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River Severn tug "Severn Progress" at Gloucester on 8th April 2012.
The tug (originally named "Progress") was built in 1931 by Charles Hill & Sons of Bristol, the prefix Severn being added later to conform to the general naming policy adopted by her owners, the Severn & Canal Carrying Company. "Severn Progress" originally had a 100 bhp Kromhout semi-diesel engine which required heating with a blow-lamp to get it hot before starting. In later years this was replaced by a Lister air-cooled diesel that starts with the push of a button. Also in the early days, the steering position was an open well, and it was many years later before a proper wheel-house was fitted.
Severn Progress was mainly used for towing barges and canal boats on the River Severn between Gloucester and Worcester with some trips extending to Stourport. A typical trip was to leave Gloucester early one morning, towing whatever loaded barges and canal boats needed to go up river, stay overnight at Worcester and then return with empty boats the following day. When it was necessary to go all the way up to Stourport, it was still expected that the tug would return on the second day. The usual cargoes for the barges were grain, timber and petroleum, and the canal boats carried grain, metals, chocolate crumb and a wide range of general cargoes that had come on the steamers arriving at Bristol and Avonmouth.
Following nationalisation of the canals in 1948, Severn Progress became part of the British Waterways fleet and continued towing on the Severn until commercial traffic died out in the late 1960s. Later she moved to the Kennet & Avon Canal to help with restoration and maintenance work between Hanham Lock and Bath. After this role ended in 1991, Severn Progress came to the National Waterways Museum, where she is looked after by the Friends of the Museum who use her for tug handling courses and occasional towing jobs.
Information from Hugh Conway-Jones' excellent website:
The Neoframe has some fun posing options at this point. We'll see how I end up building the armor and head and all that...most of the hard parts are done.
Many of the trackside trees and shrubs have now been removed as the new shopping development takes shape alongside the approach to Rawtenstall station on the ELR. They used to provide an attractive backdrop to photos taken in either direction on that stretch.
Hughes/Fowler 'Crab' 2-6-0 No. 13065 drifts towards Rawtenstall on 3 April 2017.
Reduction linocut - 6th colour - plum/purple
At the 5th colour I printed 2 variations, most of them using this oatmeal/yellow colour and then a few with a medium brown colour.
Chantry Green, Ipswich, Suffolk
Man and nature's work in progress, or something profound like that. The trees are in their autumn beauty, as my mate Bill used to observe. A quick play with my Sony Xperia Z5, still testing it out. This was the first proper sunlight since I got it.
In 1986 a twin-car set consisting of trailer no 682 and motor car no 672 reverses in the centre road at North Pier. The conductor has just re-positioned the trolley pole.
This set is now part of Blackpool's heritage fleet and the cars have regained their original numbers - 272 and T2 - and original cream livery.
Yeah, it's the shrink ray from "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids". Ironically, I don't think I'll be able to quite shrink it down to minifigure scale.
I'm also kind of hoping that the forthcoming Louis Tully minifig has dual printing on the head and there's a normal Rick Moranis face on the other side.
John Gast
1872
"This depiction of American Progress captured a common belief in the 'manifest destiny' of Anglo Americans to rule and civlize the New World. Commissioned in 1872 from a New York artist, it appeared in a popular magazine that celebrated the railroads. The central figure wears the 'Star of Empire' and carries a book symbolizing education and enlightenment. From her other hand, telegraph wires 'flash intelligence [information] through the land.' Peace reigns, the years of civi war are over. The partially completed Brooklyn Bridge represents the powerful cities in the East as white Americans and railroads bring progress to the West. The conquest of the American Indians seems assured, though the wars still raged."
From "Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion" at the Oregon Historical Society.
It's important to note that to get to the west coast, Ms. Manifest Destiny is going to have to trot across an enormous* amount of land that was part of Mexico until 1848, when the United States took it in a base act of territorial expansion through war. And before that, the land had belonged to Native Americans.
*The United States contains 900,000 square miles of land that used to be Mexico, about equal in size to Western Europe, according to Wikipedia.
I made some progress yesterday and it is actually looking like the pattern!! yahooo!! I still can't believe I am really knitting...ha ha!
Jacey's SGS Scarf Pattern: jaceycraft.blogspot.com/2011/11/sgs-scarf-pattern.html
I made some good progress the last week. the upper part of the ship also needs to have LEDs installed.
I don't know if it's clear here, but my ambitious sketch was attempting to incorporate a little bit of everyone's previous work, around a slightly modified version of Nate's cockpit, which is brilliant, by the way.
However it's ending up slightly smaller than I thought, and certainly will be less massive than Nate's. But don't worry, Don. I'll make up the difference with some swanky greebs and way too many modified plates with bars on them.
in progress, about 6" x 16"
i'm pretty much finished with the face, but what should i do with the rest of it?!
Work in progress
La Biennale di Yocchan2016 Collage/Cubism　　
C.A.P. KOBE STUDIO Y3　
2016.11.12-27
New Year's Resolution No. #1 is to finish this quilt! My goal is to have it complete by March 1st~just in time to back it with a print from the re-release of FMF. See, there is a method to my madness.
They call it progress but I feel sad each time I see these structures being built. All the orchards and farms are all gone and the population has gone up from 40, 000 to more that 200, 000 in 35 years that we've been here. The farmer across the street from our house used to let me go and help myself to whatever he had growing. The farmer passed away and the family sold the farm and became residential houses not too long after.