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What a lovely thing a rose is!... Our highest assurance of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle
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For someone who has resisted taking more flower photos, I seem to be offering a lot of flower photos. But it's been an exceptional year for wildflowers and they are often irresistible. I thought the roses had gone, hips already well formed, when I spotted a few just bloomed and notable for the depth and richness of color as opposed to the standard pastel pink. The original shown in comments below, no saturation added.
But, of course, foto fiddling now a fact of life, what do I do? Take that unique vibrancy and desaturate it. The thought process involved something along the lines of taking an old-fashioned rose and creating a "vintage" look to it...the lead photo one result with another below clearly showing my inability to be satisfied with a straight b/w image. I'm actually pleased with the "pale" versions...tho not unaware of the irony that I effectively eliminated the original reason for the attraction by replacing the exceptional color with the usual.
Apparently, a rose is not a rose is not a rose...at least in terms of photographic possibilities.
The beauty is eternal, maybe you should give it a touch to embrace it. You wanna feel the existence.
L’existence d’un orgue dans la nef de l’église Saint-Pierre est attestée depuis le 15ème siècle. Détruit en 1562 par les Huguenots, il est reconstruit en 1578. Le 14 avril 1783, est inauguré un orgue de Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Lefebvre. Le 8 octobre 1881, Alexandre Guilmant inaugure un orgue d’Aristide Cavaillé-Coll qui a conservé l’ancien buffet pour y mettre un instrument de trois claviers et 42 jeux. Dans la nuit du 6 au 7 juin 1944, l’orgue est détruit par la chute du clocher et des voûtes lors des bombardements. En 1958, Jacquot-Lavergne installe un orgue dont les 4 buffets sont accrochés au triforium alors que la console est dans le chœur. Enfin, en 1997, Jean-François Dupont installe un orgue accroché en nid d’hirondelle au milieu de la nef côté gauche (photo).
The existence of an organ in the nave of Saint-Pierre church has been documented since the 15th century. Destroyed in 1562 by the Huguenots, it was rebuilt in 1578. On April 14, 1783, an organ by Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Lefebvre was inaugurated. On October 8, 1881, Alexandre Guilmant inaugurated an organ by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, which retained the old organ case to house an instrument with three keyboards and 42 stops. On the night of June 6-7, 1944, the organ was destroyed by the collapse of the bell tower and vaults during the bombings. In 1958, Jacquot-Lavergne installed an organ whose four cases are suspended from the triforium, while the console is located in the choir. Finally, in 1997, Jean-François Dupont installed an organ suspended like a swallow's nest in the middle of the nave on the left side (photo).
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Sakharibazar, Old Dhaka, 2011
Normal people with extraordinary lifestyles
Along with smile and the gloomy, here life has its own rhyme, has its own colour.
Time passed by, humanity changed along with its history...
But these people remained here tolerating the hardest truth of existences
..........its their story of extraordinary existences.
Sakharibazar, Old Dhaka. A very interesting place for all of us to visit. Culture and customs of old Dhaka are the tribute to the ancient history of Bangladesh. Peoples still living in 100 years old building from generations after generations. With the reflection of their religious beauty Old Dhaka attracts peoples from here and abroad.
Shakhari Bazaar is one of the oldest mohallas (a traditional neighbourhood) in Puran Dhaka (Old Dhaka), located near the intersection of Islampur Road and Nawabpur Road;the two main arteries of the old city and only a block away from the Buriganga River. Shakhari Bazaar stretches along a narrow lane, lined with thin slices of richly decorated brick buildings, built during the late Mughal or Colonial period. Despite rampant modifications, accretion, extension over time, even redevelopment, many still bear the testimony of a rich tradition.
Shakhari Bazaar is the manifestation of the irrational policies, lack of adequate development control rules and distorted legal framework, all of which have left their indelible mark on this precious little mohalla that shares a long history of more than 400 years with Dhaka city itself.The history of Shakhari Bazaar goes back to the pre-Mughal days if not earlier. The first mention of Puran Dhaka can be found in the writings of Mirza Nathan, the general turned historian, who traveled with Subahdar Islam Khan. He mentioned Puran Dhaka, as the area between Dholai Khal and Buriganga river covering Shakhari Bazaar, Tanti Bazaar, Bangla Bazaar, Lakhsmi Bazaar, Bangla Bazaar, Kamar Nagar, Sutar Nagar, Goala Nagar, etc. Each mohalla belonged to separate communities depending on their craft and trade. The influences of the Mughal vocabulary in the planning of the spaces are literally evident in the use of Persian names to identify different spaces..
From wonder into wonder existence opens.
Lao Tzu
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Aristotle
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Fowey is a small town, civil parish and cargo port at the mouth of the River Fowey in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town has been in existence since well before the Norman invasion, with the local church first established some time in the 7th century; the estuary of the River Fowey forms a natural harbour which enabled the town to become an important trading centre. Privateers also made use of the sheltered harbourage. The Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway brought China clay here for export.
The Domesday Book survey at the end of the 11th century records manors at Penventinue and Trenant, and a priory was soon established nearby at Tywardreath. c. 1300 the prior granted a charter to people living in Fowey itself. This medieval town ran from a north gate near Boddinick Passage to a south gate at what is now Lostwithiel Street; the town extended a little way up the hillside and was bounded on the other side by the river where merchants had their houses backing onto the waterfront. The natural harbour allowed trade to develop with Europe and local ship owners often hired their vessels to the king to support various wars, although the town also developed a reputation for piracy, as did many others at this time. A group of privateers known as the 'Fowey Gallants' were given licence to seize French vessels during the Hundred Years' War. In the 14th century the harbour was defended by 160 archers; after these were withdrawn, two blockhouses were built on either side of the harbour entrance. Despite these defences the town was attacked by French forces in 1457. Place House, by the church, was successfully defended against the French but subsequently strengthened. This building still exists, but much remodelled. A small castle was built on St Catherine’s Point, the western side of the harbour entrance, around 1540. The defences proved their worth when a Dutch attack was beaten off in 1667.
The people of Fowey generally sided with the Royalists during the English Civil War, but in 1644 the Earl of Essex brought a Parliamentarian army to Lostwithiel and occupied the peninsula around Fowey. In August, a Royalist army surrounded Essex’s troops and King Charles I himself viewed Fowey from Hall Walk above Polruan, where he came close to being killed by a musket shot. On 31 August, the Parliamentarian cavalry forced their way through the Royalist lines and retreated towards Saltash, leaving the foot soldiers to be evacuated by sea from Fowey. Essex and some officers did indeed escape, but the majority of the force surrendered a few days later near Golant and were then marched to Poole, but most died before reaching there.
The fortunes of the harbour became much reduced, with trade going to Plymouth and elsewhere instead. Fishing became more important, but local merchants were often appointed as privateers and did some smuggling on the side. Tin, copper and iron mines, along with quarries and china clay pits became important industries in the area, which led to improvements at rival harbours. West Polmear beach was dug out to become Charlestown harbour circa 1800, as was Pentewan in 1826. Joseph Austen shipped copper from Caffa Mill Pill above Fowey for a while before starting work on the new Par harbour in 1829. Fowey had to wait another forty years before it saw equivalent development, but its natural deep-water anchorage and a rail link soon gave it an advantage over the shallow artificial harbours nearer to the mines and china clay works. Meanwhile, a beacon tower was erected on the Gribben Head by Trinity House to improve navigation into Fowey and around Par bay.
The Fowey Harbour Commissioners were established by an Act of Parliament in 1869, to develop and improve the harbour. On 1 June in that year, the 7 ft (2,134 mm) broad gauge Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway was opened to new jetties situated above Carne Point, and in 1873, the 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge Cornwall Minerals Railway (CMR) opened a line from Newquay and Par to further jetties between Caffa Mill Pill and Carne Point. Both of these railways initially carried just goods, but on 20 June 1876, a passenger station was opened on the CMR on land reclaimed from Caffa Mill Pill. The Lostwithiel line closed at the end of 1879 but was reopened by the CMR as a standard gauge line in 1895, and the short gap between the two lines at Carne Point was eliminated. Passenger trains from Par were withdrawn after 1934 and from Lostwithiel in 1965. The Par line was subsequently converted to a dedicated roadway for lorries bringing china clay from Par after which all trains had to run via Lostwithiel.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution established Fowey Lifeboat Station near the Town Quay in 1922 to replace an earlier station at Polkerris. This was replaced in 1997, by a new facility in Passage Street. Two lifeboats are stationed at Fowey: Maurice and Joyce Hardy, a Trent Class all weather boat that is kept afloat opposite the lifeboat station, and Olive Two, an IB1 inshore lifeboat kept inside the station and launched by davit.
Fowey was the main port for loading ammunition for the US 29th Division that landed on Omaha Beach on D Day during the Second World War. There was a munitions siding at Woodgate Pill just north of Fowey, originally built for the Great War conflict.
Fowey is a small town, civil parish and cargo port at the mouth of the River Fowey in south Cornwall, England. It is at the entrance to a large flooded valley created after the last ice age by the melt waters that caused the sea level to rise dramatically, creating a large natural harbour which is navigable for its last seven miles.
Fowey is in the South Coast (Eastern Section) of the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It lies at the end of the Saints' Way and has ferries across the river to Polruan (foot) and Bodinnick (vehicle). There are many historic buildings in the town, including the ruins of St Catherine's Castle, while Readymoney Cove possesses a local beach.
At the time of the 2001 census, Fowey had a population of 2,273. This had increased slightly at the 2011 census to 2,395 The Fowey electoral ward had a population of 4,690 in 2011.
Fowey has thrived as a port for hundreds of years, initially as a trading and naval town, then as the centre for china clay exports. Today Fowey is busy with trawlers and yachts. Tourism is also an important source of income, contributing £14m to the local economy and accounting for more than half of the jobs in the town.
Fowey has been the inspiration for many authors, including Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch ('Q'), Daphne du Maurier, Leo Walmsley and Kenneth Grahame.
Fowey was Quiller-Couch's main residence from 1892 onwards, and a number of his stories are set in 'Troy Town', a thinly disguised Fowey. The du Maurier Festival Society runs the Fowey Festival of Arts and Literature each May, the month of her birth.
Various visual artists have had close connection with Fowey and lived there, including painters Fred Yates, Andrew Litten and Amanda Hoskin who primarily paints the local coastline. Fowey holds an annual Christmas craft market.
(Wikipedia)
Fowey (kornisch: Fowydh) ist eine Kleinstadt und Gemeinde in Cornwall in Großbritannien. Die Stadt ist ein beliebter Ausflugs- und Urlaubsort, aber auch ein wichtiger Seehafen.
Die Stadt liegt an der Südküste von Cornwall zwischen Looe und Mevagissey. Sie erstreckt sich über 1,5 km an den steil abfallenden Hügeln entlang des Westufers des River Fowey bis zu dessen Mündung in den Ärmelkanal. Am gegenüberliegenden östlichen Ufer liegen die Dörfer Bodinnick sowie Polruan, die durch die weite Mündung des Baches Pont Pill voneinander getrennt sind. Die Region ist als Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty ausgewiesen, weite Teiles des Uferbereichs gehören dem National Trust.
Infolge der zahlreichen Kriege, die der englische König Eduard I. gegen Ende des 13. Jahrhunderts führte, wurden die traditionellen Cinque Ports in Südostengland zunehmend Ziel von gegnerischen Überfällen. Deshalb gewannen die Häfen in Südwestengland an Bedeutung, zumal sie auch für den Handel mit der damals zu England gehörenden Gascogne günstiger lagen. Zu den Häfen, die um diese Zeit aufblühten, gehörte auch Fowey, das nicht nur ein bedeutender Handelshafen wurde, sondern auch als Basis zahlreicher Kriegszüge diente. Dazu rüsteten Gruppen von Kaufleuten Freibeuter aus, die im Laufe der Zeit jedoch nicht nur gegnerische Schiffe aufbrachten, sondern als Piraten wahllos Schiffe und Küstendörfer überfielen. Zu Beginn des 15. Jahrhunderts war Fowey zum damals bedeutendsten Stützpunkt von Piraten in Europa geworden, zu den bekanntesten der Freibeutergruppen gehörten die Fowey Gallants. Das durch den Handel mit der Beute wohlhabend gewordene Fowey konnte schließlich im späten 15. Jahrhundert gegen den Widerstand von Lostwithiel den Status eines Borough erlangen. Die Überfälle der Piraten auf die französische Küste auch nach dem Ende des Hundertjährigen Krieges führten 1457 zu einem französischen Vergeltungsangriff, bei dem ein Großteil von Fowey niedergebrannt wurde. Schließlich wurde die Piraterie im großen Stil durch König Eduard IV. unterbunden, auch wenn es in den folgenden Jahren immer noch zu Überfällen durch Piraten aus Fowey kam. Mit der Verlagerung des Schwerpunkt des Bergbaus nach Westcornwall verlor Fowey im 15. Jahrhundert seine Bedeutung als Seehafen an das weiter westlich gelegene Truro, doch bis zum 19. Jahrhundert blieb Fowey ein wichtiger Hafen für die Küstenschifffahrt und vor allem für den Handel mit Nordfrankreich. Von 1571 bis 1832 entsandte Fowey zwei Abgeordnete in das House of Commons.[5] Aufgrund ihrer geringen Größe galten die Wahlkreise schließlich als Rotten borough, die bei der Wahlkreisreform 1832 aufgelöst wurden. Einen Aufschwung brachte 1869 der Ausbau des Hafens und der Anschluss an die Eisenbahn. Fowey wurde nun zum bedeutenden Exporthafen für das in Cornwall abgebaute Kaolin. 1913 wurde die Gemeinde zum Municipal Borough erhoben, das 1968 mit dem nahe gelegenen, aber wesentlichen größeren St Austell zum Borough of St Austell with Fowey zusammengelegt wurde. 1974 ging dieses Borough im Restormel Borough auf, das durch die Verwaltungsreform von 2009 in der neuen Unitary Authority Cornwall aufging.
Die Mündungen des River Fowey und des Pont Pill bilden einen geschützten natürlichen Tiefwasserhafen, der unter allen Wetter- und Gezeitenbedingungen zugänglich ist. Der Hafen ist Heimathafen von etwa 1500 Booten und gilt als beliebtes Seglerziel, das jährlich von rund 7000 Segelbooten angelaufen wird. In den letzten Jahren wurde der Hafen trotz der engen, nur 200 m breiten Hafeneinfahrt auch zunehmend von Kreuzfahrtschiffen angelaufen. Als Seehafen dient er vor allem als Exporthafen für Kaolin. 2010 wurden von Fowey 750.000 t Kaolin exportiert, der Hafen kann von Schiffen mit bis zu 13.000 tn.l. Tragfähigkeit angelaufen werden.
Sehenswürdigkeiten
An der Stelle der Pfarrkirche St Fimbarrus Church soll sich bereits im 6. Jahrhundert eine christliche Kapelle befunden haben. Die jetzige Kirche wurde im späten 15. Jahrhundert errichtet.
Das Herrenhaus Place House unmittelbar hinter der Pfarrkirche ist seit dem 13. Jahrhundert Wohnhaus der Familie Treffry. Der heutige Bau stammt aus dem frühen 16. Jahrhundert und wurde 1791 und im 19. Jahrhundert im neugotischen Stil umgebaut. Es wird privat genutzt und ist nicht zu besichtigen.
Der Tristan Stone befindet sich an der A3082, der Hauptzufahrt nach Fowey. Der mit Inschriften versehene Monolith aus Granit stammt aus dem 6. Jahrhundert und diente der Inschrift nach als Grabstein für Tristan, einem Sohn von König Mark of Cornwall.
Das St Catherine’s Castle ist eine kleine Küstenbefestigung aus dem 16. Jahrhundert, die das ältere Fowey Blockhouse an der Zufahrt zum Hafen ersetzte. Nach 1855 wurde die Stelle erneut für die Anlage einer Küstenbatterie genutzt, die jedoch zum Ende des Jahrhunderts wieder aufgegeben wurde.
Das Anwesen Menabilly oberhalb von Fowey war von 1943 bis 1969 Wohnsitz der Schriftstellerin Daphne du Maurier. Es diente ihr als Vorlage für das Anwesen Manderley in ihrem Roman Rebecca.
8 km südwestlich von Fowey befindet sich die Landzunge Gribbin Head.
Jährlich im August findet die einwöchige Fowey Royal Regatta statt, eine der bekanntesten Segelveranstaltungen in Großbritannien. An der Regatta nahmen bereits Königin Victoria, Prinz Albert und Queen Elizabeth II. teil. Während der Regatta gibt es ein umfangreiches Rahmenprogramm, an dem seit 1977 auch die Kunstflugstaffel Red Arrows der britischen Luftwaffe teilnimmt.
Inspiriert durch die Schriftstellerin Daphne Du Maurier findet seit 1997 jedes Jahr im Mai das Fowey Festival of Words and Music statt.
(Wikipedia)
The iconic bust of Nefertiti is part of the Ägyptisches Museum Berlin collection, currently on display in the Neues Museum.
Nefertiti (c. 1370 BC – c. 1330 BC) was the Great Royal Wife (chief consort) of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. Nefertiti and her husband were known for changing Egypt's religion from a polytheistic religion to a henotheistic religion. They revered only one god, Aten, the sun disc. This was not strictly monotheism, as they did not deny the existence of other gods.
Nefertiti had many titles; for example, at Karnak are inscriptions that read Heiress, Great of Favours, Possessed of Charm, Exuding Happiness, Mistress of Sweetness, beloved one, soothing the king's heart in his house, soft-spoken in all, Mistress of Upper and Lower Egypt, Great King's Wife, whom he loves, Lady of the Two Lands, Nefertiti.
She was made famous by her bust, now in Berlin's Neues Museum, shown to the right. The bust is one of the most copied works of ancient Egypt. It was attributed to the sculptor Thutmose, and it was found in his workshop. The bust is notable for exemplifying the understanding Ancient Egyptians had regarding realistic facial proportions. Some scholars believe that Nefertiti ruled briefly after her husband's death and before the accession of Tutankhamun as Smenkhkare, although this identification is a matter of ongoing debate.
Colors
Ludwig Borchardt commissioned a chemical analysis of the colored pigments of the head. The result of the examination was published in the book Portrait of Queen Nofretete in 1923:
Blue: powdered frit, colored with copper oxide
Skin color (light red): fine powdered lime spar colored with red chalk (iron oxide)
Yellow: orpiment (arsenic sulphide)
Green: powdered frit, colored with copper and iron oxide
Black: coal with wax as a binding medium
White: chalk (calcium carbonate)
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Watch the National Geographic video about Nefertiti. "Examining A Lost Queen "
Here's to explain the existence and role of this picture. It's been done as a response to a challenge by this great group www.flickr.com/groups/flickr64challenge/ . Check it out, it's a group very much alive and fun, unlike other dinosaur groups on Flickr, this one has a pulse and sets you racing around, hunting for the best you can shoot. I asked this two lovely gentlemen to help me out in beating my opponent, so this shot is my response to this duel www.flickr.com/groups/flickr64challenge/discuss/721576308..., which I have lost, by the way.
The beauty is eternal, maybe you should give a touch to embrace it. You wanna feel the existence.
Indoor experiment without external light.
Dual 5.56x45mm/12 gauge modular objective weapon system.
This weapon has the highest rifle capacity of all OICWs currently in existence. (Magazine Capacity: 180 round side-fed magazine)
After the booming success of Project Bedlam, Archwell Defense looked to update its vaunted MOW-Sys, also known as the MOWS-0 (Zero). This update was known as Project Stormbreaker.
The weapon was to provide the average infantryman with power of GR's four primary weapon designations (assault rifle, sniper rifle, light machine gun and shotgun) in one package.
Using parts of the now discontinued Eschaton MCAW-21, the reloading system of FN's PDW-57, and the massive magazine of the Bedlam XMDW-01, the MOWS-1, also known as the Stormbreaker Rifle, began to take shape.
Its long P90-esque magazine can hold 180 5.56x45mm titanium rounds, which slightly lags behind Eschaton's 200 box magazine tailored for the ER-15. It also features a under barrel, blow-forward, fully automatic shotgun with a 8-round capacity. Lastly, an optional fiber-optic link sighting system can be attached to this weapon via the top rail system.
The MOWS-1 is light enough for assault rifles, but its accuracy and magazine capacity rivals that of sniper rifles and machine guns respectively, which satisfies the remaining three criterion after implementing the under barrel shotgun.
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A Minstrel Bug Graphosoma lineatum on a wild carrot seedhead, there is a spider lurking on the underside- I am not sure the spider is a threat to this large bug, but smaller insects are probably supper for the spider.
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Eine Streifenwanze , Graphosoma lineatum auf einer Wilden Rübe- unten lauert eine Spinne. Ich glaube zwar nicht dass die Spinne eine Gefahr ist für diesen grossen Käfer, aber kleine Insekten sind bestimmt eine Mahlzeit für die Spinne.
Hi Guys! My store in Existence is finally opened -- so please drop on by and take a look and the things available. All releases are mesh items so you would need a mesh viewer to see it. To see if you have a compatible viewer, check out if the deer head in the store rezzes for you; if it doesn't, then please download either Viewer 3.0, Firestorm or Kristen!
Taxi to Beetlebones
*They started their primordial existence as microscopic lifeforms placed on separate parts of the Earth's Oceans by a dying race of ancients with the hopes of reviving a once great species. Over ions of existence the unpredictable conditions of this planet slowly morphed them into strange and unrecognizable versions of themselves."
"Like her sister, was born in water. But unlike her sister she felt cradled by the dark. The depths of the ocean provided solitude. She feared the sun and it's violent rays. Unable to stand even the faint light that peaked through the surface she delved into the darkest depths she could find. A large section of this ocean is an endless expanse of pitch black water or an "abyss" which interconnects with countless maze-like rocky passageways that expand for thousands of miles. This entire area, completely void of sunlight and home to very few lifeforms, provided a shelter for the her. However, while these underwater caverns are mostly void of life, the few that do manage to exist are extremely aggressive and monstrous in appearance. In the abyss she evolved into a silent ambush predator to feed and hide from horrifying creatures that roam the deep dark. Millenniums pass and she can heard the voices of humans in the water. They tell legends of her and call her Sobek. After ions of lonely existence something in the void calls to her and she discovers an ancient life form of unknown origin even older than herself. A sentient orb covered in metallic scales that is able to telepathically communicate with her. The creature reveals ancient cosmic knowledge, telling her she has a sister, and proposes a trade. It will guide her to her brethren and protect her from the sunlight she fears, but only if she allows the scaled orb to bond with her flesh."
Sobek is a OOAK Nnaji in Milk skintone and Busty chest option. Her body blushing is lilac and burned turquoise. Her head is covered in hand sculpted scales to enhance her monstrous looks. Her lips and nails are a palest pearl pink and her fanged teeth share the same steel grey as her alien gharial eyes. Sobek wears a hand stitched haute couture armour with a poseable tail, each sequin sewn to a form sculpture that bristles in the back as gharial scales, adorns the shoulders leaving sensuous naked spots and exaggerates the hips for a feminine silhouette. She wears spiky heels painted to match her skintone.
This is a commission order for a private collector, not for sale.
Listen Tout le monde Carla Bruni
The first news of which has its existence dates back to 978. Around the church of Sant Marti, as documented by the year 1088 began to wake up the first houses in this picturesque town that even today retains all its medieval charm.
Historically, work in the field was the main dedication of its people; particular importance was conreo of grapes, from the eighteenth century shifted more traditional forms of agriculture. This was a particularly arduous task given the characteristics of the mountainous terrain, settled in part by building jars at the foot of vineyards, which were used for the storage of must and grapes. Already into the nineteenth century, the phylloxera conditioned conreo and resulted in a significant decline in population. Another important task, until mid-twentieth century, was the development of charcoal, until such time as the electricity found their disappearance. Since then, its people were devoted to another kind of work in line with the changing times. It set up a textile factory in the early twentieth century, which was in operation until the year 1964. Logically, closing it was important socio-economic consequences on the lives of the people, determining the migration of population towards the industrial cities or to neighboring towns. Since then, the physiognomy of Mura se ha ido transforming into a large number of people with second homes, laying the groundwork for a tradition tourist potential. Precisely for the new work and revenue earned from tourism, was very relevant to the creation of the Natural Park Sant Llorenç del Munt i l'Obac, in 1972. Since then increased the number of tourists and visitors. Nobody is aware that, as in many other municipalities of Catalunya, tourism could ensure the future of the people so that asentare solidly its core population.
Tout le monde est une drôle de personne,
Et tout le monde a l'âme emmêlée,
Tout le monde a de l'enfance qui ronronne,
Au fond d'une poche oubliée,
Tout le monde a des restes de rêves,
Et des coins de vie dévastés,
Tout le monde a cherché quelque chose un jour,
Mais tout le monde ne l'a pas trouvé,
Mais tout le monde ne l'a pas trouvé.
Il faudrait que tout l'monde réclame auprès des autorités,
Une loi contre toute notre solitude,
Que personne ne soit oublié,
Et que personne ne soit oublié
Tout le monde a une sale vie qui passe,
Mais tout le monde ne s'en souvient pas,
J'en vois qui la plient et même qui la cassent,
Et j'en vois qui ne la voient même pas,
Et j'en vois qui ne la voient même pas.
Il faudrait que tout l'monde réclame auprès des autorités,
Une loi contre toute notre indifférence,
Que personne ne soit oublié,
Et que personne ne soit oublié.
Tout le monde est une drôle de personne,
Et tout le monde a une âme emmêlée,
Tout le monde a de l'enfance qui résonne,
Au fond d'une heure oubliée,
Au fond d'une heure oubliée
The first news of which has its existence dates back to 978. Around the church of Sant Marti, as documented by the year 1088 began to wake up the first houses in this picturesque town that even today retains all its medieval charm.
Historically, work in the field was the main dedication of its people; particular importance was conreo of grapes, from the eighteenth century shifted more traditional forms of agriculture. This was a particularly arduous task given the characteristics of the mountainous terrain, settled in part by building jars at the foot of vineyards, which were used for the storage of must and grapes. Already into the nineteenth century, the phylloxera conditioned conreo and resulted in a significant decline in population. Another important task, until mid-twentieth century, was the development of charcoal, until such time as the electricity found their disappearance. Since then, its people were devoted to another kind of work in line with the changing times. It set up a textile factory in the early twentieth century, which was in operation until the year 1964. Logically, closing it was important socio-economic consequences on the lives of the people, determining the migration of population towards the industrial cities or to neighboring towns. Since then, the physiognomy of Mura se ha ido transforming into a large number of people with second homes, laying the groundwork for a tradition tourist potential. Precisely for the new work and revenue earned from tourism, was very relevant to the creation of the Natural Park Sant Llorenç del Munt i l'Obac, in 1972. Since then increased the number of tourists and visitors. Nobody is aware that, as in many other municipalities of Catalunya, tourism could ensure the future of the people so that asentare solidly its core population.
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CEL: City Electric & Light Company box:
While scientists had known of the existence of electricity for hundreds of years, American inventor Thomas Edison made the first practical use of electric light in 1878. In Brisbane, the first display of the new electric lighting was conducted in 1882 using eight arc lamps strung along North Quay near the Victoria Bridge. Queensland’s Parliament House was illuminated with electricity in 1886. The first public supply of electricity occurred in 1888 when Barton, White & Co installed a generator in Telegraph (later renamed Edison) Lane that was connected to the General Post Office.
The electricity industry, however, was still in its infancy in this period. Nonetheless, the benefits of electricity became increasingly obvious to the colonial government and the public. In 1896, the Queensland government introduced the Electric Light and Power Act to regulate the supply of electricity to Queenslanders. By 1904, the number of electricity suppliers within Brisbane had grown to fourteen, including the City Electric and Light (CEL) Company.
The key figure associated with the formation of CEL, Edward Barton, first became involved in the electricity supply business in 1888 as part of Barton, White & Co. The first major contract for the company was to provide electric lighting to the Old Exhibition Building in Adelaide Street, which had been converted into a skating rink. A subsequent fire destroyed the building and left the company in possession of a heavily mortgaged generator. The company undertook negotiations with the General Post Office (GPO) and two months later the generator was providing electricity to the GPO building in Queen Street.
The company’s financial position declined in the early 1890s, however, due to a combination of factors including over-capitalisation, an economic depression, the 1893 flood, and competition from Brisbane’s gas suppliers. The company was reorganised in 1896 and renamed the Brisbane Electric Supply Company. The company built its first powerhouse in Ann Street at this time. The company then changed its name to City Electric and Light in 1904. Barton remained the driving force behind the various incarnations of the company in this period.
Initially, CEL was only able to supply power to a small section of the Central Business District (CBD). Indeed, it was not until 1908 that the electricity grid had reached Fortitude Valley. Nonetheless, the popularity of electricity continued to increase in this period. CEL established a second powerhouse, located in William Street (near Parliament House), in July 1911. By 1917, the first electric street lighting had been installed in Alice, Mary, Margaret, Charlotte, and Albert Streets. In 1925, the newly formed Brisbane City Council established the Electricity Department, which acted as a central authority guiding the provision of electricity throughout the city. By this time, CEL had become the dominant supplier for Brisbane, with the company servicing 12,054 customers in 1925.
Each of the cast iron junction boxes marked the spread of the electrical network throughout the CBD. Electrical plants were placed along CBD footpaths either above ground (in the junction boxes) or underground via designated manhole covers. The junction boxes were erected at different times as the electricity grid spread throughout the CBD. This explains the variety of styles in the CBD junction boxes; why only some are marked with the CEL logo; and why different foundries such as Balmer & Crowther, Smith & Faulkner and Sargeant Engineering were involved in their production.
CEL continued to prosper as a supplier of electricity to Brisbane. In February 1926, CEL opened another, larger powerhouse at Bulimba. Electricity supply in Queensland was provided by a variety of private companies in this period and a State Electricity Commission (SEC) was established by the state government in 1937 to rationalise and co-ordinate supply. By 1940, the SEC had given CEL and the Brisbane City Council control of the electricity supply for all of Brisbane. In 1953, the Queensland government used its powers to convert the City Electric and Light Company into a public authority and CEL became the Southern Electric Authority of Queensland (SEAQ). The SEAQ in turn became the South East Queensland Electricity Board (SEQEB) and then, more recently, Energex.
In 2001, nine CBD junction boxes were identified as being of heritage significance by the Institute of Engineers Australia (Queensland Division) in their publication Engineering Heritage Inner Brisbane – A Walk/Drive Tour. There is only one other CEL junction box known to be still in existence and this stands near the corner of Annerley Road and Stanley Street, on the footpath outside of the Mater Hospital.
The Austral Motors Building:
The former Austral Motors Building, which closes the vista at the end of Upper Adelaide Street, Petrie Bight, is located on the Fortitude Valley side of Boundary Street at the northern end of the Brisbane central business district. Constructed in 1924 - 1926 for the Austral Motors Company, it has a close association with the 20th Century interwar re-development of the Petrie Bight area as an important warehousing precinct and motor vehicle servicing and distribution district.
Petrie Bight is a sharp curve in the Brisbane River at the northern end of the Town Reach. The name is derived from the association of the area with early Brisbane builder Andrew Petrie, who in 1838 established his workshop and residence at the corner of Wharf and Queen Streets.
Early Petrie Bight land use:
Surveyor Henry Wade, on his 1844 Map of the Environs of Brisbane Town, identified the Petrie's Bight area south of Boundary Street and east of Queen Street as 'Reserved for Dry Dock'. Surveyor Galloway did the same on his 1856 Plan of the Suggested Extension of the Town of Brisbane. At this time the surrounding area was sparsely occupied, with Andrew Petrie's house and factory at the corner of Wharf and Queen Streets; Dr Hobbs' house (now Saint John's Deanery) a little further north in Adelaide Street; the original customs house in Queen Street, beside the Brisbane River; and a ferry jetty just north of the Customs Houses.
A circa 1860 map of Brisbane Town showing the new town boundaries no longer labelled Petrie's Bight as a reserve for a dry dock (no dry dock was ever established there), but the site remained unsurveyed Government land. An early track (the northern end of Queen Street) ran through this land, branching off in three directions to New Farm, Fortitude Valley, and the northwest end of Spring Hollow.
Under the provisions of the Brisbane Gas Company Bill 1864 the Government granted to the Company a site bounded by what are now Ann, Boundary, and Macrossan streets and a 160-metre frontage to the Brisbane River, as the site for Brisbane's first gas works. This was the northern half of the Government land at Petrie's Bight. Gas production commenced there in 1865, providing the Brisbane Municipal Council with a regular supply of gas for street lighting. By the early 1870s the demand for gas for domestic consumption was outstripping supply, and in the mid-1870s a second gasometer was constructed on the site. In 1873 the Brisbane Gas Company gained a formal deed of grant to the Petrie's Bight land, an area of 4 acres 17.5 perches (1.66ha), which the Company had purchased from the Government in May 1873 for £4,300.
An April 1873 survey plan titled Survey of Site of Gas Works and Adjacent Crown Land Shewing Road Through Same indicates that by this date the gasworks site was fenced along the entire length of its land boundaries, but that through this the government had just surveyed a 20 feet wide road between Macrossan and Boundary streets, which later became an extension of Adelaide Street. Photographs from the 1860s and early 1870s show a tall paling fence around the perimeter of the gasworks, prohibiting public access. Early Brisbane resident Victor Drury, writing in the Courier Mail in 1939, recalled: "When Adelaide Street was extended to Boundary Street, there were turnstiles there, and only pedestrians could use the path as a shortcut to Queen Street."
River wharfage:
In the early 1840s wharfage in Brisbane was concentrated along the South Brisbane Reach of the Brisbane River, but within a decade had extended to the Town Reach further downstream, which soon rivalled South Brisbane in terms of shipping activity. An 1849 decision to locate Brisbane's first purpose-built Customs House at the northern end of the Town Reach acted as the impetus for the development of wharves on this part of the river. The Commissariat Store below William Street, which had served as Brisbane's first customs facility, was replaced in 1850 by a new customs building on the site of the present Customs House in Queen Street, at Petrie's Bight. This in turn was replaced in 1886 - 1889 by the current building. During the 1850s and 1860s, a number of shipping companies and private investors constructed wharves and warehouses between the Customs House and Alice Street, near the Botanic Gardens.
Construction of a Government wharf, Kennedy Wharf, at Petrie's Bight north of the Customs House commenced in 1875 was completed in 1877 and was leased to private shipping firms. In 1880 the Brisbane Municipal Council acquired the wharf and immediately extended it northward. In 1884 the Council also constructed a wharf at the end of Boundary Street, and in the mid-1880s William Collin established his own wharf at Petrie's Bight, just downstream from the Council's Boundary Street wharf. Purchase of land from the Brisbane Gas Company in 1902 gave the Council control of the river frontage from the Customs House to Boundary Street, and between 1913 and 1916 the Council constructed reinforced concrete wharves between Macrossan and Boundary Streets, and between Kennedy Wharf and the Customs House. The whole of the Council's wharfage at Petrie's Bight was subsequently re-named Circular Quay Wharves.
Between 1900 and 1912 Brisbane Wharves Ltd established wharves at Petrie's Bight from Boundary Street to Bowen Terrace, rivalling the Council's Circular Quay facilities in importance. Principal investors in the Brisbane Wharf Company were Howard Smith and William Collin and Sons. From the late 1890s, Howard Smith and Company Ltd occupied the Council's Boundary Street Wharf at Petrie's Bight and in the early years of the 20th Century leased the adjacent new wharves constructed by Brisbane Wharves Limited at the base of the New Farm cliffs, below Bowen Terrace. These wharves were extended in the 1920s, and in the 1930s were resumed by the Queensland government for the construction of the Story Bridge.
Adelaide Street widening:
In the early 20th Century the roads to Petrie's Bight were improved significantly by the Brisbane City Council, providing an important impetus for the construction of new warehouses in the Upper Adelaide Street area.
Under the provisions of the City of Brisbane Improvement Act 1916 and the Local Authorities Act Amendment Act 1923 the Brisbane City Council contributed significantly to the 1920s building boom, with a programme of city beautification and street improvements, including the cutting down and widening of several of the principal thoroughfares. The 1916 Act empowered the City Council, with the approval of the Governor-in-Council, to resume land simply by passing a resolution to the effect that resumption was necessary. Property rights on resumed lands were then converted into compensation rights. The 1923 Act further facilitated this process by exempting all improvements made to a property after resumption notices had been issued, from the payment of compensation.
From 1923 to 1928 the Brisbane City Council implemented its most ambitious town improvement scheme to that date: the widening of Adelaide Street by 14 feet along its entire length. . Resumptions in Adelaide Street had commenced in the 1910s, but work on the street widening did not take place until the 1920s. The work was undertaken in stages, commencing in 1923 at the southern end where the new Brisbane City Hall was under construction. Some buildings had the front section removed and a contemporary façade installed on the new road alignment. Elsewhere, earlier buildings were demolished and substantial new structures took their place. At the northern end of Adelaide Street, the cutting down of the hill below Saint John's Cathedral in 1928 facilitated greater access to Petrie Bight, which, close to new city wharves at the end of Boundary Street, boomed in the 1920s as a warehousing district.
By 1921 Queensland was poised to resume the economic boom interrupted by the First World War (1914 - 1918). In the period 1922 - 1928, Queensland experienced its first and last economic boom between the outbreak of war in 1914 and the 1950s. The benefits of the boom economy were reflected throughout the State, but nowhere more so than in Brisbane, with 29% of the Queensland population in December 1924. In physical terms the boom was expressed in a spate of building activity that transported the central business district of Brisbane into the 20th Century, shedding its late Victorian image.
The take-off in the building industry was evident during 1922 - 1923, reflected in an active central business district real estate market, and prompting the Brisbane City Council to re-assess central city rateable values in 1923. By September 1925 property in Queen Street, the principal retail and financial street of Brisbane could be acquired only at highly inflated prices, forcing investors into more peripheral locations such as Petrie's Bight. A fall in the price of building materials, combined with the trend in using concrete, a more economical product than brick, for large construction projects, further stimulated building activity.
From 1922 the business of re-building Brisbane assumed impressive proportions. Between 1923 and 1925, an average of 50 new commercial buildings a year were being constructed in Brisbane, contrasting markedly with the 8 constructed twenty years earlier in 1903. During 1925 the value of contracts for buildings in Brisbane, either in course of erection or in contemplation, was reported at £3,000,000. The Greater Brisbane City Council meticulously monitored progress through its building approvals process, statistics for which were released monthly from October 1925 to an eager local press. Construction peaked in 1926 with £3,411,285 worth of building works (new buildings, alterations, and additions) approved in the Greater Brisbane area during the year. This included a substantial residential component. In 1927 the figure was around £2,823,000 and in 1928 just over £2,810,000.
The Motor Car Industry:
In the 1910s the increasing availability of motor vehicles began to revolutionise public, private, and commercial transport. In Brisbane, activities associated with horse transport began to convert to activities associated with motor transport, as coach and carriage builders became motor vehicle repairers or retailers, and livery stables became parking and service stations. In this way, the Austral Carriage Works, established around 1907 by Uhlmann and Lane at 51 Adelaide St, Brisbane, entered the motor trade shortly after the First World War. Austral Motors Limited became the sole agents in Queensland and the Northern Rivers for Dodge Brothers, an American firm that had manufactured motor cars since 1914 and light trucks since 1917. They were successful and by 1924 had two branches, with the Austral Carriage & Motor Works at Stanley Street in South Brisbane, and Austral Motors Distributors at Boundary Street, Spring Hill.
Queenslanders adopted motor vehicles with enthusiasm. Of the six Australian states, Queensland recorded the third largest number of motor vehicle registrations, 31,233, in 1923 - 1924, behind New South Wales and Victoria. At the international level in 1923 - 1924, Australia, with approximately 274,000 motor vehicle registrations, was fifth behind France (545,000), Canada (666,000), the United Kingdom (1,085,000), and the United States (15,400,000), and well ahead of Germany, in sixth place with 211,500 registrations.
Through the daily press, Brisbanites were exposed to a barrage of advertising from the motor vehicle industry, with regular features on aspects of motors and motoring. To accommodate this explosion of public interest in, and acceptance of, the motor vehicle, the number of Brisbane motor engineers' agents, car manufacturers, car importers, and garages listed in the local postal directories increased from 89 in 1920 - 1921, to 134 in 1924 -1925. This was accompanied by a corresponding increase in the number of motor vehicle accessory dealers, windscreen manufacturers, tyre dealers, and motorcar body manufacturers.
By September 1925, the Brisbane City Council was raising the problem of providing parking for motor vehicles in the inner city. Purpose-built privately operated parking stations began to appear in the central business district from the mid-1920s. Numerous small garages and service stations also provided motor vehicle parking and car hire.
From the mid-1920s, Australia's premier building and architectural trade journal, the Sydney Publication Building, had printed articles on designing public and commercial buildings to accommodate motor vehicles. Much of the journal's reference material came from the United States, which was leading the way in this type of design. Queensland architects had ready access to this and other architectural journals, and kept informed of the latest in international design developments.
In 1923 Austral Motors Limited engaged Brisbane architects Lange L Powell and George G Hutton Powell to design a showroom and service station at Petrie Bight. The land on which the Austral Motors building was constructed was part of two larger parcels of land first alienated from the Crown in 1852 and was surveyed and subdivided, together with the adjacent lane, in April 1923. The new road, Dodge Lane, was approved in May 1923 and is believed to have derived its name from the firm's Dodge agency. Tenders for construction were let in August 1923, the successful tenderer being Blair Cunningham. The first stage, on the corner of Dodge Lane, was completed in March 1924 at a projected cost of £9,300 and occupied by Austral Motors Limited from the 1st of April 1924. The two-storeyed building was constructed largely of concrete and steel, with a floor space of approximately 20,000 square feet (1858m²). Due to the slope of the land, both floors had street access. The Boundary Street level accommodated a motor vehicle showroom. The upper level, accessed off Dodge Lane at the rear, was fitted out as the Dodge Brothers Service Station.
In 1925 the firm undertook substantial extensions to their premises. George Hutton, who briefly occupied the position of Queensland Government Architect in 1922 prior to joining Powell in partnership in 1922, established his own practice in 1924, and called tenders for site excavations for Austral Motors Ltd in late 1924, the contract being let by January 1925. By April 1925 WR Juster's tender for additions and alterations to Austral Motors Ltd. had been accepted, but this appears not to have progressed, for by June 1925 Blair Cunningham's tender for the additions had been accepted. In July 1925 Austral Motors Ltd obtained Brisbane City Council approval for the construction, to cost £10,230.
The location was an excellent choice for a business of this type, being close to the city's main wharves at Petrie Bight, and in a location favoured by other motor vehicle retailers and ancillary businesses. The Evers Motor Co. Ltd had established a garage/paint shop at the eastern corner of Ivory and Boundary streets as early as 1918, and by 1920 HS Simpson, motor painter, was located next door to Evers. About 1926/27 Evers constructed a three-storeyed brick motor shed, offices and workshops at the corner of Boundary and Ivory streets, and a single-storeyed brick parking and filling station adjacent in Ivory Street, known as the Super Parking Station. As warehousing activity in Upper Adelaide Street expanding during the 1920s, many buildings were occupied by firms connected with the motor vehicle trade and industry and with car hire and garaging. In 1928, Collin House, a purpose-designed parking station and garage and a four-storey brick warehouse for the Dunlop Rubber Company of Australasia Pty Ltd were constructed in the vicinity. Tyre sales, automotive electricians and spare parts suppliers formed a substantial proportion of tenants in buildings in upper Adelaide Street during the 1920s and 1930s.
In the second half of the 1920s Austral Motors expanded rapidly, due to the Queensland-wide economic boom that coincided with the increasing availability of and public interest in motor vehicles. By 1929 the company was operating from several addresses and two cities, with the Austral Carriage & Motor Works continuing at Stanley Street, South Brisbane; Austral Cars Ltd established at Adelaide Street, Brisbane; and Austral Motors Ltd located at Boundary St, Spring Hill, and at Sturt Street, Townsville.
In 1939 Austral Motors Pty Ltd acquired title to the allotment along the eastern boundary of the Company's mid-1920s acquisitions.
In 1986 Austral Motors sold the property to the Sisters of Mercy in Queensland who own the adjacent All Hallows girl's school. It continues its connection with motor vehicles and is leased out as a parking station as well as being used to park vehicles of All Hallows staff.
Source: Brisbane City Council Heritage Register & Queensland Heritage Register.