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Saltburn Funicular Railway is the oldest working water-powered inclined tramway in the world. It was built to transport passengers up and down the steep north-facing cliff behind the town's pier. It replaced an 1870 vertical cliff lift on the same spot, and remains in regular use between March and October.
The town of Saltburn-by-the-sea is some 37m above its pier, with a steep cliff between the two. The pier's engineer, John Anderson, decided to build a cliff lift to make it easier for people to access the pier. Work began soon after the pier opened in May 1869, and the lift opened on 1st July 1870.
The lift was a 36.6m high vertical water-powered hoist housed in a tapering lattice timber tower. A narrow horizontal walkway supported on timber trestles linked it to the cliff top. The lift cage could accommodate 20 people and moved up or down by filling and emptying a water balance tank. The structure was roped to the ground for additional stability.
Saltburn Pier Company owned the hoist until August 1883, when it was sold to the Owners of the Middlesbrough Estate consortium. The new owners judged the lift unsafe, apparently it tended to stop halfway and much of the timber had deteriorated, so it was demolished that same year.
A new inclined tramway, or funicular railway, opened at the same location (directly in line with the pier) and began taking passengers from 28th June 1884. It was designed by George Croydon Marks (1858-1938), working for Richard Tangye's (1833-1906, knighted 1894) company.
The funicular railway has two cabins that run on parallel tracks each 63m long, set at a gradient of 1 in 1.4 (71 percent). Each cabin accommodates up to 12 people and they feature decorative stained glass windows. The cabins are mounted on triangular iron subframes, which keep the floors level as they travel. The subframes house large water tanks. When one cabin is at the top of the cliff, the other is at the foot.
The tank in the cabin at the top is filled with water until it exceeds the weight of the cabin below and descends under gravity, raising the lower cabin. When the first cabin reaches the bottom, its tank is emptied and the top cabin’s tank is filled, ready for the process to restart.
A nearby spring supplies the necessary water, which is stored in two reservoirs, one of 136,380 litres at the lower station and another of 84,100 litres at the cliff top. It is pumped from the lower to the upper reservoir at a rate of 818 litres per minute. A 4.5kW Otto gas engine, working from the town's gas main, originally powered the pump.
An iron winding wheel also controls the movement of the cabins, with double grooves for the running cables (located midway between the rails) and a flange for the brake system. The wheel is operated from a small building at the top of the cliff.
During the winter of 1921-2, the track gauge was changed from 1.143m to 1.283m. In 1924, the gas engine was replaced with a direct current generator and an electrically operated water pump.
The cabin bodies were replaced in 1955, without stained glass. At the end of the 1974 season, the railway sleepers were renewed. In 1979, new aluminium carriages echoing the original design, complete with stained glass windows were installed.
In 1997-8, the tramway was given a comprehensive refit to ensure it complied with modern safety standards. In 1998, the original winding wheel was replaced and a new hydraulic braking system installed.
From 19th September 2010 to 11th April 2011, the funicular underwent restoration at a cost of £30,000. The carriages were taken off-site in November 2010 for specialist refurbishment, during which an intercom system was added.
Machinery: Tangye Ltd
Cabins: Metropolitan Railway Carriage & Wagon Company Ltd
Gas Engine: Crossley Brothers
Hydraulic Brake System (1998): Skelton Engineering
Aluminium Carriages (2011): Stanegate Restorations
I decided as long as I was at it, I'd replace all the fasteners throughout the lathe with high strength stainless steel, and using a copper-based anti-seize to prevent gauling. McMaster to the rescue for most of the fasteners - and there were quite the selection in size and type used on this lathe.
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Built to replace an older Midland Bank which was at 7 Everton Road.
That one was opened about 1876 and was replaced by the one in the photo.
I don't have closing dates for Midland banks - I can only go up to 1968 (street directory) when this branch was still listed.
Update:
Now student accommodation (yawn!).
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History of the castle
Architecture and use of the castle
Events connected with the castle
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(Pictures, quite old ones, you can see by clicking on the link at the end of the site!)
History of Bratislava castle dating back to the Celts and Romans, because Castle Hill was a strategic location at the crossroads of important trade routes. BC was in its place Celtic settlement, which for centuries was replaced by a Roman frontier fort.
The first written reference dates back to 907, when the subject is mentioned under the name Pressalauspruch. Period of the Principality of Nitra and Great Moravia document remains Slavic fortress with three-aisled basilica. Slovak princely castle of several reconstructions and modifications gradually arose from a medieval mid 11th century castle and county. At the time it became a treasure trove of crown jewels and coronation castle later. It established the priory and the Priory School and Church of the Most Holy Saviour. Documentary evidence shows that in the first quarter of the 13th century stood on the highest point complex terrain Romanesque residential tower with separate walls with defensive towers, from which to this day despite rearrangements preserved so. Crown Tower.
For King Sigismund from 1427 began to radically change the appearance of the castle, rebuilding it today vtlačila (pressing) character block monumental structures. King had demolished almost all of that time the building and gradually grew large two-story Gothic palace representative trapezoid in plan. The earlier buildings remain standing today as southwestern Crown defense tower. In this period were also two entrance gates to the castle area, of which only the eastern was preserved, called Sigismund's Gate. Richly structured double-shell architecture with the goal of stonework demanding solution in the form of a donkey back a vault in crossing it included the construction centers of development in the Danube region, which were the models for a wide range of architectures in the period.
The current layout of the castle with a regular quadrangular ground-plan around a central courtyard is a result of the construction directions during the Renaissance and early Baroque. After the Battle of Mohács in 1526, the castle became coronation seat of the Hungarian kings, by the Turkish troops expelled from the original center of the Hungarian Empire in Buda.
Conversions were oriented not only to improve the fortifications of the castle, but also on its modernization. During pálfyovskej conversion in the first half of the seventeenth century, the palace was redundant the third floor, the two original towers were added two more were rebuilt and redesigned interiors defenses. On the southern fortifications and bastions of the castle built in 1674 has been added Leopold Gate.
Bratislava Castle experienced a golden age in the reign of Maria Theresa. The concept of the construction of major projects by French, Italian and Austrian architects were directed at making the castle as a representative residence of the Habsburg Kingdom equalized leading European royal court.
In the western headquarters of the castle have been built new representation staircases. Extensive changes to the application of luxury and contemporary taste, however, occurred in the wider area of the castle. In the east wing of the old palace was added under a new name Theresianum, which served mainly to accommodate the monarch.
It set up a gallery, library and valuable art collections, especially graphic cabinet viceroy Albert of Saxony-Cieszyn. Cabinet known as the Albertina later moved to Vienna, where it is now. The spacious surface area of land improved - there grew terraces, French garden, orangery, summer and winter riding school and stables, where ustajňovali (military censor) breeds rare horses.
Bratislava Castle after the death of Maria Theresa fell significantly. Her son and successor to the throne was Joseph II. He has set up a training center for Catholic clergy seminar where eminent scholars have studied the then time, among them Anton Bernolák. During the Napoleonic Wars in the early 19th century served as barracks, what happened to it ultimately fatal. Due garrison in 1811 the castle burnt down and more than 140 years remained a dilapidated ruin.
After several attempts to restore the castle returned to his new life as a big renovation, which was decided in 1953. Curators were architects Alfred Piffl and Dušan Martinček. After restoring the castle took shape as it was never called. Theresian reconstruction of the 18th century. In 1961 the Bratislava Castle, declared a national monument.
The Flannery O'Connor-Andalusia Foundation received a Save America's Treasures grant, a Georgia Heritage Grant, and numerous donations from Friends of Andalusia to restore the Hill house at Andalusia. andalusiafarm.org/andalusia/restoration.htm
Australia.
The Standard Vanguard was produced from 1947-63.
The 1955-58 Phase III was replaced in 1958 by the Vanguard Vignale. Compared to the Phase III, the windscreen and rear window were larger, a revised horizontal bar grill and ‘Shepherds Hook’ style side trim.
The last of the Vanguards was the 1960-63 Vanguard Six, with 1998cc 6 cylinder from the Triumph 2000. Externally the only differences from the Vignale were the badging but the interior was updated.
Standard Cars were also built in Australia by the Standard Motor Company until 1958; then by Australian Motor Industries (AMI). The first Australian Vignales had a more pronounced bonnet badge and straight, but stepped side trim. In 1960, when the Six was introduced, side trim was the ‘Shepherds Hook’ style and spaced out VANGUARD letters on the bonnet. A Coupe Utility version was also available there.
Engine; 2088cc 4 cyl, then 1988cc 6 cyl
Greater Govan & Glasgow Harbour, Glasgow.
Glasgow's Riverside Museum of Transport replaces the Museum of Transport previousy located at the Kelvin Hall. The development has a riverside location on a site where the River Clyde meets Glasgow's other main river, the Kelvin, and will is adjacent to the awaited Glasgow Harbour, a private-sector led mixed-use development project extending to 120 acres.
The much-acclaimed architect Zaha Hadid created the design for the Riverside Museum, which has already been dubbed 'Glasgow's Guggenheim'. The new museum houses collections not previously on display at the Museum of Transport, and for the first time allows the proper interpretation of Glasgow's important maritime history. Visitors can walk down a re-created 1900s street, drive a locomotive and tackle a tenement fire.
More than 3,000 objects are on display, from skateboards to locomotives, paintings to prams and velocipedes to voiturettes.
The project started on site in 2007. During summer 2008 foundational work was carried out and massive underground trenches created to house the services for the building. By late September 2008 the steel skeleton of the structure was taking shape.
During 2010 the cladding of the building was put in place and fitting out continued along with the landscaping works. The building work was completed late autumn 2010 and the museum was opened on June 21, 2011.
The final bill for the project came to £74 million.
Glasgow's Tall Ship, the Glenlee has now moved to its new position at the Riverside Museum and also reopened on June 21, 2011.
Replacing the Echo in Toyota’s U.S. product lineup and making its debut at the LA Auto Show, the 2007 Yaris is the second generation of a car that was Toyota’s best-selling model in Europe. With 3-door hatchback and 4-door sedan body styles with modern styling and upscale interiors, Yaris is aimed at youthful buyers. Powering the Yaris will be a 1.5-liter, 106 horsepower 4-cylinder engine mated to either a 5-speed manual or 4-speed automatic transmission.
The 1955 Chevrolet Pickup truck range was known as the 'Task Force', and replaced the 'Advanced Design' trucks which had been launched after WW II. The initial 1955 models were known as 'Second Series' models, due to the late 1955 launch timing.
The Task Force Series were marketed under both the Chevrolet and GMC banners, and some models featured model names (including the smooth-sided Cameo). The model seires ran through to the 1959 model year, featuring minor cosmetic updated which largely mirrored those of the Chevrolet passenger car range, including quad headlamps from 1958.
The models came in both pickup and panel van form, and had the option of short (114 in) or longer-wheelbase (123 in and 135in), longer load area options.
The engine lineup include a 235 cid (3.9 litre) Inline six-cylinder and two Vee-eights, of 265 cid (4.3 litres) and 283 cid (4.6 litres).
At this point the GM trucks had market leadership over Ford and maintained this leadership until 1976.
The payload varied between models, 1/2 ton, 3/4 ton, 1 ton and 1 1/2 ton, usually dependant on wheelbase length.
Any industrial or agricultural landscape in the US during the 1950s would have featured the Task Force Series pickups - and these models have been built for Flickr LUGNuts 59th build challenge - 'Nifty Fifties, Daddy-O', - featuring all things automotive from the 1950's
All models shown feature 1955 styling.
Original Chevrolet ads have been used without permission.
Copyright 1955 General Motors Corporation
The camera came to me with a decayed mirror damper foam.
I replaced mirror damper for some of my cameras before, using black foam sheet from Michaels store.
I find that a piece of foam on a respirator mask (see the photo) is softer than the one from Michaels store, probably a better material. Let try it. I cut a strip of it, glue it in. Well done!
The only thing is that it has grey color, not black, it won't be a problem, I hope.
Will run a roll of film soon to see how things go.
The I-22 was intended to replace the TS-11 Iskra in Polish Air Force service. It first flew in 1985 but was finally cancelled in 1996 due to budget.
This is an early pre-production aircraft.
c/n AN002-02.
On display at the Muzeum Sit Powietrznych.
Deblin, Poland.
25-8-2013
*From:
LINCOLN
An Illustrated Biography by
Phillip B. Kunhardt, Jr.
Phillip B. Kunhardt III
Peter W. Kunhardt
"Lincoln loved to laugh. Out of this brooding man came great bellows of laughter, and for a while, anyway, it made him forget life's deadly seriousness. The problems of his presidency drained him, made him ill with gloom, but laughter was his medicine, and it entered into his very system, coursing through him, tickling his innards, purging him of despair, giving him release. It was not just moodiness or the blues that needed fixing; it was his own particular sad framing of the world, focused on humanity's grave failings
and the terrible need for right in a universe of wrong."
LINCOLN HUMOR SAMPLER:
On occasion when Lincoln replaced a
member of his Cabinet, some senators
demanded that the President fire the lot.
This reminded Lincoln of the farmer who
had seven skunks to deal with. "I took aim,"
said the farmer, "blazzed away, killed one,
and he raised such a fearful smell that I
concluded it was best to let the other six go."
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I would love to sit in a parlor and have a conversation with President Abraham Lincoln.
For the Our Daily Challenge topic:
THREE TO MEET is the topic for Sunday ~ October 16th, 2022
Wishing all some humor in your lives!
Replacing an earlier digital upload with a better version 21-Jun-19.
Taken at Bangkok-Don Muang just a few months before the BKK airport code was transferred to the new Bangkok airport at Suvarnabhumi. Don Muang was re-coded DMK.
With additional 'www.srilankan.aero' web address.
First flown with the Airbus test registration F-WWYP, this aircraft was delivered to SriLankan Airlines as 4R-ALD in Jan-00. It was sold to a lessor on delivery and leased back to SriLankan Airlines.
The aircraft was removed from service in Oct-19 and ferried to St. Athan, Wales, UK in Nov-19 for storage. It was re-registered OE-IKV in Dec-19 and permanently retired. Updated (Dec-19)
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While James Stuber was changing a burned out light bulb in his home one day in 2012, he had his own personal light bulb moment. {media_1}
“I took out the lightbulb to replace it and I looked at it and on it was the GE (General Electric) logo and underneath that in all capital letters was the word CHINA,” Stuber said. “The juxtaposition of the two things — since I considered GE stood for Thomas Edison and all things American — made me think if GE is making its light bulbs in China, maybe we have a problem.”
Stuber had been shopping a few days prior to the light bulb moment and noticed that most everything in the store had been made in China, Vietnam and Bangladesh.
“These things all kind of grabbed a hold of me and I wouldn’t let go,’’ said Stuber, who has built a career as an attorney, legislative aide on Capitol Hill, entrepreneur, and candidate for Congress. “I really wanted to know what the heck was going on.”
He began what turned out to be three years of research and in 2017, Stuber added author to his resume with the release of his book “What if Things Were Made in America Again: How Consumers Can Rebuild the Middle Class by Buying Things Made in American Communities.”
The goal of Stuber’s book was to answer three pertinent questions: Why does it seem like everything is made somewhere else? Isn’t that causing a problem? And if it is, what can be done about it?
America has an approximately $800 billion trade deficit with countries around the world, nearly half of which is a whopping $365 billion trade imbalance with China.
But despite the complexities of trade policy and the U.S. economy, Stuber reached the conclusion that American consumers are the most likely of all factors to rein in the constantly rising trade deficit and help put America back on a level playing field with our trading partners.
Stuber holds bachelors and masters degrees in political science from the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University, respectively, and a law degree from Georgetown University. He resides in Berwyn, Pa. with his wife and four teenage children.
In an interview, Stuber explains why American consumers can provide the most effective economic bailout with their power to purchase American-made goods.
Jeffrey Bonior: Why does it seem like everything we see in our stores is made in some other country?
James Stuber: The short answer is because it is. I did research on the various categories of goods, and 95 percent of our apparel is coming from overseas, 70 percent of our appliances, 70 percent of our electronics. There are whole categories of goods that over the decades we have just sent somewhere else to be made.
JB: How and why did this happen?
JS: The U.S adopted faulty free trade theories, globalization happened, and China entered the global market. China had gone communist in 1949, so a lot of this was fighting communism by giving countries like Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and these Asian tigers whole industries starting with clothing. It gave these countries some of our markets instead of having them trade with communist China.
The second era is what I call the China Globalization Era, from 1995 to 2015, when we stepped onto the globalization merry-go-round just outsourcing everything. The big thing, the inflection point, was in 2001 when we granted China permanent favored nation tariff treatment and admission to the World Trade Organization (WTO). Then things really took off. The irony about this and the thing that really bothers me is that our leaders, who are supposed to know what they are doing, were pursuing these free trade policies that clearly made no sense.
JB: The stock market is thriving and unemployment is at 3.9 percent, so isn’t America doing well?
JS: Most of us are not doing very well at all compared to the cost of living in America. And what we’ve been doing to ordinary Americans raises profound moral questions. The stock market almost has nothing to do with the working and middle class, and the unemployment numbers are misleading because it counts bad jobs, jobs where people are working almost no hours even though they wish they had a full-time job. So, when you look deeper, 10 percent would probably be a more realistic number for people that are underemployed and underpaid. Wages are basically stagnant. The Federal Reserve said that 40 percent of Americans couldn’t immediately come up with $400 in an emergency. We are on thin ice and people know it.
JB: Your book touches on all things made in America, but how important is it for the U.S. to have a thriving industrial base like the steel and automotive industries?
JS: My passion for this grew out of my family working in the steel mills in Pittsburgh and Steubenville. The mill where The Deer Hunter was filmed in Mingo Junction, Ohio is the town where my parents grew up in and all my family worked. I pick up the story in in the book in 1945 when our soldiers were fighting their way across Europe and the islands of the Pacific and there were a couple of places where the Japanese and Germans both saw these columns and columns of American tanks, jeeps and trucks and realized what they were up against. There was a mill in California that made all of the Liberty Ships and it was really America’s industrial might, the core of which was steelmaking, that carried the day in World War II.
Now we are locked in another geopolitical fight with China and Russia and not realizing the importance from a security standpoint of the steel industry. I’ve concluded no economy is strong without a strong manufacturing sector. And to rely on other countries for either the raw steel or things in the steel supply chain is just hollowing out our economy. You need steel for security and you need steel for a strong economy.
JB: What is your opinion of President Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs, and why do you think there is such a pushback from some downstream manufacturers?
JS: It is disheartening to see how quickly many U.S. companies are to throw under the bus those companies farther upstream in the supply chain just to protect their own niche. But they are mistaken if they believe that they are not themselves vulnerable to foreign competition. The Chinese and other mercantilists want to occupy the entire supply chain, especially in high value-added products. This is all spelled out in China’s “Made in China 2025” plan.
I don’t understand why we are hearing such vociferous objections to paying a fair price for steel, one that includes paying workers a living family wage and a modest profit for the company. {media_2}
JB: How will consumers purchasing Made-in-America products alleviate our trade deficit?
JS: Consumers, and only consumers, can solve this problem. We can bring home $650 billion in spending, create 6 or 7 million jobs and get a virtuous circle going in the economy.
I think that if consumers realize that what we are doing now is not sustainable and that there is a very high cost to that low price of goods, it will drive consumers to want to do this. If they realize the stakes are high and they really have the power to rebuild the American economy and get us growing at a faster clip, I think they will do it. They need this education. Once they read my book and get the facts, they will stop and just pay attention to their purchasing power.
I sometimes approach people and say, ‘I hate to be the one to tell you this, but your smartphone was made in a labor camp, your clothes were made in a sweatshop and your fish were caught by a slave ship.’ This is morally wrong and has caused a massive increase across the world in what two Princeton economists have called Death of Despair.
JB: Your theory has merit, but isn’t the bottom line that people will be spending more for products?
JS: Yes, sometimes. My son’s first hammer cost $25 instead of $15. It was worth it to support the community that made it. Often things don’t cost more. Oreo cookies, now made in Mexico, cost the same price as they did when they were made in Chicago.
JB: How can you get the American consumers to understand that something Made in America is an investment in their own lives and communities?
JS: It is going to require an education process to change a lot of consumer thinking. Where we are right now [is] just focused on price, price, price. We are not recognizing the high cost of that low price. In foreign countries where laborers are exploited and the high cost in the U.S. starting with families that lose their manufacturing jobs in the community and the high cost to all of us who are paying taxes and trying to deal with all this dependency, drug addiction and social problems. If you add all that up into the price of that good, [what] we thought was a low price really wasn’t such a low price at all. That’s going to require a wake-up call for many Americans.
JB: Is it realistic for American consumers to pay higher prices for Made in America products?
JS: It is. Just look at the evidence for people willing to buy organic or buy green. People are paying a lot more for these things, which they perceive of particular value. We see other trends where people are willing to pay more for something they really care about. Of course, you start with the people that are able to pay more, and work your way down through the economy, and as you do the prices come down and it will kind of converge at some point. It seems like right now everything in the food store is organic, and the prices are a lot less than they used to be.
At one time I was involved in the tourism business in Florida and you heard about hotels advertising they were green hotels. I was thinking, ‘Who cares if their hotel is green?’ Well, it turned out consumers did. The hotel companies responded by rebuilding or retrofitting those hotels to make them green. So, consumers are saying to builders: ‘I care about those components in my house,’ and there was a change to make them green. It’s not going to be easy but it’s doable, very doable.
And then you really know you are helping someone in America. It is easy to look up these companies if you want to. (Editor’s note: Check out our directory!) They are often in small towns and your purchase is helping these communities. You can indeed be assured you are helping someone when you buy American.
JB: Do you have additional strategies to influence Buy American?
JS: There is a third leg to my story and it is the policy leg. Although I believe consumers can do this without asking the government for support or permission, there are other things we want to ask the government for. And two of them are related as a consumer solution.
The big one I want to pursue is a fair country of origin labeling where people can tell really where something is coming from. While there are several laws that cover that, the information should be prominently displayed in advertising, in catalogues, in online displays and in stores so through the packaging consumers can make an informed choice. This is an area where we are sorely lacking right now.
The other thing is to strengthen the Buy America laws at the national, state and local levels so when the government is spending your tax dollars, the school board is going to be able to buy a desk that was made in Pennsylvania or someplace in the United States. And these American companies end up paying taxes that will go to the schools. It really is a no-brainer.
The best thing a consumer can do is to support an American community by buying something made in that community. Every American needs to know this story. It will be a game-changer for them in their purchasing habits. And a game changer for the American economy.
To purchase “What if Things Were Made in America Again” and learn more about the consumer Buy America movement, visit www.themadeinamericabook.com or www.madeinamericaagain.org
Q&A: Want to See More American-Made Stuff? Buy More American-Made Stuff. syndicated from petroteksdnbhd.blogspot.com
I have been through the village many times, but not found the church ope, but after driving by recently, I saw the west porch door open, so found a place to park nearby.
The church stands on high ground over the village's famous ford, and beside what was once the high road, but is still busy.
The porch is underneath the tower on the west end of the church, and upon entering the building is filled with light. The pews have been replaced by modern seating, an there is a fairly new alter, but the apse is clean and light.
A couple were visiting from up north, and were delighted to have met another visitor, especially one who has visited close to 350 Kentish churches.
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Sitting on high ground above the famous ford, this is a light and well cared for church. Saxon in origin, but with a character now of the thirteenth century, it is currently (2005) being reordered to make it more adaptable. Already the north aisle is not part of the church but proposals to remove pews and change the layout will result in an even more flexible space. The finest part of the church is the south transept - with its very tall lancet windows and modern altar.
www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Eynsford
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EYNSFORD.
SOUTHWARD from Farningham lies Eynsford, sometimes written Aynsford, so named from a noted ford here over the river Darent.
THIS PARISH extends about four miles from east to west, and about three miles from north to south; on the north side it reaches almost up to the village of Farningham, near to which stood the antient mansion of Sibell's; and towards the west, over the hills, by Wested-farm and the obscure and little known hamlet of Crockenhill, both within its bounds, among a quantity of woodlands. The soil is in general chalky, except towards the west, where there is some strong heavy land. The village of Eynsford, through the eastern part of which the high road leads from Dartford through Farningham, and hence towards Sevenoke, is situated near the south-west bounds of the parish, in the valley on the banks of the Darent; over it there is a bridge here, repaired at the public charge of the county. At the north end of the village, near the river, are the remains of Eynsford castle, (fn. 1) and at the south end of it the church; beyond which this parish extends southward, on the chalk hills, a mile and an half; where, near the boundaries of it, is Afton lodge.
THIS PLACE was given to Christ church, in. Canterbury, in the time of archbishop Dunstan, who came to the see in 950, by a certain rich man, named Ælphege; after whose death one Leossune, who had married the widow of Eadric, Elphege's nephew, retained this land as his own, notwithstanding this devise of it. Upon which the trial of it was appointed at Ærhede, before Uulsi, the priest seir-man, or judge of the county, in presence of archbishop Dunstan, the parties themselves, the bishops of London and Rochester, and a multitude of lay people; and there, in the presence of the whole assembly, the archbishop taking the crossin his hand, made his oath upon the book of the ecclesiastical laws to the scir-man, who then took it to the king's use, as Leossune himself refused to receive it, that the right use of these lands was to Christ church; and as a farther confirmation of it to future times, it had the ratification of a thousand of the choicest men out of Suthex, Westsex, Middlesex, and Eastsex, who took their oaths also on the cross to the truth of it after him. (fn. 2)
At the time of taking the general survey of Domesday, Eynesford was held of the archbishop of Canterbury, by knight's service, and accordingly it is thus entered, under the general title of Terra Militum Archiepi, in that record.
Ralph Fitz Unspac holds Ensford of the archbishop. It was taxed at six suling. The arable land is. In demesne there are five carucates and 29 villeins, with nine borders, having 15 carucates. There are 2 churches and nine servants, and two mills of 43 shillings, and 29 acres of meadow; wood for the pannage of 20 hogs. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was worth 16 pound, and now it is worth 20 pounds.—Of this manor Richard de Tonebridge holds as much wood as 20 bogs may go out from, and one mill of five shillings, and one fishery in this lowy.
In the reign of king Henry II. a family of the name of Eynsford was in the possession of this place, one of whom. William de Eynesford, was sheriff of London in that reign. (fn. 3) They bore for their arms, A fretty ermine, which coat is carved on the roof of the cloisters, at Canterbury. William de Eynesford, whether the same as above mentioned does not appear, held the MANOR and CASTLE of Eynsford of the archbishop, at which time archbishop Becket, having given the church of Eynsford to one Laurence, William de Eynesford dispossessed him of it, for which he was excommunicated by the archbishop, which offended the king exceedingly; (fn. 4) another of the same name possessed this manor and castle in the 12th and 13th years of king John. (fn. 5) In the reign of king Edward I. this estate was become the property of the family of Criol, in the 21st year of which, as appears by the Tower records, John de Criol and Ralph de Sandwich claimed the privileges of a manor here; Nicholas de Criol, a descendant of this John, died possessed of it, anno 3 king Richard II. (fn. 6) after which it passed by sale to the Zouches, of Harringworth. William Zouche died possessed of it in the 5th year of that reign, and left three sons, Sir William le Zouche of Braunfield, Edmund. and Thomas; which last and this castle and manor, of which he was possessed at his death, anno 6 king Henry IV. (fn. 7) After which it passed into the name of Chaworth; and Elizabeth, wife of William Chaworth, was found to die possessed of it in the 17th year of king Henry VII. Soon after which, it was conveyed by sale to Sir Percival Hart, of the body of Henry VIII. His son, Sir George Hart, died anno 22 queen Elizabeth possessed of this castle and manor, with the mill, called Garsmill, holding them of the king, as of his manor of Otford, by knights service; (fn. 8) since which they have descended in the same manner that Lullingstone has, to Sir John Dixon Dyke, bart. the present possessor of them.
There are large ruins still remaining of Eynsford castle. The walls, which are built of squared flint, are near four feet thick, being entire for near forty feet in height. The circuit of these walls are of a very irregular form, and contain about three quarters of an acre of ground, in the middle of them is a strong keep or dungeon. It stands at a small distance eastward from the river Darent, between which and the castle, as well as for the same space about it, there is much rubbish and foundations of buildings, and there are remains of a broad moat round it, now quite dry.
Many lands in Eynsford are held of this manor by annual quit rents. A constable is chosen at the court leet, held for it, for the liberty of Eynsford, which extends over the parish of Eynsford, and great part of the south side of Farningham-street.
SOUTH-COURT is a manor here, which was antiently part of the estate of the family of Eynesford, already mentioned, and was formerly parcel of Eynsford-castle. John de St. Clere possessed this manor in the 20th year of king Edward III. at which time he paid aid for it. In the reign of king Henry VII. it was come into the name of Dinham; and John Dinham died possessed of the manor of South-court, with its appurtenances, in Eynsford, which he held of the archibshop, as of his manor of Otford, by knights service, in the 17th of king Henry VIII. (fn. 9) From Dinham it passed by sale to Sir Thomas Wyatt of Allington-castle, from which family it was sold to Hart; and Sir John Hart, son and heir of Sir Percival Hart, knight of the body to king Henry VIII. (fn. 10) died possessed of it in the 22d year of queen Elizabeth, holding it of the queen, as of her manor of Otford, by knight service.
Since this unity of possession, the style of these manors has been, the castle and manor of Eynsford cum Southcourt; by which title they have descended, in the same manor as Lullingstone, to Sir John Dixon Dyke, bart. the present possessor of them.
The MANOR of ORKESDEN, the mansion of which is now called, by corruption, Aston-LODGE, was antiently possessed by a family, who took their surname from their residence here. William de Orkesden, in the 12th and 13th years of king John's reign held half a knight's see in Eynsford, by knight's service of the archbishop. He was one of the Recognitores Magna Assise, or justices of the Great Assize. (fn. 11)
In the reign of king Edward III. Reginald de Cobham was become possessed of this manor; in the 14th year of which he obtained a charter of free warren in all the demesne lands within his lordship of Orkesdenne; and in the next year he obtained licence to castellate his house here. He was son of Reginald de Cobham, who was son of John de Cobham of Cobham, by his second wife, Joane, daughter of Hugh de Nevill. (fn. 12)
This Reginald de Cobham was a great warrior; and in the 18th year of king Edward III. was constituted admiral of the king's fleet, from the Thames mouth westward. In the 20th of king Edward III. he paid aid for one quarter of a see in Orkesden, which he held of William de Eynesford, as of his manor of Eynsford. He died of the pestilence in the 35th year of that reign possessed of this manor, leaving Regihald his son and heir, and Joane his wife, daughter of Sir Maurice de Berkeley surviving, who possessed this manor at her death, anno 43 king Edward III. (fn. 13) Her son, Reginald, was lord of Sterborough, castle, in Surry, from whence this branch of the Cobhams was henceforward called, Cobhams of Sterborough-castle. (fn. 14)
His grandson, Sir Thomas Cobham, left a sole daughter and heir, Anne, who carried this manor in marriage to Sir Edward Borough, who survived him, and died possessed of it in the 20th year of king Henry VIII. then holding it of the lord Zouche, as of his manor of Eynsford, by knights service. (fn. 15)
Thomas, their son and heir, was summoned to parliament, as lord borough, anno 21 Henry VIII. He left Thomas his son and heir, who bequeathed this manor of Orkesden to his youngest son, Sir William Borough; and he, in the beginning of queen Elizabeth's reign, passed it away by sale to Francis Sandbache, esq. who sold it to John Lennard, esq. custos brevium of the court of common-pleas, who purchased it for his second son, Samuel Lennard, who was afterwards knighted, and was of West Wickham, in this county. On his death, in 1618, he was succeeded here by his son, Sir Stephen Lennard, who was created a baronet in 1642; he sold it to Richard Duke, esq. from whom it passed to Nathaniel Tench, esq. who died in 1710, and was buried at Low Leyton, in Essex. His only surviving son, Fither Tench, was created a baronet in 1715. (fn. 16) and died possessed of Orkesden manor in 1736; soon after which it was conveyed by sale to Percival Hart. esq. of Lullingstone, whose grandson, Sir John Dixon Dyke, bart. is the present owner of it.
Many lands in Eynsford, Lullingstone, and Sevenoke, are held of this manor by small annual quit rents.
On the western side of this parish, next to St. Mary Cray, lies the HAMLET of CROCKENHILL, which, as appears by a writ, Ad quod damnum, brought against the prioress of Dartford, in the 11th year of king Edward IV. was in the possession of that prioress and convent; with whom it staid till their suppression, in the reign of king Henry VIII. when their lands and revenues were surrendered into the king's hands; all which were confirmed to him and his successors by the general words of the act of the 31st of his reign, the year after which the king granted to Percival Hart, esq. among other premises, the manor of Crekenhill, alias Crokenhill, with its appurtenances, to hold of him in capite by knights service. (fn. 17) His son, Sir George Hart, of Lullingstone, died possessed of it, being then stiled Crockenhill, alias Court-hawe, in the 22d year of queen Elizabeth, holding it by the above tenure. Since which it has descended, in the same manner as the rest of his estates in this parish, to Sir John Dixon Dyke, bart. the present possessor of it.
This manor pays a yearly fee-farm rent to the crown of eleven shillings and five-pence.
LITTLE-MOTE and PETHAM-COURT are two manors, situated at the two opposite sides of this parish; the former being at the north east corner of it, near Farningham; and the latter at the north-west corner of it, near adjoining to Crokenhill and St. Mary Cray. These manors were, for many generations, part of the possessions of the family of Sibell, who resided at a mansion, called after them Sibell's, situated in Little or Lower Mote, and bore for their arms, Argent, a tiger gules, viewing himself in a glass or mirror, azure. Their estate here was much increased in the reign of king Henry VIII. by one of them marrying the female heir of Cowdale. These Cowdales bore for their arms, Argent, a chevron gules between three cows heads caboshed sable; which coat, both impaled and quartured with Sybill, Philipott says was remaining in the mansion here, both in painted glass and carved work, in his time. (fn. 18)
One of this family, John Sibell, died in the 17th year of queen Elizabeth, possessed of these estates, and also of the demesne lands of the manor of Hiltes bury; all which were held of the manor of Eynsford. He left an only daughter and heir, Elizabeth, and Jane his wife surviving, who held these estates for her life, and afterwards married Francis Hart, esq.
Elizabeth Sibell, the daughter, in the 24th year of queen Elizabeth, married Robert Bosevile, esq. afterwards knighted, the younger brother of Henry Bosevile of Bradborne, and son of Ralph Bosevile, of that place, clerk of the court of wards; and he, on her mother's death, became, in her right, possessed of Sibell's, with the manors of Littlemote and Petham. His descendant, Sir Thomas Bosevile, was of Littlemote, and had been a colonel in the king's army, and knighted by king Charles I. at Durham, in May 1642. He died the next year, and was buried in St. Mary's church, Oxford. (fn. 19) By Sarah, his wife, who afterwards married Col. Richard Crimes, he had a son, Thomas, who possessed these manors and Sibell's on his father's death. He married Elizabeth, only daughter of Sir Francis Wyat, of Boxleyabbey, and died in 1660, leaving an only daughter and heir, Margaretta, who carried the manor of Petham-court in marriage to Sir Robert Marsham, bart. of Bushey-hall, in Hertfordshire; and his great grand son, the Right Hon. Charles Marsham, lord Romney, is the present possessor of it.
But the manor of Littlemote, with Sibell's, became the property of Sir Henry Bosevile, who died in 1702, (fn. 20) without issue, and devised this manor and estate to his kinsman, Robert Bosevile, esq. of Staffordshire, whose family was originally of Ardesley, in Yorkshire, in the reign of queen Elizabeth, a younger branch of them settled in Kent, at Bradborne, in Sevenoke, and here at Eynsford; and a younger branch of these again in Staffordshire; they bore for their arms, Argent, a fess lozengy gules, in chief three bears heads erased sable.
His son of the same name, in the year 1755, sold it, in several parcels, to different persons, since which it has been of no consequence worth mentioning, and the old mansion of Sibell's has been pulled down some years ago, and two tenements have been erected on the scite of it.
Charities.
PERCIVAL HART, esq. gave by will, for the benefit of the poor, an annuity out of lands, vested in Sir John Dyke, bart. and of the annual produce of 2l.
AN UNKNOWN PERSON gave for the like use, a house, let by the parish to Philip Weller, and of the annual value of 4l.
SIR ANTHONY ROPER and . . . . . . . . HATCLIFF, esq. (as is supposed) gave for the benefit of the same, lands and houses in Greenwich, the rents to be divided, to the parish of Farningham threefifths, to Horton Kirkby one-fifth, and to this parish of Eynsford one-fifth, the annual produce being to this parish, on an average, 7l.
EYNSFORD is in the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION OF THE diocese of Rochester, and being a peculiar of the archbishop, it is as such in the deanry of Shoreham. The church, which is dedicated to St. Martin, is situated at the south-east end of the village.
It seems from the form of it to be one of our early Norman structures, and coeval with the castle. It is built in the form of a cross, with two large wings or side chancels; that on the south side belonged to the Sibell's, and afterwards to the Bosevile's, many of whom lie buried in it, several of whose gravestones and inscriptions are now so covered with fifth and rubbish that they are illegible; and the place itself, through continued neglect, is hastening to a total ruin. The north chancel is kept in good repair, and is filled with pews and a neat vestry room. In this chancel, according to Weever, was a stone, on which was engraved, in wondrous antique characters, Ici gis. la famme de la Roberg de Eckisford, perhaps it may have been so spelt for Einesford, or one of his mistakes for it, and if so, this chancel might belong to the Eynesfords, lords of this manor and castle; the stone is now hid by the wooden flooring over it. At the west end of the church is a spire steeple, underneath which is a curious circular door way of Saxon or very early Norman architecture. (fn. 21)
Among other monuments and inscriptions in this church, in the chancel, a gravestone, arms, a lion passant guardant, in chief three stirrups, for George Gifford, esq. obt. 1704, æt. 85; another for Thomas Gifford, esq. obt. 1705, æt. 59. In the chancel, on the south side of the church, a gravestone for lady Sarah Bosevile, wife of Col. Richard Crimes, obt. 1660; another for Tho. Bosevile, esq. of Littlemote, in Eynsford, only son of Sir Thomas Bosevile; he married Elizabeth, only daughter of Sir Francis Wiat of Boxley-abbey, by whom he left Margaretta, his sole daughter and heir; obt. 1660; another, arms, five lozenges in fess, in chief three bears heads erased, impaling two bends engrailed, and a canton, for Sir Henry Bosevile, of Littlemote, and dame Mary his wife; she died 1693, he died 1702. On the south wall, a monument with the above arms, for Mrs. Margaret Bosevile, only daughter and heir of Sir Henry Bosevile, of Littlemote, ob. 1682, æt. 26. (fn. 22)
William de Eynesford, lord of this parish, gave the church of Eynsford to the monks o Christ-church, in Canterbury, when he became a monk there; which was confirmed by William de Enysford, his grandson. (fn. 23) Archbishop Richard, in the reign of king Henry II. appropriated this church to the almonry of Christ church. (fn. 24) In the time of Stephen Langton, archbishop of Canterbury, there was a dispute, whether the church of Farningham was a chapel to the church of Eynsford or not ?
In consequence of which, the archbishop, by his decree, made with the consent of all parties in 1225, ordained, that the rector of Eynsford and his successors, should possess entirely the whole church of Eynsford, with all its tythes, as well great as small, houses, lands, gardens, and all other things belonging to it, which the rector of it was wont to have before; and that the almoner of Christ-church, and not the monks, should possess, to the use of the almonry, the chapel of Farningham, with its appurtenauces, &c. belonging to it, as is therein mentioned; and that the rector of this church of Eynsford should, on a vacancy, present to the vicarage of this church; and that further than this, neither should intermeddle, or claim a right in the above premisess. (fn. 25)
Thus this rectory became a fine cure, the parson of this church from that time having presented to the vicarage, the incumbent of which has had the cure of souls, in which situation the rectory still remains, being esteemed as a donative of the patronage of the archbishop of Canterbury.
In the 15th year of king Edward I. this church was valued at thirty marcs. (fn. 26) In 1575, Henry Withers, clerk, parson of the parish church and benefice of Eynsford, leased this rectory to Thomas Dunmoll, yeoman, at 12l. 6s. 8d. per annum. In 1633, John Gifford, D. D. rector, let the same to Thomas Gifford, his son, at forty pounds per annum rent.
By virtue of the commission of enquiry into the value of church livings, in 1650, issuing out of chancery, it was returned, that Eynsford was a donative, with a house, and one hundred acres of glebe, and the great tythes, worth altogether one hundred and ten pounds per annum, then in the possession of George Gifford, esq. that the vicarage had a house, but no glebe land, and was worth thirty-five pounds per annum, one master Heriot enjoying it, and preaching there. (fn. 27)
Francis Porter, rector in 1674, let to George Gifford, esq. of Pennis, this rectory, or parsonage of forty pounds per annum, and of twenty pounds to the vicar, Edward Tilson, which last sum is mentioned to be an augmentation made in pursuance of the king's letters recommendatory, which lease was confirmed in 1707, in pursuance of like letters of queen Anne.
¶George Gifford, esq. of Pennis, continued lessee till his death, in 1704, when his interest in it devolved to his son, Thomas Gifford, who died the next year, and left three daughters and coheirs, viz. Margaret, married to Thomas Petley; Mary to John Selby, and Jane to Finch Umsrey; this parsonage being let by them at one hundred and forty-five pounds per annum.
The interest of this lease passed by sale from them to Percival Hart, esq. of Lullingstone, whose grandson, Sir John Dixon Dyke, bart. a few years ago, suffered the lease to expire.
The rectory of Eynsford is valued in the king's books at 12l. 16s. 8d. and the yearly tenths at 1l. 5s. 8d. the vicarage at twelve pounds, and the tenths at 1l. 4s. (fn. 28)
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Suffering from some heat shimmer...
Originally built as Boeing 747-243B/M Combi with a side cargo door, this aircraft was capable of carrying both passengers and cargo in the main cabin. It was delivered to Alitalia as I-DEMC in Nov-80. It was sold to a lessor in Feb-94, converted to full freighter configuration and leased back to Alitalia Cargo. It was sold back to Alitalia in Sep-04. The aircraft was due to be leased to Belgian Cargo operator 'Cargo B' in Oct-07 but the lease was cancelled. It was sold to Adventar Ltd and leased to Air Bridge Cargo/Volga-Dnepr Airlines as VP-BIB in Oct-04. The aircraft was returned to the lessor in May-08 and stored at Chateauroux, France. It was leased to Southern Air (USA) as N795SA in Sep-08. It was sold to Air Mobility Inc in Jan-09 while the lease to Southern Air continued. It was permanently retired and stored at Mojave, CA, USA in Oct-10 after 30 years service. It was last noted still at Mojave in Oct-13.
We had a weekend in Borrowdale recently, a Christmas present that we tagged a day on to. After calling at work on Saturday morning to open for business we headed up the motorway to Penrith. The road through the central lakes was washed away in the recent floods and it is going to be a long job replacing it. This made the diverted journey around 145 miles but we had a good run up there. We wanted to get walking ASAP so we pulled in at Threlkeld with a view to heading up Clough Head, and subject to conditions, head over the Dodds and back by the Old Coach Road. We had left appalling weather at home, wind, rain, fog and sleet on the tops. Thankfully it was better further north. There was laying snow on the summits, it was fairly calm low down and some summits were cloud free.
We left the car at 11.10 in our winter gear, straight up through the quarries and the steep scree slope (another Red Screes), by now we were into the snow line. The cloud was down, the wind gale force and the summit frozen hard – a different world up here. South next to Calfhow Pike, the wind made it difficult to talk and it was around -4 so the there was a fair wind-chill factor. It was tough going to our next top – Great Dodd, part of the Helvellyn massif – It was to icy to walk in places which meant deviating from the path, and losing our bearings, visibility was around ten yards with spindrift creating a whiteout at times. We battled on to the top and found the summit cairn. Great Dodd isn’t the easiest top to find your way off in low visibility, we would have gone further but in these conditions it was pointless so we retraced our steps to Calfhow and clear conditions. From here we followed Mosedale beck to Mariel Bridge, which is on the Old Coach Road, this gave us a circular route back to our start. The Old Coach Road has been wrecked by the floods and the 4x4 off roaders are making it a lot worse. 9.25 miles in 3 ¼ hours and we were in Brysons Tearooms in Keswick for Coffee and cake by 3.45pm. We carried on to Borrowdale and checked in at our hotel, not a bad day really.
After a poor night in a poor bed we were breakfasted and out for 8.30. We drove the few miles up to Seatoller and we were kitted up and away at 9.10. A bitterly cold and icy morning, there was some sun but not as much as promised. We could see the summit of Great End covered in cloud, we were heading up there on to the Sca Fell massif. We followed the valley to the east of Seathwaite Fell, a new path for us. Once in the snow the going was very icy with the path ice covered in places. The snow was dry and powdery and in places it had blown over the underlying ice. At this point I might add, we do own crampons. After a winter of splashing around soaked we didn’t expect to need them and they were at home – very clever! This was our first real winters day this winter, other than an hour on Sca Fell Pike on Christmas Day, we haven’t seen winter conditions this winter. By the time we got to Esk Hause it was difficult to stay upright and on our way to Great End we had to pick our way very carefully around the worst of the ice. The spindrift made it difficult to see the ground at times, spinning around our feet in a mist. Once on the summit the cloud was thick and the wind speed high. We had been here fairly recently so I knew the layout of the summit and we had little difficulty finding the summit cairn. We were cursing our lack of crampons and the cloud. Instead of heading into the cloud along the Sca Fell Pike path we decided to get under the cloud, back to Esk Hause and head over Allen Crags and Glaramara. At this point we both took some heavy falls, as did others up there, a lot turned around and headed back down, it was deadly. The cloud had thickened, there wasn’t a ray of sun to soften things. Our chosen route was one of the hardest afternoons we had ever had. Everywhere was frozen solid, we had to kick toe or heel holes to move on slopes that we wouldn’t have broken stride on normally. Minor rock scrambles down steep crags had become life threatening in places and we proceeded with extreme care. The knees were creaking on the long descent to Seathwaite. 10.3 miles in six hours, almost half the speed of yesterday. We made it Keswick for afternoon tea – and bought some Micro Spikes for unfinished business to deal with tomorrow. A beautiful day was forecast so fingers crossed we headed back for a soak in the tub.
Day three, a gorgeous icy, sunny winters day. Things looked promising. We left along yesterday’s route at the same start time – with walking poles and Micro Spikes! At the top of the valley we met a guy who had set off before us, two guys known to him were picking their way through the crags, tiny specks on the 800 foot rocky crag. Some appeared to have tried to climb the snow filled chimney that runs to the summit but we heard later that conditions weren’t suitable. Even though it was minus four the sun had softened the snow just enough to get a grip and it was easier to avoid the worst of the ice, unlike yesterday. The summit of Great End was incredible with never ending vistas. We could see a steady stream of walkers on every path by now. Word had got out that we were in for a rare treat today, plus it was school half term so a lot of people were off work. I visited every possible viewpoint as we went to the summit of Ill Crag , Broad Crag and finally Sca Fell Pike. It was 1.00 PM by now and a steady stream of elated walkers were arriving on England’s highest point. It was bitter but beautiful. We had around five miles back to the car along the Corridor Route to Styhead, Stockley Bridge and Seathwaite. Part of this route we had covered recently on Christmas Day and despite the snow and ice we powered along. We would have been back in two hours but! A mile from the car, following the manmade path down Taylorgill Force to Stockley Bridge Jayne Stumbled. It’s not often she walks in front. I normally lead and relay instructions and warnings back to her. She hit the rock path with her head and face really hard, stunned, she rolled off the path over a drop. She was vertical, resting on a rock on her knees and clinging on to the edge of the path with her fingertips. I grabbed her rucksack and held her whilst I checked her injuries. She had a bad bump on her temple, another on her forehead, split the bridge or her nose, her glasses had gone flying but would straighten. Being left handed she had stuck her left hand out and it had been bent back, it was swelling and discolouring pretty fast. When I had established that nothing was serious enough to stop her moving I got her back on to the path to see to her injuries. The pain initially made her think that she was in a worse state than ( I thought) she really was. She could move her fingers and wrist, albeit with some pain but not enough for it to be broken. The wound to the bridge of her nose although very painful wasn’t going to be a problem. The bumps on her head were turning into eggs by now. I gave her Ibuprofen and Paracetemol and she sat and composed herself for the final mile. We made it to the café in Keswick and got a slightly later afternoon break, our first of the day again. 11.3 miles today in 6 ¼ hours and fairly tough going. It was nothing more than a careless, tired perhaps, stumble on one of the horrible ( our own opinion, I might add) manmade paths made out of irregular stones which are laid at odd angles and are a nightmare to descend when wet on tired legs. A few days later and Jayne is sat on reception at the doctors looking like she’s been boxing, with a purple eye and nose, her left hand swollen and purple – otherwise she’s OK. I came down with mild food poisoning during the night and had to drive 145 miles home at 8.00 the morning after feeling extremely ill. I was due to start fasting for a Colonoscopy in three days. I ended up eating six slices of toast over a four day period – Monday evening to Thursday evening- Having had over 40 stomach endoscopies in twenty years the colonoscopy was nothing more than uncomfortable and , subject to biopsy results, everything looked OK. The trapped wind was another matter – for two days! All in all a very traumatic week. Needless to say we didn’t use the Micro Spikes.
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This aircraft was delivered to GECAS and leased to SkyEurope Airlines as OM-NGC in Apr-06. It was repossessed by GECAS in Jan-09 and stored as Ostrava, Czechia (SkyEurope ceased operations at the end of Aug-09).
The aircraft was re-registered OK-GCE in Oct-09 and ferried to Shannon, Ireland for repainting. It was leased to Aerolineas Argentinas, Argentina as LV-CBF at the end of Oct-09. Current, updated 09-Jun-25.
Volkonskoite-replaced fossil wood from the Permian of Russia. (4.3 cm across at its widest)
This is a very rare specimen of fossil wood from Permian rocks in western Russia. Most fossil wood is preserved by quartz-permineralization or carbonization. This fossil wood has been replaced by a rare chromian smectite clay mineral called volkonskoite (Ca0.3(Cr,Mg,Fe)2(Si,Al)4O10 (OH)2⋅4H2O - hydrous calcium chromium magnesium iron hydroxy-aluminosilicate). The chromium (Cr) content gives the fossil its green coloration. The striations appear to be remnants of the original wood structure. The broken sides show that the massive, fine-grained volkonskoite breaks with a conchoidal fracture.
Host rocks & age: soft fluvial sandstones, Kazanian to Tatarian Stages, upper Upper Permian
Locality: Mt. Efimiatsk (Mt. Efimyatskaya), near the town of Efimyata, ~10 miles west of Votinsk Reservoir & ~30 miles southwest of Okhansk, Chastinsky District, southwestern Perm Region, western foothills of the southwestern Ural Mountains, western Russia
Replacing an earlier scanned photo with a better version 19-Jul-19, plus Topaz DeNoise AI 14-Apr-26.
First flown with the Boeing test registration N1786B, this aircraft was delivered to GECAS and leased to Futura International Airways as EC-HMJ in May-00. It was sub-leased to Futura Gael (Futura Ireland), re-registered EI-DIT and leased back to Futura International in Dec-04.
It was wet-leased to Ryan International Airlines (USA) the following day and operated on behalf of Transglobal Vacations (USA). It was returned to Futura International in early May-05 and operated a series of flights from Dublin in May before being returned to GECAS in Jun-05.
The aircraft was immediately leased to SpiceJet (India) as VT-SPE. It was returned to the lessor in Sep-13, re-registered EI-RUK at the end of Oct-13 and leased to Transaero Airlines (Russia) in early Nov-13.
The aircraft was returned to the lessor in mid Oct-15 and stored at Teruel, Spain just before Transaero ceased operations. It was sold to Magnetic Parts Trading Inc in Feb-18. It was permanently retired at Teruel and broken up there in 2019.
Replacing the alternator while on the camp site
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Watford
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England
I removed the fuzzy catskin hatband from the Akubra Sombrero hat. Unlike the bands on most Akubra hats, which are tack-stitched in place, the furry skunkskin band was glued on! C'mon, Akubra, what's up with that? I expect better craftsmanship from Down Under! You have a reputation to uphold, and hot-melt glue just doesn't cut it!
I could have left the glue, since I planned to replace the hairy band with a cloth band, but I decided to try to clean it off, with mixed results. I managed to scrape off most of the glue using a paring knife and hot water. Unfortunately, the hot water and glue-shavings residue left blotchy water spots on the top surface of the hat. As the hat dried the water spots became more pronounced.
I'm currently trying to devise a method to brush out the water spots and even out the color. I'm having a little bit of luck using a stiff plastic brush and mild dishwashing soap.
I can't believe the hatband was glued in place! That was a disappointing discovery.
And the weekend.
Though with less football than usual, or maybe a different kind, with club games being replaced with international, which mostly were available here via YouTube, other tubes available.
But there was some lower league stuff to watch, and I would lose 90 minutes of my life to watch Bristol Rovers v Crawley end in the dullest of 0-0 draws, with very little skill being on show for the cameras.
Before then, of course, was getting up, coffee, shopping, breakfast. And then a trip into Canterbury for a mug.
A mug.
A colleague's daughter dropped her treasured "Keep Calm" mug and asked if we could find a replacement.
Not online with one that would arrive before I left for DK early Monday morning. But I did seem to remember one of the them tourist trap shops opposite Christchurch Gate.
And as we have not been to the city in a while, we go.
Visitor numbers have returned to their pre-COVID numbers, and with Christmas market stalls just about everywhere, it was very crowded indeed.
We parked in a multi-storey so we could get the car washed, walked down to the city centre and found not quite what we wanted, but one in red, that came in a box which should protect it from the worst of baggage handlers.
We should have gone into the Cathedral Precinct, as they had a fair, the first to be held in the close in 200 years, but with the gate back shrouded in scaffolding, we wander off in search of breakfast.
We find it in a traditional greasy spoon, and have the works with toast and tea, all for a tenner each, and great service too.
Back to the car as time was upon the cleaning, and so we found the car all sparkly and clean, so that it would a magnet for incontinent birds all the way back to Dover, by which time it had several splats.
Sigh.
Sean and Ange were coming for dinner, and we were having the two racks of lamb we got last week. I defrosted them, seasoned, and I left them to soak in the seasoning.
Football in the afternoon.
And then cooking, making Moroccan spiced rice, boiled fresh corn and creamed spinach.
They arrived just before six, we share a glass of wine and I finish cooking, dish up and take the plates through.
More wine during and after, to go with the cheeseboard, before they leave at half ten. Jools had cleared up as Sean and I talked, so just had to get up them wooden steps to bed.
Overview of how to replace batteries in an Avaya Partner ACS phone system processor. This problem is known by a message that will appear on all display phones stating “replace system batteries with power on”.
Going to be a bigger job, thought I could get away with replacing the fronts but three rotten posts means starting again. Wore my Nora Dolomits sockless all day, 16,244 steps, 11 hours!
Introduced in 1956, it replaced the highly-successful Austin A30. The name reflected the larger and more-powerful 34 hp (25 kW) A-Series straight-4 engine, enabling a slightly higher top speed and better acceleration.
The A35 was very similar in appearance to the A30, except for a larger rear window aperture and a painted front grille, with chrome horse-shoe surround, instead of the chrome grille featured on the A30. Both had 13 in (330 mm) wheels. The semaphore turn-signal indicators were replaced with present-day front- and rear-mounted flashing lights. A slightly easier to operate remote-control gear-change was provided. Much of the improved performance was a result of different gearbox ratios. The A30 had the first three ratios close together then a big gap to top (4th gear). The A35 ratios were better spaced and gave a max speed in third of 60 mph (97 km/h) against about 45 mph (72 km/h) for the A30.
Like the A30, the A35 was offered as a 2- or 4-door saloon or 2-door "Countryman" estate and also as a van. The latter model continued in production through to 1968. A rare pickup version was also produced in 1956.
This is a photograph from the 3rd Annual Meath Spring Half Marathon and 10KM Road Races hosted by Bohermeen AC on the 2nd March 2014 at 12:00 at Bohermeen, Ardbraccan, Navan, Co. Meath, Ireland. This year's event included a 10KM race which replaced the 5KM event held on the previous years. This event has grown quickly in popularity over the past few years with this year's entry of 700 beating the previous race numbers of 680. This half marathon event is perfectly placed in the Irish running calendar as it provides runners of all levels and abilities an opportunity to test the half marathon distance in preparation for a Spring Marathon or as the first serious running goal of the New Year. Bohermeen AC is steeped in Irish athletics history since 1927 and it is this experience and exceptional community spirit and volunteering which has made this event today so successful. The very heavy rain that fell on the 10KM race and the begining of the Half Marathon did nothing to dampen the spirits of the participants. In fact, despite a head wind at certain parts of the course, this was a perfect day for road racing.
Our full set of photographs from today's event are available on Flickr at the following link http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157641717197563/. This set of photographs is mostly of the Half Marathon race but there are some from the 10KM event.
Don't forget to scroll down to see more information about the race and these photographs!
Event Management was provided by Irish Company PRECISION TIMING who provided electronic timing for both events. The results from today's events can be found on Precision Timing's website at this URL [www.precisiontiming.net/result/racetimer?v=%252Fen%252Fra...]
The Satellite Navigation Coordinates to Bohermeen are [53.650882,-6.77989] and is accessible using the M3, N2 and N52
The routing for the 2014 event has changed slightly from previous year. In 2014 the race starts about 100m away from the Bohermeen Club Race HQ [See Google StreetView in the direction of the imagery goo.gl/maps/rtj1X] and the race proceeds down the road towards Navan. Just before the 1st mile the race takes a right turn [see Google Streetview goo.gl/maps/iGrR0] which brings runners on the route of the famous Patrick Bell 5KM Road Race route held at Bohermeen every summer. Then the route turns slightly eastwards and this brings the race along a beautiful stretch of rural countryside road. This connects runners with the main loop [see Google StreetView goo.gl/maps/gLI1l] where the race follows the N51 towards Navan. The race must now complete this loop (which passes through the start area and past the finish) and then a full loop again before finishing in the Athletics track. The only hills to speak of in this course are on the the stretch where the race route crosses the M3 motorway (see Google Streetview - as of March 2014 their imagery is a little out of date for the M3 goo.gl/maps/tcdJX). The only major climb on the course must be tackled twice as the road rises up over the M3 Motorway. This comes at about the 5M and 11.5 Mile mark in the race.
Some useful links to other web-resources related to this race
Bohermeen AC Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/bohermeen.ac?fref=ts
2014 Spring Half Marathon Route: www.runningmap.com/?id=641747
2014 Spring Half Marathon 10KM Race Option Route: www.runningmap.com/?id=641752
Google Streetview of the Race Start: goo.gl/maps/rtj1X
Google Streetview of the Race Finish and Race Headquarters: goo.gl/maps/qVttR
Internet Homepage for the Spring Half Marathon [www.meathspringhalfmarathon.com/]
Results from 2013 from Precision Timing: www.precisiontiming.net/result/racetimer?v=%252Fen%252Fra...
Results from 2012 from Precision Timing: www.precisiontiming.net/result/racetimer?v=%252Fen%252Fra...
The Boards.ie Athletics Forum Thread For 2013 Race [www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056785036&p...]
The Boards.ie Athletics Forum Thread For 2014 Race [www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057078579]
Photographs from previous events
Our Flickr Photograph set from the 2nd Spring Marathon 2013: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157632906920970/
Our Flickr set from the 1st Spring Marathon (2012) www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157629146137284/with...
Photographs from the 2013 event from our friend Paul Reilly [pjrphotography.zenfolio.com/p670974697]
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I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?
As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we feel that we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:
►You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera
►Weather or lighting conditions meant that we had some photographs with blurry content which we did not upload to our Flickr set
►There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone
►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!
You can email us petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com to enquire if we have a photograph of you which didn't make the final Flickr selection for the race. But we cannot promise that there will be photograph there. As alternatives we advise you to contact the race organisers to enquire if there were (1) other photographs taking photographs at the race event or if (2) there were professional commercial sports photographers taking photographs which might have some photographs of you available for purchase. You might find some links for further information above.
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A nearly complete curve.
Workers replaced track atop the structure around the S-curve at Hubbard Street (just north of the Merchandise Mart station on the Brown & Purple Lines).
Work was largely wrapped up on the curve on this final weekend when the Wells St. Bridge was also closed for construction, consolidating and minimizing inconveniences and improving efficiency on the project.
Replacing an earlier scanned photo with a better version 18-Jan-22 (DeNoise AI).
The photo was taken through double glazing and you can see the slight double image along the top of the fuselage.
Delivered to Singapore Airlines as 9V-SQE in Feb-98. The aircraft was retired after 15 years and stored at Greenwood, MS, USA in Jun-13. It was broken up at Greenwood in Oct/Nov-14.
Note: The registration 9V-SQE was previously used on a Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-212B
Experimental piece for Beyond Beyond with Kim Klassen. The canola field is Kim's photo. The sky replacement is mine. Additional texture by Kim Klassen.
Built in 1903-1905, this Prairie-style mansion was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Larkin Company executive Darwin D. Martin, whom built the house as a way to bring his family, which had been scattered in various parts of the United States when his mother had died early in his childhood. The house was the culmination of immense personal wealth and professional success that Martin had enjoyed in his life despite his difficult childhood, starting as a soap seller in New York City, being hired by the Larkin Company in 1878, before moving to Buffalo and becoming the single office assistant to John D. Larkin in 1880, and in 1890, replaced Elbert Hubbard, who was a person that Martin immensely admired, as the Corporate Secretary of the Larkin Company. When the Larkin Company was seeking a designer for a major new office building for the company at the turn of the 20th Century, Martin, whom had witnessed Wright’s work in Chicago and Oak Park, wished to hire the architect as the designer of the new building, but needed to convince the skeptical John D. Larkin and other executives at the company of Wright’s suitability for the project. As a result, Martin decided to have Wright design his family estate. Darwin D. Martin became such a close friend of Wright that he commissioned the family’s summer house, Graycliff, located south of Buffalo on the shores of Lake Erie, to be designed by Wright in 1926, and spearheaded the effort to assist Wright with his finances when his personal residence, Taliesin, was threatened with foreclosure in 1927.
The main house is made up of four structures, those being the house itself, which sits at the prominent southeast corner of the property closest to the intersection of Summit Avenue and Jewett Parkway of any structure on the site, the pergola, which is a long, linear covered porch structure that runs northwards from the center of the house, the conservatory, which sits at the north end of the pergola and features a statue of the Winged Victory of Samothrace, which is visible from the front entrance to the house down the long visual axis created by the pergola, and the carriage house, which sits immediately west of the conservatory and behind the west wing of the house, enclosing the rear of the house’s main garden.
On the grounds of the mansion are two other houses, those being the Barton House, built at the northeast corner of the property along Summit Avenue to house Darwin D. Martin’s sister, Delta Martin Barton, and her husband, George F. Barton, which was the first structure to be built on the property and very visually similar to the main house, using the same type of bricks and incorporating many smaller versions of features found on the main house, and the Gardener’s cottage, built in 1909 to house gardeners who maintained the grounds of the property, which is the smallest and plainest of the three houses, which is sandwiched into a narrow strip of the property between two other houses, fronting Woodward Avenue to the west.
The main house features a buff roman brick exterior with raked horizontal mortar joints and filled in vertical joints, giving the masonry the appearance of being made of a series of solid horizontal bands with recessed joints, accentuating the horizontal emphasis of the house’s design and creating texture with shadows. The roof is hipped with wide overhanging eaves, with the gutters draining into downspouts that drop water into drain basins atop various one-story pillars at the corners of the house, with the roof having a T-shaped footprint above the second floor and three separate sections above the first floor, which wrap around the second floor to the south, west, and north, with the roof soaring above a porte-cochere to the west of the house, as well as a separate roof suspended above a porch to the east. The house’s roof is supported by pillars that sit near, but not at the corners of the building, with windows wrapping the corners. The windows are framed by stone sills and wooden trim, with some windows featuring stone lintels. The front door is obscured inside a recessed porch on the front facade, with the tile walkway to the door turning 90 degrees upon its approach to the doorway, a quite common feature of many of Wright’s houses at the time. The house is surrounded by a series of low brick walls with stone bases and stone caps, with sculptural decorative stone planters atop the pillars at the ends of many of these walls, with some of the planters containing carefully chosen decorative vegetation, and others serving as semi-hidden drainage basins for the adjacent one-story roofs.
Inside, the house features a foyer with a head-on view of the pergola and the conservatory to the north, simple but finely crafted wooden trim elements, the beautiful Wisteria Mosaic Fireplace between the foyer and dining room on the first floor that reflects light in different ways via various types of tile with different types of glazing, rough plaster painted a variety of colors, careful use of shadow to highlight certain elements while obscuring others, art glass windows featuring stained glass and clear glass panes in decorative patterns, wooden built ins and Frank Lloyd Wright-designed furnishings, a large kitchen with lots of white surfaces and wooden cabinets overlooking the garden, a living room with a vaulted ceiling and brick fireplace featuring an arched hearth opening, extensive use of expansion and compression via ceiling height to drive movement through the space, ventilation ducts that can be operated via decorative casement windows at the pillars ringing the various spaces of the house, wooden screens to obscure the staircase and second floor, custom light fixtures, art glass ceiling panels, and five large doors with art glass lights to the eastern porch on the first floor. The second floor of the house has multiple bedrooms with a variety of Frank Lloyd Wright built-in and freestanding furniture, wooden trim, and multiple bathrooms. The house is further decorated with Japanese art pieces procured by Wright in Japan, as well as being heavily inspired by traditional Japanese architecture, with usage of shadow and light to obscure and highlight different features, as well as the general form of the house, with the wide eaves providing ample shade to the interior during the summer months, while still allowing light to easily enter the space during the darker winter months.
To the north of the main house is an approximately 90-foot-long pergola with evenly spaced brick pillars framing the tile walkway, decorative wooden trim on the ceiling at each column, light fixtures at each column, and a glass transom and a door with large glass lights and a narrow frame providing a nearly unobstructed view of the interior of the conservatory at the north end of the pergola, focusing the attention of visitors upon their entrance to the house, as the conservatory and pergola form a continual visual axis from the foyer to the statue of the Winged Victory of Samothrace that stands in the northern end of the conservatory. This entire section of the house was rebuilt during its restoration, having been demolished in the 1960s after falling into disrepair. The pergola features a gabled roof that terminates at the bonnet roof around the perimeter of the conservatory to the north and at the first floor hipped roof of the house to the south.
The conservatory sits at the north end of the pergola, and has a latin cross footprint, with a glass skylight roof with a gabled section running north-south and a pyramidal hipped section at the crossing. The skylight terminates at a parapet that surrounds it on all sides, which features distinctive and decorative “birdhouses” at the north and south ends, apparently intended to house Blue Martins, but were not designed appropriately for the specific needs of the species, and have thus never been occupied. Two of the birdhouses survived the decay and demolition of the original conservatory in the 1960s, and were prominently displayed atop a wall in front of the house until the restoration of the complex in 2007. The interior of the conservatory features only a few concrete planters flanking the walkways and below the large Winged Victory of Samothrace that sits in the northern alcove of the space, with this apparently not having been what the Martin family had in mind, leading to the erection of a prefabricated conventional greenhouse made of metal and glass to the west of the Carriage House shortly after the house’s completion. The conservatory utilizes the same small tile on the floor as other areas of the house, with suspended wooden trim frames breaking up the large void of the space into smaller sections, supporting the space’s light fixtures and carefully framing the planters, fountain, and sculpture.
To the west of the conservatory is the two-story Carriage House, which features a simple pyramidal hipped roof with wide overhanging eaves, recessed corner pillars with central sections featuring wrap-around bands of windows on the second floor, a large carriage door in the center of the south facade, flanked by two smaller pillars and two small windows, and a one-story rear wing with a hipped roof. The interior presently houses a gift shop, but is set up like the original structure, demolished in the 1960s, would have been, with horse stables, red brick walls, a utility sink, and a simple staircase to the upper floor.
The house complex was home to the Martin family until 1937, when, owing to financial difficulties brought on by the loss of the family fortune during the 1929 Black Friday stock market crash and Darwin D. Martin’s death in 1935, the house had become too difficult for the family to maintain, with the family abandoning the house, allowing it to deteriorate. Additionally, Isabelle Reidpath Martin, Darwin’s widow, did not like the house’s interior shadows, which made it difficult for her to see. D.R. Martin, Darwin’s son, tried to donate the house to the City of Buffalo and the State University of New York system for use as a library, but neither entity accepted the offer, and the house remained empty until 1946, when it was taken by the city due to back taxes. In 1951, the house was purchased by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, which intended to convert the house into a summer retreat for priests, similar to the contemporaneous sale of Graycliff by the Martin family to the Piarists, a Catholic order. However, the property languished until 1955, when it was sold to architect Sebastian Tauriello, whom worked hard to save the architecturally significant and by-then endangered property, hoping the house would avoid the fate that had befallen the Larkin Administration Building five years prior. The house was subdivided into three apartments, with the carriage house, pergola, and conservatory demolished and the rear yard sold, and two uninspired apartment buildings with slapped-on Colonial Revival-style trim known as Jewett Gardens Apartments, were built to the rear of the house. In 1967, the University at Buffalo purchased the house, utilizing it as the university president’s residence, with the Barton House and Gardener’s Cottage being parceled off, both converted to function as independent single-family houses. The university attempted to repair the damage from years of neglect and did some work to keep the house functioning, modernizing portions of the interior and returning several pieces of original furniture to the house. The house would exist in this condition for the next half-century.
In 1975, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and in 1986, was listed as a National Historic Landmark. In 1992, the nonprofit Martin House Restoration Corporation was founded with the goal of eventually restoring the historically and architecturally significant complex, and opening it as a museum. In 1994, the organization purchased the Barton House, and had the Martin House donated by the University of Buffalo in 2002. The restoration of both houses began under the direction of Hamilton Houston Lownie Architects shortly thereafter, and the Jewett Gardens Apartments were demolished upon the acquisition of the site by the nonprofit around the turn of the millennium. In 2006, the Gardener’s cottage was purchased from private ownership, and work began to rebuild the lost Pergola, Conservatory, and Carriage House, which were completed in 2007. Additional work to restore the house continued over the next decade, restoring the various interior spaces, with extensive work being put in to restore the kitchen and bedrooms. Finally, in 2017, the last part of the house was restored, being the beautiful Wisteria Mosaic Fireplace between the dining room and foyer, which had been extensively altered. An addition to the grounds, located on the former rear yard of an adjacent house, is the contemporary, sleek glass and steel-clad Eleanor & Wilson Greatbatch Pavilion Visitor Center, designed by Toshiko Mori, with a cantilevered roof that appears to float and tapers to thin edges, with glass walls on three sides, which houses the visitor information desk, ticket sales, presentation space, a timeline of the Martin House’s history, and restrooms. The restoration of the house marks one of the first full reconstructions of a demolished Frank Lloyd Wright structure, and is one of several significant works by the architect in Buffalo, including three designs that were built posthumously in the early 21st Century - the Fontana Boat House in Front Park, the Tydol Filling Station at the Buffalo Transportation Pierce Arrow Museum, and the Blue Sky Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Cemetery, which was designed for the Martin family in 1928, but not built until 2004.
Today, the restored Darwin D. Martin House complex serves as a museum, allowing visitors to experience one of the largest Prairie-style complexes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, faithfully restored to its circa 1907 appearance, giving visitors a sense of the genius and design philosophy of Wright.
We're taking a new approach to how we perform critical inspection and maintenance of subway components that are necessary to providing reliable service -- FASTRACK. The third implementation of FASTRACK is taking place on the Sixth Avenue B/D/F/M Line from 57 Street to W 4 Street from Feb. 27 to March 2, 2012. Because a section of the subway is closed to trains for seven consecutive hours, FASTRACK is a safer and more efficient way to maintain and clean New York City's sprawling subway — a system that never closes.
With no trains running along Sixth Avenue, 800 MTA employees are able to inspect signals, replace rails and cross ties, scrape track floors, clean stations and paint areas that are not reachable during normal train operation. Workers also took the opportunity to clean lighting fixtures, change bulbs and repair platform edges while performing high-intensity station cleaning.
Photo by Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Leonard Wiggins.
Replacing an earlier scanned photo with a better version, plus Topaz DeNoise AI 28-Mar-24.
Now with full tail colours but no 'cheatline'.
First flown with the Airbus test registration F-WWII, this aircraft was delivered to the GATX Capital Corporation and leased to Onur Air (Turkiye) as TC-ONB in Jul-92.
It was returned to the lessor and leased to Ansett Australia as VH-HYY in Jun-96. It was returned to the lessor in Sep-01 and stored at Melbourne.
The aircraft was ferried to Toulouse in Feb-02. GATX were due to re-register it PH-DOE but that wasn't taken up and it was leased to Air Malta as 9H-ADZ in Mar-02. It was returned to the lessor in Oct-04.
In Nov-04 the aircraft was leased to AZAL Azerbaijan Airlines as 4K-AZ54. They bought it in Jul-10. It was permanently retired at Baku, Azerbaijan in Nov-14. Updated 02-Apr-24.
Note: Air Malta was closed down by the Maltese Government on 31-Mar-24, basically because the European Commission wouldn't let them throw any more money at it in subsidies. They must have been reading the Greek Government playbook on airline closures because on 01-Apr-24 a new slimmed down Maltese national carrier started operating, called 'KM Malta Airlines'...
Quantum Break
~8.3MP | Hattiwatti's cinematic tools (Camera, FOV, Timestop, HUD Toggle) | Side-by -side Stereogram using StereoPhoto Maker | Reshade v3 | Lanczos2
Previewing this room with the free camera before entering has some of the props, effects and lighting missing from the scene. This was a weird position he was in and I thought it would be neat as a SBS 3D Stereogram with the arm outstretched. When I entered the room the rest of the props where drawn and I saw what he was reaching out for and the scene made a bit more sense.
To view: You need to cross your eyes until you see three images instead of two then focus on the middle image. If this is hard to do you can try using the dots at the top of the screen as a guide, you want to try to merge those two dots into the center into one dot. It took me a while before I was able to "see" these myself but a little patience, the right distance from the screen, and a couple headaches later and you too will be able to transform two dimensions into three!
Edit: Replaced with slightly less headache inducing version of the stereogram.
Teenager Jamie Knott was left devastated after his prized iPad was stolen following treatment for his kidneys at the Royal Manchester Childrens’ Hospital.
On Tuesday 27 September 2011, the 14-year old who suffers from a debilitating illness and is slowly losing his sight had been attending the hospital for treatment following a kidney transplant when the device was stolen from his room.
The hi-tech gadget had been donated to him from the Make a Wish charity after a wish he made for the tablet before his sight is permanently lost.
Touched by Jamie’s circumstances, officers from the Metropolitan Division who have been investigating the crime raised funds for a new iPad for the youngster.
PC Carl Kelly said: “When we heard about what had happened we wanted to be able to help replace the gadget, as I know his parents would have struggled to afford a new one. We are grateful to Tesco in Gorton who were kind enough to donate the new iPad for free. Jamie is a brave young man and an inspiration to us all.
“Having your personal property stolen is a devastating crime for anyone, but to have something stolen when you are recovering in hospital is heartless and takes real cowardice. We will try our hardest to see that justice is served following this crime and inquiries are ongoing.”
Mum, Tracey Knott from Driffield, West Yorkshire said: “What happened right under Jamie’s nose was a horrible thing and I think it’s wonderful what everyone has done for him.
“Jamie was really surprised and over the moon for what they have done. I’ve never known anyone show such generosity and I am very grateful.”
The Division will present Jamie with accessories for his iPad and are donating the £100 to the Make a Wish charity.
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