New mural at the corner of Lynn Street and Lancaster Road, Enfield EN2.
Sunday June 1st 2025.
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New mural at the corner of Lynn Street and Lancaster Road, Enfield EN2.
Sunday June 1st 2025.
A close up study of Hartlepool Transport No9, one of the six East Lancs bodied Dennis Dominators purchased by Hartlepool in 1979 (8-13, BEF708T-713T). No9 is parked outside what was to become the new Hartlepool Transport offices on Church Street, fronting Lynn Street bus garage. No further examples were purchased, and all six 'Dominators' had short lives with Hartlepool being withdrawn in c1991-2 and sold on for scrap.
Their appearance was almost that of a cut down double-deck Dennis Dominator. However, the bolt-on, shed-like engine compartment and rear end structure was certainly a design malfunction.
Eight of these brutes were built to this awkward design, two of them going to Barrow Transport in Barrow-in-Furness. Further single deck examples were built for Thamesdown, Merthyr and Darlington a year or so later. By then East Lancs had improved the rear-end design by bringing the roofline over the top of the engine compartment.
Following the enactment of the Transport Act 1985, the Hartlepool Transport undertaking was transferred to the ownership of 'Hartlepool Transport Ltd' in October 1986, a private company who's shares were held by the Council. In 1990 the recently built Lynn Street bus garage was transferred into the ownership of the council, then rented back to Hartlepool Transport Ltd. This laid the ground for a management and workforce buyout that came into effect in June 1993.
As with many workforce buyouts it quickly fell victim to being sold off to one of the large private transport combines. In December 1994, Hartlepool Transport Ltd was acquired by the Stagecoach Group. The Company's legal address was transferred to the offices of Cleveland Transit Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees; Cleveland Transit having come into Stagecoach ownership in November 1994.
In 1996, the rental agreement with Hartlepool Council in regard to the Lynn Street bus garage ended and the bus fleet was transferred to more basic premises on Brenda Road, formerly occupied by the Tees & District Transport Co Ltd.
The Lynn Road bus garage continued to be used by Hartlepool Council for the storage and operation of other council department vehicles and equipment. By 2017, the council had moved out of the Lynn Street premises and the property was sold for use as film and TV studios.
Photo- August 1983.
My thanks to 'Hartlepool History Then and Now' for the background information of Hartlepool Transport and Lynn Street bus garage. www.hhtandn.org/notes/621/hartlepool-transport-ltd
Scanned from the original 35mm slide.
"Luv ya sweetie" I said and patted it.
Here is a huge surprise: The pipe was installed (and the gray paint was applied) sometime after July 2019. The rust stain is a recent stain.
Here, look at Google Streetview in July 2019: the pipe was not here!
Ugh another huge surprise is that this building in its original form — built in 1855 as a tobacco factory — was repurposed by the Confederates as a prison for U.S. troops. Then it went back to being a tobacco factory again.
It has been majorly remodeled since the U.S. Civil War, but I think it should have been torn down completely!
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In downtown Danville, Virginia, on May 31st, 2022, at the southeast corner of Loyal Street and Lynn Street, at the former C.R. Thomas building, formerly Confederate Prison No. 6, a "contributing property" in the Danville Tobacco Warehouse and Residential District (82004552 on the National Register of Historic Places).
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Enter and exit the loading dock via the stairs: Go up, go down, go up, go down, without holding onto anything; quickly and confidently, not gingerly.
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In downtown Danville, Virginia, on May 31st, 2022, at the southeast corner of Loyal Street and Lynn Street, at the former C.R. Thomas building, formerly Confederate Prison No. 6, originally built in 1855 as a tobacco factory, repurposed by the Confederates as a prison for U.S. troops, then returned to use as a tobacoo factory and later significantly remodeled; a "contributing property" in the Danville Tobacco Warehouse and Residential District (82004552 on the National Register of Historic Places).
The gray paint was applied sometime after July 2019, per Gooogle Streetview [sic].
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This furniture world is named "Furniture World." Its sign shows a ringed planet; the ring reads "Buy Sell Trade."
The sign was installed as though the Pepsi logotype wasn't even there. Maybe you and I are the only ones who can see the Pepsi logotype.
Do you like that gray Jeep Commander from model years 2006-2010. Do you like Furniture World's 1992 GMC Vandura.
In my opinion the color of the light blue paint surrounding the door is not dissimilar enough from the adjacent areas of white paint.
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In downtown Danville, Virginia, on May 31st, 2022, Furniture World in the former Virginia-Carolina Tobacco Sales Warehouse (built in 1947), a "contributing property" in the Danville Tobacco Warehouse and Residential District (82004552 on the National Register of Historic Places), at the southeast corner of Wilson Street and Lynn Street.
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There are numerous star anchor plates upon the building.
Additionally, my special brain perceives the shape of that big blob of vines as a perfect five-pointed star.
Brick red was a good choice for the color of the paint on the panels of OSB covering the windows, don't you agree. Have you ever seen so many segmental arches on a single building.
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In downtown Danville, Virginia, on May 31st, 2022, the backside of the former Gravely and Miller Tobacco Factory at the northwest corner of Lynn Street and Loyal Street, built in 1883 as a "plug and twist" chewing tobacco factory; later a "dry prizery;" later a tobacco warehouse; later owned by a coin laundry company, the Associated Services Corporation; a "contributing property" in the Danville Tobacco Warehouse and Residential District (82004552 on the National Register of Historic Places).
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I improved the view of the city by positioning my silver 2006 Infiniti QX56 near the center of it.
At foreground are the donuts I did in the intersection the night before, in my silver 2006 Infiniti QX56.
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In downtown Danville, Virginia, on May 31st, 2022, a view from the northwest corner of Lynn Street and Wilson Street, in the Danville Tobacco Warehouse and Residential District (82004552 on the National Register of Historic Places).
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At this time ex-army Bedford RLs were a common sight in the area as they were used to collect sea coal from nearby beaches
November 29, 2020 - Belly Burger located on Lynn Alley between North Pearl and North High Streets.
Make/Model - ADL Enviro400City/Scania N250UD
Intersection of Wilson Boulevard and North Lynn Street in the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia. The former Newseum building is visible in the background.
Ben Schumin is a professional photographer who captures the intricacies of daily life. This image may be used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0. Please provide artist attribution, as well as a link to the original photo and to the license terms.
1801 North Lynn Street, a high-rise office building in Arlington, Virginia's Rosslyn neighborhood, viewed from across the former 1815 North Fort Myer Drive property.
Ben Schumin is a professional photographer who captures the intricacies of daily life. This image may be used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0. Please provide artist attribution, as well as a link to the original photo and to the license terms.
Ben Schumin is a professional photographer who captures the intricacies of daily life. This image may be used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0. Please provide artist attribution, as well as a link to the original photo and to the license terms.
1801 North Lynn Street, a high-rise office building in Arlington, Virginia's Rosslyn neighborhood.
Ben Schumin is a professional photographer who captures the intricacies of daily life. This image may be used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0. Please provide artist attribution, as well as a link to the original photo and to the license terms.
1801 North Lynn Street, a high-rise office building in Arlington, Virginia's Rosslyn neighborhood.
Ben Schumin is a professional photographer who captures the intricacies of daily life. This image may be used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0. Please provide artist attribution, as well as a link to the original photo and to the license terms.
1801 North Lynn Street, a high-rise office building in Arlington, Virginia's Rosslyn neighborhood.
Ben Schumin is a professional photographer who captures the intricacies of daily life. This image may be used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0. Please provide artist attribution, as well as a link to the original photo and to the license terms.
1801 North Lynn Street, a high-rise office building in Arlington, Virginia's Rosslyn neighborhood.
Ben Schumin is a professional photographer who captures the intricacies of daily life. This image may be used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0. Please provide artist attribution, as well as a link to the original photo and to the license terms.
1801 North Lynn Street, a high-rise office building in Arlington, Virginia's Rosslyn neighborhood.
Ben Schumin is a professional photographer who captures the intricacies of daily life. This image may be used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0. Please provide artist attribution, as well as a link to the original photo and to the license terms.
