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Wandering the shores late in the fall. A single golden leaf comes to rest about as far away from its lofty perch as possible, be North the cold crisp waters of Lake Huron.
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EU65 DXV is a familar sight around the town centre of Southend-On-Sea, Essex.
I think that this is the sixth photograph that I have taken of it. First one in heavy rain though!
Eye catching display of a military Land Rover looking like it is disembarking from an aircraft ramp or parachute drop.
Didn't make any notes about this interesting looking vehicle. So any information would be welcomed.
LJ53 BSU parked on the London Road, Southend-On-Sea, Essex.
UK Sepsis Trust ambulance that had previously seen duty with the London Ambulance Service.
UK Sepsis Trust fleet number K49S.
Sepsis, a form of blood poisoning, affects around 250,000 people in the UK every year.
Migrants walking on the Ludhiana-Delhi Highway (NH-44) near Ludhiana, Punjab, during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
A complete lockdown - said to be the strictest in the world - was imposed at only a few hours of notice. This meant that most people making a living in states away from their home didn't have the opportunity to make the choice of staying where they were or returning to their home states.
Moored in the River Medway at the Historic Dockyard, Chatham, Kent.
This is one of (probably the last one) 98 such steam powered vessels built between 1941 and 1946. They were used in dockyards to help provision the ships in wartime service. Steam engines were used because of the demand for more modern power plants in front line ships.
VIC 56 stayed in service until 1970. Purchased for preservation from the MOD in the late 1970's. The information board says that
she is still sometimes brought in to steam. Some of these vessels saw later civilian service working amongst the Scottish Islands.
VIC 56 was built locally by James Pollock and Sons Ltd at their Faversham yard. The company started in 1875 and went in to liquidation during 1970.
GX68 BVE looks to be a cell van, but I don't know for certain.
It carries the logos of both Surrey Police and Sussex Police who do run some joint operations. There was an attempt to merge the two forces about fifteen years ago which fell through.
The area of the central theme of the film A Bridge Too Far, although a different bridge had been used in the film.
John Frost Bridge was opened in 1948, built in the same style as the famous bridge in Operation Market Garden. That had originally been built in the period 1932-35, so a relatively young bridge in 1940 when the Dutch destroyed it and the Germans rebuilt it.
Major-General John Dutton Frost was in command of the small Airborne force that actually made it to the bridge at Arnhem from the drop zones so far away from the town. The battle raged from 17th September until 26th September 1944. The Airborne forces were overwhelmed by the numerically superior and well equipped German Army units in the area.. Had the Allied ground forces working their way up from inside the Belgium border via the other famous bridge at Nijmegen been about 12 hours ahead in their push towards Arnhem the outcome would probably have been different. ¾ of the 1st Airborne Division was effectively wiped out in this one action. A force of over 10,000 men reduced to around 2,000 by deaths, capture or wounded. This bridge at Arnhem was about 60 miles inside the German lines. The Dutch had destroyed the bridge in 1940 and it took the German forces until August 1944 to rebuild it. A pontoon bridge had been used at this important crossing point of the lower Rhine for the intervening years.
The 1st Airborne Division had been formed in late 1941 and disbanded in November 1945.
A couple of boys enjoying langar at a farmers' protest site near Ludhiana, Punjab.
The kids finished a helping of the langar, and decided to try their luck with another round. They got the second helping without a fuss, and they rushed away joyously to sit on a concrete highway barricade and enjoy their meal.
G29 TGW
in Labworth Car Park, Canvey Island, Essex working the shuttle connection to Canvey Island Transport Museum. This was for the Big Wheels 2018 end of season event.
The DVLA website has this truck as being made in 1927, but other sources on the internet are saying 1929.
GF 212 underwent a major restoration project some years ago and looks fantastic.
The Commer brand name was used from 1905 until 1979, not always with the same owners though.
GF 212 displayed at the Festival of Steam and Transport 2019. Historic Dockyard, Chatham, Kent.
LNER Thompson Class B1 Mayflower heading towards Benfleet across Leigh Marshes with the backdrop of the Belton Hills..
Mayflower was ordered by the LNER and built in 1948. But she only came in to service after nationalisation with British Railways.
Raining when I took this photograph.
FKZ 339 displayed at the Festival of Steam and Transport 2019. Historic Dockyard, Chatham, Kent.
The Ford Germany produced Eifel model range of cars was made from 1935 to 1940. Based very much on the Ford C Ten made in the UK.
The lovey sports-roadster model photographed here is a face-lift version. The earlier models had a flat grille.
As the storm clears and the sun sets, the light, colours and mood increase. In the Fall the Great Lakes come to life.
YX13 AEF entering Chelmsford Bus Station, Essex.
First Essex 44537 with dedicated Chelmsford City signage.
Arriva East Herts and Essex 6529 working out of the Southend Depot on route 1 Shoeburyness to Rayleigh via Southend Bus Station.
YX17 NFG in Arriva Sapphire livery.
Displayed at the Flying Festival 2019 held by the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden Airfield, Bedfordshire.
Over 100,000 of these 500cc motorcycles were produced. Some were fitted with sidecars, but mainly used by despatch riders and as escorts for road convoys. A popular motorcycle in civilian hands in the post war years
This BSA M.20 is in RAF blue.
Behind the motorcycle is a 1943 Fordson wireless operators truck.
One of my all time favourite aircraft.
Amazing that the biplane Gladiator was still being produced after the Blenheim, Hurricane and Spitfire had already entered production.
This Mk1 Gladiator was built in 1937 but not fully assembled until 1938. It has been part of the Shuttleworth Collection since 1960.
Photographed here at the Flying Festival 2019 on the home airfield at Old Warden, Bedfordshire.
G-GACA at Gatwick Aviation Museum.
A design from the immediate post war period. Some of these Sea Prince trainers stayed in service until 1978 in a navigation training role. Although the P-57 Sea Prince was in service with the Royal Navy, it was a land based aircraft with no capacity for carrier operations.
SN66 WHS on its first day in service sporting a livery reflecting that of Southend Corporation Transport which worked the Southend-On-Sea to Rayleigh, Essex route 1 for several decades. The route now runs from Shoeburyness to Rayleigh Station via Southend Bus Station.
Southend based Arriva 6499, Alexander Dennis Enviro 400MMC is the recipient of this rather nice livery.
**Update; the route 1 has now been amended again to run between just Southend-On-Sea and Rayleigh Station, as it used to do. The Shoeburyness leg has now become route 2.
The wonderfully restored and rebuilt L6739 Bristol Blenheim in Mk1 configuration. This type of aircraft first flew in 1935.
Photographed here at the Flying Festival 2019 held by the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden Airfield, Bedfordshire.
Monarch butterfly perched on red sun flower. My poetic thoughts :
Monarch butterfly on sunflower's throne,
Casting its shadow, a dance of its own.
Orange tones blending in the sunlight's embrace,
Nature's masterpiece, a moment of grace.-VFP
Avro Lancaster PA 474 of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at London Southend Airport after an overnight transit stop.
PA474 entered RAF service too late for active wartime duties.
I like seeing working areas like this. Well done to Gatwick Aviation Museum for not making it off limits to the public.
A cannon captured by the British during the Crimean War. The cannon barrel was cast in 1802 in the foundry at at Alexandrovski which at the time was being overseen by an Englishman using methods derived from British foundries.
The cannon is on show outside of Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire. There is a plaque saying that it was presented to Ely in 1860 by Queen Victoria to mark the forming of the Ely Volunteer Rifles.
A light cruiser that was launched on 29th September 1914 and finally decommissioned in 2011.
HMS Caroline's main claim to fame is that she was present at The Battle of Jutland. Interestingly towards the end of WW1 HMS Caroline was fitted with a flying-off platform to launch fighter aircraft over the North Sea to try and intercept German airships. She started her long association with Belfast in 1924 when her weapons and some boilers were remove and HMS Caroline became a floating administration and training base. She took on the role of Royal Naval headquarters for Belfast Harbour during the Second World War and played a very important part as a base for operations in the Atlantic Ocean. Post WW2 she was more of a training facility and accomodation ship. Has been a floating museum near the Titanic Quarter of Belfast for about 3 years now.
A photo taken by my wife during her current (2019) girls only trip to Malaysia.
LAT 505V photographed at Melaka, Malacca. Listed as being the only bus owned by Historic Melaka City Bus Tours. previously owned by City Sightseeing based at Averley, Essex in the UK. Still listed on the DVLA website with the MOT expired in 2008.
LX15 GVE on the forecourt area of Southend Victoria Station, Essex.
I like the colour co-ordinated bus livery and Hi-Vis tabards.
Ensignbus 131.
Displayed on the ground and in the air at the Flying Festival 2019 at Old Warden Airfield, Bedfordshire.
The Shuttleworth Collection's 1934 de Havilland DH.88 Comet, Grosvenor House. This aircraft was built for and won the 1934 air race from England to Australia. She travelled from Mildenhall to Melbourne in 70 hours and 55 minutes.
I wasn't the only old timer on Southend seafront this morning.
EJ 4184 passing the bottom of Pier Hill, Southend-On-Sea, Essex.
A very rare model of car only in production for just over a year I believe.
Arriva Southern Counties 3944 in training livery guise heading east along Broadway, Leigh-On-Sea, Essex.
There are photos on Flickr of GK52 YVL working around Guildford during its mainstream service days.
This photo has an old world look about it. But most of the buildings on the left are all relatively young.
Golden-back Woodpecker - a.k.a Black-rumped Flameback foraging on a tree in Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana.
Brighton's Run2Music was a great opportunity for me to get out and practice with my new gear. Runners could do 5k, 10k or a half Marathon and the musical course with disco was a circular route around the end of Madeira Drive. So I was in the centre and able to capture runners over and over again. I thought I'd practice my long exposures, double exposures and a few normal shots.
NB: I loved the activity and the facial expressions, especially the lady in pink.
Craigavon based UEZ 2404 in central Portadown, County Armagh.
Translink Ulsterbus 404.
Photograph taken in September 2019.
V750 WPH parked up near the tank ride site at the Echoes of History 2019 event. Held at Purleigh, Essex.
The personalised number plate seems to be from a previous owner, Witney Plant Hire.
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In the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial, just outside of Luxembourg City,
The flamboyant, but very effective, General George Patton was sadly killed in a motor vehicle accident and not on the battlefield. He is buried with soldiers of the U.S, Third Army that he lead during the Ardennes Offensive, His grave has been moved from amongst his fellow soldiers to a spot overlooking them. So many people visit his grave that it was causing wear and tear to the headstones and ground around the original burial site. A nice simple headstone that I'm sure General Patton would have approved of.
Photo taken in 2019.