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Gentleman John...

John Lennon a touching photo tribute after his death (Murder) in New York

John Lennon, former member of The Beatles, died on December 8, 1980, in New York City, when he was shot multiple times by Mark David Chapman outside his apartment building, The Dakota. Lennon was rushed to Roosevelt Hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival. Chapman, who had been obsessed with Lennon, remained at the scene and was arrested shortly after the murder.

Mark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.) is an American criminal who fatally shot John Lennon on December 8, 1980. He received a sentence of 20 years to life and was repeatedly denied parole.

Photo - UNITED KINGDOM - JANUARY : John Lennon Disguised In Doorman At London In England in 1966 (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone

45 years since your murder, and we still love you John...

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Maiden Flight the Brabazon by Richard Walker Via Flickr: An image of the Maiden flight of the Bristol Brabazon Prototype Airliner at Filton Airfield Bristol on the 4th Sept 1949 This plane was massive and was one of the largest aircraft ever built (see previous posts for more information) The runway at Filton was greatly extended as it was thought the Brabazon would need a much longer take off, to achieve this a pre-war concrete dual carriageway that took vehicles around this part of North West Bristol was cut in two and the small village of Charlton was relocated and its population moved, as it turned out this massive plane took off in a much shorter distance than had been anticipated, embarrassment all round...

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The Bristol Brabazon by Richard Walker Via Flickr: The Bristol Type 167 Brabazon was a large British piston-engined propeller-driven airliner designed by the Bristol Aeroplane Company to fly transatlantic routes between the UK and the United States. The Brabazon first flew on the 4th September 1949, it had a 76m wingspan and was 49m long. The project was retired in 1953. It was powered by eight Bristol Centaurus 18-cylinder radial engines, which were the most powerful British-built piston engines available at the time. The Brabazon was the first aircraft to be outfitted with 100 per cent powered flying controls; it was also the first with electric engine controls, and the first equipped with high-pressure hydraulics. The plane had a max speed of 300Mph and could cruise at 250Mhp with a range of 5500 miles While Bristol had studied the prospects of developing very large aircraft as bombers prior to and during the Second World War, it was the release of a report compiled by the Brabazon Committee which led the company to adapt its proposed bomber into a large civil airliner to meet the Type I specification for the long-distance transatlantic route. Initially designated the Type 167, the proposed aircraft had a 25-foot (7.6 m)-diameter fuselage (1.7m wider than a Boeing 747) containing full upper and lower decks on which passengers would be seated in luxurious conditions. It was powered by an arrangement of eight Bristol Centaurus radial engines which drove eight paired contra-rotating propellers set on four forward-facing nacelles. The Brabazon was one of the largest aeroplanes ever built, being sized roughly between the much later Airbus A300 and Boeing 767 airliners. (Wikipedia) and Archive image

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John’s truth…

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The Bristol Britannia Prototype Airliner Preparing for Take Off at Bristol's Filton Airfield 1952 by Richard Walker Via Flickr: A rather grainy shot taken by myself in 1952 using a paper roll film camera of the Bristol Britannia taking off from the Filton Airfield Bristol. In those day as a young boy living not very far from the airfield I was fascinated by the activity on the runway and the various aircraft that were built by the BAC (Bristol Aeroplane Company) including the Bristol Britannia,The Bristol Brabazon,the Bristol Freighter and others models. The airfield was also an RAF base and flew Vampires and Meteors. In later years we saw the Concorde take off from this runway and the Air-Bus factories in the region are still producing air-frames and at Rolls Royce Bristol engines are manufactured (More details about the Britannia can be found via multiple sites on the internet)

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Heyy man,

Just have to say. Seeing your I have been inspired

Thank you, much appreciated...

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Looking The Part....

Myself at an apartment on Cape Cod near Hyannis (MA) in 1990

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Large Dahlia Flower

Dahlia "Cappuccino" growing in the west facing border in my Dorset Garden UK

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High Temperature...

Today Tuesday 12 August in Dorset County UK the Temperature (in the sunlight) reached 43.3c a very uncomfortable day. Today's official temperature was 33c

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The Wind Voice

Screaming down across the ground, the wind voice howls the valley scowls, its trees bending, hesitating before the crack, the split of bark now rips the dark as the bough comes crashing down. Now misshapen and out of balance the great oak tree has lost its grace, and for ever now will be out of place.

That which did the Wind Voice now take down, its time again will come around, these days of dark, and cloud, and rain, when rivers rise and take the same away with a flood that strikes, takes, and breaks and washes all away. Wait then until another day, the day the “Wind Voice” fades away. To recover then in this broken place rebuild life the way it was.

Accomplished then with much endeavour, the rebuilt way is safe to tread, relaxing after so much work, but with stress to last, it’s enough to say “Thank God” time to start again in grace, as the days and years pass by. Then one day looking back along the bright horizon, dark lines could be seen, lurking in the sky.

The sun today looks far away, its promise hard to reach, the future then becomes unsure and certainty leaks away, and fresh doubts cloud the day. To the book we run, will we be undone? Did we read it right? What brings this blight upon us now? What have we done? These dark lines begin to grow, and the air itself it starts to shimmer as it moves away, it can’t be caught no matter how we run, even unto the sun!

Those dark lines grew, as once more the horizon lost its shape, the land itself became the sky, and the “Wind Voice” returned its cry, with so much a vengeance as to rip all things out of place, disturbance of the very earth became the day, run we did but without direction, as in a circle round and round, then a lone green leaf was seen but too soon trampled to the ground.

Poem: Richard Walker 2 Sept 2006

Picture- Winslow Homer 'The Coming Storm'

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1941 - Boy with his Road Master Trolley collecting Kindling - Radford Sunset Village - Virginia - USA

Photo by Marion Post Wolcott

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1941 - Berkshire Hill County - MA - Harley Davidson - Motorcyclists stopover on Route ...

Photo by John Collier

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1941 - Beaver Falls - Pennsylvania - USA - Abandoned Howard Stove Works

photo by Jack Delano

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1941 - Aliquippa (Steel Town) Pennsylvania - USA- Busload of Steel workers going home after Shift & Sidewalk view

Photo by Jack Delano

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1941 - A Finger Lakes Riverside Diner & Coal Truck seen near Cortland - NY State - USA

Photo by John Collier

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1941 - 'War Home' - Kitchen - Tranklin Terrace - Erie - Pennsylvania

image by Alfred Palmer

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1940 Chas. Schwartz & Son - Jewelers Store - Interior - Washington DC..

Image by Theodor Horydczak