Maas - Erskine - 10-09-24
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Old Kilpatrick War Memorial
Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire
House of Dun!
This is the House of Dun. One-time residence of Erskine of Dun. John Knox the Scottish Reformer visited him here on occasion. Hewitson, the historian says the first covenant in Scotland was formed here, though it remained unwritten. Knox was a pioneer who was charged with planting the seed of the Reformation in a turbulent and treacherous Scotland.
Erskine and Mount Pleasant_
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110 Erskine Entrance
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Mail Delivery on Erskine_
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HMS Cardiff (F89)
HMS Cardiff passing Erskine bridge 30/08/24
HMS Cardiff (F89)
HMS Cardiff passing Erskine bridge
HMS Cardiff (F89)
HMS Cardiff passing Erskine bridge 30/08/24
HMS Cardiff (F89)
HMS Cardiff passing erskine bridge 30/08/24
Erskine Covered Bridge
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Erskine Covered Bridge
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Erskine Covered Bridge
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Erskine Covered Bridge
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Erskine Covered Bridge
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Erskine Covered Bridge
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Erskine Covered Bridge
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HMS Cardiff
HMS Cardiff after entering the water in Loch Long making her way up the river Clyde to BAE’s Scotstoun facility to be fitted out. Seen here passing under the Erskine Bridge.
Erskine ave Batcave Exit
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1954 Bowman 10 Carl Erskine Black Loop
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1954 Bowman 10 Carl Erskine Black Loop
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Lady Of Hay
Author: Barbara Erskine.
Publisher: Sphere Books.
Date: 1987.
Artist: S.(Underlined).
Packard 645 Dual Cowl Phaeton 1929.
Dietrich Inc. was an American coachbuilder founded in 1925 by Raymond H. Dietrich (1894–1980), co-founder of LeBaron Incorporated in New York City. He was a close friend to Edsel Ford who supported him by talking the owner of the J W Murray Manufacturing Co into partly financing the venture. Murray was itself a vendor of standard bodies to the Ford Motor Company, and hoped for an in-house source for designing and building custom bodies for luxury cars. Dietrich himself held 50% of the stock.
Dietrich, Inc. did substantial styling work for standard bodies for Packard, Franklin, and Erskine, a corporate make of Studebaker. Further, Dietrich, Inc. built custom bodies to single orders, and proposed semi-customs (similarly built as full customs, but in small lots of usually 5–10 units) for the catalogues of Lincoln (then headed by Edsel Ford) or Packard. Raymond Dietrich further was a design consultant with Packard.
By September 1930, Dietrich was out of his company. Dietrich, Inc. was closed in 1936; Raymond Dietrich became in 1932 the first head of design of Chrysler (until 1938).
Afterwards, he freelanced as Raymond H. Dietrich and finally Ray Dietrich Inc. One of his primary clients was the Checker Cab Manufacturing Company, (renamed Checker Motors Corporation in 1958) in Kalamazoo, MI. while at Checker he partnered with Auburn engineer Herb Snow and developed the ill-fated front wheel drive, transverse engine Model "D" Checker prototype. Dietrich was also instrumental in designing the Checker Model A2 introduced in the fall of 1947. Dietrich's office at Checker remained untouched years after his death.
Dietrich retired to Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1960 at the age of 66. At the time, Kalamazoo was the home of Gibson Guitars and in 1962, Gibson boss Ted McCarty, convinced Dietrich to come out of retirement to design a new solid-body electric guitar that would not be limited by the traditional ways of designing and engineering an electric guitar - the result was the classic, 'reverse' Gibson Firebird, released in 1963, one of the most iconic and recognisable electric guitar designs ever.
Byker Wall
A drone enables you to get a viewpoint that even the tallest tripod fails to do!
Byker Wall is the name given to a controversial long unbroken block of 620 maisonettes in the Byker district of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is a part of the Byker Estate which was built between 1969 and 1982 by the late architect Ralph Erskine. It covers an area of approximately 200 acres and is home to around 9,500 people
Southbound ScotRail Inter7City HST passing Burntisland.
1B82 1309 hrs Aberdeen to Edinburgh Waverley was seen passing the beach and links at Burntisland with the high ground of The Binn behind. Although it is only about 7.7 miles as the crow flies from Burntisland to central Edinburgh across the Firth of Forth, the train still has about twenty miles to go via the Forth Bridge before it reaches Edinburgh Waverley. The church on the left is Erskine United Free Church (built 1903) and Category B listed. Power car 43177 is at the front of the train formation and 43021 on the rear.