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The abandoned Dixie Inn, a tiny diner wedged between the old and new CA-58 highways northwest of Barstow, California. That's the new divided highway streaming past in the background, with Barstow in the distance.
Please check it out large on black.
Night, 3/4 moon, CTO-gelled flashlight and purple strobe.
In the beginning it was my father who made things. And I watched. He had built his own first car. Not from a kit: they didn't have car kits in those days. But I remember him making a Jettex jet for me when we lived in Germany. It was made of balsa wood and had a small rocket, fuelled by solid fuel pellets. He painted it in orange dope. He lit the fuse of the rocket motor. It hissed and fizzed but the thing didn't gain much impetus or height when he chucked it into the air. It was a bit of a flop, but had looked beautiful up until the time he tried to make it fly. But he would sit and patiently make things out of Lego with us and set up his Marklin train set for us to play with. As I grew up breakfast became the most fascinating meal of the day, with a race to eat up Robertson's jam and marmalade to collect Golliwog tokens so that we could claim badges. And we would pick our cereals depending on the giveaways. Perhaps a little scuba diver that went up and down in a basin of water could be found by digging arm's length down through the SugarPuffs to the bottom of the packet. Or the flat back of the packet could be cut and folded into a Bulldog's head. Collect all 12 different dogs in the series. How frustrating when Mum came back with the shopping and had just grabbed the first pack of Frosties off the shelf without checking if we already had that dog.
I don't know at what age I started making things. By five I was taking packing boxes and tea chests and building huge battleships in the cellar. Sometimes as long as a room.. We were always moving every six months or so in those days, so there was a permanent supply of large boxes around and cardboard tubes for rolled up carpets made gun barrels for the ship's turrets, and periscopes. Of course we had guns too, cap firing cowboy pistols and ratchetty sounding machine guns. And we roamed the streets 'shooting' each other. We were always British or German. Sometimes we were knights and we made shields, and armour out of cardboard. We armed ourselves with stick spears or swords and stabbed one another. Harmlessly. Or when playing with girls we built shops or a post office and sent each other letters, stamps made with the sticky, serrated bit you get around a page of stamps. I have no idea at what age I was given a knife to strip the bark off a stick. I never remember slashing myself so badly that it wouldn't just stop bleeding after ten minutes with a handy handkerchief pressed over it. I survived.
I distinctly remember going into the NAAFI Forces shop on a German base and picking my first Airfix model. It was a FIAT G 91 or something. In those days the kit came in a small bag dangling off a cardboard hanger. I remember I got glue all over the canopy where my thumb and forefinger got stuck to it. Some of the decal transfers floated off the backing paper in the saucer of water. And when I tried to fish them out they folded over and were impossible to flatten out again. So instead of using the Italian roundels I switched to use the German iron cross motifs ending up with an Italian/German axis aircraft.
All through school I made things out of card, plastic, wood...food packaging...anything. A lot were military aircraft, tanks, warships....galleons. But I made original things too. And as I got older my skills developed. I could make almost anything I turned my hands to.
But when I flew the nest all that stopped. Apart from helping my sons to make their first planes, tanks and war ships. My working married family life stopped me making things in its tracks. With just two exceptions. In 1990 I decided to build my sons a lasting toy. I had always enjoyed having a fort to play with my little soldiers or cowboys when at the same age, and I wanted them to have the same. A unique toy. I came up with the idea of a robust castle that would fit inside its 29 inch square base. And you can see it here. Innes Castle. It has a raising and lowering drawbridge, opening doors, secret doors and a dungeon that baddies can be cast into. And a full complement of Britains 1/32 Knights in armour, Robin Hood, Maid Marian, the Sheriff of Nottingham, Friar Tuck and Little John. It's all built out of plywood which I coated in grey grout, and scratched with a nail to make the walls look like they are made of blocks of stone.
We're now on the second generation playing with it, 28 years on from when I built it. So far the only damage is to a few knights who have lost the odd limb or weapon. But that's normal in love and war.
Project 2 was North Calder Farm, much bigger, but still built to all fit inside itself, and still surviving into the second generation
The Panjim Inn is Goa’s oldest heritage hotel. It is situated centrally in the Latin Quarter of Fontainhas.
The hotel is within walking distance from major sightseeing locations, making it an ideal base for exploring Goa’s rich history, culture, cuisine, and art.
Braunau on the Inn is a nice historic city in Austria -
but suffers hard by being the birthplace of Adolf Hitler.The house is marked by a big granite stone from KZ Mauthausen near Linz.
Recently the Austrian authorities decided to transform this house into a police station. Hopefully a way to avoid Nazi pilgrimage to this place, and hopefully a good way to handle this kind of history and "heritage".
Say no to fascism, antisemitism, nationalism, racism - stand up for human rights and democracy - much endangered in these times - even in the motherlands of democracy...
An old archive shot of Jamaica Inn , this famous inn can be found just off of the A30 at Bloventor in the middle of Bodmin Moor . We have called in many times as a pit stop going in or out of Cornwall . However on one occasion we stayed for a few nights on an anniversary trip ( window by the lamppost ) . Trouble is someone found out the place is supposed to be haunted - we often mention that time !
A bit of history from the inn's website :-
Jamaica Inn was built in 1750 as a coaching inn – the 18th century equivalent of a modern day service station for weary travellers. Using the turnpike between Launceston and Bodmin, they would stay at the Inn after crossing the wild and treacherous moor.
Some of the travellers were a little less respectable than most and used the Inn to hide away smuggler’s contraband that had been brought ashore. It is estimated that half the brandy and a quarter of all tea being smuggled into the UK was landed along the Cornish and Devon coasts. Jamaica Inn was remote and isolated so it was the ideal stopping place on the way to Devon and beyond. In 1778 the Inn was extended to include a coach house, stables and a tack room, creating the L-shaped main part of the building as it is today.
You can relive the smugglers' experience at our Smugglers Museum - we have one of the finest and most extensive collections of smuggling artefacts in the UK - and enjoy 'The History of Jamaica Inn', an educational and historical film show that recounts many of the myths and legends associated with the Inn, including tales of wreckers and smugglers over the past 300 years.
It is commonly thought that Jamaica Inn was so named because it was used to store rum smuggled into the country from Jamaica. However, the name is actually said to derive from the important local landowning Trelawney family, two of whose members served as Governors of Jamaica in the 18th century.
According to stories, gangs of wreckers operated on the coast of Cornwall during the early 19th century and it was described as a “haven of smugglers”. The wreckers enticed ships to this coastline by tricking them with beacon lights, which they deliberately lit on the shore. Once the ships foundered on the rocky coast they were looted by the wreckers.
Jamaica Inn is well known as the setting for Daphne du Maurier's novel of the same name, published in 1936. The young author was inspired to write her novel in 1930 after she and a friend became lost in fog whilst out riding on the moors, and were lead back by their horses to safety at the Inn. During the time spent recovering from her ordeal, the local rector is said to have entertained her with ghost stories and tales of smuggling!
She described the nocturnal activities of a smuggling ring based at the now celebrated inn, portraying a hidden world as a place of tense excitement and claustrophobia, of real peril and thrill. Later du Maurier went on to spend a long period at the Inn, furthering her love of the location.
The novel was made into the film 'Jamaica Inn' in 1939 by Alfred Hitchcock and in 1983 Jane Seymour starred in a TV film. 'Jamaica Inn' was again dramatised in a major 3-part series by the BBC shown in April 2014.
If you visit , be prepared for all the coaches and tourists nowadays !
Old Faithful Inn viewed from Upper Geyser Basin. The Inn is one of my favorite places in the park. I do not know exactly why. Maybe it is the architecture, maybe its history and all the people that have passed thru the red doors of the main entrance. I did not plan this last trip very well, or far enough in advance, so I could not get reservations.
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The original Shingle Inn of Brisbane was opened in 1936. It and several other eateries were iconic in Brisbane until times moved on as the city changed and rebuilt. It closed in 2003 to make way for Queen's Plaza but much of the original interior was saved and reconstructed inside City Hall where it remains to this day. This shot was taken one morning earlier this year.
"The Shingle Inn opened in 1936 at 254 Edward Street, Brisbane in 1936 as a Tudor inn style restaurant.
The Shingle Inn is a considerably well known aspect of Brisbane's dining culture, where it has welcomed generations of diners, and was also popular with American service personnel during World War II. It is one of the oldest continuing restaurants in the city of Brisbane. It has been owned since 1975 by the Bellchambers Family.
With the closure of the flagship store in 2002 due to the new Queens Plaza development, the fittings of the store were removed and placed into storage. A franchise of the restaurant was created with a dozen stores throughout the Brisbane central business district, suburbs, the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast.
With the re-opening of Brisbane City Hall after its $215 million refurbishment in April 2013, the fittings and layout of the original Shingle Inn in Edward Street were replaced inside Brisbane City Hall, re-creating the olde-world Tudor atmosphere of the original 1936 restaurant. The sugar bowls used in the restored city hall branch bear the engraved names of the Shingle Inn and other former Brisbane cafes (Renoir, Websters, Yorktown) that were owned by the Webster and Bellchambers families".
The Ancient Ram Inn, Wotton-under-Edge. Gloucestershire.
A grade II* listed building built in 1145 and reputedly one of the most haunted buildings in the UK. It has featured in the paranormal investigation TV programmes "Most Haunted" and "Ghost Adventures".
Date taken: 2nd May 2018.
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This ultra wide-angle shot of the interior of the venerable old lodge at Old Faithful in Yellowstone Park is a panoramic stich of three shots taken vertically. The lodge is across the street from Old Faithful Geyser. This picture is of it's immense lobby and stone fireplace. This is the typical summer view, filled with people.
The following is taken from the NPS website. www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/holdfaith.htm
Built during the winter of 1903-04, the Old Faithful Inn was designed by Robert C. Reamer, who wanted the asymmetry of the building to reflect the chaos of nature.
The Old Faithful Inn is one of the few remaining log hotels in the United States. It is a masterpiece of rustic architecture in its stylized design and fine craftsmanship. Its influence on American architecture, particularly park architecture, was immeasurable. The building is a rustic log and wood-frame structure with gigantic proportions: nearly 700 feet in length and seven stories high.
The lobby of the hotel features a 65-foot ceiling, a massive rhyolite fireplace, and railings made of contorted lodgepole pine. Its incredibly large space can be experienced on many different levels and from many different vantage points. The visitor can stand in the middle of the lobby and look up at the exposed structure, or climb up a gnarled log staircase to one of the balconies and look up, down, or across. Wings were added to the hotel in 1915 and 1927, and today there are 327 rooms available to guests in this National Historic Landmark.
The Highland Inn, located in Monterey, Virginia, was established in 1904 as the Hotel Monterey. Attracting travelers who came to the area to take advantage of mineral springs and the cool mountain climate in the summer, it became a popular social center as well. The grand old hotel is on the National Register of Historic Places and is a Virginia Historic Landmark. I took this shot while in Monterey for the Highland Maple Festival and used this angle to avoid the power lines in front of the building.
Information from the hotel's website.
The Chesapeake Inn, at 3040 M St NW in Georgetown, opened in 1972 as the DC outpost of a popular Maryland seafood restaurant located near the Bay Bridge. It was a large eatery, seating 325, but it didn't last long. It was replaced by the private Pisces Club in 1975.
Pilchard Inn, Burgh Island, South Hams, Devon. The old Inn on Burgh Island at the end of summer 2021, reputedly once frequented by smugglers, but today catering for honest holidaymakers. The sea tractor parked on the slipway is for use when the tidal island is cut-off from the mainland twice a day.
Penstemmon litter the hillside near the historic Cloud Cap Inn on the north side of Mount Hood during a warm sunrise.
This shot was from Spring of 2010. I'm looking forward to this years wildflower season.
If walls could talk they may well tell tales of the foundations on which they stand. Believed to be linked to an ancient 15th Century monastery, records for this building date back to
1496AD.
At 1500ft the Inn is the highest inhabited building in Cumbria and the third highest Inn in England.
In the early 1800's the tall stone building at the North end was built as a coach house, the extra height was needed to take the coaches of the day. Around the 1950's it was converted into a garage complete with petrol pump and forecourt. The building has now been converted to a cottage.
Kirkstone Pass itself is named after a large standing stone 500 metres from here on the road to Ullswater. The Kirk Stone's distinctive shape is the most likely reason for its name with
'Kirk' being the Scottish-English word for Church. There are also similarities when compared to old norse, for example the Swedish 'Kyrka'.
Winding between the Cumbrian fells the 1489ft (459m) Kirkstone Pass links Windermere and Patterdale. From Ambleside the road locally know as 'the 'Struggle' rises steeply from the valley floor and joins the pass close to the Inn. Climbing at a gradient of 1 in 4 in places, the road provides enough of a challenge for the modern car and an even greater challenge for local cyclists and runners. Historically a drovers track it's worth sparing a thought for the families who would have driven their livestock over the pass in all weather conditions to sell at the local markets.
An old shot from 2012 but one I think I have failed to post before , not sure why ?
The above text was taken from the Inn's own webpage .
The scenery from up here is stunning as you would expect with fine views , we came on the main route over the Pass , avoided " The Struggle " knowing it's reputation . One of my old customers told me of the time he had to take a Removal Van up " The Struggle " - interesting to say the least , the only way they could get the wagon up this notorious road " was in reverse " !!!
Here is a link to a shot as we started to descend ---
Can't leave here without raising a glass to a long lost photographer friend who loved The Lake District - To DJ and one of his favourite places .
Taken and originally posted in 2014.
The Virginia Inn near Seattle's Pike Place Market. Didn't eat here but loved their sign at night.
From here, the typical L-plan tower-house lay-out is plain to see. The exterior walls are harled and decorated with string-courses and all the windows are enhanced with either triangular or semi-circular pediments.
Internally the arrangements are typical of the 17th century. The Hall and Withdrawing Room are on the first floor, with a private stair from the Hall down to the wine cellar in the basement. A high standard of workmanship prevails!
The records of the construction of the tower-house as we see it now have been preserved by the Lairds of Innes, including their expenditure and their correspondence with William Aitoun 'Maister Maissoun at Herriot his work." This refers to George Herriot's School in Edinburgh, also built by Aitoun, which has many similarities to Innes House.
As stated before, King Malcolm IV granted these lands to Berowald the Fleming in 1160, which at that time comprised all the land along the sea coast from the Lossie to the Spey.
Berowald’s grandson, Walter, was the first that assumed the surname of Innes from his lands, and thus can be considered the progenitor of all the Inneses in Scotland. He got a confirmation of the charter of his estate from King Alexander II, in 1226.
One of the later Innes lairds, some say Robert, 10th laird, most other genealogies say Alexander the 9th laird, married Janet de Aberkerder (Aberchirder), by which marriage their son inherited both the Innes and Aberchirder estates.
An einem Samstag Vormittag war ich an der Deutsch-Österreichischen Grenze am Inn und habe dort eine 103, der vom Fluss gespiegelt wurde, bei der überfahrt fotografiert.
The White Hart Inn, East Cowes, 29th October 2015. It is currently facing demolition, along with the terrace of houses on the right as part of a proposed redevelopment of the Red Funnel ferry terminal.
There is little evidence of the simple, vernacular structures which were built by the colonists
in the earliest years of their frontier city. Inevitably most of these buildings were replaced by more solid and more elaborate structures, especially during the boom period of the 1870s and early 1880s and in the twentieth century. Hotels in particular were rebuilt as imposing two storey buildings, and so it is all the more surprising that this humble, run-down house, which was once an inn, should have survived as a direct link with the vernacular buildings of the 1840s.
J. Martin seems to have arrived in South Australia in September 1839, buying the site of his
house from Robert Milne in the following month. He then set about erecting the building
which was completed by 1840 and is shown on the 1842 Kingston map, and sections of which probably still survive incorporated in the present buildings.
This building, known as the Beresford Arms, was first licensed in 1840 with John Martin as landlord. J. Martin remained landlord for seven years but retained ownership for more than thirty.
In 1849 the Beresford Arms was leased to James Ellery. It was assessed in the rate book of
1849 as approximately four times the value of adjoining residences, its substantial nature probably leading to its survival. By 1851 the Beresford Arms was described as an eight
roomed stone and brick house, annual value £45. In 1855 the inn was leased to Hugh Hall,
followed by Henry Palmer for two years from 1856. In 1856 the name of the inn was changed to the Oddfellows Arms. During William Tidswell's occupation of the property in 1858, the interior was renovated, the 'long room' and the 'square room' being floored in a workmanlike manner'. The Oddfellows Arms ceased trading in 1861, the building (described as being of five rooms) is noted in the assessment as unoccupied. Through the 1860s the annual value dropped, indicating no improvements, and in 1873 John Martin sold it to Johannes Andreas Schrader (printer).
The building is part of an early town acre subdivision. Although fragile and in poor condition
and overshadowed by recent development, this building is extremely valuable to the historical interpretation of vernacular construction and early colonial inns in the city.
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The Station Inn at Ribblehead, not only a popular venue for walkers, has been the traditional meeting point for railway photographers on the Settle-Carlisle line for well over half a century.The wet afternoon of Wednesday 15th February 2017, with low cloud over Whernside, finds 60163 'Tornado' and DB Cargo 67029 'Royal Diamond' drifting across Batty Moss viaduct with the 2Z23 14:57 Appleby to Skipton service.
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On the summit of Mt. Inner Fürberg, 2627 m asl, Canton of Glarus, Switzerland. Looking to Mt. Ruchen (left) and Vrenelisgärtli/Glärnisch (right).
Wasdale Head Inn - the birthplace of climbing - dramatically surrounded by England's tallest mountains, making it the finest base for walking and climbing.
The Inn is situated at the head of remote and unspoiled Wasdale, and if you are seeking the superlative this is where you will find it. England's highest mountain, the deepest lake, the smallest Church, and the original world's biggest liar can all be found in this tranquil corner of the Lake District.
The Spaniards Inn in Hampstead, London, is an old fantastic pub dating back to 1585. Quite possible the oldest pub I have ever been to. Apparently an episode of the legendary Dick Turpin featured the Spaniards inn. No surprise - the interior of the inn is very old too. Photo by: Jacob Surland, www.caughtinpixels.com. See the original here: goo.gl/vRRO9R