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Where does time go, autumn is almost on us and with it comes some of the time honoured traditions that have been celebrated over the years here in the village.😉
Cornwall still has a very large farming community and at this time of the year after all the crops have been harvested and brought in for the winter, we celebrate with Harvest Festival.👨🌾🚜🍻
This annual event is held in the church hall where farmers and friends bring in their produce to display, while others will lead in cows, sheep, horses, pigs, chickens, you name it they come into the hall provided they are well behaved and drink responsibly.
Come on what’s strange about animals walking into a church hall, Noah took some animals out on a boat trip.🚢🐄🐏🐐🐑🐓🐖🐮🐰🐂🐔
Leading up to these events the Vicar always asks Hoof and Horace to help out and this year they have been tasked with traveling out around the parish to the more isolated farms delivering posters to the farmers informing them of the date and time of this years event.⏰
I must tell you this, H & H find it very difficult to keep a straight face when talking to the vicar, as bless him he has a, how shall we put this, a very loose fitting toupee that wobbles around a bit as he speaks.😇
H & H love going into these old massive farm houses, sitting around the fire in the kitchen, with a large glass of something medicinal in hand, listening to tales from the farmer discussing how the harvest has gone during the year.🐎🐷 🏡🔥🍷🍷🍷
Horace asked one farmer what crops he grew to which the response was potatoes, interesting said H, the farmer said he needed to somehow speed up the process of getting them into the shops, H suggested that if he drove a large steam roller over the potatoes he would have instant mashed potato, cutting out the middle man.🚜😁
While the boys where out exchanging stories with many of the farmers, work still needed to be carried out at the church hall. The vicar felt the hall could do with a clean prior to the harvest festival. So he got Mrs Trebogus who has been the regular cleaner of the hall for the last 107 years (she is contracted until 2030) to give it a once over with a duster and vacuum cleaner.👵
So she switched on the old hover and was going over the large floor, when dear of her the old eyesight isn’t what it used to be and had not noticed that the vicars toupee had fallen off and she stood on it, slipped and went flying into the air.👵🙈
Now bless her she came down butt first and landed on the suction pipe of the hover ouch, which brought tears to her eyes as you can imagine.😭😢
H & H had just arrived back at the hall during this commotion and immediately contacted paramedics who could do nothing on scene so off to hospital Mrs Trebogus went.🚑
Horace being a very caring type of pig rang the hospital later that evening, got through to the main switchboard where he was put through to the ward, can we help, yes he said I would like to ask about the condition of Mrs Trebogus, the nurse said there is no need to worry, “she is picking up well and will make a full recovery”.👩⚕️🐷😁
Thank you so much for stopping by and looking at my photographs. Your comments are very much appreciated.
Have a great weekend🍻🍻🍻🍷🍷🍷🐎🐷😎😂😂😂
Abandoned power plant of a former steelworks
Ljungström turbine by MAN (Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg) with 2 Ansaldo generators (San Girogio)
Hydro Power Plant Arnstein in Western Styria - The storage power plant with a beautiful turbine hall and control center was built in 1922-1925.
Created with 3D products from Digital Artist Zone.
Takes me back to my very early days of working for the phone company,
The big one on the left had its own batteries that needed replacing every few years. This was a lot of work as I worked as an area tech, in the early 1960's, changing these batteries amongst other jobs.
The wooden on the right didn't have batteries as the battery was a big one in the manual (lots of switchboard operators) telephone exchange (common battery). The first exchange I was assigned to (late 1960) had this technology.
The candlestick phones were very rare, even in the 1960's. We replaced them with more modern phones.
I never worked on the real fancy automatic phone, although we did have similar ones (232) made out of Bakelite and more utilitarian.
Vintage Postcard: U.S. Rts. 41 & 441 South, 24 Hour Switchboard, Air Conditioned and Ample Heat; American express, Luxurious, Swimming Pool; 50 Rooms; Free TV; Howard Johnson's Restaurant Connecting
looks like the panel of homer simpson in the nuclear power plant, but this is an switchpanel in an old closed dairy factory, to control the tanks, the heat exchanger and seperator for producing cream and drink milk. The panel is around 30 years old, from the days before computer (loooooong time ago ;-) ) its out of order and will be destroyed, so i took this picture, to save this technical age.
control room no. 4 for fuel rods
built 1960-1966, closed 1990, in the process of dismantling since 1995
Raw Therapee + Photoscape.
The first telephone switchboard that the hotel had (1972) and installed as an ornament in one of its rooms, specifically the one where our daughter stayed.
La primera centralita telefónica que tuvo el hotel (1972) e instalada como adorno en una de sus habitaciones, concretamente en la que se alojó nuestra hija.
Arnedo, La Rioja, Spain.
An old switchboard for the power generators of a factory.
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The coal fired power plant was built in 1906-1907, extended in 1925-1929 and ceased operation in 1966.
One of the smaller control rooms in the abandoned cement works Kaltenleutgeben/Rodaun - Austria
area 17/18: raw meal silos
Bodie is still closed following the recent swarm of earthquakes there. I hope to find out in mid-March what the status of our workshop date requests is, and whether interior access will be part of the program this year.
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Female Indian telephone switchboard operator - "Helen of Many Glacier Hotel.", 26 June 1925
1925 (date created or published later by Bain)
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Published in: "Images of America" chapter of the ebook Great Photographs from the Library of Congress, 2013.
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.38272
Call Number: LC-B2- 6385-8
Cincinnati and Suburban Telephone Company Building is a registered historic building in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was designed by Harry Hake, and listed in the National Register on April 20, 1995.
The Cincinnati Bell Company opened its building at Seventh and Elm streets in 1931. At that time, it housed the world's longest straight switchboard, with 88 operator positions.[2]
The building was built in such a way as to protect the city's phone network. With a push of a button heavy steel doors will lock and metal covers will spring up over the windows on the lower floors.
On the building's facade representations of rotary telephones are carved into the limestone frieze.[3] Continuing the communication motif, still other reliefs depict a runner, telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell, and nautical flag
The saying probably comes from a telephone switchboard analogy. When telephone operators had to manually connect two parties with wires. If they put the wires into the wrong plugs, people would think they were talking one person but actually be talking to another. This would cause misunderstandings, as they would be talking about different things. Hence, their wires were crossed.
Eaton Hall is an academic building on the campus of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, United States. Completed in 1909, the four-story brick and stone hall is the fourth oldest building on the campus of the school after Waller Hall (1867), Gatke Hall (1903), and the Art Building (1907). Eaton is a mix of architectural styles and houses the humanities departments of the liberal arts college.
History
Eaton Hall was built from 1907 to 1908. The primarily Late Gothic Revival style building was dedicated on September 21, 1909, and named in honor of Abel E. Eaton. Eaton donated $50,000 for the construction of the hall. He owned the Union Woolen Mills in Eastern Oregon.
Originally constructed with round spires on the turrets, these were later removed. Eaton Hall was home to Willamette’s law school from 1923 until 1938. During the 1960s the structure housed the school’s office of the president, the registrar, the school’s telephone switchboard, and business offices.
Willamette's administrative offices were located in Eaton from its opening until 1980. In 1980, renovations began to convert administrative offices into classrooms and faculty offices and other modern improvements. In 1983, the building's interior was remodeled, and the following year Eaton was added to Salem's Historic Properties List. In the spring of 2004, a $1.4 million renovation of the building’s fourth floor was completed. The former attic space was converted into offices and classrooms for the rhetoric and anthropology departments.
Details
Four stories tall, the hall is constructed of stone and bricks with a composite shingle roof. Architectural details contain elements of Victorian, Gothic Revival, and Beaux-Arts styles. Gothic elements include a pointed arches on the entrances, embedded towers or turrets, a foundation of rusticated stone, and decorative stone lintels.
Located on the north end of campus, it is adjacent to Waller Hall to the west and Smullin Hall to the east. To the south is an open field which previously served as the school's football field. The building currently houses Willamette’s humanities programs. This includes the Anthropology, Religion, English, History, Classics, and Philosophy departments.
(Wikipedia)
桜と落書だらけの配電盤の組み合わせも渋谷らしくていいんじゃないかな。
I think the combination of cherry blossoms and graffiti-covered switchboards is also typical of Shibuya.
Built in Art Deco style in 1914, closed 2007 - control room of the transformer and switchgear building.
I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,
Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper weight,
All the misery of manilla folders and mucilage,
Desolation in immaculate public places,
Lonely reception room, lavatory, switchboard,
The unalterable pathos of basin and pitcher,
Ritual of multigraph, paper-clip, comma,
Endless duplicaton of lives and objects.
And I have seen dust from the walls of institutions,
Finer than flour, alive, more dangerous than silica,
Sift, almost invisible, through long afternoons of tedium,
Dropping a fine film on nails and delicate eyebrows,
Glazing the pale hair, the duplicate grey standard faces.
--"Dolor" by Theodore Roethke
Built in 1899, Woodard Hall has been many things to many generations in Springfield, TN over the years. It was a grocery store and later Woodard Hardware. It also housed the telephone operators switchboard upstairs in the early 1900’s before being moved to another location on the square. There was even a blacksmith’s shop in the basement and an alley out back that housed a small, but popular, bar. More recently it housed Springfield Gas department which also sold gas appliances from the main floor. It was built by Robertson County native, John Woodard, a local business owner, a state senator, a Robertson County judge, the first president of the Springfield National Bank, owner of the Springfield Hotel and eventually the builder of the Woodard Building – now known as “Woodard Hall”. While this specific building is not on the National Register of Historic Places, it is listed as contributing to the character of the Springfield Town Square Historic District that was listed on the NRHP on August 1, 1979.
Image was taken during my trek to photograph all 95 county courthouses across my home state of Tennessee...now revisiting in order that the courthouses were photographed!
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D5200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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