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Engineer on a NB CN train has his hands in wide receiver form, as he catches the orders at JB tower.
A Western Maryland Railway conductor picks up his orders as the train rolls by a clerk at Hagerstown, MD, on 5-21-76. You gotta love the 1970s clothing styles, which was largely ignored by the older train crews.
Wagon and Horses I think has had its day, another sad demise of a country pub.
Panorama of 4 images stitched together in lightroom and finished off in photoshop.
Hand held using the pocket rocket the Sony Rx100 mk1
When the Engineer grabbed his orders both of the hoops fell, so there was nothing for the hind end crew to do but watch as they went by. Don't know if they backed up or the headend read them over the radio.
The trainman on the Milwaukee Road bay window caboose of this westbound train snatches train orders from the hoop at B-17, in September 1983.
Small scene featuring several of my latest builds.
This is the first time I've build a larger scene, so I hope it doesn't suck to much :)
Suggestions for improvement are appreciated.
-Simon
MMID 2060 passes the obviously out of order Train Order indicator at the Western Maryland Railway museum in Union Bridge while pulling some traffic for headroom after arriving from Emory Grove.
Colonel Sir Andrew Howe of the Queens Own Foot Guards discusses new orders with Captain William Bradley.
Another quick vig to continue the Corlander story in response to developments in Brethern of the Brick Seas.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) — As the province marks a grim milestone — recording 100 cases of COVID-19 in a single day for the first time — B.C.’s health minister warns that increased enforcement of public health orders is on the way.
Adrian Dix stressed that indoor, private parties are the “greatest danger” as the majority of new cases continue to stem from these events, and present in people between 20 and 40 years old.
“We are continuing to review what can be done about those, we are continuing to engage with people and discourage people from hosting such gatherings,” he said.
“We can not let a few wreck it for everybody else and that is the reason why action is being taken.”
A cross-ministry meeting was held earlier Monday, according to Dix “to map out a more comprehensive approach to increase enforcement.”
The engineer on Milwaukee Road / Nortran F40C 54 is grabbing the orders from the operator at Rondout in April 1976.
When stagecoach acquired GM buses South they piled new vehicles into the fleet consisting of Volvo B10M/Alexander PSs and Olympians. This photograph was typical of the garages after the orange has been eradicated with wall to wall Olympians and PSs. R761DRJ is No1 in the row, it was only 9 months old at the time of the photograph, later gained magicbus blue on demotion.
DB class 90 019 " Multimodal " passing Red Bank with the night mail at 8pm which is rarely loco hauled nowadays. Working 1M44 Shieldmuir - Willesden PRDC with a consist of 325 Royal Mail units. July 25th 2019.
W H Auden springs to mind......"This is the night mail crossing the border bringing the cheques and the postal orders"....
With their locomotive #30 slowed down to yard speed, the crew of the Texas State Railroad prepares to demonstrate the time-honored technique of "hooping orders" to the engine crew at the station in Maydelle, TX. Standing on the platform, holding the hoop is crewman Greg Udolph, playing the part of our Stationmaster. The train orders he intends to pass to the crew can be seen as a folded piece of paper, tied or clipped onto strings stretched across the hoop. In the gangway on the locomotive, a crew member, in this case, Fireman Steve Lerro, stands ready to grab the hoop on the fly as the train runs past the platform. Over the years, a number of techniques and hoop designs were used. In some cases, the orders were tied in a slip knot and would be pulled loose by the cab crew, with the hoop remaining in the hands of the man on the ground. In other cases, the entire hoop would be grabbed and simply discarded overboard, once the document was retrieved.
This image was captured during an April, 2019 photo shoot on the Texas State Railroad, which featured the former Tremont & Gulf Mikado #30, lettered in the livery of the Louisiana short line that first owned her.
The North Auckland Line's daily train no.126 has paused at Waitakere to await a track warrant to proceed north to Helensville and beyond
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Serra da Arrábida - Setúbal - Portugal
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Been here 40 years said and done
running this place out of the ground
fighting change, avoiding system
Just comes a point when your just here anyway like
it don't last forever though this slide
although it's too late for his union
don't stay in one place too long
his trusted council, twisted fate
as he leaves with his old tatted case
last orders called on him this time round
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Battle of Princeton 249th Anniversary reenactment.
(**In full disclosure, I am unaware of whether or not these reenactors are representing Maxwell's New Jersey Brigade - it was with a quick dig online that I discovered the origin of this flag. After an hour or two of reading about Brigadier General William Maxwell, his career, issues with other officers, and actions during this conflict, I have yet to find mention of them being at Princeton. I would like to keep digging and reading, but this will have to be for later. That being said, I found the flag of Maxwell's New Jersey Brigade to be quite striking, and I wanted to include this photo in the set.)
Maxwell's New Jersey Brigade Flag
"This flag design is taken from a tiny detail on a map of Sullivan's campaign against the Iroquois Confederacy in 1779.
It is unclear whether one or all of the regiments in Maxwell's Brigade (1st NJ, 2nd NJ, 3rd NJ, and Spencer's Additional Regiment) carried this flag, or whether it was a brigade-level flag.
George Washington does mention a brigade flag and division flag in his general orders in 1780."
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Patriots Day dress rehearsal 2023
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K’hall wiped his mouth and sat back, weighing everything Reyka had just revealed. At last he met Reyka’s eyes. “What do you need us to do?” he asked. “I will need everything you know about these Horocyclians.”
“That will be provided,” Reyka said. “My team is translating an ancient codex that deals with them. We expect that will add substantially to what we know now”
He folded his hands. “Your first task is to make contact with the two humans. Have them take you to the temple.”
Reyka’s tone darkened. “If the situation is as they described, you’ll locate the creatures and determine what stage of development they are in. That will tell us how critical the situation is. Their metamorphosis spans centuries—possibly millennia. It sounds as though the larvae have already emerged from their gestation chambers, but beyond that, we know nothing.”
He continued, “We have detected no signs of a harvesting operation. That suggests they may still be in what we would classify as the nymph stage—far easier to eliminate than fully matured adults.”
“Nymph stage?” K’hall frowned. “What kind of creatures are these?”
“Insects,” Reyka said. “Large. Ravenous. And disturbingly intelligent.”
Bext stiffened, trying not to show her revulsion.
“We believe the nymphs develop to adults in water,” Reyka added. “The codex should confirm it. You will need to search for a pool—possibly within the temple itself.”
K’hall leaned forward. “And the portal you mentioned?”
“Ah. Yes.” Reyka’s expression tightened. “Inside the tomb. Use caution around it. It is likely guarded—and they may be able to observe anything that happens within the chamber.”
~~~Later ~~~~
“I have just come from the Supreme Council,” K’hall said, voice low. “Since our assignment is to guard Earth, our orders are the Horocyclian infestation must be erased—utterly—no matter the cost. Nothing unexpected. What did you learn in the command briefing?”
“Command has authorized a full flight,” Bext answered. “Ramva2, 8, and 9 will run with us. Those crews were in the brief. Axiom10 will transport us across dimensions and drop us within Earth’s reach in four Earth hours."
She continued. "Intelligence provided a data chip —everything they know about the Horocyclians. I’ll load it into the ship’s core once we are aboard. We will have time to study the essentials before launch. Avhol is preparing our ship now.”
Signal lights flickered. K’hall paused, gaze narrowing down the long hangar walkway.
“They’re already towing our ship into launch position,” he murmured. “Looks like our departure’s been advanced. We need to go.”
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This Caetano Algarve bodied Bedford YNV has been a well known cafe at Brightwell on the A12 for some 18 years. However with road changes and a major new housing development happening, it has now closed and will be removed very shortly - the surrounding trees and vegitation have already been cut down. New as C317 GRL to Brown & Davies of Truro and possibly the last Algrave left?
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LAKHTA
.This small village on the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland, about 15 km northwest of the city, is home to human settlements on the banks of the Neva. It was on the territory of Lakhta that the remains of a man’s parking site of three thousand years ago were found.
In official documents, a settlement named Lakhta dates back to 1500. The name is derived from the Finnish-speaking word lahti - "bay". This is one of the few settlements that has not changed its name throughout its 500-year history. Also known as Laches, Lahes-by, Lahes and was originally inhabited by Izhora. In the last decades of the 15th century, Lakhta was a village (which indicates a significant population) and was the center of the eponymous grand-parish volost, which was part of the Spassko-Gorodensky graveyard of the Orekhovsky district of the Vodskaya Pyatina. In the village, there were 10 courtyards with 20 people (married men). In Lakhta, on average, there were 2 families per yard, and the total population of the village probably reached 75 people.
From the notes on the margins of the Swedish scribe book of the Spassky graveyard of 1640, it follows that the lands along the lower reaches of the Neva River and parts of the Gulf of Finland, including Lakhta Karelskaya, Perekulya (from the Finnish “back village”, probably because of its position relative to Lakhti) and Konduy Lakhtinsky, were royal by letter of honor on January 15, 1638 transferred to the possession of the Stockholm dignitary, Rickschulz general Bernhard Sten von Stenhausen, a Dutchman by birth. On October 31, 1648, the Swedish government granted these lands to the city of Nyuen (Nyenschanz). With the arrival of the Swedes in Prievye, Lakhta was settled by the Finns, who until the middle of the 20th century made up the vast majority of the villagers.
On December 22, 1766, Catherine 2 granted Lakhta Manor, which was then in the Office of the Chancellery from the buildings of palaces and gardens, "in which and in her villages with courtyards 208 souls," her favorite Count Orlov. Not later than 1768, Count J.A. Bruce took over the estate. In 1788, Lakhta Manor was listed behind him with wooden services on a dry land (high place) and the villages Lakhta, Dubki, Lisiy Nos and Konnaya belonging to it also on dry land, in those villages of male peasants 238 souls. On May 1, 1813, Lakhta passed into the possession of the landowners of the Yakovlevs. On October 5, 1844, Count A.I. Stenbok-Fermor entered into the possession of the Lakhtinsky estate, which then had 255 male souls. This clan was the owner of the estate until 1912, when its last representative got into debt and noble custody was established over the estate. On October 4, 1913, in order to pay off his debts, he was forced to go for corporatization, and the Lakhta estate passed into the ownership of the Joint Stock Company “Lakhta” of Count Stenbock-Fermor and Co.
After the revolution, Lakhta was left on its own for a while, here on the former estate of the counts Stenbock-Fermorov on May 19, 1919, the Lakhta excursion station was opened, which existed there until 1932. In the early 1920s, sand mining began on Lakhta beaches, and the abandoned and dilapidated peat plant of the Lakhta estate in 1922 took over the Oblzemotdel and put it into operation after major repairs. In 1963, the village of Lakhta was included in the Zhdanovsky (Primorsky) district of Leningrad (St. Petersburg).
At the beginning of Lakhtinsky Prospekt, on the banks of the Lakhtinsky spill, there was the village of Rakhilax (Rahilax-hof, Rahila, Rokhnovo). Most likely, under this name only one or several courtyards are designated. There is an assumption that the name of the village was formed from the Finnish raahata - “drag, drag,” because there could be a place for transportation through the isthmus of the Lakhtinsky spill (we should not forget that not only the bridge over the channel connecting the spill with the Gulf of Finland was not yet here, the duct itself was many times wider than the current one). The search book of the Spassko-Gorodensky graveyard of 1573, describing the Lakhta lands, mentions that there were 2 lodges in the “Rovgunov” village, from which we can conclude that we are talking about the village of Rohilaks, which the Russian scribes remade into a more understandable to them Rovgunovo. The village was empty in Swedish time and was counted as a wasteland of the village of Lahta.
On the banks of the Lakhtinsky spill, near the confluence of the Yuntolovka River, from the 17th century there existed the village of Bobylka (Bobylskaya), which merged into the village of Olgino only at the beginning of the 20th century, but was found on maps until the 1930s. It is probably the Search Book that mentions it Spassko-Gorodensky churchyard in 1573 as a village "in Lakhta in Perekui", behind which there was 1 obzh. With the arrival of the Swedes by royal letter on January 15, 1638, the village was transferred to the possession of the Stockholm dignitary, Rickshaw General Bernhard Sten von Stenhausen, a Dutchman by birth. On October 31, 1648, the Swedish government granted Lahti lands to the city of Nyuen (Nyenschanz). On the Swedish map of the 1670s, in the place of the village of Bobylsky, the village of Lahakeülä is marked (küla - the village (Fin.)). The village could subsequently be called Bobyl from the Russian word "bobyl."
The owners of Bobylskaya were both Count Orlov, and Count Y. A. Bruce, and the landowners Yakovlev. In 1844, Count A.I. Stenbok-Fermor entered into the possession of the Lakhtinsky estate (which included the village of Bobyl). This family was the owner of the estate until 1913, when the owners, in order to pay off their debts, had to go for corporatization, and the Lakhta estate was transferred to the ownership of the Lakhta Joint-Stock Company of Count Stenbock-Fermor and Co. By the middle of the 20th century, the village merged with the village of Lakhta.
The name Konnaya Lakhta (Konnaya) has been known since the 16th century, although earlier it sounded like Konduya (Konduya Lakhtinskaya) or just Kondu (from the Finnish kontu - courtyard, manor). Subsequently, this name was replaced by the more familiar Russian ear with the word "Horse". In the Search Book of the Spassko-Gorodensky Pogost in 1573, it is mentioned as the village "on Kovdui", where 1 obzh was listed, which indicates that there most likely was one yard. On January 15, 1638, together with neighboring villages, it was transferred to the possession of the Stockholm dignitary, Rickschulz General Bernhard Steen von Stenhausen, of Dutch origin. On October 31, 1648, the Swedish government granted these lands to the city of Nyuen (Nyenschanz). In a deed of gift, Konduya Lakhtinskaya is called a village, which indicates a noticeable increase in its population. Later, on the Swedish map of the 1670s, on the site of the present Horse Lahti, the village of Konda-bai is marked (by - village (sv)).
The owners of Konnaya Lakhta, as well as the villages of Bobylskaya and Lakhta, were in turn Count Orlov, Count Ya. A. Bruce, and the landowners Yakovlev. In 1844, Count A.I. Stenbok-Fermor entered the possession of the Lakhta estate (which included Konnaya Lakhta. This family was the owner of the estate until 1913, when the owners had to go to corporations to pay off their debts, and the Lakhta estate became the property of Lakhta Joint Stock Company of Count Stenbock-Fermor and Co. In 1963, Horse Lahta was included in the Zhdanov (Primorsky) district of Leningrad (St. Petersburg).
As the dacha village of Olgino appeared at the end of the 19th century and initially consisted of both Olgin itself and the villages of Vladimirovka (now part of Lisiy Nos) and Aleksandrovka. In the first half of the 18th century, this territory was part of the Verpelev palace estate, which in the second half of the 18th century was granted to Count G. G. Orlov, then it was owned by the family of landowners the Yakovlevs, in the middle of the 19th century the estate was transferred to the counts of Stenbock-Fermor. In 1905 A.V. Stenbok-Fermor, the then owner of Lakhta lands, divided the lands around Lakhta into separate plots with the intention of selling them profitably for dachas. So there were the villages of Olgino (named after the wife of Olga Platonovna), Vladimirovka (in honor of the father of the owner; the coastal part of the modern village of Lisy Nos) and Alexandrov or Aleksandrovskaya (in honor of Alexander Vladimirovich himself). It is likely that on the site of the village was the village of Olushino (Olushino odhe) - a search book of the Spassko-Gorodensky churchyard in 1573 mentions that there were 1 obzh in the village of Olushkov’s, which suggests that at least one residential the yard. On behalf of Olushka (Olpherius). Most likely, the village was deserted in Swedish time and then was already listed as a wasteland belonging to the village of Lahta. Thus, the name of the village could be given in harmony with the name of the mistress and the old name of the village.
The villages were planned among a sparse pine forest (the layout was preserved almost unchanged), so there were more amenities for living and spending time there than in Lakhta. A park was set up here, a summer theater, a sports ("gymnastic") playground, a tennis court, and a yacht club were arranged.
In the 1910s about 150 winter cottages were built in Olgino, many of which are striking monuments of "summer cottage" architecture. In 1963, the village of Olgino was included in the Zhdanovsky (Primorsky) district of Leningrad (St. Petersburg).
Near Olgino, in the area of the Dubki park, there was a small village Verpeleva (Verpelevo), which consisted of only a few yards. In the first half of the XVIII century. this territory was part of the palace estate "Verpeleva", which in the second half of the XVIII century. It was granted to Count G. G. Orlov, then passed to the Counts of Stenbock-Fermor. The village has not existed for a long time, but the entire reed-covered peninsula (barely protruding above the water of the Verpier-Luda peninsula (Verper Luda (from the Finnish luoto - “small rocky island”)) still existed, and there was another spelling the name of this island is Var Pala Ludo).
Kamenka. The Novgorod scribal book mentions two villages in the Lakhta region with a similar name, referring to the possessions of Selivan Zakharov, son of Okhten, with his son and 5 other co-owners. On the lands of this small patrimony, which, unlike the estate was inherited, peasants lived in 3 villages, including: the village "Kamenka in Lakhta near the sea" in 5 yards with 5 people and arable land in 1,5 obzhi, the village "on Kamenka "in 2 courtyards with 2 people and arable land in 1 obzhu. For the use of land, the peasants paid the owners of the patrimony 16 money and gave 1/3 of the rye harvest. Thus, in the 16th century on the Kamenka River (another name for the Kiviyoki River, which is the literal translation of kivi - "stone", joki - "river") there was one large village of Kamenka near its confluence with the Lakhtinsky spill and the second, smaller, somewhere upstream. On the drawing of Izhora land in 1705, a village under this name is depicted in the area of the modern village of Kamenka. The village of Kamennaya in the middle reaches of Kamenka and on the map of 1792 is designated. Other name options are Kaumenkka, Kiviaja.
In the second half of the 18th century, Kamenka became a vacation spot for Russian Germans. Here in 1865, German colonists founded their "daughter" colony on leased land. Since then, the village has received the name Kamenka Colony (so called until the 1930s). In 1892, a colony near the village of Volkovo "budded" from it. The inhabitants of both colonies belonged to the Novo-Saratov parish and since 1871 had a prayer house in Kamenka, which was visited by 250 people. He maintained a school for 40 students. The house was closed in 1935 and later demolished.
Currently, Kamenka exists as a holiday village, located along the road to Levashovo. Since 1961 - in the city, part of the planning area in the North-West, from the mid-1990s. built up with multi-storey residential buildings and cottages.
Volkovo. The settlement is about southeast of the village of Kamenka - on the old road to Kamenka, on the bank of a stream that flows into Kamenka between the village of Kamenka and the Shuvalovsky quarry. In 1892, a German colony emerged on the territory of the village, "budding" from a nearby colony in the village of Kamenka. The origin of Volkovo is not clear, the village is found only on maps of 1912, 1930, 1939, 1943. and probably appeared no earlier than the 19th century.
Kolomyagi. Scribe books of the XV — XVI centuries and Swedish plans testify that small settlements already existed on the site of Kolomyag. Most likely, these were first Izhora or Karelian, then Finnish farms, which were empty during the hostilities of the late XVII century.
The name "Kolomyag" connoisseurs decipher in different ways. Some say that it came from the "colo" - in Finnish cave and "pulp" - a hill, a hill. The village is located on the hills, and such an interpretation is quite acceptable. Others look for the root of the name in the Finnish word "koaa" - bark - and believe that trees were processed here after felling. Another version of the origin of the name from the Finnish "kello" is the bell, and it is associated not with the feature of the mountain, but with the "bell on the mountain" - a tower with a signal bell standing on a hill.
The owners of Kolomyazhsky lands were Admiral General A.I. Osterman, Count A.P. Bestuzhev-Ryumin, a family of Volkonsky. In 1789, the Volkonskys sold these lands to retired colonel Sergei Savvich Yakovlev. On his estate S. S. Yakovlev built a manor and lived in it with his wife and seven daughters. The once-Finnish population of Kolomyag was “Russified” by that time - it was made up of descendants of serfs resettled by Osterman and Bestuzhev-Rumin from their villages in Central Russia (natives of the Volga and Galich) and Ukraine. Then the name "Kellomyaki" began to sound in Russian fashion - "Kolomyagi", although later the old name also existed, especially among local Finns. And not without reason the indigenous Kolomozhites associate their origin with the Volga places, and the southern half of the village is now called “Galician”.
Yakovlev died in 1818. Five years after his death, a division of the territory of the manor was made. The village of Kolomyagi was divided in half between two of his daughters. The border was the Bezymyanny stream. The southeastern part of the village of Kolomyagi beyond Bezymyanny creek and a plot on the banks of the Bolshaya Nevka passed to the daughter Ekaterina Sergeevna Avdulina.
Daughter Yakovleva Elena Sergeevna - the wife of General Alexei Petrovich Nikitin, a hero of the Patriotic War of 1812, who was awarded the highest military orders and twice a gold sword with the inscription "For courage", died early, leaving her daughter Elizabeth. The northwestern part of Kolomyag inherited the young Elizabeth, so this part of Kolomyag was practically inherited by the father of Yakovlev’s granddaughter, Count A.P. Nikitin, who in 1832 became the owner of the entire village. It is his name that is stored in the names of the streets - 1st and 2nd Nikitinsky and Novo-Nikitinsky. The new owner built a stone mansion on the estate’s estate - an excellent example of classicism of the first third of the 19th century, which became his country house and has survived to this day and has been occupied until recently by the Nursing Home. It is believed that this mansion was built according to the project of the famous architect A.I. Melnikov. The severity and modesty of the architectural appearance of the facades and residential chambers of the Nikitin mansion was opposed by the splendor of ceremonial interiors, in particular the two-light dance hall with choirs for musicians. Unfortunately, with repeated alterations and repairs, many details of the decor and stucco emblems of the owners disappeared. Only two photographs of the 1920s and preserved fragments of ornamental molding and paintings on the walls and ceiling show the past richness of the decorative decoration of this architectural monument. The mansion was surrounded by a small park. In it stood a stone pagan woman brought from the southern steppes of Russia (transferred to the Hermitage), and a pond with a plakun waterfall was built. Near the pond there was a "walk of love" from the "paradise" apple trees - it was called so because the bride and groom passed through it after the wedding. Here, in the shadow of these apple trees, young lovers made appointments.
Under the Orlov-Denisov opposite the mansion (now Main Street, 29), the structures of an agricultural farm were erected, partially preserved to this day, and the greenhouse. Behind the farm were the master's fields. On them, as the New Time newspaper reported in August 1880, they tested the reaping and shearing machines brought from America.
In the 19th century, the provincial surveyor Zaitsev submitted for approval the highway called the Kolomyagskoye Shosse. The route was supposed to connect the village, gradually gaining fame as a summer residence of the "middle arm", with St. Petersburg. The construction of the road ended in the 1840s, and then horse-drawn and country-house crafts became the most important articles of peasant income. In addition, peasants either built small dachas in their yards, or rented their huts for the summer. Located away from the roads, surrounded by fields, the village was chosen by multi-family citizens.
The income from the summer cottage industry increased from year to year, which was facilitated by the summer movement of omnibuses that opened on the new highway from the City Council building. They walked four times a day, each accommodated 16 people, the fare cost 15 kopecks. Even when the Finnish Railway with the nearest Udelnaya station came into operation in 1870, the highway remained the main access road through which public carriages pulled by a trio of horses ran from the Stroganov (now Ushakovsky) bridge.
Grant has been good at keeping an eye on the peeps and Ruffles, our broody hen. Today, though, it has been so hot he has spent the majority of his time flopped out on the floor. ;)
A CMR brakeman walks to his train on the morning of Sept 23, 2012... In reality, Montana Rail Link engineer and railfan David Franz poses for a picture with some imitation CMR train orders. Photo by Justin Franz.
Cleopatra's Needle
It was originally erected in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis on the orders of Thutmose III, around 1450 BC. In 1819, Muhammad Ali Pasha gave Britain the obelisk as a gift. However, Britain's prime minister at the time, Lord Liverpool, hesitated on having it brought to the country due to shipping expenses. It remained in Alexandria until October 1877 when its transport to London was funded by William James Erasmus Wilson.
Shell-Mex House
Shell Mex House is a grade II listed building located at number 80 Strand in London, England. The building was opened in 1932 on the site of the Hotel Cecil and stands behind the original façade of the hotel, between the Adelphi building and the Savoy Hotel. Broadly Art Deco in style, it was designed by Frances Milton Cashmore of the architectural firm of Messrs Joseph.
Standing 190 ft tall, with 537,000 sq ft of floor space, Shell Mex House has 12 floors (plus basement and sub-basement) and is immediately recognizable from the River Thames and the South Bank by the clock positioned on the south side of the building (flanked by two large, hieratic figures at the south corners in marble by the sculptor William Charles Holland King). The clock, which was known for a time as "Big Benzene", has the biggest clock face in the UK, at 7.62 metres in diameter, just 0.02 metres more than the clocks on the Liver Building in Liverpool; it was supplied by Gillett & Johnston of Croydon. The building faces the river and the Strand.
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