographed on Saturday 30th January, 2020, on my trek around the northern shores of Sydney harbour.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV, with the Canon 16-35mm lens.
Processed in:
Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
A 'Smooth Chestnut' filter from the Flickr Photo Editor.
Betsy has apparently been in our family for over 200 years. At least according to this letter. My Dad gave her to me after I had helped him with my Great Aunt's estate 20 some years ago.
I am starting back up organizing all of the photos and letters we found and put them out on our website. A lot of work, which is why I stopped two years ago. Any how, here is a picture of Theodore with Old Betsy back in the day. www.familyhistoria.com/Ethelred%20Delk/John%20Delk/Joseph...
I apologize for the big watermark, but people were taking my photos and claiming them as their own out on Ancestry.com, which is another story. Enjoy, B.
At Home, March 16, 28
My Dearest Niece
I rec. your most of all kind and welcome letter I ever rec from you. Don't think dear I don't apprciate them all for I surely do. But dear when I see poor old Betsy arived to you all right it lifted a big load of of my mind for I have ben afraid I would drop off before you recievd it. You picture is following close to her. Now I can rest lots better. I read your kind and loving 4 times when I recieved it last eavning with lot tears blind my eyes. I was so glad to hear you were pleased with it. Oh child to hear a good player take hold of it. I can hear her speak to profsor Green in his church work. The most lovely player I ever heard play. He used to tell me many times I could beat any man handling the bow he ever seen in his life. He taught piano & violin in the Boston conservatory of music 5 years 10 dollars per day. Poor man lived with me an my wife at Hood River nearly a year. I gave his board and a nice room. Dear just to hear him play the violin while I played the acompayment on the piano. But it is all pased and gone forever. Your brother must have taken after me a little. I only took lessons in vocal but never took a lesson on an instrument in my life. Well I hope you all well and to from you again soon. I am getting better slow. with love to all. Your Uncle Joe Delk
Mary Dear coppy this side in ink so it will keep.
Now Mary Dear for the reccord and age of Old Betsy. In J.T. Delk's hands traded one 200 Dollar Orgon & one 35.00 violin 15.00 in money to my oldest brother Solimon Bennett Delk in Oceola Iowa. 250.00. kept it 54 years. He got it of Uncle Bill Kerns your Grand Ma's brother. Solimon kept it 35 years. Uncle Bill Kerns got it of his uncle Dave Kerns. Uncle kept it 27 years. He got it of his uncle William Kerns who bought it in Bublin Ireland of a french Italian by the name of Delonzo. William kept it 34 years. He paid for it 42 English Pounds. Thats why I would not sell it. Dear you will laugh when I tell you the truth about what I have been offered for it in Kansas. Pof. Hi Jones one 200 Dol horse one 75 Dol violin one 30 Dol Brood sow and 9 fine 80 and 90 pound pigs. Some trade but no trade. 300 Dollars cash too years ago last August. One violin 300 Dol and 250 Dol in money and from 100 to 150 dollars more than 20 times. That is why I sent it to you Dear for I was aftraid of temtation. But now I am safe. It is yours thank Providence and good luck. By By let me starve Old Betsy is safe.
Your Loving Uncle Joe Delk
Merry-Go-Round, Wisconsin Valley Fair, Wausau, Wisconsin
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These are our old money boxes with a selection of old pre decimal coins that we would have saved in them. The Burslem & District Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd are long gone. Leek United Building Society on the other hand are just like it says on the box "Firm and lasting". I can still vaguely remember my Mum taking me into the local branch with an ancient Leek United money box. The gent behind the counter commented on its age and went to find a suitable key. When he opened the box there was a collection of coins, buttons and an assortment of odds & ends that caused a certain amount of merriment. Mum made the total up to ten shillings and I became the latest member of Leek United Building Society complete with a brand new blue moneybox. Years later I got to know the gent who signed me up, it turned out that he retired on that day, I was his last new member. "Money Box"... "Smile on Saturday"...
I drive past this old tree every week and have been meaning to photograph it for some time. There is a layby off the main road nearby but it's a bit of a dogging hotspot. I decided to park about a mile away and hike through the fields, just in time for the fantastic light to change. I need to try again at sunrise.
Bahia Honda Rail Bridge ~ Stands Alone
109 Year-Old Decaying Bridge to Nowhere
The Florida Keys U.S.A. ~ December 6th, 2020
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - 5055' long - 24ft deep@center]
Bear with me. I felt compelled to do a series of shots of my favorite bridge in the world, with her magnificent colors of water and sky. I visit only once a year (for 46 straight years), and every time there is nobody here, leaving her and her ruins lonely and forgotten. I will never forget her beauty, or Henry Flagler. Thanks for looking.
The Bahia Honda Rail Bridge is a disused bridge in the lower Florida Keys connecting Bahia Honda Key with Spanish Harbor Key. Originally part of the Overseas Railway, the State of Florida purchased it after the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane and converted it to provide automobile use as part of the Overseas Highway in 1938. After a replacement Bahia Honda Bridge was opened in 1972, two spans of the bridge were removed (in the 80's) to accommodate boat traffic and make the majority of the bridge inaccessible to pedestrian traffic, but the rest remain standing.
It was originally built by Henry Flagler as part of the Overseas Railroad which was completed in 1912. Flagler funded the construction of the bridge, along with the rest of the railway himself. It was purchased by the state of Florida and converted for highway use in 1938 after the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935. Rather than completely rebuilding the bridge after the hurricane, the existing structure was repaired and the deck for the Overseas Highway was added on top, as the existing deck inside the truss was too narrow for vehicular traffic. The bridge served as the primary mode of transport to the islands of the lower Keys, and as a primary evacuation route.
A new four-lane bridge was built in 1980, a few hundred yards north of the old bridge, replacing the old route of U.S. 1. Today, the former bridge provides a scenic overview of the area for tourists. Two of the truss spans have been removed in order to facilitate boat traffic, as the new bridge has an increased span height. The original bridge has fallen into a state of disrepair and signs have been posted on the bridge warning boat traffic to watch for falling debris, but all of the sections have remained standing (not counting the two that were removed). The easternmost section remains open to pedestrian traffic and is maintained by Bahia Honda State Park. Bahia Honda Rail Bridge ~ Spanish Harbor Key ~ Lower Keys
www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahia_H...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_East_Coast_Railway#History
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Railroad
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Highway
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_keys
Modern Marvels video - (long, but very, very interesting!)
Bahia Honda Bridge history - Keys History & Information
While near Eden Park in Cincinnati, Ohio, I drove past this great piece of old brick architecture with a tower on a sunny afternoon.
A peek inside the Old Shop at Michigan City reveals GP7 5833, 802 about to get a new pan shoe and Line Car 1100. This shop is now occupied by South Shore Freight. May 1976.
A Cross Country Class 220 Voyager crosses the BCN Old Mainline (Wednesbury Oak Loop), Coseley. The service is 1M34 1037 Oxford to Manchester Piccadilly.
Old man (Old man)you got one up on me
I'm still lookin' for my shady tree
With your two gas pumps and your color TV
Your satisfied as you can be...
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Nothing I like better than wasting time with a camera in my hands...
this is a photo of the first store in Ivan Louisiana, they say it was on our property a long time ago, we are working on finding out who some of these people are, the store was built and owned by Jasper B Whittington
The Swan Brewery was established in 1857 (28 years after the first European settlement) in what is now Perth's CBD.
Construction of the brewery buildings in this photograph, on the banks of the Swan River a couple of kilometres downstream, was commenced in 1879. There followed years of amalgamations and takeovers and brewing operations eventually ceased here in 1966.
In 1978 Swan Brewery operations were relocated to an industrial estate in Perth's southern suburbs.
Around 1990 protests erupted around the proposed redevelopment of the brewery buildings. The local aboriginal people claimed it was a sacred site but the developers said that the buildings were on land reclaimed from the river and therefore that claim was invalid.
After a lengthy and at times bitter battle the developers won and the buildings now contain a mix of restaurants, commercial offices and accommodation.
Whether seen from the Swan River or. as in this photo, from the Kings Park scarp above, the Old Swan Brewery is a handsome part of Perth's architectural heritage.
Three exposure stitch.
Skala Old Harbor on the west coast of Santorini, Greece, is one of two main entry points for visitors to the island.
Torekällberget, Södertälje, Sweden.
Old Cash Register at the Patonska house. Through the trade stall, the visitors also come to Södertälje City Museum, which has around 17,000 objects and about 90,000 images.
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