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The Nasir al-Mulk Mosque is a traditional mosque in Shiraz, Iran, and is famous for its use of colored glass in its facade. Photo taken on July 31, 2008.
In the 1959 issue of the City of Wakefield official guide an advert for the local brick and stone supplier of George Armitage & Sons Ltd. It is always good to be able to ascribe a materials supplier to a particular building or structure and I can say that the Darrington Hotel still stands, in use as a pub, now adjacent to the Great North Road at Darrington. Equally it is interesting to see the name of the Leeds City Architect R A H LIvett whose work with that City's social housing is still recalled.
Armitage's had a long history having been founded in 1824 when work began to quarry stone at Robin Hood near Wakefield. By 1864 the company was making bricks with clays associated with quarrying and later from coal seams, and in 1907 it became associated with the brickworks at Oulton/Woodlesford to the south east of Leeds. In 1952 a further site was opened at Swillington and by 1975, their 150th anniversary, they were making some 64 million bricks a year. They sold out to Halifax based Marshalls in 1988 and so became part of Hanson's empire. There is still, apparently, a family link to the trade as one of the Armitage's now runs the York Handmade Brick Company.
I Photographed Conrad Yelvington CYXX Number 2108 and Conrad Yelvington CYDZ Number 239 in a Siding parallel to the main CSX Track just South of the CSX Yard in Wildwood, Florida.
CYXX 2108 is an EMD GP30M (aka: Rebuilt GP30), which was Built for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in November 1962.
It's Heritage is as follows: Conrad Yelvington #2108, ex CSXT #6931, exx Alabama & Gulf Coast Railroad (aka: AGR), nee: B&O #6931.
CYDZ 239 is an ALCO S2m, which was Built in June 1946 as Ontario Northland #1202. It's Heritage is as follows: Conrad Yelvington #239, ex IMC-Agrico #202, nee: Ontario Northland #1202.
There is a Wye here, which connects to the CSX Track which crosses Main Street (aka: US Route 301) on a CSX Track which went West to was used to go West towards Leesburg (Paralleling Sumter County Road 44A) where Surplus Freight cars were stored during the last Real Estate Recession. That Spur Track was later removed and now ends near Phillips Lane in Wildwood.
World-traveling exhibition of several separately designed pavilions offering glimpses of future building materials and design.
Philadelphia, chosen as the only N. American stop!
Phila., PA
My 18 sec. long exposure capture.
Kiln is one of many in a terracotta brick and tile factory in Sa Dec, Vietnam. The hopper above the access door contains rice husks - fuel for the fire.
Bruno Kaiser / 10000 Jahre Schaffen und Forschen
- ein kulturgeschichtliches Volksbuch mit 266 Holzschnitten von Paul Boesch
> Illustration: Eisenbeton
Pestalozzi-Verlag Kaiser & Co. AG
(Bern / Schweiz; 1940)
ex libris MTP
This is a wall made of local brick. The aloe vera plant spreads naturally in Tucson's Sonoran Desert environment
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Iran's Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque is an architectural masterpiece of Safavid architecture. Its construction started in 1603 and was finished in 1618.
Photo taken on August 23, 2007 in Isfahan, Iran.
An advert from the 1934 edition of "Specification", issued annually by the Architectural Press and containing an index of building and construction subjects, relevant specifications along with allied contractors and materials. I do love the fact that the company name is so wonderfully specific - not only giving the town but also the county and the main product! In truth I suspect that the "Middlesex" was there to distinguish it from the other 'Enfield' brick company who were based in another heartland of red brick manufacturing, Accrington in Lancashire.
Enfield, as the diagram shows, was on the fringes of London and even today as one of the outer London Boroughs it is, to the north, still mainly open land thanks to the Green Belt legislation of the post-war era. However - southwards was during the Victorian and into the 20th Century prime building land for the massive expansion of the Metropolis and the Enfield Brick Company would have been well placed to exploit both the clay beds in this part of Middlesex and Essex as well as the growing market for bricks. As well as the standard 'Reds' the company made a 'Roman' brick with a distinctive bench-marked facing.
A bit closer shot of the grocery store construction. Materials for the project are seen at the left. A chain link fence top was the point of view.. An amazing cloudscape frames the shot.
An interesting book produced in 1922 at a time when the post-WW1 slogan "Homes for Heroes" was still valid and many schemes for the more economic construction of houses, either by size, scale or construction methodolgy were being proposed. This was also the time when many municipal authorities were first seriously involved in the provision of social or council housing. This book, with a foreword by Sir Charles Ruthen, Director-General of Housing in the Ministry of Health, has a series of articles both on types and plans of 'modern cottages' but also looks at various contemporary construction methodology including 'modern methods of building' that involved either a decree of prefabrication or the use of 'labour' and cost saving materials such as concrete blocks. and the production of concrete. Many of these methods, similar to those considered in similar post-WW2 years, where not widely adopted and properties using such novel methods often displayed defects. In many ways the 'traditional' construction methods of brick and wet trades won out.
The book also has many pages of adverts for builders and suppliers, many of which allude to the construction methods discussed in the articles. In 1922 asbestos was being touted as one of the wonder materials of the age - fireproof, damp and rot proof and lightweight, in the form of asbestos cement sheets that could be pre-formed by moulding or cut to shape it was seen as both an external and internal material. The advert was issued by Bell's United Asbestos Co Ltd who described themselves as the 'pioneers of the world's asbestos industry', a claim that I suspect rankled with industry giant's Turner Bros of Rochdale as Bell had been an early partner with Samuel Turner in around 1880 when the spinning of asbestos fibre was being 'perfected'.
Bell set his own company up in 1888 and merged with the United Company in 1909 before the concern and product range was acquired by Turner's in 1928 - the 'Poilite' brand name was used for many years. At the time of acquisition Bell's had factories in Harefield, Erith and Widnes.
An advert from the 1934 edition of "Specification", issued annually by the Architectural Press and containing an index of building and construction subjects, relevant specifications along with allied contractors and materials. This bold advert, part of a four page supplement, is issued by the industry giant, the London Brick Company & Forders.
LBC were formed in the late Victorian period to exploit brickworks and clay beds in the Peterborough and Bedforshire areas of the east of England. The predominant clays found there, used to manufacture what are generically known as Flettons, have an inherent advantage in that it contains high levels of carbonaceous materials that make for more economic firing thus making the bricks highly competative. In 1923 the Company acquired competitors Forders and indeed, over the decades, went on acquire many other smaller companies. For many years the main base was at Stewartby in Bedfordshire, the town designed and constructed on garden city principles for the workforce by the company.
Phorpres, one of their main trademarked brands got its name from being pressed four times during moulding that gave a more constistent density and strength.
The oldest and most impressive cement plant in Poland. It's the world's 5th cement plant, build in 1857. Production was finished in July 1979. Now factory is abandoned and partially demolished.
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Widok z góry Dorotka na cementownię Grodziec w Będzinie. Krajobraz grodzieckiej cementowni jest jednym z najciekawszych, ale i również najsmutniejszych przemysłowych widoków w Polsce. Przepiękne, monumentalne budynki cementowni wznoszą się ponad tą dzielnicą Będzina od 1857 roku. Cementownia ta była pierwszą w Polsce i piątą na świecie! Wytwarzano tutaj bardzo potrzebny gospodarce cement portlandzki, z którego zbudowano między innymi budowle, wchodzące w skład Obszaru Warownego Śląsk. Założycielem i właścicielem cementowni był Jan Ciechanowski, a pierwszym dyrektorem był Emil Konaszewski, pełniący tą funkcję blisko 30 lat. Cementownia jak dotąd dysponuje 3 piecami szybowymi do wypalania wapna, pracującymi w sposób ciągły, 12 piecami okresowymi do wypału klinkieru oraz zespołem maszyn kruszących i mielących, czyli biegunów oraz żarn. W 1882 roku zmarł założyciel cementowni Jan, a zakład przejął jego syn Stanisław. W 1910 roku uruchomiono pierwszy piec obrotowy, którego wydajność sięgała 150 ton klinkieru cementowego na dobę. W tym samym roku wprowadzono do ruchu młyny kulowe, zastępujące żarna, a energia elektryczna była czerpana z elektrowni, zlokalizowanej w pobliskiej kopalni węgla kamiennego. Odtąd cementownia pracowała w oparciu o metodę mokrą, która w późniejszych latach była podstawową metodą produkcji klinkieru cementowego we wszystkich cementowniach w Polsce. W 1912 roku do cementowni dostarczano surowiec przy pomocy parowej kolei wąskotorowej, kursującej z kamieniołomu Kijowa. Oprócz niego, drugim źródłem surowca był kamieniołom Grodziec. W 1923 belgijski koncern Solvay wydzierżawił zakład, po czym w 1925 roku został przez niego zakupiony. Rozpoczęła się zakrojona na szeroką skalę przebudowa zakładu w oparciu o urządzenia duńskiej firmy F.L. Smidth. W 1937 roku zakład wzbogacił się o trzecie źródło surowca, czyli kamieniołom Góra we wsi Strzyżowice. Przed wojną, w 1938 roku oddano do użytku piąty już piec obrotowy. W latach 1945 - 1950 nastąpiła powojenna odbudowa zakładu. W 1955 roku w miejscowości Rogoźnik, położonej na północny wschód od cementowni, uruchomiono kamieniołom, z którego od 1959 roku transportowano surowiec kolejką linową. W 1977 roku zezwolono na eksploatację przez kopalnię Grodziec filaru ochronnego, ulokowanego pod cementownią. Jego wyeksploatowanie przyniosło negatywne skutki, objawiające się pękaniem i stopniowym niszczeniem obiektów zakładu, wynikającymi z osiadania gruntu. Po ekspertyzach postanowiono z dniem 11 lipca 1979 roku zatrzymać produkcję w cementowni z powodu wymienionych zagrożeń i braku opłacalności remontowania istniejących urządzeń. Część urządzeń zdemontowano i wywieziono do pobliskiej Cementowni Saturn. Po zaprzestaniu produkcji cementownia sukcesywnie ulega degradacji po dzień dzisiejszy. Niestety, obecnie cementownia jest symbolem braku jakiejkolwiek dbałości o dziedzictwo przemysłowe, techniczne i historyczne i wyraźnie wskazuje brak zainteresowania władz obiektami. Nie da się ukryć, że te budowle mogłyby wspaniale uzupełnić Szlak Zabytków Techniki i bez problemu przynosić profity z tytułu turystyki. Nad cementownią widać kościół pw. Św. Antoniego Padewskiego w Wojkowicach oraz ledwie widoczne są obiekty Zakładu Górniczego "Piekary" (dawnej Kopalni Węgla Kamiennego "Julian"). Na horyzoncie widoczny jest komin ciepłowni w Radzionkowie. Po lewej stronie wyłaniają się bloki osiedla Powstańców Śląskich w Piekarach Śląskich.
Iran's Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque is an architectural masterpiece of Safavid architecture. Its construction started in 1603 and was finished in 1618.
Photo taken on August 23, 2007 in Isfahan, Iran.
Petrified wood, from trees covered by oceans 110 million years ago, in Middle Cretaceous Period, when dinosaurs roamed
BRICK YARDS, HOBART, IND.
Date: Circa 1910
Source Type: Postcard
Printer, Publisher, Photographer: M. L. Photo (#11)
Postmark: None
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Copyright 2015. Some rights reserved. The associated text may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Steven R. Shook.
An advert from the 1934 edition of "Specification", issued annually by the Architectural Press and containing an index of building and construction subjects, relevant specifications along with allied contractors and materials. This rather smartly set out advert is for the Dorking Brick Co Ltd of North Holmwood in Surrey and is a reminder that the area of Surrey had extensive brickworks that supplied brick to many areas of the south east and London.
The advert lists many types of product ranging from kiln-fired facings through to hand made and sand faced bricks in both reds and purples. It also sternly notes that their bricks are all kiln fired and to avoid clamp fired ones! The advert is mostly set in what was then a relatively modern typeface, the German Kabel or anglicised Cable typeface - apart from the extensive list of briquettes to the left that somewhat clashes! The briquettes came in many sizes and shapes to be used in such decorative constructions as fireplaces and mantles.
Widok na zespół szybowych pieców wapiennych od strony południowo - wschodniej. Dwa spośród trzech pieców zostały zabudowane na planie sześciokąta. Wielokątne, foremne kształty pieców są najczęściej spotykanie w rejonie Opolszczyzny. Pośród typologii pieców wapiennych w Polsce można spotkać wiele ich kształtów, począwszy od pieców z trzonem zabudowanym w formie kwadratu, przez sześciokątne, aż po okrągłe. Niektóre piece posiadają kilka szybów, zabudowanych w jednym trzonie, jak np. Wapiennik Bordowicza (tutaj: www.flickr.com/photos/145729545@N04/51140081208/in/datepo... ). U dołu pieców widoczne są otwory, poprzez które wybierany było wypalone wapno.
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View of lime kilns from southeast. Two of three lime kilns were build on hexagonal shaped base. The holes on the base of kilns are a lime out.
Aggregate Bin, Silo, and Conveyor, Florida 2008. © J.J. Taylor. No usage permitted without prior written consent. All Rights Reserved.
A construction worker takes time out from his work to pose for a photo. Three small children also pose. They are standing outside a school named "Hatam Hindu Madrasasi". Photo taken on July 09, 2012 in Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
Renovation works at the temple. Looks like their building a buddhist dining hall.
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Exterior of the Ismail Samani Mausoleum, which is a historic building in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. It was completed in 905. Its walls are two meters thick. Ismail Samani founded the Samanid dynasty, which was a Persian empire that flourished in Central Asia for a century. It produced luminaries like Abu Ali Ibn-Sina (Avicenna), the medieval world's great medical genius; court poet Rudaki, who founded modern literary Persian; Khorezm, the great astronomer; and Al-Khorezmi, who founded algebra. Photo taken on July 10, 2012.
Chicago Hydraulic-Press Brick Company's Plant at Porter, Indiana.
Date: 1898
Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: The Chesterton Tribune
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: The sketch of the Chicago Hydraulic Pressed Brick Company plant at Porter, Porter County, Indiana, was published in the May 21, 1898, issue of The Chesterton Tribune, which also included a summary of the brick facility as prepared by the Indiana state geologist W. S. Blatchley.
The Chicago Hydraulic Pressed Brick Company operated three separate brick yards in Porter, and this sketch represents their largest facility, which was known as Yard 3. Yard 3 was one of the largest brick manufacturing facilities in the United States.
Chicago Hydraulic Pressed Brick Company, Yard 3, was established in July 1890 through the purchase of the Thomas Moulding’s Brick and Tile Manufactory and land used for grazing sheep owned by Archelaus E. Whitten. The facility was bounded by present day West Beam Street to the north, Sexton Avenue to the east, the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway to the south, and Augsburg Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery to the west.
This brickyard, occasionally referred to locally as the Whitten Yard, was enormous, considered one of the largest brick production facilities in the United States, and consisted of fourteen kilns, two clay sheds (one 8,000 square feet in size and the other 49,000 square feet), an engine room, grinding room, pattern shop, and a 33-foot x 710-foot brick stock shed situated parallel to the railroad tracks that served as a warehouse for the shipping of finished product. The total number of bricks used to construct this facility was reported to be 1.8 million.
By May 1891, this brick facility was producing an average of 40,000 bricks per day and, with the production of the other two brick yards in Porter, shipping 125,000 per day on twenty-one railcars. It was reported in January 1892 that the brick company was shipping 40 million bricks per year to Chicago and paying the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway $60,000 a year for hauling the brick. Yard 3 was situated approximately 1,500 feet west of Yard 2.
The Yard 3 facility was destroyed by fire on October 20, 1904, immediately rebuilt, and ceased operations in 1924 when clay became too scarce in the area to make brick manufacturing a profitable venture. The site reverted to woodland with all structures and the railroad siding having been removed; Interstate 94 crosses the western portion of the former Yard 3 property.
Yard 3 specialized in the production of “front bricks” or “face bricks” and was at one point in time the largest producer of this type of brick in the world; these were higher quality bricks with superior appearance characteristics. Nine shades of red and three shades of brown brick were manufactured at this facility. Brown brick was produced by mixing salt of manganese with the clay as it was crushed in rollers prior to the brick forming process. It has been reported that this yard maintained “several millions” of bricks in its inventory. The bricks were sold under the brand name Hy-tex.
Sources:
Anonymous. 1890. Editorial Notes and Clippings. The Clay-Worker 13(2):131.
Anonymous. 1906. A Model Pressed Brick Plant. The Clay-Worker 45(3):475-476.
Ball, Timothy H. 1900. Northwestern Indiana From 1800 to 1900: A View of Our Region Through the Nineteenth Century. Chicago, Illinois: Donohue & Henneberry. 570 p. [see p. 416]
Blatchley, Willis Stanley. 1898. “The Clays and Clay Industries of Northwestern Indiana,” (pp. 105-153) In: Indiana Department of Geology and Natural Resources, 22nd Annual Report. Indianapolis, Indiana: William B. Buford. 1,197 p. [see pp. 135-136]
Blatchley, Willis Stanley. 1905. “The Clays and Clay Industries of Indiana,” (pp. 13-657) In: Indiana Department of Geology and Natural Resources, 29th Annual Report. Indianapolis, Indiana: William B. Buford. 888 p. [see pp. 460-461, 609-610]
Chesterton Retail Merchants' Association. 1949. The Chesterton Retail Merchants' Directory. Chesterton, Indiana: The Coffee Creek Press. 112 p. [see p. 39]
The Chesterton Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; May 21, 1898; Volume 15, Number 6, Page 1, Columns 4-6 and Page 8, Columns 4-5. Column titled “The Clays and Clay Industries of Porter County. Report of W. S. Blatchley, State Geologist of Indiana."
The Chesterton Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; October 21, 1904; Volume 21, Number 29, Page 9, Column 6.
The Chesterton Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; October 28, 1904; Volume 21, Number 30, Page 1, Columns 4-5. Column titled “A Clean Sweep.”
George A. Ogle and Company. 1906. Standard Atlas of Porter County, Indiana: Including a Plat Book of the Villages, Cities and Townships of the County. Chicago, Illinois: George A. Ogle and Company. 55 p. [see p. 46]
Goodspeed Brothers. 1894. Pictorial and Biographical Record of La Porte, Porter, Lake and Starke Counties, Indiana. Chicago, Illinois: Goodspeed Brothers. 569 p. [see pp. 501-502]
Moore, Powell A. 1959. The Calumet Region: Indiana's Last Frontier. Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana Historical Bureau. 653 p. [see pp. 125-131]
Sanborn-Perris Map Company. 1893. Porter, Porter County, Indiana. New York, New York: Sanborn-Perris Map Company. 3 p. [see p. 1, mislabeled as Yard No. 1 rather than Yard No. 3]
Sanborn-Perris Map Company. 1899. Porter, Porter County, Indiana. New York, New York: Sanborn-Perris Map Company. 3 p. [see p. 1]
The Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; February 13, 1890; Volume 6, Number 44, Page 1, Column 5. Column titled “Sold to Syndicate. The Wm. E. Hinchcliff and Purington-Kimball Yards Consolidated.”
The Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; February 20, 1890; Volume 6, Number 45, Page 1, Column 4. Column titled “Brick Yard News.”
The Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; April 10, 1890; Volume 6, Number 52, Page 4, Column 1. Column titled “Work Begun On the New Hydraulic Pressed Brick Yards.”
The Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; May 1, 1891; Volume 8, Number 3, Page 1, Column 6.
The Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; January 29, 1892; Volume 8, Number 42, Page 5, Column 3. Column titled “Talk of the Town.”
The Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; November 25, 1892; Volume 9, Number 33, Page 4, Column 6. Column titled “The Chicago Hydraulic Pressed Brick Company.”
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A close-up of the same roadcut featured in the four previous posts of this series. It's situated on the southwestern edge of the Morton Outcrops Scientific and Natural Area, and near the northern end of the access drive leading from US Route 71 to the gas station at the corner of 71 and Minnesota 19.
To get an overall view of this outcrop, see Part 12 of this series.
After meditation and intense self-scrutiny I have decided to reveal an awful truth about myself. I am decidedly maficentric. I know it isn't right, but I have trouble treating felsic igneous rocks (granitoids, etc.) with the same level of respect that I shamelessly lavish upon mafics and ultramafics of all sorts—your gabbros, your basalts, your komatiites and peridotites, and their metamorphic derivatives, the amphibolites.
There. It's out in the open. I'm not proud of it, but it's who I am.
Still, now you can understand why I took this photo. Of course it wasn't all the light-colored granitoid gneiss or pegmatite I wanted to capture. It was that black and weakly foliated amphibolite clast, which at some point in its immensely long existence has been split by a vein of felsic magma during some now long-forgotten bit of crustal compression and mountain-building.
To my knowledge, the amphibolite, unlike the other components of the Paleoarchean-to-Neoarchean Morton Gneiss migmatite, has not been assigned an age (or ages) of origin. Could it be that geochronologists are felsicentrists? Perhaps, but one source, Goldich and Wooden 1980, mentions that the rock contains radiometric markers indicating that "the [already extant] amphibolites were involved in a high-grade metamorphic event approximately 3,000 m.y. ago as well as in the 2,600-m.y. B.P. [before present]"
The implication in that and other papers I've read is that the amphibolite is either somewhat older, the same age, or somewhat younger than the oldest tonalitic gneiss assigned an age of 3,524 ± 9 Ma = 3.524 Ga. Or it may have had more than one origin, and hence more than one age. Accordingly, I just call it "very old."
To see the other photos and descriptions in this set, visit my Magnificent Morton Gneiss album.