Saturday 28 September 2024
Friday 21:30 to 04:30 Thorpe Station
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745108 platform 1 - - 1P72 22:00 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street 22:55 platform 5
745003 1P60 19:00 London to Norwich Thorpe 20:48, cancelled because someone being hit by train. 19:30 London Liverpool Street to Norwich delayed to 20:33 (21:19). - may be 1P73 22:02 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street 23:57 platform 10
755421 platform 6 2C45 23:34 Great Yarmouth to Norwich Thorpe 00:06
755406 platform 5B 1K96 22:10 Stansted Airport to Norwich Thorpe 00:13
755328 platform 5A 2J99 23:30 Lowestoft Central to Norwich Thorpe 00:16
745010 platform 1 1P70 22:30 London Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe 00:27
2S35 00:07 Sheringham to Norwich Thorpe 00:56 platform 6 no unit number
745108 platform 4 1P72 23:30 London Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe 01:33
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755410 platform 3 arrived at 21:30 for 22:40; Norwich Thorpe to Cambridge
745003 platform 1 arrived at 21:36 for 1P73 22 02 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street cleaning 🧹🧼 inside and cabs
755405 platform 5 arrived at 21:48 for 21:05 Norwich Thorpe to Lowestoft Central
755411 755423 755334 platform 2 arrived at 21:49
755328 platform 6 for 22:40 Norwich Thorpe to Lowestoft Central
745006 platform 1 1P64 20:30 London Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 22:23 (22:18) for 1Y75 23 05 Norwich Thorpe to Ipswich 23:49 platform 4 cleaning 🧹🧼 inside and cabs 🪥
755418 platform 4 arrived at 22:36 for 23:05 Norwich Thorpe to Sherringham
745005 platform 1 1P68 21:30 London Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 23:23 (23:19) for 5P68 23:55 Norwich Thorpe to Norwich Victoria (Royal Dock) 00:03
745010 1P70 22:30 London Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe 00:27 platform 1
745108 1P72 23:30 London Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe 01:33 platform 4
745005 platform 1 left at 23:40 , to Royal Dock
745005 Royal Dock arrived at 23:51
755421 platform 6 arrived at 00:03 cleaning 🧹🧼 inside and cabs and
755328 platform 5B arrived at 00:12 cleaning 🧹🧼
7553406 platform 5A arrived at 00:16 cleaning 🧹🧼
755329 platform 4 arrived at 00:17
745010 platform 1 arrived at 00:20
745108 platform 2 arrived at 01:25
745005 Royal Dock stable clean KLM
745010 Stable Clean KLM
745108 stable clean ABC as wrong way round on platform 2, help out on DEF
Friday 27 September 2024
Out & About Special - Ruddles Best at Wetherspoons
Ruddles Brewery (G. Ruddle & Co) was a brewery in Rutland, England. The brand is now owned by Greene King who still brew beers under the Ruddles name in Suffolk, although the current recipes are not those used at the original brewery.[1]
The brewery, established in 1858 in Langham, Rutland, was bought by George Ruddle in 1912.[2] Langham remained the home of the brewery until its closure in 1999. The company lost its independence in 1986 and passed into the ownership of Watneys, and then Grolsch in 1992. The value of the brewery and brands had dropped to £4.8m when it was sold to Morland & Coin 1997.[3] Morlands moved production to Abingdon only for that site to be closed by Greene King which took over Morlands in 2000.
The local Langham well water was said to give the beer a unique character and quality which enhanced the brewery's reputation. The difficulty in reproducing elsewhere the taste of the beers has led to the premier beer being jocularly referred to as "Ruddles Counterfeit".
In 1996, Rutland bitter was the third of British beers to have achieved Protected Geographical Indication status;[4] this followed an application by Grolsch Ruddles. Since Greene King closed the Langham brewery, they cannot take advantage of the registration. However, in 2010 former Ruddles head brewer Tony Davis revived Rutland Bitter, brewed at his Grainstore Brewery in Oakham, Rutland.[5][6]
A television commercial for Ruddles in 1993 featured the last appearance of Vivian Stanshall narrating as Hubert, brother of Sir Henry Rawlinson of Rawlinson End played by Mel Smith and a cross-dressing Dawn French.[7]
In 1996, Ruddles Best won the gold medal in the ordinary bitter category at the first World Beer Cup. Ruddles Best took silver in the bitter category at the Champion Beer of Britain in 1997.
Greene King have now inverted the horseshoe emblem on Ruddles branding.
Ruddles also are part of Aldi's ‘Inspired Cuisine' line with their beer in the Beef filled Yorkshire Pudding.
Beers
[edit]- Ruddles County
- Ruddles Best
- Ruddles Organic
- Ruddles Rhubarb
In popular culture
[edit]Being regarded as one of England's cheapest beers,[8] it is used as a reference in the HBO series Veep.[9]
- Watneys (1986-1992)
- Grolsch (1992-1997)
- Morland & Co (from 1997)
Exploring The Remains Of Herculaneum Dock Volatile Cargo Stores (Casemat...
Herculaneum Dock was part of the Port of Liverpool in Liverpool, England. It was at the south end of the Liverpool dock system, on the River Mersey. To the north it was connected to Harrington Dock. The dock was named after the Herculaneum Pottery Company that had previously occupied the site.
History
[edit]From 1767, a tidal basin in the area that would become the dock was used for unloading copper for a smelting works.[1] Between 1794 and 1841 it was the site of a pottery. In 1864, a new dock designed by George Fosbery Lyster was blasted from the foreshore, providing two graving docks. This dock opened in 1866.[2] Ten years later, a third graving dock was added.[3]
Beginning in 1873, the dock handled petroleum. In 1878, specialist casemateswere built to store this and other volatile cargo within the sandstone cliffs above. The dock continued in this capacity until the task of oil handling was transferred across the river to Tranmere Oil Terminal and Stanlow Oil Refinery. During 1881 the dock facility was enlarged further and a fourth graving dock was constructed in 1902.[3]
Liverpool remained an important port during the Second World War, with Herculaneum Dock acting as a terminus for the North Atlantic Convoys.[3]
Herculaneum Dock was formerly served by its own station on the Liverpool Overhead Railway. The station (and railway) closed on 30 December 1956. By 1958 demolition of the station had been completed.[4]
In 1972, Herculaneum Dock closed[2] being filled in during the 1980s to create a car park.
After closure
[edit]The area south of the dock contained a tank farm; this was reclaimed for the Liverpool Garden Festival and residential properties.
In 2004, the site was bought by national property developer David McLean Homes and a riverside residential development, called City Quay, Liverpool was built on the dock.
Since the closing of Herculaneum Dock, what was the main dock area now comprises car parks, a fitness club, a Car dealership and residential buildings. Graving docks 1 2 and 3 are now occupied by residential buildings. Graving Dock no.4 has been restored as a water feature within the residential estate. The map of 1901 shows the entrance to the dock with the letter 'L'. A restaurant has since been built on this.
Images of Herculaneum Dock
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Exploring Liverpool's Original Millionaires Row From The 1980's
The International Garden Festival was a garden festival recognised by the International Association of Horticultural producers (AIPH)[1] and the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), which was held in Liverpool, England from 2 May to 14 October 1984.[2] It was the first such event held in Britain, and became the model for several others held during the 1980s and early 1990s. The aim was to revitalise tourism and the city of Liverpool which had suffered cutbacks, and the idea came from Conservative Environment Minister Michael Heseltine. The festival was hugely popular, attracting 3,380,000 visitors.[3]
The international horticultural exposition was held on a 950,000-square-metre (10,200,000 sq ft) derelict industrial site south of Herculaneum Dock, near the Dingle and overlooking the River Mersey. On this site were built sixty individual gardens,[4] including a Japanese garden and pagodas. A large exhibition space, the Festival Hall, formed the centrepiece of the site and housed numerous indoor exhibits.
Other attractions included a walk of fame, featuring numerous stars connected with Liverpool, and a light railway system (see below). Public artwork included the Yellow Submarine, a statue of John Lennon, a Blue Peter ship, the Wish You Were Here tourist sculpture, a red dragon slide, a large red bull sculpture[4]and Kissing Gate (by Alain Ayers).[5]
The Festival Railway
[edit]A 15 in (381 mm) gauge minimum gauge railway system provided transport around the site.[6] The light railway system consisted of a mainline providing transport links between a series of stations at key locations around the festival site, and a junction linking to a branch line. There were also extensive shed and workshop facilities. A considerable investment was made in the purchase of passenger coaches, and in the purchase and installation of permanent way. Additional passenger coaches (of the 20-seat 'teak' saloon type) were borrowed from the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway in Kent. The prohibitive cost of purchasing locomotives was avoided through the use of engines which were deemed 'spare' on other existing 15 in (381 mm) gauge minimum gauge railways, particularly the United Kingdom's two most extensive railways of this gauge, the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, and the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway. The cost of building and hiring passenger coaches was partly offset through sponsorship by the National Westminster Bank, whose name and logo was painted on the side of every coach. The visiting locomotives, leased coaches, and purpose-built passenger carriages provided the mainline service, whilst the branch line was operated on a shuttle basis by a 1970s-built diesel multiple unit railcar set (named Silver Jubilee) on loan from the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway.
Since the festival closed, the site has passed through the hands of a series of developers. From the late 1980s until its closure in 1996, the Festival Hall was used as the Pleasure Island amusement park.[7] Half of the site has since been turned into residential housing. The Festival Hall dome was demolished in late 2006.[4]
In November 2006 local companies Langtree and McLean announced plans for the site that will see more than 1,000 new homes built around the cleared dome area, as well as the restoration of the original gardens created for the festival in 1984.[8]
Liverpool Festival Gardens
[edit]In September 2009 it was announced[9] that work would begin on redeveloping the site in November 2009, after the city council gave permission for work to begin.[10] The redevelopment would see the Chinese and Japanese gardens being restored, as well as the lakes and associated watercourses and the woodland sculpture trails.[9] Funding came from a range of sources, including the Northwest Regional Development Agency, who provided a £3.7million grant.[10] Redevelopment work began in February 2010
In 2012, Liverpool Festival Gardens finally reopened. The restored garden site had been due to re-open in September 2011, however, this was delayed until 2012 whilst a new landscape management contractor was found after the original contractor, Mayfield Construction, went into administration.[11] The garden site was managed by The Land Trust until 2017 at which time it reverted back to the control of Liverpool City Council.
The new restored site features:[12]
- Two restored pagodas in the oriental gardens
- The restored Moon Wall
- New lakes, waterways and waterfalls
- New pedestrian access point linking to the promenade
- New secure parking area
In 2022 work was completed on a smaller refurbished car park as part of a project to create a new southern grasslands extension to the Festival Gardens. The completed Southern Grasslands area was opened on 7th August 2023 by Liverpool City Region Metro Mayor Steve Rotherham and Councillor Laura Robertson-Collins. The new site provides extensive elevated views across the Mersey River.
New housing
[edit]In March 2013, the developers Langtree began work on the 1300 planned homes on the site, despite the earlier collapse of partner David McLean Homes.[10] In 2017 Liverpool City Council took back control of the site and in 2018 appointed Ion and partner Midia as the development partner with City Council. Remediation works at the site to remove waste from the landfill was not completed until 2023 at which time the Council were in the process of seeking a new development partner.
1962: ROSA LEWIS and the CAVENDISH HOTEL | Tonight | Weird and Wonderful...
The Cavendish Hotel is a modern 4-star, 230-bedroom, luxury hotel in St James's, London, United Kingdom, facing the restaurant front of Fortnum and Mason on Piccadilly. Across Piccadilly is Mayfair.[1] It is currently known as "The Cavendish London" and it is owned by CapitaLand.[2] Its main entrance is on Jermyn Street, and a side entrance is on Duke Street, St James's. Jermyn Street is an established retail and urban leisure street which has bespoke gentlemen's clothing stores, shoe/bootmakers and barber shops.
The hotel gained prominence during the 1902–1952 management of the self-made hotelier and socialite Rosa Lewis, who was also known as the "Queen of Cooks" and "The Duchess of Jermyn Street"; damaged in the London Blitz, it was torn down in 1962. The present edition of the hotel was built on the site in 1966.
Green credentials
[edit]The Cavendish London was the first hotel in London to receive Gold Grading in the Green Tourism for London Scheme and is a rare hotel in London to feature carbon-neutral meeting rooms.[3][4]
The Cavendish London has been owned and managed by Ascott, since its acquisition in the 4th quarter of 2012.[2]
Interior
[edit]The hotel features a contemporary style of decoration throughout and the public areas. With 15 floors, the building is substantially higher than most buildings in the area, and the rooms in the higher floors enjoy fine views of the London skyline.
History
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There is reference of a hotel operating in the site under the name of "Miller's Hotel" from the early 1800s. However, the hotel was renamed "The Cavendish" in 1836.[5] In 1902, Rosa Lewis bought The Cavendish and put her husband Excelsior Tyrel Chiney Lewis and his sister Laura in charge. By 1904, though, the hotel was not going very well: debts spiralled out of control, Excelsior was having a drinking problem and, therefore, Rosa decided to throw them out and divorce her husband.
Once divorced, Rosa took charge of the hotel and expanded it greatly. The reform meant turning four buildings into one and by then, the hotel had over one hundred rooms. During those times, Rosa Lewis cooked regularly for major figures of the times, who were delighted by her cooking and her hospitality. Some of them were King Edward VII,[6] Lord Northcliffe, Lord Kitchener, and the Duke of Windsor.
During World War I, Rosa Lewis decided to turn The Cavendish into a "social first aid centre" for servicemen, which she did again for World War II. On 15 May 1941, the hotel was badly damaged by a Nazi air raid. Rosa was in the building at the time, but she was not injured.[7]
Despite the bombing, the hotel carried on. In 1944, Rosa Lewis became ill and had to go to a nursing home, leaving her friend Edith Jeffrey in charge of the hotel, which was already showing some signs of decline. She eventually returned to the hotel where Edith took care of her, until she died on 28 November 1952, at the age of 85.
For another ten years, Edith Jeffrey continued to run the hotel, then in a state of decline, until her own death. In June 1962, the old Cavendish Hotel finally closed its doors. The decision to demolish the old hotel completely was seen as a deeply upsetting act of vandalism by those who had loved it.
The new Cavendish Hotel, completely re-built and bearing no relation at all to its magnificent predecessor, opened its doors in July 1966.
The 1970s BBC series The Duchess of Duke Street was a fictional adaptation with elements taken from the hotel, Rosa Lewis and her husband's story.
