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Пале́рмо (др.-греч. Πάνορμος, лат. Panormus, итал. Palermo, сиц. Palermu) — главный город итальянского региона Сицилия , административный центр одноимённой провинции.
Buildings on Belgrade Waterfront new chapter in the city of Belgrade, Serbia. Belgrade Waterfront, known in Serbian as Belgrade on Water is an urban renewal development project.
The Close Defence Block House is an oblong brick built structure, divided into three rooms inside, there are four non-standard Loopholes for rifles in the front face overlooking the sea, and another four Loopholes in the rear wall, these appear to be later additions, as there is evidence of cuts into the existing brickwork. Above and centre of each pair of Loopholes is another square hole, but this was an air vent. The entrance is in the south facing wall, there are two large openings to the north and south, these appear to have had windows removed, and below the tiled sill is a hole in the centre. There is also evidence of previous extensions to the north and south walls and concrete floor, and unpointed brickwork on the walls. The whole structure is covered with a heavy reinforced concrete roof.
A World War Two Coastal Battery and some associated structures along with some earthworks were constructed and centred around TM 4760 6158. The Coastal Battery was constructed around 1940, as two Gun Houses in the grounds of The Dower House, Sizewell, two possible Searchlight Batteries on the cliff edge and a possible Observation Towers in the grounds of The Dower House. The site was probably one of a number of ''Emergency Coastal Batteries'' that were built in 1940.
The Road Block at TM 4759 6169 was already in place at this time, and was probably an early coastal anti-invasion feature, but the associated probable Pillbox didn't come until December 1941. By 1941 further structures have been built immediately behind the Gun Houses and elsewhere in the grounds of The Dower House, centred on TM 4751 6148, and many of the battery structures are now disguised. A number of Slit Trenches are also dug to guard the perimeter of the site. By June 1942 Barbed Wire Obstructions have been installed to further defend the site and also augment the coastal defences.
The site is clearly visible on photographs from 1946 and by 1975 a number of the structures have been retained and are visible on aerial photography. Also seen as part of the field survey of the Suffolk Coast, Anti-Tank Blocks buried in the sand at intertidal level with four steel rods set in the top. A Close Defence Block House as previously mentioned, and a concrete block built Loopholed Wall running along the cliff top for almost 300ft.
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Town's name built on red bricks
By Brendon Williams
BBC News (2.2008)
When the doors closed at the famous Dennis Ruabon tile factory, it marked the possible end of a 130-year manufacturing era for Wrexham. Now there are fresh hopes of reopening the plant, which has left a distinctive mark across the urban landscape since Victorian times.
Ruabon's famous red bricks have built structures like the Pier Head in Cardiff and Liverpool University. Brick and tile making was once a major industry across north east Wales. It was embedded deep in the region's culture, but there have been fears recently that this famous name would disappear.
Staff at the factory were sent home from work last month without warning, and were told there was no money to pay them. The company was then bought by Ruabon Sales Ltd on 1 February
Now Wrexham Council's leader said the owners want to continue manufacturing. The discovery of vast quantities of high quality Etruria Marl clay in the Ruabon area in the 19th Century heralded the beginning of tile and terracotta production on a vast scale.
It also brought prosperity to factory owners and jobs to workers in villages like Ruabon and Gresford. By the turn of the 20th Century, several factories employed roughly 2,000 people. Workers produced massive amounts of terracotta, earning the village of Ruabon the nickname Terracottapolis. But it was for the disctinctive red bricks from that the area - especially Ruabon - became famous.
The material was so popular it was used to build schools, hospitals, universities, law courts, pubs and other key buildings in cities across the UK. The most famous of the industrialists in Wrexham in the late 19th Century was Henry Dennis, who founded the company in 1878 that would later become Dennis Ruabon Tiles Ltd.
Dennis, born in Bodmin, Cornwall, studied civil engineering and travelled to Wales to supervise construction of a tramway at the Llangollen slate quarry.
After a stint in Spain at a lead mine, he later returned to Wales after amassing a considerable personal fortune. Dennis became managing director of the Hafod Colliery and by 1878, had established the Hafod Brickworks. The business flourished at a time when demand for the red bricks and terracotta was high.
By 1893, a new factory which became known as the "Red Works", was constructed on the site where the present-day building still stands. There, workers produced ridge tiles, chimney pots, tiles and other products using 24 coal-fired "Beehive" kilns.
Rebuilding Britain
The hard, durable bricks were responsible for many red buildings in and around the Wrexham area. But they were also in great demand across the UK during the late Victorian re-building programme. Ruabon's materials were the subject of the term "redbrick" which was coined to describe the wave of university buildings in industrial cities.
At Liverpool University, the Victoria Building was constructed in 1892 from Ruabon brick and terracotta. In Cardiff Bay, Ruabon produced the terracotta murals for the side of the Pier Head building.
By the time of his death in 1906, Dennis had established himself as a giant of the industry, ensuring that his firm - and the name of Ruabon - had been forever cemented in British architectural history.
He also had interests in collieries, lead mines and water and gas, and is thought to have employed up to 10,000 people.
Modernisation
Under the control of his son, Henry Dyke Dennis, the Hafod brickworks became a private limited company in 1934 - Dennis Ruabon Limited - and continued to produce materials including tiles, chimney pots and ornamental terracotta.
In 1944, Dennis's grandson, Patrick Gill Dyke Dennis, took control and launched a modernisation programme.
By the end of the 1970s, brick production had largely ended, and the company concentrated its efforts on making quarry tiles.
By the 1980s, another modernisation programme was underway which included a new factory and a computer-controlled kiln.
In 2001, the company became Dennis Ruabon Tiles Limited, and expanded by also taking control of the Hawkins quarry tile business.
Shortly after, it developed a new range of products which included paving tiles. It also developed a new range of tactile surfaces to comply with the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act 2003. The new owners, Ruabon Sales Ltd, have claimed the firm is still in business and is able to take orders.
The local council hopes some of the workers will be getting their jobs back and manufacturing will restart, to take an old name forward and to leave its indelible impression on the next generation of buildings.
The Ayalon Institute was a secret ammunition factory disguised as part of a kibbutz to fool the British back in the 1940s. Jewish people used the factory in their efforts to fight for the independent state of Israel. Organizers went to extreme measures to build and sustain this secret factory within the kibbutz. Between 1945 and 1948, the Ayalon Institute produced more than 2 million 9mm bullets.
During the British mandate, the Jewish people began planning ways to make machinery and guns to fight for independence. While manufacturing guns didn’t prove to be that difficult, it was very challenging to make bullets for the guns.
So, a group of Jewish people decided to build a ammunitions factory under a kibbutz, which is a communal area of land designed for a specific purpose, such as farming. The area was near a British base. In 1945, the group built structures on the surface that resembled a kibbutz and in about three weeks, they built an entire ammunitions factory eight meters underground. The factory was about the size of a tennis court.
The factory stopped operating in 1948, three years after being built. In 1987, the factory was restored and turned into a museum that is now open to the public.
Buildings on Belgrade Waterfront new chapter in the city of Belgrade, Serbia. Belgrade Waterfront, known in Serbian as Belgrade on Water is an urban renewal development project.
Aerial photography of the Chicago, Illinois downtown loop and skyscrapers, summer 2017.
On my site: ericbowers.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Chicago/G0000aH...
Night scape of railway and light rail beside Shanghai Railway Station, Shanghai, China, Aug 25, 2018
I visited this Built Structure which was located in Namhansanseong Fortress, Gyeonggido, South Korea.
its date was about 28th Dec 2014.
and I reorganised this photography combining Clouds Photo which was took on the street when it appeared beautiful skylines. combining ancient architecture and skyline photography is my one of the skill by using photoshop.
Buildings on Belgrade Waterfront new chapter in the city of Belgrade, Serbia. Belgrade Waterfront, known in Serbian as Belgrade on Water is an urban renewal development project.
Buildings on Belgrade Waterfront new chapter in the city of Belgrade, Serbia. Belgrade Waterfront, known in Serbian as Belgrade on Water is an urban renewal development project.
The Roman Catholic church of St Charles in Gosforth was built in 1911 (replacing an earlier iron-built structure) and is a handsome building with two small west steeples flanking the main facade and a wide cruciform body culminating in a shallow apse. The interior is partially enlivened by marble-cladding, particularly around the sanctuary.
The outstanding features here however are in glass, principally the two large windows that dominate the north and south transepts, the largest windows in the church and both filled with gloriously rich stained glass by Harry Clarke Studios of Dublin and installed in 1945 (long after the death of Clarke himself and most likely designed by his successor Richard King). The south window depicts the Nativity, whilst that to the north represents the Deposition, with Christ's body being removed from the Cross. There is a further window by the same studio in the south nave clerestorey depicting Christ before Pilate, somewhat smaller and sadly less accessible.
This is a thoroughly rewarding church to visit for lovers of stained glass, though it is best to check with the church about access as it isn't always open outside mass times.