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| Danger at Whaley Bridge Dam |
Whaley
Bridge Danger as reported by The Guardian.online…
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| Rainbow Bridge |
As it became apparent that 1.2m tonnes of water
could engulf schools, homes and businesses in the town below, the manager of
the local bowling club, who has a direct view of the dam from his home, raised
the alarm and police officers and firefighters raced to the reservoir.
Engineers were soon on the scene and Toddbrook
sailing club quickly became a temporary command centre. Drone footage was
examined and just a few hours after the leaks were spotted, thousands of
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| Mayor Whaley press conference |
The Telegraph.online tells us…
Dayton, Ohio was seconds away from a “catastrophic loss of life”, the city’s police chief said. Nine people were killed and 27 injured by Connor Betts, 24, who opened fire on revellers as they were leaving bars in the Oregon district of the city.
Graphic video footage released by police showed people running for safety as Betts unleashed a volley of bullets.
On the anniversary of the Apollo Moon Landings, the BBC news gives us an insight into the UKs involvement…. Fifty years ago, 650 million people around the world sat transfixed to their TV screens as man stepped on the Moon for the first time. (Neil Armstrong - a Ohio native)
Back on Earth, four scientists at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire were keeping a close ear on events unfolding on the lunar surface - and with good reason.
The Apollo 11 crew were not alone. Sir Bernard Lovell and his team were officially tracking an unmanned Russian space probe in orbit around the Moon at the same time.
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| The Jodrell Arms Pub near Whaley Bridge |
According to the BBC Jodrell Bank gains Unesco World Heritage status!
It has been at the forefront of astronomical research since its inception in 1945, the site in Cheshire is part of the University of Manchester. It is dominated by the landmark Lovell Telescope.
It joins the ancient Iraqi city of Babylon and other locations that have been added to the prestigious list.
The UN World Heritage Committee is meeting in Azerbaijan until 10 July to decide on the latest sites to be given the honour - awarded to areas considered to be important for the whole of humanity, which will be protected by international treaties.
Scientific research began at Jodrell Bank Observatory in 1945 when the physicist Sir Bernard Lovell came to the University of Manchester.
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| Lovell and the team at Jodrell Bank Observatory |
Jodrell just 33 minutes away from Whaley Bridge. Don’t you just love Synchronicity?
That part about Sir Bernard Lovell cracked me up, as in Australia when I was growing up there was a show on the ABC TV national network called 'Mr.Squiggle', about a puppet that came from the moon in his rocket in every show and would draw pictures from squiggles sent in by child viewers.
ReplyDeleteOne of his assistants was Miss Pat (Patricia Lovell).
Patricia Anna Lovell (née Parr), AM MBE (1929 – 26 January 2013) was an Australian film producer and actress, whose work within that country's film industry led her to receive the Raymond Longford Award in 2004 from the Australian Film Institute (AFI).
Her productions include 1975's Picnic at Hanging Rock, and Gallipoli, which received an AFI Award in 1982 as Best Film.
For a time she ran a film co-production company with Mel Gibson.
Lovell met her husband, actor Nigel Tasman Lovell (1916-2001), through the Metropolitan Theatre in Sydney.
He was a widower with a daughter.
They married in 1956, and had two children, Simon Lovell, a helicopter pilot, and Jenny Lovell, an actress known for her role on the soap opera Prisoner (called Prisoner: Cell Block H in the UK and the USA).
Pat Lovell passed away on January 26th, 2013, which was Australia Day.
In February 2019 the Royal Australian Mint released a series of two dollar coins to mark the 60th anniversary of the first broadcast of Mr. Squiggle.
I also thought it was funny how Mr.Squiggle lived at 93 Crater Crescent on the Moon, flying to Earth in his pet rocket (named Rocket).
I don't know why the book 'Sex and Rockets'about the life of Jack Parsons comes to mind.
Just because 93 is the greeting between members of the O.T.O of which Parsons was a member, plus he was a rocket scientist credited for being a big part in the invention of rocket fuel.
But like Freud once said, "sometimes a pencil is just a pencil" ... or was that a cigar?-)
Hi Darren, you are really good at this connecting stuff aren't you?!! Thanks for this comment, there's a lot there I'd like to read up on.
ReplyDeleteDo like the movie Picnic at Hanging Rock - have not seen that in years.
I know, there are a few obvious, maybe tenuous connections but... they're still connections... like brain synapses and neurotransmitters, where you think it, and create it at the same time... or something.. it was on a recent science program I watched on the BBC!
;-)
I'm not suggesting there are any real connections at all in the real life events I mentioned, but on a synchromystic level, who knows?
ReplyDeleteI'm sure it's just coincidence that 93 is the number of Mr.Squiggle's residence on the moon and the greeting Thelemites give each other, as well as the connections between rockets and Jack Parsons and the Babylon working, but it's fun to turn squiggles into interesting WTF(?) works of art and imagination.
After all everyone seems to love a little drama in their everyday life, whether real or imagined, to take their minds from a dull existence that is probably no real picnic either;-)