June 2008 - Least Expensive

The least expensive home in Sterling is still 29 Trinity Avenue in the campground area which offers 2 bed, one bath at $45,000 (down from $65,000). Estimated monthly payment for the mortgage alone with 20% down is something like $250!

Perfect for the starving-artist type who is handy.

Listing agent: Re/Max Associates

June 2008 - Least Expensive

The least expensive home in Sterling is still 29 Trinity Avenue in the campground area which offers 2 bed, one bath at $45,000 (down from $65,000). Estimated monthly payment for the mortgage alone with 20% down is something like $250!

Perfect for the starving-artist type who is handy.

Listing agent: Re/Max Associates

Reduced Again - 70 Heywood

70 Heywood Road has been reduced again. I blogged on it a while back and it has now been on the market for 1019 days.

Price Reduced: 04/13/06 -- $429,900 to $414,900
Price Reduced: 06/13/06 -- $414,900 to $399,900
Price Reduced: 11/07/06 -- $399,900 to $389,900
Price Reduced: 02/17/07 -- $389,900 to $379,900
Price Reduced: 03/24/07 -- $379,900 to $359,900
Price Reduced: 05/06/08 -- $359,900 to $349,900

Reduced Again - 70 Heywood

70 Heywood Road has been reduced again. I blogged on it a while back and it has now been on the market for 1019 days.

Price Reduced: 04/13/06 -- $429,900 to $414,900
Price Reduced: 06/13/06 -- $414,900 to $399,900
Price Reduced: 11/07/06 -- $399,900 to $389,900
Price Reduced: 02/17/07 -- $389,900 to $379,900
Price Reduced: 03/24/07 -- $379,900 to $359,900
Price Reduced: 05/06/08 -- $359,900 to $349,900

The Aerial Reconnaissance Archive

In the news today is The Aerial Reconnaissance Archive (or TARA), one of the World's largest collections of aeriel photography. More than 10 million military photographs are stored in the archive, most of which were taken by surveillance aircraft in World War Two. The photo below shows the German battleship Bismarck which was sunk within a week of this picture being taken.

The collection is is being re-located from Keele University to a new home at the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) in Edinburgh. It is hoped much of the archive will be now made available to the public online; an earlier attempt to do this was unsuccessful.

Historian Ian Daglish has provided the BBC with some interviews about this interesting collection which will be going out today. There is also an Audio Slideshow on the BBC web site, where Ian and retired Wing Commander Michael Mockford discuss the significance of just a few of the photographs from the war.

See also The Times Online

The Aerial Reconnaissance Archive

In the news today is The Aerial Reconnaissance Archive (or TARA), one of the World's largest collections of aeriel photography. More than 10 million military photographs are stored in the archive, most of which were taken by surveillance aircraft in World War Two. The photo below shows the German battleship Bismarck which was sunk within a week of this picture being taken.

The collection is is being re-located from Keele University to a new home at the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) in Edinburgh. It is hoped much of the archive will be now made available to the public online; an earlier attempt to do this was unsuccessful.

Historian Ian Daglish has provided the BBC with some interviews about this interesting collection which will be going out today. There is also an Audio Slideshow on the BBC web site, where Ian and retired Wing Commander Michael Mockford discuss the significance of just a few of the photographs from the war.

See also The Times Online

Richard Daglish, New Zealand

This is a photo of Richard Daglish which he signed and also wrote on the back "Taken "Somewhere in France" 10-1-17".

Richard was born in November 1892 in Tasmania, the son of James Daglish and Lydia Stevenson. James and his wife were married in Newcastle in 1884 and a few weeks later emigrated to Australia. The family later moved to Dunedin, New Zealand.

Richard's army service record shows that he joined the Dunedin Cycle and Signal Corps in 1909, going on to join No.2 Signal Company (Otago) before leaving for Europe in 1915 with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

He served first in Gallipoli and Somalia before arriving in France in 1916. On 2 January 1917 he was mentioned in dispatches by General Sir Douglas Haig and the photo was taken a few days after this. On 11 March 1917 he was promoted to Staff Sergeant.

In 1917 he was posted to England, marrying Mary Stewart Scott in Ryton on 5 February 1918.

The photo below of Richard and family is dated May 1918 and taken at the Kapai Studio, Dunedin. Richard also served in the Second World War.