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Positive carbon holder drive screw inside a Peerless Magnarc carbon arc lamphouse. The screw drives a saddle carrying the holder leftward to maintain the position of the carbon end; a clutch allows the saddle to be moved back to the starting position to accommodate a fresh carbon.
Primrose-peerless flower [Narcissus x Medioluteus - Amaryllidaceae family] "April Beauty" - "Cemetery Ladies" "Loving Couples"
“Wind of the East, Wind of the West, wandering to and fro,
Chant your songs in our topmost boughs, that the sons of men may know
The peerless pine was the first to come, and the pine will be last to go!”
- from The Pines by Robert William Service
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Prompt Rusty - Did you know the chaffinch, with it’s rusty-chest, has the Latin name Fringilla coelebs. It means bachelor, because they tend to gather in all-male flocks. Example for my review of Nicholson's Peerless Watercolors at dwsh.co/PeerlessWatercolorReview
Thank you for all your comments on my images recently. I do appreciate them all even though I can not reply to them in a timely way as I would like.
Next up for my Wobbly Camera project is this wobbled one of Clevedon Pier. The pier was described as the finest in England by Sir John Betjeman who used to be Poet Laureate - the Queen’s poet.
Piers became fashionable in Victorian England as the workers in the factories of the Industrial Revolution went on holidays, often for the first time, to seaside resorts using the newly established steam rail network.
Clevedon is a small seaside town a few miles south of Bristol on the southern bank of the Severn Estuary. It was a very popular destination for the workers in the steel industry and other heavy industries in South Wales on the other bank of the river estuary.
Some piers were used for entertainments for the holidaymakers but Clevedon was used as a ferry landing. Not many piers still survive. Many have been damaged beyond repair by violent storms or had been destroyed by fires.
Today Clevedon is a pleasant seaside town that never grew too big for itself and retains much of its charm. This image was taken in July when I went down to meet a good friend for coffee and a chat. It was a lovely day and an opportunity to wander about afterwards wobbling away…
All the texture in the image comes from the wobbling - I used a circular movement with a bit of up and down as you can see. I like the instant painterly effect that you get with these ICMs.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy 100x :)
A quick upload of some photographs taken in the wonderful Museum of Making (I’m still not happy about the name, it seems like ‘Industrial Musuem’ was too highbrow). Still, the exhibits and space are all ubër interesting. Of necessity I’m leaving the descriptions until later when I’ve more time…I’ve a dead laptop battery to replace first. Honestly, my MacBook Pro needs a new battery every 12 years, it’s just not good enough 😂
Its July 1987 Milwaukee Road crews giving out candy to the little children out of Peerless Candy on Milwaukee Road's Goose Island branch .At this time the Milwaukee Road MP-15 got painted in SOO LINE colors
Soo Geep 2406 in former Milwaukee Road territory; switching the street trackage at Peerless Confection on Lakewood on a very overcast June 1996 day.
The conductor is on the ground preparing to walk his short train across Webster Ave. northbound. A local resident returning from the grocery store walks alongside. They're on the Lakewood branch (a.k.a. C&E North Line) heading for Peerless Confection at Lakewood and Diversey.
Back in the day this was a multi-track right-of-way with a good deal of adjacent industry. By the time of this 1996 photo, new shopping centers and condos had squeezed out pretty much all but the Peerless Confection plant.
Soo Geep 2406 in former Milwaukee Road territory; switching the street trackage at Peerless Confection on Lakewood on a very overcast June 1996 day.
The Peerless, on the left, is the boat that takes visitors and crew over to Chantry Island in the summer, to climb the lighthouse, and tour the completely rebuilt and furnished lightkeeper's house... Originally constructed in 1859 .
The other boat, formerly a Boston fire boat, is privately owned... It does some marine research in the area.