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A manure spreader or muck spreader or honey wagon is an agricultural machine used to distribute manure over a field as a fertilizer.
The first successful automated manure spreader was designed by Joseph Kemp in 1875. Manure spreaders began as ground-driven units which could be pulled by a horse or team of horses. At the time of his invention, he was living near Magog, Quebec, Canada
Historic Stewart Farm,
Elgin Heritage Park,
Elgin, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
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Todmorden Mills was a small settlement located in the Don River valley in Toronto, Ontario. It started out as a lumber mill in the 1790s. Originally known as "Don Mills", it grew into a small industrial complex and village before becoming part of East York in the 20th century. Currently the valley site is occupied by the Todmorden Mills Heritage Museum and Arts Centre, which includes the museum, art gallery, a theatre and a forest preserve. -Wikipedia
Circa 10th century - Rufford Abbey in Rufford Park, Nottinghamshire 04Feb18
Part of the main building was pulled down in the early 20th century as it was not safe.
I think the oldest fabric left in the building now dates to the 13th century.
This a grade one listed building.
Info from Historic England's website.
Name: RUFFORD ABBEY
Designation Type: Listing
Grade: I
List UID: 1302352
Cistercian Abbey founded 1147 by Gilbert de Gant. 1170, C13, C14, C15. Granted to Earls of Shrewsbury 1537. Partly demolished and converted to country house 1560-1. Passed to Saviles 1626. Remodelled 1685-95. Additions c.1720, altered c.1790, and 1838-40 by A. Salvin. Partly demolished 1959. Rubble, brick, dressed stone and ashlar with ashlar dressings. Plain tile roofs. Lintel and eaves bands, coped gables with kneelers. 2 gable stacks and 2 side wall stacks, one of them external. 2 storeys plus basement and 4 storeys plus garrets. 6 bays wide by 12 bays deep. T-plan. Windows are cross and mullioned leaded casements with chamfered and rebated reveals. Many unglazed. Roofless north wing has C13 undercroft and superstructure C16 and C17. West side has off centre bridge, mid C19, leading to porch tower. 6 bays. Ashlar. Plinth, pilasters, balustrade with round headed openings and moulded coping. East end has a pair of scroll brackets. West end has steps with splayed flanking scroll brackets. Porch, C16, restored C19, 4 stages, has parapet with chamfered coping. Basement level has to north and south an archway with segmental head. Entry stage has to west moulded four centred arched doorway with C19 panelled doors, flanked by single barley sugar columns with Corinthian capitals and entablature. To north and south a cross window. Third stage has to west an oval cartouche with Arms, strapwork brackets and blocked obelisk finials. Fourth stage has to west a chamfered strapwork panel and single window and to east, opening with segmental head. Basement to left of porch has to left 5 small moulded openings and to their right, a C15 round headed triple lancet, and beyond, a mullioned window. Above, 8 double cross windows. Basement to right of porch has 3 windows and above, 3 cross windows. Above again, 3 smaller windows. East side has basement with 4 unequally spaced doorways and to right, blocked fireplace. Above, to left, remains of a mullioned window and 6 openings. To right, remains of cross window and opening with moulded segmental head. To right again, remains of 2 openings. Above again, remains of 2 mullioned windows. North east return angle has roofless extruded corner with a cross window and a doorway to east and to north. South range, C17, remodelled C19, has partly demolished north east corner with remains of various openings and fireplaces. To right, recessed bay with cross window. Double east gable has 3 cross windows. Above, 3 large blocked openings with keystoned eared architraves. Above again, 3 similar smaller architraves, blocked or with remains of timber mullions. South front has off centre gabled bay with clock and bell turret, and to left, external stack. To its left, adjoining gatepier with ball finial. 3 windows and to right, chamfered doorway with C19 door. Beyond adjoining boundary wall, 2 round headed doorways. Above, to left, 3 cross windows and to right, on different level, 4 similar windows. Above again to left, 3 cross windows. Above again, to right, 5 mullioned windows. Above again, to left, 2 cross-eaves gabled dormers with mullioned casements. Gabled bay to right has central window in opening with segmental head. Above it, ashlar panel containing clock. Above again, octagonal bell turret with round headed openings and bracketed cornice. Stepped ogee leaded dome with wind vane. North side has a similar clock dial. West gable has 2 mullioned windows and above, 2 cross windows. Above again, 2 similar windows and above again, central window with hood mould. North wing undercroft has to north, chamber with C13 groin vault, 4 bays, with 3 octagonal piers with chamfered bases and moulded octagonal capitals. Moulded octagonal corbels. To north, pseudo pier with pointed arched opening. To south, transverse chamber with groin vault and 3 pointed doorways. To south again, chamber with C14 vault, 4 bays, with chamfered ribs and faceted conical corbels. 3 round piers with water holding bases and moulded capitals. East side has large C19 ashlar fireplace with chamfered lintel and hipped tiled hood. North wing has to east, blocked 3 light window with timber mullions. To its right, C14 coved reveal with masks and foliate bosses. South wing has stud walls, winder stair with square newel and moulded C18 landing balustrade with turned balusters. C17 plank door with cross patterned weatherstripping and timber cased lock. Single C19 Gothic style fireplace. C19 purlin rood. Kitchen has to east, 3 openings with segmental heads and linked hood moulds, and to south, opening with segmental head and large C19 range. Flanked by single round headed doorways. Above, brackets carrying remains of elaborate smoke jack. Now in Guardianship of English Heritage, also an Ancient Monument.
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A beautiful house on Houston Street, a very short block from Washington Square. One of my favorite houses I saw in my meanderings around historic Savannah.
"Washington Square is one of the 22 squares of Savannah, Georgia, United States. It is located in the northernmost row of the city's five rows of squares, on Houston Street and East St. Julian Street. It is east of Warren Square and north of Greene Square in the northeastern corner of the city's grid of squares, in Savannah's Old Fort neighborhood. The oldest building original to the square is 510 East St. Julian Street, which dates to 1797.
Built in 1790, Washington Square was named in 1791 for George Washington, the first president of the United States, who visited Savannah that year. It was one of only two squares named to honor a then-living person, Troup Square being the other.
Washington Square had been the site of the Trustees' Garden. Named for the trustees of General James Oglethorpe's colony, the garden was the testing ground for a variety of experimental crops – including mulberry (for silkworms), hemp, and indigo – viewed as potential cash crops. Most of these experiments proved unsuccessful.
The square was once the site of massive New Year's Eve bonfires; these were discontinued in the 1950s.
In 1964 Savannah landscape architect Clermont Huger Lee and Mills B. Lane planned and initiated a project to close the fire lane, add North Carolina bluestone pavers, initiate the use of different paving materials, install water cisterns, and lastly install new walks, benches, lighting, and plantings.
At 541–545 East Congress Street are three Joseph Burke Properties, built in 1860. They were restored in 1955 by preservationist Jim Williams (later the central character in John Berendt's 1994 book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil), his first project of over fifty he undertook before his death in 1990" (Wikipedia)
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The Port of Coupeville
Coupeville Wharf was established in 1967, located on Whidbey Island in the Puget Sound situated on the south side of a sheltered inlet known as Penn Cove.
It includes an area from just North of the town of Coupeville to just North of Freeland. Coupeville was founded by Captain Coupe.
The town has long been a port and a center for fishing and shell fish. The town was originally built as a small port and its primary business was the import and export of goods between the island and the mainland.
The boating facility has been set up so that a dozen or more power boats and sailboats can be moored to floats attached to the Wharf.
There are also four buoys near the Wharf. This is the only public moorage in Penn Cove.
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Creede is the county seat of Mineral County. In fact, it's the only town in the county. This row of vintage buildings has no heat nor air. In the day they were heated with wood or coal burning stoves, but owners can't get insurance today with that type of heat. They just bundle up in winter, and it gets cold here.
They aren't part of the national historic site, but the town of Ste Genevieve has many newer historic buildings like this hotel.
Historic Twenty Mule Team Wagon, which was used to transport borax out of Death Valley. Seen in ancient Harmony Borax Works, located next to Furnace Creek in Death Valley, California.
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Photographs taken during a pre-lockdown trip to York to spend a socially-distanced day with a friend.
Fürstengruft
Fürstengruft ist die Grabstätte einiger Mitglieder der Häuser Sachsen-Weimar und Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach auf dem Historischen Friedhof.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe und vermeintlich Friedrich Schiller wurden in ihr beigesetzt
Offshore Magheroarty, County Donegal, Ireland
This little island of Inishbofin, meaning (Island of the white cow) lays just off-shore Magheroarty Beach. Only 100 years ago there were 150 permanent inhabitants living here but today there is only an estimated 36 islanders. Inishbofin has no shops, pubs or hotels etc so all supplies needed to survive are brought over from the mainland by boat.
But what this island lacks in modernism, it certainly makes up for in nature by having 2 stunning sandy cove beaches side by side. Plus lets not forget that 360 degree view that can be obtained from anywhere on this island which overlooks Donegal’s majestic shore & islands. These 2 smaller nearby islands are ‘Inishdooey’ & ‘Carrickirragh’. Sadly both are totally uninhabited today. On the distant horizon can be seen the larger populated 'Tory Island'.
Do you ever just wish to escape this ever-advancing, overpopulating world we are forced to adapt within & simply walk alone across an island like this with no mobile phones or traffic in sight? I have said it before & I will say it again... "I would happily move to any of these islands today if I could" Someday I will do it
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