#rollox

[abyssalmermaiden]

"You'll look into it for me, won't you?" "O-of course, Miss Calypso!" "I cannot thank you enough. Let us keep this just between the two of us- no one else needs to know."

Rollox: @yloiseconeillants

Calypso well understands the value of knowing one's enemy, and who better to find the secrets of a priest than another priest? Rollox's crush on her is just a weakness to exploit in her mission of revenge against the man she blames for her sister's death

[yloiseconeillants]

'Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind.

[old-transport]

British Railways (ex LMS) 0-6-0 loco No. 44197 by Frederick McLean Via Flickr: An old amateur photograph of locomotive No. 44197, I think in the sidings at Skipton as that is the shed it was allocated to. The photo is stuck in a old rail enthusiast album, unfortunately there is no date or photographer name, but they do appear to date from 1950s/60s. This was a H. Fowler designed class 4F, 0-6-0 engine, built at the St. Rollox Works in Glasgow and new to the London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) in Oct 1925, carrying No. 4197. In 1948 the railways were nationalised, becoming British Railways (BR), engine No. 4197 became No. 44197. The locomotive was withdrawn from service by BR in Sep 1964, then scrapped in January of the following year by Cohens of Cargo Fleet. If there are any errors in the above description please let me know. Thanks. 📷 Any photograph I post on Flickr is an original in my possession, nothing is ever copied/downloaded from another location. 📷 -------------------------------------------------

[scotianostra]

May 3rd 1768 saw the birth of Charles Tennant who became a chemist and an industrialist.

Tennant was born at Laigh Corton, Alloway, Ayrshire to John Tennant and his second wife Margaret McClure. Tennant’s family had farmed there for generations - and had been friends of the local poet Robert Burns. They moved to Glenconner, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, shortly after his birth and Charles attended Ochiltree parish school. After leaving school, he was apprenticed as a weaver.

In his work he saw that the weaving industry was being constrained by the method used to bleach cloth which involved crude chemicals and long exposure to sunlight for many months. He started his own bleaching fields in Ayrshire and looked at the methods used for bleaching. There had already been progress (times had been reduced from 18 months to four) but in 1799 Tennant (in partnership with Charles Macintosh who is best known for his technique of macintosh waterproofing clothing) patented a new method to create a dry bleaching powder that could be used indoors. He built a factory at St Rollox in Glasgow and demand for his bleaching powder soared. By the 1830s and 1840s it was the largest chemical plant in the world, with over 1,000 workers.

Later, he was to become a social reformer, helping to create one of the most productive periods of social progress and reform in Scotland’s history. His works needed large quantities of coal and as he was a good friend George Stephenson, the great railway engineer, Tennant was one of the prime movers in railway expansion. He was mainly responsible for getting a railway into Glasgow. The chemical business founded by Tennant eventually merged with others in 1926 to form the chemical giant Imperial Chemical Industries, that’s ICI, in case you were wondering!

As well as a social reformer they say that he was sharply aware of the atmospheric pollution his works were creating and so he ordered the building of the worlds highest chimney - 450 feet high - in an attempt to lose his fumes into the upper atmosphere. Tennant’s Stack was a Glasgow Landmark well into the twentieth century. Of course pumping it into the atmosphere was doing as much damage up there as it was in Glasgow. I call into question his credentials in this respect as over the decades the St Rollox works has been one of the cities worst eyesores. Chemical waste was dumped in the Sighthill area causing a deadly spread of contaminants through the soil, which local people called the Stinking Ocean. Many of his workers suffered perforated septums and blindness due to continued exposure to toxic chemicals and were colloquially known as ‘Tennant’s White Mice’.

Charles Tennant died suddenly at his home in Abercrombie Place, Glasgow in 1838 aged 71.

Pics are of Tennant, his St. Rollox Chemical Works in 1831 and his grave on the Necropolis.

[salternator]

By the way this guy is also known as Saint Rollox, and if you're in Glasgow you'll find a whole bunch of places still named after him, though I can't for the life of me find out why.

prayer to whichever dead catholic person is most appropriate: may I not have to run a whole week of surprise camps on crutches. in a knee brace.

[usaccidents]

PALMDALE, CA (June 14, 2023) – The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office identified Shomari Rollox who died in a pedestrian accident on Avenue N on June 6

[mean-scarlet-deceiver]

I suppose, having thrown that cherry bomb, it would be unkind of me not to supply a summary of my many confused attempts to research the Caley blue problem.

Turns out it's an issue that bedevils modellers too.

The livery was originally supposed to be 'Prussian blue'—we have no reference number, and the exact shade would have been subject to variation anyway. But something approximating what D. & D.'s relative No. 828 wears in preservation now:

Obviously, it's absolutely insane to think of Thomas, etc. as even darker than this.

However, it seems that 'Prussian blue' was very expensive, plus it didn't adhere well so it required tons of coats.

So sometimes the shop would mix the color with very liberal amounts of white paint—I've seen it said up to two parts white for one part blue.

This presumably resulted in a ton of lighter variations out on the rails, up to and including the 'Caley sky blue' that so many claim (but which doesn't seem to be officially attested).

Some people claim that Perth Works outturned the dark 'true' blue while St. Rollox Works (now Glasgow) used the blue/white admixture... but others claim it was the other way around.

What does seem to be a little less controversial (although no better sourced) is the generalization that the darker version was more common pre-1905 and the lighter version was more common post-1905.

This last point, at least, seems to tally with Donald's canonical experience (given that he and Douglas were made in '09).

And yeah, all this suggests that, canonically, the NWR blue gang is closer to current-day 828 (above) than the preserved Caledonian tank and Single...

... but probably wasn't always so? That lighten-it-down trick absolutely sounds like a good North Western cost-saving measure for the early days.

There was a brief period in the Christopher Awdry/Clive Sprog books where NWR was shown as darker, but then they reverted back to form. Like I said, at this point I'm just throwing up my hands and ignoring illustrations... if you think this is bad wait until you try to dive into what is going on with the green engines... but you could also see it as reflecting a brief real-life experiment with true Prussian or royal blue circa '80-'00.

You know.

If you want.

[bestofmidi]

So they say you're troubled, boy Just because you like to destroy All the things that bring the idiots joy Well, what's wrong with a little destruction? And the Kunst won't talk to you 'Cause you kissed St Rollox adieu 'Cause you robbed a supermarket or two Well, who gives a damn about the prophets of Tesco?

Did I see you in a limousine? Fling out the fish and the unleavened? Turn the rich into wine as you walk on the mean?

original midi at https://freemidi.org/getter-26475

[fable-like-hero]

'Cause you kissed St Rollox adieu !

So ya say you’re troubled boy, just because you like to destroy !

All the things that bring the idiots joy

Well, what's wrong with a little destruction?

[guerrerense]

Caley 'Jumbo' no. 828 heads away from Arley por Graham Por Flickr: She was built by the Caledonian Railway in 1899 at their St Rollox Works, Glasgow Severn Valley Railway - Autumn Steam Gala 2011

[abyssalmermaiden]

☮ - friendship headcanon for Calypso!

Calypso doesn't make friends. She can appear friendly when she wants to, while still keeping everyone at a distance. But there are people she could have been friends with under different circumstances! She enjoys Allen's (@hermits-hovel ) company at times, and finds Luckless (@tallbluelady) interesting and perplexing.

also pictured: Rollox (@yloiseconeillants ) and Gallis (@azure-dragonsinger ) Useful tools- through manipulation and threats respectively

headcanon meme

[yloiseconeillants]

this isn't the full cast yet but we are getting it together :) from left to right, players on the doomed shard of the calamity of lightning:

moren @azure-dragonsinger

galatea is mine

allen @hermits-hovel

calypso @abyssalmermaiden

still unnamed lizard priest who is also mine

luckless @tallbluelady

brunel @mythandral

anime goth bishounen emet-selch who is our collective oc

[old-transport]

Inside Burton locomotive depot - c1964 by Frederick McLean Via Flickr: A photograph inside of British Railways (BR) Burton traction maintenance depot (17B?) showing part of the turntable, with two steam, and one diesel-electric locomotive in view. The steam numbers are hard to make out but I think they are, from left to right, Nos. 47643, 47250, and diesel-electric D5149. The photo is stuck in a old rail enthusiast album, unfortunately there is no date or photographer name, but they do appear to date from early/mid 1960s. ---------------------------------- No. 47643 was a H. Fowler designed class 3F, 0-6-0T engine, built by Beardmore, in Dalmuir, Glasgow and new to the London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) in Jan 1929, carrying No. 16726, being renumbered to 7643 in 1934. In 1948 the railways were nationalised, becoming British Railways (BR), engine No. 7643 became No. 47643. The locomotive was withdrawn from service by BR in Oct 1966, then scrapped in June of the following year at 'Cashmore's Great Bridge' scrapyard. ---------------------------------- No. 47250 was a S. Johnson designed class 2441, 0-6-0T engine, built by the Vulcan Foundry and new to the Midland Railway (after grouping the London, Midland & Scottish Railway) in Jun 1902, carrying No. 2771, being renumbered to 1950 in 1907, then 7250 in 1934. In 1948 the railways were nationalised, becoming British Railways (BR), engine No. 7250 became No. 47250. The locomotive was withdrawn from service by BR in Jun 1965, then scrapped in the December. ---------------------------------- No. D5149 was a class 24, Bo-Bo wheeled diesel-electric locomotive, built by the Derby Works and new to BR in Feb 1961. It was withdrawn from service in Oct 1972, and in April of the following year was broken up at the Locomotive Works in St Rollox, Glasgow. ---------------------------------- If there are any errors in the above description please let me know. I know very little about locomotives! Thanks. 📷 Any photograph I post on Flickr is an original in my possession, nothing is ever copied/downloaded from another location. 📷 -------------------------------------------------

[scotianostra]

May 3rd 1768 saw the birth of Charles Tennant who became a chemist and an industrialist.

Tennant was born at Laigh Corton, Alloway, Ayrshire to John Tennant and his second wife Margaret McClure. Tennant’s family had farmed there for generations - and had been friends of the local poet Robert Burns. They moved to Glenconner, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, shortly after his birth and Charles attended Ochiltree parish school. After leaving school, he was apprenticed as a weaver.

In his work he saw that the weaving industry was being constrained by the method used to bleach cloth which involved crude chemicals and long exposure to sunlight for many months. He started his own bleaching fields in Ayrshire and looked at the methods used for bleaching. There had already been progress (times had been reduced from 18 months to four) but in 1799 Tennant (in partnership with Charles Macintosh who is best known for his technique of macintosh waterproofing clothing) patented a new method to create a dry bleaching powder that could be used indoors. He built a factory at St Rollox in Glasgow and demand for his bleaching powder soared. By the 1830s and 1840s it was the largest chemical plant in the world, with over 1,000 workers.

Later, he was to become a social reformer, helping to create one of the most productive periods of social progress and reform in Scotland’s history. His works needed large quantities of coal and as he was a good friend George Stephenson, the great railway engineer, Tennant was one of the prime movers in railway expansion. He was mainly responsible for getting a railway into Glasgow. The chemical business founded by Tennant eventually merged with others in 1926 to form the chemical giant Imperial Chemical Industries, that’s ICI, in case you were wondering!

As well as a social reformer they say that he was sharply aware of the atmospheric pollution his works were creating and so he ordered the building of the worlds highest chimney - 450 feet high - in an attempt to lose his fumes into the upper atmosphere. Tennant’s Stack was a Glasgow Landmark well into the twentieth century. Of course pumping it into the atmosphere was doing as much damage up there as it was in Glasgow. I call into question his credentials in this respect as over the decades the St Rollox works has been one of the cities worst eyesores. Chemical waste was dumped in the Sighthill area causing a deadly spread of contaminants through the soil, which local people called the Stinking Ocean. Many of his workers suffered perforated septums and blindness due to continued exposure to toxic chemicals and were colloquially known as ‘Tennant’s White Mice’.

Charles Tennant died suddenly at his home in Abercrombie Place, Glasgow in 1838 aged 71.

Pics are of Tennant, and his grave on the Necropolis.

[socialistexan]

And the Kunst won't talk to you

'Cause you kissed St. Rollox Adieu

'Cause you robbed a supermarket or two

Well, who gives a damn about the profits of Tesco?

[usaccidents]

PALMDALE, CA (June 14, 2023) – The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office identified Shomari Rollox who died in a pedestrian accident on Avenue N on June 6