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Back to main site. It felt like being back in the Legacy building, this dive - far too many similarities to be ignored. I'm still working on what these abandoned spaces do to me. Interesting. Music by Blacksand, my band with Charlie Casey. Click here. To hear more. Our album Barn, winner of rave 5-star reviews and Record of the Week awards, is available on iTunes. But having just seen how ridiculously high Apple have priced it I wouldn't bother with that. Either download it from Boomkat. They're very goo...

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Back to main site. From Within The Plenum Chamber. I originally included this Cell 4 photo with my latest Pyestock set below but I prefer it on its own. Tr ès noir. Did you know Nosferatu. Is public domain, a free download? Excellent music, not sure who by. Inside Cell 4 - from the Plenum Chamber along the pipes to the Exhaust Heat Diffuser. Pyestock Photo 2 - The World's Largest Webcam? It's a very well known shot of Pyestock. The White House, Mick Jagger. I've been to Pyestock. How To Get In. First, th...

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Back to main site. Hive at Latitude - July 2013. My radio-based installation Hive had its second outing at the Latitude festival in July. 50 or more radios, each tuned to a different station and left to run simultaneously in an enclosed dome. All possible radio sources broadcasting simultaneously in one location. We are inundated with information all the time. This installation examines how one filters this information. There was quite a bit of media interest, including BBC Click. Marius chaired a talk.

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Micrometer Collection

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25 YEARS AT GEC. I used to sit for hours flicking back and forth through the glossy pages, gazing at the full colour photographs of the stunning models in all their glory. This was the micrometer section of the Buck and Hickman. There's something about micrometers; their precision and accuracy (for an explanation of the difference between precision and accuracy, see Wikipedia. John Hall Tools (Rugby) Ltd. 1"-2" Limit Micrometer. M&W 916 ½" Tube Micrometer. Used more or less exclusively for measuring the ...

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Canon cameras and lenses

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25 YEARS AT GEC. CHOOSING A NEW DSLR. The 50D has an alloy body - no cheap plastic. It also shoots at 6.3fps which I find useful. Interestingly, Live View, which I wanted because I had used it previously on my Canon IXUS 70, I hardly use at all. Battery life is excellent too - probably because I don't use Live View!

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A brief history of engineering in Trafford Park

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25 YEARS AT GEC. Trafford Park in Manchester was a major focus for engineering at the beginning of the 20th century. The following photographs show the building of the Westinghouse factory that was later to become Metropolitan Vickers, then GEC, then GEC Alsthom and finally Alstom. This is a brief pictorial history of Trafford Park Works which closed on 30th June 2000. The renovated and cleaned foundation stone today. 11,000,000 bricks. 9,000,000 feet of timber. 17,000 tons of steel. By 1914 there were o...

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Canon 7D

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25 YEARS AT GEC. CHOOSING A SECOND DSLR. Since my japanese isn't what it used to be, I followed an online PDF version of the user guide, switched the menus to English and was ready to go. I bought Andy Stansfield's Canon EOS 7D (An Expanded Guide). Which provides a good introduction into the 7D's capabilities.

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A brief history of engineering in Trafford Park

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25 YEARS AT GEC. 25 YEARS AT GEC. I notched up twenty five years' service in early 2010 and thought I would recall a few note-worthy events that happened during this period. I have restricted my recollections to pre 1995; more recent events have been omitted to protect the guilty. During 1985 the dreaded PC was introduced. In those days we bought IBM PCs from the IBM Shop in Manchester and connected them to an IBM typewriter that doubled as a printer - OK, OK, we couldn't afford anything else! Later we p...

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Energy

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25 YEARS AT GEC. Maintaining energy supply will be one of the biggest concerns over the coming 10 years or so. The high price of oil and its impact on electricity prices and transport costs makes the affordability of future energy supplies uncertain. What types of energy sources will be in short supply and consequently expensive? How long can we justify burning valuable resources like gas and oil when they have more important uses in the pharmaceutical, agriculture and chemical industries? While nuclear ...

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GEC History

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25 YEARS AT GEC. Having employed hundreds of thousands of people over the years, there are many who have a fond memory of GEC and its predecessors. Some of these have established websites describing the history of the company, their memories, or both. Here are some of the more professional sites:. GEC history at gechistory.org. Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd. 1899 - 1949. English Electric Valve Co. GEC Site Services Division. GPT (GEC Plessey Telecom). L P Forman and Sons Ltd.