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TIME & ENDURANCE
Dennison Watch Case Co. Ltd was established in 1905 by Franklin Dennison and his son Major Gilbert Dennison, after acquiring the shares of Alfred Wigley.
Over the following 60 years, the company grew to become the largest watch company in England and known around the world for its fine Dennison Quality (DQ). Even with this success, the memory of the great founder was never forgotten, with almost all Dennison products signed with the assay mark ‘A.L.D’.
Dennison designed and manufactured watch cases for world famous explorers specifically for expeditions – in 1913 for Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Expedition to Antartica on the ship ‘Endurance’, and in 1953 for Sir Edmund Hillary and his team’s successful Everest Expedition (image adjacent showing an advert from 1954 published in the HJ). During the same year, Lieut. Commander Lithgow broke the World Air Speed Record flying over Tripoli, reaching a speed of 735.7mph (1184km/h), whilst wearing a Dennison Aquatite cased watch.
This is another forgotten image found in my archives.
Taken in the Todd River just north of Wigleys Waterhole
A misty morning for the school run at the hamlet of Wigley on Pudding Pie Hill near Wadshelf on the eastern edge of the Peak District above Chesterfield.
Some updating: its not a berrie, its an Aril!!!
This pic is for W-Wigley!
These are the leaves of a yew, dark green, and the female tree carries red "berries".
the whole tree is poisonous, medicin against ovary cancer is made from yew leaves, it contains taxol. But deadly poisonous if eaten by horses or sheep. (and humans)
The only edible is the aril, contains a lot of Vit. C, but the seed is very poisonous again!!
So do spit that out if you try the aril!!!!!
My close friend Wallace Wigley passed away on Friday. Rest In Peace Wally, we all will miss you...
Canon PowerShot S95
Aperture 3.5
Exposure time 1/125
ISO 200
Date taken 2013 10 29
Coka Cola and Spearmint Gum ghost signs across from the Cooper County Courthouse Boonville MO
Boonville is a city in Cooper County, Missouri, United States. The population was 8,319 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Cooper County.[6] The city was the site of a skirmish early in the Civil War, on July 17, 1861. Union forces defeated a small and poorly equipped force of the Missouri State Guard in the first Battle of Boonville.
Sugar sucriers (sugar bowls) and sugar casters (sugar shakers): what an elegant and genteel history our forebears left us. How pleasurable it must have been to take sugar with tea, drinks or dessert using these wonderful sterling silver objects and implements.
No doubt you have a sugar bowl (also known as a sucrier) somewhere about the house, sterling silver or otherwise, but have you ever heard of a sugar caster before?
Sugar casters (also known as sugar shakers) have been used from the Seventeenth Century, were the natural progression from sugar boxes. Sugar boxes were often highly ornamented and decorative to advertise their owner’s wealth, yet were not convenient for using at the dinner table while eating or drinking. The term ‘caster’ is a reference to the way which the sugar is cast across the food, and dispensed evenly. The shape and form of the silver sugar caster is based on the need to sprinkle sugar when sweetening drinks or food. Therefore the pierced dome shape of the top of the sugar caster allows sugar to pass through delicately and gradually, while the solid bottom of the caster is the container for the sugar. Generally, the height of the sugar caster has grown over time.
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 16th of October is “starts with S”. I immediately thought of sterling silver. Then I thought that sugar also starts with an ‘s’, so I called in some favours from some like-minded friends to share some pieces of sugar related sterling silver to meet this week’s theme. I hope that you like my choice of a collage for the theme, and that it makes you smile.
Far left: a Georgian sugar caster made in 1801 by Thomas Wallis II in London. (Private collection).
Apprenticed to his father, Thomas Wallis I, silversmith Thomas Wallis II first registered himself in 1777. In 1810, Thomas Wallis II entered in partnership with silversmith Jonathan Hayne and established Thomas Wallis and Company.
Top second from the left: a large Victorian Rococo Revival sucrier made in 1840 by Patrick Loughlin of Great Ship Street, Dublin. (Private collection).
This ornately decorated sugar bowl is wonderfully large, with a 15 centimetre diameter and measuring 10 centimetres in height. Obviously its owners were wealthy, and perhaps liked to display their wealth through such a large sucrier. Irish silver is quite rare, with much British assayed pieces melted down during the fraught relationship between Britain and Ireland. This piece is also rare because Patrick Loughlin was only a silversmith between 1831 and 1848.
Bottom second from the left: an Art Nouveau sucrier made in Dublin in 1908 by Sharman Dermott Neill. (Private collection).
Sharman Dermott Neill established the retail business of Sharman D. Neill on the Edgware Rd, London around 1852. It remained open until 1880. Premises in Donegall Place, Belfast were established in 1884. In 1909 the firm was converted into a Ltd. Sharman Dermott Neill was a descendent of Robert Neill, who in partnership with Henry Gardner, advertised \'Telescopes\' in 1810. Sharman D. Neill Ltd. is still open at 7 - 9 Royal Avenue, Belfast, selling luxury goods and jewellery.
Top second from the right: a Regency Revival sucrier made in 1925 in Birmingham by the silversmiths Charles Boyton and Son Ltd. manufacturing silversmiths, Upper Charles Street, London. (Private collection).
The firm of Charles Boyton and sons was founded in 1809 and eventually wound up in 1933. The director Charles Boyton junior (1885 - 1958) broke away from the old firm and set up wholesale silversmiths in Maryebone Lane and a retail premises in Wigmore Street in 1934. Some of his work is inspired the Pyramid pattern designed Harold Nielson in 1926 for George Jonson. His business closed in 1939.
Bottom second from the right: a Georgian revival sucrier made in 1901 in Chester by William Aitken of Vyse Street, Birmingham. (Private collection).
William Aitken was a maker of sterling silver and silver plated items during the Victorian and Edwardian period in Birmingham between 1891 and 1904 and was also active in Chester at the same time. His motto was “Nothing is too large; nothing is too small”. It was said of him that “it is an impossibility to mention any article which can be made in silver that is not in the stock of this maker”.
Far right: an Art Deco sugar caster made in 1935 by Aaron Lufkin Dennison of Handsworth, Birmingham. (Private collection.)
Aaron Lufkin Dennison was an American watchmaker and businessman who founded a number of companies. Born in Maine in 1812, around 1862, Aaron Dennison started a business making watch cases in Birmingham and supplied the London office of the Waltham Watch Company. In 1879, Alfred Wigley joined Aaron to form the firm of Dennison, Wigley & Company. Aaron died in Birmingham in 1895. Following his death, his son Franklin became a partner in the firm. This very successful company continued until 1905 when it was renamed the Dennison Watch Case Company, and that company continued until 1967. As well as producing watch cases, they also produced luxury silver goods.
Volvo FM Tow truck
Seen at Queens rd, towing 66855 (MX05CHK), to its final resting place, on it's one way trip.
ARRIVA Kent & Surrey 5934 P934 MKL is seen on Discovery Drive, Kings Hill whilst working route 77. Tuesday 27th August 2013.
This particular vehicle was withdrawn in April 2014 and was the last member of the fleet in service in Kent and after a short period in store at Southend was so to Wigley, Carlton in December of the same year.
Volvo Olympian - Northern Counties Palatine (Ex-Maidstone & District 5934, ARRIVA Kent & Sussex, ARRIVA Southend & ARRIVA Guildford & West Surrey)
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A couple of First buses being taken north on the M5 near junction 12.
The Optare on the back of the lorry is 50466 (SJ03 DPX),the other vehicle is First Kernow 42874.
The lorry is M11 BUS,a Trevor Wigley & Son DAF CF.
Taken 16.9.20.
New 10/73 to Gelligaer Urban Council, Rhymney Valley 4/74, Inter Valley Link 10/86, t/f to National Welsh 3/89 on take over, bought 4/89 by Northern Bus Co., sold to dealer Wigley for scrapping 11/90
First Centrewest 41412 LK51 JYL on the R9 in Homefield Rise, Orpington. Monday 12th November 2007. DSCN3181.
Dennis Dart SLF-Marshall Capital 10.2m. Later became Metrobus 381 and trainer 7381. In March 2018 to Geoff Wigley, Carlton, Barnsley.
a selection of scrap deckers at wigleys, included are first kernow 37178 SF07FDL & arriva london T203 LJ61CHG
Allocated to Walthamstow garage on rte "123 for Enfield"
RM1573 w/d 7/84 to AEC Southall sold for scrapping 8/84 by Wigley (Carlton)
Good time to post this one, I understand it was towed away for scrap by Trevor Wigley & Son from Weymouth on 8th February 2024. Always found this example on of the better ones and certainly gave some good spirted runs on the X50 and X52.
The Sunseeker that never reached Newquay in the livery as I understand it when in Cornwall:)
The 2023 summer season saw some considerable enhancements in open top services operated, as a result, all the 'MIG' plate, Volvo B7TL, Plaxton President's moved from Cornwall.
I gather this type whilst worked very hard in Cornwall and lasted well, did not find much favour in Dorset. There were six examples moved, a mix of the Sunseeker livery, some in adapted Coaster livery, changing Land's End Coaster branding to Jurassic Coaster and a real surprise, one example gaining the excellent Jurassic Coaster livery with a full refurbishment.
I gather one Sunseeker livery example only lasted days in Dorset, before a major failure and has since been carted off for scrap. Subsequently both of the Coaster and an additional Sunseeker were withdrawn with costly defects in some cases, some mechanical items removed before recently been towed away for scrap. One Sunseeker and the Jurassic Coaster ones still remain and understand are expected to see service in 2024.
The X50 service was a welcome addition for 2023. Typically on my late August visit, there were few opportunities with good sunshine, just having to grab the odd bit here and there, but it did allow many a happy trip between Weymouth and Swanage for the week.
The older ALX400 former W-EOW batch in Portland Coaster livery were regular allocations on the X50, dare I say better suited and certainly in better condition.
Leyland National 11351A/1R with B49F body.
New to National Welsh as N2278 in August 1978.
Renumbered 1/83 to N1631, and N631 in 3/86.
The green stripes of National Welsh's privatised livery, have been over painted grey.
Withdrawn in March 1992, and moved to Pengam depot for use as an office/mess room. Passed to Wigley (dealer) Ripley 11/93.
Photographed at Cross Keys depot, 26th January 1992.
Newport Transport Scania BR112DH / Marshall body new in 1981, later operated by Redby in Sunderland then after with Black Prince of Morley, w/d 4/99 sent to Wigley of Carlton for scrapping 7/99
Photo by Matt Wigley.
The 5305LA working weekend also included Black 5 4-6-0 45305 and Rob cut the small tubes out of the front tube plate. He managed to cut 51 of them on Saturday and in the afternoon we pulled most of them out of the boiler.
Here three of us manhandle one of the small tubes out from the tubeplate.
This car competed in the Bonhams Drum Brake Sports Cars Race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2003. It's Dutchman Adrian van der Kroft's 1956 Cooper T39 Bobtail with a 1,460cc Coventry Claimax engine, and it was named the 'Bobtail' because of the way the tail of the car was cut off just behind the rear wheels. This was found to make it more aerodynamically effective, but John Cooper tried to hide this fact by claiming it had been shortened so that it would fit inside the works transporter. It had the race number 10 in the programme of the event. The red number 23 car is the 1953 Tojeiro Bristol of Nick Wigley.
bed, bed end and pillows
prefab (1878) timber house from Berkley USA, possibly the oldest example of Wigley patent prefab in the world and its at the Quarantine Station Torrens Island.
scanned from 6x17cm (panoramic) neg, Tmax100
Heydar Aliyev Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan
My inclusion of this building in my bucket list goes all the way back to Alan Yentob's BBC Imagine programme in 2013 which featured the work of the late Zaha Hadid who sadly died in March 2016.
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid DBE RA was an Iraqi architect. She was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004 and the UK's most prestigious architectural award, the Stirling Prize, in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, she was made a Dame by Elizabeth II for services to architecture, and in February, 2016, the month preceding her death, she became the first and only woman to be awarded the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.
She was described by The Guardian of London as the "Queen of the curve", who "liberated architectural geometry, giving it a whole new expressive identity". Her major works include the London Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympics, Michigan State University's Broad Art Museum in the US, the MAXXI Museum in Rome, the Guangzhou Opera House in China, and the Beijing Daxing International Airport in China and of course the Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku.
Some of her awards have been presented posthumously, including the statuette for the 2017 Brit Awards. Several of her buildings were still under construction at the time of her death, including the Daxing airport and the Al Wakrah Stadium in Qatar, a venue for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Early life, academic career and Family
Zaha Hadid was born on 31 October 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq, to an upper class Iraqi family. Her father, Muhammad al-Hajj Husayn Hadid, was a wealthy industrialist from Mosul. He co-founded the left-liberal al-Ahali group in 1932. The group was a significant political organisation in the 1930s and 1940s. He was also the co-founder of the National Democratic Party in Iraq and served as minister of finance after the overthrow of the monarch after the 1958 Iraqi coup d'état for the government of General Abd al-Karim Qasim. Her mother, Wajiha al-Sabunji, was an artist from Mosul while her brother Foulath Hadid was a writer, accountant and expert on Arab affairs. Hadid once mentioned in an interview how her early childhood trips to the ancient Sumerian cities in southern Iraq sparked her interest in architecture. In the 1960s Hadid attended boarding schools in England and Switzerland.
Hadid studied mathematics at the American University of Beirut before moving, in 1972, to London to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. There she studied with Rem Koolhaas, Elia Zenghelis and Bernard Tschumi. Her former professor, Koolhaas, described her at graduation as "a planet in her own orbit." Zenghelis described her as the most outstanding pupil he ever taught. 'We called her the inventor of the 89 degrees. Nothing was ever at 90 degrees. She had spectacular vision. All the buildings were exploding into tiny little pieces." He recalled that she was less interested in details, such as staircases. "The way she drew a staircase you would smash your head against the ceiling, and the space was reducing and reducing, and you would end up in the upper corner of the ceiling. She couldn't care about tiny details. Her mind was on the broader pictures—when it came to the joinery she knew we could fix that later. She was right.' Her fourth-year student project was a painting of a hotel in the form of a bridge, inspired by the works of the Russian suprematist artist Kazimir Malevich.
After graduation in 1977, she went to work for her former professors, Koolhaas and Zenghelis, at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Through her association with Koolhaas, she met the architectural engineer Peter Rice, who gave her support and encouragement during the early stages of her career. Hadid became a naturalised citizen of the United Kingdom. She opened her own architectural firm, Zaha Hadid Architects, in London in 1980. During the early 1980s Hadid's style introduced audiences to a new modern architecture style through her extremely detailed and professional sketches. At the time people were focused on postmodernism designs, so her designs were a different approach to architecture that set her apart from other designers.
She then began her career teaching architecture, first at the Architectural Association, then, over the years at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge University, the University of Chicago, the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Columbia University. She earned her early reputation with her lecturing and colourful and radical early designs and projects, which were widely published in architectural journals but remained largely unbuilt. Her ambitious but unbuilt projects included a plan for Peak in Hong Kong (1983), and a plan for an opera house in Cardiff, Wales, (1994). The Cardiff experience was particularly discouraging; her design was chosen as the best by the competition jury, but the Welsh government refused to pay for it, and the commission was given to a different and less ambitious architect. Her reputation in this period rested largely upon her teaching and the imaginative and colourful paintings she made of her proposed buildings. Her international reputation was greatly enhanced in 1988 when she was chosen to show her drawings and paintings as one of seven architects chosen to participate in the exhibition "Deconstructivism in Architecture" curated by Philip Johnson and Mark Wigley at New York's Museum of Modern Art. This, a conference at the Tate in London and some articles written about her began to not only get her name out into the Architecture world, but allowed people to associate a particular style of architecture with Hadid.
Heydar Aliyev Center (2007–2013)
The Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan is a gigantic cultural and conference centre containing three auditoriums, a library and museum, with a total space of 10,801 square metres on a surface of 15,514 square metres, and a height of 74 metres. Hadid wrote that "its fluid form emerges from the folds of the natural topography of the landscape and envelops the different functions of the centre", though the building when completed was largely surrounded by Soviet-era apartment blocks. Peter Cook in Architectural Review called it "a white vision, outrageously total, arrogantly complete ... a unique object that confounds and contradicts the reasonable ... a wave form sweeping up, almost lunging, into the sky ... here is architecture as the ultimate statement of theatre ... It is the most complete realisation yet of the Iraqi-born architect's vision of sweeping curves and flowing space."
Consisting of eight storeys, the centre includes an auditorium with 1000 seats, exhibition space, conference hall, workshop and a museum. No straight line was used in the project of the complex. The shape of the building is wave-like and the overall view is unique and harmonic. Such an architectural structure stands for post-modernist architecture and forms oceanic feeling. The lines of the building symbolise the merging of past and future.
Just in case you're all wondering that my image is slightly wonky and not truly perpendicular, it's my nod to the great lady.... "no right angles were harmed in the taking of this photograph"
Go North East's withdrawn Volvo B10BLE/Wright Renown 5156 (T806 CBW), which carries Go North East's corporate livery, is pictured here at Saltmeadows Road Depot, Gateshead, being attached to a tow-truck, having been dismantled for spare parts and sold for scrap to Trevor Wigley & Son, Carlton. 26/05/16
Hulleys added well-travelled Trident LR52KXJ to their fleet last month, still carrying the legal lettering of previous operator Jim Hughes and livery of Bradshaws who operated it prior to that. It appears to be intended as a backup to the company's two E400s which are mainly deployed on two workings on the Chesterfield to Bakewell corridor which serve Lady Manners School. It is though seeing a fair bit of use, and was captured here on Chatsworth Road in Brampton with the 13:00 170 to Bakewell.
The 170 was - save two school journeys - rerouted to follow the X70 route along the A619 between Chesterfield and Baslow on 2 October, deviating additionally via Holymoorside to act as a partial replacement for service 84, and via the top end of Wadshelf village. The former route via Old Road and Old Brampton to Wigley is now served at a lower frequency by the 48 which moved from TM Travel to Hulleys on contract at the same time.