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Built in 1907, The Starr's Mill site also included a cotton gin and a dynamo that produced electricity for the nearby town of Senoia. The turbine mill ran up until 1959, and although not operating today, it is now restored and owned by the Fayette County Water System. The Fayette County Water System purchased the historic Starr's Mill in February 1991.
Moored barges.
There is a major operation underway to cap and landscape the old Victorian/Edwardian rubbish tip at this site. The tides are exposing and eroding the old waste that is then carried away and deposited throughout the area.
The old beached barge (left) has been mostly buried in the last few years, I once found a pair of old flying goggles in the mud beside it (1990's).
LR3969 © Joe O'Malley 2020
Built by Edward I, during his conquest of Wales, between 1283 and 1289, this magnificent castle has a rich and interesting history. You can find out more by following the link here:
cadw.gov.wales/visit/places-to-visit/conwy-castle
Conwy takes its place alongside Edward’s other great castles at Beaumaris, Harlech and Caernarfon as a World Heritage Site.
Built in 1727 - Trikomo village - Grevena GR
The three arch bridge of Aziz Aga is situated close to the village of Trikomo - Grevena, on the eastern foothills of Pindus
Built in 2007 for Air Berlin as D-ABDQ and seen here at London Heathrow (EGLL/LHR) on short final for RWY27L as EWG4C from Hamburg (EDDH/HAM).
N405YK - Boeing B-737-436F - Aloha Air Cargo
at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)
c/n 25.267 - built in 1991 for British Airways -
converted to freighter in 2017 for West Atlantic -
operated by NAC since 06/2020
arrived YHM 24.07.2022 for maintenance with KF Aerospace in full Northern Air Cargo livery - now painted as Aloha Air Cargo nd ready to depart back to Hawaii
Built in 2020 for entry into the Innovalug Style it Up contest - I built a little base for it and added a custom printed brick last year for Creations for Charity but sadly little Robo guy never sold. Maybe he'll have better luck this year :)
Gloucester Cathedral
Built in the 14th century, the Great Cloister is widely regarded as the first and best example of fan vaulting in the world and is now known as ‘Hogwarts’ to Harry Potter fans. It remains internationally significant today but a 2019 survey confirmed it is at risk.
Before its current incarnation, Gloucester Cathedral was a monastic community of men and women, thereafter an abbey where every aspect of daily life from food growing and preparation, learning and democratic decision making to hospitality, almsgiving and medical care took place alongside worship. The Cloister was the centre of this life.
We will use the long-term conservation of this extraordinary built heritage (including the North Nave and Transept) to develop our stonemasons training and mentoring programme. We will offer opportunities for at least eight talented craftspeople to develop their careers through a once-in-a-millennia opportunity to work on this extraordinary fabric whilst gaining a foundation degree in Heritage Skills.
Visitors will experience conservation first-hand, learning about the people and techniques which protect heritage for future generations and we will open the Cathedral Workshop to wider uses, including tours and training.
Stats
Built in real LEGO bricks, no stickers.
Pieces: 7441 pieces
Dimensions: 770mm x 280mm x 11mm
Story
Heimdall is a reconnaissance spaceship. Powered by a single yet powerful thermonuclear engine from BST (Benny Space Technologies), coupled with a high-energy particles grabber under the cockpit that helps to replenish fuel supplies on a long missions. To disperse a ridiculous amounts of heat from reactor's core a series of thermo-dump panels are mount beneath the fuselage. Being a reconnaissance ship it is also equipped with a sensors array under the cockpit and some ion cannons at each wing, you known, just in case....
Design and build
It took me more than 5 months to design and build it. A major inspiration comes from amazing artwork by Michal Kus. Especially the color-blocking and indentations at the front of the wings were a place from which I started. Along the way I shifted things my own way to suit ideas that were jumbling inside my head or I just wanted to incorporate, like the thermo-dump panels from Hamilton's series of books. There were many fun challenges along the way not only related to its geometry or color-blocking but also in making sure that this flying mosaic would be rigid. All of this required many rebuilds and tests but I had a blast doing all of this :)
Building instructions
For anyone curious how Heimdall is built or want to look at some building techniques I have created a studio model based on the actual build. It should be more handy than a regular step-by-step instructions. You can download it from here github.com/lechkulina/Heimdall
Full gallery is here www.flickr.com/photos/147862201@N05/albums/72157715784794408
WIP gallery is here www.flickr.com/photos/147862201@N05/albums/72157713634763282
Borgund stavechurch (stavkirke), built in 1181.
A local story tells that once upon a time there was a stuffed reindeer inside the church, shot during a mass. The antlers of the animal remained in the church when the animal eventually was removed.
The church is considered the best-preserved Norwegian stave church from the Middle Ages, and has in many cases been a model when other stave churches were to be restored.
The church became a tourist destination early on, and is today a church museum. All the way back in 1898, a guide was made in both Norwegian and English for the church's visitors, and in recent times there have been guides in several European and Asian languages.
In addition, a number of copies have been built abroad: in 1908 a copy of the church was built in Hahnenklee in Germany named Gustav Adolf stave church, and in 1969 one in Rapid City in the USA named Chapel in the Hills. In 1995 a replica was built in Washington Island in Wisconsin, and in 2014 a new replica in Lyme in Connecticut. A model of the Borgund stave church was made for the World Exhibition in Paris in 1889 and is today at the Musée National des Techniques in Paris.
According to Snorre Sturlason's works, Sogn, which this area is called, should have been Christianized already in the year 997, almost two hundred years before the church was established, but several researchers believe that the population often dwelled on the Norse gods and retained pagan tradition and faith well into the Christian era. In the stave churches, therefore, a number of symbols with a pre-Christian background may have been used to facilitate the transition to Christianity, even if these symbols sometimes went against the Christian faith. At Borgund stave church, the four external dragon heads are perhaps the clearest and best-known of all the symbols, apart from the crosses, and as on the Vikings' ships, they may have been used to ward off evil spirits that threatened the church building.
Canadian built in Vancouver by Boeing. Served with 162 Squadron RCAF, with a confirmed U-Boat kill. went on to serve with Canadian Pacific Airlines. Later working as a water bomber throughout Canada.
Built for the Discord Lego Role-Playing Game, Fractured Kingdoms.
A veritable army was marching through the streets of Revanna. The Anti-Ethereans had organized themselves and were causing destruction on their way to the palace to remove Vosh from his throne.
Duncan had defended his home, but couldn't stand by while his city was ravished. He and his personal guard had set an ambush in the city. He only hoped his efforts were enough to turn the tide against this lawless mob.
The St. Marks Light is the second-oldest light station in Florida. It is located on the east side of the mouth of the St. Marks River, on Apalachee Bay.
In the 1820s, the town of St. Marks, Florida was considered an important port of entry. The town served as a port for the prosperous planting region of Middle Florida and some counties of South Georgia. Growers hauled their agricultural products down to the port town in wagons by way of an early road which connected the then territorial capital of Tallahassee to the town of St. Marks. Later, this road would be widened and improved upon by the Tallahassee Railroad Company and would become the state's first railroad.
Once the agricultural products reached the new port town, they were loaded aboard boats for shipment to New Orleans and/or St. Augustine. There were, however, problems in navigating both the Apalachee Bay and the St. Marks River. In many places both bay and river were shallow, and it was not too uncommon for boats to run aground and/or get mired in the muddy shallows
After a survey was completed of the St. Marks area by Robert Mitchell, the Collector of Customs at Pensacola, and a site chosen for the lighthouse, it was discovered that the initial construction sum of $6,000 would be insufficient. The appropriation was increased to $14,000, and by mid-1829 a contract was signed with Winslow Lewis of Boston for the construction of a tower in the St. Marks area for $11,765. The finished product was not accepted by the Collector of Customs for St. Marks, Mr. Jesse H. Williams, because it had been constructed with hollow walls. Williams felt that the tower should be constructed with solid walls and, therefore, refused to accept the work.
Calvin Knowlton was brought in to rebuild the tower. He oversaw its completion, and in 1831, Williams, satisfied that the light was built according to the contract, accepted the work. That same year saw the tower's whale-oil lamps lit for the first time by Samuel Crosby, who had been appointed the first Keeper of the St. Marks Lighthouse the previous year.
The lighthouse was automated by the United States Coast Guard in 1960, and in 2000 the Coast Guard spent $150,000 in 2000 to stabilize the lighthouse. In 2000 or 2001 the lighthouse's fourth-order Fresnel lens was deactivated and a modern solar-powered beacon was placed outside the lantern room. The historic Fresnel lens remained in place in the tower for over a decade. In July 2005, Hurricane Dennis broke a window of the lantern, flooding the inside of the tower.
In October 2013 the Coast Guard deactivated transferred ownership of the lighthouse to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, which operates the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge. The lighthouse was deactivated in 2016 and the Coast Guard's solar beacon was removed. Financial grants from the Florida Department of State and Duke Energy in 2016, plus crowdfunded donations, were put towards repairs and restoration. On October 31, 2019, a replica of the original fourth-order Fresnel lens was lit in the tower. The light is now maintained as a private aid to navigation and is lit seasonally.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Marks_Light
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Built in the 12th and 13th centuries, Laon Cathedral is one of the most important and stylistically unified examples of early Gothic architecture.
Contemporary with Noyon Cathedral and Notre-Dame de Paris, it is one of the most elaborate and best-preserved of the early French Gothic cathedrals.
Built in 1380 during the Ming Dynasty, the Drum Tower in Xi'an housed the drums that were beat to signal day's end. More information on the Drum Tower can be found here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_Tower_of_Xi'an Xi'an in of itself is a fascinating place to visit, steeped in the thousands of years of history, it served as China's imperial capital for over 2,000 years. More information can be found here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi%27an Explore #1 on October 28, 2015.
Built from 1825-1835, the privately funded canal connected New Haven, Connecticut to Northhampton, Massachusetts. The advent of railroads quickly made the canal obsolete and its tow path became the route of a major north-south railroad. Today the tracks are gone, replaced with a paved walking/cycling path while the canal itself has returned to nature, resembling a slow moving stream rather than the artery of commerce it once was.
Built 5000 years ago, Caral is the first city of the Americas. Bâtie il y a 5000 ans, Caral est la plus ancienne ville des Amériques
Yard Gates.
One foot on the door handle, the other with your toe's just in the letterbox and you are in !.
LR3136
Built for Sir Robert Shirley between 1653 and 1655 in Gothic style, the Chapel of Holy Trinity is the estate church at Staunton Harold, where the Shirleys, their retainers and estate workers lived for generations. It is one of the few churches built between the outbreak of the English Civil War and the Restoration period
The wharf in Coupeville Washington was built in 1905 to export grain produced on Whidbey Island. The town sits on Penn Cove, a sheltered bay that provided a safe, sheltered harbor during the early settlement of the area. In 1792 Capt. George Vancouver named the harbor in honor of, as he wrote, “a particular friend.” It is thought that the person honored was either John or Richard Penn, both of whom were grandsons of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania.
Before European settlement, 3 permanent villages inhabited by the Lower Skagit People were located around Penn Cove. The largest village called at bəc̓adᶻali, or “snake place" occupied the site of present day town of Coupeville.
Cmdr. Charles Wilkes of the US Navy charted the small bay in 1841. Wilkes was the American born great nephew of the former Lord Mayor of London John Wilkes. He led US Expeditions to the South Pacific (including Antarctica) and Puget Sound. He was an important and controversial naval leader during the Civil War and ended his career with the rank of Rear Admiral (retired).
In 1850 Issac Neff Ebey became one of the first non-native American settlers and farmers in the area. Others soon followed and made land claims as provided by the Donation Land Act of 1850. Also, in 1850 Captain Thomas Coupe laid out a town on the shores of Penn Cove which today bears his name, Coupeville. It became the center of commerce for the Island, an important port, and during the late 1800s, home to many active and retired sea captains and mariners.
The wharf is a contributing property to the Central Whidbey Island Historic District which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. To better protect the unique history and landscape, Coupeville and its wharf was included in Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve in 1978. This one-of-a-kind unit of the National Park System preserves and protects the historical record of the exploration and settlement of central Whidbey Island from 19th century to the present.
References:
www.nps.gov/ebla/learn/historyculture/index.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebey%27s_Landing_National_Historica...
www.ebeysreserve.com/learn-about-the-reserve
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_N._Ebey
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupeville,_Washington
npshistory.com/publications/ebla/nr-cent-whidbey-is-hd.pdf
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupeville_grain_wharf
Built in April 1974 by EMD for the Soo Line as their SOO 799, the 2k horsepower GP38-2 takes a break in the SOO's downtown Fond du Lac yard ten years later as their 4409.
Built for MOC Wars
Category 7. Colonial Futurism
A blend of old-fashioned "retro styles" with futuristic technology. Explores the themes of tension between past and future, and between the alienating and empowering effects of technology - think mecha harvesting wheat, floating parishes, that kinda stuff.
The Empress Nūr Jahān built I'timād-Ud-Daulah's Tomb, sometimes called the "Baby Tāj", for her father, Mirzā Ghiyās Beg, the Chief Minister of the Emperor Jahāngīr. Located on the left bank of the Yamuna river, the mausoleum is set in a large cruciform garden, criss-crossed by water courses and walkways. The are of the mausoleum itself is about 23 m2 (250 sq ft), and is built on a base that is about 50 m2 (540 sq ft) and about one meter high. On each corner are hexagonal towers, about thirteen meters tall. Small in comparison to many other Mughal-era tombs, it is sometimes described as a jewel box. Its garden layout and use of white marble, pietra dura, inlay designs and latticework presage many elements of the Tāj Mahal.
The walls are white marble from Rajasthan encrusted with semi-precious stone decorations – cornelian, jasper, lapis lazuli, onyx, and topaz in images of cypress trees and wine bottles, or more elaborate decorations like cut fruit or vases containing bouquets. Light penetrates to the interior through delicate jālī screens of intricately carved white marble.
Many of Nūr Jahān's relatives are interred in the mausoleum. The only asymmetrical element of the entire complex are the tombs of her father and mother, which have been set side-by-side, a formation replicated in the Taj Mahal.
Built on the French Gothic style the green turreted Dunfermline City Chambers in Bridge Street was opened in1897 replacing the Old Town House which was completed in 1771. This photo was taken from Dunfermline Abbey churchyard.
Destruction construction.
Gentrification at 2 Mile's from home and closing !
Photography in the 'Thinker' stance.
LR4018 © Joe O'Malley 2020
Built in 1600 in the peninsula of Sinis (see my previous photo) on a hill-top which overlooks the ruins of the ancient Carthaginian and Roman town of Tharros, this tower protected the nearby town of Cabras with its fish farms, from the raids of North-African pirates. The name comes from the ancient Byzantine church found in the area. It is m 11 high and m 14 wide.
ITALIANO
Costruita nel 1600 nella penisola del Sinis (vedi mia foto precedente) sull’altura che domina le rovine di Tharros, città prima cartaginese e poi romana posta proprio di fronte ad un approdo naturale , proteggeva il vicino paese di Cabras, con le sue peschiere dagli assalti dei pirati nord-africani. Il nome gli deriva dall’antica chiesa bizantina di San Giovanni di Sinis che si trova nelle vicinanze. Anticamente su questo sito stava l’acropoli della città di Tharros. Ha un diametro di oltre 14 metri e un’altezza di 11 metri.
My house is built on hallowed ground and land that was reclaimed from the sea. It suits the essence of me and calms my spirit to walk in my garden knowing that it was left for many years, an abandoned place until the house was built and the stony and sandy ground where nothing much grew except ancient plants; wild flowers that blew in on the wind. Then someone planted trees from all four corners of the earth and plants that should not have survived began to flourish as if the roots of these trees breathed new life into the earth. There have been only a few guardians of this magical place and I am honoured to be the current guardian. At first I tried to plant what I liked; tried to enforce my will on this holy place, but in time I realised something … you cannot force a garden to grow; to bend to your will. A garden evolves slowly over time of it's own accord mostly and we, as guardians, should allow it to guide us. In this way I have found peace and happiness here and I embrace the changes of my ever-evolving garden. I seldom buy anything new to plant. I wait for the winds; I wait for the seasons; I witness the changes and I grow and evolve as a person in much the same way as my garden does. It is a joy to anticipate each new season; each new wind; and to see what appears. There is always something unexpected appearing. Life is full of surprises; of serendipitous moments. I wonder sometimes about these old trees. I think whoever planted them was guided and perhaps the garden welcomed the dappled shade on what once was a desert. Certainly I feel myself sometimes directed to introduce a new species. Perhaps I am guided also by a hand that I cannot fathom. We are not meant to understand everything. If we allow ourselves to just be, we may find, without effort, how our path unfolds with relative ease. I have found this to be the case. All those years of struggle and now I can just let go … it really is that easy to be content.
p.s. I was compelled reluctantly to remove a Laburnum tree that I thought might be harmful to my cats. I had always wanted such a tree with it's beautiful yellow flowers … but in it's place a Forsythia grew with a profusion of yellow flowers. I did not plant it! Magic? Yes, I believe so! : 0)
“I like gardening. It’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. “
– Alice Sebold
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbx6aXhocew
IN ABANDONED PLACES - Raison d'Etre
Please enjoy the unique experience of this video.
Lieber Rolf, ich denke du wirst diesen Film zu schätzen wissen! : 0)
“We leave our footprints in a place to mingle with the echoes of all that went before; our heartbeats; our rhythm; the patterns of our lives.” - AP
I wander in the wilderness
my garden of delights
a jungle by the turquoise sea
a land so flat; the moon at night
shines down with silvery fingers
and touches the ground with magical spells
and come the breaking dawn of morning
all ills are banished and all is well
the dark and mysterious creatures
who loiter in the dusk
emerge in brilliant sunshine
with all-seeing eyes; an elephant tusk
protrudes and scythes the longest grasses
parts the meadow like the ancient sea
leaving behind a trail of crimson
flowers of sorrel and sweet harmony
reigns here as the King of the Jungle
seeks solace in the afternoon siesta
ignores the urban sounds outside
these walls; these trees; a back-firing Fiesta
alerts the songbirds from their idle rest
they flitter and flutter from tree to tree
and as I lie within the striped hammock
I swing and sing low to the sound of the breeze
a mist arises suddenly; springs up from the sea
settles a cloak; an air of mystery
around the shoulders of myself and the limbs
of the ancient trees as I sip my Pimms
I can barely keep my eyes from closing
the warmth of the air so cloying and deep
I find myself falling gently to the humming of bees
as I lapse now into a soundless sleep
I awake to find the blue sky black
lit by a billion diamonds or more
an infinite guide is laid out before me
the wisdom of ancient celestial stars of yore
some say when we see them
they have already died
long ago before our ancestors
what does this imply
do our eyes deceive us
or are we psychic or perhaps
we are more knowledgeable than we realise
all we need falls easily into our laps
but still we often ignore
the instincts that are given
override them; divide them
dilute them; we're driven
to only see clearly to the end of our noses
we fail to stop often to smell the scent of the roses
take stock; stand still
absorb the nature of all living things
for in this garden I discovered
nature brings happiness and happiness brings
peace of mind; plentiful bounty
the sweetest fruits of the earth
the love that will bind us
circumnavigate the world's girth
here I find every day all that I need
the flora; the fauna; all that set seed
and I've no desire to be anywhere else
as much as I desire to be here
in this garden full of Heaven
there is love; there is goodness that I hold dear
from the humblest of creatures
find the beauty in a fly
sing so loud like a blackbird
view the world through a child's eyes.
- AP - Copyright © remains with and is the intellectual property of the author
Copyright © protected image please do not reproduce without permission
My artwork is a blend of 4 of my photographs taken in my garden
The Castle of Nagyvázsony aka the Kinizsi Castle was originally built in the 15th Century and was given to Pál Kinizsi, one of the commanders of King Mathias. Nowadays it functions as a museum and lookout, while archeological excravations are still ongoing. This photo is a moody version of the popular scene.
IMG_2700r1 Budapest
Built according to the design of architect János Feketeházy, the bridge opened in celebration of the 1000th birthday of Hungary in 1896. Structurally, the bridge is a cantilever bridge with an Art Nouveau style truss – although on first glance, it looks like a chain bridge. After its destruction during the Second World War, the bridge was the first in the city to be rebuilt and was reopened in 1946 according to the original design.
Construction on the Hotel Saint Gellért started in 1912. The hotel was named for Saint Gellért (St. Gerard Sagredo) the first bishop of Hungary in the 11th Century. The 176-room hotel was designed by Hungarian architects Ármin Hegedűs, Artúr Sebestyén and Izidor Sterk. Work on the hotel slowed due to World War I, and it did not open until September 1918, just as the war was ending and the Austro-Hungarian Empire was descending into chaos. The hotel was commandeered for the national government's use in 1919, after the downfall of Hungarian Soviet Republic. Once Hungary was established as an independent country, the hotel in its early years were so successful that it was expanded in 1927 with 60 more rooms and a wave pool. Noted Hungarian restaurateur Károly Gundel took over management of the hotel's restaurants in 1927 as well. In 1934, the hotel added a jacuzzi pool.
The hotel was severely damaged in World War II. Post-war Communist authorities removed the "St." from the hotel's name and it became the Hotel Gellért. Restoration of the Gellért Hill wing began in 1946, while work on the main Danube River wing began in 1957. Restoration work was completed in 1962. The hotel was again renovated in 1973. Danubius Hotels assumed management of the hotel in 1981. After the company was privatized in 1992, it purchased the hotel outright in June 1996. The adjoining spa is owned and operated by the City of Budapest.
Hotel Gellért is famous for its thermal baths. The Gellért Spa which is connected to the hotel, is a very special attraction with its indoor and outdoor swimming pools, wave bath, sunbathing terrace and thermal spa. The jacuzzi, with its glass roof, and the wave bath are favorites among guests. Even though Gellért Spa is independently owned, guests of the hotel can use the facilities for a discount.
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The historic centre with the St. Sylvester church and timber framed houses in the hanseatic city of Quakenbrück. The tower of this church was built around 1500 in late gothic style, After a heavy storm in 1703 the upper part was destroyed and was replaced in baroque style.
Submitted: 04/08/2024
Accepted: 05/08/2024
Published:
- Deutsche Zentrale fr Tourismu (Germany) 14-Oct-2025
Built in the Khmer style in the 11th through 13th Centuries, the city has been a UNESCO World Heritage site. since 1991, and was the center of ancient Siam.
"At its height, Sukhothai was a magnificent, albeit, small city with elegant temples, palaces, stunning monuments, and waterways. The effervescence of culture in this city during the 13th and 14th centuries CE has left an indelible imprint on Thai art, language, and politics, and Sukhothai is still revered as the birthplace of Thai culture by Thais today."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhothai_Historical_Park
Sukhothai, Thailand -- December 3, 2018