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A TransPennine Express train crosses the River Irwell between Manchester and Salford on the newly constructed Ordsall Chord railway, part of the "Northern Powerhouse" investment in northern England's railways.
Heading up Old Dickens Heath Road in Dickens Heath Village towards Main Street.
The village is relatively new, having been planned and built since the 1990s.
The village reminds me of buildings in Italy or France, especially in the villages over there. So is weird having a village like this in the West Midlands!
Copperfield Court seen ahead with a triangular roof on top.
It's at the corner of Rumbush Lane and Old Dickens Heath Road.
Not far from Main Street.
Hong Kong Culture | Modern Hong Kong History started in 1841.
Visit Hong Kong - one of the World‛s GREATEST Cities!
Hong Kong is blessed with some of the most amazing panoramic city views in the World today and even better 75% of the land area consists of country parks and wetlands plus we have 575+ named hills and peaks offering some great hiking trails and lots of very fine beaches and remote islands - in a nutshell, Hong Kong is full of surprises!
Victoria Peak, The Peak Tram, Victoria Harbour, The Big Buddha | Po Lin Monastery, Tai O Fishing Village, The iconic Star Ferry, The Ocean Terminal Deck, The iconic Street Tram on HK Island, TST Promenade, Cheung Chau Island, Peng Chau Island, Temple Street Night Market, The Ladies Market, Chi Lin Nunnery | Nan Lian Garden, Statue Square, The Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple, Tsz Shan Monastery, Tai Kwun Centre, Hollywood Road, The Mid Levels Escalator, Aberdeen, Stanley, The West Kowloon Cultural Centre, Food Markets... the list goes on and on of cool and unusual places you should “visit or do” when you come to Hong Kong.
Book a Private Tour of Hong Kong to maximise your time here and gain an in depth understanding of this amazing city, in addition we have a great food culture and night life scene with some 15,000 - 20,000 Restaurants and Bars officially and unofficially and any and all visitors should take a private or group food tour in Hong Kong!
Hong Kong has one of the very best public transport systems in the world (MTR Subway and Buses + 18,163 Taxi‛s) they are cheap, reliable and easy to use.
Hong Kong - Some Facts - Population 7.5 Million people | 92% Ethnic Chinese | English is an Official Language along with Cantonese and Mandarin | 1,114 sq km or 430sq miles of diversity | 263 Islands | People | Street Scenes | Traffic Scenes | Nature Scenes | Animals | Buildings | Shopping | Gardens | The Countryside | Islands and the Ocean + Daily Life and anything interesting, all Districts, Hong Kong
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The city center of Dublin is full of a variety of charming and colorful low-rise buildings from the Georgian and Victorian eras, many of which form a vibrant mixed-use tapestry that gives the city economic and social vitality. The city rapidly grew and evolved throughout the 18th Century and 19th Century into what we see today, leaving little remaining of the Medieval city, but providing many charming structures that contribute to a very intact and whole urban fabric that rivals that of Edinburgh for the completeness of the cityscape from the pre-WWII period on the continent. The city retains its low-rise character and yet remains an engaging, walkable, and dense metropolis, showing that the traditional urban form does, in fact, still work in the modern age.
View of Rabat medina from Kasbah des Oudaias.
Kasbah des Oudaias is a picturesque place which occupies the oldest part of the city, the site of the original ribat. It commands magnificent views over the river and ocean from its cliff-top perch.
The kasbah is predominantly residential with tranquil alleys and whitewashed houses mostly built by Muslim refugees from Spain.
Progress photo of the brand new student residences for Glasgow International College students: Franklin Point.
Franklin Point offers 75 en-suite rooms, ith services such as laundry spread across fewer residents and will provide our students with stylish, well equipped accommodation in super convenient locations close to the College.
The new buildings are scheduled to start receiving the first students in September 2012.
More specifically, downtown Vancouver. And the little mountains. Well, what a classic shot. All mine. :9
I can haz emigration?
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England's Finest Medieval Village.
Discover Lavenham; England's finest medieval village and food capital of Suffolk.
Lavenham has wonderful places to stay, restaurants and pubs with excellent food and interesting shops and galleries.
An ideal place to stay for a short break to explore Suffolk's countryside and coast.
Lavenham is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. It is noted for its 15th century church, half-timbered medieval cottages and circular walk. In the medieval period it was among the 20 wealthiest settlements in England. Currently, it is a popular day-trip destination for British people from across the country and Americans from the air bases of Lakenheath and Mildenhall, along with another historic wool town in the area, Long Melford.
For four centuries, Lavenham made its fortune from the wool trade, selling blue broadcloth, 'Lavenham Blues' - everywhere from Africa to the Baltic. By 1524, the town, its population just 2,000, was 14th richest in England, ahead of York and Lincoln.
The church of St. Peter & St. Paul, Lavenham. A very grand parish church dating from the 15th Century it was paid for by several rich Lavenham clothiers and the Lord of the Manor. It was built on the site of an earlier church and the present building is of the late perpendicular style.
With the Church Tower clearly visible on the Suffolk Skyline, this church can be seen for miles around. Once a year it is open to the public. Well worth climbing the 200 steps to the top!
An ideal place to start a historic Potter trail, the medieval town of Lavenham was where it all began for Harry Potter in the Deathly Hallows, after deciding it had an "ethereal" quality. Lavenham stars as Harry’s childhood village of Godrick’s Hollow - the scene where his parents fell foul to the Dark Lord, and the epic battle began.
Fairfield County, CT
Listed: 03/19/1986
The South End Historic District is of local historical significance because it is Stamford's best example of a "walking city", where residents lived within walking distance of their jobs, as well as the primary staging area for the city's greatest variety of ethnic groups (Criterion A). The district is also of local architectural importance because of the variety of styles and building types represented, including Italianate mansions, Victorian Gothic cottages, Colonial Revival and French Second Empire three-deckers, and an ecclesiastical complex with Shingle and Victorian Gothic elements designed by H. H. Holly and H. Edward Ficken (Criterion C).
The South End is basically the result of the city's largest employer, the Yale & Towne Lock Works, locating here in 1868 and stimulating the development of adjacent residential neighborhoods, which were formed between 1868 and 1929. Before this urbanization the South End consisted primarily of about a dozen country estates on the relatively high ground between the Mill River and Atlantic Street, a large farm occupying the low, flat land in the center of the peninsula, and Woodland Cemetery, an early naturalistic cemetery (1859) occupying the rolling land along the eastern shore, overlooking the Stamford Harbor.
Walmer must be one of the most Godly towns in Kent, so well served is it by it's churches. On the main Dover Road it has a Baptist and Roman Catholic churches, bit impressive Victorian buildings, and noteworthy on their own.
And yet there are two other wonderful churches in the town, the old church we will come to another day, but St Mary New Church is now hidden away in the midst of a modern housing estate, just behind Walmer Castle.
But it is of a grand scale, and I was rather taken by it. The two wardens who were in attendance were rightly proud of the church, and also only too happy to provide me with directions to the old church.
But the new church is fine, not as spectacular as a Pugin, but I liked it, and should be better known for sure.
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A standard Blomfield church but one of great character and wealth. Built to replace the old church of The Blessed Virgin of Walmer and supplement accommodation at Victorian St Saviour's, this was always going to be a showpiece. The tall clerestoried nave is light and entered via a three bay baptistery. Immediately ones eyes are taken to the east end and the High altar and reredos designed by Powell's under tall triple lancet windows. The sanctuary tiling, of opus sectile, is in the same design as can be found at Meopham but here is brown rather than blue. The low alabaster chancel screen shows that Blomfield wished to nod to the Camden Society and their ideal that a chancel and nave should be structurally separate. To north and south the aisles are relatively narrow and terminate in lean to arches rather than complete ones into vestry (south) and chapel (north). However the remarkable thing about them is the sheer number of windows they contain. Five sets of three lancets race along each side. Those on the north represent saints and apostles whilst the south side has Old Testament figures from Moses to Hezekiah. They must give the Vicar many opportunities to illustrate his sermon! Most windows are by Powell's who must have been kept going by the wealth of money here.
St. Colman's Cathedral is a Roman Catholic Cathedral located in Cobh, Ireland. It is the cathedral church of the Diocese of Cloyne. The cathedral was begun in 1868 and finally completed in 1915, a total of 47 years. The foundation stone was laid on 30 September 1868 by Bishop William Keane. The roof was completed in 1879 and that same year the first Mass was celebrated on June 15 by Bishop John McCarthy. Building of the spire, the last of the major external works, was completed in March 1915.
I feel compelled to take pictures of this room every time I'm here.
This room is only used for special functions and conferences now, I think. But originally it was where passengers waited for their trains.
Downtown Beacon is unique in that its Main Street actually passes through two separate commercial centers. This goes back to the city's previous condition as the two independent villages of Fishkill Landing and Matteawan. Both have successfully turned around and are framed by great views of Mt. Beacon and the Hudson Highlands.
Ellan Vannin - Isle of Man.
The Old House of Keys in Castletown - part of the Tynwald, the Isle of Man Government, the House of Keys met in this purpose-built building from 1821 until 1874, when it followed other Government offices and departments and moved to Douglas. It is preserved by Manx Heritage as it would have appeared in 1866; this was a momentous period in Manx History when the House of Keys became directly elected and the Island embraced democracy.
The House of Keys has had 24 members since the 16th Century (the word 'Keys' is thought to be an abbreviation/corruption of the House's Manx Gaelic name 'Yn Chiare as Feed', meaning 'The four-and-twenty'). Members of the House of Keys, or MHKs, are mostly Independents although three of the current incumbents are affiliated to Liberal Vannin, the Manx Liberal Party, and one to the Manx Labour Party.
Castletown is dominated by the medieval Castle Rushen, one of the best preserved medieval castles in Europe and ancient home of the Kings and later Lords of Mann. Tynwald, the Manx Government, was based in Castle Rushen by the 1500s and Castletown was the Island's capital until Tynwald moved to Douglas during the 1860s and 1870s.
Located in Lake County,Indiana,USA. Still used for everyday traffic, notice the wooden deck. Might be for sale.
St Stephen the Martyr Anglican Church and graveyard are entered in the Register of the National Estate. The Register's Statement of Significance says that 'St Stephen's is the only early colonial building remaining in the town of Penrith'...The land on which the Church and cemetery is situated was purchased from John Tindale for twenty pounds. The parcel of land was part of an original Crown Grant to John Best by Governor Macquarie in 1814...The church and cemetery were consecrated on 16 July 1839. www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/Our-City/History/Places/St-Ste...
Taken during different trips to Yuyuan Garden, which is perfectly hidden away inside some walls which shelter it from the hustle and bustle of normal life in Shanghai.
The garden is like a maze, you think you've seen it all and then there's a crack in a wall that once you pass through reveals a whole new section that you haven't been before.