In the 1880s, Dinard was the first seaside resort in France, it was in its golden age. Dinard brings together the aristocracy, political figures and intellectuals from across the continent. It is a cosmopolitan population which mixes with the early English colony. The British presence can be seen through the villas with bow windows, the parks and the English gardens.

DINARD

Bretagne / France

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Finn Slough c. 1980's

Finn Slough is a tiny Fraser River fishing community located at the south end of No. 4 Road in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. The community has approximately 30 residents who live in wooden houses, both floating and built on stilts, along the marshy river bank. Many of the buildings were built between the late 19th century and 1950s and many have decayed severely, while some have been carefully restored. Finn Slough was founded by Finnish settlers who came to Richmond in the 1880s. Most of these residents made a good living from fishing and became local landowners.

I invite you to visit my Finn Slough album. Thanks for visiting ~Christie :)

Nevada City is an unincorporated community in Madison County, Montana, United States. In the 1880s, it was one of the two major centers of Commerce in what was known as one of the "Richest Gold Strikes in the Rocky Mountain West", sharing this role with its sister city Virginia City. Since the late 1990s, Nevada City has become a tourist attraction for its collection of 19th century buildings within or surrounding the Nevada City Museum & Music Hall.

Archaeological evidence found between the Music Hall and the Nevada City Hotel would indicate earlier than mining era habitation, possibly by white hunters or trappers. The earliest white hunters and trappers in the area had no conscious intention of establishing a city on the site, because the existence of a city would have presumably destroyed their economic base, which was based on the harvesting of beaver.

Nevada City, settled June 6, 1863, contemporary in settlement with Virginia City, as miners following the Fairweather party settled the length of Alder Gulch, and established homes, and businesses in convenient locations, the length of the gulch was known as 14 mile city. Nevada City was the first to become an incorporated city, on February 9, 1865, fully constituted a body corporate and politic. In 1896, the Conrey Placer Mining Company was organized to dredge the gulch for the next 24 years, destroying many of Nevada City’s buildings. The dredges were then disassembled and the heavy wooden barges were left to slowly be reclaimed by nature.

Nevada City was populated by placer miners working several mining districts including Browns Gulch just south of the town and Granite Creek, about two miles northwest of Nevada City. Nevada City was occupied by residents as early as June 6, 1863, and its boom era was between 1863–1875, at this point it was boasted that Nevada City was home to dozens of stores and housing that stretched for six blocks (“Nevada City.”). By 1869, the population of the mining camp had fallen to about 100 people. In 1869 mercantile representation included three general stores, and two saloons. In April 1872, the city contained one miners' store, one brewery, blacksmith shop, butcher shop, livery stable, and a Masonic Hall. Most of the citizens were engaged in mining pursuits, but some of the residents had farms and stock in the valley. In 1875 Nevada City's Population was still in decline, by 1880 the Nevada City census listed 50 people occupying 16 dwellings (US Census 1880). The most commonly listed occupation of Nevada City's working class was "placer miner."

When the mining had come to an end in 1922, about $2.5 billion worth of gold in today's market had been extracted.

Nevada City is an unincorporated community in Madison County, Montana, United States. In the 1880s, it was one of the two major centers of Commerce in what was known as one of the "Richest Gold Strikes in the Rocky Mountain West", sharing this role with its sister city Virginia City. Since the late 1990s, Nevada City has become a tourist attraction for its collection of 19th century buildings within or surrounding the Nevada City Museum & Music Hall.

Archaeological evidence found between the Music Hall and the Nevada City Hotel would indicate earlier than mining era habitation, possibly by white hunters or trappers. The earliest white hunters and trappers in the area had no conscious intention of establishing a city on the site, because the existence of a city would have presumably destroyed their economic base, which was based on the harvesting of beaver.

Nevada City, settled June 6, 1863, contemporary in settlement with Virginia City, as miners following the Fairweather party settled the length of Alder Gulch, and established homes, and businesses in convenient locations, the length of the gulch was known as 14 mile city. Nevada City was the first to become an incorporated city, on February 9, 1865, fully constituted a body corporate and politic. In 1896, the Conrey Placer Mining Company was organized to dredge the gulch for the next 24 years, destroying many of Nevada City’s buildings. The dredges were then disassembled and the heavy wooden barges were left to slowly be reclaimed by nature.

Nevada City was populated by placer miners working several mining districts including Browns Gulch just south of the town and Granite Creek, about two miles northwest of Nevada City. Nevada City was occupied by residents as early as June 6, 1863, and its boom era was between 1863–1875, at this point it was boasted that Nevada City was home to dozens of stores and housing that stretched for six blocks (“Nevada City.”). By 1869, the population of the mining camp had fallen to about 100 people. In 1869 mercantile representation included three general stores, and two saloons. In April 1872, the city contained one miners' store, one brewery, blacksmith shop, butcher shop, livery stable, and a Masonic Hall. Most of the citizens were engaged in mining pursuits, but some of the residents had farms and stock in the valley. In 1875 Nevada City's Population was still in decline, by 1880 the Nevada City census listed 50 people occupying 16 dwellings (US Census 1880). The most commonly listed occupation of Nevada City's working class was "placer miner."

When the mining had come to an end in 1922, about $2.5 billion worth of gold in today's market had been extracted.

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Finn Slough is a tiny Fraser River fishing community located at the south end of No. 4 Road in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. The community has approximately 30 residents who live in wooden houses, both floating and built on stilts, along the marshy river bank. Many of the buildings were built between the late 19th century and 1950s and many have decayed severely, while some have been carefully restored. Finn Slough was founded by Finnish settlers who came to Richmond in the 1880s. Most of these residents made a good living from fishing and became local landowners.

Featured in this image is the picturesque Dinner Plate Island School and the Gillnetter, Eva 23653.

Eva was built in 1937 at the Suzuki Brothers Boat Yard as a Japanese–style double–ended gillnetter. She is 29.6’ x 8.0’ x 3.0’ carvel plank construction, cedar over oak.

I invite you to view my 99+ (Fave) album:

www.flickr.com/photos/120552517@N03/albums/72157656422454792

Thank-you so much for all your views, comments and faves

So very appreciated !!

~Christie (happiest) by the River

If you follow my photostream, you will know that I have a very large family of bears who have all sorts of fun adventures, and life is never dull.

However, not all my bears feature regularly, or even partake in these bear adventures. These tend to be a small contingent of very old and antique bears who live with me, who prefer the more genteel and sedate pastimes of their youth as they live out their dotage with me.

One such bear is Malmsbury, who is a very precious and early German velvet mohair plush bear from around 1910. He has articulated limbs and a head that turns, dark glass bead eyes, calico paw pads, and he once had a growler in his stomach, the depression of which is still visible on his tummy (hidden artfully today by a pink grosgrain ribbon). The early growlers consisted of weighted bellows, often made of cardboard, wood, and oilcloth, which emitted a growling sound when the bear was tipped over. Being over 110 years of age, his growler no longer works. He is very heavy, as his innards consist of Wood Wool (Excelsior), which is a product made of wood slivers cut from logs. It provided a firm shape in early teddy bears, but was not soft to the touch, which is possibly one of the reasons why Malmsbury's limbs are in such fine condition.

Malmsbury enjoys nothing more when the day is fine than taking tea in a fine china cup, sitting in the garden on the lawn in a comfortable Peacock Chair, beneath a vintage parasol to protect his pale golden complexion from the sun. Perhaps you'd care to join us for a tea?

As Malmsbury pre-dates colour photography, I have given this image a vintage treatment and washed out the colour to make it appear as though it has been hand tinted, as so many special photographs from the Edwardian era were.

Malmsbury's teacup and saucer are part of a Cinderella tea set made by TG Green in Derbyshire in the 1880s, decorated with chocolate brown transfers from the story. The parasol is a 1920s Art Deco French child's parasol made of an early form of artificial silk, featuring a handle of a little boy in red wearing a beret, made of Bakelite. Malmsbury's Peacock Chair was a present this Christmas just gone from my dear Flickr friend and fellow fossicker of treasures, Kim BKHagar *Kim*.

In the 1880s the upper Snoqualmie Valley around Fall City, Washington the growing of hops for brewing beer was the mainstay of the Valley’s economy. In about 1888, George Davis Rutherford built this 20 foot square hop drying shed on his 1500 acre hop farm along the Snoqualmie River. The vented cupola created a draw for the heat generated by stoves used to dry the hops before shipping. Hops grown on Rutherfords and other nearby farms were loaded on ferries at the Falls City Landing and taken downriver to Seattle. From there the hops were shipped to San Francisco, England and Germany. In the early 1900s an aphid infestation along with the high cost of supplies and low prices led to the demise of the hop industry. Timber and dairy farming soon replaced it as the Valley’s economic lifeblood.This shed is the last remnant of the once thriving industry. The building was moved to its present location in 1904, and converted for use as a storage shed. The Fall City Hop Shed Foundation has been instrumental in preservation of the shed, and in 1966 supervised its restoration. The Shed sits in the Fall City Community Park.

Nevada City is an unincorporated community in Madison County, Montana, United States. In the 1880s, it was one of the two major centers of Commerce in what was known as one of the "Richest Gold Strikes in the Rocky Mountain West", sharing this role with its sister city Virginia City. Since the late 1990s, Nevada City has become a tourist attraction for its collection of 19th century buildings within or surrounding the Nevada City Museum & Music Hall.

Archaeological evidence found between the Music Hall and the Nevada City Hotel would indicate earlier than mining era habitation, possibly by white hunters or trappers. The earliest white hunters and trappers in the area had no conscious intention of establishing a city on the site, because the existence of a city would have presumably destroyed their economic base, which was based on the harvesting of beaver.

Nevada City, settled June 6, 1863, contemporary in settlement with Virginia City, as miners following the Fairweather party settled the length of Alder Gulch, and established homes, and businesses in convenient locations, the length of the gulch was known as 14 mile city. Nevada City was the first to become an incorporated city, on February 9, 1865, fully constituted a body corporate and politic. In 1896, the Conrey Placer Mining Company was organized to dredge the gulch for the next 24 years, destroying many of Nevada City’s buildings. The dredges were then disassembled and the heavy wooden barges were left to slowly be reclaimed by nature.

Nevada City was populated by placer miners working several mining districts including Browns Gulch just south of the town and Granite Creek, about two miles northwest of Nevada City. Nevada City was occupied by residents as early as June 6, 1863, and its boom era was between 1863–1875, at this point it was boasted that Nevada City was home to dozens of stores and housing that stretched for six blocks (“Nevada City.”). By 1869, the population of the mining camp had fallen to about 100 people. In 1869 mercantile representation included three general stores, and two saloons. In April 1872, the city contained one miners' store, one brewery, blacksmith shop, butcher shop, livery stable, and a Masonic Hall. Most of the citizens were engaged in mining pursuits, but some of the residents had farms and stock in the valley. In 1875 Nevada City's Population was still in decline, by 1880 the Nevada City census listed 50 people occupying 16 dwellings (US Census 1880). The most commonly listed occupation of Nevada City's working class was "placer miner."

When the mining had come to an end in 1922, about $2.5 billion worth of gold in today's market had been extracted.

Well Court was originally commissioned in the 1880s by Sir John Findlay, who was the proprietor of the Scotsman newspaper.

The architect Sydney Mitchell designed Well Court as model housing for local workers and it was finished in 1886. There were many comforts in living at Well Court: a communal hall, a large courtyard, small but comfortable flats, most with kitchens and sculleries. Nevertheless, residency came with certain obligations. There was a night time curfew and attendance at Sunday religious meetings held in the Communal Hall was compulsory.

Well Court is a rare example of an arts and crafts building in Edinburgh. The category A listed courtyard building is located in Dean Village, just within the World Heritage Site boundary on the north side of the Water of Leith.

In an extensive conservation scheme, carried out by the 55 owners in collaboration with Edinburgh World Heritage, the architectural integrity of the building was restored, and the appearance and stability of the structure was considerably improved.

Edinburgh World Heritage granted a total of £1.1 million towards conservation work on stonework, roof, windows, clock tower and communal areas through its Conservation Funding Programme, which Historic Environment Scotland funds

Only traditional materials were used, going through great efforts to match properties and colour. The characteristic red sandstone was sourced from Corsehill quarry in Dumfries and the roof tiles were handmade Rosemary clay tiles to match the originals.

The window glazing was restored to its original pattern. The original colour scheme was successfully reproduced after being identified through surviving paintwork on the windows in the stair.

The weathercock and clock faces atop the landmark clock tower were re-gilded thanks to donations from the Inches Carr Trust and Ritchies Clockmakers.

Spitsbergen panorama. Photographed in the 1880s by Axel Lindahl, a Swedish photographer who worked in Norway for several years. My colorization of an image in the Norsk Folkemuseum archive (Digital Museum).

I would like to share with you another of BC's best kept secrets, Finn Slough.

If you ever visit the Vancouver Lower Mainland area , this amazing little community is a must see.

An absolutely artist's haven.....

I have been visiting Finn Slough for about 10 years and sadly, I am starting to see more and more decay and rot to this tiny picturesque river side community as you will witness in following images. I will however keep the decay down to a minimum in order to present and preserve the quaint and romantic side.

Finn Slough is a tiny Fraser River fishing community located at the south end of No. 4 Road in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. The community has approximately 30 residents who live in wooden houses, both floating and built on stilts, along the marshy river bank. Many of the buildings were built between the late 19th century and 1950s and many have decayed severely, while some have been carefully restored. Finn Slough was founded by Finnish settlers who came to Richmond in the 1880s. Most of these residents made a good living from fishing and became local landowners.

The sleepy and decaying village of Finn Slough has been repeatedly photographed, and it appears on numerous postcards sold throughout Vancouver tourist shops.

Wikipedia

Life on the Fraser River

Richmond, BC

Canada

I can't thank everyone enough for the overwhelming response to my images.

Each and every view, comment and fave is so very much appreciated.

~Christie (happiest) by the River

When was the heyday of Atlantic City?

From the 1880s to 1940s, Atlantic City was a major vacation resort. In the 1920s it was considered the premier tryout town for theatrical productions headed for Broadway and beyond.

The Atlantic City, New Jersey boardwalk, as seen from Caesars Atlantic City, opened in 1870, as America's first boardwalk. At 51⁄2 miles (9 km) long, it is also the world's longest, busiest, and oldest boardwalk.

Ruigoord.

Former churchbuilding, nowadays used as a room for exhibitions and cultural activities..

Ruigoord (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈrœyxoːrt]) is a village in the Houtrakpolder in the Dutch province of North Holland, situated within the municipality of Amsterdam. Until the 1880s, it was an island in the IJ bay, which turned into a polder. The village is nowadays partially closed in by the Port of Amsterdam, and lies about 8 km east of Haarlem.[1]

In the 1960s the village was evacuated by the municipality of Amsterdam, which intended to extend its harbour, but the plans fell through. In 1973 the village was squatted by a group of artists who planned to make a colony there. As such it exists to this day, but is legalized nowadays. Full moon parties are regularly organised in the formerly Roman Catholic village church and every year there is the Landjuweel (Land Jewel) festival in August.

Since the early 2000s, the village has staged an annual poetry festival over the Whitsun weekend, Vurige tongen (Fiery Tongues). One of the festival's three days is always devoted to international poets. From 2003 on, a yearly Ruigoord Trophy has been awarded to individuals who have selflessly dedicated themselves to maintaining the village as an important cultural stronghold. The first such trophy was presented to Simon Vinkenoog. Three notable non-Dutch trophy holders are the late American poet and photographer Ira Cohen, the Canada-born writer Jordan Zinovich, and the Amsterdam-based American poet and writer Eddie Woods.

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I would like to share with you another of BC's best kept secrets, Finn Slough.

Eva ( Gillnetter - fishing boat) was built in 1937 at the Suzuki Brothers Boat Yard as a Japanese–style double–ended gillnetter. She is 29.6’ x 8.0’ x 3.0’ carvel plank construction, cedar over oak.

As pictured, Eva is peacefully moored in front of the Historic Dinner Plate Island School.

If you ever visit the Vancouver Lower Mainland area , this amazing little community is a must see.

An absolutely artist's haven.....

I have been visiting Finn Slough for about 10 years and sadly, I am starting to see more and more decay and rot to this tiny picturesque river side community, as you will witness in following images. I will however keep the decay down to a minimum in order to present and preserve the quaint and romantic side.

Finn Slough is a tiny Fraser River fishing community located at the south end of No. 4 Road in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. The community has approximately 30 residents who live in wooden houses, both floating and built on stilts, along the marshy river bank. Many of the buildings were built between the late 19th century and 1950s and many have decayed severely, while some have been carefully restored. Finn Slough was founded by Finnish settlers who came to Richmond in the 1880s. Most of these residents made a good living from fishing and became local landowners.

Life on the Fraser River

Richmond, BC

Canada

I can't thank everyone enough for the overwhelming response to my images.

Each and every view, comment and fave is so very much appreciated.

~Christie (happiest) by the River

This beautiful place was designed in the early 1880s to pump millions of gallons of clean fresh water every day to the rapidly increasing population of Industrial Nottingham. Today, thanks to the endeavours of The Papplewick Pumping Station Trust, a Registered Charity dedicated to the preservation of the Pumping Station, and the enthusiasm of the volunteer members of the Papplewick Association you can still experience the most spectacular, preserved water Pumping Station in the British Isles.

Now protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument, the highest preservation order that can be bestowed upon a site in England, the Pumping Station holds regular steaming events throughout the year, wedding ceremonies and education visits enabling the Trust to continue the essential preservation of this important site for future generations.

Happy Fence Friday

Founded in the 1880s, Cisco had been a railroad fill station.

Slowly, a town grew up around the station that primarily supported the nearby cattle ranchers and sheepherders. With the railroad, the settlement quickly became a provisioning and shipping center for the livestock who ranged in the nearby Book Cliffs.

But like so many once-bustling towns in the West, it shriveled when the interstates came through and was officially abandoned by the 1990s.

With my husband I was on holiday and drove by Cisko in 2015. Now I read that in In that same year Eileen Muza didn’t mean to buy a ghost town, but she did!! She is turning it into an artist haven! Read her story:

roadtrippers.com/magazine/cisco-ghost-town-utah/

Thank you for taken your time to visit me, comments or faves are always much appreciated!

The Jimmy Choo of the 1880s?

It seems that shoes have been fashion statements for hundreds of years. This miniature lace-trimmed shoe reproduces a high fashion footwear design of late Victorian Britain. I love its elegant shape and eye for detail. Definitely a desirable fashion statement of its time!

One of my Simple Pleasures - an elegant pair of shoes ;o)

Thanks to Diana Thorold for her Willow-Texture

My Simple Pleasures set: Simple Pleasures

My Textured set here: Elisa Textured set

My Everyday Things set is here: Elisa Everyday Things

The area that was to become West Palm Beach was settled in the late 1870s and 1880s by a few hundred settlers who called the vicinity "Lake Worth Country." These settlers were a diverse community from different parts of the United States and the world. They included founding families such at the Potters and the Lainharts, who would go on to become leading members of the business community in the fledgling city. The first white settlers in Palm Beach County lived around Lake Worth, then an enclosed freshwater lake, named for Colonel William Jenkins Worth, who had fought in the Second Seminole War in Florida in 1842. Most settlers engaged in the growing of tropical fruits and vegetables for shipment the north via Lake Worth and the Indian River. By 1890, the U.S. Census counted over 200 people settled along Lake Worth in the vicinity of what would become West Palm Beach. The area at this time also boasted a hotel, the "Cocoanut House", a church, and a post office. The city was platted by Henry Flagler as a community to house the servants working in the two grand hotels on the neighboring island of Palm Beach, across Lake Worth in 1893, coinciding with the arrival of the Florida East Coast railroad. Flagler paid two area settlers, Captain Porter and Louie Hillhouse, a combined sum of $45,000 for the original town site, stretching from Clear Lake to Lake Worth.

On November 5, 1894, 78 people met at the "Calaboose" (the first jail and police station located at Clematis St. and Poinsettia, now Dixie Hwy.) and passed the motion to incorporate the Town of West Palm Beach in what was then Dade County (now Miami-Dade County). This made West Palm Beach the first incorporated municipality in Dade County and in South Florida. The town council quickly addressed the building codes and the tents and shanties were replaced by brick, brick veneer, and stone buildings. The city grew steadily during the 1890s and the first two decades of the 20th century, most residents were engaged in the tourist industry and related services or winter vegetable market and tropical fruit trade. In 1909, Palm Beach County was formed by the Florida State Legislature and West Palm Beach became the county seat. In 1916, a new neo-classical courthouse was opened, which has been painstakingly restored back to its original condition, and is now used as the local history museum.

The city grew rapidly in the 1920s as part of the Florida land boom. The population of West Palm Beach quadrupled from 1920 to 1927, and all kinds of businesses and public services grew along with it. Many of the city's landmark structures and preserved neighborhoods were constructed during this period. Originally, Flagler intended for his Florida East Coast Railway to have its terminus in West Palm, but after the area experienced a deep freeze, he chose to extend the railroad to Miami instead.

The land boom was already faltering when city was devastated by the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. The Depression years of the 1930s were a quiet time for the area, which saw slight population growth and property values lower than during the 1920s. The city only recovered with the onset of World War II, which saw the construction of Palm Beach Air Force Base, which brought thousands of military personnel to the city. The base was vital to the allied war effort, as it provided an excellent training facility and had unparalleled access to North Africa for a North American city. Also during World War II, German U-Boats sank dozens of merchant ships and oil tankers just off the coast of West Palm Beach. Nearby Palm Beach was under black out conditions to minimize night visibility to German U-boats.

The 1950s saw another boom in population, partly due to the return of many soldiers and airmen who had served in the vicinity during the war. Also, the advent of air conditioning encouraged growth, as year-round living in a tropical climate became more acceptable to northerners. West Palm Beach became the one of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas during the 1950s; the city's borders spread west of Military Trail and south to Lake Clarke Shores. However, many of the city's residents still lived within a narrow six-block wide strip from the south to north end. The neighborhoods were strictly segregated between White and African-American populations, a legacy that the city still struggles with today. The primary shopping district remained downtown, centered around Clematis Street.

In the 1960s, Palm Beach County's first enclosed shopping mall, the Palm Beach Mall, and an indoor arena were completed. These projects led to a brief revival for the city, but in the 1970s and 1980s crime continued to be a serious issue and suburban sprawl continued to drain resources and business away from the old downtown area. By the early 1990s there were very high vacancy rates downtown, and serious levels of urban blight.

Since the 1990s, developments such as CityPlace and the preservation and renovation of 1920s architecture in the nightlife hub of Clematis Street have seen a downtown resurgence in the entertainment and shopping district. The city has also placed emphasis on neighborhood development and revitalization, in historic districts such as Northwood, Flamingo Park, and El Cid. Some neighborhoods still struggle with blight and crime, as well as lowered property values caused by the Great Recession, which hit the region particularly hard. Since the recovery, multiple new developments have been completed. The Palm Beach Mall, located at the Interstate 95/Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard interchange became abandoned as downtown revitalized - the very mall that initiated the original abandonment of the downtown. The mall was then redeveloped into the Palm Beach Fashion Outlets in February 2014. A station for All Aboard Florida, a high-speed passenger rail service serving Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Orlando, is under construction as of July 2015.

Credit for the data above is given to the following website:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Palm_Beach,_Florida

Have watched the exterior of my 1880s Victorian house decline steadily over the past few years. Once the darling of the neighborhood, the paint has become faded, chipped and weathered. It's not that I was ignoring the house, rather putting my DIY efforts to work on the interior. But with the exterior looking increasingly like the abandoned houses that I so love to photograph, the time had come to repaint. Sad to think that all of the wear and tear occurred since my initial restoration. These walls I had once scraped and painted showed so much age. Depressing to think I had aged right along with them. Painting a house is overwhelming; easy to see why I've deferred so long. Best bet in these situations is to just jump in and work on one section at a time. And that's where I'm at, still on my first section. But it feels good to be taking action and transforming old and weathered into new and fresh. Progress has been quite rapid actually, at least it was while working at ground level. My pace decreases in direct proportion to the height of the ladder on which I'm climbing. Once I reach the second floor I go into 'death grip' mode where one hand clutches the ladder at all times, leaving only the other to work. I've gotten accustomed to the height at least somewhat over the past few weeks. It's not quite as terrifying as before, but I'll never enjoy it. But I'm motivated by the satisfaction I get seeing well-preserved century homes, particularly Victorians. There's an unquestionable elegance and dignity to the architecture of this era. Even as they decline.

I came across this lonely house last October. The house simply exudes an atmosphere from over a century ago. I think historic survivors like this can enhance any neighborhood the occupy. But it's a very fine line between deferred maintenance and the haunted house appearance.

Invented in 1880s, cycle rickshaws are widely used in major cities around the world, but most commonly in cities of South, Southeast & East Asia. They are used primarily for their novelty value, as an entertaining form of transportation for tourists and locals, but they also have environmental benefits and may be quicker than other forms of transport if traffic congestion is high. In November 1991, Pulled & Cycle version of rickshaws were banned in Pakistan – only Auto version remained.

Beauriful Lake Vyrnwy and its victorian gothic straining tower (Powys, UK) were constructed in the 1880s to provide a source of water for Liverpool.

Founded in the 1880s, Cisco had been a railroad fill station.

Slowly, a town grew up around the station that primarily supported the nearby cattle ranchers and sheepherders. With the railroad, the settlement quickly became a provisioning and shipping center for the livestock who ranged in the nearby Book Cliffs.

But like so many once-bustling towns in the West, it shriveled when the interstates came through and was officially abandoned by the 1990s.

With my husband I was on holiday and drove by Cisko in 2015. Now I read that in In that same year Eileen Muza didn’t mean to buy a ghost town, but she did!! She is turning it into an artist haven! Read her story:

roadtrippers.com/magazine/cisco-ghost-town-utah/

Thank you for taken your time to visit me, comments or faves are always much appreciated!

“Nothing is more romantic than chocolate.” - Anonymous

The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 15th of February is "love for chocolate" in honour of Saint Valentine’s Day. In this case for the theme, I have opted for a romantically themed image to match with Saint Valentine’s Day. Recently I acquired a Henderson’s Sweets confectionery sales sample box from the 1880s. Made of brown leather and looking like a rather thin suitcase, it has latches at the side and a lock on the front which when unfastened, allow the front to fold down. Inside it contains six blue leather pull out drawers, each with faceted glass lidded compartments which would have been used by the Henderson’s Sweets salesman to offer samples to potential customers. On the inside of each blue leather lid is a gilded chromolithograph sticker from the early 1900s for Henderson’s Taykakisses, which were heart shaped sweets that Henderson’s Sweets sold. Henderson’s Taykakisses were introduced in October 1906 in once pence and thruppence bags. I am showing the best preserved of the six stickers in this photo, along with two Haigh’s Chocolatiers dark chocolate hearts (one wrapped in brown foil and the other unwrapped. If this doesn’t share a love for chocolate, I don’t know what does! I hope you like my choice for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile.

Henderson’s was founded in Australia 1903, its first successful product being Henderson’s Herbal Cough Drops. The company soon became well known for its popular “Wee Macgreegor” Butterscotch and Almond Taiblets, Milkoko Bars and Honey Kisses, a type of caramel with wrappers bearing “love mottoes”. After a factory fire at James Steadman Sweets in 1916, they merged with Henderson’s Sweets and the merged company was known as James Stedman-Henderson Sweets and the sold under the brand Sweetacres after a competition amongst the staff. They invented some of Australia’s most iconic sweets including Minties, Fantales and Jaffas. Sweetacres merged with another Australian confectionery company, Hoadley’s, in 1967. The group was acquired by the British firm Rowntree in 1971 and became Rowntree Hoadley. In 1988, Nestlé took control of the British based Rowntree company, allowing Nestlé Australia to absorb Rowntree Hoadley’s operations. Around the same time, Nestlé acquired the Melbourne-based sweet maker, Allen’s. In a subsequent brand reshuffle, the heroes of the Sweetacres range became Allen’s products and the Sweetacres name was relegated to history.

On the 1st May 1915, Alfred E. Haigh opened the doors of the very first Haigh’s Chocolates store in the Beehive Building at 34 King William Street, Adelaide South Australia. Alfred began adding his own flavour to the industry and in 1917 he started producing chocolate-covered fruit centres. Business boomed. Alfred passed away suddenly in 1933, and his son Claude took over the running of the business, which had by then grown to six stores. During the Second World War, supplies were difficult. Yet despite the sugar rationing Haigh’s managed to keep on trading, making boiled sweets and wrapped toffees for the armed forces. Alfred’s grandson, John Haigh, joined the business in 1946 with a vision to take Haigh’s chocolate making to new heights. He trained in Switzerland with Lindt and Sprungli and visited the United States to look at production, shop styles and marketing. During the 1950s and 60s, Haigh’s chocolates were also sold in the cinema. In 1965 Haigh’s opened the first store outside South Australia, in Collins Street Melbourne, where Haigh’s chocolates proved to be just as popular. Haigh’s chocolates is still a family owned and run business, and is the oldest family owned chocolatiers in Australia.

Scrapbooking was a popular pastime in Victorian times for both children and adults. Creating a scrapbook was not only a craft project, it was also a way of preserving memories.

In the 1800s, the automated printing press was invented. Suddenly books and printed material became much more widely available. As well as writing in their commonplace books, people began to cut out and stick in printed items. Things like greeting cards, calling cards, postcards, prayer cards, advertising trading cards and newspaper clippings were collected. Some of these books contained a mix of personal journal entries, hand-drawn sketches and watercolours, along with various scraps of printed material. These books were literally books of scraps.

By the 1820s, collectable scraps had become more elaborate. Some items were embossed: a process by which a die (a metal stamp for cutting or pressing) was punched into the reverse side of the paper, giving the front a raised three-dimensional appearance.

In 1837, the first year of Queen Victoria's reign, the colour printing process known as chromolithography was invented. This lead to the production of ‘ready made’ scraps. Brightly coloured and embossed scraps were sold in sheets with the relief stamped out to the approximate shape of the image. These pre-cut scraps were connected by small strips of paper to keep them in place. The laborious task of cutting out small pictures was thus removed, and sales of scraps went soaring. Many of the best-quality scraps of the period were produced in Germany, where bakers and confectioners used small reliefs to decorate cakes and biscuits for special occasions such as christenings, weddings, Christmas and Easter.

These embossed chromolithograph scraps are of German and British in origin and date from the 1880s.

The circus themed cards with their gilding are part of a set of eight which are French (although unmarked) and date from the 1870s.

“Tuesday 14th of June, 1932 - Today we received the three paper silhouette profiles we commissioned from Monsieur Hardy the caricaturist, including a lovely one of our daughter"

This pretty silhouette cut delicately and with precision from thin black card, is by the silhouette caricaturist J. M. Hardy, who had a studio at 4 Passage du Couëdic, in Rennes. It is a profile of a young child, most likely a little girl, cut in 1932 when a family were travelling through the Ille et Vilaine in Brittany. Notice the girl's fashionable pageboy bob hairstyle of the era and her long eyelashes. This is just one of three family silhouettes commissioned of the artist that I own. The other two are of the child's mother and father.

The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" the 18th of July is "black" where for the theme, I am required to photograph something black, be it an object, animal or plant, but the image is not allowed to be a black and white one. I immediately thought of the family’s silhouette profile portraits commissioned from the artist J.M. Hardy in the Ille et Vilaine which are carefully preserved amidst a cache of old French postcards and trade cards. To emphasise the blackness of the silhouette I have photographed it against a bright background of gilded (rather appropriately) French chocolate cards of young children from the 1870s and 1880s. I hope you like my choice of subject for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile.

SUNSET - Broward County Florida - Autumn / Fall '24

Pompano Beach Airpark / Pompano Beach Golf Course

Pompano Beach, Florida U.S.A. - October 19th, 2024

*[left-double-click for a closer-look - small executive airport]

Pompano Beach Airpark is also the Home of the Goodyear Blimp!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodyear_Blimp

*[The city's name is derived from the Florida pompano

(Trachinotus carolinus), a fish found off the Atlantic coast]

There had been scattered settlers in the area since at least the

mid-1880s, but the first documented permanent residents of the Pompano area were George Butler and Frank Sheen and their families, who arrived in 1896 as railway employees. The first train arrived in the small Pompano settlement on February 22, 1896. It is said that Sheen gave the community its name after jotting down on his survey of the area the name of the fish he had for dinner. The coming of the railroad led to development farther west from the coast. In 1906, Pompano became the southernmost settlement in newly created Palm Beach County. That year, the tall Hillsboro Lighthouse was completed on the beach, and the rest is history!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompano_Beach,_Florida

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompano_Beach_Airpark

parks.pompanobeachfl.gov/golf

Ruigoord is a village in the Houtrakpolder in the Dutch province of North Holland, situated within the municipality of Amsterdam. Until the 1880s, it was an island in the IJ bay, which was turned into a polder. In the 1960s, the municipality planned to extend the Port of Amsterdam. From 1972 onwards squatters occupied buildings and started a free zone. After resisting eviction in 1997, the area was legalized in 2000. The village is nowadays partially closed in by the port, and lies about 8 km east of Haarlem.

In 1964, plans were drawn up by the municipality of Amsterdam to build the Africa Harbour for the petrochemical industry. The plan included the annexation of 600 hectares (1,500 acres) of land belonging to Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude, including the village of Ruigoord. Amsterdam immediately set out to acquire real estate in and around Ruigoord, and started to prepare the farmland for construction.

In 1972, a group of artists squatted some abandoned houses. In 1973, Frank IJsselmuiden became mayor of Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude, and wanted to put the annexation to a vote. The same evening, he received a call from Ferdinand Kranenburg, the Queen's Commissioner of North Holland who told him hat annexation was a done deal and not open for discussion. A lengthy legal battle between Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude on the one hand, and Amsterdam and the Province of North Holland on the other hand commenced. For strategic reasons, the squatters were encouraged to settle in Ruigoord.

The village was scheduled to be demolished on 23 July 1973. On Sunday 22 July 1973, the local priest performed his last mass and handed the keys of the church to the squatters. The next day, the road to the village was barricaded, and the squatters led by Hans Plomp and Gerben Hellinga successfully managed to stop the demolition crew. The 1973 oil crisis further complicated the Africa Harbour project.

Ruigoord became a free zone and started to attract artists like Simon Vinkenoog. It also became known for its drugs. In 1984, Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude tried to change the village into a "green zone" where industry is not allowed, but the plans were blocked by the Province. In November 1995, mayor IJsselmuiden accepted an offer to become mayor of Edam-Volendam. His main reason for resigning was the tiresome 22-year legal battle with Amsterdam.

On 1 January 1997, Amsterdam annexed Ruigoord. The squatters decided to continue their fight against the harbour, and started the Groenoord plan to turn the village into an ecological zone. On 7 October 1997, 200 policemen of the Mobiele Eenheid, the Dutch riot squat, were sent into Ruigoord to remove the squatters. The entire area, except for the village, was flattened and prepared for construction by the Port of Amsterdam. The legal battle advanced all the way to Court of Justice of the European Union.

In 2000, a compromise was reached. The village of Ruigoord was allowed to exist as an enclave within the harbour. Initially, Amsterdam did not want to allow residency in the village.

Current situation:

Ruigoord as an enclave in the harbour.

Ruigoord exists as a squatted zone to this day, but it is now legalized. Full moon parties are regularly organised in the formerly Roman Catholic village church and every year there is the Landjuweel (Land Jewel) festival in August.

Since the early 2000s, the village has staged an annual poetry festival over the Whitsun weekend, Vurige tongen (Fiery Tongues). One of the festival's three days is always devoted to international poets. From 2003 on, a yearly Ruigoord Trophy has been awarded to individuals who have selflessly dedicated themselves to maintaining the village as an important cultural stronghold. The first such trophy was presented to Simon Vinkenoog. Three notable non-Dutch trophy holders are the late American poet and photographer Ira Cohen, the Canada-born writer Jordan Zinovich, and the Amsterdam-based American poet and writer Eddie Woods.

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I always look forward to the last challenge of the Macro Mondays year when we are allowed to revisit any of the themes from the last year. There was so much to choose from, but I'm guessing it won't be too much of a surprise that I opted for Vintage, even though it was only a month ago. I was powerless to resist. :)

This button is hand painted Limoges porcelain and dates back to the 1880s. It's ⅞" wide. It's standing on a piece of vintage linen and against a Limoges bone china demi tasse coffee cup, which is also over 100 years old.

For this week's Macro Mondays group theme, Redux 2022.

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While the other kids went out to recess, John stayed back in the school room to practice on the piano...

This is actually a shot from my archives that was taken in the one-room schoolhouse at the Sanilac County Historic Village & Museum. It's a collection of more than a dozen 1880s-era buildings located on a ten-acre site in Port Sanilac, Michigan.

I attended a reenactment event there in 2016 and when I stepped into the school to have a look around, this boy was playing the piano. There was an older boy in the room as well, but I cloned him out in order to better support my title and story line for the image. 😋

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_Stonewall J. Williams Plantation (1880s)

[6313-D7500-Neo]

Millerville, Screven County, Georgia USA

Atlantic Yacht Club Commodore William Voorhiss´s (1820 - 1890) schooner Tidal Wave photographed in the 1880s. My colorization of a Detroit Publishing Co. image in the Library of Congress archive. Tidal wave, designed by Abraham A. Schank, was built in 1870. It was a defender in the 1870 Queen´s Cup race.

An excerpt from the Rockland County Journal´s obituary on January 11, 1890:

"William was given a common school education, and through his love for the water he commenced business life as a boatman on the Hudson River. He became captain of a vessel at the age of 16 years, and knew well by that time how to handle a vessel. Through the whole of his life the Commodore retained his fondness for boats and aquatic sports. He built and sailed the yachts Tidal Wave, Gracie, and Addie V., boats which became widely celebrated for their speed and beauty. During his prime of life he was Commodore of the Atlantic Yacht Club, and Nyack people well remember that on one Fourth of July be brought that famous Club up the Hudson to this place and treated them royally"

The road takes you around the Victorian reservoir of Lake Vyrnwy. Its stone-built dam, built in the 1880s, is the first of its kind in the world. The Nature Reserve and the area around it are protected by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and Severn Trent Water. The reservoir was built for the purpose of supplying Liverpool and Merseyside with fresh water. It flooded the head of the Vyrnwy Valley and submerged the small village of Llanwddyn.

Today it is a popular retreat, for people in the West Midlands and Merseyside for days out, and also for ornithologists, cyclists, and hikers. The Reserve is designated as a National Nature Reserve, a Site of Special Scientific Interest, a Special Protection Area, and a Special Area of Conservation.

The old village of Llanwddyn in the head of the Vyrnwy Valley included a post office, an inn and parish church just like other Welsh villages of its time. People still lived in the village as the dam was being constructed, and down the valley in front of the new dam the Liverpool Corporation built the new village ready for when the valley was going to be flooded. In all two chapels, three inns, ten farmhouses, and 37 houses were all to be lost under reservoir. Even the remains of bodies from the chapel's cemeteries were removed before the flood, and respectfully re-buried in the new church cemetery. Also lost under the water was Eunant Hall, a large house and estate owned by a member of the local gentry. Along with all the other buildings behind the dam this also was demolished, though no new Hall was built.

The old village can still be seen during drought conditions when the reservoir is very low, and the foundations of several buildings still survive. The village has been relocated and is now at two locations: on a slope adjacent to the dam, and at the bottom of the valley below the dam. The new village was built approximately 2 miles away and still keeps the name Llanwddyn (population 300). The village is very small, but still supplies for the many thousands of tourists which visit the lake and reserve each year. It is equipped with cafes, an RSPB Shop, several gift shops which sell local crafts and produce. Llanwddyn is in a prime location for tourists, as it is near the border of Snowdonia National Park, and lies between the Cambrian Mountains and the Berwyn range.

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“A nanny, by being the child's doughty defender, may put sensitive noses out of joint.” – Jacob Rees-Mogg (British politician)

Antique jewellery can often be not just beautiful, but also a wonderful window into a time gone by, such as this charming antique nanny brooch dating from the Victorian era. Dating from the 1880s, this was, as the name suggests, worn by the family nanny as a traditional brooch and when she was out with the children, if they tore a hole or seam in their clothing whilst playing, it could quickly be repaired thanks to the hollow section in the centre that contained needle and thread. Made simply of brass and set with a goldstone or aventurine with a stylised fleur de lys leaf pattern to either side of it, the brooch measures 48.8 millimetres in length by 6 millimetres wide at the centre, and one end cleverly unscrews to allow the needle and thread to be kept securely inside and ready at a moment's notice.

The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" for the 1st of September is "needles". I immediately thought of an etui (a small ornamental case for holding needles) of which I have several in my possession. Then I remembered that my mother gave me an antique nanny brooch a few years ago. She had great pleasure watching my face light up with delight as I unscrewed the secret compartment to reveal the needle and threads, more than a century old, carefully ensconced in the bar of the brooch. Although not made in gold or platinum, or set with sapphires or diamonds, there is no doubt that this antique nanny brooch is just as charming as any antique brooch and certainly a wonderful talking point. One can almost imagine the scene now with rambunctious children of a wealthy Victorian era family playing in a park, whilst under the caring gaze of Nanny. I hope you like my choice for the theme this week, and that it makes you smile.

The history of the house dates back to the early 1880s, when the sugar producer Nikolay Tereshchenko, Varvara Khanenko's father, bought a large plot of land with a three-story house on Oleksiivska Street, then new in Kyiv. During the years 1882-1888, another house was built on the free part of the plot - two-story from the front facade, three-story from the yard. The architect of the project was, most likely, Robert-Friedrich Meltzer. In 1888, Nikola Tereshchenko transferred the newly built house and part of the land plot to his eldest daughter Varvara.

Ліплений герб роду Ханенків у вигляді трьох башт у картуші між вікнами другого поверху на чоловому фасаді дому.

Національний музей мистецтв імені Богдана та Варвари Ханенків.

Історія дому сягає початку 1880-х, коли цукропромисловець Нікола Терещенко, батько Варвари Ханенко, придбав велику земельну ділянку з триповерховим домом на тоді новій київській вулиці — Олексіївській. Упродовж 1882—1888 років на вільній частині ділянки було зведено ще один дім — двоповерховий із чолового фасаду, триповерховий із двору. Архітектором проекту був, найбільш ймовірно, Робет-Фрідріх Мельцер. 1888 року Нікола Терещенко передає новозбудований дім та частину земельної ділянки у власність своїй старшій доньці Варварі.

У повній згоді із «Заповітом» Богдана Ханенка (1917) та «Дарчою заявою» Варвари Ханенко (1918) їхня київська садиба по вул. Терещенківській, 15 стала простором музею мистецтв.

Фасад та інтер'єри оформлено в стилі «історизм» з використанням художніх рис готики, Ренесансу, бароко, рококо.

Historic Town 1880's Yukon Canada

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In the mid-1880s the San Diego region was in the midst of one of its first real estate booms. At that time it was common for a developer to build a grand hotel as a draw for what would otherwise be a barren landscape.

Hotel del Coronado, also known as The Del and Hotel Del, is a historic beachfront hotel in the city of Coronado, just across the San Diego Bay from San Diego, California. It is one of the few surviving examples of an American architectural genre: the wooden Victorian beach resort. It is the second largest wooden structure in the United States and was designated a California Historical Landmark in 1970 and a National Historic Landmark in 1977.

When it opened in 1888, it was the single largest resort hotel in the world. It has hosted presidents, royalty, and celebrities through the years. The hotel has been featured in numerous movies and books.

The hotel received a Four Diamond rating from the American Automobile Association and was once listed by USA Today as one of the top ten resorts in the world. In the lower left of the photo in the brighter area is the ice skating rink which faces the ocean. It's a big tourist draw during the holiday season.

On my first visit to San Diego in the month of February, we stayed at The Del. We had departed our home in New England during a deep freeze. I was wearing my down ski jacket and boots and upon arriving, everyone was in flip flops and shorts. I remember thinking I'm doing something very wrong since I'm definitely a hot weather person living in a state with long cold winters. It took me almost 20 years to move here but I finally found my little corner of paradise.

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"Chicken Feed" was the original name of the candy with production starting in the late 1880s. It was first invented in the 1880s by a Wunderle Candy Company employee, George Renninger. Wunderle Candy Company was the first to produce the candy in 1888. The Goelitz Confectionery Company (now called Jelly Belly) began manufacturing the product in 1898. While Jelly Belly still makes candy corn, the largest manufacturer of candy corn is Brach's Confections owned by the Ferrara Candy Company. Brach's makes approximately 7 billion pieces of candy corn per year and possesses 85 percent of the total share of the candy corn industry during the Halloween season.

1880s

The Harbour & Tyne Historic Precinct was the original commercial district of Oamaru. The grand, highly decorated buildings were built from locally quarried limestone - Oamaru whitestone, as it is called. Today the area is recognised as having New Zealand's most complete collection of Victorian buildings.

eterhead's best known landmarks, the giant breakwaters of the South Bay Harbour of refuge, were built over a period from the 1880s to the 1950s. The government were in favour of building a Harbour of Refuge somewhere on the North East coast as a haven for North Sea shipping caught in bad weather. After much debate Peterhead Bay was chosen as the site.

An act of Parliament was passed in 1886 authorising planners and builders to proceed with the mammoth task. With construction halts in both the first and second World Wars, the work was not complete until the late 1950s.

To cut costs, it was decided that the labour should be undertaken by convicts and a prison was erected nearby for that purpose. Their work was carried out under armed guard, supervised by local masons and tradesmen.

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Finn Slough is a tiny Fraser River fishing community located at the south end of No. 4 Road in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. The community has approximately 30 residents who live in wooden houses, both floating and built on stilts, along the marshy river bank. Many of the buildings were built between the late 19th century and 1950s and many have decayed severely, while some have been carefully restored. Finn Slough was founded by Finnish settlers who came to Richmond in the 1880s. Most of these residents made a good living from fishing and became local landowners.

I invite you to view my Finn Slough album. Thanks for visiting

~Christie :)

Info. from various online sites including Wikipedia

www.finnslough.com/

The area that was to become West Palm Beach was settled in the late 1870s and 1880s by a few hundred settlers who called the vicinity "Lake Worth Country." These settlers were a diverse community from different parts of the United States and the world. They included founding families such at the Potters and the Lainharts, who would go on to become leading members of the business community in the fledgling city. The first white settlers in Palm Beach County lived around Lake Worth, then an enclosed freshwater lake, named for Colonel William Jenkins Worth, who had fought in the Second Seminole War in Florida in 1842. Most settlers engaged in the growing of tropical fruits and vegetables for shipment the north via Lake Worth and the Indian River. By 1890, the U.S. Census counted over 200 people settled along Lake Worth in the vicinity of what would become West Palm Beach. The area at this time also boasted a hotel, the "Cocoanut House", a church, and a post office. The city was platted by Henry Flagler as a community to house the servants working in the two grand hotels on the neighboring island of Palm Beach, across Lake Worth in 1893, coinciding with the arrival of the Florida East Coast railroad. Flagler paid two area settlers, Captain Porter and Louie Hillhouse, a combined sum of $45,000 for the original town site, stretching from Clear Lake to Lake Worth.

On November 5, 1894, 78 people met at the "Calaboose" (the first jail and police station located at Clematis St. and Poinsettia, now Dixie Hwy.) and passed the motion to incorporate the Town of West Palm Beach in what was then Dade County (now Miami-Dade County). This made West Palm Beach the first incorporated municipality in Dade County and in South Florida. The town council quickly addressed the building codes and the tents and shanties were replaced by brick, brick veneer, and stone buildings. The city grew steadily during the 1890s and the first two decades of the 20th century, most residents were engaged in the tourist industry and related services or winter vegetable market and tropical fruit trade. In 1909, Palm Beach County was formed by the Florida State Legislature and West Palm Beach became the county seat. In 1916, a new neo-classical courthouse was opened, which has been painstakingly restored back to its original condition, and is now used as the local history museum.

The city grew rapidly in the 1920s as part of the Florida land boom. The population of West Palm Beach quadrupled from 1920 to 1927, and all kinds of businesses and public services grew along with it. Many of the city's landmark structures and preserved neighborhoods were constructed during this period. Originally, Flagler intended for his Florida East Coast Railway to have its terminus in West Palm, but after the area experienced a deep freeze, he chose to extend the railroad to Miami instead.

The land boom was already faltering when city was devastated by the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. The Depression years of the 1930s were a quiet time for the area, which saw slight population growth and property values lower than during the 1920s. The city only recovered with the onset of World War II, which saw the construction of Palm Beach Air Force Base, which brought thousands of military personnel to the city. The base was vital to the allied war effort, as it provided an excellent training facility and had unparalleled access to North Africa for a North American city. Also during World War II, German U-Boats sank dozens of merchant ships and oil tankers just off the coast of West Palm Beach. Nearby Palm Beach was under black out conditions to minimize night visibility to German U-boats.

The 1950s saw another boom in population, partly due to the return of many soldiers and airmen who had served in the vicinity during the war. Also, the advent of air conditioning encouraged growth, as year-round living in a tropical climate became more acceptable to northerners. West Palm Beach became the one of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas during the 1950s; the city's borders spread west of Military Trail and south to Lake Clarke Shores. However, many of the city's residents still lived within a narrow six-block wide strip from the south to north end. The neighborhoods were strictly segregated between White and African-American populations, a legacy that the city still struggles with today. The primary shopping district remained downtown, centered around Clematis Street.

In the 1960s, Palm Beach County's first enclosed shopping mall, the Palm Beach Mall, and an indoor arena were completed. These projects led to a brief revival for the city, but in the 1970s and 1980s crime continued to be a serious issue and suburban sprawl continued to drain resources and business away from the old downtown area. By the early 1990s there were very high vacancy rates downtown, and serious levels of urban blight.

Since the 1990s, developments such as CityPlace and the preservation and renovation of 1920s architecture in the nightlife hub of Clematis Street have seen a downtown resurgence in the entertainment and shopping district. The city has also placed emphasis on neighborhood development and revitalization, in historic districts such as Northwood, Flamingo Park, and El Cid. Some neighborhoods still struggle with blight and crime, as well as lowered property values caused by the Great Recession, which hit the region particularly hard. Since the recovery, multiple new developments have been completed. The Palm Beach Mall, located at the Interstate 95/Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard interchange became abandoned as downtown revitalized - the very mall that initiated the original abandonment of the downtown. The mall was then redeveloped into the Palm Beach Fashion Outlets in February 2014. A station for All Aboard Florida, a high-speed passenger rail service serving Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Orlando, is under construction as of July 2015.

Credit for the data above is given to the following website:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Palm_Beach,_Florida

“In the 1880s, John K. Cheyney founded the first local sponge business. The industry continued to grow in the 1890s. Many people from Key West and the Bahamas settled in Tarpon Springs to hook sponges and then process them. A few Greek immigrants also arrived in this city during the 1890s to work in the sponge industry.

In 1905, John Cocoris introduced the technique of sponge diving to Tarpon Springs by recruiting divers and crew members from Greece. The first divers came from the Saronic Gulf islands of Aegina and Hydra, but they were soon outnumbered by those from the Dodecanese islands of Kalymnos, Symi and Halki. The sponge industry soon became one of the leading maritime industries in Florida and the most important business in Tarpon Springs, generating millions of dollars a year. The 1953 film Beneath the 12-Mile Reef, depicting the sponge industry, takes place and was filmed in Tarpon Springs.”

The area that was to become West Palm Beach was settled in the late 1870s and 1880s by a few hundred settlers who called the vicinity "Lake Worth Country." These settlers were a diverse community from different parts of the United States and the world. They included founding families such at the Potters and the Lainharts, who would go on to become leading members of the business community in the fledgling city. The first white settlers in Palm Beach County lived around Lake Worth, then an enclosed freshwater lake, named for Colonel William Jenkins Worth, who had fought in the Second Seminole War in Florida in 1842. Most settlers engaged in the growing of tropical fruits and vegetables for shipment the north via Lake Worth and the Indian River. By 1890, the U.S. Census counted over 200 people settled along Lake Worth in the vicinity of what would become West Palm Beach. The area at this time also boasted a hotel, the "Cocoanut House", a church, and a post office. The city was platted by Henry Flagler as a community to house the servants working in the two grand hotels on the neighboring island of Palm Beach, across Lake Worth in 1893, coinciding with the arrival of the Florida East Coast railroad. Flagler paid two area settlers, Captain Porter and Louie Hillhouse, a combined sum of $45,000 for the original town site, stretching from Clear Lake to Lake Worth.

On November 5, 1894, 78 people met at the "Calaboose" (the first jail and police station located at Clematis St. and Poinsettia, now Dixie Hwy.) and passed the motion to incorporate the Town of West Palm Beach in what was then Dade County (now Miami-Dade County). This made West Palm Beach the first incorporated municipality in Dade County and in South Florida. The town council quickly addressed the building codes and the tents and shanties were replaced by brick, brick veneer, and stone buildings. The city grew steadily during the 1890s and the first two decades of the 20th century, most residents were engaged in the tourist industry and related services or winter vegetable market and tropical fruit trade. In 1909, Palm Beach County was formed by the Florida State Legislature and West Palm Beach became the county seat. In 1916, a new neo-classical courthouse was opened, which has been painstakingly restored back to its original condition, and is now used as the local history museum.

The city grew rapidly in the 1920s as part of the Florida land boom. The population of West Palm Beach quadrupled from 1920 to 1927, and all kinds of businesses and public services grew along with it. Many of the city's landmark structures and preserved neighborhoods were constructed during this period. Originally, Flagler intended for his Florida East Coast Railway to have its terminus in West Palm, but after the area experienced a deep freeze, he chose to extend the railroad to Miami instead.

The land boom was already faltering when city was devastated by the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. The Depression years of the 1930s were a quiet time for the area, which saw slight population growth and property values lower than during the 1920s. The city only recovered with the onset of World War II, which saw the construction of Palm Beach Air Force Base, which brought thousands of military personnel to the city. The base was vital to the allied war effort, as it provided an excellent training facility and had unparalleled access to North Africa for a North American city. Also during World War II, German U-Boats sank dozens of merchant ships and oil tankers just off the coast of West Palm Beach. Nearby Palm Beach was under black out conditions to minimize night visibility to German U-boats.

The 1950s saw another boom in population, partly due to the return of many soldiers and airmen who had served in the vicinity during the war. Also, the advent of air conditioning encouraged growth, as year-round living in a tropical climate became more acceptable to northerners. West Palm Beach became the one of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas during the 1950s; the city's borders spread west of Military Trail and south to Lake Clarke Shores. However, many of the city's residents still lived within a narrow six-block wide strip from the south to north end. The neighborhoods were strictly segregated between White and African-American populations, a legacy that the city still struggles with today. The primary shopping district remained downtown, centered around Clematis Street.

In the 1960s, Palm Beach County's first enclosed shopping mall, the Palm Beach Mall, and an indoor arena were completed. These projects led to a brief revival for the city, but in the 1970s and 1980s crime continued to be a serious issue and suburban sprawl continued to drain resources and business away from the old downtown area. By the early 1990s there were very high vacancy rates downtown, and serious levels of urban blight.

Since the 1990s, developments such as CityPlace and the preservation and renovation of 1920s architecture in the nightlife hub of Clematis Street have seen a downtown resurgence in the entertainment and shopping district. The city has also placed emphasis on neighborhood development and revitalization, in historic districts such as Northwood, Flamingo Park, and El Cid. Some neighborhoods still struggle with blight and crime, as well as lowered property values caused by the Great Recession, which hit the region particularly hard. Since the recovery, multiple new developments have been completed. The Palm Beach Mall, located at the Interstate 95/Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard interchange became abandoned as downtown revitalized - the very mall that initiated the original abandonment of the downtown. The mall was then redeveloped into the Palm Beach Fashion Outlets in February 2014. A station for All Aboard Florida, a high speed passenger rail service serving Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Orlando, is under construction as of July 2015.

Credit for the data above is given to the following website:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Palm_Beach,_Florida

The former headquarters of the Northern Counties Investment Trust at 32 Manor Row, Bradford.

This Grade II listed town house was built around 1820 of dressed sandstone "brick". The built out shop front with its renaissance decorative details was added during or around the 1880s.

A recent replica of a Victorian era (1880s) 'fernery'.

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Finn Slough is a tiny Fraser River fishing community located at the south end of No. 4 Road in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. The community has approximately 30 residents who live in wooden houses, both floating and built on stilts, along the marshy river bank. Many of the buildings were built between the late 19th century and 1950s and many have decayed severely, while some have been carefully restored. Finn Slough was founded by Finnish settlers who came to Richmond in the 1880s. Most of these residents made a good living from fishing and became local landowners.

Featured in this image is the picturesque Dinner Plate Island School and the Gillnetter, Eva 23653.

Eva was built in 1937 at the Suzuki Brothers Boat Yard as a Japanese–style double–ended gillnetter. She is 29.6’ x 8.0’ x 3.0’ carvel plank construction, cedar over oak.

I invite you to view my Finn Slough Album. Thanks for visiting

~Christie

Info. from various online sites including Wikipedia

www.finnslough.com/