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The former schoolhouse in Alexandra, Prince Edward Island, Canada. It is now used as a community centre.
The is the ancient round tower at Lusk in North County Dublin in the foreground and the medieval Norman tower and belfry in the background!
Wikipedia:- The only tangible remnant of the early Christian foundation at Lusk is the round tower. It stands 27 m high (originally some 32 m high) which retains its original conical cap or so it seems, as the modern trap-door onto the rooftop suggests otherwise. Inside are nine 'floors' including the basement, which are likely to be due to unrecorded 'improvements' in or after the Middle Ages. The flat-headed doorway, which originally would have been some 15 ft (4.6 m) above the ground is now less than 1 m above ground level. The tower either sunk or was buried some 4 m over the centuries. The Round Tower is adjacent to a Norman square tower built against it in the 15th century. This building has three matching towers at its corners and is beautifully represented by the 18th-century picture below. The square tower holds several medieval tombs including that of James Bermingham (1527) and the double-effigy tomb of Christopher Barnewall and his wife Marion Sherle (1589). The Church of Ireland church dates from 1847 by Joseph Welland, and was designed in an Early English Gothic style!
Te Anau and Lake Te Anau.
Te Anau is just 60 kms further on with its 2,000 inhabitants. It is picturesquely sited on the edge of Lake Te Anau which is the largest lake on the South island and the second largest of NZ after Lake Taupo in the North Island. It stretches 65 kms in length and it has the only inland fjords in NZ. The Lake is 210 metres above sea level and it is up to 417 metres deep thus much of the lake is deeper than sea level. The lake has several small islands in it. To the east are grasslands, swamps and scrublands of Manuka. On the western side of Lake Te Anau is the Fjordland wilderness and the Murchison and Kepler mountain ranges. Milford Sound is 120 kms to the north of Te Anau. Fjordland National Park is the largest in NZ and is now a world heritage site – Te Wahipounamu – a region of four major alpine NZ National Parks. Mountains within the park rise to around 2,000 metres (nearly 7,000 feet) and the coast is deeply indented with fjords. The 14 fjords of Fjordland Park are very deep U shaped valleys gouged out by the advance and retreat of glaciers in past eras. There are no roads or people living in the Fjordland Park. Australian possums and feral deer have thrived in this environment and the NZ government regularly drops poisons from helicopters to try and control their numbers. Fjordland National Park was established in 1952. The high rainfall and snowfall of the region from the prevailing moisture laden Westerlies produces a damp temperate forest environment with ferns, mosses, lichens and majestic trees where the terrain is not too steep. Fjordland is known for its waterfalls, fjords, steep sided valleys and many lakes. The mountains are mainly composed of very hard granite, gneiss and diorite. The Maori had permanent camps in the Te Anau region along Lake Te Anau and Lake Manapouri where they gathered eels and fish from the lakes and fern roots from the grasslands and forests. Although Maori did not live at Milford Sound they trekked there to obtain greenstone for their carvings. The Maori name for Milford Sound is Piopiotahi. The road which goes from Te Anau follows the lake for 29 kms and then it crosses into the Eglinton Valley. The road follows the Eglinton River for 33 kms until it passes Lake Fergus and then climbs the ranges into the upper part of the Hollyford Valley. After it leaves this valley the road climbs to its highest point at the entrance to the Homer Tunnel. It is 16 kms from the exit of the Homer Tunnel to Milford.
Homer Tunnel and Milford Sound.The Homer Tunnel at 1.2 kms in length is the second longest tunnel in NZ after the Lyttelton Tunnel at Christchurch. Work began on the Homer Tunnel in 1935 but progressed slowed up and was halted during World War Two. It was finally completed as a single lane tunnel in 1954. It was named after William Homer who discovered the saddle separating the Milford Sound from the other valleys of Southland in 1889. He had suggested a road to open up Milford Sound country to the rest of NZ. The tunnel has a one in ten downwards slope from the eastern entrance. This eastern entrance is 1,200 metres above sea level which is the highest point on the Te Anau Milford road and it is where the road passes through a cîrque or amphitheatre area created by past glaciers. Milford Sound is a fjord that stretches 16 kms to the coast and it is up to 265metres deep. Amazingly the very high rainfall here creates a layer of fresh water above the sea water within the Sound. Milford Sound has up to 7 metres of rainfall a year with around 500 to 700 mm of rainfall each month of the year (i.e. 20 to 30 inches). The average maximum temperature for October is around 14 degrees. Milford Sound was named by a sealer John Grono of Milford Haven in Wales. Another early sealer Donald Sutherland was the first resident of the Sound and he pioneered a track over the mountains to Te Anau. A local waterfall is named after Sutherland. When it pours hundreds of short term waterfalls developed over the sheer rocky sides of the fjord. The sides at Milford Sound rise about 3,900 feet or 1,200 metres with several well-known peaks of this height. Mitre Peak is one of the most photographed features in NZ. It is so named because it resembles the mitre cap worn by Anglicans bishops. Mitre Peak is 5,560 feet or 1,690 m high. Other nearby peaks include the Lion (because of it shape) 4,272 feet and the Elephant (looks like an elephant’s head) 4,977 feet.
Former Pompeia steel drum factory, Sao Paulo
Converted to community centre, sports, leisure & cultural facility for the SESC Foundation.
These are the added vertical sportsgrounds: A ground-saving stacking of sportscourts & swimming pool in a set of rough concrete towers.
Architect: Lina Bo Bardi 1977-86
This is the former C of I Church at Lusk in North County Dublin with the Norman tower and the ancient Round Tower above all.
Wikipedia:- The only tangible remnant of the early Christian foundation at Lusk is the round tower. It stands 27 m high (originally some 32 m high) which retains its original conical cap or so it seems, as the modern trap-door onto the rooftop suggests otherwise. Inside are nine 'floors' including the basement, which are likely to be due to unrecorded 'improvements' in or after the Middle Ages. The flat-headed doorway, which originally would have been some 15 ft (4.6 m) above the ground is now less than 1 m above ground level. The tower either sunk or was buried some 4 m over the centuries. The Round Tower is adjacent to a Norman square tower built against it in the 15th century. This building has three matching towers at its corners and is beautifully represented by the 18th-century picture below. The square tower holds several medieval tombs including that of James Bermingham (1527) and the double-effigy tomb of Christopher Barnewall and his wife Marion Sherle (1589). The Church of Ireland church dates from 1847 by Joseph Welland, and was designed in an Early English Gothic style!
The site, at the corner of Pine Street and Camden Place, was formerly home to the Camden Palace Hotel arts centre and has been a garden centre and a temporary courthouse in the past. The extended site is now being redeveloped and all of the associated structures behind what can be seen in my photograph have already been demolished.
Located on the banks of the Lee in Cork city centre, Camden Palace Hotel has been providing space and facilities to artists since 2009. Incorporating fields as diverse as painting, theatre, dance, film-making, music and photography, to name but a few, Camden Palace Hotel encourages and facilitates creative experimentation, idea sharing and collaboration amongst artists of all disciplines. Camden Palace Hotel is an independent non profit arts centre, currently receiving zero funding, we are a self sufficient entity helped along by public donations and the hard work of our volunteers. We aim to encourage creative partnerships and collaboration between, artists, individuals, business, community groups and other public bodies, as well as to promote social inclusion and diversity through actively encouraging access and participation to all.
Residential, retail & community development "Svinget" (the Curve) in NYE, Aarhus, Denmark
Architecture by C.F. Møller Architects 2023
Thursday morning I took a walkabout around my 1942 Alma mater which was built in 1912.
That be what is now Oaklands School & Community Centre which was formed in 2000.
Looking online, I could not find any references to the time of my tenure: 1942-48
Mr. McKinnon was principal during most of those years and before I left for S.J. Willis High School in 1948, Horace R. Dawson (1913-2008) became principal. Horace first became a school principal in McKenzie Elementary School at age 17yrs. in 1931. He was a brilliant scholar.
Mr. Dawson (1913-2008) he was 94yrs 11 months
Horace is an Irvine descendant borne from the Mary Ann (nee Irvine) Laing family line. Mary Ann was the second-born, Irvine child in Victoria BC in 1853.
One can see from this missal that Oaklands is more than just a school to me.
The Grade II* Listed St John the Baptists Church with it's Hyperbolic paraboloid roof, on Sudbrooke Drive, Ermine East, Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Built 1962-1963, the foundation stone was laid on the 23rd September by the Bishop of Lincoln. Designed by architect Sam Scorer of Denis Clarke Hall, Scorer and Bright, and built by contractors W and J Simons (Lincoln) Ltd. The adjoining hall served as church and hall from its construction in 1956 until 1963, and the vicarage also dates from 1956.
[18 OCT 2019] The site, at the corner of Pine Street and Camden Place, was formerly home to the Camden Palace Hotel arts centre and has been a garden centre and a temporary courthouse in the past. The extended site is now being redeveloped and all of the associated structures behind what can be seen in my photograph have already been demolished.
Located on the banks of the Lee in Cork city centre, Camden Palace Hotel has been providing space and facilities to artists since 2009. Incorporating fields as diverse as painting, theatre, dance, film-making, music and photography, to name but a few, Camden Palace Hotel encourages and facilitates creative experimentation, idea sharing and collaboration amongst artists of all disciplines. Camden Palace Hotel is an independent non profit arts centre, currently receiving zero funding, we are a self sufficient entity helped along by public donations and the hard work of our volunteers. We aim to encourage creative partnerships and collaboration between, artists, individuals, business, community groups and other public bodies, as well as to promote social inclusion and diversity through actively encouraging access and participation to all.
Herbert Bristow Hughes and Bristow Hughes- Hughes Park. Herbert Bristow Hughes and Bristow Hughes established Booyoolie Station (pronounced Bowlee) near Gladstone and another called Gnangwea at Laura between 1843-6. (They were not related to Sir Walter Watson Hughes of the Moonta Mines.) Their third brother, John Bristow Hughes established Bundaleer run between Laura and Jamestown. One of the claims to fame of the Gladstone- Laura station was the Booyoolee Meat Preserving Works. When there was a great excess of sheep in the 1870s the Hughes began a boiling down works to make tallow for candles. A few years later they established a tinned meat work to produce “Bully Beef”. Was this just a contraction of Booyoolee beef? The canned beef meat was shipped to England but it was not popular and did not sell. Hopes of establishing a tinned beef industry were dashed a few years later anyway as refrigeration (1882) meant frozen meat could be shipped to England. Herbert Bristow Hughes was immensely successful as a pastoralist (brother Bristow Hughes had returned to England by this time), and later he was successful as a farmer after closer settlement in the 1870s reduced Booyoolie in size. Booyoolie is still run by the executors of his estate. He also ran ships on the Murray-Darling Rivers. His Adelaide home was Athelney at St. Peters. In the 1890s one son of Herbert Bristow Hughes, Harold White Hughes moved from the property Gnangwea to Adelaide. Meantime Fauldings the chemists had built a two roomed house on the site of Hughes Park at Fullarton around 1855. A Mr Bleechmore bought the 10 acres site in 1865 and had a 6 roomed house constructed. It was sold by Bleechmore and in 1883 five more rooms were added including the two with bay windows at the front. There were other owners before Harold White Hughes and Mrs Ethel Hughes, who purchased the enlarged house in 1913 but with just 5 acres of land. They lived there for many years- he until some time after 1925 and Ethel for a total of 58 years until she died there in 1971. They called the house Gnangwea after their Laura property but the locals called it Hughes Park which eventually stuck. The City of Unley purchased the house in 1974 for public purposes. It opened in 1976 as the Fullarton Park Community centre. Brother John Hughes of Bundaleer built his Adelaide home, called St. Clair, at Woodville.
Residential, retail & community development "Svinget" (the Curve) in NYE, Aarhus, Denmark
Architecture by C.F. Møller Architects 2023
Thursday morning I took a walkabout around my 1942 Alma mater which was built in 1912.
That be what is now Oaklands School & Community Centre which was formed in 2000.
Looking online, I could not find any references to the time of my tenure: 1942-48
Mr. McKinnon was principal during most of those years and before I left for S.J. Willis High School in 1948, Horace R. Dawson (1913-2008) became principal. Horace first became a school principal in McKenzie Elementary School at age 17yrs. in 1931. He was a brilliant scholar.
Mr. Dawson (1913-2008)
Horace is an Irvine descendant borne from the Mary Ann (nee Irvine) Laing family line. Mary Ann was the second-born, Irvine child in Victoria BC in 1853.
One can see from this missal that Oaklands is more than just a school to me.
Residential, retail & community development "Svinget" (the Curve) in NYE, Aarhus, Denmark
Architecture by C.F. Møller Architects 2023
Former Pompeia steel drum factory, Sao Paulo
Converted to community centre, sports, leisure & cultural facility for the SESC Foundation.
These are the added vertical sportsgrounds: A ground-saving stacking of sportscourts & swimming pool in a set of rough concrete towers.
Architect: Lina Bo Bardi 1977-86
Residential, retail & community development "Svinget" (the Curve) in NYE, Aarhus, Denmark
Architecture by C.F. Møller Architects 2023
Oamaru.Oamaru at the estuary of the Waitaki River was a major Maori settlement area where over 1,000 middens have been searched. This was a major home of the Moa hunting Maoris of the 1300s and 1400s. Whalers visited the Otago coast here in the 1830s and the first white settlers came around 1850. The town of Oamaru was declared in 1859. Local quarries provided an extremely hard form of very white limestone for many of the buildings. The town grew as a service centre for the agricultural hinterland. Its boom period was in the 1870s and 1880s when its heritage buildings were erected. Since the port closed in 1970 the town has slumped industrially but has reinvented itself as a heritage city. It contains over 70 buildings on the NZ heritage list. Some of the historic buildings, many built of white Oamaru stone along Thames Street include the Waitaki Council Chambers, the former Municipal Chambers now the Opera House 1907, the Court House 1883, the Boer War Memorial, the Queens Hotel 1884, the Mechanics Institute 1882, the Post Office 1884, the National Bank 1870 etc. There are many more buildings in nearby Tyne Street and Harbour Street. This is adjacent to the port and the railway. Oamaru was a major exporter of frozen meat and this area blossomed with beautiful classical style warehouses in the late 1870s and the early 1880s. The warehouses stored grain and wheat and wool. Many of the buildings were designed by the well-respected local architectural partnership of Forrester and Lemon. This was the heyday of growth and importance of Oamaru. After the demise of the international port in the 1970s (in favour of Christchurch and Dunedin) the warehouses closed and the area became run down. Most of the area was taken over by the Oamaru Harbour Civic Trust in the late 1980s. The wonderful old buildigns have been restored where necessary and they have been leased out to art galleries, bookshops, antiques stores, fashion houses, cafes and bed and breakfast establishments. Oamaru heritage precinct has become a major tourist draw card for the city and it is a wonderful example of what can be done with historic centres of cities to revitalise them rather than demolish them. New Zealand knows how to sensibly preserve the past.
Former Pompeia steel drum factory, Sao Paulo
Converted to community centre, sports, leisure & cultural facility for the SESC Foundation.
These are the added vertical sportsgrounds: A ground-saving stacking of sportscourts & swimming pool in a set of rough concrete towers.
Architect: Lina Bo Bardi 1977-86
[18 OCT 2019] The site, at the corner of Pine Street and Camden Place, was formerly home to the Camden Palace Hotel arts centre and has been a garden centre and a temporary courthouse in the past. The extended site is now being redeveloped and all of the associated structures behind what can be seen in my photograph have already been demolished.
Located on the banks of the Lee in Cork city centre, Camden Palace Hotel has been providing space and facilities to artists since 2009. Incorporating fields as diverse as painting, theatre, dance, film-making, music and photography, to name but a few, Camden Palace Hotel encourages and facilitates creative experimentation, idea sharing and collaboration amongst artists of all disciplines. Camden Palace Hotel is an independent non profit arts centre, currently receiving zero funding, we are a self sufficient entity helped along by public donations and the hard work of our volunteers. We aim to encourage creative partnerships and collaboration between, artists, individuals, business, community groups and other public bodies, as well as to promote social inclusion and diversity through actively encouraging access and participation to all.
Former Pompeia steel drum factory, Sao Paulo
Converted to community centre, sports, leisure & cultural facility for the SESC Foundation.
These are the added vertical sportsgrounds: A ground-saving stacking of sportscourts & swimming pool in a set of rough concrete towers.
Architect: Lina Bo Bardi 1977-86
Oamaru.Oamaru at the estuary of the Waitaki River was a major Maori settlement area where over 1,000 middens have been searched. This was a major home of the Moa hunting Maoris of the 1300s and 1400s. Whalers visited the Otago coast here in the 1830s and the first white settlers came around 1850. The town of Oamaru was declared in 1859. Local quarries provided an extremely hard form of very white limestone for many of the buildings. The town grew as a service centre for the agricultural hinterland. Its boom period was in the 1870s and 1880s when its heritage buildings were erected. Since the port closed in 1970 the town has slumped industrially but has reinvented itself as a heritage city. It contains over 70 buildings on the NZ heritage list. Some of the historic buildings, many built of white Oamaru stone along Thames Street include the Waitaki Council Chambers, the former Municipal Chambers now the Opera House 1907, the Court House 1883, the Boer War Memorial, the Queens Hotel 1884, the Mechanics Institute 1882, the Post Office 1884, the National Bank 1870 etc. There are many more buildings in nearby Tyne Street and Harbour Street. This is adjacent to the port and the railway. Oamaru was a major exporter of frozen meat and this area blossomed with beautiful classical style warehouses in the late 1870s and the early 1880s. The warehouses stored grain and wheat and wool. Many of the buildings were designed by the well-respected local architectural partnership of Forrester and Lemon. This was the heyday of growth and importance of Oamaru. After the demise of the international port in the 1970s (in favour of Christchurch and Dunedin) the warehouses closed and the area became run down. Most of the area was taken over by the Oamaru Harbour Civic Trust in the late 1980s. The wonderful old buildigns have been restored where necessary and they have been leased out to art galleries, bookshops, antiques stores, fashion houses, cafes and bed and breakfast establishments. Oamaru heritage precinct has become a major tourist draw card for the city and it is a wonderful example of what can be done with historic centres of cities to revitalise them rather than demolish them. New Zealand knows how to sensibly preserve the past.
The Burn Walk was created to commemorate the Millennium. The site is part of a wooded glen on the Cavanalee River above the Drumrallagh (Irish: Droim Railleach meaning Ridge of Oaks) housing estate on the SE outskirts of Strabane Town in the County of Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
This 1 hectare planting was gifted by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) and was initiated under the Woods On Your Doorstep (WOYD) programme in October 1998 for use as an open space and new planting with the local communities support.
The Fountain Street Community Development Association (FSCDA) has been actively involved from the beginning and the creation and management works have been previously undertaken under contract with them. They have installed a loop walk starting from the Drumrallagh housing estate into the glen and back out again.
The aim of the Woods On Your Doorstep project was to create community woodland. This also fulfils one of the Woodland Trust's key aims to increase new native woodland. In addition, woodland creation will add a variety of habitats to the site and improve its biodiversity value and it also buffers the existing woodland glen.
The trees that were planted have all been maintained by the FSCDA with support from a team under the "New Deal" program. Shrubs have been planted under the power lines and trees in the open spaces of the glen. There is a continuous layer of hazel and ash woodland stretching up the glen alongside the Cavanalee River and its waterfalls, which are just above this planting. This small wood already contains some signs of long established native flora spreading from the glen into the new native woodland e.g. Bluebell, Foxglove and Lesser Celandine.
In 2016 parts of the existing paths were upgraded along with installing some new and repairing existing steps as well as 3 new wooden benches and the view point being restored. The Fountain Street CDA continue to be involved in the site through regular volunteer work where parties under take regular litter collection and removal.
Free public access to the site is available throughout the year as the local residents have accessed the site informally for many years. The loop path was developed by Fountain Street CDA to provide the public, and more especially the locals with much valued local green space to walk around the lower glen and view the planting and its wildlife.
The Devil's Coffin
Ireland is a very old country and is a place simply brimming with myths, legends and folklore. Famous for its oral stories which have been passed down through the generations, as told at the fireside and inevitably these stories change and vary by locality. Some are often linked to landscapes, either a specific spot like Finn McCool of the Giant’s Causeway, or a person, like Darby O'Gill and the Little People (the leprechaun of Ireland), Cuchulain, Hound of Ulster to Dracula’s Irish origins.
There’s no way to substantiate why the pool below the waterfall on the Cavanalee River was named "The Devil's Coffin". however one renowned local photograther, Gareth Wray stated on a photo he took of the same spot that at night the pool below the waterfall looks very similar to a dark deep hole in the ground similar to a grave or tomb where you might place a coffin and the eery connotation evokes the mystique and fear that its the devil’s coffin.
I've seen evidence of grey squirrel activity.
The Woodland Trust handpicked a selection of innovative designs and poems supplied by pupils of St Anne’s Primary School to adorn the walk. A local craftsman, Liam Kennedy was tasked with bringing these designs to fulfillment through hand crafted woodens sculpures depicting a selection of wildlife found locally, the Owl, the Badger, the Hedgehog, the Fox and the Deer.
Burn Walk Size: 1.25 hectares (3.09 acres)
Grid reference: H357966 OS 1:50,000 Sheet No. 12
Free Parking nearby
Public access all year round
Broadleaved woodland
Small river and waterfalls
Drumrallagh Housing Estate,
Strabane.
BT82 8JW
54.817393, -7.446327
Fountain Street Community Development Association (FSCDA)
Tel: 028 7188 5100
email: fountain_street@hotmail.com
www.facebook.com/fscda.communitycentre/
Directions:
From the Strabane town centre, at the roundabout, continue straight onto Main Street.
Continue onto Meetinghouse Street.
Continue onto Townsend Street.
Turn left onto Fountain Street onto the B536 for Plumbridge.
Approaching Wray's Coal Merchants on the left turn right into the Drumrallagh Housing Estate.
Take the first turn on the left into the Cul-De-Sac.
A few parking spaces are available on your left.
Former Pompeia steel drum factory, Sao Paulo
Converted to community centre, sports, leisure & cultural facility for the SESC Foundation.
These are the added vertical sportsgrounds: A ground-saving stacking of sportscourts & swimming pool in a set of rough concrete towers.
Architect: Lina Bo Bardi 1977-86
Te Anau and Lake Te Anau.
Te Anau is just 60 kms further on with its 2,000 inhabitants. It is picturesquely sited on the edge of Lake Te Anau which is the largest lake on the South island and the second largest of NZ after Lake Taupo in the North Island. It stretches 65 kms in length and it has the only inland fjords in NZ. The Lake is 210 metres above sea level and it is up to 417 metres deep thus much of the lake is deeper than sea level. The lake has several small islands in it. To the east are grasslands, swamps and scrublands of Manuka. On the western side of Lake Te Anau is the Fjordland wilderness and the Murchison and Kepler mountain ranges. Milford Sound is 120 kms to the north of Te Anau. Fjordland National Park is the largest in NZ and is now a world heritage site – Te Wahipounamu – a region of four major alpine NZ National Parks. Mountains within the park rise to around 2,000 metres (nearly 7,000 feet) and the coast is deeply indented with fjords. The 14 fjords of Fjordland Park are very deep U shaped valleys gouged out by the advance and retreat of glaciers in past eras. There are no roads or people living in the Fjordland Park. Australian possums and feral deer have thrived in this environment and the NZ government regularly drops poisons from helicopters to try and control their numbers. Fjordland National Park was established in 1952. The high rainfall and snowfall of the region from the prevailing moisture laden Westerlies produces a damp temperate forest environment with ferns, mosses, lichens and majestic trees where the terrain is not too steep. Fjordland is known for its waterfalls, fjords, steep sided valleys and many lakes. The mountains are mainly composed of very hard granite, gneiss and diorite. The Maori had permanent camps in the Te Anau region along Lake Te Anau and Lake Manapouri where they gathered eels and fish from the lakes and fern roots from the grasslands and forests. Although Maori did not live at Milford Sound they trekked there to obtain greenstone for their carvings. The Maori name for Milford Sound is Piopiotahi. The road which goes from Te Anau follows the lake for 29 kms and then it crosses into the Eglinton Valley. The road follows the Eglinton River for 33 kms until it passes Lake Fergus and then climbs the ranges into the upper part of the Hollyford Valley. After it leaves this valley the road climbs to its highest point at the entrance to the Homer Tunnel. It is 16 kms from the exit of the Homer Tunnel to Milford.
Homer Tunnel and Milford Sound.The Homer Tunnel at 1.2 kms in length is the second longest tunnel in NZ after the Lyttelton Tunnel at Christchurch. Work began on the Homer Tunnel in 1935 but progressed slowed up and was halted during World War Two. It was finally completed as a single lane tunnel in 1954. It was named after William Homer who discovered the saddle separating the Milford Sound from the other valleys of Southland in 1889. He had suggested a road to open up Milford Sound country to the rest of NZ. The tunnel has a one in ten downwards slope from the eastern entrance. This eastern entrance is 1,200 metres above sea level which is the highest point on the Te Anau Milford road and it is where the road passes through a cîrque or amphitheatre area created by past glaciers. Milford Sound is a fjord that stretches 16 kms to the coast and it is up to 265metres deep. Amazingly the very high rainfall here creates a layer of fresh water above the sea water within the Sound. Milford Sound has up to 7 metres of rainfall a year with around 500 to 700 mm of rainfall each month of the year (i.e. 20 to 30 inches). The average maximum temperature for October is around 14 degrees. Milford Sound was named by a sealer John Grono of Milford Haven in Wales. Another early sealer Donald Sutherland was the first resident of the Sound and he pioneered a track over the mountains to Te Anau. A local waterfall is named after Sutherland. When it pours hundreds of short term waterfalls developed over the sheer rocky sides of the fjord. The sides at Milford Sound rise about 3,900 feet or 1,200 metres with several well-known peaks of this height. Mitre Peak is one of the most photographed features in NZ. It is so named because it resembles the mitre cap worn by Anglicans bishops. Mitre Peak is 5,560 feet or 1,690 m high. Other nearby peaks include the Lion (because of it shape) 4,272 feet and the Elephant (looks like an elephant’s head) 4,977 feet.
Yorketown- Five Ways- Private Town.
The area here was near Pentonvale, the head station of Anstey and Giles. The government resumed the leasehold in 1869 and sold off the land as farm blocks. The government had intended to lay out a town in addition to Edithburgh in the Troubridge Agricultural Area but a Mr Green beat them to it. He subdivided land at the junction of five roads which go to Edithburgh, Warooka, Minlaton and Stansbury. Green acted in 1872 as by then there already existed a store here built by Edward Jacobs and the Melville Hotel. With a few years the private town had major town status with a Court House, two hotels, a school, Institute, churches and more. A windmill factory, so important for Yorke Peninsula farmers operated here from 1880 and the first plough competitions, a common activity on Yorke Peninsula in the 19th century began in 1875 with the first Yorketown Agricultural Show being held in 1876. Each year the trade and population in the town was boosted by the salt harvesters. On January 10th 1902 the Advertiser reported:
1.The Rest Centre Corner where Pentonvale shepherds used to have a hut.
2.The 1879 Court House. Used until 1978 and now a town museum.
3.The old Masonic Hall opened in 1910.
4.The old Baptist Church opened in 1883. It is no longer used as a church.
5.The Anglican Church opened in 1882. The front porch was added in 1924.
6.The old Zion Lutheran Church 1884. Became a kindergarten in 1975 as the 2 Lutheran congregations amalgamated.
7.Weaners Flat Reserve where shepherds weaned lambs and the site of the original school built in 1878 till 1976.Unusual school design for SA.
8.The second Post Office opened in 1912. Of Georgian style built by the SA govt for the federal govt which had responsibility for post offices by then.
9.The Hospital which began in 1920s in a house, many times enlarged.
10The grandest house in many country towns was that of the local doctor, adjacent to the hospital.
11.St Paul’s Lutheran Church started in 1874. At the rear are the hall built in 1975, and the manse constructed in 1973.
12.The Yorke Hotel has its oldest parts dating to 1876. Look for the additions with different stone work and slightly different windows etc.
12A.Former Bank in Georgian style, 2 rounded windows, and 1 door to keep symmetry. Pilasters (or flat pillars) on each side of the building to add to the symmetry.
13.The Melville Hotel. The oldest part is at the rear dating from 1872. Built in at least 4 stages and probably the biggest building in town. Most dates from 1880s.
14.The Uniting Church, formerly the Methodist. It opened in 1876 and became the hall when the current church 1904 was opened. A prominent position in the Main Street.
15.St Columba’s Catholic Church opened in 1903 as the original 1872 church was closed. It was later demolished. The Catholic school attached was opened 1957.
Residential, retail & community development "Svinget" (the Curve) in NYE, Aarhus, Denmark
Architecture by C.F. Møller Architects 2023
A few miles out of Wyndham is one of the best gardens in New Zealand. Maple Glen garden near Wyndham has been developed over 40 years by the family who owns it Bob and Muriel Davison and family who began the garden in the 1960s. It has massive collections of spring bulbs, perennials, magnolias, dogwoods, rhododendrons and azaleas, exotic trees, maple trees and several lakes. It is a private garden but allows visitors and a small commercial nursery of exotic plants is operated from the garden. It is well worth a detour if you are travelling to Invercargill. It is one of the prizes of Southland province. The garden covers 25 acres or 10 hectares and the annual rainfall is 43 inches or 1,100 mm allowing the European and cool loving plants to thrive. Conifers and other trees were planted for winter interest with an excellent range of spring flowering trees and autumn leaf colouring trees planted for year round colour. Around the ponds and lakes they have planted masses of astilbes, bog primula, daffodils and bluebells. In fact the garden contains over 800 varieties of daffodil. It is a garden to visit in any season.
The community centre in Uigg, Prince Edward Island, Canada. It was formerly Uigg School from 1877-1970.
Taleea (31) from Syria together with some of her children - EU Funded Multifunctional community centre in Athens run by UNICEF/Faros
©EU/ECHO
Community Center pool. The old Summicron 35 did well. The slightly lower contrast of the 1958 version handled the contest range well. It was a bit "hope over Experience" - 1/15s and f2.0!
Oamaru.Oamaru at the estuary of the Waitaki River was a major Maori settlement area where over 1,000 middens have been searched. This was a major home of the Moa hunting Maoris of the 1300s and 1400s. Whalers visited the Otago coast here in the 1830s and the first white settlers came around 1850. The town of Oamaru was declared in 1859. Local quarries provided an extremely hard form of very white limestone for many of the buildings. The town grew as a service centre for the agricultural hinterland. Its boom period was in the 1870s and 1880s when its heritage buildings were erected. Since the port closed in 1970 the town has slumped industrially but has reinvented itself as a heritage city. It contains over 70 buildings on the NZ heritage list. Some of the historic buildings, many built of white Oamaru stone along Thames Street include the Waitaki Council Chambers, the former Municipal Chambers now the Opera House 1907, the Court House 1883, the Boer War Memorial, the Queens Hotel 1884, the Mechanics Institute 1882, the Post Office 1884, the National Bank 1870 etc. There are many more buildings in nearby Tyne Street and Harbour Street. This is adjacent to the port and the railway. Oamaru was a major exporter of frozen meat and this area blossomed with beautiful classical style warehouses in the late 1870s and the early 1880s. The warehouses stored grain and wheat and wool. Many of the buildings were designed by the well-respected local architectural partnership of Forrester and Lemon. This was the heyday of growth and importance of Oamaru. After the demise of the international port in the 1970s (in favour of Christchurch and Dunedin) the warehouses closed and the area became run down. Most of the area was taken over by the Oamaru Harbour Civic Trust in the late 1980s. The wonderful old buildigns have been restored where necessary and they have been leased out to art galleries, bookshops, antiques stores, fashion houses, cafes and bed and breakfast establishments. Oamaru heritage precinct has become a major tourist draw card for the city and it is a wonderful example of what can be done with historic centres of cities to revitalise them rather than demolish them. New Zealand knows how to sensibly preserve the past.
[18 OCT 2019] The site, at the corner of Pine Street and Camden Place, was formerly home to the Camden Palace Hotel arts centre and has been a garden centre and a temporary courthouse in the past. The extended site is now being redeveloped and all of the associated structures behind what can be seen in my photograph have already been demolished.
Located on the banks of the Lee in Cork city centre, Camden Palace Hotel has been providing space and facilities to artists since 2009. Incorporating fields as diverse as painting, theatre, dance, film-making, music and photography, to name but a few, Camden Palace Hotel encourages and facilitates creative experimentation, idea sharing and collaboration amongst artists of all disciplines. Camden Palace Hotel is an independent non profit arts centre, currently receiving zero funding, we are a self sufficient entity helped along by public donations and the hard work of our volunteers. We aim to encourage creative partnerships and collaboration between, artists, individuals, business, community groups and other public bodies, as well as to promote social inclusion and diversity through actively encouraging access and participation to all.