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Hi TJ welcome to the boards 

An intellectual novel Lee Child's Night school 

Have you solved the problem?

2 minutes ago, Korky said:

 

 I need all the friends I can get.

Korky

Matrons been tweeting that you have lots of friends, imaginary but friends all the same 

Hi Alan 

See youve got the hang of posting and nice it is, sharp and well composed which isnt easy trackside 

This is the google for the 99 error

http://improvephotography.com/10372/error-99-canon-camera-fix-repair/

Very interesting 

understood everything until I read the comments below now I know nothing except ISO is from  greek so we all understand what it means , dont we 

Hi Bearair?

Welcome to the boards Cornwall eh second best place in Britain 

Look forward to your images 

16 minutes ago, ChrisLumix said:

Bill Bryson is equally fascinated by old man Salt, and has quite a diversion on him in Notes From A Small Island.

Was Bill writing about Sir Titus or titus jnr ? I must admit I havnt read NFSI only googled it and the link is about the misfortune of the inhabitants of Milner Field which Titus jnr built when he was in his late twenties 

Titus Salt

This man built Saltaire, the name a joining of his own and the river Aire. Whether he was a  philanthropist or an astute business man or even a combination of both is open to debate

Being born in Yorkshire, Morley he has a name most Yorkshire men admire Titus

He was a man of contrast, whilst being reticent to speak in public, he was known as the silent man, as the superintendent of the Sunday school he would not read the daily prayer in public, yet at 23 he waded into a mob of striking woolcombers and tried to reason with them, to no avail, the army were eventually called in, people were killed and the mob dispersed Not so reticent there then

His father Daniel was originally a drysalter, then a farmer, selling up and becoming a wool-stapler(buying raw wool grading it and selling it on to weavers) Titus passed through a few textile manufactures and eventually joined his fathers business eventually taking over Finding no interest in the worsted cloth trade for cheap Russian wool Donskoi, that they had contacts for,as it was hard to spin, he set up his own spinning and manufacturing mill once finding the secret of how to spin the wool. Combining this with Alpaca he made his fortune

In 1840 Titus owned four mills in Bradford but Bradford was attracting more and more labour, most of which lived in slums and overcrowding. With the mills also pumping out fumes from there chimneys and disease the average life span of the poor was only 20 years

Was this the decision to build one huge mill just outside Shipley on the far outskirts of Bradford or was it an astute business decision?

Selling the four mills and building one that would exceed there output with lower running costs, maybe

The site he picked was on the banks of the river Aire, plenty of water for the mill, there was also a canal, rail and a road structure all close at hand to get the raw materials, wool and coal into the mill

He built this which was opened in 1853

Now he had to attract not only labour from round and about but also skilled and managerial staff from Bradford or further afield totalling 3000 in all to attend to 1200 looms

om the mill outwards, hWorking on the assumption he built housing fre would have built shops and three story  end terrace accommodation for the skilled and management first

Then for the labour he built smaller terraced houses by 1854 1000 people were housed

These houses were head and shoulders above those in Bradford, they had an outside toilet, cheaper gas, supplied from the mill and even at one time water from the Mill

Although it is recorded that Titus paid a fair wage and instigated a 10 hour working day it has to be assumed that the worker paid for his gas and rent out of the wage back to Titus

 Philanthropist or an astute business man?

He went on to build meeting halls, churches,hospital,schools, Library and at the furthest from the mill alms houses for the poor and retired

He didn’t build any pubs not because he was tee total which he wasn’t but probably from seeing the state of workers turning up for work or there absence

In 1876 Titus passed on a year after the last house was built. 100,000 turned out for his funeral

In 1920 it was bequeathed to the council after sitting empty for many a year it was bought by Jonathan Silver in 1987 creating the 1853 gallery and home for David Hockneys work  

Titus made a lot of health and safety introductions in his mill, if you look at the ceiling in the 1853 gallery, you will see between the beams being held up by the pillars, that there are shallow arcs of brickwork leading to the windows, these were designed to channel an outbreak of fire (always prevalent in fibre mills) along the ceiling and out of the windows, rather than spreading through out the mill     

I admire Titus he did what he did because he wanted to do it not for the “look at me fame” but he was an astute business man make no mistake

I flagged this up in the shout box, its still available on I player 

To be honest I found his style refreshing These were people of today but not what I normally see in the backwater 

High contrast and saturation I like and some (but not all ) were very cleverly composed 

Hi there from the right side of the pennine's 

2 minutes ago, ChrisLumix said:

 

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Hi Tim welcome back 

We may have vanished once but the new asylum  forum is just the same if not  better, happy snapping 

2 minutes ago, ChrisLumix said:

Particularly watch out for any member whose avatar is a head of garlic.

Be careful I come from a long line of leeks 

Hi Brenda 

Welcome aboard 

Try to stay clear of the eccentrics they will only lead you astray 

Hi Rob 

Since you were here some have drifted some have joined but I do believe the same loons are still here 

Whilst Fuji are excellent I dont think they do a lens around the 600 mark and if they did it would be very expensive the 100-400 is around £1500 

I dont know your budget but there are some good lens second hand in the nikon / canon  range but thats always a little bit of a gamble 

A credit card soon becomes your friend when you can spread the cost over 3 years and beyond 

oh and by the way Hi 

10 minutes ago, ChrisLumix said:

Welcome John  

As you sold all your gear, you're well placed to start afresh with the latest cutting edge tech while laying the foundations for the future. One of our stalwarts Black Pearl sold all his DSLR gear for a Fuji mirrorless system - talk to him about his complete lack of regret over doing this.

The Fuji system is excellent I have moved from canon to it and own a x-t10 and only use my canon for macro 

Hi John 

Welcome to the boards 

Might be something to do with what you are cuddling 

Hi there 

Welcome to the funny farm 

What ever you like taking images of there will be some on here to gain ideas from 

Hi There 

A lot of us do things back to front on here (some on purpose) 

There is a wealth of experience on here and all will help if you have a query (a couple of pints of scrumpy will make some on here appear sensible ) 

Enjoy and have a laugh as you learn 

Welcome sir

nice first image on here 
If you flick through the forum you will see we are not all here  that serious at times but there is a wealth of experience in the dusty corners to use and abuse as is your wish 
Look forward to more of your posting of images