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Handsworth Library Clocktower.
This view from the train I got from Birmingham New Street to Darlaston, when it was on the Soho Loop (between the Wolverhampton and Walsall lines).
South & City College Birmingham and the former Handsworth Council House.
Grade II Listed Building
Public Library, Handsworth Council House and Job Preparation Unit
Listing Text
SOHO ROAD
1.
5104 Handsworth B21
Public Library,
Handsworth Council House
and Job Preparation Unit
SP 08 NW 6/43
II
2.
1878-9 by Alexander and Henman, as the Urban District Council Offices.
Red brick and terracotta with stone dressings; slate roof. Mostly 2 storeys
plus attic. To the left, the library part with a polygonal advanced bay
surmounted by an octagonal glazed and louvred lantern with miniscule gablets,
4 bays of windows and a broad gabled bay with a large first floor tripartite
window of 7 lights. The clock tower with entrance beneath a gable supporting
an oriel window, machicolations, parapet and glazed and timbered clock
stage has 2 bays of windows either side and, finally, on the right, there
is another gabled bay. The windows all with mullions and transoms. Some
pretty sculptural details.
Listing NGR: SP0479889438
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
Arendal!!
I really love this... So much details to look at. The snow that's clinging to the building. I like that it's not ending within frame.
The sky was blown out, so I made it white, and added some vignetting.
Tell me what you think :)
FULL VIEW!
When the local populace decided this tower's bell was too loud for right downtain it was moved to this location at the base of the hill where the Holy Cross church sits at its great vantage point..
Christmas tree among the repaving site around the Clock Tower, 2007. At one point, the City Council said there wouldn't be a tree that year because of the "improvements" being carried out in that area.
Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Parliament Hill (French: Colline du Parlement), colloquially known as The Hill, is an area of Crown land on the southern banks of the Ottawa River in downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Its Gothic revival suite of buildings, and their architectural elements of national symbolic importance, is the home of the Parliament of Canada. Parliament Hill attracts approximately three million visitors each year. Law enforcement on Parliament Hill and in the parliamentary precinct is the responsibility of the Parliamentary Protective Service (PPS).
Originally the site of a military base in the 18th and early 19th centuries, development of the area into a governmental precinct began in 1859, after Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as the capital of the Province of Canada. Following several extensions to the parliament and departmental buildings and a fire in 1916 that destroyed the Centre Block, Parliament Hill took on its present form with the completion of the Peace Tower in 1927. Since 2002, an extensive $3 billion renovation and rehabilitation project has been underway throughout all the precinct's buildings; work is not expected to be complete until after 2028.