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Erfurt (F262) is the third ship of the Braunschweig-class corvette of the German Navy.
The K130 Braunschweig class (sometimes Korvette 130) is Germany's newest class of ocean-going corvettes. Five ships have replaced the Gepard-class fast attack craft of the German Navy.
She is seen here returning to Plymouth, UK in a break between her training serials with the Royal Navy's FOST.
The theatre was originally called the Seneca Theatre and built by the Schine Chain to replace an aging venue a couple of blocks up the street. The building was designed by John and Drew Eberson. Construction was started in 1941 just before the outbreak of WWII. Because of a shortage of building materials caused by the war, construction was not completed until 1945 after the war ended.
The theatre was called the Seneca after the Indian nation which owns the underlying ground. The entire city of Salamanca is located on the Seneca Indian reservation. The land is ground-leased from the Senecas and everyone in the town pays an annual Indian rent.
The theatre lobby featured many sculptures in crevices on the walls. It was operated by the Schine Chain until the mid-1960s. The theatre continued to show movies until June 1972 when the auditorium ended up under eight feet of water in the flooding which accompanied Hurricane Agnes. The Theater originally had 1272 seats.
The Seneca sat abandoned until the early 1980s when Cattaragus County acquired the building. Over the next several years the theatre was slowly renovated and transformed into the Cattaragus County Center Living Arts Center. It is now primarily used for local live theatre and travelling acts.
The Aston Martin DB7 dates back largely to when Ford bought the ailing company in 1988, where with resources gathered from Ford's other new British subsidy Jaguar, the company set out to replace the seemingly ancient Aston Martin V8 design that dated back to 1969. Although the Virage of 1989 was a modern day retelling of the V8 design (by making the whole thing a touch more bulbous and cramming more energy under the hood than Drax Power Station), the company hadn't launched a new model since 1974's Aston Martin Lagonda, which was built to be hopeless. So, with the help of designers from both Jaguar and Aston, and headed by renowned car stylish Ian Callum, the DB7 was in fact built on a collection of all kinds of things merged together. The original styling was in fact meant to be placed onto the failed Jaguar F-Type project, which was shelved for another 20 years before being launched in 2013, with its styling being based spiritually on the DB7 (what a production loophole blackhole!). Placed onto the platform of a Jaguar XJS, Ian Callum gave the car some final alterations to the design to make the original F-Type design look more like an Aston Martin, specifically the radiator grille, styled to look like the famous grille of the mighty DB5.
Eventually the car was launched in 1993 at the Geneva Motor Show to a whirlwind of critical acclaim. The smooth styling was a breath of fresh air for both the company and the British Motor Industry's long reputation of angular and rather dull machines that were merely based on cars that were somewhat endearing in the 1960's. The car was also powered by a smooth 3.2L V6, not a particularly powerful engine, but Aston Martin didn't realise they were sitting on an absolute gold mine of a car. The company even went so far as to not make it the flagship motor, placing it as an entry-level car under the Virage. Eventually in 1996, the Aston Martin DB7 Volante convertible was launched, with both cars going for the princely sum of $140,000 for the standard coupé, and $150,000 for the Volante.
In 1999 the car was given a facelift and replaced with the V12 Vantage, giving the car the grunt and grind of a powerful Aston Martin 5.9L engine, with a top speed of 165mph! Although this was sold alongside the original V6 model, it quickly became apparent that the idea of having a raunchy V12 under the hood was much more satisfying, so they axed it the same year. In 2002, the limited edition GT and GTA models were launched, improving the V12 engine but with little to no styling changes. This new engine was indeed formidable, with Jeremy Clarkson once demonstrating on Top Gear how he could pull away in 4th Gear and eventually get the car to 135mph before hitting the Rev-Counter. Today these are amongst the rarest of cars with only 190 GT's and 112 GTA's built. Another rare variant was the Zagato, launched in 2002, which featured more rounded styling and made it look something like a 2000 Ford Thunderbird. Only 100 of these cars were built, with 99 being sold out immediately upon launch, with one being donated to the Aston Martin Museum. The final variant of the DB7 was the DB AR1, which once again featured different body styling and was fitted with a 6.0L V12 from the Vanquish, giving it a top speed of 186mph. Again, only 99 of these cars were ever built and sold.
The DB7 ended production in 2004 with only 7,000 examples built. DB7's are quite rare unless you look in the right places. With only 7,000 cars built they're not exactly something you'd bump into every day. Except for me because I know three of them that live within about a mile of me!
Replacing an earlier digital photo with a better copy, plus Topaz DeNoise AI 01-Oct-25.
With additional 'Member of the SAS Group' titles.
Named: "Inga Bardsson".
This aircraft was delivered to Braathens S.A.F.E as LN-TUK in Mar-01. It was sold to a lessor in Nov-04 and leased back to Braathens just before the company was merged into the Norwegian Division of SAS Scandinavian Airlines in Dec-04 when the Company was renamed SAS/Braathens.
In Jun-07 it was renamed Scandinavian Airlines Norge. The aircraft was fitted with blended winglets in Jun-08. It was renamed again in Oct-09 as SAS Scandinavian Airlines. The aircraft was permanently retired at Marana, AZ, USA in Aug-21. It was broken up there in Mar-22.
L'espace est vraiment exigu pour travailler, mais finalement le travail est fait, les nouvelles batteries sont installées et mon amie Laila est heureuse et attend patiemment que le soleil frappe ses panneaux !
Sonning Bridge is a road bridge across the River Thames at Sonning, Berkshire. It is a brick arch bridge completed in 1775, to replace an earlier wooden bridge. The bridge has been the subject of many paintings and prints by artists and is a Grade II listed building.
A stone marker at the centre of the bridge is marked "B | O" (for the counties of Berkshire and Oxfordshire on each side of the river) with the vertical line indicating the exact boundary down the middle of the river. This is an ancient border which used to be between Wessex and Mercia.
The village of Sonning at the Berkshire end of the bridge, is one of the most charming on the Thames, despite being just a few miles from the ever expanding town of Reading. It was described by Jerome K. Jerome in his book Three Men in a Boat as "the most fairy-like little nook on the whole river".
However, the village is plagued with queues of traffic, especially at morning and evening rush hours as the bridge is quite long and only one lane wide, and traffic lights control the intermittent flow of vehicles. It is the only bridge across the river between Reading and Henley on Thames and plans for another have been debated for many years.
Replacing an earlier digital photo with a better version 21-Mar-23.
I've stopped doing histories for the 'small stuff', it's usually very confusing and takes too long to sort out!
Replacing a digital photo with a better version 25-Feb-23.
Lufthansa Regional, op by Eurowings
First flown in Sep-91 with the British Aerospace test registration G-6-200, it was registered G-BTVT to British Aerospace in Nov-91. It was initially due for lease to Meridiana SpA (Italy as I-FLRZ but lease was cancelled and the aircraft was stored.
The aircraft was leased to Conti-Flug as D-ACFA in Oct-92. It was repossessed by British Aerospace in Jul-94 and stored. In Oct-94 it was leased to Eurowings. British Aerospace sold it to Trident Aviation Leasing in Mar-98 while the lease to Eurowings continued.
It was initially in Eurowings full livery and later repainted in Lufthansa Regional livery with small Eurowings titles. The aircraft was withdrawn from service and stored at Exeter, UK in Apr-10 and moved to Southend, UK for further storage in Jun-10.
The aircraft was returned to BAE Systems Asset Management as G-BTVT in Aug-10 although it remained stored at Southend. It was transferred to British Aerospace's 'in-house' airline, BAE Systems Corporate Air Travel as G-TYPH in Feb-11.
It operated inter-factory shuttle services for BAE until it was permanently retired at Cranfield, UK in Aug-19. The aircraft was broken up at Cranfield in Nov-19.
A round up of some visits from nearly a decade ago when I just posted general shots, to my surprise I took shots of details too, and didn't post them at the time.
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Monday 10th September 2012
I can now reveal that being on Holiday is officially better than being at work. It is a Monday morning, and we have bottled another batch of beer, and i have mopped the floor as we did manage to mess it up, slightly. The house now smells like a brewery, which would not be a bad thing only it was just eight in the morning, and it is a tad early for beer, even for me. In an exciting move, we are heading to Tesco in a while to get ingredients for out Christmas cakes.
Yes, cakes. One is never enough. A couple of years ago, we tried one in November and had to bake another one to replace it. We don't marzipan or ice them, and just leave them with their cakey goodness and Christmas spiciness.
Friday seemed to go on forever until it got to five to four and it was time to head home. The technicians had come ashore early and gone home, so I had the office to myself, therefore my hearty laughing at the Kermode and Mayo film review went unheard except by me.
So, off to Tesco for a week's shopping, and ended up getting enough stuff to last the weekend. And once that was done and paid for, loaded up the car and back home and now the holiday could really begin.
And Friday night was spent watching football. Yes, now the Olympics and Paralympics are coming to an end, it means we must return, ashamed like a unfaithful lover to the old dependable. And England began their World Cup qualifying campaign with an away game against Moldova. I did have to ask Jools to Google Moldova to find where it was, as I really didn't have a clue.
Anyway, it is behind the fridge just to the lest of Romania, apparently.
And England strung together at least 5 passes, played well, and scored 5 goals; and yet managed to look unconvincing switching off several times, just before half time and in the second half and could have easily conceded goals. Just to remind you, by some quirk, England are currently ranked the third best team IN THE WORLD, which I suppose goes to show just how much you should trust information coming out of FIFA towers.
Saturday morning after breakfast we headed to Mongeham for some foraging action, so we can make jam and jellies. We knew of a footpath behind a garage that is just lined with plum and greengage trees. We picked a couple of pounds and then headed on up the A20 and M20 to head to The Weald for a tour of 'interesting' churches.
Each year English Heritage organises a long weekend where many buildings are open for people like us to visit and photograph. Last spring we visited St Lawrence at Mereworth; and while is it a wonderfully beautiful church, the doors were locked and we wanted to see inside.
First of all we headed inside the M25 to a tiny, but beautiful village on the edge of the Weald where stockbrokers and hedge fund managers have their homes with fine views onto the Garden of england. All along the main road huge gates with security cameras guarded the mock-Tudor mansions hidden behind mature trees.
We turned off down a narrow lane and headed towards to small village of Trottiscliffe; which is not pronounced the way it is spelt so to make the unwary visitor appear stupid. It is pronounced 'Trozli', if Wiki is to be believed.
At the end of a long dead end road leading to a row of cottages and an old stable block is the church. I don't think i have ever seen a church in a more perfect location, it is one of those places that you have to be going as you'll never just pass it.
There was a churchwarden waiting at the door and happy to answer questions and tell us the history of the church. Dominating the tiny church is, what I now know to be from Westminister Abbey is the biggest pulpit I have seen outside a er, cathedral.
We take our leave and head to Mereworth.
We were the only visitors at the church, we parked the car on the verge outside, took in the glorious design of the church before going in. First thing you do see is a pair of spiral staircases; one to the gallery and the other to the bell tower. And straight ahead is a simple wooden door leading to the main body of the church.
I won't try to describe the church, please use the link on the pictures to go to my Flickrstream. The design is glorious, and looking pristine as it has just been restored to its former glory. Or original glory.
Once again there was a churchwarden to greet us, offer us refreshments and answer any questions.
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One of the few eighteenth-century churches in Kent, built in 1746 by the 7th Earl of Westmoreland. Surprisingly for so late a date the name of the architect is not known although it is in the style of Colen Campbell who designed the nearby castle, but as he died in 1722 it is probably by someone in his office. The main feature of the church is a tall stone steeple with four urns at the top of the tower, whilst the body of the church is a plain rectangular box consisting of an aisled nave and chancel. Inside is an excellent display of eighteenth-century interior decoration - especially fine being the curved ceiling which is painted with trompe l'oeil panels. At the west end is the galleried pew belonging to the owners of Mereworth Castle - it has organ pipes painted on its rear wall. The south-west chapel contains memorials brought here from the old church which stood near the castle, including one to a fifteenth-century Lord Bergavenny, and Sir Thomas Fane (d. 1589). The latter monument has a superb top-knot! The church contains much heraldic stained glass of sixteenth-century date, best seen with binoculars early in the morning. Of Victorian date is the excellent Raising of Lazarus window, installed in 1889 by the firm of Heaton, Butler and Bayne. In the churchyard is the grave of Charles Lucas, the first man to be awarded the Victoria Cross, while serving on the Hecla during the Crimean War.
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MEREWORTH.
EASTWARD from West, or Little Peckham, lies Mereworth, usually called Merrud. In Domesday it is written Marourde, and in the Textus Roffensis, MÆRUURTHA, and MERANWYRTHE.
THE PARISH of Mereworth is within the district of the Weald, being situated southward of the quarry hills. It is exceedingly pleasant, as well from its naturalsituation, as from the buildings, avenues, and other ornamental improvements made throughout it by the late earl of Westmoreland, nor do those made at Yokes by the late Mr. Master contribute a little to the continued beauty of this scene. The turnpike road crosses this parish through the vale from Maidstone, towards Hadlow and Tunbridge, on each side of which is a fine avenue of oaks, with a low neatly cut quick hedge along the whole of it, which leaves an uninterrupted view over the house, park, and grounds of lord le Despencer, the church with its fine built spire, and the seat of Yokes, and beyond it an extensive country, along the valley to Tunbridge, making altogether a most beautiful and luxuriant prospect.
Mereworth house is situated in the park, which rises finely wooded behind it, at a small distance from the high road, having a fine sheet of water in the front of it, being formed from a part of a stream which rises at a small distance above Yokes, and dividing itself into two branches, one of them runs in front of Mereworth house as above mentioned, and from thence through Watringbury, towards the Medway at Bow-bridge; the other branch runs more southward to East Peckham, and thence into the Medway at a small distance above Twiford bridge.
Mereworth-house was built after a plan of Palladio, designed for a noble Vicentine gentleman, Paolo Almerico, an ecclesiastic and referendary to two popes, who built it in his own country about a quarter of a mile distance from the city of Venice, in a situation pleasant and delightful, and nearly like this; being watered in front with a river, and in the back encompassed with the most pleasant risings, which form a kind of theatre, and abound with large and stately groves of oak and other trees; from the top of these risings there are most beautiful views, some of which are limited, and others extend so as to be terminated only by the horizon. Mereworth house is built in a moat, and has four fronts, having each a portico, but the two side ones are filled up; under the floor of the hall and best apartments, are rooms and conveniences for the servants. The hall, which is in the middle, forms a cupola, and receives its light from above, and is formed with a double case, between which the smoke is conveyed through the chimnies to the center of it at top. The wings are at a small distance from the house, and are elegantly designed. In the front of the house is an avenue, cut through the woods, three miles in length towards Wrotham-heath, and finished with incredible expence and labour by lord Westmoreland, for a communication with the London road there: throughout the whole, art and nature are so happily blended together, as to render it a most delightful situation.
In the western part of this parish, on the high road is the village, where at Mereworth cross it turns short off to the southward towards Hadlow and Tunbridge, at a small distance further westward is the church and parsonage, the former is a conspicuous ornament to all the neighbouring country throughout the valley; hence the ground rises to Yokes, which is most pleasantly situated on the side of a hill, commanding a most delightful and extensive prospect over the Weald, and into Surry and Sussex.
Towards the north this parish rises up to the ridge of hills, called the Quarry-hills, (and there are now in them, though few in number, several of the Martin Cats, the same as those at Hudson's Bay) over which is the extensive tract of wood-land, called the Herst woods, in which so late as queen Elizabeth's reign, there were many wild swine, with which the whole Weald formerly abounded, by reason of the plenty of pannage from the acorns throughout it. (fn. 1)
¶The soil of this parish is very fertile, being the quarry stone thinly covered with a loam, throughout the northern part of it; but in the southern or lower parts, as well as in East Peckham adjoining, it is a fertile clay, being mostly pasture and exceeding rich grazing land, and the largest oxen perhaps at any place in this part of England are bred and fatted on them, the weight of some of them having been, as I have been informed, near three hundred stone.
THIS PLACE, at the time of taking the survey of Domesday, was part of the possessions of Hamo Vicecomes, under the general title of whose lands it is thus entered in that book.
In Littlefield hundred. Hamo holds Marourde. Norman held it of king Edward, and then, and now, it was and is taxed at two sulings. The arable land is ninecarucates. In demesne there are two, and twenty-eight villeins, with fifteen borderers, having ten carucates. There is a church and ten servants, and two mills of ten shillings, and two fisheries of two shillings. There are twenty acres of meadow, and as much wood as is sufficient for the pannage of sixty hogs. In the time of king Edward the Confessor, it was worth twelve pounds, and afterwards ten pounds, now nineteen pounds.
This Hamo Vicecomes before-mentioned was Hamo de Crevequer, who was appointed Vicecomes, or sheriff of Kent, soon after his coming over hither with the Conqueror, which office he held till his death in the reign of king Henry I.
¶In the reign of king Henry II. Mereworth was in the possession of a family, which took their surname from it, and held it as two knights fees, of the earls of Clare, as of their honour of Clare.
Roger, son of Eustace de Mereworth, possessed it in the above reign, and then brought a quare impedit against the prior of. Leeds, for the advowson of the church of Mereworth. (fn. 3)
William de Mereworth is recorded among those Kentish knights, who assisted king Richard at the siege of Acon, in Palestine, upon which account it is probable the cross-croslets were added to the paternal arms of this family.
MEREWORTH is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Rochester and deanry of Malling.
The church was dedicated to St. Laurence. It was an antient building, and formerly stood where the west wing of Mereworth-house, made use of for the stables, now stands. It was pulled down by John, late earl of Westmoreland, when he rebuilt that house, and in lieu of it he erected, about half a mile westward from the old one, in the center of the village, the present church, a most elegant building, with a beautiful spire steeple, and a handsome portico in the front of it, with pillars of the Corinthian order. The whole of it is composed of different sorts of stone; and the east window is handsomely glazed with painted glass, collected by him for this purpose.
In the reign of king Henry II. the advowson of this church was the property of Roger de Mereworth, between whom and the prior and convent of Ledes, in this county, there had been much dispute, concerning the patronage of it: at length both parties submitted their interest to Gilbert, bishop of Rochester, who decreed, that the advowson of it should remain to Roger de Mereworth; and he further granted, with his consent, and that of Martin then parson of it, to the prior and convent, the sum of forty shillings, in the name of a perpetual benefice, and not in the name of a pension, in perpetual alms, to be received yearly for ever, from the parson of it. (fn. 13)
The prior and the convent of Ledes afterwards, anno 12 Henry VII. released to Hugh Walker, rector of this church, their right and claim to this pension, and all their right and claim in the rectory, by reason of it, or by any other means whatsoever.
In the reign of king Henry VI. the rector and parishioners of this church petitioned the bishop of Ro chester, to change the day of the feast of the dedication of it, which being solemnized yearly on the 4th day of June, and the moveable seasts of Pentecost, viz. of the sacred Trinity, or Corpus Christi, very often happening on it; the divine service used on the feasts of dedications could not in some years be celebrated, but was of necessity deferred to another day, that these solemnities of religion and of the fair might not happen together. Upon which the bishop, in 1439, transferred the feast to the Monday next after the exaltation of the Holy Cross, enjoining all and singular the rectors, and their curates, as well as the parishioners from time to time to observe it accordingly as such. And to encourage the parishioners and others to resort to it on that day, he granted to such as did, forty days remission of their sins.
Soon after the above-mentioned dispute between Roger de Mereworth and the prior and convent of Ledes, the church of Mereworth appears to have been given to the priory of Black Canons, at Tunbridge. (fn. 14) And it remained with the above-mentioned priory till its dissolution in the 16th year of king Henry VIII. a bull having been obtained from the pope, with the king's leave, for that purpose. After which the king, in his 17th year, granted that priory, with others then suppressed for the like purpose, together with all their manors, lands, and possessions, to cardinal Wolsey, for the better endowment of his college, called Cardinal college, in Oxford. But four years afterwards, the cardinal being cast in a præmunire; all the estates of that college, which for want of time had not been firmly settled on it, became forfeited to the crown. (fn. 15) After which, the king granted the patronage of the church of Mereworth, to Sir George Nevill, lord Abergavenny, whose descendant Henry, lord Abergavenny, died possessed of it in the 29th year of queen Elizabeth, leaving an only daughter and heir Mary, married to Sir Thomas Fane, who in her right possessed it. Since which it has continued in the same owners, that the manor of Mereworth has, and is as such now in the patronage of the right hon. Thomas, lord le Despencer.
It is valued in the king's books at 14l. 2s. 6d. and the yearly tenths at 1l. 8s. 3d.
¶It appears by a valuation of this church, and a terrier of the lands belonging to it, subscribed by the rector, churchwardens, and inhabitants, in 1634, that there belonged to it, a parsonage-house, with a barn, &c. a field called Parsonage field, a close, and a garden, two orchards, four fields called Summerfourds, Ashfield, the Coney-yearth, and Millfield, and the herbage of the church-yard, containing in the whole about thirty acres, that the house and some of the land where James Gostlinge then dwelt, paid to the rector for lord's rent twelve-pence per annum; that the houses and land where Thomas Stone and Henry Filtness then dwelt, paid two-pence per annum; that there was paid to the rector the tithe of all corn, and all other grain, as woud, would, &c. and all hay, tithe of all coppice woods and hops, and all other predial tithes usually paid, as wool, and lambs, and all predials, &c. in the memory of man; that all tithes of a parcel of land called Old-hay, some four or five miles from the church, but yet within the parish, containing three hundred acres, more or less; and the tithe of a meadow plot lying towards the lower side of Hadlow, yet in Mereworth, containing by estimation twelve acres, more or less, commonly called the Wish, belonged to this church.
The parsonage-house lately stood at a small distance north-eastward from Mereworth-house; but obstructing the view from the front of it, the late lord le Despencer obtained a faculty to pull the whole of it down, and to build a new one of equal dimensions, and add to it a glebe of equal quantity to that of the scite and appurtenances of the old parsonage, in exchange. Accordingly the old parsonage was pulled down in 1779, and a new one erected on a piece of land allotted for the purpose about a quarter of a mile westward from the church, for the residence of the rector of Mereworth and his successors.
17-02-2019
Gorgeous Gulfstream G550 N950DM lets off the brakes to begin it's take off run from 24 at FAB. This ex-MGM machine replaced the companies older G4 that wore this reg.
Comerica Park is an open-air ballpark located in Downtown Detroit. It serves as the home of the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball, replacing Tiger Stadium in 2000.
The park is named after Comerica Bank, which was founded in Detroit and was based there when the park opened. Comerica's headquarters have since been moved to Dallas, though the bank still retains a large presence in Detroit. The stadium's seating capacity is 41,297. There is a Detroit People Mover station about a block from the stadium (at Grand Circus Park). Comerica Park sits on the original site of the Detroit College of Law.
Since their founding in 1901, the Tigers had played at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull Avenues in Detroit's Corktown section. For the last 88 of those years, they played at what eventually became Tiger Stadium. By the mid-1990s, it had become apparent that the much-beloved park could not be renovated any further.
Groundbreaking for a new ballpark to replace Tiger Stadium for the Tigers was held on October 29, 1997 and the new stadium was opened to the public in 2000. At the time of construction, the scoreboard in left field was the largest in Major League Baseball. The first game was held on April 11, 2000, against the Seattle Mariners. The new stadium is part of a downtown revitalization plan for the city of Detroit, which included the construction of Ford Field, adjacent to the park. In December 1998, Comerica Bank agreed to pay $66 million over 30 years for the naming rights for the new ballpark. Upon its opening, there was some effort to try to find a nickname for the park, with the abbreviation CoPa suggested by many. It is often referred to simply as Comerica. The first playoff game at Comerica was played on October 6, 2006 against the New York Yankees. It hosted its first World Series later that month.
In contrast to Tiger Stadium, which had long been considered one of the most hitter-friendly parks in baseball, Comerica Park is considered to be extremely friendly to pitchers. Except for dead center—420 feet (130 m) versus Tiger Stadium's 440 feet (130 m)—the outfield dimensions were more expansive than those at Tiger Stadium. This led to complaints from players and fans alike, most famously from Bobby Higginson who sarcastically called the venue Comerica National Park. After Minute Maid Park reduces its center field fence from 436 feet (133 m) to 409 feet (125 m) in 2017, 420 feet will be the longest in baseball.
Although a few public figures—notably radio announcer Ernie Harwell—supported the dimensions, most agreed that the left-field wall, in particular, needed to be brought closer to home plate. Before the 2003 MLB season the club did so, moving the distance from left-center field from 395 to 370 feet (120 to 113 m). This also removed the flagpole from the field of play, originally incorporated as an homage to Tiger Stadium. Two years later, the bullpens were moved from right field to an empty area in left field created when the fence was moved in. In place of the old bullpens in right field, 950 seats were added for a new capacity of 41,070. This made one of the most pitcher-friendly ballparks transform into the third most batter-friendly (with extra bases also taken into account).
Also of note, the current layout of the playing field at Comerica Park means that when a player is at bat, the direction he is facing looks farther to the south than at any other Major League Baseball park.
The stadium also includes many baseball-themed features, including a "Monument Park" in the deep center field stands, complete with statues of former Tigers Ty Cobb, Hal Newhouser, Charlie Gehringer, Hank Greenberg, Al Kaline, and Willie Horton.
Entrance to the ballpark is located across from the Fox Theatre and between two historic downtown churches, St. John Episcopal Church and Central United Methodist Church. Outside of the main entrance to the stadium there is a tiger statue that is approximately 15 feet (4.6 m) in height. There are 8 other heroic-sized tiger statues throughout the park, including two prowling on top of the scoreboard in left field. These tigers' eyes light up after a Tigers home run or a victory and the sound of a growling tiger plays as well. The tigers were originally created by sculptor Michael Keropian and fabricated by ShowMotion Inc. in Norwalk, Connecticut. Along the brick walls outside of the park are 33 tiger heads with lighted baseballs in their mouths.
The field itself features a distinctive dirt strip between home plate and the pitcher's mound. This strip, sometimes known as the "keyhole", was common in early ballparks, yet very rare in modern facilities (the only other current major-league park to feature one is Chase Field in Phoenix).
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Replacing an earlier scanned slide with a better version 20-Jan-16.
This aircraft, operating a charter flight in the early hours of 05-Sep-82, tried an approach into Stansted, UK, in thick fog and hit the tail of a parked Flying Tiger DC-8-61F during the missed approach and overshoot. He managed to divert to Manchester. The aircraft suffered damage to the starboard u/carriage, wing and flaps.
It was registered in the Philippines but the large green/white/green Nigerian flag just forward of the cabin windows gives the game away a bit!! Apparently there were 58 passengers and 15 crew!! They were really very lucky I think. If they'd been a foot or two lower......
The aircraft was delivered to Delta Air Lines in May-64 as N813E. It was sold to FB Ayer & Associates Inc in Sep-77 and sold to PAL Philippine Air Lines two months later as RP-C830.
In Jun-82 it was leased to Intercontinental Airlines (Nigeria) and continued to be operated with its Philippine registration until it was eventually sold to Intercontinental in Nov-82 as 5N-AVY.
It was permanently retired at Stansted, UK, and eventually broken up there in Aug-84.
Replacing an earlier scanned photo with a better version 09-Sep-17, plus Topaz DeNoise AI 24-Sep-23.
-Blue Poole-, England World Tail livery, right side.
The ATP really did sit 'tail down' like this when it was fully loaded, the nose leg oleo became really extended
G-MAUD was registered out of the usual G-MANx sequence while it was with Manx Airlines. It was said at the time that it was named after a long serving Manx Airlines staff member when she retired from the Accounts department in the Isle of Man. I don't know if it's true or not but it's a nice story!
This was the second prototype ATP which first flew in Feb-87 as G-BMYM. After participating in the development programme the aircraft was delivered to BMA British Midland Airways in Jun-88. BMA sold it to Lombard leasing the following month and leased it back.
It was sub-leased to Manx Airlines in Oct-91 and re-registered G-MAUD in Dec-91. It was returned to British Midland in Jan-95. The aircraft was transferred to a new BMA backed company, British Regional Airlines and sub-leased back to BMA in Sep-96.
It was returned to British Regional Airlines in Mar-97 and operated on behalf of British Airways. British Regional was merged into British Airways CitiExpress in Mar-02 and operations on behalf of British Airways continued.
The aircraft was transferred to Loganair in Feb-04 and was withdrawn from service and stored at the end of May-05.
In Dec-06 it was sold to West Air Sweden as SE-MAF and converted to freighter configuration. West Air joined Atlantic Airlines (UK) in 2011 to form the West Atlantic Group and both companies now trade as West Atlantic.
The aircraft was withdrawn from use and stored at Malmo, Sweden in Jan-16. It was sold to 'ATP Cargo' (also based at Malmo) in Aug-19 but appears to be stored. No further information. Updated 01-Sep-21.
Unlike most other birds, penguins cannot afford to replace a few feathers at a time. Instead, once a year they come ashore, usually just before winter, and engage in a catastrophic molt, which means they grow all of their feathers at once. It usually takes 2-4 weeks, and during this time, they cannot go into the water, because they are not waterproof. Often the old feathers do not fall out until the new ones have grown in, which results in strange and hilarious looking intermediate molt patterns. This King Penguin was at Salisbury Plain on South Georgia Island.
The S800 is a sports car from Honda. Introduced at the 1965 Tokyo Motor Show, the S800 would replace the successful Honda S600 as the company's image car and would compete with the Austin-Healey Sprite, MG Midget, Triumph Spitfire and Fiat 850 Spider.
Like the S600, it was available as either a coupe or roadster and continued the advanced technology of its predecessors. The 791 cc straight-4 engine produced 70 hp (52 kW) at 8000 rpm, thus making this Honda's first 100 mph (160 km/h) automobile, but still allowing for 35 mpg (6.7 L/100 km). In April 1967 the car was described as the fastest production 1-litre car in the world thanks to its high revving engine (up to 10,000 rpm) and the manufacturer's history of manufacturing powerful relatively low capacity motor-cycle engines.
Early examples continued to use the chain drive and independent suspension in the rear. 752 roadsters and 242 coupés were then produced. After that Honda switched to a conventional drive-shaft, live axle rear end with four radius rods and a Panhard rod. 604 roadsters and 69 coupes were built with this setup before disc brakes replaced the front drums.
In 1967, the S800 became available in Britain. By this time the model had the more conventional drive layout as stated above, with predictable handling and a firm ride. It was also cheaper than the Mini Cooper and Triumph Spitfire, in Britain.
In February 1968, the S800M (aka S800MK2) was introduced with flush mounted interior door handles, side marker lights outside, dual-circuit brakes, lean burn carburetion under the bonnet and safety glass. These changes were made for the American market, but the car was never imported there officially. Production ended in May 1970 with 11,536 S800s produced. Honda did not manufacture another S roadster for nearly thirty years until the release of the S2000 for the 2000 model year.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_S800
Mercedes C291 (1991) Engine 3500cc flat 12
ENTRANT: Andrew Haddon
Static Display
1991 marked the first season of the new and controversial 3.5 litre formula replacing the successful and popular Group C, due to small entries Group C cars were permitted to run but with heavy weight penalties penalties and having to start behind the new C1 cars.
The new 3.5litre regulation created a parity between Formula One and World Sports car and Jaguar elected to use the Ford HB V8 used in the Benetton B190B Formula One car. While Mercedes had to design an all-new purpose-built racing engine and its M-291 3.5L Flat-12 unit was the result. The engine produced about 650 brake horsepower (480 kW) compared to about 730 brake horsepower (540 kW) produced by 5.0 litre V8 twin turbo found in the C291’s predecessor, the Mercedes-Benz C11.
Unlike the Jaguar XJR-14 the C291 resembled previous sports-prototype, despite the fact that the redesign of the Le Mans Circuit de la Sarthe in 1990 meant cars with their low drag design, top-end power, straight-line acceleration and top-speed characteristics were no longer required. Unlike the Jaguar Mercedes still featured a full width low-drag single-tier rear wing and no front wing. Resulting in the Mercedes having a higher top speed but its engine characteristic resulted in less responsive acceleration and its low drag meant the car was slower in the corners than the Jaguar.
The team started the season with a single C291 backed up with a pair of the older C11's and while the C11's finished the first race 2nd and 3rd the C291 failed to finish. At the third race, the C291 scored a 2nd place finish, ahead of the C11. For the fourth round, the 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans, the team decided that the C291 would not be capable of completing the race, and thus were forced to enter three C11s. After Le Mans the team decided to retire the C11 instead concentrating on the newer C291. However, the C291 failed to finish the next three races of the season, though in the final race of the season at Autopolis the car gained its only career win.
After much disappointment the C291 was planned to be replaced by the more radical C292 for the 1992 season, but Mercedes-Benz decided to pull out of sportscar racing before the C292 could compete and turned to Formula 1 in 1993
Shot the Goodwood Festival of Speed 30:06:2012 Ref: 87-369
Replacing an earlier scanned photo with a better version 17-Jan-22 (DeNoise AI).
This aircraft was delivered to the GPA Group and leased to Tradewinds (Singapore) as 9V-TRA in Jul-90, Tradewinds was renamed Silk Air in Apr-91.
It was returned to the lessor in Oct-99 and leased to Cronus Airlines as SX-BGK the following month. Cronus was merged into Aegean Cronus Airlines in Oct-01 and renamed Aegean Airlines in Apr-03.
The aircraft was returned to the lessor in Feb-08 and converted to freighter configuration in early May-08. It was leased to Swiftair (Spain) as EC-KRA later the same month.
It was wet-leased to Agro Air Cargo (Portugal) in Jan-09 and returned to Swiftair in late 2011. It was returned to the lessor in Mar-12 and leased to West Atlantic Airlines as G-JMCM in Apr-12. Current (Nov-16).
On January 22, 2025,Lyon, France, I had to pick-up my GOMZ Leningrad camera from the repair shop, unfortunately ... not repaired, due to some really stuck pieces. I decided to push my way to Saint-Georges through Saint-Jean*** to purchase some Rollei RPX 400 films to replace the used ones recently.
I brought along again in my bag my beloved year-1976 Olympus OM-1 MD film SLR that is one of my preferred camera of my collection (see bellow for details). The camera was equipped this time with a wide-angle OM-System lens Zuiko Auto-W 1:2.8 f=28 mm and loaded with a Rollei RPX 400 film which is the former formula of the Agfa APX 400. I appreciate this film giving a large tone ranges and quite good image densities even in low light.
For all the frames, the lens was fitted with a generic yellow 49mm screwed filter. The light metering was done through the lens (TTL) for 400 ISO using the camera built-in CdS cell and/or my external lightmeter Minolta Autometer III (at 200 ISO to compensate the filter absorption in the daylight and 320 ISO for artificial tungsten light) with the 10° viewer for selective metering privileging the shadows areas. The weather was milder (8°C) than my last session two days before but still cloudy.
Place de la Basoche, January 22, 2025
69005 Lyon
France
After completion the film was rewound and processed using 350 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer prepared at the dilution 1+25 for 12min30 at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) fitted to a Minolta Auto Bellows III with the Minolta slide duplication accessory and Minolta Macro Bellow lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel CineStill Cine-lite.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within the latest version available of Adobe Lightroom Classic (version 14.1.1) and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printer files with a frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
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About the camera :
My Olympus OM-1 MD was purchased from a local photography shop in Lyon, France, May 31, 2022.
Olympus OM-1 MD was commercially available from 1974 to 1978 and represented the fully mechanical SLR of a new class ("miniature SLR's") , smaller and lighter than any other SLR's of that time. It prefigured the size of most of the SLR's of the 80's.
The kit included the normal lens G.Zuiko Auto-S 1:1.4 f=50 mm in perfect condition, a Zuiko Auto-Zoom 1:4 f=75-150 mm with Olympus original rigid case, a Sigma Tele-Macro x2 converter, a small flash Olympus PE200 (GN 14 at 100 ISO) with case, A Crystal Titanium x 0.48 wide-angle converter (still never tested), and several 49 mm filters.
This specific OM-1 MD was constructed in Jan. 1976 according to the printed reference "ス ("su ") 615" on the back of the film plate.
The OM-system Zuiko Auto-W lens 1:2.8 f=28mm was purchased soon after from an eBay seller. To my experience it is one of the best 28mm lens I have in my collection leading to generally crisp and contrasted images.
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*** Saint-Jean is a district of the 5th arrondissement of Lyon. It is one of the three parishes of Old Lyon, with those of Saint-Georges and Saint-Paul, and takes its name from its Primatiale Saint-Jean de Lyon of the Primal of Gaul, dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.
Historic center of Lyon, of the protected perimeter registered as a UNESCO World Heritage site, urban site category recognized with its preserved old historic districts as "one of the most beautiful cities in the world"1 this district is with its pedestrian streets, and its important Renaissance architectural heritage (the most important in the world after Venice) the most important picturesque historic tourist district of Lyon, and one of the high places of Lyonnaise cuisine, with its many shops, restaurants, bouchons lyonnais, brasseries, bistros, and bars.
Battered effigy of Sir Eustace de Folville 1347 aged about 60.
www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/6WQd67 Underneath his head is a cushion which at this date was being replaced with a helmet. (in the 1540 survey his coat of arms could be seen on the breast where can be still seen a spike to support a shield)
Eustace was the 2nd of 7 sons of Sir Eustace Folville and wife Alice, a respectable member of the gentry who acted on many occasions as a Commissioner or Knight of the Shire for both Rutland and Leicestershire. His elder brother Sir John inherited all of his father's lands in 1309 and kept out of most (but not all) of the law-breaking of his younger brothers.
He is credited with the killing / assassination in 1326 of the unpopular and corrupt Sir Roger de Beler, flic.kr/p/Ns9LZF Baron of the Exchequer and henchman of the despised Hugh le Despencer and ineffective Edward II. (He is said to have erected the original east window here for one of his many pardons for the killing) He was the most active member of the Folville gang who engaged in acts of vigilantism and outlawry in Leicestershire in the early 1300s, often on the behalf of others such as members of Sempringham Priory and Haverholm Abbey Lincs,
When justice Sir Richard Willoughby, another one of corrupt commissioners was appointed to apprehend Eustace and his brothers Robert, Walter and John in January 1331 for allegedly stealing horse, oxen and sheep from Henry de Beaumont, they instead captured him and held him to ransome of 1300 marks.
Arrest warrants were issued naming Eustace and his brothers Robert, Walter & Rev Richard Folville and others, and they were excluded from a general pardon in September to all outlaws provided that they helped defend against the invasion, After the execution of the Despencers however, a pardon for the Folvilles was rushed through and granted in February 1327, presumably on the request of Roger Mortimer, now the new 14 year old king's Steward, and the new Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir William Trussell just ten days after Edward III had been crowned.
The Folvilles, finding themselves as 'heroes of the revolution' (at least locally, having saved their neighbours from the nefarious acts of Despencer and Belers), became emboldened and continued to commit acts of retribution and, as the years went by, found themselves on both sides of the law being repeatedly outlawed and then pardoned.
Upon their return to Leicestershire after the revolution they initially appear to have targeted Beler's lands at Kirby Bellars and elsewhere but within a few years petitions were issued to the Sheriff of Nottingham, 'complaining that two of the Folville brothers were roaming abroad again at the head of a band, waylaying persons whom they spoiled and held to ransom'.
Various indictments from the period portray Eustace and his brothers as freelance mercenaries, hired 'by the ostensibly law-abiding...to commit acts of violence on their behalf'
The Folville gang did not answer to the charges brought against them and fled to Derbyshire where they "rode with armed force secretly and openly", allied with the Coterel brothers being sheltered by Sir Robert Tuchet, Lord of Markeaton
A year after the Willoughby kidnap, Eustace was serving in the armies of Edward III against the Scots and in recognition of this military service, Eustace received another full pardon for his crimes. He was in combat again in 1337 and 1338, in Scotland and Flanders respectively. He finally died in 1347 a member of the council of the Abbot of Crowland, having stood trial for none of the charges lodged against him. (Only his brother Rev Richard was captured and beheaded outside his church at Teigh by Sir Robert Coalville, keeper of the kings peace.)
His monument has been badly damaged: a Victorian description states that 'the fragments of his helmet form the only part of his funeral achievement now remaining'
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustace_Folville
ADDED BY DLPhoto2006
Ref para 2. The seven Folville brothers (and one daughter) were actually the issue of Sir Eustace (d.bef.1284) by his wife Dame Alice. Their grandfather (also called Eustace) was murdered in his chamber at Ashby Folville in 1274 after which the manor fell to his 2nd son (the eldest having died vita patris), the Eustace who died sometime prior to 1284 leaving his widow with the eight children all in their minority. Thus 3rd eldest son, John (who also married an Alice!) held the manor which his son, heir and namesake inherited in 1310. John (the son) probably died sine prole after which the eldest son of Sir Eustace and Dame Alice (John - now of full age) succeeded to the manor through right of primogeniture. It was his younger brothers (Eustace, Richard, Robert, Lawrence, Walter and Thomas) who were involved (the latter merely assisted in their escape) in the slaying of Sir Roger Belers in 1326. Having fled to France to avoid capture, it appears they returned to England as part of Mortimer's invasion party to wrest the throne from Edward II. Ten days after Edward III was crowned, the Folvilles were all pardoned for their part in the murder. Subsequently, the Folville gang went on a crime spree over the following years. [source: my article on the Folvilles published in the Genealogists' Magazine, vol.34.4 (Dec 2022), pp.169-177.]
- - Church of St Mary, Ashby Folville, Leicestershire
This bus is one of several 2002/03 IC CE 200's & 300's bought used from Goshen Local Schools (Petermann) in the fall of 2017. This bus replaced a 1996 Carpenter International
Replacing one large British Leyland hatchback with another saw the disappearance of my much loved Austin Ambassador with this immaculate 1989 Rover 820Se automatic. The sunny weather means its finally getting to tread the tarmac a little bit more often than it has which can only do it good as this is one type of old car which really doesn't like being left unused for long periods of time. Even now this Rover-Honda executive car collaboration is still struggling to gain acceptance in classic circles but it does get quite a bit of attention. Comfy, well equipped and rapid at the traffic light derby it does out accelerate far more modern vehicles leaving their owners a little startled!
Himba hairstyles tell a lot about the person; identifying their social status. For example, pre-pubescent girls wear two thick braids in front of their faces – these look like ram horns. After puberty the braids are replaced by many strands hanging all over their heads and faces. As she gets older the braids are lengthened and tied back, indicating that she is ready for marriage. Once married, an ‘erembe’ (a piece of goat leather) is tied to the top of her head. Single men wear their hair in a single braid running backwards from their crowns (called an ‘ondatu’) with the rest shaved off; two plaits if they are eligible to marry and a turban style hairdo for married men. Often these are covered by a similar shaped hat or material.
Replacing and earlier scanned photo with a better version, plus Topaz DeNoise AI 06-Jul-23.
All white livery with titles.
This was the prototype MD-83 which first flew with the McDonnell Douglas test registration N19B in Dec-84. After participating in the MD-83 development programme the aircraft was delivered to Finnair O/Y as OH-LMS in Oct-85.
It was sold to a lessor in Jan-99 and leased back to Finnair before being returned to the lessor and leased to Flying Finn Airways in Jan-03. It returned to the lessor in May-03.
In Jun-04 the aircraft was leased to Austral Lineas Aereas (Argentina) as LV-PJH. It was re-registered LV-ARF two weeks later. It was returned to the lessor in Dec-10 and leased to Andes Lineas Aereas (Argentina) in Jan-11.
The aircraft was returned to the lessor in Jul-12 and permanently retired at Orlando-Sanford, FL, USA after 28 years in service. It was last noted still at Sanford in Feb-13 without engines. Updated 06-Jul-23.
The Triumph Herald was built from 1959-71, replacing the Standard 8 and 10 Saloons, the Herald got new razor edge looks. Along with great all round visibility, the main body tub was bolted to the chassis and the whole front end hinged forward to allow access to the engine.
Available as 2 door Coupe, Sedan, Estate and Convertible. Van introduced in 1962
The Vitesse was the 6 cyl version of the Herald, using most of the Heralds body panels but with a slanted 4 headlight front and 1596cc 6 cyl from the Vanguard. It was built from 1962-71 and available as Coupe or Convertible,
In 1966 the Engine was upgraded to a 1998cc 6 cyl (2 litre badge on side of bonnet).
The Mk II introduced in 1968 got a new grille, better suspension and more power.
Replacing an earlier scanned slide with a better version 31-Jan-16.
Taken at Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA.
Delivered to United Air Lines in Jan-56 as N37570. Only in service with United for just under 13 years it was sold to Mars Aviation Inc in Nov-68. It was sold to US Travel Club 'American Air Trav-Alairs' the following month. It was sold to Alpha Aviation in May-72. Mark Aero bought it in Aug-74 and had converted it into a DC-6B(F) freighter with a main-deck cargo door by Dec-74. The aircraft was leased to St. Lucia Airways in Feb-75 as VQ-LAW, returning to Mark Aero in Nov-75 and becoming N37570 again. It was sold to 'Edwin R Phelps Jr' the same month. In Feb-78 it was leased to Petroleum Air Transport and returned to 'Edwin R Philips Jr' in Mar-80. The Florida Aircraft Leasing Corporation bought it in Jan-81 and it was later stored at Fort Lauderdale. In May-86 it was sold to the Carolina Aircraft Corporation. It was due to be re-registered N990CA but the registration wasn't used, instead the aircraft was sold to Servicios Aereos Generales (Honduras) as HR-AKW. They sold it to Bauford Marine Services Inc in Jul-88 and it again became N37570. In May-89 it was sold to Air Taxi International Inc and immediately leased to ILPO Cargo Airlines (Mexico), it was re-registered XA-RMM in Jun-90. Three months later, in Sep-90, it became N37570 again on it's return to Air Taxi International. In Sep-91 it was leased to Regal Air and then sold to Legion Express Inc in Nov-96. It was retired at Opa-Locka, FL, USA in Jul-97. Two months later in Sep-97, now almost 42 years old, it was sold to Sincereways (Kenya) and was re-registered 5Y-BMM. However it remained stored at Opa-Locka and was sold to Universal Airlines in Aug-98, again as N37570 and was re-registered N600UA in Oct-98. After being in storage it needed more than a little maintenance and finally departed from Opa-Locka in late 1999. Eventually it was based at Kenai, AK, USA, and continued in service until 12-Jun-11 when it 'inadvertantly' made a wheels up landing at Cold Bay, AK, USA and was badly damaged. Although it was then over 55 years old it was repaired and put up for sale by the salvage company in late 2011 (it's showing on Google Earth in an image dated May-12) and again in 2013. However I understand there were no takers and I'm assuming it's still at Cold Bay.
Lochiel.
Captain John Ellis leased the land from Lochiel to Snowtown from the early 1840s. His Bumbunga and Barunga runs made him wealthy and covered around 100 square miles in 1860. He built a large 8 room stone house on Barunga Run in the Hummock Ranges just west of Snowtown near a spring. There was also a major homestead at Bumbunga just north of Lochiel facing Lake Bumbunga. In the 1869 the Hummocks and Bumbunga runs were resumed by the government for survey and for closer settlement. When most of the runs were resumed by the government the land
was put up for public auction in the new Hundreds of Cameron and Barunga which were declared in 1869. Robert Barr Smith took up all the hilly section of the Hundred of Cameron as freehold land as he said it was not suitable for cropping. His partner John Maslin took up other hilly section of the Hundred. They took up more land in the Hundred of Barunga. In 1886 the partnership between Maslin and Barr Smith dissolved and Barr Smith took it over the Hummocks Station. On his death in 1915 Hummocks station went to his son Tom Elder Barr Smith who in turn sold the Hummocks estate of almost 30,000 acres to the government for closer settlement. This boosted the town of Lochiel but it mainly depended on servicing farming needs and the salt industry of Lake Bumbunga. Lochiel was named after the town in Scotland which is home to the Chief of the Cameron Clan (hence the Hundred of Cameron) and near the old battlefield of Culloden.
The first salt harvesting began in the late 1880s at the northern end of Lake Bumbunga and it was this industry which kept Lochiel alive. Cave and Co took out the salt work lease from 1900. Salt was carted by drays to Snowtown, and then railed away to the port of Wallaroo. Then the Australian Salt Company started works on the southern end of Lake Bumbunga in 1913. Because the 1925 new broad gauge line to Redhill did not pass through Lochiel, a small branch line was built to Lochiel from Bumbunga to service the salt works. This 4½ mile line opened in 1926. The salt works continued and boomed in the 1930s and during World War Two when the harvesting was mechanized (horses dragged scrapping equipment before this time.) In the 1950s the Australia Salt Works Company built three new houses in Lochiel making a total of nine company houses in the town. By the late 1960s only six men were employed in the salt works. The railway line continued in service until closure in 1981 as by then the salt works had finally closed down.
The town has a few old buildings of heritage value. Longmires Inn was licensed in 1863. It was modernised at one stage but destroyed by fire just a few years ago. The Inn predated the town as the leaseholder Captain Ellis of the Hummocks Run permitted its construction. It was resumed as part of his run and sold by the government in 1870 to a new licensee. In 1909 it was renamed Lake View Hotel. The town building lots were offered for sale in 1870 but few were sold. The public hall in Lochiel was started in 1910 and opened in 1911. It is a grand sized stone and red brick building for a town the size of Lochiel. It was used for Lutheran Church services from 1951 to 1966. Recently it was an antique centre but it is now empty. The first general store opened around 1880 with huge four paned windows and roof line pediment. A second general store was built in 1910 but it has since been demolished. The government school opened in 1880 in a private house until a stone school was built in 1882 two miles east of the town. It closed in 1924 and classes were held in the hall for convenience of town dwellers as the old school was moved stone by stone and rebuilt in Ellis Street. It opened there in 1930 and closed in 1987 and is now a residence. Lochiel has a local limestone and red brick quoin Methodist Church. It began services in 1901 and the porch was added in 1936. But there was a pug and pine Wesleyan Methodist Church erected in Lochiel in 1891. It was demolished and removed when the new united Methodist Church opened in 1901. At its peak in the 1920s Lochiel had 220 residents.
Fleet 1 Juliet (acting as Cudgen 1) at the Round Mountain Hazard Reduction. This has been the brigade’s temporary village appliance until a new truck is delivered to the brigade to permanently replace their old category 11 pumper.
Pre decimal money as of 1970. the 5p and 10p coin were introduced in 1969 and used as 1, and 2 shillings. These coins have also disappeared to be replace by smaller versions.
Race Brook Falls Trail, southwest Massachusetts.
Loren and I took a hike up this trail today to inspect for downed limbs and trees after the high winds the last few days. It was also an opportunity for me to try out the new Canon G7X which I got to replace the Sony RX100 III which I recently sold.
These are three untouched JPEGs straight out of the camera. All I did was crop them square. Impressive.
The Sony RX100 takes remarkable images but it's physical ergonomics are a problem for me: flush mounted buttons, a control-by-wire front control wheel and very slow operation.
The Canon G7X is essentially the same camera done by Canon. Very similar size and shape, same 1" sensor, nice flip up LCD for ground level shots, front control wheel with clicks (a bit too loud actually), much faster operation, better physical controls and a better menu system.
It feels much like a bigger, more capable Canon S90/95/100/110/120, etc.
I noticed that in high ISO JPEGS (no RAW converter yet) there is some smearing and this was true of the Sony RX100 (all models) as well.
It takes a while to get to know a new camera and for me the jury is still out on this one. I definitely like it better than the Sony RX100 but nothing compares with my Ricoh GR so I need to keep this camera long enough to sort that out.
Replacing an earlier scanned print with a better version 18-Nov-18.
Taken through glass from the old Emirates offices in the Control Tower Block Extension.
This aircraft was delivered to CSA Czechoslovak Airlines as OK-OBL in Nov-84. It was leased to Air Moravia in Dec-91 and returned to CSA in Jun-92 (presumably why it has no titles in my photo). The aircraft operated CSA's last IL-62 flight in Oct-94 and was stored at Prague. It was sold to Bemoair in Apr-96 and sold to Egretta in May-97. The aircraft was leased to Air Cess (based at Sharjah, UAE) in May-98. It was sold to Yana Air as XU-229 (Cambodia) in Jan-99 and operated out of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE with additional Sin-Sad titles. It was stored at Ras Al Khaimah in mid 2001 and broken up there in Oct-06.
Replacing an earlier scanned photo with a better version, plus Topaz De Noise AI 25-Mar-25.
First flown with the Fokker test registration PH-EZX, this aircraft was delivered to ILFC International Lease Finance Corp and leased to MALEV Hungarian Airlines as HA-LMB in Feb-96.
It was returned to the lessor in Jan-10 and leased to Carpatair, Romania as YR-KMB in Feb-10. In Dec-12 the aircraft was returned to the lessor and leased to Alliance Airlines, Australia as VH-QQV in Feb-13.
The aircraft was withdrawn from service and permanently retired at Perth, WA, Australia in Nov-21. It was last noted still stored at Perth in May-24 in basic Alliance livery. Updated 25-Mar-25.
Replacing an earlier scanned photo with a better version 16-Jul-21, plus DeNoise AI 16-Jul-21.
With additional 'Dubai Shopping Festival 2002' titles & logo.
First flown with the Boeing test registration N5020K, this aircraft was delivered to Emirates Airlines as A6-EMG in Apr-97. It served with Emirates until it was retired in May-16 and stored at Dubai.
It was sold to Triple Seven (CIS) Ltd as 2-RLAK in Jul-16 and ferried to Jakarta-CGK, Indonesia for further storage. It was moved to Teruel (Spain) in Dec-16 for further storage.
The aircraft was re-registered VP-BSN in Jun-17 for lease to VIM Airlines (Russia). However VIM ceased operations in Oct-17 before the lease could take place. The aircraft was permanently retired at Teruel and was last noted still at Teruel in Jun-18. Updated 16-Jul-21.
The C15 was introduced in 1984 to replace the Acadiane. After 21 years of production in 2005 the Berlingo was its successor.
I've owned this car till about April 2009. It would't pass the the yearly technical check (MOT, Tüv, CT, APK), due to all kind of small mechanical problems. Although the engine was still perfect, it didn't make sense to put more money it this project. In the end I received only € 135,00 for it.
This striking colour is indeed original. I knew two other yellow C15's in Amsterdam at the time.
I think I took these pics for having plans to put the car for sale.
1769cc diesel engine,
905 kg.
Original Dutch license number: Jan. 5, 1993.
It has been exported after I'd sold her.
Picture up-load number 10.400.
Amsterdam-N., Schoenerstraat, Dec. 14, 2008.
© 2008 Sander Toonen Amsterdam | All Rights Reserved
47 (OUI 4659, ex L407 LHE) 'HMS Westminster'
Scania K113/Irizar Century C49FT
Yorks Travel, Cogenhoe
Buckingham, 11 July 2008
New to Bowens, Birmingham
Until 2005 the Scania marque had never featured in the Yorks fleet, but that year three Irizar Centuries arrived from Bowens to replace an equal number of older Volvos that transferred to Jeffs.