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I have started making my bikini for summer...
Not really sure if I will be game enough to wear it thou...
I usually prefer the whole neck to knee cover everything possible look...
Well if I don't at least I will make a pattern for all of the brave "hip" girls that will...
As you will note...Was not game enough to photo myself with just the bikini top on...
Long time in the making, the start being early last November, and this is another Mosaic piece on one of the area's old formations, the GC's line which ran along the Blackburn Valley, north from a complex of connections at Wincobank/Meadow Hall and on north through to Barnsley; this time its a look at the few remnants of the GC's East Station site at Ecclesfield. Two companies had competing lines along the Blackburn Valley, the Midland to the west, and still operating, the GC's line just a little to the east and long since gone, the trackbed now forming a walking/cycleway from Meadowhall all the way up to the GC's Chapeltown Station, just north east of Chapeltown centre; the station building still in-situ, but now a private residence. As with all these sorts of 'investigations', there isn't all that much left to see of note. So its been a long haul, on and off, getting the right pictures in place to illustrate some feel for the area with the rail interest residing in semi-distant views of Northern Rail services passing on the Midland line to the west. So, the mosaic piece of 13 items consists of, as usual, a central map identifying the locations of all the material and then it is accompanied by the material photographed in late April and early May this year; just as the Sheffield Power Signalbox was in its last days of operation; there is a picture here from that time, showing a diverted passenger service on the Midland line. As with many of these old rail installations which took up large amounts of land, there was a change of use once the Railway quit and the tracks were lifted, the users being new modern light, and some heavy, industry, small business users and some space, at Smithywood, still an open area with not much happening at all as indicated in one of the pictures. Some information relating to the origin of the MSL, later GC's line along the Blackburn Valley-
'... The Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway offered the SY use of its new Sheffield Victoria station and with an eye to future coal traffic originating in the Barnsley area and passing on to its own line, offered to lease the SYR, which it did from 1861 until 1 August 1864, when the SYR fully merged with the MS&L. The single track branch proved a bottleneck and plans were drawn up to double the line by 1876. This doubling of the tracks meant the adoption of a strange layout for the station at Ecclesfield. Sidings and a goods shed had been erected opposite the single platform and so the new platform for the up (Sheffield direction) line was constructed to the south east of the down platform. A footbridge was provided to link the two. Passenger services were withdrawn as long ago as 1953. The station was a long way out of the village, being situated nearly two miles from the Church. Through traffic to Aldham Junction was withdrawn in the mid 1960s when the line was severed at Birdwell by the newly built M1 motorway. The branch survived as an outlet for traffic from Smithywood coking plant until it closed in the early 1980s. The track was lifted shortly afterwards and today very little remains of Ecclesfield's first railway link...'
and from Wikipedia-
'...The original 'Ecclesfield' railway station was opened in November 1854 and closed just two years later. It was replaced by a new station opened in 1876, with buildings and staggered platforms linked by a footbridge and cost £1985 (including sidings and approach road). These buildings are identical to those at Meadowhall although it had staggered platforms. By this time the line was worked by the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway and the trains ran into their Sheffield Victoria Station. The station closed on 7 December 1953...'
Details relating to the items shown in the accompanying mosaic picture-
1. Looking slightly east of north across the station site is a pile of concrete sleepers, left over from when all the lines and sidings were removed from the station site, several such piles having been just left lying about the place; handy for standing on the highest, to get an elevated view of the area. Part of the old building can be seen behind the sleepers, now heavily graffiti'd, the main lines were just off to the left, passing along the west side of the farm buildings seen through the trees.
2. This view, a 2-part panorama, looks towards the south along the GCs line through the station. Some rusting rails, still embedded in the concrete, can be seen on the left in what were the station sidings. The main lines came in diagonally from lower right to head off southwards at centre and converge with the Midland line over on the right; more remains can be seen of the station building, a brick section of the back wall of the station building, to the track-bed's right. On the right side of the frame, at centre, a 3-car Northern Rail DMU heads south towards Meadowhall on the 2L31, Leeds to Sheffield service. It is travelling along the Midland line and would just have passed the Midland's, Ecclesfield West Station, to the rear of the train, had it still existed.
3. Looking directly in the other direction, facing east with agricultural buildings on the far left next to the slightly curving line heading north; hidden by the steeply rising hill towards Spring Wood, is the cutting which now carries the M1 motorway. In the foreground, the concrete bridge bases which carried the metal passenger footbridge over the main lines between the up and down platforms; the deck of the bridge came towards the lower left corner of the picture. This bridge can be seen whilst it was still in place, from the early 1900s, in picture 10 below, the up and down platforms being staggered with the up platform being behind the the camera on the right, the down, to the left beyond the footbridge.
4. Looking along the line towards Smithywood, the line curves around to run almost directly north before snaking east and then west again to enter the southern confines of the Smithywood coking plant. Loicher Bridge is hidden by tree growth to the left of the farm buildings just beyond the pile of muck somebody has deposited on the trackbed. The concrete blocks in the foreground are again the bases of the passenger footbridge over the main lines and these blocks may just be discerned to the left edge of picture 10.
5. A closer shot towards Loicher Bridge showing the dereliction and remnants of parts of the old station site and on the left, the concrete footings of the station buildings. Inspection of the map shown in picture 7 reveals the relatively close proximity of the two lines and their stations, though the lines do get much closer a little south of the station sites at Butterthwaite Farm. The line here heads due north, snaking slightly towards the southern boundary of the Smithywood colliery and beyond, to the coking works.
6. The view here shows Ecclesfield East Station in 1959, looking towards Sheffield. The down platform is in the right foreground and the up platform is on the left, beyond the wagons and the gantry. A footbridge originally connected the two platforms just this side of the signalbox on the right beyond the down platform, but by this time, 1959, the bridge had been removed as passenger services ceased on December 7th, 1953. There still appears to be a lot happening in the sidings on the right in what now looks like a scrapyard.
7. A 1905 OS map of the area showing both the Midland line and its station (marked green) on the west and the GC's line, marked blue, on the right; the lines diverging at this point from their closest approach at Butterthwaite House, shown in the lower right corner of the map. Both the Midland on the left and the GC's line on the right had connections coming off their main lines and forming a 'Y shaped' central junction to the north, carrying on into the southern part of the Smithywood Coking Works and then extending right through the works upto the main road between Rotherham & Chapeltown. The coking works always made its presence very keenly felt, or should I say, smelt as I drove along that road to and from Chapeltown in the early 1970s, there always being that smell of 'bad eggs'; sulphur dioxide in the air, a by-product of the coal to coke reduction process. The Excelsior File Works and the Norfolk Foundry are close by the Midland's line on the left with its goods shed on that side of the line as well. The southern end of Smithywood can be seen at the top of the map and there is a plan currently being put forward to destroy a large swathe of this ancient woodland for the purposes of building a motorway service area, what can I say! Also in this area, the Newton Chambers Iron Foundry works, somewhat south towards Butterthwaite but with another line branching off the Midland's line and into the works. The Newton Chambers presence in this area was due to George Newton & Thomas Chamber teaming up with Henry Longden to form a company to extract coal & ironstone. They set up a site in these parts and built the Thorncliffe Iron Works to extract ironstone and coal and it became rail served when the infra-structure was available in the mid-1800s...
8. Looking over towards the Midland line once more, but now from atop the hill along north up the GCs line towards the old Smithywood Coking Plant site, the hill having been formed after the demise of the GC's line, the hill rising from the level of the Midland's line to the southern end of the coke works site. Visible in a gap between two parts of the new industrial site, which has sprung up in the area to the north of the old foundries and between the two lines, is a Northern Rail class 158 DMU on the the 1L84, Sheffield to Leeds service. It is passing through what is now the Ecclesfield Industrial Estate on the east side of the Midland's line, the Estate boasting the 'Fitness Garage Gym', 'Rother Skip Hire', 'Morrison Utility Services', 'Emerald Power & Energy, Metal Recycling Ltd.' and most prominently a branch of 'Tarmac Aggregates Industries UK Ltd', which the DMU is seen passing in the picture. The site of the Smithywood coking works is also now a large, almost half empty, industrial estate, with what businesses are present, holding forth at the north end of the site nearest to the Rotherham to Chapeltown road and less than a kilometre from the junction 35 interchange of the M1.
9. Another view over a pile of rubble!, this time reinforced concrete bits and pieces which must be remnant of parts of the extensive goods yard which can be seen to the left in picture 6. The main line track-bed is just behind the the goods yard remnants and beyond that, at the other side of a long ditch, the Midland line, with a gap in the trees allowing a view of another interval service on the Blackburn Valley line where a class 142, 'Pacer' or 'Nodding Donkey', is seen passing south and heading to Sheffield on the 2B51 Huddersfield service.
10. An early view looking south from the goods yard side of the main lines with the down platform and signalbox to the right and, at this time in the early to mid-1900s, the passenger footbridge still in place.The Ecclesfield station name-board can also be made out, just beyond the station buildings and this side of the steps up onto the footbridge; beyond that, on the left-hand side in the goods yard, the station crane, its position shown on the map in picture 7. In the picture as well, in the foreground, the permanent way gang attending to the state of the lines and behind a good complement of station staff, so the place looks well manned; no women present I can see.
11. Included here as an example of the diversions which were taking place on the Midland's old line along the Blackburn Valley, the 1st day after the closure of the Sheffield Power signal box on Sheffield Midland station in early May, see-
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it transpires that the work which was set to complete by early on the Monday morning, over-ran by 45 minutes resulting in diversion on Monday the 2nd May as well. There were several national passenger stock diversions during this day. Cross Country 'Voyager' and Northern Rail DMU services but this was only the 2nd of 5 potential class 43 services which was actually a HST set. This is 1S51, the Plymouth to Edinburgh, literally a 'cross country' service with power cars 43366 leading and 43304 trailing. 43366 is seen coming under the Midland's footbridge with the GC's stone version over their line, just over to the left at what is clearly already a higher level; two cyclists are having some maintenance problems with one of the bikes on the GC's track-bed, now a footpath/cycleway.
12. The view at the top of the grade, over the now empty site of the Smithywood coking plant looking from the end of the GC's trackbed which went into the works at this point, along with a connection off the Midland line which passed the site by to the west; see map. The sparse industrial units which have been built can be seen at the north end near the main road and in the foreground on the right, a large, circular concrete bunker, now being used as a litter basket; there is no indication as to what the purpose of this structure was. The GC's main line continued north from here, passing by the large grey rectangular building on its left, going under the main road and ten, up-grade once more to the GC's Chapeltown station, a short distance north-east of the Midland's station near the town centre; the GC's building still be in-situ, but now being used as a private dwelling.
13. View back along the now much elevated and graded GC Trackbed with 'domino' concrete blocks blocking access out of the Smithywood site. In the now 'significant rain' its effect obscuring the distant background, a North Rail class 144 DMU can be seen, right in the centre of the picture, passing south behind the Tarmac works, on the 2B43 Huddersfield to Sheffield service. The difference in elevation between the Midland an GC lines is now abundantly clear, if that is the right word, and will result in the GC line passing over the Midland line through Tankersley Tunnel, north of Chapeltown. After this the lines diverged and took their own path northwards heading for their respective stations, Court House for the Midland and Exchange for the GC in Barnsley. It was the GC'c station, Exchange, which survived the passage of time, Court House succumbing to rationalisation and to achieve the change-over from the two lines, a new connection was constructed in 1960, Quarry Junction, to allow services to run into Exchange, the GC's old station, from the Midland line running up through Chapeltown; Exchange is now the re-vamped, Barnsley Interchange Station.
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CRAFT REVOLUTION / MOSAIC APPLICATION IN A PATCHWORK APPROACH, A TRULLY NEW LINE IN A ROW
Doing things like no other before is like walking in another line, why we need to do being different from them, how do we see things in another side? Is this possible to have a new line in a row?
I attend seminars about Quality Control, this seminars tackles the main cause of the real problem is in the organization itself, yes, and is true no need to attend seminar for this, if we know ourselves is our best enemy, but how we need to know more ourselves, our environment dictates us to be being with them, and our mind action accordingly in this way of thinking.
Working in an Export Company for long years as a research and product development officer is not a good job, but paying you a lot sometimes per project, and your Boss saying you always; “our sale will get high after this project out of the market! You can go to vacation after this! Yes vacation after finish the particular project, hmm sound nice, as I said this is not a good job after all. Vacation is also not good in this kind of works. Why I say this. How you can say you are free after your kids out in school and you are watching American idol and praying for the artist you want to be declared as a real winner,
How can we say we are free and in vacation with family and thinking what you can do to be more careful for the kids if all with you, or even if you alone and feel bored and open your pc for something else just to get out of your mind, how?
Being free is acceptance just live with them walk with them and feel with them, my master in this seminar put this thing in our mind , the second things he share to us is everybody need a free space for our self, as a person and different from the other person.
He share to us a line in a bible , I forgot the pages and the verses, but something like this I am not particular in the bible things and thoughts but the messages is clear, you are so special from the other person in your words ,in your thought , in your actions too,
And he shouting to all of us saying hey get out of the box his face look like red and I feel he is angry for what ever reason,
Then he put here things in the bag and walking outside the hall never turn back and go to small coffee table and put some head set on his ear, we all get shock we feel confuse, me I am thinking he get mad to someone , that time the seminar is running up to more hours and this person sitting , look like relax and we are thinking what s wrong , the company paying much for him, and the 2 long hours to wait him , feel more confusing , I see also he snap a bit and his eyes is close for almost 15 minute , and we are so silent , and no body want to talk , hey what’s wrong , I go to the other side of the room and I fall asleep, somebody doing that things and fall asleep too, but the only thing I notice no one get out of the room , we are all waiting for something, boring and everybody no one to talk just the eyes talking that time and our lips add some smile,
Time running and one of the participant decide to talk to all of us and saying we don’t need him in this kind of seminar , he never say anything to us just sip his coffee for long hours and we left nothing to do. and one of my colleagues saying , how can we say it in a nice way, everybody saying something ,suggesting , and one off the participant crumble the papers and want to throw to the master , that moment we are all smile and saying yes do it if you can! But after that no one, want to do that kind of things to his master after all,
Or maybe being polite much better that throwing things as our action for that particular situation and the message is clear , everybody even they have a good actions they don’t want to go out of the box,
New line in a row is a fresh and clear action ,as an artist , as a creator of this particular crafts , I love to share what I have after my long journey , this world is so fast in many particular , technology ,development, high-rise building new phone , everything that we can consider as our home outside our home or a chips on our big pockets , weight less but full of everything what we put inside that chips for our own purposes,
This new craft was born in this particular world of arts but I found out, this craft is out of the line , the material is there , the colors is in there, the meaning is there , the message is there , everything is there , and still I cannot fine the right line for this particular crafts,
I start doing craft on my early age, I still remembering cutting pages of full colored magazine cut in a small piece and paste it, collect all the colored papers and cut and paste it just my start, I love to draw plant animals flowers birds everything about nature, and this track considering of my actions whom I am now, in my own world,
I never finish college, as my root, but I take a fine arts courses in one best school in Philippines (U.S.T. University Of Santo Tomas) Manila the oldest School in Asia the school for Architecture and Fine Arts, that time I feel bless, it because I never dream to get enter in that school, I walk barefooted in my young age, I never dream one day I was in one of the room in there. In my teenage days I was always in a church I am a member of a choir group, but my voice is not good at that time, but I feel important when I am part of this group , our master telling me you are part of this group and your voice is to important to us, I joint also a theater club my master told me , here in our company money is hard to find and the only things I can share to you is how they praise you after the production is done, this group is a community base just for a public information and services, and that’s true I feel different from other person when I joint in this group I have many friends , they all like me as a devil in my characters I always portray , this group give ME more opportunity to explore my space more on the way I never do and think before, or maybe I get out of that box I never notice in this way, or I walk in a new line in a row ,
This group also sent me to college, and I walk out in this group and stop my study up to 2nd years in colleges of course the main reason is money, yes this is my hard times at that moment I need to decide which way I need to walk, to finish or make another way like a new line in a row, I need to force my self to work hard for my daily bread.
New line in a row is a formation of things on how we see and need to act patiently specially in our materials that surround us. Or a CALL on how we make a line in a way we can move perfectly, and this is what I want to share to you,
New line in a row is my greatest achievement, after searching and looking for arts and crafts, i look more books, searching more artist, looking for the master, site in the internet, regarding arts and crafts, and still I never see anything that need to compare on my crafts, but this crafts more on mosaic, patchwork, color pixel in our computer and idea coming from cross stitching, and how it make it different from them,?
Mosaic is a form of arts more on glass and stone or anything that form pattern and pastes it,
Patchwork is a form of arts too start from our old clothes recycled it and form pattern too.
Cross stitching is also form of arts that need to count and have pattern too.
Color pixel normally found in our computer if we want to see or using magnifying glass to see thing clear.
I never research much on this particular meaning (mosaic, patchwork, cross stitching, pixels,) suggestion is always welcome or comment to this particular is will help much,
This kind of words build my composition and remind me, where I start thinking and looking in different way, how can I called my crafts , or where can I place it , I thinking is there a room for me, the answer is YES , I can place it in a galleries of mosaic,
In a patchwork, in pixel room, but not in a wall that hangs cross stitching arts,
But more on more that way, my experiment get more wild and run, colored pixel is always many colors in his single square form, I decide to get out in this category,
I try more research about patchwork , and I see more clear things in this room , the next things I open my mind to the mosaic room and get involved more on more , and I notice a clear picture and help me to categories my craft more in this way.
I draw another line, a new line in a row
After fifteen years searching for the soul of my arts, I try to make room for them, I want to be different from them, I want to be more careful and I want to have a free form from them,
Arts is copying nature I thought, and maybe I think in this way, but copying is like doing things you admire and seeing things that guide us, copying is the only easy way to make us more competitive or maybe more to be exact, new line in a row starting in this way collect the things that have a connection on me make a clear picture and transform in a way I do now,
New line in a row is a form of arts with the relationship to the crafts world,
Arts is different from the crafts, arts is unique form and creation of human no same things have in common with out copying using special tools we have..
Crafts are more on copying have pattern to create more precise and get to perfectly conclusion.
New line in a row is my first step to get out of the box, I never notice for long way before.
New line in a row is a form of CRAFTS after all!
I called this crafts MOSAIC CLOTH IN A PATCHWORK APPROACH
A truly NEW LINE IN A RAW
Only the dead man can make his canvass clear and white
I choice freedom that make my life to be complicated and open for more restriction after all
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Last bits of technology history, still found at a past home.
120 format film camera, maker/origin unknown, period: late 50-s or early 60s. Fixed focus lens, 2 switchable apertures and 2 shutter speeds (one is 'bulb' - indefinite). All-bakellite body, sturdy design (can probably knock nails into wood). Lens appears to be plastic, single element. Optical viewfinder, manual film wind. Pretty much the standard beginner specs of the time :)
Update: Traced the origins of this to East Germany (DDR). This appears to be the second model, which dates it approx to the 60-s.
The mills are an important feature of Maynard's development. The earliest saw and grist mills were built in the early 18th century. Two of the earliest mills were the Puffer Mill and the Asa Smith's Mill, which were located on Taylor Brook and Mill Street, respectively. These were the first mills to use the Assabet River for power; therefore, they were very slow and sluggish. The grist and saw mill were then followed by paper mills, which were built starting in 1820.
The Mill is easily Maynard's most prominent feature. The complex takes up 11 acres in the middleof what we call downtown. The Mill complex began in 1847 as set of wooden buildings used to manufacture carpets and carpet yarn. Amory Maynard helped construct this mill. His partner, William H. Knight, helped him build a dam across the Assabet and dug a canal channeling a portion of the river into what is called Mill Pond. The Mill changed hands a few times but it would eventually become the largest woolen factory in the world till the 1930s.
The 1950's ushered in a change from textiles to businesses like computer manufacturing. With the start of the final decade of the century the Mill is on the cusp of being transformed again.
It is said that "as the Mill goes, so goes Maynard". While the town isn't as dependent on the Mill as it was in 19th century it continues to play an important role in shaping the character of the town.
We hope you enjoy this historical perspective of the Mill. It has been pieced together from a variety of sources and continues to be enriched as we discover new materials to include, increase the number of hyperlinks and add pictures, diagrams, and sound..
The Mill from 1847 to 1977
The site of the mill was once part of the town of Sudbury, while the opposite bank of the Assabet River belonged to Stow. The present town, formed in 1871, was named for the man most responsible for its development, Amory Maynard.
Born in 1804, Maynard was running his own sawmill business at the age of sixteen. In the 1840's, he went into partnership with a carpet manufacturer for whom he'd done contracting. They dammed up the Assabet and diverted water into a millpond to provide power for a new mill, which opened in 1847, producing carpet yarn and carpets. Only one of the original mill buildings survives: it was moved across Main Street and now is an apartment house.
Amory Maynard's carpet firm failed in the business panic of 1857. But the Civil War allowed the Assabet Manufacturing Company, organized in 1862 with Maynard as the managing "agent", to prosper by producing woolens, flannels and blankets for the army. This work was carried on in new brick mill buildings.
Expansion of the mill over many years is evidenced by the variations in the architecture of the structures still standing.
The oldest portion of Building 3 dates from 1859, making it the oldest part of the mill in existence today, but several additions were made afterwards. Buildings constructed in the late 1800's frequently featured brick arches over the windows, and at times new additions were made to match neighboring structures.
The best-known feature is the clock donated in memory of Amory Maynard by his son Lorenzo in 1892. Its four faces, each nine feet in diameter, are mechanically controlled by a small timer inside the tower. Neither the timer nor the bell mechanism has ever been electrified; custodians still climb 120 steps to wind the clock every week- 90 turns for the timer and 330 turns for the striker.
Amory Maynard died in 1890, but his son and grandson still held high positions in the mill's management. The family's local popularity plummeted, however, when the Assabet Manufacturing Company failed late in 1898. Workers lost nearly half of their savings which they had deposited with the company, since there were no banks in town. Their disillusionment nearly resulted in changing the town's name from Maynard to Assabet.
Prosperity returned in 1899 when the American Woolen Company, an industrial giant, bought the Assabet Mills and began to expand them, adding most of the structures now standing. The biggest new unit was Building 5, 610 feet long which contained more looms than any other woolen mill in the world. Building 1, completed in 1918, is the newest; the mill pond had been drained to permit construction of its foundation. These buildings have little decoration, but their massiveness is emphasized by the buttress-like brick columns between their windows.
The turn of the century saw a changeover from gas to electric lights at the mill. Until the 1930's the mill generated not only its own power but also electricity for Maynard and several other towns. For years the mill used 40-cycle current. Into the late 1960's power produced by a water wheel was used for outdoor lighting, including the Christmas tree near Main Street. The complex system of shafts and belts once used to distribute power from a central source was rendered obsolete by more efficient small electric motors, just as inexpensive minicomputers have often replaced terminals tied to one large processor.
As the mill grew, so did the town. Even in 1871, the nearly 2,000 people who became Maynard's first citizens outnumbered the people left in either Sudbury or Stow. Maynard's first population almost doubled in the decade between 1895 and 1905, when reached nearly 7,000 people. Most of the workers lived in houses owned by the company, many of which have been refurbished and are used today. The trains that served th town and the mill, however, are long gone - the depot site is now occupied by a gas station.
Most of the original mill workers had been local Yankees and Irish immigrants. But by the early 1900's, the Assabet Mills were employing large numbers of newcomers from Finland, Poland, Russia and Italy. The latest arrivals were often escorted to their relatives or friends by obliging post office workers. The immigrants made Maynard a bustling, multi-ethnic community while Stow, Sudbury and Acton remained small, rural villages. Farmers and their families rode the trolley to Maynard to shop and to visit urban attractions then unknown in their own towns, including barrooms and movie houses.
Wages were low and the hours were long. Early payrolls show wages of four cents an hour for a sixty hour week. Ralph Sheridan of the Maynard Historical Society confirmed that in 1889 his eldest brother was making 5 1/2 cents an hour in the mill's rag shop at the age of fourteen, while their father was earning 16 1/2 cents per hour in the boiler room. (As of 1891 one-eighth of the workers were less than 16 years old, and one-quarter were women.)
Sheridan's own first job at the mill, in the summer of 1915, paid $6.35 for a work week limited to 48 hours by child labor laws. The indestructible "bullseye" safe still remains in the old Office Building.
Sheridan remembers the bell that was perched on top of Building 3:
"...the whistle on the engine room gave one blast at quarter of the hour, and then at about five minutes of the hour the gave one blast again. And everyone was supposed to be inside the gate when that second whistle blew. And then at one minute of the hour this bell rang just once, a quick ring- and we referred to it as "The Tick" because of that..... everybody was supposed to start work at that time, at that moment."
A worker was sent home if he'd forgotten to wear his employee's button, marked "A.W.Co.,Assabet".
The millhands really had to work, too. Sheridan recalls one winter evening when there was such a rush to get out an order of cloth for Henry Ford that the men were ordered to invoice it from the warehouse, now Building 21, instead of from the usual shipping room:
"There was no heat in the building, never had been. And it was so cold that I remember that I had to cut the forefinger and the thumb from the glove that I was wearing in order to handle the pencil to do the invoicing....the yard superintendant at the time brought in some kerosene lanterns and put 'em under our chairs to keep our feet warm."
Building 21, built out over the pond, remained unheated until DIGITAL took it over.
As in most Northern mill towns, labor relations were often troubled. In 1911 the company used Poles to break the strike of Finnish workers. When no longer able to play off one nationality against another, management for years took advantage of rivalries between different unions. The Great Depression hit the company hard, however. In 1934 it sold all the houses it owned, mostly to the employees who lived in them; and New Deal labor laws encouraged the workers to form a single industrial union, which joined the C.I.O.
World War II brought a final few years of good times to the woolens industry. The mill in Maynard operated around the clock with over two thousand employees producing such items as blankets and cloth for overcoats for the armed forces. But when peace returned, the long-term trends resumed their downward drift, and in 1950 the American Woolen Company shut down its Assabet Mills entirely. Like many New England mills, Maynard's had succumbed to a combination of Southern and foreign competition, relatively high costs and low productivity, and the growing use of synthetic fibers.
'Til then a one-industry town, Maynard was in trouble. In 1953, however, ten Worcester businessmen bought the mill and began leasing space to tenants, some of which were established firms, while others were just getting started. One of the new companies which found the low cost of Maynard Industries' space appealing was Digital Equipment Corporation, which started operations in 8,680 square feet in the mill in 1957.
A Mill Chronology
1846 Amory Maynard and William Knight form Assabet Mills.
1847 Maynard and Knight install a water wheel and build a new factory on the banks of the Assabet River.
1848 The Assabet Mills business is valued at $150,000.
The Lowell and Framingham Railroad carries passengers over branch road.
1855 The Mill now has three buildings on the site. Massachusetts is producing one-third of the textiles in the United States.
1857 Assabet Mills collapses after a business panic. The Mill complex is sold at an auction.
1862 The Mills are reorganized as Assabet Manufacturing Company. This involve replacing wooden buildings with brick, and the installation of new machinery. To fulfill contracts to the government during the Civil War production is switched from carpets to woolen cloth, blankets, and flannel.
The first tenement for employees are also constructed.
1869 Millhands peition President Ulysses S. Grant for a shorter work week ... 55 hours.
1871 The Town of Maynard incorporates. The population stands at 2,000
1888 A reservoir is installed for $70,000 to supply a growing population.
1890 The Assabet Manufacturing Company is valued at $1,500,000.
1892 Lorenzo Maynard donates clock in his father's name.
The Mill Complex contains seven buildings.
1898 Assabet Manufacturing Company declares bankruptcy. Many people in town lose much of their savings as banks have not yet been established.
1899 American Woolen Company purchases the Mill complex for $400,000. This company would eventually control 20% of the woolen textile market in the U.S. Wool was shipped all over the country to keep up with demand.
1901 160 additional tenements are constructed with their own sewage system. The streets are named after U.S. presidents.
The first electric trolley in Maynard begins service.
Building Number 5, the Mill complex's largest, is built in nine months. Electric power is introduced with the addition of dynamos on site.
1906 The Mill complex now has 13 buildings.
1910 The Mill complex grows to 25 buildings. Floor space is at 421,711 square feet. The property takes up 75 acres.
1918 With the addition of three new buildings the American Wollen Company and the Mill are in their heyday. The fortunes of the industry begin to decline over the next 30 years.
1947 After a brief spell of prosperity during World War II, the Mill phases out production as demand for woolen goods declines.
1950 Mill closes. 1,200 employees lose their jobs.
1953 Maynard Industries, Inc. purchases the Mill for $200,000. Space is rented to business and industrial tenants.
1957 Three engineers set up shop on the second floor of Building 12. With $70,000 and 8,600 square feet of rented space Digital Equipment Corporation is formed.
1960 Over thirty firms are located within the Mill complex.
1974 Digital Equipment Corporation purchases the entire Mill complex for $2.2 million. The Mill has over 1 million square feet in 19 buildings residing on 11 acres.
1992 The 100th anniversary of the Mill Clock is celebrated.
1993 Digital Equipment Corporation announces that it plans to leave the Mill complex. A search for a new tenant is started.
1995 Franklin Life Care purchases the Mill. Digital continues to rent space in Building 5.
1998 Mill purchased by Clock Tower Place.
Sources
* "Digital's Mill 1847-1977", a brochure published by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1977.
* "A Walk Through the Mill...", published by Digital Equipment Corporation for the Mill Clock Centennial.
Gather before start of NYC Gay Pride Parade along 5th Avenue at West 33rd Street in NYC on Sunday morning, 26 June 2022 by Elvert Barnes Photography
NYPD Officers
Elvert Barnes 52nd NYC GAY PRIDE 2022 at
elvertxbarnes.com/nyc-gay-pride
Elvert Barnes June 2022 docu-project at elvertxbarnes.com/2022
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Este mes de Abril va por los niños, aunque siempre debería ser así...
April month, goes by the children, although would have to be always thus...
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Although it's still officially Spring in Europe my kids associate the start of Summer with my bringing the trampoline out of hibernation.
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Hardlopen met het programma "Start to run". 3 x per de week gedurende 10 weken met als doel 5 km te kunnen lopen. Vandaag was dag 7.
Running with a programm called "Start to run". 3 times per week, for 10 weeks in order to be able to run 5 kms after that. Today was day 7.
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Brian started putting together his Lego Porsche. He's going to be busy with this for awhile. After many hours working on it today, he his almost done with box one of four.
First day not posting a photo I took that day. I did take a few photos, but they were of the tree that fell over in our yard O_o
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In spring 2013 I organized #SpaceBembel, a #SpaceSocial where a group of #SpaceTweeps got together again to share some space fun in Frankfurt.
As one of my mottos is "no #SpaceTweetup without a proper badge" I designed one and distributed it to all participants.
What I had started back then became kind of a tradition in the meantime:
Inspired by several #Space- and #ScienceTweetups I painted logos for every event I attended,
got them printed on badges for all, as well as thank-you posters, t-shirts, etc. as memento of our shared adventures.
And 2013 has been quite a ride :-)
#SpaceBembel *
#ASE26 *
#BuraMooN 1 & 2 * #SpaceKoelschX * #CERNTweetup * #ItIsStonehengeReunionOClock * #ScienceTweetup
And 2014 is also amazing already:
I already created designs for #SpaceFestVI and #AlexTweetup taking place in May
and @SpaceUpUK in July 2014.
I am very much looking forward to sharing these events with so many friends from all over the world.
More to come ;-)
www.flickr.com/photos/spaceholix/collections/721576354819...
So #AlexTweetup is about our trip to Baikonur shared by 16 dedicated #SpaceTweeps and two #SpaceMascots named #PinkLittleDragon and @CamillaSpace.
All of us will share this unique adventure of witnessing the Soyuz launch of our German astronaut Alexander Gerst ( #FF @Astro_Alex ) to #ISS on 28. May 2014 via Twitter, Facebook and other social media channels.
Here is the collection of my brainstorming and the design process as well as many pictures of the past 5 years, from the day at #TdLR09, where we "met" Alexander Gerst and the other #shenanigans for the very first (but not the last) time, shortly after their assignments for a trip to #ISS.
Oh yes, there was a time before twitter and other social media ;-)
www.flickr.com/photos/spaceholix/sets/72157644182872632/
My latest design features the #NebraSkydisk - one of the most beautiful and most fascinating archeological and astronomical artefacts ever found - until today.
This is the oldest-known illustration of our cosmos so far, with an estimated age of 3600 years (!!!), the earliest known diagram of the heavens, which makes it one or may be THE most important archaeological discovery of the twenty-first century.
It was discovered by treasure hunters on July 4th 1999 near the city of Nebra in Germany and since then fascinates not only the experts as its history is really exciting from then till now.
www.dailymotion.com/video/x1a45jq_the-nebra-sky-disc-anci...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disk
www.bibliotecapleyades.net/arqueologia/nebra_disk.htm
I fell in love with this beauty as soon as I saw it the very first time several years ago.
And I always wanted to paint it one day!
So what better match could there be than combining this masterpiece -created by stargazers thousands of years ago, who loved observing (and already started understanding) our night sky- with two fantastic #SpaceEvents in May 2014.
#SpaceFestVI in Pasadena ( www.spacefest.info/VI/brochure.html ), THE #SpaceEvent of the year, where many astronauts of the dawning of space exploration did reunite and inspire all of us
and then -end of May- our #AlexTweetup - where we celebrate the launch of @esa astronaut Alexander Gerst, whose mission name is #TheBlueDot (!!!).
Both events bring people together (again), who travel all around the world to share their love of space and our beautiful blue marble …
And I am really honored that sharing my badges and designs with so many #SpaceTweeps AND astronauts of the very first era of space exploration until today made so many people smile again. And these smiles seem to be contagious ;-D
I cannot really explain it, there simply is this very special close link between us.
NOTE:
#NebraSkyDisk is under the copyright of the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt
- Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte -
www.lda-lsa.de/en/nebra_sky_disc/
As my design project is an artistic realization for two private travel groups, I was kindly given official permission to integrate the #NebraSkydisk in my artworks here.
Hence I have to emphasize that my artwork may ONLY be shared as per following license:
CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 DE
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/de/
I herewith explicitly send my thanks to the
STATE OFFICE FOR HERITAGE MANAGEMENT AND ARCHAEOLOGY
- THE STATE MUSEUM OF PREHISTORY IN HALLE / GERMANY -
and - as asked for - I will gladly send pictures of my design as well as badges and photos of #SpaceFestVI in Pasadena and #AlexTweetup in Baikonur to the Museum for its collection / exhibition.
It is my pleasure to share the #NebraSkydisk far beyond the borders of Germany - especially during events, which only can take place, because some people started documenting their night-sky-observations thousands of years ago.
#SpaceholixThenAndNow ;-)
Covered below is an overview of all the details embodied in my #AlexTweetup mission logo
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#AlexTweetup
- Facebook group for all #SpaceTweeps interested in the trip to the launch of Alexander Gerst on 28. May 2014
www.facebook.com/groups/AlexanderTweetup/
Baikonur * May 26th - 30th 2014
- Travel period for #AlexTweetup in Baikonur
www.dlr.de/dlr/presse/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10308/471...
BLUE DOT
- Mission name of Alexander Gerst
blogs.esa.int/alexander-gerst/
XL
- Mission no. 40 - in roman numerals
THEN + NOW
- Connection between space exploration THEN #NebraSkydisk (dated about 3.600 years ago in Germany) and NOW (#BlueDot mission of German astronaut Alexander Gerst)
WISEMAN * GERST * SURAJEW
- names of the international crew of mission no. 40
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_40
SHAPING THE FUTURE ...
Mission theme of Alexander Gerst's mission #BlueDot
www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Astronauts/A...
... IN LEO
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit
- Abbreviation LEO #LowEarthOrbit - the home of #ISS
CONSTELLATIONS:
LEO
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_(constellation)
- reflecting LowEarthOrbit - the orbit of #ISS
DRACO
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_(constellation)
- representing #DRAGON - the partially reusable spacecraft developed by @SpaceX, which has docked to #ISS already several times and will deliver cargo regularly.
We enjoyed seeing the capsule used during the maiden flight in Florida at SpaceX Launch Control Center during an event before the #NASATweetup for #STS135
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_(rocket_engine)
- also representing #PinkLittleDragon - the travel buddy of #The2AndAHalfSpaceTweeps @LightspeedLeo @4tuneQkie and @travelholic ( avoving @Spaceholix ) and our #SpaceMascot.
This #VIP #VeryInspiringPinkLittleDragon is traveling all around the world with us and he already has attended several great #SpaceTweetup and #ScienceTweetup events organized by @NASA @DLR_de @ESA @CERN @Helmholtz_de as well as #ASE26 #SpaceFestV and #SpaceFestVI
and he has already met many of the most inspiring #SpaceExplorers and #Astronauts from the #Mercury and #Apollo era - till today, as well as #scientists @MeteoriteMen #CometHunters ...
SWAN
- representing the footprint / autograph of our dear friend and great #SpaceMascot and #VIP #VeryIntelligentPoultry:
@CamillaSpace is encouraging not only children of all ages to ask questions about the Sun and space and she was planned to be part of this mission accompanying NASA astronaut @astro_reid on his trip to #ISS.
Her footprint is heading from the Swiss flag (home country of Camilla's "executive secretary" Romeo Durscher ( about.me/romeoch ) to the US flag via #ISS
www.wired.com/2012/11/camilla-nasa-rubber-chicken/
XXVIII
V
MMXIV
- 28. 05. 2014 = launch date of mission 40 in roman numerals stylised in shape of ISS
* “ @ “ AND “ # “
- reflecting the tools of the peer-to-peer connection of astronauts @Astro_Alex and @astro_reid and many others with #SpaceTweeps and future space enthusiasts, who will further spread news about the adventures all around the world via social media channels, e.g. @twitter, Facebook, Google+ and others.
16 FLAGS
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements/par...
- representing all current international partners and participants cooperating on #ISS – the most ambitious international collaboration ever
which -in my eyes- really would be worthy of the nobel peace prize www.spacesafetymagazine.com/iss-nobel-peace-prize/
Between the flags I left additional room for more countries to join that global project in the near future.
Especially in difficult political times like today this cooperation hopefully will enable our world to grow together more closely step by step.
Now we are looking forward to this trip and are curious how everything will work out.
This definitely is a very adventurous trip and if someone had told me 5 years ago, when we met that guy in blue for the very first time that we would be going to KAZAKHSTAN half a decade later to see HIS launch, I would NEVER EVER have believed it.
It seems our lives as #Spaceholix have many surprises in store for us ;-)
If YOU want to know more about all this, just follow the hashtag of our group:
#AlexTweetup
;-)