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The (former) Postamt of Mittenwald at the Bahnhofsplatz.
The building dates from 1914, as a post office it is out of use since 2009, new use is as an art museum.
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… slightly dilapidated and lonely on the side of Clacton Pier.
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A place of History,Culture and Silence in the bowels of the stressful city of Barcelona
The Former Convalescent Home of Saint Paul is a manificent civic building of the XVII century built for the convalescence of the sick at the neighboring Hospital de la Sant Creu (Hospital of the Saint Cross).
Even though the first stone was laid by the bishop Sentís on 26 March 1629, more than fifty years passed until the building was inaugurated, on 25 January 1680.
The Convalescent Home represented a significant improvement in convalescent care.
The figure of Saint Paul (1687) and the four gargoyles at the corner of the Cloister (1677-1679) are works of the baroque sculptor Lluis Bonifac
Former Hotel & Draft Room
Ossington Lofts is a new condo development by NDS Properties Ltd. at 2 Ossington Ave, Toronto. The development was completed in 2012. 2 Ossington Lofts has a total of 5 units.
DE HEUL / WIJDEWORMER - Former natural swimming pool (1956-1987) with sunbathing areas, popularly also called the Wormerbad, Wormergat or Wormerplas, located in the southeast corner of the Wijde Wormer, on the spot where a 'whirlpool' had arisen during the flood of 1825. Now surrounded by Golf Course “Zaanse Golf Club”
… once the Pancras Public Baths, now Kentish Town Sports Centre, providing 3 pools and a gym to the neighbourhood community.
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This place used to be amazing, with small colourful boats lining up each side of the jetty well before I took up photography. Now it is part of an Oyster company, and it still looks great, but nothing compared to what it used to. I've visited this place 5 times, with disappointment on all times apart from this morning, but I still think it isn't good enough for final print and display. Still a great morning, but perhaps time to move onto another location!
An Escanaba & Lake Superior passenger extra passes the depot at Stiles Junction, Wisconsin, on August 29, 1987. The train is operating from Crivitz to Green Bay on the former Milwaukee Road line from Milwaukee to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
The former McArthur Woolen Mill (1871-early 1960s) and Island in Carleton Place, Ontario, Canada.
This five-storey stone structure was constructed by Archibald McArthur in 1871, and served in the beginning as a woolen mill with several different owners until 1907.
In 1907, McArthur Mill was acquired by Bates and Innis who converted the old woolen mill to a knitting factory and ceased operations in the early 1960s.
It is located on McArthur Island, which was man-made, much to my surprise.
One can read more about its history here:
Colliery Zollverein - Ruhr Museum
Das Ruhr Museum, das zum Auftakt des Kulturhauptstadtjahres RUHR 2010 in der ehemaligen Kohlenwäsche eröffnete, ist das Regionalmuseum des Ruhrgebiets.
The Ruhr Museum, which opened at the start of the RUHR 2010 Capital of Culture year in the former coal washing plant, is the regional museum of the Ruhr area.
Former radio station Radio Kootwijk is a monumental building with a special history, in which connection is central. The building is architecturally unique, in its special Art Deco style.
Architect Julius Luthmann was commissioned in 1920 to build a hall for the large dynamo of long-wave radio transmission equipment. The desolate sand drift near Apeldoorn lent itself well to an interference-free transmitter. Luthmann was not allowed to use wood and iron, so it was made entirely of concrete. In the rich Netherlands of those days, no more or less was looked at. The design has been worked out to perfection and finished in Art Deco down to the last detail.
History:
At the start of the twentieth century, the Netherlands was a trading nation with extensive overseas territories. Its interests were served by a quick connection to the colonies, especially the Dutch East Indies. Direct communication took place by way of electric telegrams, which required cable connections. Prior to this, the Netherlands was dependent on England and Germany. When the First World War broke out the disadvantages of this dependence increased. In 1918, the government decided to realise their own international communication network, independent of the neighbouring countries. After much political debate it was decided to build a long wave transmission station enabling permanent contact with the Dutch East Indies using radio telegraphs.
To establish the radio transmitting station they looked for an uninhabited, remote terrain so there would be minimum interference to the transmission traffic from the environment. The 450 hectare terrain was bought by the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management from the Dutch National Forestry Commission.
About 150 labourers from Amsterdam levelled the terrain. The antenna terrain was constructed as a circular plain with a diameter of approximately 1200 metres, a ring of five 212 metre high masts around a central mast at the foot of the transmitter building. The radio transmission centre was officially put into operation in May 1923, initially for Morse telegraph traffic. The developments in radio technology advanced rapidly. After a few years it became apparent that the long wave connections were outdated and too expensive. They switched to a short wave frequency for a higher signalling rate, better connections, lower energy consumption and smaller equipment.
The station initially operated under the name Radio Assel, but also became known under the name Radio Hoog Buurlo. 'Kootwijk Radio' was the international call sign for radio traffic. Queen Emma brought about the first telephone connection in 1929 with the Dutch East Indies with the legendary words: “Hello Bandoeng Hello Bandoeng! Can you hear me?". The first conversations, which invariably concluded with the Dutch national anthem Wilhelmus, were free as it was still in an experimental phase. Subsequently, people had to pay considerable amounts for a phone call to family members overseas. The PTT (state enterprise for Post, Telegraphs and Telephony of the Netherlands) tried to interest the public in overseas phone calls through advertising. Cheap family phone calls, only on Saturdays with 30% discount off the normal rates cost f 21 in those days for a three minute call to Java, for example. In those days the average weekly salary was f 25.