Appear at Midnight

" ... but I'll appear at midnight, when the films close ... " [The Fall : Frightened : 1978]

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Bremen, 1838!

›
Nosferatu's scriptwriter Henrik Galeen, had previously gained a reputation for his horror/fantasy and Expressionistic work through his c...
Saturday, July 18, 2009

Barbegal, 1940

›
- The concept was simple, but the application is impressive. Barbegal was an immense flour mill, dating from the 4th century A.D. The power ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Ponteland, 1956

›
In due course, the Darras Hall branch extended westwards by about 10 miles to a colliery at Kirkheaton, which closed in 1926. The post Great...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Bookshelf : best of, 2005-2009

›
10/10 ------------- The Catcher in the Rye (J D Salinger) 2005 Eastern Approaches (Fitzroy MacLean) 2007 Ripley's Game (Patricia High...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Dogger Bank, 1931

›
The tremor began at around 1:30am on June 7 , 1931 with its epicentre located on the Dogger Bank , 60 miles (100 km) off the Yorkshire co...
Monday, January 19, 2009

Wichita, 1952

›
February, 1952, firemen became sandbaggers again, as the Little Arkansas River flooded out of its banks. Another old timer bit the dust, ...
Sunday, December 28, 2008

Bookshelf 2008

›
Allan Dwan - The Last Pioneer [8?] Peter Bogdanovich Born Yesterday [6+] Gordon Burn Crisis [8] Hamilton Jordan =Deliverance [...
Saturday, December 27, 2008

Meyers Legde Alt, 1986

›
1887. Inactive since 1945. 26 m (85 ft) square cast iron tower incorporating 3-story keeper's quarters, mounted on a square skeletal fou...
Friday, November 28, 2008

Hamsteels, 1910

›
Flynn , Peter, 07 Oct 1910, aged 49, Hewer , He was hewing in a bord 9 yards wide, the seam being 7 feet high including a band 2 feet 9 inch...
Saturday, November 22, 2008

Chequamegon Point, 1896

›
Four concrete anchoring pads were cast in place at Chequamegon Point, and the skeleton iron tower was erected to the point at which it was r...
Monday, October 13, 2008

Creston Flats, 1894

›
1894 : June : B.C. : Heavy snowfall and quick melt in late spring. Floods swamp much low lying land. At Nelson, a record high water mark of ...
1 comment:
Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Sumner, 1882

›
Charles Henry Gordon was born in 1843 in Lawrence Co , IL, died in 1926. He served in Co E of the 5th Illinois Infantry during the Civil Wa...
Thursday, July 10, 2008

Windsor, 1892

›
SAGINAW Other names : none Official no. : C69524 Type at loss : propeller, wood, carferry, 4 car Build info : 1873, Port Huron Dry Dock [A. ...
Monday, June 23, 2008

New York, 1854

›
Hamburg bark ELBE, Schwensen, arrived at New York on Sunday, 8 January 1854 (passenger manifest dated 9 January 1854), 43 days from Hamburg,...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008

off Bremerhaven, 1881

›
Roter Sand 1885. Inactive since 1986. 28 m (92 ft) round cast iron, brick lined tower with primary and secondary lanterns and a triangular g...
Monday, June 02, 2008

Whickham, 1870

›
(17/07/1870) Funeral of Harry Clasper at St. Mary's church in Whickham. An estimated 100,000 to 130,000 people lined route of the funera...
Monday, March 10, 2008

San Francisco, 1906

›
Agassiz in the Concrete The Agassiz statue is the most famous of all images related to Stanford’s earthquake history (Figure 4). During the ...
Saturday, March 08, 2008

South Shields, 1857

›
February 20. An alarming explosion of gas occurred this morning, in the ship Prince Phillippe, of Ostend, then lying in the river at South S...
Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Liverpool/Manchester, 1857

›
Easily the most stunning picture in the show is Rockets and Blue Lights to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water (1840). It has taken almost 150 ye...
Saturday, December 22, 2007

BOOKSHELF 07

›
An American Dream [N.Mailer RIP] 5/10 Bambi vs Godzilla [D.Mamet] 6/10 Blackpool Vanishes [R.Francis] 6/10 A Bloody Good Winner [D.Nevison/D...
‹
›
Home
View web version
Powered by Blogger.