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Yard outside the 'Kunstkraftwerk', a former power plant in Leipzig, Germany, which is now used as an art exhibition site.
Guilherme Holtz used this photo as a background for a diecast model picture: flic.kr/p/UTcAPY
1.20am. A hundred metres up a pitch black, damp & smelly storm drain. Alone. A white LED torch on the floor a few feet in front of me pointing at me & a small red torch in my mouth shining further down the tunnel. And I'm standing really, really still for 30seconds. Very surreal, very odd.
Try explaining it to friends and the look of incomprehension is palpable. But I DO like the result.
Go on view it big- the brickwork is amazing.
A quiet night out in Clydebank. Rain falling heavily. Midnight. The occasional swish of a passing car or taxi overhead echoing down the tunnel entrance.
Forgotten Glasgow storm drain. I took this on my 1st trip which was just a recce. I didn't bother with tripods & gear and only had a 50mm prime lens with me. Once there I couldn't resist taking some photos but supporting the camera for LEs in that 'damp' environment required ingenuity. It also enforced low POVs which actually worked really well in accentuating the pleasing egg-shaped cross-section and capturing low-angle reflections: serendipity! This is a crop to remove the black borders .
The whole drain is about 200m long with several twists and ends at a small chamber with another culvert carrying a stream or sewer. References on the internet suggest that this is one of the legendary mediaeval streams of Glasgow that has been culverted and last appeared on maps in the 1700s. Consulting old maps I am less sure. I will need to do more research to find out what this actually is.
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Result of a recent reworking of a model of a closed interlocking tower in TT scale (1:120). The original model, I made in 2011 for my Berlin diorama. For the reworking, I replaced the graffiti stickers by new decals and applied adequate weathering to better represend the state of an abandoned building.
Kitbashed TT scale (1:120) model of an interlocking tower. It has no particular prototype but shows the typical Berlin architecture. Will use it for one of my coming layout or diorama projects.
A Utility Meter is a metering devices used on utility mains.
Winter is the coldest season of the year in temperate climates, between autumn and spring. It is caused by the axis of the Earth in the respective hemisphere being oriented away from the Sun.
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Closed interlocking tower with two control floors at the Warschauer Strasse station area in Berlin. Great inspiration for modelling projects.
Detail shot of the wall seen in flic.kr/p/TQNTUY. The statement on the right 'Ist das Kunst oder kann das weg?' (Is this art or may it be thrown away?) is a famous cite of the question of museum's janitor referring to some stuff she found in an exhibition room.
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Former firehouse in Hennigsdorf near Berlin. It's now an office building. Strange thing with this building is the North American look, which is caused by the US-style windows. These windows are obviously not the original ones but were installed by the new owner during renovation.
Note that the photo was taken with a 5 year old Nokia N97 mini smartphone!
BTW: While it looks like, this picture is not HDR! The effect was created by the real early morning sun.
TT scale (1:120) model scene with a kitbashed interlocking tower and a matching Berlin photo background.
Detail shot of the gargoyles that guard the roofline atop the Memphis Cycle & Supply Co. building at Monroe and Lauderdale near downtown Memphis (see previous post).
Fort Hancock - Sandy Hook
Middletown Township, New Jersey
Sandy Hook is a barrier spit, approximately 6 miles in length and varying between 0.1 to 1 miles wide in Middletown Township in Monmouth County, along the Atlantic Ocean coast of eastern New Jersey in the United States. The barrier spit encloses the southern entrance of Lower New York Bay south of New York City. The Dutch called the area "Sant Hoek", with the English "Hook" deriving from the Dutch "Hoek" (corner, angle), meaning "spit of land".
Fort Hancock is a former United States Army fort at Sandy Hook, located in Middletown Township in Monmouth County, along the Atlantic coast of eastern New Jersey in the United States. This coastal artillery base played an important part in the defense of New York Harbor and played a role in the history of New Jersey. Between 1874 and 1919, Fort Hancock was operated in conjunction with the Army's Sandy Hook Proving Ground.
In 1893, Fort Hancock installed Battery Potter, the nation's first disappearing gun battery. It also was important for the defense of the vital New York Harbor throughout World War II, preventing the entrance of German submarines into the harbor. In the late 1950s Project Nike antiaircraft missiles were based there. Fort Hancock was decommissioned in 1974.
The fort and its small museum are managed as part of the Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area, and is part of National Parks of New York Harbor unit of the National Park System.
Murals of Asbury Park
A Mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other large permanent surface. A distinguishing characteristic of mural painting is that the architectural elements of the given space are harmoniously incorporated into the picture.
Asbury Park is a city in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, located on the Jersey Shore and part of the New York City Metropolitan Area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population was 16,116, reflecting a decline of 814 from the 16,930 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 131 from the 16,799 counted in the 1990 Census.
It was ranked the sixth-best beach in New Jersey in the 2008 Top 10 Beaches Contest sponsored by the New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium.
Asbury Park was originally incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 26, 1874, from portions of Ocean Township. The borough was reincorporated on February 28, 1893. Asbury Park was incorporated as a city, its current type of government, as of March 25, 1897.
The 1920s saw a dramatic change in the boardwalk with the construction of the Paramount Theatre and Convention Hall complex, the Casino Arena and Carousel House, and two handsome red-brick pavilions. Beaux Arts architect Warren Whitney of New York was the designer. He had also been hired to design the imposing Berkeley-Carteret Hotel positioned diagonally across from the theater and hall. At the same time, Asbury Park launched a first-class education and athletic program with the construction of a state-of-the-art high school overlooking Deal Lake.
Whitesbog Village
Whitesbog Village is an early 20th century company town and agricultural community. In the early 1900âs, Whitesbog was the largest cranberry farm in New Jersey. Its founder, Joseph J. White, was a nationally recognized leader in the cranberry industry. In 1916, Elizabeth C. White collaborated with Dr. Frederick A. Coville of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and successfully developed the first cultivated blueberry here at Whitesbog.
The story of Whitesbog begins with the former Hanover Iron Furnace (now Fort Dix). The production of iron was a dynamic and important industry in the Pines, but ultimately the most destructive. The process of dredging the land and diverting water had a devastating effect on the land. Ironically, it was the physical conditions produced by the iron industry that set the stage for cranberry cultivation. The American cranberry grows naturally and extensively in swampy areas of the North American temperate zone. The cranberry thrived in the disturbed strip-mined conditions in the Pinelands. Realizing the potential market for this crop, an enterprising James A. Fenwick purchased a 490-acre tract, which included the site of the former canal and canal pond that fed Hanover Furnace during its operation.
Fenwick proceeded to cultivate the land for cranberries. By the 1860s, Fenwickâs efforts proved to be successful and the cranberry boom began. Land that was thought to be worthless was suddenly found capable of producing 30 to 60 barrels of cranberries worth about $10 each in American markets and $20 in Europe.
Fenwickâs son-in-law, Joseph J. White, was himself an up and coming cranberry farmer. In the winter of 1869-1870, J.J. White, together with his wife Mary, produced a booklet entitled âCranberry Cultureâ which quickly became a classic agricultural guide. After James Fenwickâs death in 1882 Joseph White assumed the management of the cranberry operation and called it Whitesbog. He was assisted by his eldest daughter, Elizabeth Coleman White, who began her career there in 1893.
For more info: www.whitesbog.org
TT scale (1:120) diorama of a fictitious urban scene in New York City. It shows a closed firehouse beside a rail yard. The diorama was built as an exhibition piece for the modell-hobby-spiel fair at Leipzig, Germany, on October 3rd-6th, 2013.
Abandoned Military Pier and Munitions Store Ruins on Sandy Hook’s Horseshow Cove.
Sandy Hook is a barrier spit in Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The barrier spit, approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) in length and varying from 0.1 to 1.0 mile (0.16 to 1.61 km) wide, is located at the north end of the Jersey Shore. It encloses the southern entrance of Lower New York Bay south of New York City, protecting it from the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean to the east. The Dutch called the area "Sant Hoek", with the English "Hook" deriving from the Dutch "Hoek" (corner, angle), meaning "spit of land". Most of Sandy Hook is currently owned and managed by the National Park Service as the Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area.
Fort Hancock is a former United States Army fort at Sandy Hook, located in Middletown Township in Monmouth County, along the Atlantic coast of eastern New Jersey in the United States. This coastal artillery base played an important part in the defense of New York Harbor and played a role in the history of New Jersey. Between 1874 and 1919, Fort Hancock was operated in conjunction with the Army's Sandy Hook Proving Ground.
In 1893, Fort Hancock installed Battery Potter, the nation's first disappearing gun battery. It also was important for the defense of the vital New York Harbor throughout World War II, preventing the entrance of German submarines into the harbor. In the late 1950s Project Nike antiaircraft missiles were based there. Fort Hancock was decommissioned in 1974.
The fort and its small museum are managed as part of the Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area, and is part of National Parks of New York Harbor unit of the National Park System.
Whitesbog Village
Whitesbog Village is an early 20th century company town and agricultural community. In the early 1900’s, Whitesbog was the largest cranberry farm in New Jersey. Its founder, Joseph J. White, was a nationally recognized leader in the cranberry industry. In 1916, Elizabeth C. White collaborated with Dr. Frederick A. Coville of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and successfully developed the first cultivated blueberry here at Whitesbog.
The story of Whitesbog begins with the former Hanover Iron Furnace (now Fort Dix). The production of iron was a dynamic and important industry in the Pines, but ultimately the most destructive. The process of dredging the land and diverting water had a devastating effect on the land. Ironically, it was the physical conditions produced by the iron industry that set the stage for cranberry cultivation. The American cranberry grows naturally and extensively in swampy areas of the North American temperate zone. The cranberry thrived in the disturbed strip-mined conditions in the Pinelands. Realizing the potential market for this crop, an enterprising James A. Fenwick purchased a 490-acre tract, which included the site of the former canal and canal pond that fed Hanover Furnace during its operation.
Fenwick proceeded to cultivate the land for cranberries. By the 1860s, Fenwick’s efforts proved to be successful and the cranberry boom began. Land that was thought to be worthless was suddenly found capable of producing 30 to 60 barrels of cranberries worth about $10 each in American markets and $20 in Europe.
Fenwick’s son-in-law, Joseph J. White, was himself an up and coming cranberry farmer. In the winter of 1869-1870, J.J. White, together with his wife Mary, produced a booklet entitled “Cranberry Culture” which quickly became a classic agricultural guide. After James Fenwick’s death in 1882 Joseph White assumed the management of the cranberry operation and called it Whitesbog. He was assisted by his eldest daughter, Elizabeth Coleman White, who began her career there in 1893.
For more info: www.whitesbog.org
This "Drink Nesbitt's California Orange" soda ghost sign is located in a curious spot in downtown Yoakum, Texas. The wall on which the ad's painted isn't a store front or back that faces either the street or the alley behind it. Instead, the wall faces the side, and it's located in the middle of the block. (I guess when the sign was painted, the building next door hadn't been built, so passersby could see the Nesbitt's ad on the wall?) The ghost sign-painted wall now is an interior wall, enclosed by a roof and, facing the street, this chain link fence topped with barbed wire. Clearly, through the fence, you can see the Nesbitt's sign. You also can stick your iPhone between the fence links and take photos of the wall. :)
Closer shot of the Nesbitt's part: www.flickr.com/photos/mollyblock/8930214285/
Context shot, taken from the street, showing the sign behind the fence (and below the roof): www.flickr.com/photos/mollyblock/8931570190/
Boarded-up and vacant. The former Anderson Brothers Cold-Storage Warehouse (circa 1909) is located at Bridge Avenue & Monmouth Street, Red Bank, NJ 07701.
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An Anchor Plate or Wall Washer is a large plate or washer connected to a tie rod or bolt. Anchor plates are used on exterior walls of masonry buildings, for structural reinforcement. Being visible, many anchor plates are made in a style that is decorative.
One popular style is the star anchor—an anchor plate cast or wrought in the shape of a five-pointed star. Other names and styles of anchor plate include earthquake washer, triangular washer, S-iron, and T-head. In the United Kingdom, pattress plate is the term for circular restraints, tie bar being an alternate term for rectangular restraints.
Anchor plates are made of cast iron, sometimes wrought iron or steel, and are often used on brick or other masonry-based buildings. They are easy to find in cities with substantial legacies of 18th- and 19th-century brick construction, such as New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Charleston, South Carolina, and in older earthquake prone cities such as San Francisco, as well as earlier examples in Gamla Stan, the Old Town in Stockholm. The tie-rod-and-plate assembly braces the masonry wall against lateral bowing.
Battery Potter- WWII-Era Observation Posts
These concrete and wooden ruins are the remnants of a US Army observation and fire control post constructed on top of the defunct Battery Potter to serve as a observation point for the approaches to New York Harbor. Augmented by twin radar towers, the men stationed here monitored all ships nearing New York Harbor and acted as fire control observers for any enemy ships and planes, particularly U-Boats, operating in the area which would then be fired upon by Fort Hancock's batteries.
According post records, 12 merchant ships were fired upon with warning shots during the Second World War for failing to identify themselves properly to the Fort, along with three US Navy Minesweepers.
Abandoned Military Pier and Munitions Store Ruins on Sandy Hook’s Horseshow Cove.
Sandy Hook is a barrier spit in Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The barrier spit, approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) in length and varying from 0.1 to 1.0 mile (0.16 to 1.61 km) wide, is located at the north end of the Jersey Shore. It encloses the southern entrance of Lower New York Bay south of New York City, protecting it from the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean to the east. The Dutch called the area "Sant Hoek", with the English "Hook" deriving from the Dutch "Hoek" (corner, angle), meaning "spit of land". Most of Sandy Hook is currently owned and managed by the National Park Service as the Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area.
Fort Hancock is a former United States Army fort at Sandy Hook, located in Middletown Township in Monmouth County, along the Atlantic coast of eastern New Jersey in the United States. This coastal artillery base played an important part in the defense of New York Harbor and played a role in the history of New Jersey. Between 1874 and 1919, Fort Hancock was operated in conjunction with the Army's Sandy Hook Proving Ground.
In 1893, Fort Hancock installed Battery Potter, the nation's first disappearing gun battery. It also was important for the defense of the vital New York Harbor throughout World War II, preventing the entrance of German submarines into the harbor. In the late 1950s Project Nike antiaircraft missiles were based there. Fort Hancock was decommissioned in 1974.
The fort and its small museum are managed as part of the Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area, and is part of National Parks of New York Harbor unit of the National Park System.
Boarded-up and vacant. The former Anderson Brothers Cold-Storage Warehouse (circa 1909) is located at Bridge Avenue & Monmouth Street, Red Bank, NJ 07701.
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his "Drink Nesbitt's California Orange" soda ghost sign is located in a curious spot in downtown Yoakum, Texas. The wall on which the ad's painted isn't a store front or back that faces either the street or the alley behind it. Instead, the wall faces the side, and it's located in the middle of the block. (I guess when the sign was painted, the building next door hadn't been built, so passersby could see the Nesbitt's ad on the wall?) The ghost sign-painted wall now is an interior wall, enclosed by a roof and, facing the street, a chain link fence topped with barbed wire. Clearly, through the fence, you can see the Nesbitt's sign. You also can stick your iPhone between the fence links and take photos of the wall. :)
This shot doesn't show the right-hand side of the wall ad, which is a soda bottle with an unrelated "radiators" metal sign covering part of it. You can see the soda bottle part here:
www.flickr.com/photos/mollyblock/8930845498/
Context shot, taken from the street, showing the sign behind the fence (and below the roof): www.flickr.com/photos/mollyblock/8931570190/
Whitesbog Village
Whitesbog Village is an early 20th century company town and agricultural community. In the early 1900’s, Whitesbog was the largest cranberry farm in New Jersey. Its founder, Joseph J. White, was a nationally recognized leader in the cranberry industry. In 1916, Elizabeth C. White collaborated with Dr. Frederick A. Coville of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and successfully developed the first cultivated blueberry here at Whitesbog.
The story of Whitesbog begins with the former Hanover Iron Furnace (now Fort Dix). The production of iron was a dynamic and important industry in the Pines, but ultimately the most destructive. The process of dredging the land and diverting water had a devastating effect on the land. Ironically, it was the physical conditions produced by the iron industry that set the stage for cranberry cultivation. The American cranberry grows naturally and extensively in swampy areas of the North American temperate zone. The cranberry thrived in the disturbed strip-mined conditions in the Pinelands. Realizing the potential market for this crop, an enterprising James A. Fenwick purchased a 490-acre tract, which included the site of the former canal and canal pond that fed Hanover Furnace during its operation.
Fenwick proceeded to cultivate the land for cranberries. By the 1860s, Fenwick’s efforts proved to be successful and the cranberry boom began. Land that was thought to be worthless was suddenly found capable of producing 30 to 60 barrels of cranberries worth about $10 each in American markets and $20 in Europe.
Fenwick’s son-in-law, Joseph J. White, was himself an up and coming cranberry farmer. In the winter of 1869-1870, J.J. White, together with his wife Mary, produced a booklet entitled “Cranberry Culture” which quickly became a classic agricultural guide. After James Fenwick’s death in 1882 Joseph White assumed the management of the cranberry operation and called it Whitesbog. He was assisted by his eldest daughter, Elizabeth Coleman White, who began her career there in 1893.
For more info: www.whitesbog.org
Danville Stove and Manufacturing Co (Beaver Stoves)
Seven shareholders formed a corporation in 1882 with a capital of $20,000 and named it the Danville Stove and Manufacturing Co. Thomas Beaver became a major shareholder soon after the company was founded but he was not one of the original seven. Their motto became "Beaver's the Best".
Many of the models of stoves cast at the Danville Stove and Mfg. Co. carried the Beaver name and were shipped all over the world.
The U.S. Post Office cast iron mailboxes, one of their products with the familiar beaver logo, could be found throughout this country. Today there is one located at Disney World in Florida. Production ceased in the early 1940's and the property became part of the K.V.S. complex in 1951.
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