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Fenland Haulage DAF XF coupled to three axle tipper trailer unloading at the Nestle Purina pet food factory at Sudbury
Project 365 - Take one photo each day.
How marvellous they decided to name this splendid fountain after me!
Seriously though, The Ross Fountain was installed in West Princes Street Gardens in 1872.
It was cast near Paris, France in the Durenne ironworks in the early 1860's. It was an exhibit in the Great Exhibition in London in 1862 and was purchased for Edinburgh by Daniel Ross a local gun maker and philanthropist.
It was transported to Leith and arrived in September 1872 in 122 pieces and after great dileberation as to where to put it, it was finally assembled in its current location, where it has remained ever since.
The gold coloured iron structure shows a standing naked woman at the top surrounded by four more seated naked nymphettes representing the arts, science, poetry and industry. Below the first tier are a collection of mermaids.
The celebration of the naked female is typical of classical French design, but it wasn't appreciated by everyone, Dean Ramsay (1793 - 1872) whose church, St. John's was near by called the fountain "grossly indecent and disgusting"
The flow of water was disrupted by broken pipework and was dry for over five years until in 2001 a partnership with The City of Edinburgh Council and East of Scotland Water
carried out repairs and allowed the fountain to be displayed in it's full working glory.
The Ross fountain is now a 'B' listed structure of historic importance.
I decided to go for a slightly jaunty off-centre composition on this one (the rule of thirds!)
This Irish clay pipe bowl carries the maker's imprint CITY OF DUBLIN PIPEWORKS of 3 MULLINAHACK and there is another pipe bowl of the same address that displays the name G Brown, 3 Mullenahack, Dublin. The name Mullinahack (Mullenahack) is an old and defunct name for an area within the Dublin Liberties on the southside of the city.
Thoms Directory of 1871 lists George Brown as a pipe-maker at 3 Mullinahack.
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Height: 1 ½” (38mm)
Widest width: 1 1/8” (29mm)
Inside diameter: ¾” (20mm)
Find location: Mulllingar, County Westmeath.
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visionsofthepastblog.com/2012/09/03/vanished-dublin-1-mul... (Short article about Mullinahack (Mullenahack) which was an industrial area located just outside the old city walls of Dublin between Thomas Street and the Oliver Bond Street flats complex. However, the name of Mullinahack had vanished from maps of Dublin by the early 20th century and very little has survived recent redevelopments. This links includes 19th century photos of the streets within Mullinhack and a map image.)
Held on the paved grounds inside the Pipeworks market complex, which are soon to be demolished to make way for another large business, car enthusiasts from around the area gather together and present a snapshot to the locals and shopping public with what we regard as our own form of art and culture.
While this show is small in statue, it’s band of loyal followers with their diversity of classic and unique rides sees that it gives a great insight to a public audience who wouldn’t normally have the opportunity to view this scene, a chance to take in the restored and modified car scene in all its glory.
More pics found here: capricephotography.wordpress.com/
Changing the fluid in the solar hot water system. Should be done once every 5 years or so. The pipework is quite convoluted so to eliminated trapped wind I siphon the fluid in through a very slim tube which takes a while. Old curtains over the panel as it was yet another bright warm sunny day so that they don't start to boil the liquid before I'm ready to pressurise the system and seal it up. The panels themselves were "professionally" (ho-ho-my-arse) fitted when new as that was the only way to get hold of the not inconsiderable subsidy at the time. So professional that there is no way of draining old fluid from the panels save to take them off the roof and turn them upside down. I flush through repeatedly with water and then evict the water with a blast of compressed air as an interim solution.
If there is a next time i'd feel quite happy about installing the whole kit'n caboodle myself. Possibly even with one of those systems that drains down at the end of each day so one doesn't have to use an anti-freeze solution - propylene glycol in this case.
Pipeworks member Leo Lopez took this shot that won him a free months membership dues as well as having the photo published in the Fall 2012 issue of California Climber
Jim Adie of Sunderland machining the flanges of iron pipes on a horizontal boring machine. The rollers on the floor allowed the pipes to be moved as the cutting head was fixed. The work was done at Aiton Pipeworks in Southwick. December 1965
Yesterday, myself, Marian (abstract_effects), Rob (Rob Hudson) and Sandeah (Sandeah Lynch) went for a little adventure to the Mid-Wales Asylum in Talgarth.
When we got there, Sandeha managed to persuade the site-manager to let us take pictures around the outside of the site.
Had we have not listened to the site manager and actually gone in, this might have been one of the shots I might have taken ;P