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The crew of a train just in from Adams prepares to tie down their train on main track 2 at the south end of Butler Yard while a crew van positions itself near the head end.
Butler Brothers, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, DAF MB200 Van Hool Alizee BUT 2B in Hastings, 24th September, 1998. It was new to the operator in 1985 and would spend an incredible 28 years here.
As one of the showpiece main rooms of Billilla mansion when male guests came to call, the billiard room is one of the grandest rooms in the house. With an interconnecting door between it and the adjoining dining room, whilst the women retired to the feminine surrounds of the drawing room, the men could retreat to this strictly male preserve with their brandy and cigars and discuss business over a game or two of billiards.
Although part of the original 1878 house and featuring some High Victorian detailing, the billiard room did not escape the 1907 redecoration, and as a result it also features some very fine Art Nouveau detailing.
The Billilla billiards room is also one of the most intact rooms in the whole house, as it still features its original and ornate Victorian carpet and the original walnut Alcock and Company billiard table and scoreboard.
A very masculine oriented room, the walls feature Victorian era dark wood dado panelling about a third of the way up the walls. Above that the walls are simply painted, and even to this day they still feature marks where chalked cues once rested. Original ornate Victorian gasoliers that could be swiveled into position still jut from the walls above the dado panelling. With their original fluted glass shades remaining in place, the gasoliers still have functioning taps to increase or decrease the gas supply.
The room is heated by a large fireplace featuring an insert of beautiful tube lined Art Nouveau peacock feathers, once again quietly underlining the fact that this is a man's room.
The Victorian era carpet of the billiard room is still bright and in remarkably good condition for its age. It is thick and dyed in bright colours in a pattern designed to imitate ornate floor tiles.
The ceiling of the billiard room is decorated with ornate stylised foliate Art Nouveau patterns and mouldings of leaves. Whilst Art Nouveau is often referred to as a feminine style, the ceiling of the billiard room shows how when applied in a particular way it could also be very strong and masculine.
Suspended over the walnut Alcock and Company billiard table the gleaming polished brass foliate style gasolier has subsequently been electrified and features five of its six green glass shades.
One of the few more feminine touches to what is otherwise a very masculine room are the stained glass lunettes over the billiard room's three windows. In keeping with other original windows of the house, they feature a single flower, in this case a red tulip.
Alcock and Company Manufacturers was established in 1853 when Melbourne was still a very new city of less than twenty years old. they still manufacture billiard tables from their Malvern establishment today.
Built in High Victorian style in 1878 for successful gold miner Robert Wright, Billilla mansion was originally a thirteen room mansion erected on seven and a half acres of land.
When economic boom turned to bust in the 1880s, the property was purchased in 1888 by wealthy New South Wales pastoralist William Weatherly who named it Billilla after his land holdings and established a home there for his wife Jeannie and their children Violet, Gladys and Lionel.
The house was substantially altered by architect Walter Richmond Butler in 1907, extending the house beyond its original thirteen rooms and adding the Art Nouveau façade seen today.
After William Weatherly's death in 1914, his wife, who was much younger, remained living there until her own death in 1933. She bequeathed the property to her daughter, Violet, who maintained the home with reduced staff until her own death in 1972.
The property was purchased in 1973 by the Bayside Council who subsequently used Billilla as a historical house with guided tours, a wedding and events venue, a school and finally in 2009 as an artist's precinct in the property's outbuildings. Billilla is a beautiful heritage property retaining many of its original features thanks to its long private ownership still incorporating a stately formal garden and the magnificent historic house.
Billilla, at 26 Halifax Street, Brighton, is one of Melbourne’s few remaining significant homesteads, built on land which had originally been owned by Nicholas Were. The house has a mixture of architectural styles, featuring a Victorian design with Art Nouveau features and has exquisite formal gardens, which retain much of their original Nineteenth Century layout.
Billilla retains many original Victorian elements and a number of outbuildings still stand to the rear of the property including the butler’s quarters, dairy, meat house, stable garden store and coach house.
Billilla was opened to the general public as part of the Melbourne Open House weekend 2022.
Billilla was used as a backdrop in the 1980 Australian Channel 10 miniseries adaptation of Sumner Locke Elliott's "Water Under the Bridge". It was used at the Sydney harbourside home of Luigi, Honor and Carrie Mazzini.
OK...so I spent Thanksgiving day making this Amy Butler Cosmo bag so now my partner has to choose which one you prefer by noon on Friday so one of them can be on it's way to you! Which one do you prefer? Just need the button! Almost finished!
the 3rd bag made at Patchwork on Central Park this weekend. It's a reversable bag with a wool lining, Amy Butler Fabric and a polka dot binding.
Photo: © branko
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Movies:
111 First Street Movie - Online Download
Before The Fame DVD
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Marcos & Geraldi DVD
Jinsop DVD
Jinsop Rodriguez DVD
Brasfest DVD
Latin Collector - The Movie DVD
Books:
West Indian Parade (Photo Book)
Cecilia Mamede, Times Square NYC (Photo Magazine)
Butler, PA. February 2017.
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Butler Parker / Heft-Reihe
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Kriminalroman
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Store closed late 2017
Butler, PA. February 2017.
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Near sunset in June of 1984, a good, old GP7 passes a GP15-1, one of the newer Chicago and North Western locomotives used in switching cars at Butler Yard near Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
St Michael, Woolverstone, Suffolk
It was a crisp, bright morning towards the end of November 2016, a perfect day for a bike ride. I headed out of town onto the Shotley Peninsula, the first stretch of my journey necessarily along the horrid main road which runs along the south bank of the Orwell. I soon came to Woolverstone, which you can see at once was rebuilt as a late 19th Century estate village. A narrow lane runs between fields and copses northwards to the church of St Michael sitting on its mound above the river.
The setting is idyllic. The great pile of Woolverstone Hall, today home to Ipswich Girls High School, stands beside it, and above me the jackdaws chattered in the skeletal trees, the fields were full of sheep, the damp woods full of the cries of pheasants. Woolverstone Hall was built in the 1770s by John Johnson for William Berners. Johnson had been the main architect of the Berners Estate, an area of London known more commonly today as Fitzrovia, and the fabulously wealthy Berners family took up residence in this remote Suffolk spot above the Orwell. They paid for George Gilbert Scott's restoration of the 1860s, which is pretty much all that can be seen of the church from the south apart from the tower, but in the 1880s they did rather more. James Piers St Aubyn, one of the most famous architects of the day, was brought in to expand the church massively towards the north, and when you enter you see that the effect is really that of two churches side by side, separated by a fairly low and rounded arcade. The new part was designed to be used for shadowy, incense-led worship, and although that tradition has long gone it is still the main part of the church today.
The wealth of the Berners family means that the restoration was overwhelming, but the quality of it is high. And in any case, there are few medieval survivals anywhere on the Shotley Peninsula. The only old object here is the font, and it is a curiosity. On the face of it, the style is that of a typical East Anglian font bowl, lions alternating with angels, but the carving is quite unlike anything I've seen elsewhere, the crouching lions shown in profile. Pevsner calls the carving 'crude', which is not untrue. Was it done by a local hand, perhaps? It has been reset on a modern stem with upright, alert little lions, 19th Century but much more in the East Anglian medieval style.
The glass is also generally of high quality, or at least expensive, and to various members of the Berners family. Heaton Butler & Bayne's rather alarmingly yellow Saints Martin, Agnes, Margaret and Augustine, installed as a memorial to Archdeacon Henry Berners and his wife, stand proudly in an overwhelmingly wide south nave window which works externally as a kind of optical illusion, making Scott's nave appear wider than his chancel, which it isn't.
The same firm provided the east window in St Aubyn's north aisle to John and Henrietta Berners, which depicts the crucifixion flanked by Joseph of Arimathea, the Blessed Virgin, St John and St Mary Magdalene. It is interesting to note, given the not uncommon conflation of their imagery in medieval times, the similarity between the figures of St John and St Mary Magdalene. The studio might almost have been working from the same cartoon. Both the windows were installed in the 1880s under St Aubyn's direction.
There was once an earler 19th Century window at Gilbert Scott's east end, of which the upper tracery survives, but the main lights were destroyed by blast damage during the Second World War, a not uncommon fate for church windows on the Shotley Peninsula - indeed, the church in the neighbouring village, Chelmondiston, was completely ruined. The 1947 replacement, by AL Wilkinson, depicts Christ the Saviour of the World flanked by St Michael and St Gabriel.
The High Church, even Anglo-catholic, enthusiasms of the Berners family may be judged by Woolverstone House back in the village, which was built for a community of Anglican nuns based at St Peter, Kilburn. It was intended as their retreat house and school, and the architect was Edwin Lutyens. Today it is a private house, but the church is now open every day. When I'd first visited every Suffolk church in the late 1990s I had found it locked. Coming back in 2006, the interior was full of scaffolding, and I couldn't go in. Curiously, the avenue of yew trees which lined the path up to the south porch at that time have now been reduced to stumps. Despite St Michael being barely five miles from my house, it had taken until this idyllic crisp, sunny day in late November 2016 for me to get back there, discover this, and explore the inside for the first time.
It was time to head on to Harkstead. The view from the south porch back up the hilly lane was breathtaking in the low winter sunshine. I stepped out, wandering down to the east to look across to the Hall. The Berners family sold it as part of the Estate in 1937, assuming that it would be demolished for farming land, but after a period of requisition by the army during the War the Hall was bought by the London County Council for use as a boarding school. It was intended both for children taken into care and also for those whose parents were working overseas, an odd combination, but people seem to have happy memories of it. The writer Ian McEwan is a famous ex-pupil. The school closed in the 1980s; its massive library was broken up, and you still regularly come across items from it in Suffolk's second-hand bookshops. In a grand sale in the Ipswich Corn Exchange shortly after the closure, I bought the school's copies of McEwan's books for 50p each. The Hall lay empty for several years, until the Girls High School moved out here from central Ipswich, and restored it to something like its former glory. The jackdaws which inhabit the great 19th Century water tower which stands beside it wheeled above my head as I cycled back to the Shotley road.
Kilkenny, Ireland
Used the shit out of this new 16mm lens on this Ireland trip, and really loved it.
Born in Wytheville, Virginia, on April 8, 1827, Roderick Random Butler came to Johnson County, Tennessee, when he was fourteen. He arrived in the area as a tailor's apprentice and studied law on his own, gaining admission to the bar in 1853. He married Emeline Jane Donnelly, daughter of Richard Donnelly, a prominent planter in the area. During the Civil War, Butler was Lt. Col. of the 13th TN Cavalry. He served in the state legislature for 24 years and in the U.S. Congress for ten. He completed this mansion around 1870. You can see photos from inside at the Watauga Lake Magazine website.
Speaking of Wytheville, I'm heading that way this morning to meet a flickr friend. He is hoboing his way to PA so I'm taking him some bologna sandwiches. ;-)
It is a hot day in July, 2015. We are at Butler, Indiana waiting for the arrival of NKP 765. My job today is be the engineer pilot for the classic Berkshire and some 28 trailing cars from Butler to Toledo.
Like most ferry moves, the train is running behind schedule. This is due to a high level of revenue earning trains on the railroad. Deadhead moves, whether it be a steam locomotive or Office Car equipment, have no priority. Our train will follow the last eastbound out of Fort Wayne, leaving me with some idle time.
Butler is a great place to watch trains. Back in the day, The Wabash crossed the New York Central here. Although the owners of the tracks has changed over the years, train frequency here is very active.
Norfolk Southern now controls both lines, but they are operated by different divisions. The old NYC is part of the Dearborn Division, while the crossing Wabash is part of the Lake Division. Traffic on the Dearborn side is heavy and diverse. But the Lake side offers the ability for fans to see trains of Canadian Pacific. If you have never been to Butler, put it on your list.
After photographing trains on both divisions, a NS welder's truck pulls up. After some introductions, the welders inform us that they have some work to do on a frog. With most traffic already passed, the Toledo West dispatcher grants them 30 minutes of time.
I am always excited to see how other departments on the railroad perform their work. Watching these welders work was an eye opener. Once they had their track authority, then they had unload and set up all the equipment. With that done, now it was time to put on protective clothing and safety gear. Only then it was time to go work. And on a very hot day!
The railroad is not just trains going back and forth on the mainline. So many people across various departments due their part to make the railroad operate. I respect and appreciate all of them, but today this welder is at the top of the list. Kudos to the Track Department and their talented crews!
Swinging the corner at Butler, Indiana rolling off the water level route onto the NS former Wabash mainline to Detroit CP run-through 22T has Soo Line SD60 6036 leading sister 6059 on June 30, 2007. The SD60;s were the prefered power on these container trains for a while as a pair of 60's could move a train faster than a pair of GE's
Butler Brothers MAN 18.310 / Marco Polo Viaggio 350 PN05 CVB parked up in Rainworth, Nottinghamshire, 17/07/24
Went to visit Mrs. Butler and her son's collection of old cars tonight in Red Deer. Well worth the wet shoes.
I think this is probably one of the 1953 Hudson Jet models. The hoodie and the ornamenals are, according to Sadayo, are simpler versions that were available only when the vehicle was first produced. Thanks Sadayo.
Tree - a stone throw away from the FPP studio.
Polaroid Time Zero One Step camera
Impossible PX70 Color Shade (test film)
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Butler's stock includes:
* Frilly blouse
* Underwear
* Trousers
* Waistcoat
* Overcoat
* Hair ribbon
* Socks
* Shoes
* Tray
* Fountain pen
* "Agreement" sheet
* Collector's Card
* Metal stand
Customized, stock, vintage & classic vehicles captured as they arrive or departed from the Mega Cruise at Butler Airport.
He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats