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At one time when I was a youngster the open-top double-decker was a very rare bus normally only to be found in a few seaside resorts running along the promanade. That changed in the 80's and 90's when they became almost commonplace inland too with so many overseas tourists wanting to see Windsor and maybe even almost Milton Keynes or Widnes. I think it fell apart when Guide-Friday who had hooked up to form working partnerships went bust and it even hit Plymouth which had already been operating three Atlanteans and an old PD2 which had lost it's roof in an accident. I imagine the vast majority have since gone for scrap but back at the seaside I'm sure the few that remain must be doing brisk business along with the ice-cream sellers with so many Brits finding they have to stay here this Summer to holiday hoping it doesn't get chilly or rain.
When my time's where it belongs
When you're home with me 'cause
When I see the pictures
All in black and white
All in black and white
It will mean a lot for me
I was a dreamer
I would run after the Sun, the Sun
Catch and feel the warmth
Catch and feel the warmth
Catch and feel the warmth
That you, that you, that you have left
That you, that you, that you have left
When the fire will be burnt out
And the woes have been loaned oh
It will mean a lot for us
I was a dreamer
I would run after the Sun, the Sun
Catch and feel the warmth
Catch and feel the warmth
Catch and feel the warmth
That you, that you, that you have left
That you, that you, that you have left
The Sun, the Sun
Catch and feel the warmth
That you, that you, that you have left
Black and White
Hugo Barriol
I had been trying to get a good shot of this beautiful, little Clear-wing Hummingbird moth all morning. They are about the size of a small bumblebee and move constantly. Unfortunately for both of us, a tiny spider hiding in the phlox blossoms nailed him before I did.
Roker is a tourist resort and affluent area of Sunderland, North East England, bounded on the south by the River Wear and Monkwearmouth, on the east by the North Sea, to the west by Fulwell and on the north by Seaburn. It is administered as part of the City of Sunderland and lies within historic County Durham.
The majority of the houses in Roker are terraced or semi-detached. Further west, to the part bordering Fulwell, are cul-de-sacs with semi-detached bungalows, these being owned mainly by members of Roker's sizeable elderly population. On Roker Terrace (Roker's main street) are exclusive apartments and hotels which overlook the seafront.
In addition to Seaburn seafront, the coast at Roker seafront plays host to Sunderland International Airshow, the biggest free airshow in Europe, which takes place each year, usually over the last weekend in July.
The story of Roker began in 1587, when the Abbs family were granted land on the north side of the River Wear on the condition that they provided six soldiers to defend the mouth of the river. Fast forward to 1840, when Roker Terrace was built upon the cliff tops, along with Monkwearmouth baths and Roker Park soon after. The pier and lower promenade were built six years later. In 1898 Roker Park Stadium was built and Roker became known worldwide for being home to Sunderland A.F.C. The stadium was used for ninety-nine years until 1997. In the early 20th century Roker became a hugely popular resort for locals and tourists alike, and in 1928 it was taken over by the Borough of Sunderland, along with Fulwell and Seaburn.
In 1995 Roker Park Conservation Area was declared
St Andrew's Church (1905–07) is recognised as one of the finest churches of the first half of the twentieth century and the masterpiece of Edward Schroeder Prior.
One well-known landmark of sorts in Roker is the Bungalow Cafe, which is an old-fashioned café in a tiny bungalow on the upper promenade. Also famous is the signpost next to the café, marked: "To Beach" (pointing towards the beach), "To Village" (pointing into Roker), "To Bungalow" (pointing to the cafe), and "To Germany" (pointing out to sea).
A museum is located in the Roker Watch House which was originally opened in 1906 as the headquarters of the Roker Volunteer Life Brigade. It is open every Sunday afternoon and on Bank Holiday Mondays.
Other nearby landmarks are the statue of Bede's cross on the cliff top near Roker Park and St Peter's Church, Monkwearmouth. The cross recognises the work of the Venerable Bede, who worked in the North-East all his life at the twin monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow. There is bid for the twin monasteries to gain World Heritage Site status.
From 1717 the newly formed River Wear Commission began to improve the harbour entrance at the mouth of the Wear. By 1750 a pair of breakwaters had been built (which survive in truncated form as the 'Old' North and South Piers).
By the beginning of the next century each had a lighthouse at its end. (The lighthouse which stands today in Roker Cliff Park originally stood on the Old South Pier; it was deactivated in 1903 and removed eighty years later.)
With the growth of Sunderland as a port, it was decided to improve the approach to the river by creating an outer harbour, protected by a new pair of new breakwaters curving out into the North Sea from the shore on each side. The new piers were the brainchild of Henry Hay Wake, who at the age of 25 had been appointed Chief Engineer to the River Wear Commission (in succession to Thomas Meik) in 1868. The foundation stone for the New North Pier (Roker Pier) was laid on 14 September 1885. Applauded at the time as a triumph of engineering, the 1,198 ft (365 m) pier is built of granite-faced concrete blocks, which were loaded onto wagons at River Weir Works by a Goliath crane and unloaded and placed at the end of the pier by a Titan crane.
The opposite 'New South Pier' was begun at around the same time but never fully completed due to the start of the First World War; the twin lighthouse planned for its end was never built.
The lighthouse at the pier head was completed in 1903. Its distinctive stripes are of naturally coloured red and white Aberdeen granite. When built it was said to be Britain's most powerful port lighthouse. Equipped with a third-order rotating catadioptric optic (consisting of a single-panel Fresnel lens backed by a prismatic mirror), it displayed a single flash every five seconds. The lighthouse had initially (like its predecessors) been lit by gas from the town mains, but the supply to the end of the pier was found to be intermittent so the gas light was soon replaced by a Chance Brothers incandescent petroleum vapour mantle lamp. This increased the effective intensity of the light from 40,000 to 150,000 candle power, to give it a range of 15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi).
A fog siren was also provided, powered by compressed air from a pair of 7-horsepower gas engines located in the basement. It gave a two-second blast every twenty seconds in foggy weather from a sounder on the parapet, which was regulated by clockwork.
The light was semi-automated in 1936 when a new light system was installed by AGA. The main lamp was a 750-watt incandescent light bulb, with a gas mantle lamp (fed from the town supply) provided as a stand-by, activated by an automatic lamp changer; and a small electric motor automatically wound the clockwork which rotated the lens.
Full automation followed in 1972, when the old optic was replaced by two back-to-back arrays of six sealed beam units mounted on an AGA gearless rotating pedestal, to give the light an increased range of 23 nautical miles (43 km; 26 mi); a new fog horn was also provided at the same time. The system was supervised remotely from the Pilot House on the Old North Pier. Subsequent to its removal the 1903 optic was added to the maritime collection of Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery.
In 2007 the lighting system was again replaced with a dual-drive Pelangi PRL400 rotating pedestal and lamp.
Roker Pier Lighthouse still functions today. Both pier and lighthouse have undergone significant refurbishment in recent years. In 2012, as part of the restoration, a new flashing LED lamp array was installed, replacing the small Pelangi unit previously in use. In 2018, following a comprehensive six-year process of refurbishment, the lighthouse was opened to the public for the first time; regular guided tours now take place, with access provided by way of the tunnel which runs the length of the pier.
On the site of Sunderland AFC's former stadium is a small housing estate, its street names all being references to the football club (Clockstand Close, Goalmouth Close, Promotion Close, Midfield Drive etc.). The streets in between Roker Baths Road and Roker Avenue are all named after members of William Ewart Gladstone's cabinet (Gladstone, Hartington, Forster, Bright, Stansfield, and so on).
Following the withdrawal of Northfleet based 3238 in early May, Guildford's 3228 became the last of the once large batch of ex-Maidstone & District Dennis Dart SLFs in traffic south of the Thames to remain in everyday service with ARRIVA. Although with the loss of route 32 from Monday 1st June 2015 to Compass Bus along with the introduction of five brand new Wrightbus Streetlites on route 91 its ongoing future is by no means certain.
Pictured here during the last week of operation, ARRIVA Kent & Surrey 3228 P228 MKL is seen waiting time on Dorking High Street whilst working a short route 32 to Strood Green. Wednesday 27th May 2015.
Dennis Dart SLF 10.6m - Plaxton Pointer (Ex-Maidstone & District & ARRIVA Kent Thameside 3228)
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When's it gonna stop being so dang hot, Momma, cause I wanna be outside, sniffling the flowers and chewing the grass and Willow's legs and barking at all the neighbors and just hanging out!! This is from the archives but it seemed to fit what is happening weather wise. Only very short bursts of play time outside...His ears have gotten so much better with the new medicine for his allergies! Yippppeee!! I am keeping my fingers crossed that we can go down on dosage or to every other day soon. He still has to have his allergy shots, but, I'm hoping those will be spread out more and more too! Have a wonderful evening. I'm going to go eat and enjoy my furkids and furgrandkids :)
When I was on a birding day trip with a group of friends, going SE of Calgary on Saturday, 14 March 2015, we called in at the small hamlet of Blackie. We were hopeful that we would see at least one of the Eurasian Collared Doves that live there, and we were in luck.
While we were walking along one of the streets, we saw this massive Cargill grain terminal. Not exactly the most beautiful of structures and definitely not as photogenic as the three old, wooden elevators that apparently used to be along the railway line, just a very short distance away, but still rather impressive.
In 2004, Blackie apparently had 3 elevators, an Ex-Agricore, Pioneer and Agricore United steel elevator. The large, green, wooden elevator was torn down in 2005 and replaced by this huge, modern grain loading terminal. The other wooden elevator, the Pioneer elevator, was torn down in December 2012. It was a fairly modern, seemingly well-kept elevator. Wish I had seen these, but I hadn't plucked up courage to drive SE of Calgary back then.
"There were 1,651 elevators in Alberta in 1951, but by 1982 a total of 979 elevators remained. The 1990s spelled the death of the wooden “country” or “primary” elevator. At the end of the 1990s, as the full impact of both of the ending of the Crow Rate in 1995 and further impending rail abandonment was felt, the pace of demolition accelerated at an unprecedented rate. At the end of the 1996-1997 crop year, there were only 327 elevators left. Alberta’s largest cooperative grain companies, the Alberta Wheat Pool (which amalgamated with Manitoba Pool Elevators in 1998 as Agricore) and United Grain Growers, ultimately formed a new corporate entity known as Agricore United in 2001, issuing issued public shares. Demolition of country elevators has continued, and in 2005 there were only 156 wooden elevators of any kind still standing, only a handful of which are used by the grain trade.
The Government of Alberta has recognised the significance of the traditional wood grain elevators, and has designated 12 as Provincial Historic Resources. They are located in the following communities: Andrew, Castor, Leduc, Meeting Creek, Paradise Valley, Radway, Rowley (3 elevators), Scandia and St. Albert (2 elevators)."
www.grainelevatorsalberta.ca/articles/HRM-history.pdf
www.bigdoer.com/2848/exploring-history/grain-elevators-an...
When I first took this photo of the late Chief Angh of Longwa, a Konyak village in Nagaland, he reputedly had twenty-one children from five wives. Without being required to work in the fields like the other village folk he spent his day in the company of cronies smoking opium and drinking lal chai. Though not a head-hunter himself, his father who was chief angh before him, may possibly have been one. Conversion to Christianity soon put an end to that. The Konyaks were the last to end the grisly practice some 50-odd years ago. I couldn't get him to keep his head still.
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This is just "one" of many such creatively and beautifully wrapped gifts from an incredible friend . . . yes, someone I met on flickr years ago, but hasn't posted in a long time. However, I've been blessed to stay in touch in a very endearing, remarkable way!
When I started expressing myself it was at night only, at the gay neighborhood. These days, it’s daytime anywhere (that is, in normal, non-crazy countries)
When you have two girls obsessed by fairies, what else do you do with your old jars but decorate them & turn them into fairy gardens. The girls were mesmerised by their creations!
When looking at the seeds inside the flower I just thought popping candy..lol..... thanks for stopping by and all your lovely comments
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It’s the first time Maisie has met Bella my Aunties Dog, they were a bit excited at first, Bella did lots of barking, so did Maisie. But eventually they settled down and we’re ok with each other, we’re planning a walk with them next.
When the sun goes down,
The sun is jealous of the moon
When the sun goes down
The sun will have his revenge soon
When the sun goes down
The sun puts in plan in hand
When the sun goes down
It rises up again .!
When i visited St. Augustine last year i was lucky to catch them removing the cross from the top of the dome. It was being removed for repairs after aftyer it was damaged by a hurricane earlier that year
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So when Aigara met the Doll, it was while it was running away from the cops with a cargo of drugs. When noticing the girl, Rider changed her destination after escaping the police and went to meet her instead of giving the cargo to the buyers, so the whole deal went to worse with the hirers thinking the Doll have betrayed them. At dawn, basically half of the city was chasing down the three Dolls and the girl. Remi and Mari didn't take long to get caught, specially since they were more focused on giving time to Romi and Aigara to escape, leaving the two for quite a race of survival.
.....breakfast in the sun at 10.30... to Frittured Pineapple on a bed of Vanilla Ice Cream Topped with Cream at 9.45!
When the old building was torn down some decorations were saved and became parts of the new building in 1975. Architect: Johannes Olivegren (1926-1989).
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When I was at the top of the Bank which is in sight of the road below I got my first ever horn beep. What a buzz that was. he he he.
When the plant life is dormant, that's when the glowing ones come out. --Secret botanist proverb. -- /eyeroll
When they talk about the treasures of the steamboat Arabia, think Sears Catalogue, not King Tut's tomb. Her 200 tons of cargo represent an almost complete inventory of the goods merchants, settlers and towns people needed on the Missouri frontier of the 1850s.
When I first left school and started work in Shrewsbury I used to stand by this letter box every day waiting for the bus and I never realised it was a Victorian Box. When I was younger my Father used to write to my Grandma in Kent every Sunday. If he didn't have a stamp to put on the letter he used to wrap the letter in newspaper and enclose a threepenny bit and a penny, post it and the collecting postman would buy a stamp and put it on.
Voronezh is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) from where it flows into the Don River. The city sits on the Southeastern Railway, which connects western Russia with the Urals and Siberia, the Caucasus and Ukraine, and the M4 highway (Moscow–Voronezh–Rostov-on-Don–Novorossiysk). In recent years the city has experienced rapid population growth, rising in 2021 to 1,057,681, up from 889,680 recorded in the 2010 Census, making it the 14th-most populous city in the country.
From 10 to 17 September 2011, Voronezh celebrated its 425th anniversary. The anniversary of the city was given the status of a federal scale celebration that helped attract large investments from the federal and regional budgets for development.
On December 17, 2012, Voronezh became the fifteenth city in Russia with a population of over one million people.
Today Voronezh is the economic, industrial, cultural, and scientific center of the Central Black Earth Region. As part of the annual tradition in the Russian city of Voronezh, every winter the main city square is thematically drawn around a classic literature. In 2020, the city was decorated using the motifs from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. In the year of 2021, the architects drew inspiration from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Snow Queen as well as the animation classic The Snow Queen from the Soviet Union. The fairy tale replica city will feature the houses of Kai and Gerda, the palace of the snow queen, an ice rink, and illumination.