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The iron behemoth
Trawling the Heritage weekend site for places to visit this weekend, I was surprised to find something monumental in the industrial archaeology stakes that I wasn’t aware of not too far from us. It is a preserved giant Steam Shovel, or more accurately a walking dragline excavator.
Bucyrus Erie B-E 1150-B was never steam powered, it [...]
The birthday bridge
According to the 2009 Whitby Calendar up on our wall, today is the centenary of Whitby’s swing bridge. There is some confusion over when the bridge was built but the official celebrations will be next month.
Sat 08 Aug 2009 Whitby Swing Bridge 100 Celebrations
Lots of events today to celebrate our grand old lady’s 100th birthday.
From 12.30 Swing [...]
In: Architecture, Techy, history
A birthday visit…
When we were in California, we dropped in on the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. It is arguably the most famous Cinema in the world and has hosted hundreds of Premieres since it opened on May 18th 1927.
By co-incidence, we were there exactly 82 years later and we signed up for a “VIP Tour”, a [...]
In: Architecture, Showbiz, history
More of Lotherton Hall
In: Architecture, Culture, history · Tagged with: bath, gardens, history, Leeds, museum
Alternative lifestyles
I was bemused to see a brace of Children’s books in ASDA recently about a little cow called Cushy Butterfield. Indeed, one of them was entitled Cushy Butterfield (She’s a little cow) , cover to the right, image from Amazon. This made me chuckle, firstly because of the choice of title (which sounds a bit insulting) [...]
