#provost

[nocternalrandomness]

Shuttleworth's Percival Provost seen at the 2024 Best of British Flying Show at Old Warden

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Michael Provost {200x320}

curta se você usar e não retire os créditos! like if you use and don’t remove the credits!

alternative link!

[monkeyssalad-blog]

Hunting Percival Provost G-KAPW RAF XF603 by Chris Murkin Via Flickr: Hunting Percival Provost G-KAPW RAF XF603 This Aircraft Served with the Royal Air force from 1953 until 1965 Photo taken at Old Warden Shuttleworth Air Show 11th May 2025 HAA_3811

[scotianostra]

William Chambers, of the publishing firm and Lord Provost of Edinburgh died on May 20th 1883.

Chambers was born in Peebles the son of James Chambers a cotton mill owner, said to have 100 looms in his factory, and his wife, Jean Gibson. William was educated locally, but well, being trained in the Classics.

During his childhood William Chambers was an avid reader of books from a circulating library in Peebles. He moved with his family to Edinburgh where he started an apprenticeship with John Sutherland, Bookseller. He set up on his own in 1818 and taught himself bookbinding and type-setting before venturing into publishing.

William worked with his wee brother, Robert, to launch a successful weekly paper, ‘Edinburgh Journal‘, in 1832 and produce a gazetteer of Scotland the following year. They founded W and R Chambers, publishers of school text-books, People’s Editions of literary works and the famous Chamber’s encyclopaedia and Chamber’s English dictionary.

William Chambers was elected Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1865 and worked to improve sanitary conditions in the city as well as the restoration of St Giles Cathedral. Other major town planning exercises, including the creation of Jeffrey Street, St Marys Street and Blackfriars Street. These streets were all created under the City Improvement Act of 1866. A Lord Provost is equivalent to a Mayor.

Chambers Street is named after him. His statue stands outside the National Museum of Scotland there, as seen in the pics I took a couple of years ago.

William Chambers, printer and publisher, died on this day 1883, aged 83 years, he is interred at the family plot in Peebles.

[bigglesworld]

Avro 652 Anson C.21 in formation with a DHC-1 Chipmunk and a Percival Provost. RAF Sqdn 61 near RAF Kenley. ca1955

[detournementsmineurs]

“Bonnard, Pierre et Marthe” biopic de Martin Provost - sur la relation du peintre Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) et de sa muse et épouse Marthe de Méligny, de son vrai nom Maria Boursin (1869-1942) - avec Vincent Macaigne, Cécile de France, Anouk Grinberg, Stacy Martin, Stanislas Merhar, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Peter Van Den Begin, André Marcon et Hélène Alexandridis, janvier 2023.

[kunizwuni]

happy pride month to them

[presidentpoppy]

happy pride month here’s some nhht art I drew last year