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Built on the site of the old County Goal, the store was originally much smaller than it is today. Built for £2721, it was an impressive building, fronted with red brick and white dressings. It was opened on 29th June, in 1881 by Thomas Hughes QC (author of Tom Browns School Days), for the sale of bread, grocery, shoes and drapery. By 1902 it was extended to include a larger grocery and a confectionery shop. This was opened by Daisy Warwick, Countess of Essex from Easton Lodge. Since then, over the years adjoining units were purchased until 1958 when work began to rebuild the entire store at a cost of £300 000. This was in fact the largest building project to be complete in Chelmsford since World War 11. The new store included a self service food hall, footwear, toys, lingerie, fashions, drapery, specialise baby linen and a floral department.
In 1969 the Society acquired the site of the London Road, Congregational Church and by 1973 opened a new unit (now Dansk) joined to the original store by a bridge. The double unit was then re-named Co-operative House. By 1990 a refurbishment added an impressive glass entrance to the New London Road unit, which gave rise to the new name ‘quadrant’. However, by 1995, due to recession, New London Road was taken over by Maples and then Allders until it was finally acquired by Dansk in 2010.
The final major change in the stores history came in 1995, when it added a third floor for beds, extended its fashion range and changed its colour scheme to the black and white theme as seen today. Chelmsford Star is now the only Co-operative Society in East Anglia to still have department stores and is proud to own Chelmsford’s only independent department store
Major rerfurbishment April 2006
The bike on which Team Sky cyclist Chris Froome won the 2013 Tour de France came to visit our offices ahead of a Sky Ride event.
I understand this is a Pinarello Dogma 65.1 Think2 which is a carbon fibre made to measure machine costing about £10,000.
The bike weighed nothing and could be picked up wih one finger! The water bottles, when full, are heavier than the bike!
In the Good Future, the mines has been turned into the City surrounded by the beautiful crystals made by the dreams of the Architect. Whoever the architect is, is the genius of the design.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfa12w2mjjI
www.soundcloud.com/andrewchanner/quartz-quadrant-zone-good-f...
The bike on which Team Sky cyclist Chris Froome won the 2013 Tour de France came to visit our offices ahead of a Sky Ride event.
I understand this is a Pinarello Dogma 65.1 Think2 which is a carbon fibre made to measure machine costing about £10,000.
The bike weighed nothing and could be picked up wih one finger! The water bottles, when full, are heavier than the bike!
Built on the site of the old County Goal, the store was originally much smaller than it is today. Built for £2721, it was an impressive building, fronted with red brick and white dressings. It was opened on 29th June, in 1881 by Thomas Hughes QC (author of Tom Browns School Days), for the sale of bread, grocery, shoes and drapery. By 1902 it was extended to include a larger grocery and a confectionery shop. This was opened by Daisy Warwick, Countess of Essex from Easton Lodge. Since then, over the years adjoining units were purchased until 1958 when work began to rebuild the entire store at a cost of £300 000. This was in fact the largest building project to be complete in Chelmsford since World War 11. The new store included a self service food hall, footwear, toys, lingerie, fashions, drapery, specialise baby linen and a floral department.
In 1969 the Society acquired the site of the London Road, Congregational Church and by 1973 opened a new unit (now Dansk) joined to the original store by a bridge. The double unit was then re-named Co-operative House. By 1990 a refurbishment added an impressive glass entrance to the New London Road unit, which gave rise to the new name ‘quadrant’. However, by 1995, due to recession, New London Road was taken over by Maples and then Allders until it was finally acquired by Dansk in 2010.
The final major change in the stores history came in 1995, when it added a third floor for beds, extended its fashion range and changed its colour scheme to the black and white theme as seen today. Chelmsford Star is now the only Co-operative Society in East Anglia to still have department stores and is proud to own Chelmsford’s only independent department store
RD7927. An impressive bracket signal outside Cockcrow Hill station on the Great Cockcrow Railway. The signals indicate that we have the through road which continues past the station to the loop round Cockcrow Hill.
The Great Cockcrow Railway is an impressive and extensive fully signalled 7¼” gauge line near Chertsey in Surrey. It has two intertwined routes, each giving a ride of around 20 minutes, and six or more trains can be in operation at any one time; there are also some steepish gradients to make the engines work hard.
Sunday, 7th July, 2013. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
The sine quadrant (Arabic: Rubul Mujayyab) - also known as the "Sinecal Quadrant" – was used for solving trigonometric problems and taking astronomical observations. It was developed by al-Khwarizmi in 9th century Baghdad and prevalent until the nineteenth century. Its defining feature is a graph-paper like grid on one side that is divided into sixty equal intervals on each axis and is also bounded by a 90 degree graduated arc. A cord was attached to the apex of the quadrant with a bead, for calculation, and a plumb bob. They were also sometimes drawn on the back of astrolabes.
made after the description of Jamal al-Din al-Maridini
Istanbul Museum of the History of Science and Technology in Islam' (Turkish: İstanbul İslam Bilim ve Teknoloji Tarihi Müzesi)
The bike on which Team Sky cyclist Chris Froome won the 2013 Tour de France came to visit our offices ahead of a Sky Ride event.
I understand this is a Pinarello Dogma 65.1 Think2 which is a carbon fibre made to measure machine costing about £10,000.
The bike weighed nothing and could be picked up wih one finger! The water bottles, when full, are heavier than the bike!
The Quadrant on Warwick Road in Coventry.
Saw my first plaque here as I arrived in the City Centre. Made a minor detour to have a close look!
It is a Grade II listed building.
1.
5105 THE QUADRANT
WARWICK ROAD
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Nos 1 to 4 (consec)
SP 3378 NW 10/334
II GV
2.
Mid C19. Stucco, Welsh slated roof. 3 storeys, 2nd floor entablature with modillion
cornice. Sash windows. Recessed 1 window wing on left; 3 canted 2 storey bay
windows, 1 single storey canted bay on right. 1:3:2:3:2:3:3 windows at 1st floor
level with cast iron balcony railings. Rusticated quoins. Ground and 2nd floor
windows segmental headed, ground floor archivolts, 1st floor eared architraves.
No 4 has rusticated ground£floor, 1st floor segmental headed windows. Included
for group value.
Nos 1 to 10 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: SP3324278667
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Source: English Heritage
Black plaque on The Quadrant.
'Istanbul Museum of the History of Science and Technology in Islam' (Turkish: İstanbul İslam Bilim ve Teknoloji Tarihi Müzesi)
In the Good Future, When you go outside from the City Mines you get a take a fresh air in the City of the Kingdom.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfa12w2mjjI
www.soundcloud.com/andrewchanner/quartz-quadrant-zone-good-f...
I thought that some of you might like a look at the Quadrant since it's been refurbished.As can be seen,more and more comfortable seating and loads of information everywhere.If you're still stuck there are local and National Express enquiries offices,constantly manned at the back wall and a Co-op,Greggs and a nice coffee bar included in the redevelopment too.
As for the manouvreing area it's still much the same,buses drive forward onto the 26 bays.They each have a large concrete buffer at the front though.Locals will well remember the incident when a National shot through the front of the building about 35 years back now.All in all a big improvement on the old one.There is a buslane too and a central reservation on the Kingsway so pictures are easy to get.Remember too,First Cymru buses come from all over the country ,so it's quite a bit more interesting than it might appear too.........
Dave, DAVE! someone has parked on the pavement again!
PG72AB is a British Army EKA heavy lifting 8x8 mahine
Quadrant Range from Ring Road South at the University of Birmingham.
This direction on a sunny November afternoon from the path towards the Lapworth Museum of Geology (wasn't going there this time).
As usual had to find my way into the Chancellors Court, that meant heading round to the right and eventually up close to the Bramall Music Building.
This is the listing below for the main buildings of the Quadrant Range.
Grade II* listed building
Listing Text
UNIVERSITY ROAD
1.
5104
Edgbaston B15
Great Hall and
Quadrant Range
formerly listed as
Birmingham University
(Main Buildings)
SP 08 SW 11/4 21.1.70
II*
2.
1900-1909 by Sir Aston Webb and Ingress Bell, the D plan group main university
building of which only part were completed to the original design. The Great
Hall opposite the tower is the central axial building, to its front is a square
entrance hall with a giant round arched mullioned window, above an ornate
frieze over the loggia doorways, flanked by tapering square corner turrets
(to rear as well) which are topped by small ribbed domes. Over the hall rises
a low octagonal drum supporting a large ribbed dome and a miniature lantern.
Red brick and stone and buff terracotta dressings, but the conception is more
Byzantine than Renaissance. Behind the domed and galleried entrance hall with
ornate Renaissance grotesque relief carving, lies the Great Hall itself, a
vast tunnel vaulted space with cross vaulted
2 storey side galleries. Rich grotesque carving. Lavish stained glass by
T R Spence. The centrepiece of the hall has 2 storey quadrant links forming
the wing pavilions, 2 to the west but only one completed to the east. These
relate on a smaller 2 storey scale to the Great Hall being square on plan and
with similar ribbed domes but with round corner turrets, wings extending
behind. Flat lintelled window ranges on ground floor and large frescoed
friezes by Anning Bell below the parapets on the first floor level. The link
ranges have segmental arched windows. Modern part to east not of special interest.
Listing NGR: SP0472283539
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
This was the in camera panoramic.
The Quadrant:MK - Network Rail HQ in Milton Keynes (This is the car park)
Part of my 365 project - Day 9
The bike on which Team Sky cyclist Chris Froome won the 2013 Tour de France came to visit our offices ahead of a Sky Ride event.
I understand this is a Pinarello Dogma 65.1 Think2 which is a carbon fibre made to measure machine costing about £10,000.
The bike weighed nothing and could be picked up wih one finger! The water bottles, when full, are heavier than the bike!
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Photographed at Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada
(285 km by road north of Toronto)
between 01.50 and 02.14 EDT
* Altitude of centre of frame at time of exposures: ~40°, declining to 37°
* Temperature 17° C.
* Total exposure time: 12 minutes
* 70 mm focal length lens
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Description:
On of the brightest patches in the northern section of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, lies in the constellations Aquila (the Eagle) and Scutum (the Shield). This starcloud contains many open clusters of stars, together with foreground globules of cold dark gas that are the incubators of new star formation.
One of the most prominent star clusters in this area of the sky is M11, the so-called "Wild Duck" cluster, which is a favourite observing target of amateur astronomers with modest telescopes. M11 is the small bright blob in the lower right quadrant in this image. This is a rich open cluster of stars that looks like a duck in flight. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Duck_Cluster for more information about M11.
For a closer in view of M11 and the surrounding area, made in June 2020 with a 660 mm focal length telescope, click here:
www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/50039721548
For a version of this photo WITHOUT LABELS, showing constellation boundaries and the many open star clusters and dark nebulae, click on the LEFT side of your screen, or click here:
www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/52277624846
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Technical information:
Nikkor AF-S 70-200 mm f/2.8 G ED VRII lens on Nikon D810a camera body, mounted on Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro mount with a Kirk Enterprises ball head
Twelve stacked subframes; each frame:
70 mm focal length
ISO 5000; 1 minute exposure at f/4.5, unguided
(with LENR - long exposure noise reduction)
Subframes stacked in RegiStar;
Processed in Photoshop CS6 (levels, brightness, contrast, colour balance)
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Swan Lake and Swan Lake Flat, between Mammoth Junction and Norris Junction, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA.
Swan Lake in the foreground contains a flock of Canada Geese.
Quadrant Mountain is one of the numerous mountains and peaks that form the southern Gallatin range. Swan Lake itself is located in a unique part of the park where you can see mountains for almost 360 degrees around you.
From Yellowstone Treasures: The Traveler's Companion to the National Park by Janet Chapple (personal note: the definite bible to everything Yellowstone):
Quadrant Mountain- height 10,213 feet
"...the flat-topped ridge in the middle of the view [the Swan Lake Flat panorama], named in 1878 by members of the Hayden Survey. Their topographer, Henry Gannet, wrote that 'the summit, with the northern and western slopes, forms a curved surface, roughly resembling a segment of a sphere.'"
Technical Details of the Quadrant Shower
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Height 1850mm x Width 900mm x Depth 900mm
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Polished Chrome
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550mm radius
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Chrome Handle
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6mm frameless toughened safety glass
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The side panels have an adjustment each side of 30mm
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The Doors are Sliding
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