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I have been studying and writing about apparitions and mystics for over 40 years now. I have personally met five mystics who have had true mystical experiences, two from God and three from demonic sources. I wrote the first book on one of these mystics and the only book approved by the bishop. It was because of Padre Pio and Fatima that I came back to the Church and from exorcisms and mystics that I learned to know the true from the false regarding revelations. True apparitions and mystics do not give any new knowledge to the deposit of faith but sometimes they do give better understanding, proof, and devotion to what we should already know.
Guadalupe supported the Church against the Protestant Reformation and Martin Luther. Bernadette of Lourdes supported a controversial doctrine given earlier by the Holy Father regarding the Immaculate Conception and proved it with miracles. Our Lady of Fatima came to warn us and save us from Communism. Padre Pio came to give us greater devotion to Christ in the Mass and understanding of need for Confession. Tre Fountain was heaven’s way of teaching the errors of Protestantism.
One of these mystics was Anne Catherine Emmerich, now Blessed, who God used to counter Nazism, Secularism, Evolution, Atheism, and Agnosticism. Because she came at a critical time in history of the many false Philosophies of the time, she needed to be armed by God with the most evidence of the truth she would communicate.
Atheism and Communism were spreading throughout the world from the Latin Quarter of France and thanks to the printing press it covered the world quickly. Solid evidence against these trends was needed in the world backed by proof of their validity. To support the infallibility and historicity of the Bible and the unity of the Catholic Church, God chose a woman who could not read or write. She was able to become a nun simply because she could play the organ and the convent needed an organist. In the convent she was the wash woman and organist.
Soon after God sent to her (guides) Guardian Angels to take her back in time with visions and teachings so that she understood the creation, test and fall of the Bad Angels, the reason for the creation of the world, the fall of man, and his redemption. Almost every mystery of the Bible was explained to her and she saw details that are not found in the bible.
She even saw the details of the clothes people wore, the symbolisms of the events, and the meaning of each historical event. When the time came for her to write all this down God sent to her, The Pilgrim, as she called him. Brentano was one of the best writers of the time, but he had drifted away from the Church and was becoming a Pluralist. Listening to and writing down Emmerich’s visions, sometimes as they were happening, Brentano converted back to the faith and became her biggest advocate. He wrote volumes and volumes of her revelations until they covered every shelf and table of his home.
Today, after 150 years, only a small portion of Emmerich’s revelations have been published and in English those can be purchased at Tan Books and Publishing. For those who have read them and forgotten them I plead with you to do as I have, read them over and over again. When I study the Bible I read it with the Fundamentals of Catholic Doctrine, a Bible Dictionary - Thesauruses, a Greek – English translator, and Emmerich’s books. Nothing has given me more understanding of the historicity and truth of the Bible than Emmerich, and the Early Church Fathers.
Emmerich’s Proof
What Emmerich did for me the most was take away all doubt regarding the Bible and the Church. God backed up her revelations with one of the most documented stigmatas in history, with short term prophesies, with miraculous cures, reading and understanding the minds and souls of others, discernment of true and false relics, and revelations of the locations of things and places lost to archeologists. She saw visions of the future with its blessings and curses.
Using the revelations of Emmerich, Heinrich Schliemann discovered the Chaldean’s City of Ur. Using the books of Emmerich over a 100 years after her death two Lazarist priests from Smyrna, Fathers Poulin and Yung, determined to check the authenticity of Sister Emmerich.
Emmerich had described the exact location of Our Lady’s house in Ephesus and her death and bodily resurrection from that place. Every detail was given in her revelations, to the location, to its size, its interior, a cave next to it, the stations of the Cross John built for Her, the later Basilica built for Her there, the cave of John’s death and his Basilica, all in Ephesus.
After five days' search in the mountains south of the ancient city the two priests were led by some natives of the region to a small ruined building near the summit of an isolated peak. The site and the plan of the house corresponded accurately to Sister Emmerich's description (See Vol. IV, pp. 451-455). The explorers learned that the place had been locally venerated since time immemorial by villagers descended from the early Christians of Ephesus, who called it Panaya Kapulu, "The House of the Holy Virgin", and who made annual pilgrimages there on the Feast of the Assumption.
Later two Americans, a husband and wife, rebuilt the house back to its original form as described by Emmerich
Ephesus became, in fact, the great Marian city of the primitive Church, the site of the earliest known basilica built in honor of the Mother of God. In this same church the Council of Ephesus (431) defined the first Marian dogma, that of the Theotokos or Divine Maternity. During the 63 years since the discovery many archaeological investigations as well as several new discoveries in the neighborhood have confirmed the authenticity of Panaya Kapulu.
Not far from the house the Christian cave-settlement and the ruins of the palace described by Sister Emmerich have also been found. In 1954 the Little Brothers of Jesus accepted the post of serving at Panaya Kapulu, now known as the Shrine of Our Lady of the Assumption.
When the Christians were driven from Jerusalem, St. John came to Ephesus together with the Blessed Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene. A large group of Christian people came with them. St. John settled in Ephesus. He did not move from there, except when he was forced to go in exile on the nearby island of Patmios. Thus, Ephesus and Asia Minor became the very place where the Apostles and the first Christians, after having left the Holy Land, reorganized their forces and prepared themselves for their apostolate to the West.
The body of St. John was not found. The Manna became since then the main characteristic of the Apostle's tomb. Every now and then, it was reported, the Manna came out from the tomb. The body of St. Mary Magdalene was transferred from Ephesus to France. The Basilica of Saint John, in its full length of 428 feet, occupies the entire width of the hill at that place, and, like all oriental Churches have to be built, covers exactly the axis East-West making thus, with the length of the hill, a geometrically perfect right angle of 45 degrees. St. Mary's Basilica at Ephesus is some 857 feet long.
Then it was that the Blessed Virgin who until that time had dwelt in the small house near the Crenaculum and in Bethania, allowed herself to be conducted by John to the region of Ephesus, where the Christians had already made settlements.
He had built for her a dwelling of stone very similar to her own at Nazareth and he help the Blessed Virgin erect the first Stations of the Holy Way of the Cross
After Mary had lived three years in the settlement near Ephesus she visited Jerusalem with John and Peter. Several Apostles were there assembled. It was the first Council, and Mary assisted the Apostles with her advice.
A year and a half before her death, she made one more journey from Ephesus to Jerusalem, and She again visited the Holy Places. She was unspeakably sorrowful, and Her companions thought her dying. When She recovered sufficient strength, She journeyed back to Ephesus where, a year and a half later, She did indeed die. The tomb prepared for her on Mount Olivet was ever after held in reverence, and at a later period a church was built over it. This is why some did not believe Emmerich’s vision that Mary lived and died in Ephesus.
More Emmerich to be Discovered
Nobody seems to have noticed that Emmerich also describes the exact location of a treasure in the walls of Santa Maria Maggiore (Rome): relics, writings from the first Christians and the original painting of the Virgin by Saint Luke (miraculously finished).Emmerich also describes a real treasure in a Judean city in Ethiopia which, so far has not been discovered.
Emmerick gives a detailed map of Jerusalem and places where Jesus had traveled. She also gives hints to the exact location of important places and relics. A Benedictine priest at the D.C. Abbey of St. Anselm, following Emmerich’s writings, discovered new sites in the Holy Land as she described them.
Emmerich's calendar system plotted Julian, Gregorian, Roman and Jewish calendars against astronomical data: I am sure that all the dates and moon phases she gives align perfectly, something really hard in our time and quite impossible in her time. A study of this would give us exact dates of the important Catholic feasts (Immaculate Conception, Incarnation, Nativity, etc.).
Consider that Emmerich describes in detail the story of hundreds of relics and the locations of religious treasures such as: The Holy Grail, Lignum Crucis, Crown of thorns and nails used in the Crucifixion, The sacred spear, Hair of Blessed Virgin Mary, Hand of Blessed Virgin Mary stamped in the rock, Stone miraculously engraved in Saint Peter’s, Nuptial ring of Blessed Virgin Mary, House of the Sacred Family, House of Saint John and Mary in Ephesus, Miraculous spring/fountain asked by our Mother in Egypt, Miraculous paintings and images of our Lord and our Mother, House of Saint Peter, House of Saint Paul, Body and head of John the Baptist, Body of Saint Catherine stamped in the rock, Arc of the Covenant and hundreds of etc.
Each relic and place can be directly linked to a Bible passage or Tradition and will raise more trust in the scriptures, the Church, as well as Emmerick/Brentano writings. All or most of the above could be found just by studying the writings of Emmerich.
An old machine, probably about 70 or 80 years old or more and used for printing propaganda leaflets and single page newspapers. Possibly a wartime memorial?
Arrived at last! Currently sitting in the box-room awaiting new rollers and runners (and a fresh bale of padding on the platen). Everything else seems to be in order though, and we can't wait to start printing (we plan to use it for printing both letterpress and wood engravings). The chase that's loaded in this picture came already set up with the press and needs to be dismantled again. The little green packet on the bottom right contains several very rusty gauge pins.
Hill's Cigarettes "Scientific Inventions & Discoveries" issued in 1929.
#32 William Caxton and the printing press
On display in the New York City Public Library is a Gutenberg Bible.
Considered to be a critical milestone of human civilization, Gutenberg Bibles were printed in 1454 or 1455. They were the first major books mass produced using a movable type printing press. Previously, book production was done by slow and laborious hand copying.
On a strange note, a representation of this book was in the 2004 science fiction movie "The Day After Tomorrow." Finding refuge in the NYC Public Library during a modern Ice Age, one actor clutched a replica of this Bible to prevent the other survivors from burning it for warmth.
In New York City, on 1-30-16.
"The B&O Railroad Museum is a museum and historic railway station exhibiting historic railroad equipment in Baltimore, Maryland. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) company originally opened the museum on July 4, 1953, with the name of the Baltimore & Ohio Transportation Museum. It has been called one of the most significant collections of railroad treasures in the world and has the largest collection of 19th-century locomotives in the U.S. The museum is located in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's old Mount Clare Station and adjacent roundhouse, and retains 40 acres of the B&O's sprawling Mount Clare Shops site, which is where, in 1829, the B&O began America's first railroad and is the oldest railroad manufacturing complex in the United States.
Mount Clare is considered to be a birthplace of American railroading, as the site of the first regular railroad passenger service in the U.S., beginning on May 22, 1830. It was also to this site that the first telegraph message, "What hath God wrought?" was sent on May 24, 1844, from Washington, D.C., using Samuel Morse's electric telegraph.
The museum houses collections of 19th- and 20th-century artifacts related to America's railroads. The collection includes 250 pieces of railroad rolling stock, 15,000 artifacts, 5,000 cubic feet (140 m3) of archival material, four significant 19th-century buildings, including the historic roundhouse, and a mile of track, considered the most historic mile of railroad track in the United States. Train rides are offered on the mile of track on Wednesday through Sunday from April through December and on weekends in January. In 2002, the museum had 160,000 visitors annually.
The museum also features an outdoor G-scale layout, two indoor HO scale model, and a wooden model train for children to climb on. From Thanksgiving through the New Year, local model railroad groups set up large layouts on the roundhouse floor and in select locations on the grounds of the museum. A museum store offers toys, books, DVDs, and other railroad-related items.
The museum and station were designated as a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1961. In 2008, the museum won three awards in Nickelodeon's Parents' Picks Awards in the categories of Best Museum for Little Kids, Best Indoor Playspace for Little Kids, and Best Indoor Playspace for Big Kids. Television and film actor Michael Gross is the museum's "celebrity spokesman".
The museum definitively documented 24 Freedom Seekers that used the B&O Railroad on their journeys on the Underground Railroad - 8 of which traveled through the museum's historic site of Mount Clare. In 2021, the museum's Mt Clare Station building was designated as a National Park Service Underground Railroad Network to Freedom site.
The museum also hosts an annual Day out with Thomas event every year, complete with the train's excursion including a non-powered Thomas the Tank Engine replica.
Baltimore (/ˈbɔːltɪmɔːr/ BAWL-tim-or, locally: /bɔːldəˈmɔːr/ bawl-da-MOR or /ˈbɔːlmər/ BAWL-mər) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic, and the 30th most populous city in the United States with a population of 585,708 in 2020. Baltimore was designated an independent city by the Constitution of Maryland in 1851, and today is the most populous independent city in the United States. As of 2021, the population of the Baltimore metropolitan area was estimated to be 2,838,327, making it the 20th largest metropolitan area in the country. Baltimore is located about 40 miles (64 km) north northeast of Washington, D.C., making it a principal city in the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area (CSA), the third-largest CSA in the nation, with a 2021 estimated population of 9,946,526.
Prior to European colonization, the Baltimore region was used as hunting grounds by the Susquehannock Native Americans, who were primarily settled further northwest than where the city was later built. Colonists from the Province of Maryland established the Port of Baltimore in 1706 to support the tobacco trade with Europe, and established the Town of Baltimore in 1729. The first printing press and newspapers were introduced to Baltimore by Nicholas Hasselbach and William Goddard respectively, in the mid-18th century.
The Battle of Baltimore was a pivotal engagement during the War of 1812, culminating in the failed British bombardment of Fort McHenry, during which Francis Scott Key wrote a poem that would become "The Star-Spangled Banner", which was eventually designated as the American national anthem in 1931. During the Pratt Street Riot of 1861, the city was the site of some of the earliest violence associated with the American Civil War.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the oldest railroad in the United States, was built in 1830 and cemented Baltimore's status as a major transportation hub, giving producers in the Midwest and Appalachia access to the city's port. Baltimore's Inner Harbor was once the second leading port of entry for immigrants to the United States. In addition, Baltimore was a major manufacturing center. After a decline in major manufacturing, heavy industry, and restructuring of the rail industry, Baltimore has shifted to a service-oriented economy. Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins University are the city's top two employers. Baltimore and its surrounding region are home to the headquarters of a number of major organizations and government agencies, including the NAACP, ABET, the National Federation of the Blind, Catholic Relief Services, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, World Relief, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the Social Security Administration. Baltimore is also home to the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball and the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League.
Many of Baltimore's neighborhoods have rich histories. The city is home to some of the earliest National Register Historic Districts in the nation, including Fell's Point, Federal Hill, and Mount Vernon. These were added to the National Register between 1969 and 1971, soon after historic preservation legislation was passed. Baltimore has more public statues and monuments per capita than any other city in the country. Nearly one third of the city's buildings (over 65,000) are designated as historic in the National Register, which is more than any other U.S. city. Baltimore has 66 National Register Historic Districts and 33 local historic districts. The historical records of the government of Baltimore are located at the Baltimore City Archives." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
Now on Instagram.
The Bombings of 1940 forced a reappraisal of deep-shelter policy and at the end of October the Government decided to construct a system of deep shelters linked to existing tube stations. London Transport was consulted about the sites and required to build the tunnels at the public expense with the understanding that they were to have the option of taking them over for railway use after the war. With the latter point in mind, positions were chosen on routes of possible north-south and east-west express tube railways. It was decided that each shelter would comprise two parallel tubes 16 foot 6 inches internal diameter and 1,600 feet long and would be placed below existing station tunnels at Clapham South, Clapham Common, Clapham North, Stockwell, Oval, Goodge Street, Camden Town, Belsize Park, Chancery Lane and St. Pauls...Each tube would have two decks, fully equipped with bunks, medical posts, kitchens and sanitation and each installation would accommodate 9,600 people...All the deep level shelters were sub-divided into sleeping areas. Each tunnel was divided into 4 sections with connecting doors between them. Each section was given a name. At Clapham South they were all naval commanders. The northern entrance sections (i.e. those accessed directly from the northern lift without crossing to the other side) were named: Freemantle, Beatty, Evans, Anson, Nelson, Jellicoe, Madden and Inglefield while those accessed from the southern entrance were: Grenville, Hardy, Drake, Oldham, Keppel, Parry and Ley. Each section had bunks fitted longitudinally along the outer wall, a single at the top, a double in the middle and a single at the bottom. Along the inner wall bunks were fitted across the passage forming bays. There were 7.952 bunks in total and each bunk was allocated to a named person. If they didn't turn up one night the bunk remained unused...Although work on them began in November 1940 there were difficulties in obtaining sufficient labour and materials so the first one was only ready in March 1942 and the other seven were finished later that year. Access to them was by ticket in order to help control numbers and prevent disruption to the underground network. There was considerable pressure to open the shelters to relieve the strain on London’s tube stations from people sheltering from the bombing, but the authorities were concerned about the cost of maintaining the shelters once opened and preferred to keep them in reserve in case the bombing intensified. Clapham South was used as weekend troop accommodation from 1943. The start of the attacks on London by V1 flying bombs (commonly known as ‘doodlebugs’) in June 1944, followed by the V2 rocket campaign in September that year, caused many of the deep shelters to be made fully available to the public; Clapham South opened on 19 July 1944. The south entrance, next door to what was the Odeon cinema, was in a small compound that housed administrative offices and ticket printing presses for all eight deep shelters. The shelters were used for their original purpose for less than a year. The north section closed on 21 October 1944 and the shelter was transferred from the Ministry of Home Security to the Ministry of Works on 1 October 1945. Clapham South closed completely on 7 May 1945 and from June 1945 it found a new use as a military leave hostel and for one month in June 1946 it acted as an armed-forces troop billet. At the end of the war, London had a severe labour shortage and the Colonial Office sought to recruit a labour force from Britain’s colonies. At that time there were no immigration restrictions for citizens from one part of the British Empire moving to another part. An advertisement appeared in Jamaica's Daily Gleaner on 13 April 1948 offering transport to the UK for a fare of £28.10s (£28.50) for anyone who wanted to work in the UK. As a result the ship MV Empire Windrush arrived in Tilbury later in 1948 carrying 492 worker migrants from Jamaica. However, as there was no accommodation for the new arrivals the Colonial Office decided to house them in the deep-level shelter at Clapham South.
The nearest labour exchange to Clapham South was on Coldharbour Lane in Brixton so the men sought jobs there. As a result Brixton became a focus for West Indian settlers from that point onwards with successive arrivals making their way to the developing
community. The actual time the deep-level shelter was occupied by new arrivals was relatively short as the men all quickly found jobs and accommodation, and successfully integrated into many parts of south London.
[Subterranea Britannica]
In the continuing saga of getting my Hohner Hobo IV ready to print I finally received the rollers from Ramco machined to one-thousandth over size to allow for a bit of shrinkage. I also had to come up with a solution to mounting the delivery board on the front of the press. The board had been jerked off of the press at some point, stripping the plywood holes, but the holes in the bracket only allowed for a certain size of screw, and the plywood board is excessively thin, allowing only a certain length of wood screw. I pondered a while, then went to the hardware store to continue my pondering. The solution came only from a lousy choice of fasteners. I wanted to use flathead machine screws, but I needed stainless steel because I live close to the ocean. I hate Phillips-head, but of course they carry no slotted screws anymore, so I decided to use 1/2" Allen-head 10/32 machine screws. I purchased a tap to thread the mounting bracket (which is almost as thick as the plywood top), because I didn't want to mount the screws with a nut that would just fall off. A Fuller countersink bit from the set my son-in-law gave me allowed me to set the taper of the flat-head on the screws so they would be flush on the surface, and the photos are the result. The delivery board is now stronger than it ever was before. A tiny repair was made this evening to a corner of the plywood lamination, and now the press is ready to be inked up, and set up to print.
This is by far my most viewed photo on Flickr, and almost all of them come from people who have typed "old printing press" in a search engine. I know it has been used on blogs and slide shows a few times, but not nearly often enough to justify the popularity. I find it fascinating that in this age of digital publishing, my most popular photo is one of ancient publishing technology, but I'm getting more and more curious about why so many people look for it. Sadly, I lost the original long ago, or I would have uploaded a bigger version.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel closed this printing press which opened in 2003 this month. From the appearance of the rails it looked like it had been a long time since CP delivered loads of newsprint to it in boxcars via the Menomonee Belt Line.
Newspapers instead will be printed in Peoria by another Gannett property and trucked five hours up to Milwaukee each day.
The Menomonee Belt Line which was once the main interchange point between the Milwaukee Road and the C&NW in the Milwaukee area is essentially dead now with the closure of the Journal Sentinel printing press and the former Froedtert mill. At one time dozens of customers were served off of it.
On the top froor of the Arcade Building in St. Louis, Missouri, remains an abandoned newspaper printing press. there were so many huge presses and other old materials used in the process (cutting boards, etc...) it was quite the site to see.
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The town of Derge is famous for its three-storey printing house, or parkhang, built in 1729, where Kangyur, a collection of Buddhist scriptures and Tengyur, a collection of commentaries, are still printed from wooden blocks. It was established during the reign of Derge king Tenpa Tsering. The printing house, run by monks, continues to use its ancient techniques and uses no electricity. The roof is used for drying the printed sheets.
It has been estimated that the 217,000 blocks stored at Derge comprise 70% of the Tibetan literary heritage. Derge knows all. It is the most incredible thing in the whole entire planet. DERGE can be anything you want it to be
The town also contains several historic Tibetan monasteries, notably the Gongchen Monastery.
Printing press in a small factory in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
As a reminder, keep in mind that this picture is available only for non-commercial use and that visible attribution is required. If you'd like to use this photo outside these terms, please contact me ahead of time to arrange for a paid license.
Dreamy pastels textured with subtle woodgrain fill the tropical seas and skies in the "DESERT ISLAND" woodcut. Even from the muck, nature perseveres!
"DESERT ISLAND" is printed from 3 woodblocks, a limited edition of just 50 prints, size is 22" tall by 38" wide.
Leave a comment if you have any questions!
The Bombings of 1940 forced a reappraisal of deep-shelter policy and at the end of October the Government decided to construct a system of deep shelters linked to existing tube stations. London Transport was consulted about the sites and required to build the tunnels at the public expense with the understanding that they were to have the option of taking them over for railway use after the war. With the latter point in mind, positions were chosen on routes of possible north-south and east-west express tube railways. It was decided that each shelter would comprise two parallel tubes 16 foot 6 inches internal diameter and 1,600 feet long and would be placed below existing station tunnels at Clapham South, Clapham Common, Clapham North, Stockwell, Oval, Goodge Street, Camden Town, Belsize Park, Chancery Lane and St. Pauls...Each tube would have two decks, fully equipped with bunks, medical posts, kitchens and sanitation and each installation would accommodate 9,600 people...All the deep level shelters were sub-divided into sleeping areas. Each tunnel was divided into 4 sections with connecting doors between them. Each section was given a name. At Clapham South they were all naval commanders. The northern entrance sections (i.e. those accessed directly from the northern lift without crossing to the other side) were named: Freemantle, Beatty, Evans, Anson, Nelson, Jellicoe, Madden and Inglefield while those accessed from the southern entrance were: Grenville, Hardy, Drake, Oldham, Keppel, Parry and Ley. Each section had bunks fitted longitudinally along the outer wall, a single at the top, a double in the middle and a single at the bottom. Along the inner wall bunks were fitted across the passage forming bays. There were 7.952 bunks in total and each bunk was allocated to a named person. If they didn't turn up one night the bunk remained unused...Although work on them began in November 1940 there were difficulties in obtaining sufficient labour and materials so the first one was only ready in March 1942 and the other seven were finished later that year. Access to them was by ticket in order to help control numbers and prevent disruption to the underground network. There was considerable pressure to open the shelters to relieve the strain on London’s tube stations from people sheltering from the bombing, but the authorities were concerned about the cost of maintaining the shelters once opened and preferred to keep them in reserve in case the bombing intensified. Clapham South was used as weekend troop accommodation from 1943. The start of the attacks on London by V1 flying bombs (commonly known as ‘doodlebugs’) in June 1944, followed by the V2 rocket campaign in September that year, caused many of the deep shelters to be made fully available to the public; Clapham South opened on 19 July 1944. The south entrance, next door to what was the Odeon cinema, was in a small compound that housed administrative offices and ticket printing presses for all eight deep shelters. The shelters were used for their original purpose for less than a year. The north section closed on 21 October 1944 and the shelter was transferred from the Ministry of Home Security to the Ministry of Works on 1 October 1945. Clapham South closed completely on 7 May 1945 and from June 1945 it found a new use as a military leave hostel and for one month in June 1946 it acted as an armed-forces troop billet. At the end of the war, London had a severe labour shortage and the Colonial Office sought to recruit a labour force from Britain’s colonies. At that time there were no immigration restrictions for citizens from one part of the British Empire moving to another part. An advertisement appeared in Jamaica's Daily Gleaner on 13 April 1948 offering transport to the UK for a fare of £28.10s (£28.50) for anyone who wanted to work in the UK. As a result the ship MV Empire Windrush arrived in Tilbury later in 1948 carrying 492 worker migrants from Jamaica. However, as there was no accommodation for the new arrivals the Colonial Office decided to house them in the deep-level shelter at Clapham South.
The nearest labour exchange to Clapham South was on Coldharbour Lane in Brixton so the men sought jobs there. As a result Brixton became a focus for West Indian settlers from that point onwards with successive arrivals making their way to the developing
community. The actual time the deep-level shelter was occupied by new arrivals was relatively short as the men all quickly found jobs and accommodation, and successfully integrated into many parts of south London.
[Subterranea Britannica]
a friend of mine owns a beautiful printing press, currently printing posters for a festival he is organising
Alte Druckmaschine in Darmstadt / Old printing press in Darmstadt
Intrepid 4x5 MK 3
Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar 1:5.6/150 mm
Ilford HP5+
HC-110 / Dil B
In addition to the badly under lit photos I've posted, I'm including a screen shot from google sketchup, in which I finalized my plan for building my press. A few things changed during the actual construction, but this is pretty close to what now actually sits on top of my dryer.
I am putting my photos taken on my trip to Europe and the UK with a girl friend in October to November 2012. My camera I had then wasn't good with low light so some of these shots are not great but I have put them as my memories of the trip.
On a visit to the Rembrandt House Museum.
The Rembrandt House Museum is a historic house and art museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Painter Rembrandt lived and worked in the house between 1639 and 1656. The 17th-century interior has been reconstructed. The collection contains Rembrandt's etchings and paintings of his contemporaries. Wikipedia
An old handpainted card, bearing just the name 'Mr J. Foster Bain' on the back. What can it mean? There was an H Foster Bain who was an American geologist in the early 20th century, and that does look a bit like a geological hammer.
Alignment
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BTW, this article is from the Times Colonist (TC)online e-Edition as there was no door delivery (again) today.
Like most print publications today, the TC has no longer its own printing presses and relies upon large, print-houses to output their product.
Victoria, BC is on an island. The TC is now printed on the mainland of British Columbia and has to be transported daily whether by ship or plane. About once each month, this transportation is disrupted for whatever reason and paying customers do not receive the paper at their door. That's just the way it is. Deal with it.
I previously outlined some of the work I had done several years ago to make this press into a workable machine, but had left the wooden handles on the bar and rounce as they came from the factory. They were misshapen and had not been properly finished, being full of lathe marks and scratches having only been rough-sanded. So I got busy with paint remover, files and sandpaper and discovered that they were made from lovely pieces of mahogany. Several hours of hand-work and a day of staining have given the press handles that are no longer rough to the touch, but are instead a pleasure upon which to lay hands. Some adjustments to the photo settings, and the wall behind the press appears more the true color (red) than my camera should like to see it.
This manuscript was made around 1800 by the “Old Believers,” a group of Russian Christians who dissented from the Russian Orthodox Church and were subsequently persecuted and excommunicated. Because their books were often confiscated and they were forbidden to use printing presses, they continued to write important works such as this one by hand. The manuscript contains the text of the New Testament book of Revelation along with a patristic commentary, which is accompanied by a series of seventy-one striking full-page miniatures.
To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.
One of my favorite technological advances was the ability to mass produce the written word. Books have brought me innumerable hours of pleasure. i worked in IT for over 20 years, and somewhat felt that "technology" started during that period. Had to step back and think about those who came before us with their revolutionary technological creations. I am grateful to them.
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