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FR :
La carte postale du jour, juste pour le bel éclairage naturel d’une fin d’après-midi glaciale d’automne (presque d’hiver !) :
"Le rémouleur"
Statue de bronze par François Girardon (1688)
Fonderies Keller
Parterre du Nord
Parc du château de Versailles (78)
EN:
Postcard of the day, just for the superb light of autumn late afternoon :
"The knife-grinder"
Bronze statue by François Girardon (1688)
Keller Foundries
Park of Versailles palace (78)
Built in 1946, PS Waverley is the last seagoing passenger-carrying paddle steamer in the world. Bought by the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society (PSPS) for £1 from Calmac who were keen that she was preserved, she has been restored to her 1947 appearance and now operates passenger excursions around the British coast.
2023 All images and use thereof are copyright of Daryl Hutchinson. Reproduction of them is forbidden without prior permission
The third in the series of PS Waverley. here, passing beneath the coastguard cottages above Hele Bay.
Built in 1946, PS Waverley is the last seagoing passenger-carrying paddle steamer in the world. Bought by the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society (PSPS) for £1 from Calmac who were keen that she was preserved, she has been restored to her 1947 appearance and now operates passenger excursions around the British coast.
2023 All images and use thereof are copyright of Daryl Hutchinson. Reproduction of them is forbidden without prior permission
The Spirit of Hervey Bay Cruise and Fraser Island.
This largest sand island in the world at 120 kms long was declared a world heritage site in 1992. Geographically it is exceptional as it has areas of rainforest, open eucalyptus forest, heathlands, peat bogs and more. Its fauna includes reptiles, frogs and sometimes salt water crocodiles as well as numerous bird species and a few mammals – native mice, wallabies, possums, echidnas and dingoes etc. The sand of Fraser Island have been carried by northerly currents along the Australia coast and has been dumped along a spit which led to the formation of the island over thousands of years. Rain has created at least one creek on the island and winds from the ocean have led to the formation of dunes. As dunes have piled up on each other the central range of his sand hills were formed. Where clays have washed through the sand dunes coloured sands have been formed. Fraser Island also has over 100 fresh water lakes.
Fraser Island was named after Eliza Fraser and her husband who were shipwrecked on the island in 1836 in a ship called the Stirling Castle. The passengers and crew then boarded lifeboats and set sail for Moreton Bay convict settlement to the south (Brisbane). Unfortunately the pregnant Eliza Fraser gave birth to a child in the life boat but the child did not survive. The life boat that the Frasers were in was taking water and was left behind by the other life boat. The occupants eventually landed on a great sandy island which is now known as Fraser Island. All the boat occupants died except for Eliza Fraser who was taken in by the local Aboriginal people. She was rescued six weeks later and taken back to Moreton Bay. Six months later she married again and returned to live in England. Here she told lurid tales of her adventure which by then included murder, torture and cannibalism! No one is quite certain of what really happened to Eliza Fraser on Fraser Island as she kept altering her story of the events. What is known is that the local Aboriginal people had lived on Fraser Island for about 5,000 years. They were removed from the island by the Queensland government in 1904 and relocated to several different Aboriginal mission stations. The Badtjala people were granted native title rights over the island in 2014. Today the island is a haven for tourists and up to half a million of them visit the island each year.
Wide Bay between Hervey Bay and Fraser Island is a favoured spot for humpback whales to play and rest and mate on their annual migration from the Artic areas. There are often 400 to 500 humpback whales in Wide Bay at any one time and around 5,000 humpback whales visit the bay each year between July and November. The Spirit of Hervey Bay is the largest of the whale watching operators in Wide Bay and along Fraser Island.
Built in 1946, PS Waverley is the last seagoing passenger-carrying paddle steamer in the world. Bought by the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society (PSPS) for £1 from Calmac who were keen that she was preserved, she has been restored to her 1947 appearance and now operates passenger excursions around the British coast.
2025 All images and use thereof are copyright of Daryl Hutchinson. Reproduction of them is forbidden without prior permission
Tozer St. Railway station. 1910. The wooden station has beautiful curved steel struts beside the platforms. This old station is where the Mary Valley Rattler train departs. After years of closure and expenditure of some millions of dollars the City of Gympie has underwritten the restoration of part of the railway tracks along the Mary River valley. The Mary Valley Rattler follows the 1891 route into the city now disused because of the Tilt Train track. The Mary Valley Rattler is run by local volunteers.
Once again PS Waverley made her way up the River Torridge to Bideford for what was her second and final visit for 2024 after an absence of 40 years. Seen here passing Appledore and with Insotw on the opposite side of the river as she heads from Bideford to Ilfracombe.
It was good to see a lot of people on the quayside at Appledore watching her pass and a lot travelling on the trip.
2024 All images and use thereof are copyright of Daryl Hutchinson. Reproduction of them is forbidden without prior permission
Building is heritage listed under local government jurisdiction.
Exact age of building is not certain however appears to have been built during the year 1900.
For those interested, I have not copy/pasted information here as I often do. I have, instead, listed some hyperlinks below to further infomation. There is quite a lot of it.
www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDe...
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Gayndah. Early history and Village Settlements.
This small town was surveyed in 1847 on the Burnett River which enters the ocean near Bundaberg. The town was not gazetted until 1849 and then began to slowly grow with the first Post Office opening in 1850.It is believed that the Aboriginal word guindah meant thunder at place of scrub. Although it its latter years the district was known for its cattle industry in the early days it was a sheep pastoral region. Today it is the main citrus growing region of Queensland. As the small settlement increased a newspaper was started in 1861. By the 1860s it churches, a school stores and hotels. The school opened in 1863, the first bank in 1864 and Catholic and Baptist churches opened soon afterwards. When gold was discovered further inland at Eidsvold (a Norwegian name) in 1866 the town progressed even more as the handling spot for goods travelling to and from Eidsvold. The first citrus trees were planted in 1892 and that industry had expanded by 1898 and then a railway line from Maryborough reached the town in 1907 prompting more expansion.
When the great depression of the early 1890s struck QLD it followed the lead of SA and Victoria and introduced legislation to established communistic type village settlements. These attempts at utopian communal farming and living were influenced by the works of Queenslander William Lane, the Australian attempts to set up a Utopia in Paraguay and the rise of unions on sheep stations. The QLD Cooperative Communities Land Settlement Act came into force in 1893. Thirty men (and wives or daughters) could set up a commune and leased around 100 acres per member. The government provided £20 per member for seeds, farming tools and equipment. Twelve communes were quickly formed including three near Gayndah – Byrnestown, Resolute and Bon Accord. Arguments, poor soil, and lack of resources led to some communes failing in 1894 and the rest by 1896. Byrnestown soon a timber school for the children pictured. This provisional school opened with around 40 children in 1895. By October 1894 there were 169 people in the Byrnestown settlement. When the government disbanded the communes those who wanted were able to break the lands into private leases which is what happened at Byrnestown. In 1896 sixteen members of Byrnestown commune divided 2,600 acres into 16 small farms. Those who stayed made a successes of their farming and the Byrnestown School became a state school in 1909 and provided education to students until 1970. A Catholic Church opened in Byrnestown in 1925. In 1969 it was moved to Gayndah to become the parish hall for the Catholic Church in Gayndah.
After the railway reached Gayndah dairying began in the district with a dairy factory opening in 1911. New churches were opened after 1910 including the fine Catholic Church in 1915 and a Catholic School and Convent in 1919. The town War Memorial was unveiled in 1921. The district’s citrus growers association was formed in 1920. Tourism is now a major industry and the town has a few heritage listed structures. These structures are all in Capper Street - the War Memorial opened 1921; the Courthouse 1928 – replacing an 1861 courthouse; Mellor’s Drapery and Haberdashery store built in 1922; Gayndah Shire Hall built in Art Deco style in 1935. In Meson Street is the heritage listed state school which dates from 1861. In Simon Street there is a red brick Georgian style cottage built in in 1864 for Henry Fenwick. This is an unusual building and not very suitable for the Queensland climate. It is now part of the town museum. The museum has a display of the prehistoric lungfish which have survived in the Burnett River which flows through the town on its way down to Bundaberg.
© Randall Hobbet - All rights reserved - 2014 LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art): on loan from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, for the Expressionism in Germany and France: From Van Gogh to Kandinsky Exhibition, June 8 to September 14, 2014. This painting was part of a series of five decorative panels of domestic interiors filled with young women and flowers, made in the ornamental style of Art Nouveau. The series was commissioned by Misia Natanson and her husband, Thadée Natanson, who was one of the foundrs of the Revue blanche, a French art and literary magazine that featured graphgics by Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Félix Vallotton. Woman in a Striped Dress was first shown at the Maison de l'Art Nouveau in Paris in 1895, and was also exhibited at the Berlin Secession in 1906 and the Munich Secession in 1911.
Des minerais de zinc sont naturellement présents en Wallonie, plus précisément dans les régions de Moresnet et de la Vieille-Montagne (cantons de l'Est). Pourtant, l'utilisation du zinc pur n'est pas possible jusqu'à ce que Jean-Jacques Dony, un Liégeois, ne mette au point, entre 1805 et 1809, une technique permettant d'extraire de ses minerais, issus de la mine de la Vieille-Montagne dont il acquiert la possession pour cinquante ans, du zinc pur et malléable. Il obtient un brevet d'invention de quinze ans pour cette innovation majeure en 1809. Il ouvre sa première usine à zinc dans le faubourg liégeois de Saint-Léonard la même année. Malheureusement, il tarde à faire des bénéfices et cède sa société à un industriel du nom de Mosselman en 1819.
En 1825, lorsque le brevet de Dony tombe dans le domaine public, la société de la Vieille-Montagne souffre de la concurrence d'autres entreprises belges. Après la mort de Mosselman, c'est son gendre, Charles le Hon qui reprend la société. Entre-temps, elle est devenue en 1837 la Société anonyme des Mines et Fonderies de la Vieille-Montagne. Sous la direction de Louis puis de Gaston Saint-Paul De Sinçay, elle devient une véritable multinationale, notamment à cause de l'épuisement des gisements zincifères belges : elle a des mines en Suède, en Sardaigne ou encore en Algérie dès les années 1870.
Durant le vingtième siècle, la Vieille-Montagne s'affaiblit à cause des deux guerres mondiales, des différentes crises économiques et de la concurrence grandissante. Pourtant, l'entreprise demeure le premier producteur européen dans l'industrie zincifère pendant des dizaines d'années. Elle fusionne en 1989 avec d'autres sociétés pour devenir ACEC-Union Minière. Elle deviendra en 2001 Umicore.
Ce site d'Angleur est aujourd'hui une réserve naturelle car il abrite un écosystème particulier, du fait de sa très grande concentration en zinc.
Zinc ores are naturally present in Wallonia, more precisely in the regions of Moresnet and Vieille-Montagne (eastern cantons). However, the use of pure zinc is not possible until Jean-Jacques Dony, a Liegeois, does not develop, between 1805 and 1809, a technique to extract from its ores, from the mine of the Old Mountain, from which he acquires possession for fifty years, pure and malleable zinc. He obtained a patent for fifteen years for this major innovation in 1809. He opened his first zinc plant in the suburb of Liège Saint-Léonard the same year. Unfortunately, he is slow to make profits and sells his company to an industrialist named Mosselman in 1819. In 1825, when Dony's patent fell into the public domain, the Vieille-Montagne society suffered from competition from other Belgian companies. After the death of Mosselman, it's his kind, Charles the Hon who takes over the company. In the meantime, it became in 1837 the Company of Mines and Foundries of Old Mountain. Under the direction of Louis and Gaston Saint-Paul De Sinçay, it became a true multinational, particularly because of the depletion of Belgian zinc deposits: it has mines in Sweden, Sardinia or Algeria in the 1870s.
During the twentieth century, the Old Mountain grew weak because of the two world wars, the various economic crises and the growing competition. However, the company remains the leading European producer in the zinciferous industry for decades. It merged in 1989 with other companies to become ACEC-Union Minière. It will become Umicore in 2001.
This Angleur site is today a nature reserve because it shelters a particular ecosystem, because of its very high concentration of zinc.
Waverley approaches its destination on the morning trip from Clevedon and Penarth.
Built in 1946, PS Waverley is the last seagoing passenger-carrying paddle steamer in the world. Bought by the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society (PSPS) for £1 from Calmac who were keen that she was preserved, she has been restored to her 1947 appearance and now operates passenger excursions around the British coast.
2025 All images and use thereof are copyright of Daryl Hutchinson. Reproduction of them is forbidden without prior permission
2024 All images and use thereof are copyright of Daryl Hutchinson. Reproduction of them is forbidden without prior permission
Once again PS Waverley made her way up the River Torridge to Bideford for what was her second and final visit for 2024 after an absence of 40 years. Seen here passing Appledore and below Tapeley Park on the opposite side of the river as she heads from Bideford to Ilfracombe.
It was good to see a lot of people on the quayside at Appledore watching her pass and a lot travelling on the trip.
2024 All images and use thereof are copyright of Daryl Hutchinson. Reproduction of them is forbidden without prior permission
Walkers of Maryborough. The Union Foundry was established in 1868 by John Walker. It was a branch of the Union Foundry of Ballarat. The foundry supplied materials and engineering items for the mining industry and the equipment for the sugar mills in the district. The gold mines at Gympie (1867) and the Maryborough Sugar Company (which was formed in 1865) were major clients. John Walker was joined by Mr W Harrington in 1872 and the firm was expanded and floated as a public company. The firm had its own wharf in Maryborough and more partners joined the firm. The foundry started building river dredges, barges and ships. In 1884 it changed its name from the Union Foundry to Walker and Co. Ltd. This company survived until amalgamated with another company in 1981. Ten aces was purchased on the Mary River to construct the ships. Ship building was developed in three periods. The first period from 1877 to 1898 saw 13 ships built; then from 1918 to 1928 a further 3 were built; and from 1939 to 1974 some 59 vessels were built. The ship yards closed in 1974 but the Walker engineer works continued. Walkers specialised in ships for the Australian navy building frigates (three built) and corvettes (seven built) and minesweepers during World War Two. During the 1960s and 1970s Walker built ten naval patrol boats and eight army landing boats. From 1900 Walkers also built steam engines for the Queensland railway system. They got their first government contract to engineer a steam engine in 1897. From then until 1958 they produced 449 steam engines mainly for the Queensland railways but also for other state railways.
Waverley approaches its destination of Ilfracombe on the morning trip from Clevedon and Penarth.
Built in 1946, PS Waverley is the last seagoing passenger-carrying paddle steamer in the world. Bought by the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society (PSPS) for £1 from Calmac who were keen that she was preserved, she has been restored to her 1947 appearance and now operates passenger excursions around the British coast.
2025 All images and use thereof are copyright of Daryl Hutchinson. Reproduction of them is forbidden without prior permission
The afternoon cruise along the Exmoor coast returns back to Ilfracombe and is about to pass between St Nicholas' chapel and Hillsborough
Built in 1946, PS Waverley is the last seagoing passenger-carrying paddle steamer in the world. Bought by the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society (PSPS) for £1 from Calmac who were keen that she was preserved, she has been restored to her 1947 appearance and now operates passenger excursions around the British coast.
2025 All images and use thereof are copyright of Daryl Hutchinson. Reproduction of them is forbidden without prior permission
Muscletown U.S.A., one of a series of York Murals, was painted by artist Max Mason and sponsored by Bob Hoffman Foundation and York Barbell Company Inc.. In the mid-20th century, York, PA, became known as "Muscletown USA" through the promotional genius of Bog Hoffman. Hoffman, foundr of York Barbell Corp. in 1932, was a fitness enthusiast, U.S. Olympic coach, and extraordinary businessman and philanthropist. Hailed as the father of weightlifting, Hoffman popularized the bodybuilding movement and has been credited with inspiring the worldwide focus on sports and fitness.
York Central Market, a historic public market, was built in 1888 to the Romanesque Revival design of architect John A. Dempwolf. The two-story brick building features a hipped roof with steep gable dormers and projecting front pieces with a front facade featuring two three-story square towers with pyramidal roofs.
National Register #78002488 (1978)
Wakefield Quay, Nelson.
LOVED the cloud pattern overhead!
The 'Anchor Line' served local shipping for more than a century.
The 'Anchor Shipping and Foundry Co.' began with Nathaniel Edwards and his partners, Bennetts then John Symons. They began the shipping ownership in Nelson in 1862 as a coastal shipping company, starting with one paddle steamer.
( For a colourful account of an event-filled 15-MONTH (!) voyage from London to NZ, aboard Anchor's steamer the "Lyttelton", read this account in Papers Past:
[paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NE...] )
When partner John Symons became sole owner, the company name changed to 'Anchor Line of Steam Packets' (1870). Ten years later the 'Anchor Steam Shipping Co.' was formed - consisting of the Anchor Line proper, a foundry, and a shipyard. The firm grew despite adverse circumstances and was renewed again, as 'Anchor Shipping & Foundry Co.' in 1901.
From 1921 on, there was friendly co-operation with the famous 'Union Steam Ship Co.' which had quietly taken over half of the shares in 1908. By 1930 the fleet counted sixteen ships.
After WWII trade declined, partly caused by competition from ferries and the lessening use of coal. 'Union Co.' took over the shipping business in 1972, effectively closing it down when the last ship was sold in 1974.
A book was written by Allan A.Kirk entitled ANCHOR SHIPS AND ANCHOR MEN (Reed, 1967), which covers the history of the oldest shipping company founded in Nelson: [www.abebooks.com/Anchor-Ships-Men-history-Shipping-Foundr...]
This building dates from 1927 and has had a varied past. It was most recently a distillery, but lately has been vacant, until bought by the Nelson City Council for $1m.in Oct.2013. The Anchor building is a Cat.II building under the NZ Historic Places Trust and has a Class B heritage rating under the Nelson Resource Management Plan.
Muscletown U.S.A., one of a series of York Murals, was painted by artist Max Mason and sponsored by Bob Hoffman Foundation and York Barbell Company Inc.. In the mid-20th century, York, PA, became known as "Muscletown USA" through the promotional genius of Bog Hoffman. Hoffman, foundr of York Barbell Corp. in 1932, was a fitness enthusiast, U.S. Olympic coach, and extraordinary businessman and philanthropist. Hailed as the father of weightlifting, Hoffman popularized the bodybuilding movement and has been credited with inspiring the worldwide focus on sports and fitness.