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#E1D-1-1, Autographed White Limo with 16 Signers, Bill Murry, Mario Lopez, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Picture Proof Autographs,(P.P.A.), all 16 signers comes with an Picture Proof Photo. (P.P.P.)
1) Vanna White, Wheel Of Fortune,
2) Jensen Buchannan, Marley, from Another World,
3) FABIO, Fabio Lanzoni, Italian Model,
4) Tommy Puett, Life Goes On, Tyler,
5) Mario Lopez, Save By The Bell, Slater,
6) Bill Murry, Ghost Busters, Dr. Peter Venkman,
7) Floyd Weasen,
8) Mary DeBaggis, DJ 104.3 FM Radio,
9) Roe Conn, WLS Radio,
10) Annie Maxfield, WGN Radio,
11) Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Save By The Bell, Zack,
12) Carol Ramas, WBBM am Radio,
13) Red?,
14) Russell Todd, Another World, Dr. Jamie Frame,
15) Bernie Toyoyta, WBBM AM Radio,
16) The Late, Ed (Rat Fink) Roth
an Majorettt, 1/24 scale, die cast.
#E1D-1-2, Autographed White Limo by 18 signers, Daryl Hannah, Roger Ebert, The Late Bob Keeshan, (Captain Kangaroo).and 15 others,
1) Daryl Hannah, Hollywood, Splash, Kill Bill,
2) Ron Riveria, Chicago Bears, NFL, Football,
3) Milu Murry, WSCR Radio, Chicago,
4)Jay Hilenburg, Chicago Bears,
5) Nick Firestone, INDY, Grandson of Mr. Firestone Tire,
6) Trace Armstong, Chicago Bears,
7) Dick Beyondi, WLS Radio, Chicago,
8) Bob Christansan, Chicago Bears,
9) The Late Bob Keeshan, Captain Kangaroo,
10) The Late Ed (Big Daddy) Roth, Creator of Rat Fink,
11) Austin St. John, The Red, Power Ranger,
12) David Kaplin, Sports, A Piece Of The Game,
13) Brain Jones, Sports Radio,
14) The Late Roger Ebert, Movie Credit, At The Movies,
15) Ron Magers, Ch. 5 News, Anchor,
16) Chris Zorch, Chicago Bears,
17) The Late Bill (Maverick) Golden, The Little Red Wagon, NHRA,
18) Erik Estrada, TV show, Chips, (2 Pictures)
Majorette, 1/32 scale, White Limo, Die cast, with 18 Picture Proof Autographs (P.P.A.),
#E1D-1-3, Autographed White Limo by 17 signers, The Late Dale Earnhardt Sr., and 16 others,
1) Ericca Kum, Olympics,
2) Bob Strauser, Owner Of Star Limos,
3) Lanu McAlista, W.M.V.P.,
4) Mark Carrier, Chicago Bears, N.F.L., Football,
5) Patti Haze, Radio D.J., Chicago,
6) The Late Dale Earnhardt Sr., NASCAR, #3, GM Goodwrench,
7) Bill Kurtis, News Anchor,
8) Shirley Hayes, Radio D.J. Chicago,
9) Leon Spinks, Pro Heavy Weight Boxer,
10) Dan Hampton, Chicago Bears,
11) Kevin Butler, Chicago Bears,
12) Robin George, Ch. 5 NBC, News Reporter,
13) Dick Biondi, WLS Radio, D.J.,
14) Robin Leach, Life Styles Of The Rich And Famous,
15) The Late Norm Van Lear, NBA, Basketball,
16) Wayne Messmore, Chicago Bulls, Announcer, Singer,
17) The Late Jan Grabrail, Famous for the U.S. 30 Drag Strip saying, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, and the TV show, The Super Chargers,
Majorette, 1/32 scale, White Limo, Die cast, with 17 Picture Proof Autographs (P.P.A.),
#E1D-1-4, Autographed White Limo By The Late Davy Jones, (The Monkees), and 11 others,
1) Ray Szmanda, The Menards Guy,
2) Raymond Benson, James Bond Writer,
3) Dick Beyondi, WLS Radio, D.J.,
4) Jaks Johns, TV show, The Appraisal Fair,
5) The Late Davy Jones, TV show, (THE MONKEES),
6) The Late Stephen J. Cannell, Writer, Producer, The A Team, The Rockford Files, 21 Jump street, Wiseguy, Hardcastle and McCormick, Riptide, Baretta, Booker, Stingray, and many more,
7) The Late Roger Ebert, Movie Credit, At The Movies,
8) Leslie Hindman, TvV show, The Appraisal Fair,
9) Konan, W.C.W. Wrestler,
10) Scott Miller, WJMK Radio,
11) Isabel, WOJO 105.1 FM Radio,
12) Rich Koz, Svengoolie,
Majorette, 1/32 scale, White Limo, Die cast, with 12 Picture Proof Autographs (P.P.A.),
#E1D-1-5, Autographed White Limo By Paul La Mat, (American Graffiti) and 20 others,
1) Marnilis Baker, Miss Illinois, 2003,
2) Ray Szmanda, The Menards Guy,
3) Eiric, Loop Girl, Rock 97.9 FM radio,
4) Amaury Nolasco, The Movie, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Julieous, Orange car,
5) Jerrica, Playboy's Miss January, 2004,
6) N/A, no Picture,
7) Troy Trepanier, Famous Car Customizer,
8) Tom Barton, Editor of Toy Shop Paper,
9) Bill Wildt, TV show, Motorsports Unlimited,
10, Vinnie DiMartino, Custom Motorcycle Builder,
11) Chila , WCKG 105.9 FM radio,
12) Ron Finch, Custom Motorcycle Builder,
13) Paul La Mat, the Movie, American Graffiti,
14) Pixie XO, TV show, LA Ink,
15) Kevin Mathews, Signing Kev Head, Radio DJ,
16) Peggy O'Donald, TV show, Motorsports Unlimited,
17) The Late Jan Grabrail, Famous for the U.S. 30 Drag Strip saying, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, and the TV show, The Super Chargers,
18) Bob Levien, Creator of, The World Of Wheels,
19) Mark Giangreco, ABC, Ch.7, Sports anchor,
20) N/A, no Picture,
21) The Late Bob (Broadway Bob) Metzler, owner and promoter of U.S. 30 Drag strip,
Majorette, 1/32 scale, White Limo, Die cast, with 21 Picture Proof Autographs (P.P.A.),
#E1D-2-1, NASCAR Bush series, Havoline3 250, 1993, Autographed White Track Car by The Late Davey Allison and 6 others,
1) Rodney Combs, #11, Luaire Heating , Pole Sitter,
2) Jerry Grandville, #81, Harley Davidson, Atlanta Felcons Coach,
3) Bobby Dotter, #08, Dewalt, Arizona Ice Tea, Pole Sitter,
4) Hermie Sadler, #25, Virginia Is For Lovers,
5) The Late Davey Allison, #28, Havoline, Died 6 months later after signing, No Picture
6) Steve Grissom, #31, Channellock Tools, Winner Of Race,
7) Chuck Bown, #63, Nescafe Nestea, Busch Grand National Champion,
Revell, 1/24 scale die cast, white track car signed by 7 drivers with 6 Picture Proof Autographs, (P.P.A.)
#E1D-2-2, NASCAR Busch series, Havoline3 250, 1994, Autographed White Track Car by 20 Drivers,
1) Robert Presley, #99, Skoal,
2) Mike Garvey, #0, Lawarre Racing,
3) Jason Keller, #57, Budget Gourmet,
4) Shawna Robinson, $46, Polaroid,
5) Elton Sawyer, #38, Ford Motor Credit,(2 Pictures)
6) Hermie Sadler, #26, Virginia Is For Lovers,
7) Nathan Butthe, #66, STP, (2 Pictures)
8) Jim Bown, #63, Lysol,
9) Chad Little, #23, Bayer Select, (2Pictures)
10) Bob Beveak, #3, Country Concert,
11) Dennis Setzer, #59, Alliance,
12) Stevie Reeves, #96, Glabber Girl,
13) Kenny Wallace, #8, TIC Fin. Systems,
14) Dirk Stephens, #15, Greased Lightning,
15) Randy Pemerton, T.N.N. TV,
16) Bobby Dotter, #08, DeWalt,
17) Larry Pearson, #92, Stanley Tools,
18) Rodney Combs, #43, Black Flag,
19) David Green, #44, Slim Jim,
20) Randy Porter, #35, Laughlin Racing,
Revell, Repainted, 1/24 scale die cast, signed by 20 drivers with Picture Proof Photos, (P.P.P.)
#E1D-2-3, NASCAR, Busch Series, Sears Auto Center 250, 1995, Signed by The Late Buddy Baker, and 20 other drivers,
1) Chad Little, The Late Kenny Irving is in the back ground, Winston Cup,
2)Tracy Leslie, #72, Detroit Gasket,
3) Jeff Fuller, #47, Sinoco 260,
4) Jerry Nadeau, #15, Bussman, Winston Cup,
5) Kenny Wallace, #8, Red Dog, Beer, Winston Cup,
6) Bobby Doter, #08,
7) Johnny Benson, #74, Lipton Tea, Winston Cup,
8) Ed Berrier, Caterpillar,
9) Phil Parsons, Winston Cup,
10) Glen Jarrett, T.N.N.,
11) Tim Fedawa, #55, McDonald's,
12) Hermie Sadler, #1, DeWalt,
13) Larry Pearson, Stanley Tools, Winston Cup,
14) Johnny Rumley, #25, Big Johnson,
15) The Late Buddy Baker, H.O.F., Winston Cup, T.N.N.,
16) Dirk Stephens, #64, Dura Lube,
17) Jim Bown, Rubbed,
18) Rich Bickle, #54, Kleenex,
19) Elton Sawyer, #38, Ford Credit,
20) Rodney Combs, #43, Jebco,
21) M. Wal, #88,
Revell, 1/24 scale, Die Cast, autographed by 21 drivers with Picture Proof Photos, (P.P.P.)
#E1D-2-4, NASCAR, Mark Martin, Greg Sacks, Rick Wilson, Signing, with 21 Others drivers #4 White Track Cars 1995. GM Goodwrench 400 and Detroit Gasket 200 at Michigan International Speedway.
Mark Martin was the winner of the 1995 Detroit Gasket 200.
1) Bobby Dotter, #08, Hyde Tools,
2) Curtis Markum, #63, Lysol,
3) Hermie Sadler, #1, DeWalt,
4) Phil Parsons, #99, Luxair,
5) Mike Wallace, #90, Duron, Winston Cup,
6) Kenny Wallace, #8, Red Dog, Beer, Winston Cup,
7) Tim Fedewa, #55, Innkeeper,
8) Elton Sawyer, #38, Ford Credit, Winston Cup,
9) Steve Grissom, #29, Channellock, Winston Cup,
10) Jason Keller, #57, The Budget Gourmet,
11) Greg Sacks, #32, Active Trucking, Winston Cup,
12) Terry LaBonte, #14, MW Windows, Winston Cup,
13) Rodney Combs, #43, Jebco,
14) Bill Brodrick, The Unical 76 Hat Man,
15) Jeff Purvis, #4, Kodak Fun Saver,
16) Greg Clark, #53, Clark Racing,
17) Rick Wilson, #75, Food Country, Winston Cup,
18) Tommy Ellis, #50, Healthsource,
19) David Green, #44, Slim Jim, Winston Cup,
20) Mike McLaughlin, #43, Black Flag,
21) Jim Weber, T.N.N. Motorsports,
22) Mark Martin, #60, Winn Dixie, Winston Cup,
23) Randy Porter, #18, Unifirst Uniforms,
24) Kevin LaPage, #71, Vermont Teddy Bear, Winston Cup.
Revell, 1/24 scale, Die Cast, autographed by 21 drivers with Picture Proof Photos, (P.P.P.)
#E1D-2-5, NASCAR, The Late Jim Sauter, H.O.F. Ned Jarrett, and 27 other Drivers Signing White Track car #5, 1996, Sears Auto Center 250, at Milwaukee Mile Speedway,
1) David Green, #95, Caterpillar, Winston cup,
2) Chad Little, #23, John Deere, Winston Cup,
3) Dale Fishline, #70, Murphy Motorsports,
4) Stevie Reeves, #96, Glabber Girl,
5) Ron Hel Jr., #66, Levitz Furniture,
6) Dennis Setzer, #38, Lipton Tea,
7) Phil Parsons, #10, Channellock,
8) Jim Bown, #51, Barbasol,
9) Todd Bodine, #81, Cape Carrsol, Winston Cup,
10) The Late Jim Sauter, #32,
11) Tim Fedewa, #40, Kleenex,
12) Mark Green, #37, Timber Wolf,
13) Chad Little, #23, John Deere, Winston Cup,
14) Kevin LaPage, #88, Farmers, Choice Fert, W.C.,
15) Curtis Markum, #63, Lysol,
16) Nathen Butkey, #4, Dura Glass,
17) Dick Berggren, CBS Sports, Announcer,
18) Bobby Dotter, #55, Lub Tek,
19) Larry Pearson, #92, Stanley Tools, Winston Cup,
20) Buckshot Jones, #00, Aqua Fresh,
21) Mike McLaughlin, #34, Royal Oak,
22) Elton Sawyer, #38,
23) Joe Hanson, #76,
24) Tommy Houston, #6, Suburbar, Propane,
25) Ned Jarrett, H.O.F., Winston Cup Champion,
26) Jason Keller, #57, Slim Jim,
27) Glen Jarrett, T.N.N. Motorsports,
28) Mike Dillion, #72, Detroit Gasket,
29) Jim Mclivaine, #29 Basket Ball Player, Grand Marshall,
Revell, 1/24 scale, Die Cast, autographed by 29 drivers with Picture Proof Photos, (P.P.P.)
#E1D-2-5, NASCAR, The Late Jim Sauter, H.O.F. Ned Jarrett, and 27 other Drivers Signing White Track car #5, 1996, Sears Auto Center 250, at Milwaukee Mile Speedway,
1) David Green, #95, Caterpillar, Winston cup,
2) Chad Little, #23, John Deere, Winston Cup,
3) Dale Fishline, #70, Murphy Motorsports,
4) Stevie Reeves, #96, Glabber Girl,
5) Ron Hel Jr., #66, Levitz Furniture,
6) Dennis Setzer, #38, Lipton Tea,
7) Phil Parsons, #10, Channellock,
8) Jim Bown, #51, Barbasol,
9) Todd Bodine, #81, Cape Carrsol, Winston Cup,
10) The Late Jim Sauter, #32,
11) Tim Fedewa, #40, Kleenex,
12) Mark Green, #37, Timber Wolf,
13) Chad Little, #23, John Deere, Winston Cup,
14) Kevin LaPage, #88, Farmers, Choice Fert, W.C.,
15) Curtis Markum, #63, Lysol,
16) Nathen Butkey, #4, Dura Glass,
17) Dick Berggren, CBS Sports, Announcer,
18) Bobby Dotter, #55, Lub Tek,
19) Larry Pearson, #92, Stanley Tools, Winston Cup,
20) Buckshot Jones, #00, Aqua Fresh,
21) Mike McLaughlin, #34, Royal Oak,
22) Elton Sawyer, #38,
23) Joe Hanson, #76,
24) Tommy Houston, #6, Suburbar, Propane,
25) Ned Jarrett, H.O.F., Winston Cup Champion,
26) Jason Keller, #57, Slim Jim,
27) Glen Jarrett, T.N.N. Motorsports,
28) Mike Dillion, #72, Detroit Gasket,
29) Jim Mclivaine, #29 Basket Ball Player, Grand Marshall,
Revell, 1/24 scale, Die Cast, autographed by 29 drivers with Picture Proof Photos, (P.P.P.)
#E1D-2-7, NASCAR, 17 Busch Series Drivers Signing, White Track Car, 1998, Diehard 250, at The Milwaukee Mile Speedway,
1) Joe Bessey, #6, Power Team,
2) Kevin LaPage, #40, Channellock,
3) Jeff Fuller, #89, Fiberall, Allerest, Pole Setter!!!
4) Phil Parsons, T.N.N. Motorsports Announcer,
5) Dave Blanney, #93, Amoco, Winston Cup,
6) Jimmy Means, #52, Winston Cup,
7) Elton Sawyer, #38, Barbasol,
8) Jeff Purvis, #4, Lance Snacks,
9) Randy LaJoie, #74, Fina, 1996 and 1997 Busch Series Champion,
10) Jimmy Foster, #90, Dr. Peper,
11) Casey Atwood, #28, LesCare Kitchens, Winston Cup,
12) Wayne Grubb, #83, Link Belt,
13) Patty Moise, #14, Rodes, Woman,
14) David Green, #56, Stanley, Winston Cup, 1994 Busch Series Champion,
15) Lance Hooper, #27, W.C.W. Wrestling,
16) Elliott Sadler, #66, Phillips 66, Winston Cup,
17) Kat Teasdale, #54, IGA, Woman,
Revell, 1/24 scale, Die Cast, autographed by 17 drivers with Picture Proof Photos, (P.P.P.)
#E1D-2-8, NASCAR, The Late Adam Petty, The Late Dick Trickle, The Late Steve Brynes, and 16 other Drivers signing, White Track Car, #8, 1999, Sears Diehard 250, at The Milewaukee Mile Speedway,
Casey Atwood was the Pole setter and Winner of the Race.
1) The Late Adam Petty, #45, Spree, Richard Petty's Grandson,
2) Randy LaJoie, #1, Bob Evans,
3) Phil Parsons, ESPN Sports Reporter,
4) Buckshot Jones, #00, Cheese-It,
5) Jason Keller, #57, IGA,
6) Jerry Grandview, #81, Unifirst Uniforms, Jerry was the Atlanta Felcons football Coach,
7) The Late, Barry Dodson, #35, Scana, Was a Winston Cup Crew chief for #17,
8) Mike Dillion, #59, Channellock,
9) Tony Raines, #33, Pennzoil,
10) Bobby Dotter, #08, Team Rensi,
11) Justin LaBonte, #44, Slim Jim,
12) The Late Dick Trickle, #5, Schnieder, Winston Cup,
13) Casey Atwood, #27, Castrol, Was Pole Setter and Winner of Race,
14) The Late Steve Brynes, T.N.N. Motorsports Reporter,
15) Jeff Purvis, #4, Lance Snacks,
16) Clair B. Lang, Nascar , Writer,
17) Jeff Green, #32, Kleenex,
18) Glen Allen Jr., #38, Barbasol,
19) Mike McLaughlin, #34, Gould Pumps,
Revell, 1/24 scale, Die Cast, Signed By 19 NASCAR Drivers all with Picture Proof Photos
#E1D-2-9, NASCAR, The Late Dick Trickle, The Late Jim Sauter, The Late Kevin Grubb, and 21 other drivers signing, White Track Car, #9, 2000, Sears Die Hard 250, at The Milwaukee Mile Speedway,
Jeff Green was the Pole Setter and The Winner Of The Race and the 2000 Busch Series Champion,
David Green was the 1994 Busch Series Champion,
Randy LaJoie was the 1996 and 1997 Busch Series Champion,
1) Jason Keller, #57, Excedrin,
2) Jeff Green, #10, Nestle, Pole Setter, Winner, and the Busch Series Champion,
3) Elton Sawyer, #98, Lysol,
4) The Late Dick Trickle, #5, Schneider, Winston Cup,
5) Mark Green, #63, Exxon Super-Flo,
6) The Late Kevin Grubb, #57, Timber Wolf,
7) Todd Bodine, #66, Phillips 66, Winston Cup,
8) Tony Raines, #33, Alka Seltzer, Bayer,
9) David Green, #34, AFG Glass, Winston Cup,
10) Bobby Hillin, #8, Kleenex, Winston Cup,
11) Mike McLaughlin, #48, Gould Pumps.
12) Jason Jarrett, #11, Rayovac, Ned Jarrett's Grandson,
13) The Late Jim Sauter, #45,
14) Jimmy Means, #52, Winston Cup,
15) Andy Santerre, #25, Lance Snacks,
16) Bobby Hamilton Jr., #26, Baywatch,
17) Tim Fedewa, #36, Stanley Tools,
18) Justin LaBonti, #44, Slim Jim,
19) Anthony Lazzard, #97, McDonald's, Indy Driver,
20) Jason Schuler, #17, Vision,
21) Mike Dillon, #21, Rockwell,
22) Jeff Purvis, #4, Porter Cables,
23) Chad Chaffin, #77, Lear Corp.,
24) Randy LaJoie, #1, Bob Evans,
Revell, 1/24 scale, Die Cast, Signed By 24 NASCAR Drivers all with Picture Proof Photos, (P.P.P.)
#E1D-3-1, NASCAR, The Late John Nemecheck, Mike Skinner, and 20 other drivers signing, White Track Truck, #1, 1995, Sears Auto Center 125, at The Milwaukee Mile Speedway, Mike Skinner was the pole Setter and Winner of the Race and the 1995 Nascar Truck Series Champion.
1) Dick Bergeren, CBS, Sports Reporter,
2) Mike Bliss, #2, Ultra Custom Wheels,
3) P.J. Jones, #1, Sears Diehard,
4) Scott Legasses, #24, DuPont,
5) John Kinder, #14, Stoppe Motorsports,
6) Ron Hornaday Jr., #16, Papa John's Pizza,
7) Dennis Setzer, #30, Taylor Togs,
8) T.J. Clark, #23, ASE,
9) Rodney Combs, #43, U.S. Olympic Bob Slide,
10) The Late John Nemecheck, #87, Burger King, Signature Rubbed,
11) Ken Squire, CBS, Motorsports Reporter,
12) Butch Miller, #98, Raybestos,
13) Bob Keselowski, #29, Winnebago,
14) Rick Carelli, #6, Total Petroleum,
15) Mike Skinner, #3, GM Goodwrench, Pole Setter, Winner of The Race and 1995 Truck Champion,
16) Bill Sedwick, #75, Spears Motorsports,
17) Kerry Teague, #51, Teamsters Local 71,
18) Kenny Allen, #65, ONSAT, TV Plus,
19) Bob Brevak, #34, Scaffidi Mack,
20) Ron Evans, #20, Barbary Coast,
21) Johnny Benson Jr., #18, Performance Friction, Winston Cup,
22) Mike Joy, CBS Motorsports, no Picture,
Racing Champions, stripped and repainted, 1/24 scale, die cast, signed by 22 drivers with Picture Proof Photos, (P.P.P.)
#E1D-3-2, NASCAR, 27 Drivers signing, White Track Truck, #2, 1996, Sears Auto Center 200, at the Milwaukee Mile Speedway, Mike Bliss was the Pole Setter. Ron Hornaday Jr. was the 1996 NASCAR Truck Series Champion.
1) Barry Dobson, #2, Team ASE Crew Chief, Winston Cup,
2) Mike Bliss, #2, Team ASE, POLE SETTER,
3) Rich Bickle, #43, Cummins Engines,
4) Mike Skinner, #3, GM Goodwrench, Last Years Pole Setter, Winner, and Champion, Winston Cup,
5) Lonnie Cox, #36, DuPont Thompson,
6) Rick Carelli, #6, ReMax International,
7) Lance Norwick, #19, Macklanburg Duncon,
8) Jerry Granville, #81, Flickers, was the Atlanta Felcons football Coach,
9) Michael Dokken, #64, Clearwater Linen,
10) Dave Rezendes, #7, QVC,
11) Robbie Reiser, #4, GMC Trucking, Winston Cup, Matt Kenseth Crew Chief,
12) Walker Evans, #20, DANA, Dirt Road Race Legend,
13) Bob Keselowski, #29, Winnebago, Brad's Father,
14) Ron Hornaday Jr., #16, NAPA, Becomes The 1996 Nascar Truck Champion.
15) David Smith, #12, Blake Racing,
16) Bryon Reffner, #44, 1-800-COLLECT,
17) Dick Bergeren, CBS Sports Reporter,
18) Doug George, #21, ORTHO,
19) Mike Hurbert #11, RPM Racing,
20) Bob Brevak, #31, Ho-Chunk Casino,
21) Joe Ruttman, #80, Roush Parts, Winston Cup,
22) Ron Barfield Jr., #94, Super 8 Motel,
23) Frank Dan, #69, Ford Racing, Did not Qualify,
24) Butch Miller, #98, Raybestos Brakes,
25) Bobby Gil, #75, Spears ,
26) Kenny Allen, #65, Action Rent-To-Own,
27) Mike Joy, CBS Sports Reporter,
Racing Champions, stripped and repainted, 1/24 scale, die cast, signed by 22 drivers with Picture Proof Photos, (P.P.P.)
#E1D-3-3, NASCAR, H.O.F. Legend, Ned Jarrett, and 19 other Truck Series drivers signing White Track Truck #3, 1997, Sears Diehard 200, at The Milwaukee Mile Speedway, Ron Hornaday Jr. was the WINNER of the RACE.
1) Mike Bliss, #2, Team ASE,
2) Tammy Jo Kirk, #7, Lovable, Woman Driver,
3) Mark Green, #37, Red Man Golden Blend,
4) Eli Gold, CBS Motorsports Reporter,
5) Rick Carelli, #6, ReMax,
6) Joe Rutman, #80, LCI International, Winston Cup,
7) Tony Raines, #19, Pennzoil,
8) Rick Crawford, #14, Circle Bar Motel,
9) Jerry Granville, #81, Frickers, Atlanta Felcons Coach,
10) Ned Jarrett, H.O.F. Legend, CBS Sports, Winston Cup,
11) Ron Hornaday Jr., #16, NAPA, WINNER of the RACE,
12) Dave Rezendes, #35, Ortho Lawn and Garden,
13) Ken Square, CBS Motorsports announcer,
14) Cindy Peterson, Did Not Qualify,
15) Rich Bickle, #17, Sears Diehard, Sponsor of race,
16) Dick Bergeren, CBS Motorsports Reporter,
17) Mike Joy, CBS Motorsports Reporter,
18) Lance Norwick, #90, NHL,
19) Dave Eniet, Founder Of The Truck Series,
20) Bob Keselowski, #29, Mopar Performance, Brad's Dad.
Racing Champions, stripped and repainted, 1/24 scale, die cast, signed by 20 drivers with Picture Proof Photos, (P.P.P.)
#E1D-3-4, NASCAR, The Late Buddy Baker, The Late Jim Sauter, The Late Tony Roper, and 22 other Truck Series Drivers signing, White Track Truck #4, 1998, Sears Diehard 200, at the Milwaukee Mile Speedway.
Jack Spague was the Pole Setter.
Mike Bliss was the WINNER of the Race.
Barry Dobson was the winning Crew Chief.
Ron Hornaday Jr., was the 1998 NASCAR Truck Champion.
Greg Biffle was the 1998 NASCAR Truck Series Rookie of the year.
1) Ron Hornaday Jr., #16, NAPA, 1998 NASCAR Truck Series Champion,
2) Mike Wallace, #52, Purolator Pure One,
3) Stacy Compton, #86, Royal Crown Cola, RC cola,
4) Glen Jarrett, CBS Motorsports Reporter,
5) Jay Sauter, #3, GM Goodwrench,
6) Wayne Anderson, #84, Porter Cable Power,
7) Kevin Cywinski, #31, Allied Signal, Bendix,
8) Mike Bliss, #2, Team ASE, WINNER Of The RACE,
9) Rick Crawford, #14, Circle Bar Motel and RV,
10) Mike Garvey, #68, Metro Milwaukee Auto,
11) N/A,
12) Butch Miller, #18, Dana Corp.,
13) Jimmy Hensley, #43, Cummins Engines,
14) KEVIN HARVICK, #75, Spears, Winston Cup,
15) Barry Dobson, Winning Crew Chief,
16) Brain Reffner, #66 Carlin Burners,
17) GREG BIFFLE, #50, Grainger, 1998 NASCAR Truck Series ROOKIE Of The Year, Winston Cup,
18) Jack Sprague, #24, Team Hendrick,
19) The Late Jim Sauter, IROC test Driver,
20) BORIS SAID, #44, FEDERATED Auto Parts, Winston Cup Road Racer,
21) Tammy Jo Kirk, #51 Failed to Qualify, Woman Driver,
22) Joe Bush, #67, Failed to Qualify,
23) Dennis Setzer, #29, Mopar Performance,
24) The Late Tony Roper, #55, Icehouse Beer, Tony died in a accident later that year.
25) The Late Buddy Baker, H.O.F., Legend, CBS Motorsports Announcer,
RACING CHAMPIONS, Stripped and Repainted, 1/24 scale, die cast, signed by 25 drivers with Picture Proof Photos
#E1D-3-5, NASCAR, Kevin Harvick, Greg Biffle, and 14 more drivers signing, White Track Truck, #5, 1999, Sears Diehard 200, at The Milwaukee Mile Speedway,
Greg Biffle was the POLE SETTER and the WINNER of the race.
1) KEVIN HARVICK, #98, Porter Cable Tools, Winston Cup,
2) Tim Steel, #21, HS Die and Engineering,
3) Jeff Andretti, EML Rockford , INDY Driver,
4) Kevin Cywinski, #31, Auto Trim Design,
5) Ron Barfield, #55 Icehouse Beer,
6) Rick Crawford, #14, Circle Bar and Motel,
7) Jerry Grandville, #81, Unifirst Uniforms, Atlanta Felcons football Coach,
8) Jay Sauter, #3, GM Goodwrench,
9) Eli Gold, CBS Motorsports Announcer,
10) Jimmy Hensley, #43, Dodge Motorsports,
11) Rick Corelli, CBS Motorsports Announcer,
12) GREG BIFFLE, #50, Grainger, Winston Cup, Greg was the POLE SETTER and the WINNER of The RACE,
13) Randy Tolsma, #25, Superguard Motor oil, CITGO,
14) Lance Norwick, #90, L R Motorsports,
15) Ron Hornaday Jr., #16, NAPA Auto Parts,
16) Dennis Setzer, #1, Mopar Performance,
RACING CHAMPIONS, Stripped and Repainted, 1/24 scale, die cast, signed by 16 drivers with Picture Proof Photos, (P.P.P.).
#E1D-4-1, INDY, CART, Sign by Mario Andretti, A.J.Foyt, and 9 other drivers signing White Track INDY CAR #1, From Elk Heart Lake Wis., Road America stripped ; Repainted , Racing Champions,,1/24th scale Diecast Autographed With Picture Proof Photo
Sign by:
1) Mario Andretti,
2) Greg Ray,
3) Raul Bossel,
4) Eddie Cheever,
5) Al Unser Jr.,
6) Roger Penski,
7) Arie Luyendyk,
8) Scott Goodyear,
9) #9,
10) Paul Tracy,
11) AJ Foyt
Roger Penske(no picture), Indy/Cart, stripped and Repainted , Racing Champions,,1/24th scale Diecast Autographed With Picture Proof Photo
#E1D-4-2, INDY, CART, Tony Stewart, Helleo Castroneves, and 17 other drivers signing, White Track INDY CAR #2.
Signed by:
1) Helleo Castroneves, Before Dancing With The Stars Championship, Alumax,
2) Mark Blundell, Motorola,
3) Bryan Herta, Shell,
4) Tony Kannon, McDonald's,
5) Mark Dismore, Menards,
6) Mike T. Reid, #3, Water Joe,
7) Al Unser Jr., Marlboro,
8) #66, Players,
9) Meno Gidley, Hogan Racing,
10) Players Lynn's Racing,
11) Tony Stewart, Menards,
12) Scott Purett, Visteon Racing,
13) Adrian Fernandez, Tecate,
14) Ruth? Lacus?,
15) The Late Carl Hogan, Owner Of Hogan Racing,
16) Danny Sullivan,
17) #9 No Picture,
18) Marla Kleen, Speed Channel,
19) Indy Owner and Media
Racing Champions, stripped and repainted, 1/24th scale, Diecast, Autographed With Picture Proof Photo,
.#E1D-4-1, INDY, CART, Sign by Mario Andretti, A.J.Foyt, and 9 other drivers signing White Track INDY CAR #1, From Elk Heart Lake Wis., Road America stripped ; Repainted , Racing Champions,,1/24th scale Diecast Autographed With Picture Proof Photo
Sign by:
1) Mario Andretti,
2) Greg Ray,
3) Raul Bossel,
4) Eddie Cheever,
5) Al Unser Jr.,
6) Roger Penski,
7) Arie Luyendyk,
8) Scott Goodyear,
9) #9,
10) Paul Tracy,
11) AJ Foyt
Roger Penske(no picture), Indy/Cart, stripped and Repainted , Racing Champions,,1/24th scale Diecast Autographed With Picture Proof Photo
#E1D-4-2, INDY, CART, Tony Stewart, Helleo Castroneves, and 17 other drivers signing, White Track INDY CAR #2.
Signed by:
1) Helleo Castroneves, Before Dancing With The Stars Championship, Alumax,
2) Mark Blundell, Motorola,
3) Bryan Herta, Shell,
4) Tony Kannon, McDonald's,
5) Mark Dismore, Menards,
6) Mike T. Reid, #3, Water Joe,
7) Al Unser Jr., Marlboro,
8) #66, Players,
9) Meno Gidley, Hogan Racing,
10) Players Lynn's Racing,
11) Tony Stewart, Menards,
12) Scott Purett, Visteon Racing,
13) Adrian Fernandez, Tecate,
14) Ruth? Lacus?,
15) The Late Carl Hogan, Owner Of Hogan Racing,
16) Danny Sullivan,
17) #9 No Picture,
18) Marla Kleen, Speed Channel,
19) Indy Owner and Media
Racing Champions, stripped and repainted, 1/24th scale, Diecast, Autographed With Picture Proof Photo,
1960's COX Gas Funny Car with 22 NHRA P.P. Autographs.
1) Don Prudhomme, Funny Car, Top Fuel, Champion, Owner, Hot Wheels, Army, Pepsi,
2) Del Worsham, Funny Car, Checker,
3)N/A,
4) Bob Glidden, Pro Stock Champion,Motorcraft,
5) Kenny Bernstein, Funny, Top Fuel, Champion, Budweiser,
6) Frank Pedregon, Funny Car, Redline Oil,
7) Mark Oswald, Funny car, Mac Tools,
8) Marty Reed, ESPN,
9) Cruz Pedregon, Funny Car, McDonald's, Advance Auto Parts,
10) Larry Dixon, Top Fuel, Champion, Miller, Beer,
11) Tommy Johnson, Funny Car, Skoal,
12) Brandon Bernstein, Top Fuel, Budweiser,
13) Scotty Cannon, Funny Car, (O),
14) Doug Herbert, Top Fuel, Snap On,
15) Gary Skelzi, Tpo Fuel, Winston,
16) Dick LaHaie, Top Fuel, Miller, Crew Chief,
17) Dale Greasy Jr., Funny Car, Craftmans,
18) Dean Skuza, Funny Car, Mopar, TV Show,
19) Red Hair, ESPN,
20) Billy Stephen, ESPN,
21) Tony Pedregon, Funny Car, GTX Castrol,
22) Tony Schumacher, Top Fuel, Champion, ARMY, Exide Batteries,
Yes, this is seen on The InnKeeper ♥'s page. thats because I'm The InnKeeper too!
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The Grade II Listed Lion & Snake public House, 79 Bailgate, Lincoln, Lincolnhsire.
Originally dating from 1590 the current building was mostly rebuilt in 1919, while retaining first-floor jetty and some medieval stone walls. Upper storey rendered. Ground floor underbuilt in brick. Incorporates rear stables. It was called the Lion in 1515, the Ram 1500s/1600s, 1649 the Greyhound; 1667 the Red Lion, 1668 the Ram; 1726 the Red Lion; 1735 (William Poole landlord) Red Lyon and Snake; 1783 the Red Lion and Snake, 1826 the Lion and Snake. 1807-1820 John and Frances Woodthorpe; 1839-1841 John Moss; 1842, 1857 Robert Jackson, innkeeper; 1867-1892 G R Brailsford. Mostly rebuilt after the roof collapsed in 1919. J Hole and Co in 1925-1948.
Just a little further along the road where we had lunch, we could see the stunning Hotel Negresco.
The Hotel Negresco is a hotel and site of the restaurant Le Chantecler, located on the Promenade des Anglais on the Baie des Anges in Nice, France. It was named after Henri Negresco (1868–1920), who had the palatial hotel constructed in 1912. In keeping with the conventions of the times, when the Negresco opened in 1913 its front opened on the side opposite the Mediterranean Sea.Henri Negresco, born Alexandru Negrescu, was the son of an innkeeper. He was educated in Romania and began his professional career as a confectioner at the renowned Casa Capșa in Bucharest. At the age of 25—though some earlier sources suggest 15, which seems unlikely given that he completed military service in Romania and there is photographic evidence of him in Bucharest at an older age—Negresco left Romania. He first moved to Paris and later settled on the French Riviera, where he found considerable success.
Over the years, the hotel had its ups and downs, and in 1957, it was sold to the Augier family. Madame Jeanne Augier reinvigorated the hotel with luxurious decorations and furnishings, including an outstanding art collection and rooms with mink bedspreads. She also popularised it with celebrities; Elton John featured it in the video for his song "I'm Still Standing", and she told Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, that purchasing it would be beyond his means.
The fifth floor of the hotel is for "VVIP" guests, which stands for "very, very important persons". The hotel has a private beach, which is located across the street from the facility.
In the wake of the 2016 Nice truck attack, the hotel's main hall was used to triage wounded civilians (From Wikipedia)
"There was a lawyer who, to disconcert Jesus, stood up and said to him, ‘Master, what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ He said to him, ‘What is written in the Law? What do you read there?’ He replied, ‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbour as yourself.’ ‘You have answered right,’ said Jesus ‘do this and life is yours.’
But the man was anxious to justify himself and said to Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbour?’ Jesus replied, ‘A man was once on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of brigands; they took all he had, beat him and then made off, leaving him half dead. Now a priest happened to be travelling down the same road, but when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. In the same way a Levite who came to the place saw him, and passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan traveller who came upon him was moved with compassion when he saw him. He went up and bandaged his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them. He then lifted him on to his own mount, carried him to the inn and looked after him. Next day, he took out two denarii and handed them to the innkeeper. “Look after him,” he said “and on my way back I will make good any extra expense you have.” Which of these three, do you think, proved himself a neighbour to the man who fell into the brigands‘ hands?’ ‘The one who took pity on him’ he replied. Jesus said to him, ‘Go, and do the same yourself.’"
– Luke 10:25-37, which is today's Gospel at Mass (15th Sunday).
Stained glass window from church of the Most Holy Redeemer in Detroit.
Some of the saddest words on earth are, “We don’t have room for you.” Jesus knew the sounds of those words. He was still in Mary’s womb when the innkeeper said, “We don’t have room for you.” And when he hung on the cross, wasn’t the message one of utter rejection? “We don’t have room for you in this world.”
Today Jesus is given the same treatment. He goes from heart to heart, asking if he might enter. Every so often, he’s welcomed. Someone throws open the door of his or her heart and invites Him to stay. And to that person Jesus gives this great promise: “In my Father’s house are many rooms” (John 14:2). We make room for him in our hearts, and Jesus makes room for us in his house.
Christmas Stories: Heartwarming Classics of Angels, a Manger, and the Birth of Hope
Read more Christmas Stories: Heartwarming Classics of Angels, a Manger, and the Birth of Hope -Max Lucado
Newly digitised in Collection Search is the Card Index to Publicans' Licenses dated 1920 to 1937.
Searchable by name of establishment or locality.
The cards are arranged alphabetically by electorates and then alphabetically by the name of the hotel. Each establishment has a separate card with the following information: electorate, licensing district, sign (name), situation, licensing history, name of licensee and information such as orders and repairs concerning compliance with the licensing laws.
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so... here is the second part. Please forgive me any mistakes as I am not a native speaker and wrote this story quite quickly. If you guys like it, I might continue this story thing in the future.
Chapter I: www.flickr.com/photos/93647928@N04/10287981174/
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... She decided to stay at Candlehearth Hall for the night and get a little bit of rest. Sun was setting, when she asked the patron for a room. Luckily she had gathered a bunch of septims when she was fighting her way through the caves and ruins, so the 10 septims rent wasn't much of an effort. The room wasn't what one would call a luxury, but it would do.
The inn was filling and the new guests and burning fires were spreading a cozy atmosphere when Brinja went upstairs and sat down at a table. While she was waiting for the innkeeper, she took a look on the current guests. Her glimpse stopped on a beast of an Argonian; pale, a red paint on his head he was eating a soup and some bread. Probably he overtowered most men by one feet and he was incredible muscular. Then, after a while, the inkeeper made her way upstairs and Brinja ordered a mug of mead.
Like silk the liquor flowed down her throat. A pleasant warmth was spreading through her body. "I don't see many Vigilants drinking something else then water." the the old woman smiled sarcastically. "I am not many as you can see." Brinja replied and took another deep gulp with ostentation. All of a sudden she heard someone laughing loudly. Obviously the Argonian ahd been observing the scene. When she looked at him he raised his glass and Brinja was not fast enough to surpress the smile that flitted over her face. Turning around she said to the innkeeper: "However, have you heard something about the events in Helgen?" "Only rumors. Nothing in particular. Only that it should have been some kind of military thing. I have heard of someone in Kynesgrove who might know some details. It is said that he stayed at the inn there." That was enough information for Brinja. So her examination would lead her to Kynesgrove next.
She left Windhelm early at the next morning, making her way South, to Kynesgrove. It didn't take her long to reach the little village, only two hours. She aimed straight for her goal and directly headed into the Braidwood Inn. When talking to the bar tender she found out that a man called Shady Sam had further information about the happening in Helgen. Unfortunately he only was one or two days of the week in Kynesgrove, Turdas and Fredas, so Brinja had to rent a room for three days she spent waiting for that particular person.
Finally he arrived on the late afternoon of Turdas. Brinja should have guessed when she heard the name of this man, of course he was not olny called shady, but actually was. Instead of giving Brinja the information, she was forced to give 100 septims to him before he felt up to tell her what he knew. It turned out that there had been an military operation somewhere near Darkwater Crossing. He said it had been a capturing mission of a high value Stormcloak target led by an Imperial general. That was all he knew. "Cutthroat!" Brinja mumbled when stepping away from Shady Sam. Even if it had cost her a bunch of money, Brinja at least knew now, where to find out more about that military operation. Darkwater Crossing.
As soon as she had her information Brinja left the village immediately, making her way through Skyrim's hot springs South of Kynesgrove. At least it was comfortably warm here, so Brinja was able to take off her cloak. After a while she heard something growling relatively close to her. Alarmed she looked around. As she stepped over the hill she saw a dog fighting with two wolves at the hill's roots. Not willing to watch how the dog would get slaughtered she pulled out her mace and summoned her magic within her body. Immediately a flame began to dance in her left hand.
The impact of the steel mace hit the wolf hard. It was thown back by the power of the strike Brinja had landed on its flank. Yowling the wolf was lying at the ground obvioulsy seriously injured. Before it was able to react the dog sprang forward and sank his teeth into the wild animal's throat. Unleashing the flames in her hand the second wolf found a quick death. Panting the dog retreated from the dead body of the dead wolf he had biten and lay down a little bit aside. He watched Brinja while she was cutting off the skin of the wolf, a wolf pelt was always useful.. When she was finished she turned towards the dog. Blood flowing out of the wound at his right leg stuck his fur together. Brinja put her hand on the wound, closed her eyes and concentrated. Deep inside her she found the stream of the magical essence that was hidden in every animate being. Powerful she let it flow oever her hand into the the wound closing it. Then she opened her eyes and got up. As she was about to leave she realized the dog had gotten up too and followed her. She turned around, squated down and stroked over the dog's head. "You want to come with me, huh? You have nowhere to go back to. Alright, let's go on this journey together, my boy." she said smiling. So she stood up and both of them, human and dog, continued their way through the hot springs of Skyrim...
'Stonehouse' is a group of related stone buildings on the D'Aguilar Highway, formerly part of the old coach road between Esk and Nanango, which were built in the 1870s and 1880s as part of a homestead and wayside inn complex.
The land on which the complex was built had been part of a pastoral run called 'Colinton', which was taken up by John and Robert Balfour in 1841. The early 1840s were a period of pastoral expansion in the Moreton Bay, Darling Downs and Brisbane Valley Regions following the winding down and closure of the penal colony at Moreton Bay. Although the Darling Downs had been visited in 1827 by explorer Alan Cunningham, who had reported favourably on the suitability of the district for pastoralism, the presence of the fifty-mile exclusion zone around the penal colony and consequent lack of port access had discouraged early settlement. In 1840, the Leslie brothers arrived from the Clarence River district and took up Canning Downs, the first pastoral run on the Downs. In 1841 the runs in the Brisbane Valley were Cressbrook, Colinton and Farney Lawn taken up under licences to occupy Crown Land beyond the limit of settlement. By 1842, when Moreton Bay was thrown open for free settlement, a cluster of huge runs had claimed most of the productive land on the Darling Downs and searches for grazing country were extending north. The area around 'Stonehouse' was declared as pastoral district in May 1842 and the runs of Kilcoy, Taromeo, Taabinga and Burrandowan were taken up in that year.
In 1859 the new colony of Queensland was created and in the 1868 the Crown Lands Alienation Act was passed to make land available for closer settlement by drastically reducing the size of existing pastoral runs. This brought more settlers into the Brisbane Valley. In 1873 and 1874 around 30 members of the Williams family of Gloucestershire in England arrived in Queensland as immigrants. They settled in Brisbane, Ipswich and the Brisbane Valley. Robert Williams, a widower, had previously lived in Ipswich in the 1860s and in 1874 he selected two blocks of land totalling 2442 acres from the Colinton lease as a grazing property. His brother Charles with his wife Emma joined him. Charles, who was a stonemason, began work on a five-roomed stone house at the selection, which Robert had named 'Stonehouse' after the village in Gloucestershire where he had lived. The new building was close to a two-room slab house that the family presumably lived in during construction. Building in stone was an unusual choice in this area, but a natural one for a family of stonemasons, given the ready availability of the materia on site. Because the house was built of stone, the name later became corrupted to 'Stone House' or 'Stone Houses'.
In the 1870s, Edward (Ned) MacDonald started a coach and mail service between his hotel at Esk and Goode's Inn at Nanango along the old dray route. Several stops for changes of horses punctuated the trip. 'Stonehouse' was one of these and the Williams built stables on the river flats across the road from the inn. Robert Williams applied for and gained a hotel licence for the property in 1880 as the Stonehouse Hotel, Wallaby Creek, Colinton.
The places where major routes crossed watercourses were often used as camps by drovers and carriers and were excellent locations for inns that catered to travellers. These were places where one could obtain food and accommodation for people and horses, where it was usually possible to obtain the services of a blacksmith, leave or collect mail and gain information on the condition of the road ahead. The inns were also a social amenity as a source of company and conviviality on the road. Their services made the development of regular supply routes possible, which in turn made a major contribution to the way in which areas were opened up for European settlement.
In 1884 the 'Stonehouse' license was forfeited following an incident where Robert Williams was threatened with an axe following his attempt to intervene in a drink-fuelled argument between members of group of Aborigines camped near the hotel. continued to provide food and accommodation for travellers, however, and is mentioned in the popular 19th century ballad 'Brisbane Ladies' as being a stop on the road.
In 1882, Emma Williams died and was buried near the creek. This grave was washed away by a flood surge in the 1940s. Robert Williams remarried and a kitchen and pantry were constructed as apprentice work by his nephew Frank Williams. Charles Williams died in 1887 as the result of an accident near 'Taromeo' where he had been carrying out stonework. The last masonry work carried out at 'Stonehouse' was in 1888 when Frank Williams completed the store and butcher's shop.
In 1893, Alex MacCallum, who thereafter ran a coach service that used the facilities at 'Stonehouse', gained the mail contract. It ran until 1910, at first three times a week, then from 1902, twice a week. Times were changing and in 1900 a Royal Commission was appointed to investigate the possible route for a railway in the area, taking evidence at Esk, 'Cressbrook', 'Colinton' and 'Stonehouse', which were the coach stops. 'Colinton' was cut up and sold around this time, bringing in many new settlers and 'Stonehouse' acted as a provision store and butcher's shop for them.
A small township was surveyed at Moore, named for the then owners of 'Colinton', gaining a postal receiving office in 1903 and a post office in 1905. In 1910 a railway station opened at Moore.
Robert Williams had died in 1907 and was buried near Moore. A memorial made by Frank Williams, who had established a monumental masonry firm at Ipswich in 1901, marks his grave. Frank was later to construct many war memorials, including those at Esk, Gatton, Warwick and Ipswich. 'Stonehouse' was left in trust to a nephew, Thomas (TJC) Williams, who moved to the property with his family in 1908. A sale was then held of cattle, pigs and the post horses. At the time it was found that the buildings needed maintenance and by 1910 repairs and refurbishment had been carried out. By this time iron had already been laid over the original shingles. Between 1914 and 1918 the first house was demolished and the stables collapsed. A tennis court was erected in the vicinity of the stables.
In 1923 Jane Williams became ill and the family moved to Brisbane, leasing 'Stonehouse' to Allan Patterson who arranged for Arthur Ollenburg, a Williams family member, to manage the property. TJC Williams died in 1932 and Jane in 1933. The 'Stonehouse' land was subdivided and sold by auction. J J Tilley purchased the land containing Stonehouse and in 1939 it was bought by Barney Grant who continued to employ Arthur Ollenburg as manager. Grant died in 1945 and in 1946 his son took over the management of 'Stonehouse' and built a house for himself and his family. I
In 1950 a plaque recognising the historical significance of 'Stonehouse' to the area was affixed to the house, but between 1948 and 1960 the buggy shed, workshop, hayshed, poultry run, slaughterhouse and barn were demolished. In 1967 a storm removed the front verandah roof of the main building. A large crack in the wall had developed and a section of the house was then demolished. The Esk Shire Council used stone blocks from this section to construct a picnic shelter at Moore.
The house was inspected and drawn by Karl Langer for the National Trust of Queensland in 1969. Since then the buildings have continued to deteriorate and the proportion of the main building still standing has diminished. The current owners purchased the property in order to preserve it in January 2001.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
French postcard in the Entr'acte series by Éditions Asphodèle, Mâcon, no. 001/06. Charles Laughton and Sally Jane Bruce on the set of The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955). Caption: Sally Jane Bruce, star of The Night of the Hunter, on Charles Laughton's lap, learns about framing.
Portly, versatile British-American stage and film actor Charles Laughton (1899–1962) was often type-cast for arrogant, unscrupulous characters. He was one of the most popular actors of the 1930s and 1940s and gave some of his greatest performances as Nero, Henry VIII, Mr. Barrett, Inspector Javert, Captain Bligh, Rembrandt, and Quasimodo. Laughton was also a screenwriter, producer, and one-time director.
Charles Laughton was born to a wealthy hotel-owning family in Scarborough, England, in 1899. He was the son of Robert Laughton and his wife Elizabeth Conlon, who was a devout Roman Catholic. They ran the Victoria Hotel, a well-known retreat for the middle class. The eldest of three brothers, Laughton, and his siblings thrived in the spacious hotel, always finding new places to play. He attended Stonyhurst College, a Jesuit school, in Lancashire, England. Laughton was assigned the role of a portly innkeeper in the school’s production of The Private Secretary. Even though the role was a minor one, he loved the opportunity to let out his artistic flair. In 1917, just 18 he was sent onto the battlefields of Europe. He joined the war at its conclusion but nonetheless suffered not only a gas attack but also some deep mental scars. He started work in the family hotel business while participating in amateur theatricals in Scarborough. Finally, he was allowed by his family to become a drama student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 1925, and he received the gold medal. Laughton made his stage début in 1926 at the Barnes Theatre, as Osip in Gogol's comedy '' The Government Inspector', in which he also appeared at the London Gaiety Theatre in May. In the following years, he appeared in many West End plays. Overweight and not the best looking of men, many of the leading roles were not available to him. Despite this, he impressed audiences with his talent and played classical roles in two plays by Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard, and The Three Sisters. One of his earliest stage successes was as Hercule Poirot in 'Alibi (1928), a stage adaptation of 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd'. In fact, he was the first actor to portray Agatha Christie's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. That same year Laughton also played the lead role of Harry Hegan in the world premiere of Sean O'Casey's 'The Silver Tassie' in London, and he played the title role in Arnold Bennett's Mr. Prohack. Elsa Lanchester was also in the cast. Coming from a bohemian background, Lanchester was lively and strong-willed. She fell for the reserved and sensitive Laughton and despite his suppressed feelings of homosexuality, the two began a courtship. In 1929 they married. He went on to play the title role in 'Mr. Pickwick' after Charles Dickens, and Tony Perelli in Edgar Wallace's 'On the Spot'. Another success was his role as William Marble in 'Payment Deferred'. He took this last play across the Atlantic and in it he made his American début in 1931, at the Lyceum Theatre in New York. He returned to London for the 1933-1934 Old Vic Season and was engaged in four Shakespeare roles (as Macbeth and Henry VIII, Angelo in 'Measure for Measure' and Prospero in 'The Tempest'). In 1936, he went to Paris and appeared at the Comédie-Française as Sganarelle in the second act of Molière's 'Le Médecin malgré lui', the first English actor to appear at that theatre, where he acted the part in French and received an ovation. Laughton commenced his film career in England while still acting on the London stage. He took small roles in three short silent comedies starring his wife Elsa Lanchester, Daydreams (Ivor Montagu, 1928), Blue Bottles (Ivor Montagu, 1928), and The Tonic (Ivor Montagu, 1928) which had been specially written for her by H. G. Wells. He made a brief appearance as a disgruntled diner in another silent film Piccadilly (Ewald André Dupont - uncredited, 1929) with Anna May Wong. He appeared with Elsa Lanchester again in Comets (Sasha Geneen, 1930), featuring assorted British variety acts. In this ‘film revue’ they duetted in 'The Ballad of Frankie and Johnnie'. The couple made two other early British talkies: Wolves (Albert de Courville, 1930) with Dorothy Gish from a play set in a whaling camp in the frozen north, and Down River (Peter Godfrey, 1931) in which he played a murderous, half-oriental drug-smuggler.
Charles Laughton’s New York stage debut in 1931 immediately led to film offers and Laughton's first Hollywood film was the classic horror-comedy The Old Dark House (James Whale, 1932) with Boris Karloff. Laughton played a bluff Yorkshire businessman marooned during a storm with other travellers in a creepy mansion in the Welsh mountains. In the Encyclopedia of British Film, Anthony Slide calls it Laughton’s ‘greatest work in the US’. He then played a demented submarine commander in The Devil and the Deep (Marion Gering, 1932) with Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper, and Cary Grant and followed this with his famous role as the perverted Nero in The Sign of the Cross (Cecil B. DeMille, 1932). He also turned out a number of other memorable performances during that first Hollywood trip, repeating his stage role as a murderer in Payment Deferred (Lothar Mendes, 1932), playing H. G. Wells's mad vivisectionist Dr. Moreau in Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton, 1932), and the meek raspberry-blowing clerk in the brief segment of If I Had a Million (1932) that was directed by Ernst Lubitsch. In all, he appeared in six Hollywood films during 1932, a remarkable movie 'apprenticeship' which set him on course for instant international stardom. His association with film director Alexander Korda began with The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), loosely based on the life of King Henry VIII of England. Laughton won an Academy Award for his role, the first British actor to do so. He continued to act occasionally in the theatre. After the success of The Private Life of Henry VIII, he appeared at the Old Vic Theatre in 1933 in roles as Macbeth, Lopakin in 'The Cherry Orchard', Prospero in 'The Tempest; and Angelo in 'Measure for Measure'. His 1947 American production of a new English version of Bertolt Brecht's play 'Galileo' became legendary. Laughton played the title role at the play's premiere in Los Angeles on 30 July 1947 and later that year in New York. This staging was directed by Joseph Losey. Laughton preferred a film career though and in 1933 he returned to Hollywood where his next film was White Woman (Stuart Walker, 1933) in which he co-starred with Carole Lombard as a cockney river trader in the Malaysian jungle. Then came The Barretts of Wimpole Street (Sidney Franklin, 1934) as Norma Shearer's overbearing father; Les Misérables (Richard Boleslawski, 1935) as inspector Javert; and Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey, 1935) as the very English and selfless butler transported to early 1900’s America. One of his most famous screen roles was Captain William Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty (Frank Lloyd, 1935), co-starring with Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian. Back in England, and again with Alexander Korda, he played the title role in Rembrandt (1936). In 1937, also for Korda, he starred in an ill-fated film version of Robert Graves’ classic novel, I, Claudius (Josef von Sternberg, 1937), which was abandoned during filming owing to the injuries suffered by co-star Merle Oberon in a car crash. After I, Claudius, he and the ex-patriate German film producer Erich Pommer founded the production company Mayflower Pictures in the UK, which produced three films starring Laughton: Vessel of Wrath/The Beachcomber (Erich Pommer, 1938), based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham, with Elsa Lanchester; St. Martin's Lane/Sidewalks of London (Tim Whelan, 1938), a story about London street entertainers that also featured Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison; and Jamaica Inn (Alfred Hitchcock, 1939), with Maureen O'Hara. The latter was based on a novel about Cornish smugglers by Daphne du Maurier, and it was the last film Alfred Hitchcock directed in Britain before moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s. The films produced were not successful enough, and the company was saved from bankruptcy when RKO Pictures offered Laughton the title role of Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (William Dieterle, 1939). Laughton and Pommer had plans to make further films, but the outbreak of World War II, which implied the loss of many foreign markets, meant the end of the company.
Although the 1930s were Charles Laughton’s best cinematic years, there were as well some remarkable post-1930s performances. An example is a cowardly schoolmaster in occupied France in This Land is Mine (Jean Renoir, 1943). He played a modest, henpecked husband who eventually murders his wife in The Suspect (1944), directed by Robert Siodmak, who later became a good friend of Laughton. He played sympathetically an impoverished composer-pianist in Tales of Manhattan (Julien Duvivier, 1942) and starred in an updated version of Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost (Jules Dassin, 1944). Apart from these, he would enjoy his work in the two comedies he made with Deanna Durbin, It Started with Eve (Henry Koster, 1941) and Because of Him (Richard Wallace, 1946). He portrayed a bloodthirsty pirate in Captain Kidd (Rowland V. Lee, 1945) and a malevolent judge in Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1948) with Alida Valli. Laughton played a megalomaniac press tycoon in The Big Clock (John Farrow, 1948) starring Ray Milland. Laughton made his first color film in Paris as Inspector Maigret in The Man on the Eiffel Tower (Burgess Meredith, 1949). In 1950, Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester became American citizens. In one of his funniest roles of the 1950s, he played a tramp in O. Henry's Full House (Henry Koster a.o., 1952), in which he had a one-minute scene with Marilyn Monroe. In later years he was frequently accused by the critics of hamming, although he remained a popular star. He became a pirate again, buffoon style this time, in Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (Charles Lamont, 1952). He guest-starred in an episode of the Colgate Comedy Hour on TV that also featured Abbot and Costello and that was notable for his delivery of the Gettysburg Address. He played Herod Antipas in Salome (William Dieterle, 1953) with Rita Hayworth in the title role, and repeated his role as Henry VIII in Young Bess (George Sidney, 1953) starring Jean Simmons. He returned to England for a memorable turn in Hobson's Choice (David Lean, 1954) as the patriarch brought to heel opposite John Mills. Laughton directed several plays on Broadway. His most notable box-office success as a director came in 1954, with The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, a full-length stage dramatization by Herman Wouk of the court-martial scene in Wouk's novel The Caine Mutiny. In 1955, Laughton directed (but did not act in) the film The Night of the Hunter. This poetic thriller has become a critical and cult favorite thanks to Laughton's intriguing combination of expressionism and realism, a fine script co-written by James Agee, and compelling performances by an excellent cast headed by Robert Mitchum as a psychotic preacher and Lillian Gish as a resolute farm woman. At the time of its original release, however, it was a critical and box-office failure, and Laughton never had another chance to direct a film. Laughton received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for his role as Sir Wilfrid Robarts in the screen version of Agatha Christie's play Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder, 1957) with Marlene Dietrich. He played a British admiral in the Italian war film Sotto dieci bandiere/Under Ten Flags (Duilio Coletti, 1960) and worked for the only time with Laurence Olivier in Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick, 1960) as a wily Roman senator. He also gave highly successful one-man reading tours for many years. His material ranged from the Bible to Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums. His final film was Advise and Consent (Otto Preminger, 1962), for which he received favorable comments for his performance as a southern U.S. Senator (for which accent he studied recordings of Mississippi Senator John Stennis). Laughton worked on the film, which was directed by Otto Preminger, while he was dying from cancer. In January 1962 he was diagnosed with cancer after being hospitalized with collapsed vertebrae following a fall in the bath. Over the course of his final eleven months, his weight dropped to just ninety pounds. Following Laughton's death in 1962, Laughton's wife Elsa Lanchester wrote a memoir in which she stated that they never had children because Laughton was actually homosexual. The lesbian and gay magazine Fyne Times writes about the couple: “Only two years into the marriage, Lanchester learnt of her husband’s homosexuality. Although she was initially shocked and deeply upset, over time the couple began to develop an altered relationship, one of close friendship. They decided to remain married, although both of them took lovers, and were instead constant companions, looking after and supporting each other as in any other marriage.”
Sources: Anthony Slide (Encyclopedia of British Film), Gloria (Rooting for Laughton), Fyne Times, TCM, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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So this is the first chapter of Ajum-Dar's storyline. As you can see I took a painting-like image again. I think it fits well to a story and also - I have to admit it - I became a huge fanboy of that kind of style xD Of course I would like to hear your opinions again and get some feedback, also about the painting style. Anyway, I hope you like it! :)
Prologue: www.flickr.com/photos/93647928@N04/10401817095/
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After renting a room, Ajum-Dar made his way upstairs cowering himself in front of the fireplace. The warmth slowly began to fill his body and his cloths soon were dry again. When the Argonian felt comfortable again, he sat down on one of the chairs in front of the fireplace, thinking of what he should do now as he couldn't go back to his old life anymore, even if he wanted to. Maybe he could work as a sellsword, but he did not have any armor or weapon, so being a mercenary was not possible. Maybe a headhunter or adventure, but he soon realized that his possibilities were quite limited. Ajum-Dar had no property except from his clothing, a few Septims and a wooden club. He was no thief or cutthroat, so joining a group of outlaws was definitely not an option. Soon the idea of seeking his fortune somewhere else, out side of Skyrim, began to grow in his mind. When he worked as a dock worker he learned about a captain, whose longboat was anchoring at the dock at the moment, who sailed to Solstheim every now and then. Probably he could ask him for passage. But Ajum-Dar knew it would cost him. A crossing from Windhelm to Solstheim was not something he would call cheap. He had to obtain the coin somehow.
It was already late afternoon, when he rose from the chair again and made his way to one of the tables. Out of the corner of his eye he saw some old Nords sitting on a table a little aback looking at him derogatory. The intolerance and ignorance of those boneheaded Nords was incredible. Especially in Windhelm. Foreign races were treated very bad here, especially Argonians and Dark Elves. Ajum-Dar ordered an ale and sat provocatively down at a table near the Nords. In the end they just were two old men and if they got rough he was sure he could handle them in a fight. As the day got older and it began to dawn the inn was filling. That was when he saw a Vigilant entering the lounge; surprisingly not an old and ugly man but a young and pretty Nord girl. Her blonde almost white hair was arranged in a braid falling down her left shoulder. After some talking with the innkeeper she went downstairs, probably to move into her room. Ajum-Dar ordered another mug of ale and a soup since he got really hungry now. After a while the innkeeper brought him his ale and the soup with a loaf of bread. “It's on the house.” she said pointing on the bread. “My thanks!” Ajum-Dar replied friendly. While he was eating the soup that hit the point, the young Vigilant made her way upstairs again, sat down at a table near the Argonian and ordered a drink. When the innkeeper made an sarcastic joke about the mead-drinking Vigilant, she drank off the mug in one go, Ajum-Dar had to laugh. That's the spirit, he thought. The girl turned around looking at the laughing Argonian and Ajum-Dar raised his glass to her. She tried to hide it, but Ajum-Dar could see how a little smile scurried over her face.
He turned towards his meal again. While eating he was able to pick up some snippets of the conversation between the Vigilant and the innkeeper. They were talking about some kind of events in or around Helgen, Obviously the Vigilants of Stendarr were investigating something. At first Ajum-Dar thought about finding out what all of this was about, but then he discarded the idea again. First of all he ahd to gain some coin from somewhere. Probably he should head to the docks tomorrow again and find out what price the captain demands. When he finished eating he decided to stay for a little bit more and enjoy the atmosphere of a filled tavern. It turned out that a little bit easily can become several hours, if the mead or ale and stories are good. It was already deep into the night when Ajum-Dar went downstairs and took his rest.
When he woke up again, it was already midday. A slight headache stung beneath his forehead. Slowly he got up and sat on the edge of the bed for a while. Finally he stood up and got into his cloths, Afterwards he went to the counter, giving the innkeeper her fee for the room and meal and in the end leaving Candlehearth Hall. Ajum-Dar walked out of the gates leading to the docks and went down the long stone stairs. Luckily the ship of the captain he worked for the day before, was not anchoring in Windhelm anymore, so he could visit the docks without fearing to be attacked or arrested by that man and his crew. He just had to be careful to not encounter his former chief. Looking around he carefully approached the ship to Solstheim and walked up to the captain. “Good day, captain!” he said “I heard you and your crew are sailing to Solstheim Every now and then?” “Yes we do, Are you interested in a passage?” “Well, I am. I would like to leave Skyrim for a while.” “I see, your are that scaleskin from yesterday, aren't you? The one that jumped into the water.” “Of what matter would that be?” “Of none. Not for me at least. I can see why people would get sick of that work, especially when they are surrounded by boneheads like those guys from yesterday. You were lucky though, that the guards did not find you, they were looking for you on the farms and in the wilds. I am Gjalund Salt-Sage. A passage would cost you 250 Septims. We are setting sail in three days.” the Nord held his hand out to Ajum-Dar. The Argonian took his hand. “Alright, I will be here.”
As Ajum-Dar was about to leave the captain of another ship approached him. “Hey you there, Argonian. You look pretty strong. Maybe you could help me with something.” Wondering Ajum-Dar looked at him. “I need someone who can fight, someone who is strong and take something stolen back to his rightful owner. I would pay you well for this. I am Captain Kjar.” “Yeah, what is it?” Ajum-Dar asked now interested. “One of my crew members. He stole some important and valuable nautical maps. I would be very thankful if you could bring them back to me and teach him a lesson. As I said, it shall not be to your disadvantage. “Alright. So, where can I find him?” “As far as we know he and some other outlaws set their camp I a cave to the South. It is called the Stony Creek Cave. I will give you a map and mark it for you.´ A few moments later Captain Kjar came back giving Ajum-Dar a map of Skyrim where he marked the area of Stony Creek Cave. “Alright.” Ajum-Dar said determined. “I will be back in about a day, with your maps.” Then he left the docks, walking through Windhelm and leaving it through the main gates, making his way to the South.
In the 19th century my Scottish g-g-grandfather retired from service as a mariner on an excise cruiser. I'm thinking he knew every smuggler on the coast by name and quality of unlicensed merchandise. He then set himself up as a spirit merchant. His son was hotel manager of a coaching inn. There were no motorcars in that period. I do not doubt that my great grandfather's decades of success as an innkeeper resulted from his ability to provide fine French wines and brandies at a greatly reduced price.
This sculpture commemorates innkeeper Angelina Eberly, one of Austin, Texas' earliest residents. On Dec. 30, 1842, three years after the Republic of Texas was founded and Austin was designated the capital, a campaign was waged to move the capital to Houston. When a military detachment arrived in Austin to take all official documents from the Land Office, Eberly stymied the attempt by firing the town cannon and alerting the populace.
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Mariahilferstraße
Mariahilferstraße, 6th, 7th, 14th and 15th, since 1897 (in the 6th and 7th district originally Kremser Sraße, then Bavarian highway, Laimgrubner main road, Mariahilfer main street, Fünfhauserstraße, Schönbrunnerstraße and Penzinger Poststraße, then Schönbrunner Straße), in memory of the old suburb name; Mariahilf was an independent municipality from 1660 to 1850, since then with Gumpendorf, Magdalenengrund, Windmühle and Laimgrube 6th District.
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Mariahilferstraße, 1908 - Wien Museum
Mariahilferstraße, 1908
Picture taken from "August Stauda - A documentarian of old Vienna"
published by Christian Brandstätter - to Book Description
History
Pottery and wine
The first ones who demonstrably populated the area of today's Mariahilferstraße (after the mammoth) were the Illyrians. They took advantage of the rich clay deposits for making simple vessels. The Celts planted on the sunny hills the first grape vines and understood the wine-making process very well. When the Romans occupied at the beginning of our Era Vienna for several centuries, they left behind many traces. The wine culture of the Celts they refined. On the hill of today's Mariahilferstraße run a Roman ridge trail, whose origins lay in the camp of Vindobona. After the rule of the Romans, the migration of peoples temporarily led many cultures here until after the expulsion of the Avars Bavarian colonists came from the West.
The peasant Middle Ages - From the vineyard to the village
Thanks to the loamy soil formed the winery, which has been pushed back only until the development of the suburbs, until the mid-17th Century the livelihood of the rural population. "Im Schöff" but also "Schöpf - scoop" and "Schiff - ship" (from "draw of") the area at the time was called. The erroneous use of a ship in the seal of the district is reminiscent of the old name, which was then replaced by the picture of grace "Mariahilf". The Weinberg (vineyard) law imposed at that time that the ground rent in the form of mash on the spot had to be paid. This was referred to as a "draw".
1495 the Mariahilfer wine was added to the wine disciplinary regulations for Herrenweine (racy, hearty, fruity, pithy wine with pleasant acidity) because of its special quality and achieved high prices.
1529 The first Turkish siege
Mariahilferstraße, already than an important route to the West, was repeatedly the scene of historical encounters. When the Turks besieged Vienna for the first time, was at the lower end of today Mariahilferstrasse, just outside the city walls of Vienna, a small settlement of houses and cottages, gardens and fields. Even the St. Theobald Monastery was there. This so-called "gap" was burned at the approach of the Turks, for them not to offer hiding places at the siege. Despite a prohibition, the area was rebuilt after departure of the Turks.
1558, a provision was adopted so that the glacis, a broad, unobstructed strip between the city wall and the outer settlements, should be left free. The Glacis existed until the demolition of the city walls in 1858. Here the ring road was later built.
1663 The new Post Road
With the new purpose of the Mariahilferstrasse as post road the first three roadside inn houses were built. At the same time the travel increased, since the carriages were finally more comfortable and the roads safer. Two well-known expressions date from this period. The "tip" and "kickbacks". In the old travel handbooks of that time we encounter them as guards beside the route, the travel and baggage tariff. The tip should the driver at the rest stop pay for the drink, while the bribe was calculated in proportion to the axle grease. Who was in a hurry, just paid a higher lubricant (Schmiergeld) or tip to motivate the coachman.
1683 The second Turkish siege
The second Turkish siege brought Mariahilferstraße the same fate. Meanwhile, a considerable settlement was formed, a real suburb, which, however, still had a lot of fields and brick pits. Again, the suburb along the Mariahilferstraße was razed to the ground, the population sought refuge behind the walls or in the Vienna Woods. The reconstruction progressed slowly since there was a lack of funds and manpower. Only at the beginning of the 18th Century took place a targeted reconstruction.
1686 Palais Esterhazy
On several "Brandstetten", by the second Turkish siege destroyed houses, the Hungarian aristocratic family Esterhazy had built herself a simple palace, which also had a passage on the Mariahilferstrasse. 1764 bought the innkeeper Paul Winkelmayr from Spittelberg the building, demolished it and built two new buildings that have been named in accordance with the Esterhazy "to the Hungarian crown."
17th Century to 19th Century. Fom the village to suburb
With the development of the settlements on the Mariahilferstraße from village to suburbs, changed not only the appearance but also the population. More and more agricultural land fell victim to the development, craftsmen and tradesmen settled there. There was an incredible variety of professions and trades, most of which were organized into guilds or crafts. Those cared for vocational training, quality and price of the goods, and in cases of unemployment, sickness and death.
The farms were replaced by churches and palaces, houses and shops. Mariahilf changed into a major industrial district, Mariahilferstrasse was an important trading center. Countless street traders sold the goods, which they carried either with them, or put in a street stall on display. The dealers made themselves noticeable by a significant Kaufruf (purchase call). So there was the ink man who went about with his bottles, the Wasserbauer (hydraulic engineering) who sold Danube water on his horse-drawn vehicle as industrial water, or the lavender woman. This lovely Viennese figures disappeared with the emergence of fixed premises and the improvement of urban transport.
Private carriages, horse-drawn carriages and buggies populated the streets, who used this route also for trips. At Mariahilferplatz Linientor (gate) was the main stand of the cheapest and most popular means of transport, the Zeiselwagen, which the Wiener used for their excursions into nature, which gradually became fashionable. In the 19th Century then yet arrived the Stellwagen (carriage) and bus traffic which had to accomplish the connection between Vienna and the suburbs. As a Viennese joke has it, suggests the Stellwagen that it has been so called because it did not come from the spot.
1719 - 1723 Royal and Imperial Court Stables
Emperor Charles VI. gave the order for the construction of the stables to Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. 1772 the building was extended by two houses on the Mariahilferstrasse. The size of the stables still shows, as it serves as the Museum Quarter - its former importance. The Mariahilferstraße since the building of Schönbrunn Palace by the Imperial court very strongly was frequented. Today in the historic buildings the Museum Quarter is housed.
The church and monastery of Maria Hülff
Coloured engraving by J. Ziegler, 1783
1730 Mariahilferkirche
1711 began the renovation works at the Mariahilferkirche, giving the church building today's appearance and importance as a baroque monument. The plans stem from Franziskus Jänkl, the foreman of Lukas von Hildebrandt. Originally stood on the site of the Mariahilferkirche in the medieval vineyard "In Schoeff" a cemetery with wooden chapel built by the Barnabites. Already in those days, the miraculous image Mariahilf was located therein. During the Ottoman siege the chapel was destroyed, the miraculous image could be saved behind the protective walls. After the provisional reconstruction the miraculous image in a triumphal procession was returned, accompanied by 30,000 Viennese.
1790 - 1836 Ferdinand Raimund
Although in the district Mariahilf many artists and historical figures of Vienna lived , it is noticeable that as a residence they rather shunned the Mariahilferstraße, because as early as in the 18th Century there was a very lively and loud bustle on the street. The most famous person who was born on the Mariahilferstrasse is the folk actor and dramatist Ferdinand Raimund. He came in the house No. 45, "To the Golden deer (Zum Goldenen Hirschen)", which still exists today, as son of a turner into the world. As confectioners apprentice, he also had to visit the theaters, where he was a so-called "Numero", who sold his wares to the visitors. This encounter with the theater was fateful. He took flight from his training masters and joined a traveling troupe as an actor. After his return to Vienna, he soon became the most popular comedian. In his plays all those figures appeared then bustling the streets of Vienna. His most famous role was that of the "ash man" in "Farmer as Millionaire", a genuine Viennese guy who brings the wood ash in Butte from the houses, and from the proceeds leading a modest existence.
1805 - 1809 French occupation
The two-time occupation of Vienna by the French hit the suburbs hard. But the buildings were not destroyed fortunately.
19th century Industrialization
Here, where a higher concentration of artisans had developed as in other districts, you could feel the competition of the factories particularly hard. A craftsman after another became factory worker, women and child labor was part of the day-to-day business. With the sharp rise of the population grew apartment misery and flourished bed lodgers and roomers business.
1826
The Mariahilferstraße is paved up to the present belt (Gürtel).
1848 years of the revolution
The Mariahilferstraße this year was in turmoil. At the outbreak of the revolution, the hatred of the people was directed against the Verzehrungssteuerämter (some kind of tax authority) at the lines that have been blamed for the rise of food prices, and against the machines in the factories that had made the small craftsmen out of work or dependent workers. In October, students, workers and citizens tore up paving stones and barricaded themselves in the Mariahilfer Linientor (the so-called Linienwall was the tax frontier) in the area of today's belt.
1858 The Ring Road
The city walls fell and on the glacis arose the ring-road, the now 6th District more closely linking to the city center.
1862 Official naming
The Mariahilferstraße received its to the present day valid name, after it previously was bearing the following unofficial names: "Bavarian country road", "Mariahilfer Grund Straße", "Penzinger Street", "Laimgrube main street" and "Schönbrunner Linienstraße".
The turn of the century: development to commercial street
After the revolution of 1848, the industry displaced the dominant small business rapidly. At the same time the Mariahilferstraße developed into the first major shopping street of Vienna. The rising supply had to be passed on to the customer, and so more and more new shops sprang up. Around the turn of the century broke out a real building boom. The low suburban houses with Baroque and Biedermeier facade gave way to multi-storey houses with flashy and ostentatious facades in that historic style mixture, which was so characteristic of the late Ringstrasse period. From the former historic buildings almost nothing remained. The business portals were bigger and more pompous, the first department stores in the modern style were Gerngross and Herzmansky. Especially the clothing industry took root here.
1863 Herzmansky opened
On 3 March opened August Herzmansky a small general store in the Church Lane (Kirchengasse) 4. 1897 the great establishment in the pin alley (Stiftgasse) was opened, the largest textile company of the monarchy. August Herzmansky died a year before the opening, two nephews take over the business. In 1928, Mariahilferstraße 28 is additionally acquired. 1938, the then owner Max Delfiner had to flee, the company Rhonberg and Hämmerle took over the house. The building in Mariahilferstrasse 30 additionally was purchased. In the last days of the war in 1945 it fell victim to the flames, however. 1948, the company was returned to Max Delfiner, whose son sold in 1957 to the German Hertie group, a new building in Mariahilferstrasse 26 - 30 constructing. Other ownership changes followed.
1869 The Pferdetramway
The Pferdetramway made it first trip through the Mariahilferstraße to Neubaugasse.
Opened in 1879 Gerngroß
Mariahilferstraße about 1905
Alfred Gerngross, a merchant from Bavaria and co-worker August
Herzmanskys, founded on Mariahilferstrasse 48/corner Church alley (Kirchengasse) an own fabric store. He became the fiercest competitor of his former boss.
1901 The k.k. Imperial Furniture Collection
The k.k. Hofmobilien and material depot is established in Mariahilferstrasse 88. The collection quickly grew because each new ruler got new furniture. Today, it serves as a museum. Among other things, there is the office of Emperor Franz Joseph, the equipment of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico from Miramare Castle, the splendid table of Charles VI. and the furniture from the Oriental Cabinet of Crown Prince Rudolf.
1911 The House Stafa
On 18 August 1911, on the birthday of Emperor Franz Joseph, corner Mariahilferstraße/imperial road (Kaiserstraße) the "central palace" was opened. The construction by its architecture created a sensation. Nine large double figure-relief panels of Anton Hanak decorated it. In this building the "1st Vienna Commercial sample collective department store (Warenmuster-Kollektivkaufhaus)", a eight-storey circular building was located, which was to serve primarily the craft. The greatest adversity in the construction were underground springs. Two dug wells had to be built to pump out the water. 970 liters per minute, however, must be pumped out until today.
1945 bombing of Vienna
On 21 February 1945 bombs fell on the Mariahilferstrasse, many buildings were badly damaged. On 10th April Wiener looted the store Herzmansky. Ella Fasser, the owner of the café "Goethe" in Mariahilferstrasse, preserved the Monastery barracks (Stiftskaserne) from destruction, with the help other resistance fighters cutting the fire-conducting cords that had laid the retreating German troops. Meanwhile, she invited the officers to the cafe, and befuddled them with plenty of alcohol.
The Tees Newport Bridge is a vertical-lift bridge spanning the River Tees a short distance upriver from Tees Transporter Bridge, linking Middlesbrough with the borough of Stockton-on-Tees, Northern England. It no longer lifts, but still acts as a road bridge in its permanently down position.
Designed by Mott, Hay and Anderson and built by local company Dorman Long, who have also been responsible for such structures as the Tyne Bridge and Sydney Harbour Bridge, it was the first large vertical-lift bridge in Britain.
Constructed around twin 55 m (180 ft) lifting towers, the 82 m (269 ft) bridge span, weighing 2,700 tonnes, could be lifted by the use of two 325 H.P. electric motors at 16 m (52 ft) per minute to a maximum height of 37 m (121 ft). In the event of motor failure a standby 450 H.P. petrol engine could be employed to move the bridge, but should both systems fail it was possible to raise or lower the span manually using a winch mechanism. It was estimated in 1963 by Mr R. Batty, long time Bridge Master at Newport Bridge, that "it would take 12 men eight hours" to complete the movement by hand.
The bridge was inaugurated by Prince Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI) and opened to traffic on 28 February 1934.
Originally, 12 men would have been employed to man the bridge around the clock, usually requiring four to drive it at any one time. This was accomplished from the oak-panelled winding house situated midway along the bridge span. During the 1940s and early 1950s this would occur up to twice a day with an average of 800 vessels per year passing under it, despite staffing difficulties during the 1940s when men were away fighting. However, as the number of ships needing to sail up to Stockton-on-Tees declined, so did the usage of the bridge.
The legal requirement to lift the bridge for shipping traffic was removed in 1989 after the repeal of a Parliamentary Act. Before mechanical decommissioning Mr Ian MacDonald, who worked on the bridge from 1966, finally as Bridge Master, supervised the final lift on 18 November 1990.
The Tees Newport Bridge still serves as a road bridge, carrying considerable traffic as a section of the A1032, despite the presence of the A19 Tees Viaduct a short distance upriver. In recent years it was repainted in its original green and some minor maintenance took place on the wire ropes and counterbalances which still take the majority of the bridge load. In 1988 the bridge was given Grade II Listed Building status.
In July 2014, work started to paint the bridge red and silver to mark its 80th anniversary. This was planned to take six weeks but was completed behind schedule and over budget mainly because of the poor condition of the steelwork, the result of lack of maintenance.
As ships dock on the banks of the River Tees up to the Tees Newport Bridge the Admiralty publishes tide times for the bridge location
Middlesbrough is a town in the Middlesbrough unitary authority borough of North Yorkshire, England. The town lies near the mouth of the River Tees and north of the North York Moors National Park. The built-up area had a population of 148,215 at the 2021 UK census. It is the largest town of the wider Teesside area, which had a population of 376,633 in 2011.
Until the early 1800s, the area was rural farmland in the historic county of Yorkshire. The town was a planned development which started in 1830, based around a new port with coal and later ironworks added. Steel production and ship building began in the late 1800s, remaining associated with the town until the post-industrial decline of the late twentieth century. Trade (notably through ports) and digital enterprise sectors contemporarily contribute to the local economy, Teesside University and Middlesbrough College to local education.
Middlesbrough was made a municipal borough in 1853. When elected county councils were created in 1889, Middlesbrough was considered large enough to provide its own county-level services and so it became a county borough, independent from North Riding County Council. The borough of Middlesbrough was abolished in 1968 when the area was absorbed into the larger County Borough of Teesside. Six years later in 1974 Middlesbrough was re-established as a borough within the new county of Cleveland. Cleveland was abolished in 1996, since when Middlesbrough has been a unitary authority within the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire.
Middlesbrough started as a Benedictine priory on the south bank of the River Tees, its name possibly derived from it being midway between the holy sites of Durham and Whitby. The earliest recorded form of Middlesbrough's name is "Mydilsburgh", containing the term burgh.
In 686, a monastic cell was consecrated by St. Cuthbert at the request of St. Hilda, Abbess of Whitby. The manor of Middlesburgh belonged to Whitby Abbey and Guisborough Priory.[1] Robert Bruce, Lord of Cleveland and Annandale, granted and confirmed, in 1119, the church of St. Hilda of Middleburg to Whitby. Up until its closure on the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII in 1537, the church was maintained by 12 Benedictine monks, many of whom became vicars, or rectors, of various places in Cleveland.
After the Angles, the area became home to Viking settlers. Names of Viking origin (with the suffix by meaning village) are abundant in the area; for example, Ormesby, Stainsby and Tollesby were once separate villages that belonged to Vikings called Orm, Steinn and Toll that are now areas of Middlesbrough were recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. Other names around Middlesbrough include the village of Maltby (of Malti) along with the towns of Ingleby Barwick (Anglo-place and barley-wick) and Thornaby (of Thormod).
Links persist in the area, often through school or road names, to now-outgrown or abandoned local settlements, such as the medieval settlement of Stainsby, deserted by 1757, which amounts to little more today than a series of grassy mounds near the A19 road.
In 1801, Middlesbrough was a small farm with a population of just 25; however, during the latter half of the 19th century, it experienced rapid growth. In 1828 the influential Quaker banker, coal mine owner and Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) shareholder Joseph Pease sailed up the River Tees to find a suitable new site downriver of Stockton on which to place new coal staithes. As a result, in 1829 he and a group of Quaker businessmen bought the Middlesbrough farmstead and associated estate, some 527 acres (213 ha) of land, and established the Middlesbrough Estate Company.
Through the company, the investors set about a new coal port development (designed by John Harris) on the southern banks of the Tees. The first coal shipping staithes at the port (known as "Port Darlington") were constructed with a settlement to the east established on the site of Middlesbrough farm as labour for the port, taking on the farm's name as it developed into a village. The small farmstead became a village of streets such as North Street, South Street, West Street, East Street, Commercial Street, Stockton Street and Cleveland Street, laid out in a grid-iron pattern around a market square, with the first house being built on West Street in April 1830. New businesses bought premises and plots of land in the new town including: shippers, merchants, butchers, innkeepers, joiners, blacksmiths, tailors, builders and painters.
The first coal shipping staithes at the port (known as "Port Darlington") were constructed just to the west of the site earmarked for the location of Middlesbrough. The port was linked to the S&DR on 27 December 1830 via a branch that extended to an area just north of the current Middlesbrough railway station, helping secure the town's future.
The success of the port meant it soon became overwhelmed by the volume of imports and exports, and in 1839 work started on Middlesbrough Dock. Laid out by Sir William Cubitt, the whole infrastructure was built by resident civil engineer George Turnbull. After three years and an expenditure of £122,000 (equivalent to £9.65 million at 2011 prices), first water was let in on 19 March 1842, and the formal opening took place on 12 May 1842. On completion, the docks were bought by the S&DR.
Iron and steel have dominated the Tees area since 1841 when Henry Bolckow in partnership with John Vaughan, founded the Vulcan iron foundry and rolling mill. Vaughan, who had worked his way up through the Iron industry in South Wales, used his technical expertise to find a more abundant supply of Ironstone in the Eston Hills in 1850, and introduced the new "Bell Hopper" system of closed blast furnaces developed at the Ebbw Vale works. These factors made the works an unprecedented success with Teesside becoming known as the "Iron-smelting centre of the world" and Bolckow, Vaughan & Co., Ltd became the largest company in existence.
By 1851 Middlesbrough's population had grown from 40 people in 1829 to 7,600. Pig iron production rose tenfold between 1851 and 1856 and by the mid-1870s Middlesbrough was producing one third of the entire nations Pig Iron output. It was during this time Middlesbrough earned the nickname "Ironopolis".
On 21 January 1853, Middlesbrough received its Royal Charter of Incorporation, giving the town the right to have a mayor, aldermen and councillors. Henry Bolckow became mayor, in 1853.
A Welsh community was established in Middlesbrough sometime before the 1840s, with mining being the main form of employment. These migrants included figures who would become important leaders in the commercial, political and cultural life of the town:
John Vaughan established Teesside's first ironworks in 1841, The Vulcan Works at Middlesbrough. Vaughan had worked his way up through the industry at the Dowlais Ironworks in south Wales and encouraged hundreds of the skilled Welsh workers to follow him to Teesside.
Edward Williams (iron-master), although he was the grandson of the famous Welsh Bard Iolo Morganwg, Edward had started as a mere clerk at Dowlais. His move to the Tees saw him rise to ironmaster, alderman, magistrate and Mayor of Middlesbrough. Edward was also the father of Aneurin and Penry, who both became Liberal MPs for the area.
E.T. John arrived from Pontypridd as a junior clerk in Williams' office. John became the director of several industrial enterprises and a radical politician.
Windsor Richards, an Engineer and manager, oversaw the town's transition from iron to steel production.
Much like the contemporary Welsh migration to America, the Welsh of Middlesbrough came almost exclusively from the iron-smelting and coal districts of South Wales. By 1861 42% of the town's ironworkers identified as Welsh and one in twenty of the total population. Place names such as "Welch Cottages" and "Welch Place" appeared around the Vulcan works, and Middlesbrough became a centre for the Welsh communities at Witton Park, Spennymoor, Consett and Stockton on Tees (especially Portrack). David Williams also recorded that a number of the Welsh workers at the Hughesovka Ironworks in 1869 had migrated from Middlesbrough.
A Welsh Baptist chapel was active in the town as early as 1858, and St Hilda's Anglican church began providing services in the Welsh language. Churches and chapels were the centres of Welsh culture, supporting choirs, Sunday Schools, social societies, adult education, lectures and literary meetings. By the 1870s, many more Welsh chapels were built (one reputed to seat 500 people), and the first Eisteddfodau were held.
By the 1880s, a "Welsh cultural revival" was underway, with the Eisteddfodau attracting competitors and spectators from outside the Welsh communities. In 1890 the Middlesbrough Town Hall hosted the first Cleveland and Durham Eisteddfod, an event notable for its non-denominational inclusivity, with Irish Catholic choirs and the bishop of the newly created Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough as honoured guests.
In the early twentieth century this Eisteddfod had become the biggest annual event in the town and the largest annual Eisteddfod outside Wales. The Eisteddfod had a clear impact on the culture of the town, especially through its literary and music events, by 1911 the Eisteddfod had twenty-two classes of musical competition only two of which were for Welsh language content. By 1914, thirty choirs from across the area were competing in 284 entries. A choral tradition remained part of the town's culture long after the eisteddfod and chapels had gone. In 2012 an exhibition at the Dorman Museum marked the Apollo Male Voice Choir's 125 years as an active choir in the town.
Industrial Wales was noted for its "radical Liberal-Labour" politics, and the rhetoric of these politicians clearly won favour with the urban population of the North East. Penry Williams and Jonathan Samuel won the seats of Middlesbrough and Stockton-on-Tees for the Liberal Party and Penry's brother, Aneurin would also win the newly created Consett seat in 1918.
Sir Horace Davey stressed his Welsh lineage and stated that "it was scarcely an exaggeration to say that Welshmen had founded Middlesbrough", courting the Welsh vote that saw him elected MP for Stockton. However, others complained that local Conservative candidates were losing to "Fenians and Welshers" (Irish and Welsh people).
These sentiments had grown by 1900 when Samuel lost his seat after a Unionist complained publicly that the town had been "forced to submit to the indignity of being trailed ignominiously through the mire by Welsh constituents". Samuel lost the seat but regained it in 1910 with a campaign that made few, if any, references to his Welsh background.
From 1861 to 1871, the census of England & Wales showed that Middlesbrough consistently had the second highest percentage of Irish born people in England after Liverpool. The Irish population in 1861 accounted for 15.6% of the total population of Middlesbrough. In 1871 the amount had dropped to 9.2% yet this still placed Middlesbrough's Irish population second in England behind Liverpool. Due to the rapid development of the town and its industrialisation there was much need for people to work in the many blast furnaces and steel works along the banks of the Tees. This attracted many people from Ireland, who were in much need of work. As well as people from Ireland, the Scottish, Welsh and overseas inhabitants made up 16% of Middlesbrough's population in 1871. A second influx of Irish migration was observed in the early 1900s as Middlesbrough's steel industry boomed producing 1/3 of Britain's total steel output. This second influx lasted through to the 1950s after which Irish migration to Middlesbrough saw a drastic decline. Middlesbrough no longer has a strong Irish presence, with Irish born residents making up around 2% of the current population, however there is still a strong cultural and historical connection with Ireland mainly through the heritage and ancestry of many families within Middlesbrough.
The town's rapid expansion continued throughout the second half of the 19th century, fuelled by the iron and steel industry. In 1864 the North Riding Infirmary (an ear, nose and mouth hospital) opened in Newport Road; this was demolished in 2006.
On 15 August 1867, a Reform Bill was passed, making Middlesbrough a new parliamentary borough, Bolckow was elected member for Middlesbrough the following year. In 1875, Bolckow, Vaughan & Co opened the Cleveland Steelworks in Middlesbrough beginning the transition from Iron production to Steel and by the turn of the century. Henry Bolckow died in 1878 and left an endowment of £5,000 for the infirmary.
In the latter third of the 19th century, Old Middlesbrough was starting to decline and was overshadowed by developments built around the new town hall, south of the original town hall, the town's population reaching 90,000 by the dawn of the 20th century.[9] In 1900, Bolckow, Vaughan & Co had become the largest producer of steel in Great Britain and possibly came to be one of the major steel centres in the world.
In 1914, Dorman Long, another major steel producer from Middlesbrough, became the largest company in Britain. It employed a workforce of over 20,000 and by 1929 and gained enough to take over from Bolckow, Vaughan & Co's dominance and to acquire their assets. The steel components of the Sydney Harbour Bridge (1932) were engineered and fabricated by Dorman Long of Middlesbrough. The company was also responsible for the New Tyne Bridge in Newcastle.
Several large shipyards also lined the Tees, including the Sir Raylton Dixon & Company, Smith's Dock Company of South Bank and Furness Shipbuilding Company of Haverton Hill.
Middlesbrough was the first major British town and industrial target to be bombed during the Second World War. The Luftwaffe first attacked the town on 25 May 1940 when a lone bomber dropped 13 bombs between South Bank Road and the South Steel Plant. One of the bombs fell on the South Bank football ground making a large crater in the pitch. The bomber was forced to leave after RAF night fighters were scrambled to intercept. Two months after the first bombing Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited the town to meet the public and inspect coastal defences.
German bombers often flew over the Eston Hills while heading for targets further inland, such as Manchester. On 30 March 1941 a Junkers Ju 88 was shot down by two Spitfires of No. 41 Squadron, piloted by Tony Lovell and Archie Winskill, over Middlesbrough. The aircraft dived into the ground at Barnaby Moor, Eston; the engines and most of the airframe were entirely buried upon impact.
On 5 December 1941 a Spitfire of No. 122 Squadron, piloted by Sgt Hutton, crashed into rising ground near Mill Farm, Upsall, on the lower slopes of Eston Hills. Poor visibility due to bad weather and low cloud is believed to have been the cause of the crash.
On 15 January 1942, minutes after being hit by gunfire from a merchant ship anchored off Hartlepool, a Dornier Do 217 collided with the cable of a barrage balloon over the River Tees. The blazing bomber plummeted onto the railway sidings in South Bank leaving a crater twelve feet deep. In 1997 the remains of the Dornier were unearthed by a group of workers clearing land for redevelopment; the remains were put on display for a short while at Kirkleatham museum.
On 4 August 1942 a lone Dornier Do 217 picked its way through the barrage balloons and dropped a stick of bombs onto the railway station. One bomb caused serious damage to the Victorian glass and steel roof. A train in the station was also badly damaged although there were no passengers aboard. The station was put out action for two weeks.
The Green Howards was a British Army infantry regiment very strongly associated with Middlesbrough and the area south of the River Tees. Originally formed at Dunster Castle, Somerset in 1688 to serve King William of Orange, later King William III, this regiment became affiliated to the North Riding of Yorkshire in 1782. As Middlesbrough grew, its population of men came to be a group most targeted by the recruiters. The Green Howards were part of the King's Division. On 6 June 2006, this famous regiment was merged into the new Yorkshire Regiment and are now known as 2 Yorks, The 2nd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards). There is also a Territorial Army (TA) company at Stockton Road in Middlesbrough, part of 4 Yorks which is wholly reserve.
Post Second World War to contemporary era
By the end of the war over 200 buildings had been destroyed within the Middlesbrough area. The borough lost 99 civilians as a result of enemy action.
Areas of early and mid-Victorian housing were demolished and much of central Middlesbrough was redeveloped. Heavy industry was relocated to areas of land better suited to the needs of modern technology. Middlesbrough itself began to take on a completely different look.
Middlesbrough's 1903 Gaumont cinema, originally an opera house until the 1930s, was demolished in 1971. The Cleveland Centre opened in the same year. In 1974, Middlesbrough and other areas around the Tees, became part of the county of Cleveland. This was to create a county within a single NUTS region of England, with the UK joining the European Union predecessor (European Communities) a year earlier.
Middlesbrough's Royal Exchange building was demolished, to make way for the road. A multi-storey the Star and Garter Hotel built in the 1890s near to the exchange on the site of a former Welsh Congregational Church, was also demolished. The Victorian era North Riding Infirmary was demolished in 2006 and replaced by a hotel and supermarket.
The Cleveland Centre opened in 1971, Hill Street shopping centre opened in 1981 and Captain Cook Square opened in 1999.
Middlesbrough F.C.'s modern Riverside Stadium opened on 26 August 1995 next to Middlesbrough Dock. The club moved from Ayresome Park their previous home in the town for 92 years.
With the abolition of Cleveland County in 1996, Middlesbrough again became part of North Yorkshire.
The original St.Hilda's area of Middlesbrough, after decades of decline and clearance, was given a new name of Middlehaven in 1986 on investment proposals to build on the land. Middlehaven has since had new buildings built there including Middlesbrough College and Middlesbrough FC's Riverside Stadium amongst others. Also situated at Middlehaven is the "Boho" zone, offering office space to the area's business and to attract new companies, and also "Bohouse", housing. Some of the street names from the original grid-iron street plan of the town still exist in the area today.
The expansion of Middlesbrough southwards, eastwards and westwards continued throughout the 20th century absorbing villages such as Linthorpe, Acklam, Ormesby, Marton and Nunthorpe[9] and continues to the present day.
Salt Tower is part of Henry III’s late 1230s curtain wall which rings the castle. Built on the fortress’s south-eastern corner, this tower overlooked the river. Archers could shoot arrows through the arrow-loops in this room.
Upstairs was a comfortable chamber with a huge fireplace and decorative window. The tower’s exterior and windows were restored in 1857-8.
Prisoners at this tower include John Balliol, a Scottish king imprisoned here in 1296 for three years, Hew Draper, an innkeeper from Bristol accused of practising sorcery, and Giovanni Battista Castiglione, an Italian tutor who used to carry Princess Elizabeth's private letters to her when she was imprisoned in the Tower.
Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, known as the Tower of London, is a historic castle located on the north bank of the River Thames in central London. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, separated from the eastern edge of the square mile of the City of London by the open space known as Tower Hill. It was founded towards the end of 1066 as part of the Norman Conquest of England. The White Tower, which gives the entire castle its name, was built by William the Conqueror in 1078, and was a resented symbol of oppression, inflicted upon London by the new ruling elite. The castle was used as a prison from 1100 (Ranulf Flambard) until 1952 (Kray twins), although that was not its primary purpose. A grand palace early in its history, it served as a royal residence. As a whole, the Tower is a complex of several buildings set within two concentric rings of defensive walls and a moat. There were several phases of expansion, mainly under Kings Richard the Lionheart, Henry III, and Edward I in the 12th and 13th centuries. The general layout established by the late 13th century remains despite later activity on the site.
Guarded Inn - also known as The Bacon House
The MOC shows an inn built around a tower belonging to old castle ruins. The place is known for different types of pork from own breeding. The inn also runs hotel services.
At the moment, in the courtyard, we see several banqueters, innkeeper checking the roasting pig and two waitresses taking care of guests. One of them is roughly adored by a client.
A fresh group of consumers comes in - soldiers and their not too bright master returning from a medium-successful military expedition.
On the right below, the stable is being cleaned, and higher on the wall a boy pretending to be a guard (an element of the decoration) consumes his fee.
On the left back, the innkeeper prepares himself for the pig slaughter, while a swine thief tries to lure one of the fine specimen from the pigsty.
The bed and breakfast where we stayed last week featured many interesting antiques -- including this shoe scraper on the front porch. Since the innkeeper owns a basset hound, I considered it a symbol of hospitality!
View of Lake Chiemsee with the Schalch, photographed on the Fraueninsel (in English: "Ladies’ Island"), Bavaria, Germany
Some background information:
Lake Chiemsee is a freshwater lake in the Alpine Foreland, a rather southern part of the Bavarian district of Upper Bavaria. It is located near the Austrian border, between the cities of Rosenheim, Germany, and Salzburg, Austria. In the vernacular Chiemsee is often called "The Bavarian Sea”, because with its surface area of about 80 km² (30.9 square miles) it is the biggest lake that is completely situated in Bavaria. Lake Bodensee is bigger of course, but its area is shared between the two German federal states of Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg as well as the countries of Austria and Switzerland. Chiemsee is also the third biggest lake in Germany, only excelled by the abovementioned Bodensee and the Mueritz. The region around the Chiemsee, the Chiemgau, is a popular recreation area.
Like many other pre-alpine lakes, the Chiemsee was formed at the end of the last ice age about 10,000 years ago, from a hollow carved out by a glacier. Hence it is a glacial lake with its origins in a melted glacier. It is fed by the rivers Tiroler Achen and Prien, which flow into the lake from the south, while the river Alz is the lake’s outlet in the north. The Chiemsee comprises a water quantity of 2.048 km³ and has a shore line of 63.96 km (39.7 miles). Including the islands the shore line is actually 83 km long.
There are three main islands on the lake: Herreninsel (in English: "Gentlemen’s Island") with an area of 238 km is the largest. Herreninsel has a palace built by King Ludwig II in 1878 called Herrenchiemsee, which was never completed but was meant to be an even larger replica of the Palace of Versailles. The second largest is Fraueninsel (in English: "Ladies’ Island") with an area of 15.5 ha. It houses a Benedictine nunnery, built in 782, as well as a small village of about 300 residents, who made a living from fishing in former times, but today are fishermen, artists or even innkeepers. Finally the third largest island is Krautinsel (in English "Cabbage Island") with an area of 3.5 ha, which is inhabited. Another three smaller islands complete the Chiemsee’s island world.
The tiny island in the centre of my picture is called "Schalch". It is located just 66 metres west of Fraueninsel. Its plot is a square having sides of 4.7 metres while its corners are geared to the four points of the compass. The Schalch is an artificial island of course which was raised to highlight a shoal that used to be a danger for boats. In 1935 the artist colony on Fraueninsel planted the Schalch with a single willow to make it clearly visible for the yachtsmen. But at the beginning of this century, after the willow had been fallen victim to a tempest, it was immediately replaced by another (young) willow.
The major settlements on the lake with a lakeside promenade are Prien, Chieming, Uebersee, Gstadt, Breitbrunn and Seebruck. There is also a community on the lake named Chiemsee, which consists from the three major islands and their residents.
Chiemsee is a popular local recreation area (among others for the citizens of Munich) and also a well-frequented tourist area. There is a walkway and a cycle lane around the lake and people can carry out all kinds of aquatic sport. Above all the lake with its consistent winds coming from the Alps is a popular sailing area. However, the wind direction often changes, which may lead to sailing boats that sail around in circuits, although their yachtsmen don’t even change the position of the sails.
Along the south bank of the Chiemsee visitors can view the Alps, in particular the Chiemgau Alps, whose highest peak is the Sonntagshorn (1,961 m resp. 6,434 feet) and the Wilder Kaiser mountain range (in English: "Wild Emperor") which is located in the Tyrol district in Austria, with the Ellmauer Halt (2,344 m resp. 7,690 feet) and the Ackerlspitze (2,329 m resp. 7,641 feet) as its highest summits.
(further information and pictures you can get by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
Mariahilferstraße
Mariahilferstraße, 6th, 7th, 14th and 15th, since 1897 (in the 6th and 7th district originally Kremser Sraße, then Bavarian highway, Laimgrubner main road, Mariahilfer main street, Fünfhauserstraße, Schönbrunnerstraße and Penzinger Poststraße, then Schönbrunner Straße), in memory of the old suburb name; Mariahilf was an independent municipality from 1660 to 1850, since then with Gumpendorf, Magdalenengrund, Windmühle and Laimgrube 6th District.
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Mariahilferstraße, 1908 - Wien Museum
Mariahilferstraße, 1908
Picture taken from "August Stauda - A documentarian of old Vienna"
published by Christian Brandstätter - to Book Description
History
Pottery and wine
The first ones who demonstrably populated the area of today's Mariahilferstraße (after the mammoth) were the Illyrians. They took advantage of the rich clay deposits for making simple vessels. The Celts planted on the sunny hills the first grape vines and understood the wine-making process very well. When the Romans occupied at the beginning of our Era Vienna for several centuries, they left behind many traces. The wine culture of the Celts they refined. On the hill of today's Mariahilferstraße run a Roman ridge trail, whose origins lay in the camp of Vindobona. After the rule of the Romans, the migration of peoples temporarily led many cultures here until after the expulsion of the Avars Bavarian colonists came from the West.
The peasant Middle Ages - From the vineyard to the village
Thanks to the loamy soil formed the winery, which has been pushed back only until the development of the suburbs, until the mid-17th Century the livelihood of the rural population. "Im Schöff" but also "Schöpf - scoop" and "Schiff - ship" (from "draw of") the area at the time was called. The erroneous use of a ship in the seal of the district is reminiscent of the old name, which was then replaced by the picture of grace "Mariahilf". The Weinberg (vineyard) law imposed at that time that the ground rent in the form of mash on the spot had to be paid. This was referred to as a "draw".
1495 the Mariahilfer wine was added to the wine disciplinary regulations for Herrenweine (racy, hearty, fruity, pithy wine with pleasant acidity) because of its special quality and achieved high prices.
1529 The first Turkish siege
Mariahilferstraße, already than an important route to the West, was repeatedly the scene of historical encounters. When the Turks besieged Vienna for the first time, was at the lower end of today Mariahilferstrasse, just outside the city walls of Vienna, a small settlement of houses and cottages, gardens and fields. Even the St. Theobald Monastery was there. This so-called "gap" was burned at the approach of the Turks, for them not to offer hiding places at the siege. Despite a prohibition, the area was rebuilt after departure of the Turks.
1558, a provision was adopted so that the glacis, a broad, unobstructed strip between the city wall and the outer settlements, should be left free. The Glacis existed until the demolition of the city walls in 1858. Here the ring road was later built.
1663 The new Post Road
With the new purpose of the Mariahilferstrasse as post road the first three roadside inn houses were built. At the same time the travel increased, since the carriages were finally more comfortable and the roads safer. Two well-known expressions date from this period. The "tip" and "kickbacks". In the old travel handbooks of that time we encounter them as guards beside the route, the travel and baggage tariff. The tip should the driver at the rest stop pay for the drink, while the bribe was calculated in proportion to the axle grease. Who was in a hurry, just paid a higher lubricant (Schmiergeld) or tip to motivate the coachman.
1683 The second Turkish siege
The second Turkish siege brought Mariahilferstraße the same fate. Meanwhile, a considerable settlement was formed, a real suburb, which, however, still had a lot of fields and brick pits. Again, the suburb along the Mariahilferstraße was razed to the ground, the population sought refuge behind the walls or in the Vienna Woods. The reconstruction progressed slowly since there was a lack of funds and manpower. Only at the beginning of the 18th Century took place a targeted reconstruction.
1686 Palais Esterhazy
On several "Brandstetten", by the second Turkish siege destroyed houses, the Hungarian aristocratic family Esterhazy had built herself a simple palace, which also had a passage on the Mariahilferstrasse. 1764 bought the innkeeper Paul Winkelmayr from Spittelberg the building, demolished it and built two new buildings that have been named in accordance with the Esterhazy "to the Hungarian crown."
17th Century to 19th Century. Fom the village to suburb
With the development of the settlements on the Mariahilferstraße from village to suburbs, changed not only the appearance but also the population. More and more agricultural land fell victim to the development, craftsmen and tradesmen settled there. There was an incredible variety of professions and trades, most of which were organized into guilds or crafts. Those cared for vocational training, quality and price of the goods, and in cases of unemployment, sickness and death.
The farms were replaced by churches and palaces, houses and shops. Mariahilf changed into a major industrial district, Mariahilferstrasse was an important trading center. Countless street traders sold the goods, which they carried either with them, or put in a street stall on display. The dealers made themselves noticeable by a significant Kaufruf (purchase call). So there was the ink man who went about with his bottles, the Wasserbauer (hydraulic engineering) who sold Danube water on his horse-drawn vehicle as industrial water, or the lavender woman. This lovely Viennese figures disappeared with the emergence of fixed premises and the improvement of urban transport.
Private carriages, horse-drawn carriages and buggies populated the streets, who used this route also for trips. At Mariahilferplatz Linientor (gate) was the main stand of the cheapest and most popular means of transport, the Zeiselwagen, which the Wiener used for their excursions into nature, which gradually became fashionable. In the 19th Century then yet arrived the Stellwagen (carriage) and bus traffic which had to accomplish the connection between Vienna and the suburbs. As a Viennese joke has it, suggests the Stellwagen that it has been so called because it did not come from the spot.
1719 - 1723 Royal and Imperial Court Stables
Emperor Charles VI. gave the order for the construction of the stables to Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. 1772 the building was extended by two houses on the Mariahilferstrasse. The size of the stables still shows, as it serves as the Museum Quarter - its former importance. The Mariahilferstraße since the building of Schönbrunn Palace by the Imperial court very strongly was frequented. Today in the historic buildings the Museum Quarter is housed.
The church and monastery of Maria Hülff
Coloured engraving by J. Ziegler, 1783
1730 Mariahilferkirche
1711 began the renovation works at the Mariahilferkirche, giving the church building today's appearance and importance as a baroque monument. The plans stem from Franziskus Jänkl, the foreman of Lukas von Hildebrandt. Originally stood on the site of the Mariahilferkirche in the medieval vineyard "In Schoeff" a cemetery with wooden chapel built by the Barnabites. Already in those days, the miraculous image Mariahilf was located therein. During the Ottoman siege the chapel was destroyed, the miraculous image could be saved behind the protective walls. After the provisional reconstruction the miraculous image in a triumphal procession was returned, accompanied by 30,000 Viennese.
1790 - 1836 Ferdinand Raimund
Although in the district Mariahilf many artists and historical figures of Vienna lived , it is noticeable that as a residence they rather shunned the Mariahilferstraße, because as early as in the 18th Century there was a very lively and loud bustle on the street. The most famous person who was born on the Mariahilferstrasse is the folk actor and dramatist Ferdinand Raimund. He came in the house No. 45, "To the Golden deer (Zum Goldenen Hirschen)", which still exists today, as son of a turner into the world. As confectioners apprentice, he also had to visit the theaters, where he was a so-called "Numero", who sold his wares to the visitors. This encounter with the theater was fateful. He took flight from his training masters and joined a traveling troupe as an actor. After his return to Vienna, he soon became the most popular comedian. In his plays all those figures appeared then bustling the streets of Vienna. His most famous role was that of the "ash man" in "Farmer as Millionaire", a genuine Viennese guy who brings the wood ash in Butte from the houses, and from the proceeds leading a modest existence.
1805 - 1809 French occupation
The two-time occupation of Vienna by the French hit the suburbs hard. But the buildings were not destroyed fortunately.
19th century Industrialization
Here, where a higher concentration of artisans had developed as in other districts, you could feel the competition of the factories particularly hard. A craftsman after another became factory worker, women and child labor was part of the day-to-day business. With the sharp rise of the population grew apartment misery and flourished bed lodgers and roomers business.
1826
The Mariahilferstraße is paved up to the present belt (Gürtel).
1848 years of the revolution
The Mariahilferstraße this year was in turmoil. At the outbreak of the revolution, the hatred of the people was directed against the Verzehrungssteuerämter (some kind of tax authority) at the lines that have been blamed for the rise of food prices, and against the machines in the factories that had made the small craftsmen out of work or dependent workers. In October, students, workers and citizens tore up paving stones and barricaded themselves in the Mariahilfer Linientor (the so-called Linienwall was the tax frontier) in the area of today's belt.
1858 The Ring Road
The city walls fell and on the glacis arose the ring-road, the now 6th District more closely linking to the city center.
1862 Official naming
The Mariahilferstraße received its to the present day valid name, after it previously was bearing the following unofficial names: "Bavarian country road", "Mariahilfer Grund Straße", "Penzinger Street", "Laimgrube main street" and "Schönbrunner Linienstraße".
The turn of the century: development to commercial street
After the revolution of 1848, the industry displaced the dominant small business rapidly. At the same time the Mariahilferstraße developed into the first major shopping street of Vienna. The rising supply had to be passed on to the customer, and so more and more new shops sprang up. Around the turn of the century broke out a real building boom. The low suburban houses with Baroque and Biedermeier facade gave way to multi-storey houses with flashy and ostentatious facades in that historic style mixture, which was so characteristic of the late Ringstrasse period. From the former historic buildings almost nothing remained. The business portals were bigger and more pompous, the first department stores in the modern style were Gerngross and Herzmansky. Especially the clothing industry took root here.
1863 Herzmansky opened
On 3 March opened August Herzmansky a small general store in the Church Lane (Kirchengasse) 4. 1897 the great establishment in the pin alley (Stiftgasse) was opened, the largest textile company of the monarchy. August Herzmansky died a year before the opening, two nephews take over the business. In 1928, Mariahilferstraße 28 is additionally acquired. 1938, the then owner Max Delfiner had to flee, the company Rhonberg and Hämmerle took over the house. The building in Mariahilferstrasse 30 additionally was purchased. In the last days of the war in 1945 it fell victim to the flames, however. 1948, the company was returned to Max Delfiner, whose son sold in 1957 to the German Hertie group, a new building in Mariahilferstrasse 26 - 30 constructing. Other ownership changes followed.
1869 The Pferdetramway
The Pferdetramway made it first trip through the Mariahilferstraße to Neubaugasse.
Opened in 1879 Gerngroß
Mariahilferstraße about 1905
Alfred Gerngross, a merchant from Bavaria and co-worker August
Herzmanskys, founded on Mariahilferstrasse 48/corner Church alley (Kirchengasse) an own fabric store. He became the fiercest competitor of his former boss.
1901 The k.k. Imperial Furniture Collection
The k.k. Hofmobilien and material depot is established in Mariahilferstrasse 88. The collection quickly grew because each new ruler got new furniture. Today, it serves as a museum. Among other things, there is the office of Emperor Franz Joseph, the equipment of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico from Miramare Castle, the splendid table of Charles VI. and the furniture from the Oriental Cabinet of Crown Prince Rudolf.
1911 The House Stafa
On 18 August 1911, on the birthday of Emperor Franz Joseph, corner Mariahilferstraße/imperial road (Kaiserstraße) the "central palace" was opened. The construction by its architecture created a sensation. Nine large double figure-relief panels of Anton Hanak decorated it. In this building the "1st Vienna Commercial sample collective department store (Warenmuster-Kollektivkaufhaus)", a eight-storey circular building was located, which was to serve primarily the craft. The greatest adversity in the construction were underground springs. Two dug wells had to be built to pump out the water. 970 liters per minute, however, must be pumped out until today.
1945 bombing of Vienna
On 21 February 1945 bombs fell on the Mariahilferstrasse, many buildings were badly damaged. On 10th April Wiener looted the store Herzmansky. Ella Fasser, the owner of the café "Goethe" in Mariahilferstrasse, preserved the Monastery barracks (Stiftskaserne) from destruction, with the help other resistance fighters cutting the fire-conducting cords that had laid the retreating German troops. Meanwhile, she invited the officers to the cafe, and befuddled them with plenty of alcohol.
Guarded Inn - also known as The Bacon House
The MOC shows an inn built around a tower belonging to old castle ruins. The place is known for different types of pork from own breeding. The inn also runs hotel services.
At the moment, in the courtyard, we see several banqueters, innkeeper checking the roasting pig and two waitresses taking care of guests. One of them is roughly adored by a client.
A fresh group of consumers comes in - soldiers and their not too bright master returning from a medium-successful military expedition.
On the right below, the stable is being cleaned, and higher on the wall a boy pretending to be a guard (an element of the decoration) consumes his fee.
On the left back, the innkeeper prepares himself for the pig slaughter, while a swine thief tries to lure one of the fine specimen from the pigsty.
Since the erection of the original building, the Osbourne Hotel has had numerous proprietors and has contributed to the sometimes colourful history of Fortitude Valley development.
The first sale of land in Fortitude Valley occurred in 1844. Nine suburban allotments of two and four acres each were offered at an upset price of £3 per acre. However the land at Kangaroo Point and in the centre of the settlement at north Brisbane was more sought after and when in 1846 the town limits of Brisbane were proclaimed, Fortitude Valley fell outside the limit.
By 1854 there were about 150 dwellings in the Fortitude Valley area, stretching as far as Breakfast Creek. In 1858 Wickham Street was surveyed from the corner of Ann Street to Boundary Street. At this stage very few commercial premises had been erected, and Valley residents relied on North Brisbane traders for supplies. Despite these difficulties the population was steadily growing. A government census in 1861 showed that there was a total population of over 1300 people in Fortitude Valley by that year.
Ann Osbourne, formerly Ann Campbell, first gained control of the site in 1862 following the death of her first husband John Campbell in 1860 and it was as a consequence of her second marriage in 1862 to a Brisbane innkeeper, Charles Osbourne, that the hotel was erected.
The Osbourne Hotel was originally built in 1863. The hotel was designed by Brisbane architect James Furnival. As an English emigrant, Furnival came to Brisbane in 1860 and practiced as an architect and civil engineer from 1861 to 1877. His achievements include the supervision of the construction of the second Brisbane Bridge after the collapse of the first temporary structure in 1867.
In August 1863 The Queensland Daily Guardian stated the Osbourne Hotel was being built by Mr. Teevan, the building was “a large two-storeyed public house”. The hotel was opened in 1864 and was described in the Brisbane Courier as “a new brick and stone building…in Ann Street, Fortitude Valley… The house contains several fine rooms, and a licence has been obtained under the name of “Osbourne’s Hotel”. The article continued by stating that the building of the hotel reflected the progress occurring in the Fortitude Valley area during that period. The hotel was the second to be built in the Valley; the first was the Royal George Hotel on Brunswick Street. As Ann Street was the main thoroughfare between the centre of Brisbane and Breakfast Creek to Eagle Farm areas it was a strategic place to establish a hotel.
The original hotel was a rendered brick building with two storeys and a first floor cantilevered verandah with cast iron balustrades.
Ann Osbourne was sole proprietor after her second husband’s death in 1864 and the hotel’s ownership was passed on through her family when her son from her first marriage, Colin Campbell, inherited the Osbourne following her death in November, 1868.
In 1907 the hotel was leased by successful Brisbane publicans John Edward Carroll and Charles Jackson Steward. Other hotels run by Carroll and Stewart (not always as partners) included the Criterion, the Waterloo, the Paddington, the Boundary and the Albion. Stewart used his skills as a caterer to improve the quality of available meals in the hotels and this in turn increased the number of guests. The partnership held the lease for two years and the improved Osbourne hotel then passed through a succession of leases.
In 1919 James O’Keefe, formerly an Irish farmer from Tipperary, together with Martin Scanlan leased the hotel. At this time Colin Campbell’s daughter, Catherine Murrihy owned the property. The ownership of the hotel ceased to be part of the family business when Catherine Murrihy transferred the estate in full to James O’Keefe 1927.
The hotel was extensively renovated in the 1920s. The renovations were designed by successful Brisbane architects G.H.M Addison and Son. In March 1925 a tender notice was placed The Architects and Builders Journal of Queensland for alterations to the Osbourne Hotel. The accepted Tender was from Johnsson and Humphreys. G.H.M Addison had died in 1922, so it was likely his son, George Frederick, designed the additions to the Osbourne Hotel.
The renovations changed the character of the hotel by removing the verandahs, altering the fenestration, rebuilding the front corner to a rounded profile, and adding a parapet that concealed the original hipped roof. Although the additions altered the hotel’s original fabric they added a new “art deco” style to the building that to this day contributes to the aesthetic streetscape of this part of Ann Street. Internally the hotel is no longer intact, particularly on the ground floor. Its external fabric is very important. The street frontage and return parapets, façade, fenestration, awning and glass block stairwell are all important elements in the building that contributes to the historic streetscape in this part of Fortitude Valley.
Source: Brisbane City Council Heritage Register.
Looking from Wearyall Hill towards Glastonbury Tor in Glastonbury, Somerset.
Wearyall Hill is a long narrow ridge to the south west of Glastonbury. It's summit offers views across to Glastonbury Tor and the Somerset levels to one side, the town to another. It is on this hill that the legend of the Glastonbury Holy Thorn begins. The original was said to have blossomed from the staff of Joseph of Arimathea whom legend says came to Glastonbury after the crucifixion. Glastonbury was once an inland isle, surrounded by water and only connected to the mainland by a narrow strip of land. Visitors to the Isle could sail up the tidal river Brue and legend tells us that on arrival, Joseph planted his staff which took root and blossomed into the now world-famous Glastonbury Thorn.
Hearse’s History and Antiquities of Glastonbury (1722) describes a Mr. Eyston being given information on the Thorn by a local innkeeper: "I was told by the innkeeper where I set up my horses, who rents a considerable part of the enclosure of the late dissolved abbey, that St. Joseph of Arimathea landed not far from the town, at a place where there was an oak planted in memory of his landing, called the Oak of Avalon; that he and his companions marched thence to a hill near a mile on the south side of the town, and there being weary, rested themselves; which gave the hill the name of Weary-all-Hill; and Joseph on arrival, planted his staff in the ground and it immediately blossomed."
Francis E. Brownell participated in one of the first deadly encounters between North and South in the American Civil War. James W. Jackson was the proprietor of the Marshall House in Alexandria, Virginia. It was the site where Colonel Elmer Ellsworth and Innkeeper Jackson met untimely deaths over an incident involving a Confederate flag on May 24, 1861.
James W. Jackson was 37 years old and an ardent secessionist. His expression of "grim, stern and obstinate determination was stamped emphatically on every feature," as his biographer would later say of the man. Jackson didn't take kindly to having the Confederate flag torn down from the roof of his hotel and he shot and killed the Union Army Officer who tore it down, Col. Ellsworth. Jackson in turn was shot and bayoneted by Private Francis E. Brownell, one of Ellsworth's men. Thus were born celebrated martyrs for the North and the South. Cries of "Remember Ellsworth!" recruited thousands for the Union and "Remember Jackson!" recruited thousands for the Confederacy.
[Note: The number of soldiers who died between 1861 and 1865, generally estimated at 620,000, is approximately equal to the total of American fatalities in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War, combined. I hear a lot of loose talk today about another civil war. Be careful what you wish for]
The city of Leeds in West Yorkshire.
Leeds first began as a Saxon village, by 1207 the Lord of the Manor, Maurice De Gant, had extended it into a town. He created a new street of houses west of the existing village and he divided the land into plots for building. In Medieval Leeds, there were butchers, bakers, carpenters, and blacksmiths. However, the main industry in Leeds was making wool.
In 1628 a writer described Leeds as standing pleasantly in a fruitful and enclosed vale upon the north side of the River Eyer over or beyond a stone bridge from where it has a large and broad street leading directly north and continually ascending. The houses on both sides are very thick and closely compacted together, being old, rough, and low built and generally all made of timber.
In 1642 came civil war between king and parliament. Most of the townspeople supported the king and a royalist army occupied Leeds. But in January 1643 parliamentary soldiers captured it. They held Leeds until the summer of 1643 when, after losing a battle in Yorkshire, they were forced to abandon the town. The parliamentary army returned to Leeds in April 1644. They held Leeds for the rest of the civil war.
In the 17th century Leeds was a wealthy town. The wool trade boomed. However, like all towns in those days, it suffered from outbreaks of the plague. There was a severe outbreak in 1645. However, in 1694 Leeds gained a piped water supply (for those who could afford to be connected).
In the 18th century wool manufacture was still the lifeblood of Leeds but there were other industries. Leeds pottery began in 1770. There was also a brick making industry in Georgian Leeds. There were also many craftsmen such as coachmakers, clockmakers, booksellers, and jewellers as well as more mundane trades such as butchers, bakers, barbers, innkeepers, carpenters, blacksmiths, and glaziers. In 1700 the rivers Aire and Calder were made navigable from Leeds to Wakefield. In 1794 work began on the Leeds to Liverpool canal. It was completed in 1816.
The city flourished in the Victorian year’s textiles became less important. But tailoring for a more mass market flourished with the leather industry boot and shoemakers. Leeds grew rapidly but many of the new houses built were dreadful. Overcrowding was rife and streets were very dirty.
In the 1850s the council-built sewers but very many of the houses in Leeds were not connected to them. Many dwellings continued to use cesspits or buckets which were emptied at night by the 'night soil' men. Not until 1899 was it made compulsory for dwellings in Leeds to be connected to sewers.
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Letter on reverse addressed to a Herr Louis Fischer, innkeeper and purveyor of colonial goods in Hanhofen.
Everything points to these three fellows being Kavalleristen hailing from Westfälisches Dragoner-Regiment Nr. 7, however the fellow in the centre wears his shooting award lanyard (Schießauszeichnung) on the right side of his chest, whereas normally, a cavalryman would have it on the left side.
Guarded Inn - also known as The Bacon House
The MOC shows an inn built around a tower belonging to old castle ruins. The place is known for different types of pork from own breeding. The inn also runs hotel services.
At the moment, in the courtyard, we see several banqueters, innkeeper checking the roasting pig and two waitresses taking care of guests. One of them is roughly adored by a client.
A fresh group of consumers comes in - soldiers and their not too bright master returning from a medium-successful military expedition.
On the right below, the stable is being cleaned, and higher on the wall a boy pretending to be a guard (an element of the decoration) consumes his fee.
On the left back, the innkeeper prepares himself for the pig slaughter, while a swine thief tries to lure one of the fine specimen from the pigsty.
'Stonehouse' is a group of related stone buildings on the D'Aguilar Highway, formerly part of the old coach road between Esk and Nanango, which were built in the 1870s and 1880s as part of a homestead and wayside inn complex.
The land on which the complex was built had been part of a pastoral run called 'Colinton', which was taken up by John and Robert Balfour in 1841. The early 1840s were a period of pastoral expansion in the Moreton Bay, Darling Downs and Brisbane Valley Regions following the winding down and closure of the penal colony at Moreton Bay. Although the Darling Downs had been visited in 1827 by explorer Alan Cunningham, who had reported favourably on the suitability of the district for pastoralism, the presence of the fifty-mile exclusion zone around the penal colony and consequent lack of port access had discouraged early settlement. In 1840, the Leslie brothers arrived from the Clarence River district and took up Canning Downs, the first pastoral run on the Downs. In 1841 the runs in the Brisbane Valley were Cressbrook, Colinton and Farney Lawn taken up under licences to occupy Crown Land beyond the limit of settlement. By 1842, when Moreton Bay was thrown open for free settlement, a cluster of huge runs had claimed most of the productive land on the Darling Downs and searches for grazing country were extending north. The area around 'Stonehouse' was declared as pastoral district in May 1842 and the runs of Kilcoy, Taromeo, Taabinga and Burrandowan were taken up in that year.
In 1859 the new colony of Queensland was created and in the 1868 the Crown Lands Alienation Act was passed to make land available for closer settlement by drastically reducing the size of existing pastoral runs. This brought more settlers into the Brisbane Valley. In 1873 and 1874 around 30 members of the Williams family of Gloucestershire in England arrived in Queensland as immigrants. They settled in Brisbane, Ipswich and the Brisbane Valley. Robert Williams, a widower, had previously lived in Ipswich in the 1860s and in 1874 he selected two blocks of land totalling 2442 acres from the Colinton lease as a grazing property. His brother Charles with his wife Emma joined him. Charles, who was a stonemason, began work on a five-roomed stone house at the selection, which Robert had named 'Stonehouse' after the village in Gloucestershire where he had lived. The new building was close to a two-room slab house that the family presumably lived in during construction. Building in stone was an unusual choice in this area, but a natural one for a family of stonemasons, given the ready availability of the materia on site. Because the house was built of stone, the name later became corrupted to 'Stone House' or 'Stone Houses'.
In the 1870s, Edward (Ned) MacDonald started a coach and mail service between his hotel at Esk and Goode's Inn at Nanango along the old dray route. Several stops for changes of horses punctuated the trip. 'Stonehouse' was one of these and the Williams built stables on the river flats across the road from the inn. Robert Williams applied for and gained a hotel licence for the property in 1880 as the Stonehouse Hotel, Wallaby Creek, Colinton.
The places where major routes crossed watercourses were often used as camps by drovers and carriers and were excellent locations for inns that catered to travellers. These were places where one could obtain food and accommodation for people and horses, where it was usually possible to obtain the services of a blacksmith, leave or collect mail and gain information on the condition of the road ahead. The inns were also a social amenity as a source of company and conviviality on the road. Their services made the development of regular supply routes possible, which in turn made a major contribution to the way in which areas were opened up for European settlement.
In 1884 the 'Stonehouse' license was forfeited following an incident where Robert Williams was threatened with an axe following his attempt to intervene in a drink-fuelled argument between members of group of Aborigines camped near the hotel. continued to provide food and accommodation for travellers, however, and is mentioned in the popular 19th century ballad 'Brisbane Ladies' as being a stop on the road.
In 1882, Emma Williams died and was buried near the creek. This grave was washed away by a flood surge in the 1940s. Robert Williams remarried and a kitchen and pantry were constructed as apprentice work by his nephew Frank Williams. Charles Williams died in 1887 as the result of an accident near 'Taromeo' where he had been carrying out stonework. The last masonry work carried out at 'Stonehouse' was in 1888 when Frank Williams completed the store and butcher's shop.
In 1893, Alex MacCallum, who thereafter ran a coach service that used the facilities at 'Stonehouse', gained the mail contract. It ran until 1910, at first three times a week, then from 1902, twice a week. Times were changing and in 1900 a Royal Commission was appointed to investigate the possible route for a railway in the area, taking evidence at Esk, 'Cressbrook', 'Colinton' and 'Stonehouse', which were the coach stops. 'Colinton' was cut up and sold around this time, bringing in many new settlers and 'Stonehouse' acted as a provision store and butcher's shop for them.
A small township was surveyed at Moore, named for the then owners of 'Colinton', gaining a postal receiving office in 1903 and a post office in 1905. In 1910 a railway station opened at Moore.
Robert Williams had died in 1907 and was buried near Moore. A memorial made by Frank Williams, who had established a monumental masonry firm at Ipswich in 1901, marks his grave. Frank was later to construct many war memorials, including those at Esk, Gatton, Warwick and Ipswich. 'Stonehouse' was left in trust to a nephew, Thomas (TJC) Williams, who moved to the property with his family in 1908. A sale was then held of cattle, pigs and the post horses. At the time it was found that the buildings needed maintenance and by 1910 repairs and refurbishment had been carried out. By this time iron had already been laid over the original shingles. Between 1914 and 1918 the first house was demolished and the stables collapsed. A tennis court was erected in the vicinity of the stables.
In 1923 Jane Williams became ill and the family moved to Brisbane, leasing 'Stonehouse' to Allan Patterson who arranged for Arthur Ollenburg, a Williams family member, to manage the property. TJC Williams died in 1932 and Jane in 1933. The 'Stonehouse' land was subdivided and sold by auction. J J Tilley purchased the land containing Stonehouse and in 1939 it was bought by Barney Grant who continued to employ Arthur Ollenburg as manager. Grant died in 1945 and in 1946 his son took over the management of 'Stonehouse' and built a house for himself and his family. I
In 1950 a plaque recognising the historical significance of 'Stonehouse' to the area was affixed to the house, but between 1948 and 1960 the buggy shed, workshop, hayshed, poultry run, slaughterhouse and barn were demolished. In 1967 a storm removed the front verandah roof of the main building. A large crack in the wall had developed and a section of the house was then demolished. The Esk Shire Council used stone blocks from this section to construct a picnic shelter at Moore.
The house was inspected and drawn by Karl Langer for the National Trust of Queensland in 1969. Since then the buildings have continued to deteriorate and the proportion of the main building still standing has diminished. The current owners purchased the property in order to preserve it in January 2001.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
The Christmas pickle is a German-American Christmas tradition. A decoration in the shape of a pickle is hidden on a Christmas tree, with the finder receiving either a reward or good fortune for the next year. There are a number of different origin stories attributed to the tradition, including one originating in Germany. This theory has since been discounted, and it is now thought to be a German-American tradition created in the late 19th century. In fact, the New York Times reported that out of 2,057 Germans polled, YouGov determined 91% were unaware of the legend.
In the tradition, an ornamental pickle is placed on a Christmas tree as one of the Christmas decorations. On Christmas morning, the first person to find the pickle on the tree would receive an extra present from Santa Claus or would be said to have a year of good fortune.[1]
Berrien Springs, Michigan, which billed itself as the Christmas pickle capital of the world,[2] held a pickle parade from 1992 until 2005.[3][4] The Pickle Festival and parade returned in 2021 after a 16-year hiatus.
This tradition is commonly believed by Americans to come from Germany and be referred to as a Weihnachtsgurke,[6][7] but this is probably apocryphal.[8][6][1] It has been suggested that the origin of the Christmas pickle may have been developed in the 1890s to coincide with the importation of glass Christmas tree decorations from Germany. Woolworths was the first company to import these types of decorations into the United States in 1890,[6] and glass blown decorative vegetables were imported from France from 1892 onwards.[9] Despite the evidence showing that the tradition did not originate in Germany, the concept of Christmas pickles has since been imported from the United States and they are now on sale in the country traditionally associated with it.[6]
One suggested origin has been that the tradition came from Camp Sumter during the American Civil War. The Bavarian-born Private John C. Lower had enlisted in the 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry, but was captured in April 1864 and taken to the prison camp. As the story is told, on Christmas Eve he begged a guard for a pickle while starving. The guard provided the pickle, which Lower later credited for saving his life. After returning to his family in Bavaria, he began a tradition of hiding a pickle on their Christmas tree each year.[1]
Another origin which comes from Berrien Springs is a Victorian era tale of St. Nicholas saving two Spanish children who were trapped in a barrel of pickles by an innkeeper, which actually derives from a much more gruesome medieval legend involving a cannibalistic butcher butchering and storing a group of boys in a barrel and St. Nicholas miraculously restoring and resurrecting them.[1][10]
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When a bloody war between Italian mob families in New York broke out in the second half of the 1940s, Michael Corleone took refuge in Sicily. One day, after hunting, he sat at a table outside Bar Vitelli.
The two ‘picciotti’ who are his bodyguards translate for him. He wants to know about the beautiful girl he just noticed on the road to town. One of them explains to the innkeeper, She wore a red dress, and a red ribbon in her hair. She looks more Greek than Italian. Realizing the three young men are praising his own daughter, the man cuts the conversation short and abruptly goes back inside.
A few moments later, he finds out just how important the man asking for his daughter’s hand is. He is a “big shot”, and is making him “an offer he can’t refuse”, so he agrees to a meeting according to local customs.
The scene is obviously from “The Godfather”, Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 masterpiece starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, filmed between Italy and the United States. If you’ve seen the movie, you’ll recognize Bar Vitelli at first glance: it is exactly the same as it was on the silver screen.
This old, traditional Sicilian bar located in the 18th-century Palazzo Trimarchi di Savoca, in a town outside Messina, is definitely worth a visit. In fact, we hope this may be an invitation “you cannot refuse”.
'Stonehouse' is a group of related stone buildings on the D'Aguilar Highway, formerly part of the old coach road between Esk and Nanango, which were built in the 1870s and 1880s as part of a homestead and wayside inn complex.
The land on which the complex was built had been part of a pastoral run called 'Colinton', which was taken up by John and Robert Balfour in 1841. The early 1840s were a period of pastoral expansion in the Moreton Bay, Darling Downs and Brisbane Valley Regions following the winding down and closure of the penal colony at Moreton Bay. Although the Darling Downs had been visited in 1827 by explorer Alan Cunningham, who had reported favourably on the suitability of the district for pastoralism, the presence of the fifty-mile exclusion zone around the penal colony and consequent lack of port access had discouraged early settlement. In 1840, the Leslie brothers arrived from the Clarence River district and took up Canning Downs, the first pastoral run on the Downs. In 1841 the runs in the Brisbane Valley were Cressbrook, Colinton and Farney Lawn taken up under licences to occupy Crown Land beyond the limit of settlement. By 1842, when Moreton Bay was thrown open for free settlement, a cluster of huge runs had claimed most of the productive land on the Darling Downs and searches for grazing country were extending north. The area around 'Stonehouse' was declared as pastoral district in May 1842 and the runs of Kilcoy, Taromeo, Taabinga and Burrandowan were taken up in that year.
In 1859 the new colony of Queensland was created and in the 1868 the Crown Lands Alienation Act was passed to make land available for closer settlement by drastically reducing the size of existing pastoral runs. This brought more settlers into the Brisbane Valley. In 1873 and 1874 around 30 members of the Williams family of Gloucestershire in England arrived in Queensland as immigrants. They settled in Brisbane, Ipswich and the Brisbane Valley. Robert Williams, a widower, had previously lived in Ipswich in the 1860s and in 1874 he selected two blocks of land totalling 2442 acres from the Colinton lease as a grazing property. His brother Charles with his wife Emma joined him. Charles, who was a stonemason, began work on a five-roomed stone house at the selection, which Robert had named 'Stonehouse' after the village in Gloucestershire where he had lived. The new building was close to a two-room slab house that the family presumably lived in during construction. Building in stone was an unusual choice in this area, but a natural one for a family of stonemasons, given the ready availability of the materia on site. Because the house was built of stone, the name later became corrupted to 'Stone House' or 'Stone Houses'.
In the 1870s, Edward (Ned) MacDonald started a coach and mail service between his hotel at Esk and Goode's Inn at Nanango along the old dray route. Several stops for changes of horses punctuated the trip. 'Stonehouse' was one of these and the Williams built stables on the river flats across the road from the inn. Robert Williams applied for and gained a hotel licence for the property in 1880 as the Stonehouse Hotel, Wallaby Creek, Colinton.
The places where major routes crossed watercourses were often used as camps by drovers and carriers and were excellent locations for inns that catered to travellers. These were places where one could obtain food and accommodation for people and horses, where it was usually possible to obtain the services of a blacksmith, leave or collect mail and gain information on the condition of the road ahead. The inns were also a social amenity as a source of company and conviviality on the road. Their services made the development of regular supply routes possible, which in turn made a major contribution to the way in which areas were opened up for European settlement.
In 1884 the 'Stonehouse' license was forfeited following an incident where Robert Williams was threatened with an axe following his attempt to intervene in a drink-fuelled argument between members of group of Aborigines camped near the hotel. continued to provide food and accommodation for travellers, however, and is mentioned in the popular 19th century ballad 'Brisbane Ladies' as being a stop on the road.
In 1882, Emma Williams died and was buried near the creek. This grave was washed away by a flood surge in the 1940s. Robert Williams remarried and a kitchen and pantry were constructed as apprentice work by his nephew Frank Williams. Charles Williams died in 1887 as the result of an accident near 'Taromeo' where he had been carrying out stonework. The last masonry work carried out at 'Stonehouse' was in 1888 when Frank Williams completed the store and butcher's shop.
In 1893, Alex MacCallum, who thereafter ran a coach service that used the facilities at 'Stonehouse', gained the mail contract. It ran until 1910, at first three times a week, then from 1902, twice a week. Times were changing and in 1900 a Royal Commission was appointed to investigate the possible route for a railway in the area, taking evidence at Esk, 'Cressbrook', 'Colinton' and 'Stonehouse', which were the coach stops. 'Colinton' was cut up and sold around this time, bringing in many new settlers and 'Stonehouse' acted as a provision store and butcher's shop for them.
A small township was surveyed at Moore, named for the then owners of 'Colinton', gaining a postal receiving office in 1903 and a post office in 1905. In 1910 a railway station opened at Moore.
Robert Williams had died in 1907 and was buried near Moore. A memorial made by Frank Williams, who had established a monumental masonry firm at Ipswich in 1901, marks his grave. Frank was later to construct many war memorials, including those at Esk, Gatton, Warwick and Ipswich. 'Stonehouse' was left in trust to a nephew, Thomas (TJC) Williams, who moved to the property with his family in 1908. A sale was then held of cattle, pigs and the post horses. At the time it was found that the buildings needed maintenance and by 1910 repairs and refurbishment had been carried out. By this time iron had already been laid over the original shingles. Between 1914 and 1918 the first house was demolished and the stables collapsed. A tennis court was erected in the vicinity of the stables.
In 1923 Jane Williams became ill and the family moved to Brisbane, leasing 'Stonehouse' to Allan Patterson who arranged for Arthur Ollenburg, a Williams family member, to manage the property. TJC Williams died in 1932 and Jane in 1933. The 'Stonehouse' land was subdivided and sold by auction. J J Tilley purchased the land containing Stonehouse and in 1939 it was bought by Barney Grant who continued to employ Arthur Ollenburg as manager. Grant died in 1945 and in 1946 his son took over the management of 'Stonehouse' and built a house for himself and his family. I
In 1950 a plaque recognising the historical significance of 'Stonehouse' to the area was affixed to the house, but between 1948 and 1960 the buggy shed, workshop, hayshed, poultry run, slaughterhouse and barn were demolished. In 1967 a storm removed the front verandah roof of the main building. A large crack in the wall had developed and a section of the house was then demolished. The Esk Shire Council used stone blocks from this section to construct a picnic shelter at Moore.
The house was inspected and drawn by Karl Langer for the National Trust of Queensland in 1969. Since then the buildings have continued to deteriorate and the proportion of the main building still standing has diminished. The current owners purchased the property in order to preserve it in January 2001.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
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Mariahilferstraße
Mariahilferstraße, 6th, 7th, 14th and 15th, since 1897 (in the 6th and 7th district originally Kremser Sraße, then Bavarian highway, Laimgrubner main road, Mariahilfer main street, Fünfhauserstraße, Schönbrunnerstraße and Penzinger Poststraße, then Schönbrunner Straße), in memory of the old suburb name; Mariahilf was an independent municipality from 1660 to 1850, since then with Gumpendorf, Magdalenengrund, Windmühle and Laimgrube 6th District.
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Mariahilferstraße, 1908 - Wien Museum
Mariahilferstraße, 1908
Picture taken from "August Stauda - A documentarian of old Vienna"
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History
Pottery and wine
The first ones who demonstrably populated the area of today's Mariahilferstraße (after the mammoth) were the Illyrians. They took advantage of the rich clay deposits for making simple vessels. The Celts planted on the sunny hills the first grape vines and understood the wine-making process very well. When the Romans occupied at the beginning of our Era Vienna for several centuries, they left behind many traces. The wine culture of the Celts they refined. On the hill of today's Mariahilferstraße run a Roman ridge trail, whose origins lay in the camp of Vindobona. After the rule of the Romans, the migration of peoples temporarily led many cultures here until after the expulsion of the Avars Bavarian colonists came from the West.
The peasant Middle Ages - From the vineyard to the village
Thanks to the loamy soil formed the winery, which has been pushed back only until the development of the suburbs, until the mid-17th Century the livelihood of the rural population. "Im Schöff" but also "Schöpf - scoop" and "Schiff - ship" (from "draw of") the area at the time was called. The erroneous use of a ship in the seal of the district is reminiscent of the old name, which was then replaced by the picture of grace "Mariahilf". The Weinberg (vineyard) law imposed at that time that the ground rent in the form of mash on the spot had to be paid. This was referred to as a "draw".
1495 the Mariahilfer wine was added to the wine disciplinary regulations for Herrenweine (racy, hearty, fruity, pithy wine with pleasant acidity) because of its special quality and achieved high prices.
1529 The first Turkish siege
Mariahilferstraße, already than an important route to the West, was repeatedly the scene of historical encounters. When the Turks besieged Vienna for the first time, was at the lower end of today Mariahilferstrasse, just outside the city walls of Vienna, a small settlement of houses and cottages, gardens and fields. Even the St. Theobald Monastery was there. This so-called "gap" was burned at the approach of the Turks, for them not to offer hiding places at the siege. Despite a prohibition, the area was rebuilt after departure of the Turks.
1558, a provision was adopted so that the glacis, a broad, unobstructed strip between the city wall and the outer settlements, should be left free. The Glacis existed until the demolition of the city walls in 1858. Here the ring road was later built.
1663 The new Post Road
With the new purpose of the Mariahilferstrasse as post road the first three roadside inn houses were built. At the same time the travel increased, since the carriages were finally more comfortable and the roads safer. Two well-known expressions date from this period. The "tip" and "kickbacks". In the old travel handbooks of that time we encounter them as guards beside the route, the travel and baggage tariff. The tip should the driver at the rest stop pay for the drink, while the bribe was calculated in proportion to the axle grease. Who was in a hurry, just paid a higher lubricant (Schmiergeld) or tip to motivate the coachman.
1683 The second Turkish siege
The second Turkish siege brought Mariahilferstraße the same fate. Meanwhile, a considerable settlement was formed, a real suburb, which, however, still had a lot of fields and brick pits. Again, the suburb along the Mariahilferstraße was razed to the ground, the population sought refuge behind the walls or in the Vienna Woods. The reconstruction progressed slowly since there was a lack of funds and manpower. Only at the beginning of the 18th Century took place a targeted reconstruction.
1686 Palais Esterhazy
On several "Brandstetten", by the second Turkish siege destroyed houses, the Hungarian aristocratic family Esterhazy had built herself a simple palace, which also had a passage on the Mariahilferstrasse. 1764 bought the innkeeper Paul Winkelmayr from Spittelberg the building, demolished it and built two new buildings that have been named in accordance with the Esterhazy "to the Hungarian crown."
17th Century to 19th Century. Fom the village to suburb
With the development of the settlements on the Mariahilferstraße from village to suburbs, changed not only the appearance but also the population. More and more agricultural land fell victim to the development, craftsmen and tradesmen settled there. There was an incredible variety of professions and trades, most of which were organized into guilds or crafts. Those cared for vocational training, quality and price of the goods, and in cases of unemployment, sickness and death.
The farms were replaced by churches and palaces, houses and shops. Mariahilf changed into a major industrial district, Mariahilferstrasse was an important trading center. Countless street traders sold the goods, which they carried either with them, or put in a street stall on display. The dealers made themselves noticeable by a significant Kaufruf (purchase call). So there was the ink man who went about with his bottles, the Wasserbauer (hydraulic engineering) who sold Danube water on his horse-drawn vehicle as industrial water, or the lavender woman. This lovely Viennese figures disappeared with the emergence of fixed premises and the improvement of urban transport.
Private carriages, horse-drawn carriages and buggies populated the streets, who used this route also for trips. At Mariahilferplatz Linientor (gate) was the main stand of the cheapest and most popular means of transport, the Zeiselwagen, which the Wiener used for their excursions into nature, which gradually became fashionable. In the 19th Century then yet arrived the Stellwagen (carriage) and bus traffic which had to accomplish the connection between Vienna and the suburbs. As a Viennese joke has it, suggests the Stellwagen that it has been so called because it did not come from the spot.
1719 - 1723 Royal and Imperial Court Stables
Emperor Charles VI. gave the order for the construction of the stables to Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. 1772 the building was extended by two houses on the Mariahilferstrasse. The size of the stables still shows, as it serves as the Museum Quarter - its former importance. The Mariahilferstraße since the building of Schönbrunn Palace by the Imperial court very strongly was frequented. Today in the historic buildings the Museum Quarter is housed.
The church and monastery of Maria Hülff
Coloured engraving by J. Ziegler, 1783
1730 Mariahilferkirche
1711 began the renovation works at the Mariahilferkirche, giving the church building today's appearance and importance as a baroque monument. The plans stem from Franziskus Jänkl, the foreman of Lukas von Hildebrandt. Originally stood on the site of the Mariahilferkirche in the medieval vineyard "In Schoeff" a cemetery with wooden chapel built by the Barnabites. Already in those days, the miraculous image Mariahilf was located therein. During the Ottoman siege the chapel was destroyed, the miraculous image could be saved behind the protective walls. After the provisional reconstruction the miraculous image in a triumphal procession was returned, accompanied by 30,000 Viennese.
1790 - 1836 Ferdinand Raimund
Although in the district Mariahilf many artists and historical figures of Vienna lived , it is noticeable that as a residence they rather shunned the Mariahilferstraße, because as early as in the 18th Century there was a very lively and loud bustle on the street. The most famous person who was born on the Mariahilferstrasse is the folk actor and dramatist Ferdinand Raimund. He came in the house No. 45, "To the Golden deer (Zum Goldenen Hirschen)", which still exists today, as son of a turner into the world. As confectioners apprentice, he also had to visit the theaters, where he was a so-called "Numero", who sold his wares to the visitors. This encounter with the theater was fateful. He took flight from his training masters and joined a traveling troupe as an actor. After his return to Vienna, he soon became the most popular comedian. In his plays all those figures appeared then bustling the streets of Vienna. His most famous role was that of the "ash man" in "Farmer as Millionaire", a genuine Viennese guy who brings the wood ash in Butte from the houses, and from the proceeds leading a modest existence.
1805 - 1809 French occupation
The two-time occupation of Vienna by the French hit the suburbs hard. But the buildings were not destroyed fortunately.
19th century Industrialization
Here, where a higher concentration of artisans had developed as in other districts, you could feel the competition of the factories particularly hard. A craftsman after another became factory worker, women and child labor was part of the day-to-day business. With the sharp rise of the population grew apartment misery and flourished bed lodgers and roomers business.
1826
The Mariahilferstraße is paved up to the present belt (Gürtel).
1848 years of the revolution
The Mariahilferstraße this year was in turmoil. At the outbreak of the revolution, the hatred of the people was directed against the Verzehrungssteuerämter (some kind of tax authority) at the lines that have been blamed for the rise of food prices, and against the machines in the factories that had made the small craftsmen out of work or dependent workers. In October, students, workers and citizens tore up paving stones and barricaded themselves in the Mariahilfer Linientor (the so-called Linienwall was the tax frontier) in the area of today's belt.
1858 The Ring Road
The city walls fell and on the glacis arose the ring-road, the now 6th District more closely linking to the city center.
1862 Official naming
The Mariahilferstraße received its to the present day valid name, after it previously was bearing the following unofficial names: "Bavarian country road", "Mariahilfer Grund Straße", "Penzinger Street", "Laimgrube main street" and "Schönbrunner Linienstraße".
The turn of the century: development to commercial street
After the revolution of 1848, the industry displaced the dominant small business rapidly. At the same time the Mariahilferstraße developed into the first major shopping street of Vienna. The rising supply had to be passed on to the customer, and so more and more new shops sprang up. Around the turn of the century broke out a real building boom. The low suburban houses with Baroque and Biedermeier facade gave way to multi-storey houses with flashy and ostentatious facades in that historic style mixture, which was so characteristic of the late Ringstrasse period. From the former historic buildings almost nothing remained. The business portals were bigger and more pompous, the first department stores in the modern style were Gerngross and Herzmansky. Especially the clothing industry took root here.
1863 Herzmansky opened
On 3 March opened August Herzmansky a small general store in the Church Lane (Kirchengasse) 4. 1897 the great establishment in the pin alley (Stiftgasse) was opened, the largest textile company of the monarchy. August Herzmansky died a year before the opening, two nephews take over the business. In 1928, Mariahilferstraße 28 is additionally acquired. 1938, the then owner Max Delfiner had to flee, the company Rhonberg and Hämmerle took over the house. The building in Mariahilferstrasse 30 additionally was purchased. In the last days of the war in 1945 it fell victim to the flames, however. 1948, the company was returned to Max Delfiner, whose son sold in 1957 to the German Hertie group, a new building in Mariahilferstrasse 26 - 30 constructing. Other ownership changes followed.
1869 The Pferdetramway
The Pferdetramway made it first trip through the Mariahilferstraße to Neubaugasse.
Opened in 1879 Gerngroß
Mariahilferstraße about 1905
Alfred Gerngross, a merchant from Bavaria and co-worker August
Herzmanskys, founded on Mariahilferstrasse 48/corner Church alley (Kirchengasse) an own fabric store. He became the fiercest competitor of his former boss.
1901 The k.k. Imperial Furniture Collection
The k.k. Hofmobilien and material depot is established in Mariahilferstrasse 88. The collection quickly grew because each new ruler got new furniture. Today, it serves as a museum. Among other things, there is the office of Emperor Franz Joseph, the equipment of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico from Miramare Castle, the splendid table of Charles VI. and the furniture from the Oriental Cabinet of Crown Prince Rudolf.
1911 The House Stafa
On 18 August 1911, on the birthday of Emperor Franz Joseph, corner Mariahilferstraße/imperial road (Kaiserstraße) the "central palace" was opened. The construction by its architecture created a sensation. Nine large double figure-relief panels of Anton Hanak decorated it. In this building the "1st Vienna Commercial sample collective department store (Warenmuster-Kollektivkaufhaus)", a eight-storey circular building was located, which was to serve primarily the craft. The greatest adversity in the construction were underground springs. Two dug wells had to be built to pump out the water. 970 liters per minute, however, must be pumped out until today.
1945 bombing of Vienna
On 21 February 1945 bombs fell on the Mariahilferstrasse, many buildings were badly damaged. On 10th April Wiener looted the store Herzmansky. Ella Fasser, the owner of the café "Goethe" in Mariahilferstrasse, preserved the Monastery barracks (Stiftskaserne) from destruction, with the help other resistance fighters cutting the fire-conducting cords that had laid the retreating German troops. Meanwhile, she invited the officers to the cafe, and befuddled them with plenty of alcohol.
"4418 Donnelly Dr. (the Depencier Hotel) - Originally an inn but now a private house, it is a classic example of post and beam construction. The pitch of the roof, returned eaves, lack of ornamentation and simple symmetrical proportions are typical of the neoclassical style of the mid-nineteenth century. Uriah Depencier was the first innkeeper in 1857. It had several owners until the 1960's when it became a private home. At times during its life as an inn, it had a brick wine cellar and a dance floor with a nickelodeon."
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Fruit Square in Bolzano
The Fruit Square is located in the center of Bolzano. Fruit, vegetables and poultry have been sold for over 500 years on this place. The lively fruit market is open every day, except Saturday afternoons as well as on Sundays and public holidays.
If you continue from the Fruit Square to the north, you will reach Franciscans alley (Via dei Franciscani). The Goethe street leads in the direction of Dominican square.
The narrow square arose in 1277 when Count Meinhard II tore down the gates and walls of the city and had the ditches filled up. Since then, this site has been the economic focus of the comital Tyrolean part, while the Grain square remained the key area of the Episcopal city.
At the corner of the Museum street, a marble inscription reminds of the once "Sonnenwirt (Sun Innkeeper)", in which, among other things, Goethe, Herder and Emperor Joseph II, were staying overnight.
The Neptune fountain, designed by G. Mayr from Völs and cast by Joachim Reiss, is located on the corner of Pergola alley. The bronze statue is called in common parlance "Gabelwirt (Fork Innkeeper)". It was built in 1777. It is the only monumental fountain in the city. It was built mainly for hygienic reasons and to supply the city inhabitants with fresh water. On a marble base stands the bronze-cast Neptune with three dolphins spouting water into the three shell-tubs underneath. Previously, since 1578, stood here the "Narrenhäusl (Fool's house)", the pillory for the condemned, on which prisoners had been exposed to public ostracism by the citizens.
Obstplatz in Bozen
Der Obstplatz befindet sich im Zentrum von Bozen. Seit über 500 Jahren wird auf diesem Platz Obst, Gemüse und Geflügel verkauft. Der lebhaften Obstmarkt ist täglich, außer Samstag Nachmittag sowie an Sonn- und Feiertagen, offen.
Geht man den Obstplatz in Richtung Norden weiter, so gelangt man zur Franziskanergasse. Die Goethe Straße führt in Richtung Dominikanerplatz.
Der schmale Platz entstand 1277; als Graf Meinhard II die Tore und Mauern der Stadt niederreißen und die Gräben zuschütten liess. Seitdem war diese Stätte der wirtschaftliche Schwerpunkt des gräflichtirolischen Teiles, während der Kornplatz Schwerpunkt der bischöflichen Stadt blieb.
An der Ecke zur Museumstraße erinnert eine Marmorinschrift an den einstigen "Sonnenwirt", in dem u.a. Goethe, Herder und Kaiser Joseph II. übernachtet haben.
An der Ecke zur Laubengasse befindet sich der Neptunbrunnen, entworfen von G. Mayr aus Völs und gegossen von Joachim Reiss. Die Bronzestatue wird im Volksmund "Gabelwirt" genannt. Sie wurde 1777 errichtet. Es handelt sich um den einzigen Monumentalbrunner der Stadt. Er wurde vor allem aus hygienischen Gründen und zur Versorgung der Stadtbewohner mit Frischwasser errichtet. Auf einem Marmorsockel steht der in Bronze gegossene Neptun mit drei Delphinen, die Wasser in die drei darunter liegenden Muschelwannen speien. Zuvor stand hier, seit 1578, das "Narrenhäusl", der Pranger für die Verurteilten, an dem Gefangene der öffentlichen Ächtung durch die Bürgerschaft ausgesetzt wurden.
It’s believed that the Harp Inn was built on the site of a medieval prison. Convicts would be taken from the lock-up to the nearby stocks for public humiliation. A prison is mentioned in a description of Abergele in 1344. At one time the prison was one of the area’s few stone buildings, with timber houses for neighbours.
The inn dates from the boom in trade which came Abergele’s way after 1785, when the Chester to Holyhead mail and other coaches were diverted this way instead of running further inland. Innkeepers were buoyed again by an influx of tourists to North Wales after the outbreak of war against France in 1793, when wealthy British people were unable to make the usual Grand Tour of Europe. By 1862 Abergele had 16 inns,
The inn is not Grade II Listed but the the telephone box is, It is a K6-type square, red kiosk of cast-iron construction to the standard design of Giles Gilbert Scott, architect of London, a design introduced by the GPO in 1936. This example was probably installed after the Second World War. Foundry plate inscribed: "Carron Company, Stirlingshire".
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Model: Aria Zemenis
10-19-14
Gorean Freewoman
Merchant Head of Caste and Innkeeper in the City of Brundisium
British postcard by Art Photo, no. 177.
American film and stage actress Jean Parker (1915–2005) landed her first screen test while still in high school. She played the tragic Beth in the original Little Women (1933), starred as the spoiled daughter of an American chain store millionaire who persuades her nouveau riche father to transport a Scottish castle in the hilarious British fantasy-comedy The Ghost Goes West (1936), and she was a perfect stooge for Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, as an innkeeper's daughter with whom Ollie falls in love in The Flying Deuces (1939).
Jean Parker was born Lois Mae Green in 1915. Her father was Lewis Green, a gunsmith and hunter, and her mother was Pearl Melvina Burch. Later, her mother worked at MGM in the set department and created magnificent flowers, trees and other greenery for such notable films as National Velvet (1944), known professionally as Mildred Brenner. Lois was an accomplished gymnast and dancer. At age 10, she was adopted by the Spickard family of Pasadena when both her father and mother were unemployed during the Great Depression. She initially aspired to be an illustrator and artist. At 17, she entered a poster-painting contest and won for portraying Father Time. After a photograph of her was published in a Los Angeles newspaper, Ida Koverman, the assistant to MGM studio chief Louis B. Mayer, contacted the would-be starlet and had Mayer offer her an MGM contract. She made her feature film debut in the pre-code drama Divorce in the Family (Charles Reisner, 1932), before being loaned to Columbia Pictures, who cast her in Frank Capra's Lady for a Day (1933). Parker made several important films in the following years, including Little Women (George Cukor, 1933) with Joan Bennett and Katharine Hepburn; Sequoia (Chester M. Franklin, Edwin L. Marin, 1934) with Russell Hardie, shot in the Sequoia National Forest near Springville, California; Operator 13 (Richard Boleslawski, 1934) with Marion Davies and Gary Cooper; and The Ghost Goes West (René Clair, 1935) with Robert Donat.
Jean Parker remained active in film throughout the 1940s. Parker later starred in the Laurel and Hardy comedy The Flying Deuces (A. Edward Sutherland, 1939), followed by the sports film The Pittsburgh Kid (Jack Townley, 1941), and the Film Noir Dead Man's Eyes (Reginald Le Borg, 1944), opposite Lon Chaney Jr. After several successful cross-country trips entertaining injured servicemen during World War II, Jean Parker wed and divorced Curt Grotter of the Braille Institute in Los Angeles, and moved on to New York to star in the play 'Loco'. She also starred on Broadway in 'Burlesque' (1946-1947) with Bert Lahr, and in the hit 'Born Yesterday' (1948), filling in for Judy Holliday. Parker's fourth and last husband, actor Robert Lowery, played opposite her as Brock in the play for a short stint. By this marriage, Parker bore her only child, a son, Robert Lowery Hanks. By the 1950s, Parker's film career had slowed, though she continued to appear in supporting parts in the Westerns The Gunfighter (Henry King, 1950) with Gregory Peck and Toughest Man in Arizona (R. G. Springsteen, 1952), and the Film Noir Black Tuesday (Hugo Fregonese, 1954) opposite Edward G. Robinson. Parker made her final film appearance in Apache Uprising (R. G. Springsteen, 1965) starring Rory Calhoun. Later in her career, she played in the West Coast theatre circuit and worked as an acting coach. Parker died in 2005 at the Motion Picture Country Home and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, aged 90, from a stroke. She lived there from 1998 until her death. Jean was survived by her son and two granddaughters, Katie and Nora Hanks.
Sources: Ronald Bergan (The Guardian), Robert Sieger (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Italian collectors card by La Rotografica Romana. Edito dalla Nat Nuova Alta Tensione.
Blonde Thea Fleming (1942) started as the 'Dutch Brigitte Bardot'. She spent much of her career as a starlet in Rome. There she appeared in several Italian B-films under the stage name Isabella Biancini. She also starred in and directed several fotoromanzi, the popular Italian photo novels.
Thea Fleming (also Flemming or Fammy) was born as Thea Catharina Wihelmina Gemma Pfennings in 1942 in Sittard in the south of the Netherlands. Her parents, Nou Pfennings and Mia Pfennings-Courage, were innkeepers. She has a brother, Jack. In 1960 she was chosen as the Dutch BB (Brigitte Bardot). During a vacation with her mother in Italy, she reportedly was discovered by a film producer. Her first film appearance was a bit part in the drama La giornata balorda/A Crazy Day (Mauro Bolognini, 1960) with Jean Sorel. The script about the lower class of Rome was written by Pier Paolo Pasolini based on a novel by Alberto Moravia. She stayed in Rome and worked as a double for Anita Ekberg in La dolce vita (Federico Fellini, 1960). Another uncredited part followed in the comedy Letto a tre piazza/A bed for three (Steno, 1961) starring Totò and Peppino De Filippo. She had also a small but credited role in the comedy Mariti a congress/Husbands in Congress (Luigi Filippo D'Amico, 1961) with Walter Chiari. As Thea Flammy, she appeared in the musicarello Canzoni a tempo di twist/Songs with a twist beat (Stefano Canzio, 1962) with Little Tony. Her first bigger part was in the adventure film Taur, il re della forza bruta/Taur the Mighty (Antonio Leonviola, 1963), starring British wrestler Joe Robinson. Richard R. Chandeler at IMDb: “The story is about these bad people oppressing these innocent villagers and how Taur and his cowardly (but equally muscle-bound) companion go about liberating them. This movie is just horribly dull and mostly devoid of even unintentional humor.” Credited as Isabella Biancini, she had a small part in the much better comedy Il successo/The Success (Mauro Morassi, Dino Risi (uncredited), 1963), starring Vittorio Gassman and Anouk Aimée. Excellent was also the comedy I mostri/15 from Rome (Dino Risi, 1963) with Vittorio Gassman and Ugo Tognazzi, but again her part was small.
Although local Dutch newspaper reports of the 1960s always called Thea Fleming a ‘film diva’, her actual film career in Italy was rather modest. As a starlet, she played small roles in quality films and bigger parts in exploitation films and she posed for countless glamour photos. Fleming played supporting parts in little known trash as the sexploitation film Salome '73 (Odoardo Fiory, 1965), the Eurospy film Asso di picche - Operazione controspionaggio/Operation Counterspy (Nick Nostro, 1965) and the comedy Mondo pazzo... gente matta!/Crazy world... crazy people! (Renato Polselli, 1966) starring Silvana Pampanini. She had one of her biggest parts in the thriller Il nostro agente a Casablanca/The Killer Lacks a Name (Tulio Demicheli, 1966). Next she had a part in the crime comedy L'assalto al centro nucleare/The Million Dollar Countdown (Mario Caiano, 1967) starring Frank Wolff, and in the war film Uccidete Rommel/Kill Rommel! (Alfonso Brescia, 1969) with Anton Diffring. Her last film at IMDb is the sex comedy Come fu che Masuccio Salernitano, fuggendo con le brache in mano, riuscì a conservarlo sano/How to cuckold jealous husbands (Silvio Amadio, 1972). She had a second career in the popular fotoromanzi or fotonovelas of the 1960s and 1970s. She appeared in such Italian and Spanish photo novels as O anjo da moret/The Angel of Death (1970) and Killing 5 La grande fuga. She worked not only as an actress/model but also as a director under the name of Claudia Courage. According to Dutch newspaper reports she was engaged in the mid-1960s to film actor Giancarlo Viola (Giancarlo del Duca), the son of an airplane engineer. In 1973, she married the British singer-songwriter Michael Shepstone, known for writing hits like Yellow Boomerang by Middle of the Road. In 1974 their daughter Jessica was born. After that Thea Shepstone-Fleming lived with her family in Bournemouth, Great Britain.
Sources: Delpher (Dutch), Nationaal Archief (Dutch), Italian Cinema Database, Killingmania, Wikipedia and IMDb.
The Tees Transporter Bridge, also referred to as the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge, is a bridge in northern England. It is the furthest downstream bridge across the River Tees and the longest remaining transporter in the world. The bridge is grade II* listed and its winch house and piers are grade II listed.
It carries a travelling 'car', or 'gondola', suspended from the bridge, across the river in 90 seconds. The gondola can carry 200 people, 9 cars, or 6 cars and one minibus. The bridge connects Middlesbrough, on the south bank, to Stockton on Tees, on the north bank and carries the A178 road from Middlesbrough to Hartlepool.
The idea of a transporter bridge across the River Tees was first mooted in 1872 when Charles Smith, Manager of the Hartlepool Iron Works, submitted a scheme to Middlesbrough Corporation. However, the scheme was not pursued, and it would not be until the new century that the idea of a transporter bridge across the river would again be revisited. Following a 1907 Act of Parliament the Bridge was built at a cost of £68,026 6s 8d (equivalent to £7,660,000 in 2021 values), by Sir William Arrol & Co. of Glasgow between 1910 and 1911 to replace the 'Hugh Bell' and 'Erimus' steam ferry services. A transporter bridge was chosen because Parliament ruled that the new scheme of crossing the river had to avoid affecting the river navigation.
Construction work started in July 1909 with caissons being used to allow workers to dig down to bedrock. This turned out to be 65 feet (20 m) below the high tide mark on the Middlesbrough side and 90 feet (27 m) on the other. The shafts that had been dug out by this process were then filled with concrete. The formal laying of the foundation stones, made of Aberdeen granite, took place in August 1910 when they were laid by Mayor of Middlesbrough Thomas Gibson-Poole and Alderman Joseph McLauchlan, the initiator of the transporter bridge scheme.[8] The opening ceremony on 17 October 1911 was performed by Prince Arthur of Connaught. At its opening the bridge was painted red.
During the First World War Middlesbrough was bombed by an L11 Zeppelin in April 1916. During this raid it was reported that a bomb fell through the structure before hitting the river below. During the Second World War the superstructure of the bridge was hit by a bomb. In 1953, the gondola got stuck half-way. While it was stuck, gale force winds lashed water to within inches of it; despite this the bridge continued to operate.
In 1961 the bridge was painted blue.
In 1974, the comedy actor Terry Scott, travelling between his hotel in Middlesbrough and a performance at the Billingham Forum, mistook the bridge for a regular toll crossing and drove his Jaguar off the end of the roadway, landing in the safety netting beneath.
In December 1993, the bridge was awarded the Institution of Mechanical Engineers' highest honour, The Heritage Plaque, for engineering excellence, in recognition of the Council's efforts in keeping the bridge in good working order. Its historical importance was also recognised in 1985 by its listing as a Grade II* Listed Building and its prominence as a local landmark was further enhanced in 1993 by the installation of floodlights that operate during the winter months.
In July 2000 a visitor centre was opened on land previously occupied by the bridge workshop
In 2011 the Tees Transporter Bridge received a £2.6 million Heritage Lottery Fund award for improvement and renovation work to mark the Bridge's centenary. The improvement works include the installation of a glass viewing lift to the landmark's upper walkway and renovation of the gondola.
The bridge was closed on 27 August 2013 for 40 days repainting. It was then discovered that repairs were needed. In the same year, the Tees Transporter Bridge Anniversary Award was inaugurated as part of the Transporter Bridge's Heritage Lottery Fund-supported Visitor Experience Project in partnership with the Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) and Teesside University. The inaugural award winner was Stephen Brown in autumn 2013, with Jason Dunnett receiving the accolade in autumn 2014.
On 5 March 2015, the Royal Mail issued a set of 10 First Class postage stamps featuring iconic British bridges including the Tees Transporter Bridge. The bridge was re-opened for traffic on 6 April 2015, but improvement work continued with the bridge still in daily use. These were completed in September 2015 after more than £4 million had been spent on the structure.
In August 2019, the bridge was temporarily closed due to safety concerns.
It is thought that repairs could cost up to £7 million and as of 2022 it remains closed with its future under discussion.
Locally, the bridge is often referred to simply as 'the Transporter'. The bridge hosts an annual vintage bus running day, organised by The 500 Group. On this one day per year, usually a Sunday in April, vintage buses take people on free rides around Teesside. As part of the 2006 and 2007 events, the bridge made a special trip carrying a former Teesside Municipal Transport Daimler Fleetline, the first time a double-decker bus had used the bridge in 30 years.
It has been featured in films and TV programmes including Boys from the Blackstuff, Billy Elliot, The Fast Show, Spender, Vera, and Steel River Blues. In the millennium celebrations of 2000, fireworks were fired from its length. The storyline of the third series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, saw the bridge dismantled to be sold to and re-erected in the US. The local council received calls from people worried that the bridge was really being pulled down, with the BBC adding a disclaimer on the end of the final episode of the series stating that 'The Transporter Bridge is still in Middlesbrough'.
Middlesbrough is a town in the Middlesbrough unitary authority borough of North Yorkshire, England. The town lies near the mouth of the River Tees and north of the North York Moors National Park. The built-up area had a population of 148,215 at the 2021 UK census. It is the largest town of the wider Teesside area, which had a population of 376,633 in 2011.
Until the early 1800s, the area was rural farmland in the historic county of Yorkshire. The town was a planned development which started in 1830, based around a new port with coal and later ironworks added. Steel production and ship building began in the late 1800s, remaining associated with the town until the post-industrial decline of the late twentieth century. Trade (notably through ports) and digital enterprise sectors contemporarily contribute to the local economy, Teesside University and Middlesbrough College to local education.
Middlesbrough was made a municipal borough in 1853. When elected county councils were created in 1889, Middlesbrough was considered large enough to provide its own county-level services and so it became a county borough, independent from North Riding County Council. The borough of Middlesbrough was abolished in 1968 when the area was absorbed into the larger County Borough of Teesside. Six years later in 1974 Middlesbrough was re-established as a borough within the new county of Cleveland. Cleveland was abolished in 1996, since when Middlesbrough has been a unitary authority within the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire.
Middlesbrough started as a Benedictine priory on the south bank of the River Tees, its name possibly derived from it being midway between the holy sites of Durham and Whitby. The earliest recorded form of Middlesbrough's name is "Mydilsburgh", containing the term burgh.
In 686, a monastic cell was consecrated by St. Cuthbert at the request of St. Hilda, Abbess of Whitby. The manor of Middlesburgh belonged to Whitby Abbey and Guisborough Priory.[1] Robert Bruce, Lord of Cleveland and Annandale, granted and confirmed, in 1119, the church of St. Hilda of Middleburg to Whitby. Up until its closure on the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII in 1537, the church was maintained by 12 Benedictine monks, many of whom became vicars, or rectors, of various places in Cleveland.
After the Angles, the area became home to Viking settlers. Names of Viking origin (with the suffix by meaning village) are abundant in the area; for example, Ormesby, Stainsby and Tollesby were once separate villages that belonged to Vikings called Orm, Steinn and Toll that are now areas of Middlesbrough were recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. Other names around Middlesbrough include the village of Maltby (of Malti) along with the towns of Ingleby Barwick (Anglo-place and barley-wick) and Thornaby (of Thormod).
Links persist in the area, often through school or road names, to now-outgrown or abandoned local settlements, such as the medieval settlement of Stainsby, deserted by 1757, which amounts to little more today than a series of grassy mounds near the A19 road.
In 1801, Middlesbrough was a small farm with a population of just 25; however, during the latter half of the 19th century, it experienced rapid growth. In 1828 the influential Quaker banker, coal mine owner and Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) shareholder Joseph Pease sailed up the River Tees to find a suitable new site downriver of Stockton on which to place new coal staithes. As a result, in 1829 he and a group of Quaker businessmen bought the Middlesbrough farmstead and associated estate, some 527 acres (213 ha) of land, and established the Middlesbrough Estate Company.
Through the company, the investors set about a new coal port development (designed by John Harris) on the southern banks of the Tees. The first coal shipping staithes at the port (known as "Port Darlington") were constructed with a settlement to the east established on the site of Middlesbrough farm as labour for the port, taking on the farm's name as it developed into a village. The small farmstead became a village of streets such as North Street, South Street, West Street, East Street, Commercial Street, Stockton Street and Cleveland Street, laid out in a grid-iron pattern around a market square, with the first house being built on West Street in April 1830. New businesses bought premises and plots of land in the new town including: shippers, merchants, butchers, innkeepers, joiners, blacksmiths, tailors, builders and painters.
The first coal shipping staithes at the port (known as "Port Darlington") were constructed just to the west of the site earmarked for the location of Middlesbrough. The port was linked to the S&DR on 27 December 1830 via a branch that extended to an area just north of the current Middlesbrough railway station, helping secure the town's future.
The success of the port meant it soon became overwhelmed by the volume of imports and exports, and in 1839 work started on Middlesbrough Dock. Laid out by Sir William Cubitt, the whole infrastructure was built by resident civil engineer George Turnbull. After three years and an expenditure of £122,000 (equivalent to £9.65 million at 2011 prices), first water was let in on 19 March 1842, and the formal opening took place on 12 May 1842. On completion, the docks were bought by the S&DR.
Iron and steel have dominated the Tees area since 1841 when Henry Bolckow in partnership with John Vaughan, founded the Vulcan iron foundry and rolling mill. Vaughan, who had worked his way up through the Iron industry in South Wales, used his technical expertise to find a more abundant supply of Ironstone in the Eston Hills in 1850, and introduced the new "Bell Hopper" system of closed blast furnaces developed at the Ebbw Vale works. These factors made the works an unprecedented success with Teesside becoming known as the "Iron-smelting centre of the world" and Bolckow, Vaughan & Co., Ltd became the largest company in existence.
By 1851 Middlesbrough's population had grown from 40 people in 1829 to 7,600. Pig iron production rose tenfold between 1851 and 1856 and by the mid-1870s Middlesbrough was producing one third of the entire nations Pig Iron output. It was during this time Middlesbrough earned the nickname "Ironopolis".
On 21 January 1853, Middlesbrough received its Royal Charter of Incorporation, giving the town the right to have a mayor, aldermen and councillors. Henry Bolckow became mayor, in 1853.
A Welsh community was established in Middlesbrough sometime before the 1840s, with mining being the main form of employment. These migrants included figures who would become important leaders in the commercial, political and cultural life of the town:
John Vaughan established Teesside's first ironworks in 1841, The Vulcan Works at Middlesbrough. Vaughan had worked his way up through the industry at the Dowlais Ironworks in south Wales and encouraged hundreds of the skilled Welsh workers to follow him to Teesside.
Edward Williams (iron-master), although he was the grandson of the famous Welsh Bard Iolo Morganwg, Edward had started as a mere clerk at Dowlais. His move to the Tees saw him rise to ironmaster, alderman, magistrate and Mayor of Middlesbrough. Edward was also the father of Aneurin and Penry, who both became Liberal MPs for the area.
E.T. John arrived from Pontypridd as a junior clerk in Williams' office. John became the director of several industrial enterprises and a radical politician.
Windsor Richards, an Engineer and manager, oversaw the town's transition from iron to steel production.
Much like the contemporary Welsh migration to America, the Welsh of Middlesbrough came almost exclusively from the iron-smelting and coal districts of South Wales. By 1861 42% of the town's ironworkers identified as Welsh and one in twenty of the total population. Place names such as "Welch Cottages" and "Welch Place" appeared around the Vulcan works, and Middlesbrough became a centre for the Welsh communities at Witton Park, Spennymoor, Consett and Stockton on Tees (especially Portrack). David Williams also recorded that a number of the Welsh workers at the Hughesovka Ironworks in 1869 had migrated from Middlesbrough.
A Welsh Baptist chapel was active in the town as early as 1858, and St Hilda's Anglican church began providing services in the Welsh language. Churches and chapels were the centres of Welsh culture, supporting choirs, Sunday Schools, social societies, adult education, lectures and literary meetings. By the 1870s, many more Welsh chapels were built (one reputed to seat 500 people), and the first Eisteddfodau were held.
By the 1880s, a "Welsh cultural revival" was underway, with the Eisteddfodau attracting competitors and spectators from outside the Welsh communities. In 1890 the Middlesbrough Town Hall hosted the first Cleveland and Durham Eisteddfod, an event notable for its non-denominational inclusivity, with Irish Catholic choirs and the bishop of the newly created Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough as honoured guests.
In the early twentieth century this Eisteddfod had become the biggest annual event in the town and the largest annual Eisteddfod outside Wales. The Eisteddfod had a clear impact on the culture of the town, especially through its literary and music events, by 1911 the Eisteddfod had twenty-two classes of musical competition only two of which were for Welsh language content. By 1914, thirty choirs from across the area were competing in 284 entries. A choral tradition remained part of the town's culture long after the eisteddfod and chapels had gone. In 2012 an exhibition at the Dorman Museum marked the Apollo Male Voice Choir's 125 years as an active choir in the town.
Industrial Wales was noted for its "radical Liberal-Labour" politics, and the rhetoric of these politicians clearly won favour with the urban population of the North East. Penry Williams and Jonathan Samuel won the seats of Middlesbrough and Stockton-on-Tees for the Liberal Party and Penry's brother, Aneurin would also win the newly created Consett seat in 1918.
Sir Horace Davey stressed his Welsh lineage and stated that "it was scarcely an exaggeration to say that Welshmen had founded Middlesbrough", courting the Welsh vote that saw him elected MP for Stockton. However, others complained that local Conservative candidates were losing to "Fenians and Welshers" (Irish and Welsh people).
These sentiments had grown by 1900 when Samuel lost his seat after a Unionist complained publicly that the town had been "forced to submit to the indignity of being trailed ignominiously through the mire by Welsh constituents". Samuel lost the seat but regained it in 1910 with a campaign that made few, if any, references to his Welsh background.
From 1861 to 1871, the census of England & Wales showed that Middlesbrough consistently had the second highest percentage of Irish born people in England after Liverpool. The Irish population in 1861 accounted for 15.6% of the total population of Middlesbrough. In 1871 the amount had dropped to 9.2% yet this still placed Middlesbrough's Irish population second in England behind Liverpool. Due to the rapid development of the town and its industrialisation there was much need for people to work in the many blast furnaces and steel works along the banks of the Tees. This attracted many people from Ireland, who were in much need of work. As well as people from Ireland, the Scottish, Welsh and overseas inhabitants made up 16% of Middlesbrough's population in 1871. A second influx of Irish migration was observed in the early 1900s as Middlesbrough's steel industry boomed producing 1/3 of Britain's total steel output. This second influx lasted through to the 1950s after which Irish migration to Middlesbrough saw a drastic decline. Middlesbrough no longer has a strong Irish presence, with Irish born residents making up around 2% of the current population, however there is still a strong cultural and historical connection with Ireland mainly through the heritage and ancestry of many families within Middlesbrough.
The town's rapid expansion continued throughout the second half of the 19th century, fuelled by the iron and steel industry. In 1864 the North Riding Infirmary (an ear, nose and mouth hospital) opened in Newport Road; this was demolished in 2006.
On 15 August 1867, a Reform Bill was passed, making Middlesbrough a new parliamentary borough, Bolckow was elected member for Middlesbrough the following year. In 1875, Bolckow, Vaughan & Co opened the Cleveland Steelworks in Middlesbrough beginning the transition from Iron production to Steel and by the turn of the century. Henry Bolckow died in 1878 and left an endowment of £5,000 for the infirmary.
In the latter third of the 19th century, Old Middlesbrough was starting to decline and was overshadowed by developments built around the new town hall, south of the original town hall, the town's population reaching 90,000 by the dawn of the 20th century.[9] In 1900, Bolckow, Vaughan & Co had become the largest producer of steel in Great Britain and possibly came to be one of the major steel centres in the world.
In 1914, Dorman Long, another major steel producer from Middlesbrough, became the largest company in Britain. It employed a workforce of over 20,000 and by 1929 and gained enough to take over from Bolckow, Vaughan & Co's dominance and to acquire their assets. The steel components of the Sydney Harbour Bridge (1932) were engineered and fabricated by Dorman Long of Middlesbrough. The company was also responsible for the New Tyne Bridge in Newcastle.
Several large shipyards also lined the Tees, including the Sir Raylton Dixon & Company, Smith's Dock Company of South Bank and Furness Shipbuilding Company of Haverton Hill.
Middlesbrough was the first major British town and industrial target to be bombed during the Second World War. The Luftwaffe first attacked the town on 25 May 1940 when a lone bomber dropped 13 bombs between South Bank Road and the South Steel Plant. One of the bombs fell on the South Bank football ground making a large crater in the pitch. The bomber was forced to leave after RAF night fighters were scrambled to intercept. Two months after the first bombing Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited the town to meet the public and inspect coastal defences.
German bombers often flew over the Eston Hills while heading for targets further inland, such as Manchester. On 30 March 1941 a Junkers Ju 88 was shot down by two Spitfires of No. 41 Squadron, piloted by Tony Lovell and Archie Winskill, over Middlesbrough. The aircraft dived into the ground at Barnaby Moor, Eston; the engines and most of the airframe were entirely buried upon impact.
On 5 December 1941 a Spitfire of No. 122 Squadron, piloted by Sgt Hutton, crashed into rising ground near Mill Farm, Upsall, on the lower slopes of Eston Hills. Poor visibility due to bad weather and low cloud is believed to have been the cause of the crash.
On 15 January 1942, minutes after being hit by gunfire from a merchant ship anchored off Hartlepool, a Dornier Do 217 collided with the cable of a barrage balloon over the River Tees. The blazing bomber plummeted onto the railway sidings in South Bank leaving a crater twelve feet deep. In 1997 the remains of the Dornier were unearthed by a group of workers clearing land for redevelopment; the remains were put on display for a short while at Kirkleatham museum.
On 4 August 1942 a lone Dornier Do 217 picked its way through the barrage balloons and dropped a stick of bombs onto the railway station. One bomb caused serious damage to the Victorian glass and steel roof. A train in the station was also badly damaged although there were no passengers aboard. The station was put out action for two weeks.
The Green Howards was a British Army infantry regiment very strongly associated with Middlesbrough and the area south of the River Tees. Originally formed at Dunster Castle, Somerset in 1688 to serve King William of Orange, later King William III, this regiment became affiliated to the North Riding of Yorkshire in 1782. As Middlesbrough grew, its population of men came to be a group most targeted by the recruiters. The Green Howards were part of the King's Division. On 6 June 2006, this famous regiment was merged into the new Yorkshire Regiment and are now known as 2 Yorks, The 2nd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards). There is also a Territorial Army (TA) company at Stockton Road in Middlesbrough, part of 4 Yorks which is wholly reserve.
Post Second World War to contemporary era
By the end of the war over 200 buildings had been destroyed within the Middlesbrough area. The borough lost 99 civilians as a result of enemy action.
Areas of early and mid-Victorian housing were demolished and much of central Middlesbrough was redeveloped. Heavy industry was relocated to areas of land better suited to the needs of modern technology. Middlesbrough itself began to take on a completely different look.
Middlesbrough's 1903 Gaumont cinema, originally an opera house until the 1930s, was demolished in 1971. The Cleveland Centre opened in the same year. In 1974, Middlesbrough and other areas around the Tees, became part of the county of Cleveland. This was to create a county within a single NUTS region of England, with the UK joining the European Union predecessor (European Communities) a year earlier.
Middlesbrough's Royal Exchange building was demolished, to make way for the road. A multi-storey the Star and Garter Hotel built in the 1890s near to the exchange on the site of a former Welsh Congregational Church, was also demolished. The Victorian era North Riding Infirmary was demolished in 2006 and replaced by a hotel and supermarket.
The Cleveland Centre opened in 1971, Hill Street shopping centre opened in 1981 and Captain Cook Square opened in 1999.
Middlesbrough F.C.'s modern Riverside Stadium opened on 26 August 1995 next to Middlesbrough Dock. The club moved from Ayresome Park their previous home in the town for 92 years.
With the abolition of Cleveland County in 1996, Middlesbrough again became part of North Yorkshire.
The original St.Hilda's area of Middlesbrough, after decades of decline and clearance, was given a new name of Middlehaven in 1986 on investment proposals to build on the land. Middlehaven has since had new buildings built there including Middlesbrough College and Middlesbrough FC's Riverside Stadium amongst others. Also situated at Middlehaven is the "Boho" zone, offering office space to the area's business and to attract new companies, and also "Bohouse", housing. Some of the street names from the original grid-iron street plan of the town still exist in the area today.
The expansion of Middlesbrough southwards, eastwards and westwards continued throughout the 20th century absorbing villages such as Linthorpe, Acklam, Ormesby, Marton and Nunthorpe[9] and continues to the present day.
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Mariahilferstraße
Mariahilferstraße, 6th, 7th, 14th and 15th, since 1897 (in the 6th and 7th district originally Kremser Sraße, then Bavarian highway, Laimgrubner main road, Mariahilfer main street, Fünfhauserstraße, Schönbrunnerstraße and Penzinger Poststraße, then Schönbrunner Straße), in memory of the old suburb name; Mariahilf was an independent municipality from 1660 to 1850, since then with Gumpendorf, Magdalenengrund, Windmühle and Laimgrube 6th District.
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Mariahilferstraße, 1908
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History
Pottery and wine
The first ones who demonstrably populated the area of today's Mariahilferstraße (after the mammoth) were the Illyrians. They took advantage of the rich clay deposits for making simple vessels. The Celts planted on the sunny hills the first grape vines and understood the wine-making process very well. When the Romans occupied at the beginning of our Era Vienna for several centuries, they left behind many traces. The wine culture of the Celts they refined. On the hill of today's Mariahilferstraße run a Roman ridge trail, whose origins lay in the camp of Vindobona. After the rule of the Romans, the migration of peoples temporarily led many cultures here until after the expulsion of the Avars Bavarian colonists came from the West.
The peasant Middle Ages - From the vineyard to the village
Thanks to the loamy soil formed the winery, which has been pushed back only until the development of the suburbs, until the mid-17th Century the livelihood of the rural population. "Im Schöff" but also "Schöpf - scoop" and "Schiff - ship" (from "draw of") the area at the time was called. The erroneous use of a ship in the seal of the district is reminiscent of the old name, which was then replaced by the picture of grace "Mariahilf". The Weinberg (vineyard) law imposed at that time that the ground rent in the form of mash on the spot had to be paid. This was referred to as a "draw".
1495 the Mariahilfer wine was added to the wine disciplinary regulations for Herrenweine (racy, hearty, fruity, pithy wine with pleasant acidity) because of its special quality and achieved high prices.
1529 The first Turkish siege
Mariahilferstraße, already than an important route to the West, was repeatedly the scene of historical encounters. When the Turks besieged Vienna for the first time, was at the lower end of today Mariahilferstrasse, just outside the city walls of Vienna, a small settlement of houses and cottages, gardens and fields. Even the St. Theobald Monastery was there. This so-called "gap" was burned at the approach of the Turks, for them not to offer hiding places at the siege. Despite a prohibition, the area was rebuilt after departure of the Turks.
1558, a provision was adopted so that the glacis, a broad, unobstructed strip between the city wall and the outer settlements, should be left free. The Glacis existed until the demolition of the city walls in 1858. Here the ring road was later built.
1663 The new Post Road
With the new purpose of the Mariahilferstrasse as post road the first three roadside inn houses were built. At the same time the travel increased, since the carriages were finally more comfortable and the roads safer. Two well-known expressions date from this period. The "tip" and "kickbacks". In the old travel handbooks of that time we encounter them as guards beside the route, the travel and baggage tariff. The tip should the driver at the rest stop pay for the drink, while the bribe was calculated in proportion to the axle grease. Who was in a hurry, just paid a higher lubricant (Schmiergeld) or tip to motivate the coachman.
1683 The second Turkish siege
The second Turkish siege brought Mariahilferstraße the same fate. Meanwhile, a considerable settlement was formed, a real suburb, which, however, still had a lot of fields and brick pits. Again, the suburb along the Mariahilferstraße was razed to the ground, the population sought refuge behind the walls or in the Vienna Woods. The reconstruction progressed slowly since there was a lack of funds and manpower. Only at the beginning of the 18th Century took place a targeted reconstruction.
1686 Palais Esterhazy
On several "Brandstetten", by the second Turkish siege destroyed houses, the Hungarian aristocratic family Esterhazy had built herself a simple palace, which also had a passage on the Mariahilferstrasse. 1764 bought the innkeeper Paul Winkelmayr from Spittelberg the building, demolished it and built two new buildings that have been named in accordance with the Esterhazy "to the Hungarian crown."
17th Century to 19th Century. Fom the village to suburb
With the development of the settlements on the Mariahilferstraße from village to suburbs, changed not only the appearance but also the population. More and more agricultural land fell victim to the development, craftsmen and tradesmen settled there. There was an incredible variety of professions and trades, most of which were organized into guilds or crafts. Those cared for vocational training, quality and price of the goods, and in cases of unemployment, sickness and death.
The farms were replaced by churches and palaces, houses and shops. Mariahilf changed into a major industrial district, Mariahilferstrasse was an important trading center. Countless street traders sold the goods, which they carried either with them, or put in a street stall on display. The dealers made themselves noticeable by a significant Kaufruf (purchase call). So there was the ink man who went about with his bottles, the Wasserbauer (hydraulic engineering) who sold Danube water on his horse-drawn vehicle as industrial water, or the lavender woman. This lovely Viennese figures disappeared with the emergence of fixed premises and the improvement of urban transport.
Private carriages, horse-drawn carriages and buggies populated the streets, who used this route also for trips. At Mariahilferplatz Linientor (gate) was the main stand of the cheapest and most popular means of transport, the Zeiselwagen, which the Wiener used for their excursions into nature, which gradually became fashionable. In the 19th Century then yet arrived the Stellwagen (carriage) and bus traffic which had to accomplish the connection between Vienna and the suburbs. As a Viennese joke has it, suggests the Stellwagen that it has been so called because it did not come from the spot.
1719 - 1723 Royal and Imperial Court Stables
Emperor Charles VI. gave the order for the construction of the stables to Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. 1772 the building was extended by two houses on the Mariahilferstrasse. The size of the stables still shows, as it serves as the Museum Quarter - its former importance. The Mariahilferstraße since the building of Schönbrunn Palace by the Imperial court very strongly was frequented. Today in the historic buildings the Museum Quarter is housed.
The church and monastery of Maria Hülff
Coloured engraving by J. Ziegler, 1783
1730 Mariahilferkirche
1711 began the renovation works at the Mariahilferkirche, giving the church building today's appearance and importance as a baroque monument. The plans stem from Franziskus Jänkl, the foreman of Lukas von Hildebrandt. Originally stood on the site of the Mariahilferkirche in the medieval vineyard "In Schoeff" a cemetery with wooden chapel built by the Barnabites. Already in those days, the miraculous image Mariahilf was located therein. During the Ottoman siege the chapel was destroyed, the miraculous image could be saved behind the protective walls. After the provisional reconstruction the miraculous image in a triumphal procession was returned, accompanied by 30,000 Viennese.
1790 - 1836 Ferdinand Raimund
Although in the district Mariahilf many artists and historical figures of Vienna lived , it is noticeable that as a residence they rather shunned the Mariahilferstraße, because as early as in the 18th Century there was a very lively and loud bustle on the street. The most famous person who was born on the Mariahilferstrasse is the folk actor and dramatist Ferdinand Raimund. He came in the house No. 45, "To the Golden deer (Zum Goldenen Hirschen)", which still exists today, as son of a turner into the world. As confectioners apprentice, he also had to visit the theaters, where he was a so-called "Numero", who sold his wares to the visitors. This encounter with the theater was fateful. He took flight from his training masters and joined a traveling troupe as an actor. After his return to Vienna, he soon became the most popular comedian. In his plays all those figures appeared then bustling the streets of Vienna. His most famous role was that of the "ash man" in "Farmer as Millionaire", a genuine Viennese guy who brings the wood ash in Butte from the houses, and from the proceeds leading a modest existence.
1805 - 1809 French occupation
The two-time occupation of Vienna by the French hit the suburbs hard. But the buildings were not destroyed fortunately.
19th century Industrialization
Here, where a higher concentration of artisans had developed as in other districts, you could feel the competition of the factories particularly hard. A craftsman after another became factory worker, women and child labor was part of the day-to-day business. With the sharp rise of the population grew apartment misery and flourished bed lodgers and roomers business.
1826
The Mariahilferstraße is paved up to the present belt (Gürtel).
1848 years of the revolution
The Mariahilferstraße this year was in turmoil. At the outbreak of the revolution, the hatred of the people was directed against the Verzehrungssteuerämter (some kind of tax authority) at the lines that have been blamed for the rise of food prices, and against the machines in the factories that had made the small craftsmen out of work or dependent workers. In October, students, workers and citizens tore up paving stones and barricaded themselves in the Mariahilfer Linientor (the so-called Linienwall was the tax frontier) in the area of today's belt.
1858 The Ring Road
The city walls fell and on the glacis arose the ring-road, the now 6th District more closely linking to the city center.
1862 Official naming
The Mariahilferstraße received its to the present day valid name, after it previously was bearing the following unofficial names: "Bavarian country road", "Mariahilfer Grund Straße", "Penzinger Street", "Laimgrube main street" and "Schönbrunner Linienstraße".
The turn of the century: development to commercial street
After the revolution of 1848, the industry displaced the dominant small business rapidly. At the same time the Mariahilferstraße developed into the first major shopping street of Vienna. The rising supply had to be passed on to the customer, and so more and more new shops sprang up. Around the turn of the century broke out a real building boom. The low suburban houses with Baroque and Biedermeier facade gave way to multi-storey houses with flashy and ostentatious facades in that historic style mixture, which was so characteristic of the late Ringstrasse period. From the former historic buildings almost nothing remained. The business portals were bigger and more pompous, the first department stores in the modern style were Gerngross and Herzmansky. Especially the clothing industry took root here.
1863 Herzmansky opened
On 3 March opened August Herzmansky a small general store in the Church Lane (Kirchengasse) 4. 1897 the great establishment in the pin alley (Stiftgasse) was opened, the largest textile company of the monarchy. August Herzmansky died a year before the opening, two nephews take over the business. In 1928, Mariahilferstraße 28 is additionally acquired. 1938, the then owner Max Delfiner had to flee, the company Rhonberg and Hämmerle took over the house. The building in Mariahilferstrasse 30 additionally was purchased. In the last days of the war in 1945 it fell victim to the flames, however. 1948, the company was returned to Max Delfiner, whose son sold in 1957 to the German Hertie group, a new building in Mariahilferstrasse 26 - 30 constructing. Other ownership changes followed.
1869 The Pferdetramway
The Pferdetramway made it first trip through the Mariahilferstraße to Neubaugasse.
Opened in 1879 Gerngroß
Mariahilferstraße about 1905
Alfred Gerngross, a merchant from Bavaria and co-worker August
Herzmanskys, founded on Mariahilferstrasse 48/corner Church alley (Kirchengasse) an own fabric store. He became the fiercest competitor of his former boss.
1901 The k.k. Imperial Furniture Collection
The k.k. Hofmobilien and material depot is established in Mariahilferstrasse 88. The collection quickly grew because each new ruler got new furniture. Today, it serves as a museum. Among other things, there is the office of Emperor Franz Joseph, the equipment of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico from Miramare Castle, the splendid table of Charles VI. and the furniture from the Oriental Cabinet of Crown Prince Rudolf.
1911 The House Stafa
On 18 August 1911, on the birthday of Emperor Franz Joseph, corner Mariahilferstraße/imperial road (Kaiserstraße) the "central palace" was opened. The construction by its architecture created a sensation. Nine large double figure-relief panels of Anton Hanak decorated it. In this building the "1st Vienna Commercial sample collective department store (Warenmuster-Kollektivkaufhaus)", a eight-storey circular building was located, which was to serve primarily the craft. The greatest adversity in the construction were underground springs. Two dug wells had to be built to pump out the water. 970 liters per minute, however, must be pumped out until today.
1945 bombing of Vienna
On 21 February 1945 bombs fell on the Mariahilferstrasse, many buildings were badly damaged. On 10th April Wiener looted the store Herzmansky. Ella Fasser, the owner of the café "Goethe" in Mariahilferstrasse, preserved the Monastery barracks (Stiftskaserne) from destruction, with the help other resistance fighters cutting the fire-conducting cords that had laid the retreating German troops. Meanwhile, she invited the officers to the cafe, and befuddled them with plenty of alcohol.
Cold, soaked, and exhausted; Marek returned to his home town of Winter Haven.
His attempt at vengeance had been a failure, his lyre was broken, and as he discovered upon retuning to his own house, his sister had ventured to Jahrton for some fishing tournament. She had the only key to the Luinmor family home, so Marek was without means of getting inside.
With resolute energy, he made his way to the Winter Haven inn.
It had previously been a great place to perform his songs, meet new people, and acquire good meals; but now Marek went there merely to get a room, and maybe a mead or two. Marek never really cared for the drink, he admired coffee a good deal more, but he felt the need for it now more than ever.
Small snowflakes spiraled down, and Marek realized that winter was around the corner.
What if Iona doesn't return from her trip anytime soon, and Marek has to stay at the inn for multiple weeks? How would he pay for a room for that long? And then Marek realized, how would he pay for a room at all? Ulfric pocketed what little money he did have, and his only belongings he had on him were his clothes, his bag, a couple of travel necessities, and his axe.
Tonight was going to be harsh.
Marek opened the door into the inn, a haven from the ever present cold that haunted Garheim.
A wave of warm air and curios aromas had assailed him as he stepped inside.
"Ahhh Marek, I was wondering if I'd see you again!" Called the innkeeper, a man who was particularly fond of Marek's lyre performances, that not only brought him joy, but also customers looking for entertainment.
" 'Ave a mead on the house. Why so glum old pal? Where's your lyre?"
"I don't have it anymore.." Marek replied, sadly making his was to a table in the corner of the room, leaving behind a very confused innkeeper.
Marek looked around at the faces of the other patrons of the inn. All happy and/or drunk with their friends and family, and here Marek was, alone and miserable.
He was so occupied with this, that he didn't notice the dark shape approaching him, until it was directly in front of him and blocking his view.
"Could you please move you blocking my-" Marek had gotten no further, as he looked up to meet the eyes of this stranger. This man was no drunkard of the inn, he was a member the Assassins guild, characterized by his dark red and black robes.
"I'm sorry sir, can I help you?" Marek asked, fear creeping into his voice.
"Possibly. you are Marek Luinmor I'm assuming." Marek was stunned. If this man knew his name, that meant one thing.
"I don't know who hired you, but please, spare me, I'll pay twice what they promised you, not now mind you, but once I manage to-"
"Be quite!" Growled the Assassin.
Marek looked around at all the patrons of the inn once more, and realized there was no one who was coherent enough to help him now, this was his end.
"If I'd wanted you dead, you would have died while you were passed out on that road a few hours ago." The thought of himself dieing had vanished now, and Marek's natural curiosity returned.
"How did you know about that?"
"The guild has eyes and ears everywhere. And I saw that handy work at the bridge personally. Had you been more trained, you may have been able to end that pathetic Ulfric once and for all, and it wouldn't cost and entire bridge to do so. That's why I'm here.
You have been offered a position in the guild. It's dangerous, but it pays a lot better than being a jongluer." Marek was intrigued.
"I don't think I'd fit into that kind of lifestyle. I doubt the guild even has cloaks that would be small enough for me. I've seen very few winters, as it would be."
"You wouldn't need a cloak. Look around at these people again. Every now and again one of them casts a nervous glance in this direction. They're afraid of me. You can see it in their eyes. But when you came in, you saw how they all smiled and welcomed you. You're charismatic, and people are willing to open up to joungluers. It's the perfect cover." Marek was liking this more and more.
"The only problem is that I don't have a lyre anymore. Mine was destroyed."
"Yes, and that's why a young Mor-Renuii man gave up his this evening." He said, putting a lyre almost identical to Marek's own on the table.
"What do you say, Marek?"
With a grin creeping onto his face, he replied:
"With an generous offer like that, how could I deny? When do I start?"
Whew, that took awhile to write =P
Anyway, as always C&C welcome! Now find the frog
Guarded Inn - also known as The Bacon House
The MOC shows an inn built around a tower belonging to old castle ruins. The place is known for different types of pork from own breeding. The inn also runs hotel services.
At the moment, in the courtyard, we see several banqueters, innkeeper checking the roasting pig and two waitresses taking care of guests. One of them is roughly adored by a client.
A fresh group of consumers comes in - soldiers and their not too bright master returning from a medium-successful military expedition.
On the right below, the stable is being cleaned, and higher on the wall a boy pretending to be a guard (an element of the decoration) consumes his fee.
On the left back, the innkeeper prepares himself for the pig slaughter, while a swine thief tries to lure one of the fine specimen from the pigsty.
Lake Chiemsee with the Alpine panorama on its southern bank in the background, photographed on the lake ferry between the Fraueninsel (in English: "Ladies' Island") and the Herreninsel (in English: "Gentlemen’s Island"), Bavaria, Germany
Some background information:
Lake Chiemsee is a freshwater lake in the Alpine Foreland, a rather southern part of the Bavarian district of Upper Bavaria. It is located near the Austrian border, between the cities of Rosenheim, Germany, and Salzburg, Austria. In the vernacular Chiemsee is often called "The Bavarian Sea”, because with its surface area of about 80 km² (30.9 square miles) it is the biggest lake that is completely situated in Bavaria. Lake Bodensee is bigger of course, but its area is shared between the two German federal states of Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg as well as the countries of Austria and Switzerland. Chiemsee is also the third biggest lake in Germany, only excelled by the abovementioned Bodensee and the Mueritz. The region around the Chiemsee, the Chiemgau, is a popular recreation area.
Like many other pre-alpine lakes, the Chiemsee was formed at the end of the last ice age about 10,000 years ago, from a hollow carved out by a glacier. Hence it is a glacial lake with its origins in a melted glacier. It is fed by the rivers Tiroler Achen and Prien, which flow into the lake from the south, while the river Alz is the lake’s outlet in the north. The Chiemsee comprises a water quantity of 2.048 km³ and has a shore line of 63.96 km (39.7 miles). Including the islands the shore line is actually 83 km long.
There are three main islands on the lake: Herreninsel (in English: "Gentlemen’s Island") with an area of 238 ha is the largest. Herreninsel has a palace built by King Ludwig II in 1878 called Herrenchiemsee, which was never completed but was meant to be an even larger replica of the Palace of Versailles. The second largest is Fraueninsel (in English: "Ladies’ Island") with an area of 15.5 ha. It houses a Benedictine nunnery, built in 782, as well as a small village of about 300 residents, who made a living from fishing in former times, but today are fishermen, artists or even innkeepers. Finally the third largest island is Krautinsel (in English "Cabbage Island") with an area of 3.5 ha, which isn't inhabited. Another three smaller islands complete the Chiemsee’s island world.
The major settlements on the lake with lakeside promenades are Prien, Chieming, Uebersee, Gstadt, Breitbrunn and Seebruck. There is also a community on the lake named Chiemsee, which consists from the three major islands and their residents.
As mentioned before, the Chiemsee is a popular local recreation area (among others for the citizens of Munich) and also a well-frequented tourist area. There is a walkway and a cycle lane around the lake and people can carry out all kinds of aquatic sport. Above all the lake with its consistent winds coming from the Alps is a popular sailing area. However, the wind direction often changes, which may lead to sailing boats that sail around in circuits, although their yachtsmen don’t even change the position of the sails.
Along the south bank of the Chiemsee visitors can view the Alps. The slightly snow-covered mountains in the distance on this photo belong to the Wilder Kaiser mountain range (in English: "Wild Emperor") which is already located in the Tyrol district in Austria. The highest summits within this range are the Ellmauer Halt (2,344 m resp. 7,690 feet) and the Ackerlspitze (2,329 m resp. 7,641 feet). The mountains closer to the lake belong to the Chiemgau Alps, whose highest peak is the Sonntagshorn (1,961 m resp. 6,434 feet).
Amazing Stories / Magazin-Reihe
- Joe Gibson / Shadow on the Moon
- Dex R. Moore / The Innkeeper of Mars
- Gerald Vance / Deadly Dust
- William P. McGivern / He Played with Dolls
- Ivar Jorgensen / The Blessed Assassins
- John Jakes / Idiot Command
cover: Walter Popp
(cover illustrates "Shadow on the Moon")
Editor: Howard Browne
Ziff-Davis Publishing Company / USA 1952
Reprint: Comic-Club NK 2010
ex libris MTP
Era mezzo dì e la macchina proseguiva sui tornanti, su quella che non sembrava la Sicilia: mare, spiagge, arte, città barocche. Guardando dal finestrino quello che vedevo scorrere, assomigliava invece sempre più ad un vecchio film americano, dove viaggiando in carovana, immersi in quel paesaggio così vasto, ci si aspettava da un momento all’altro di essere attaccati dagli indiani, appostati come vedette sul pizzo di queste montagne, così inconsuete, aspre, così disabitate. Ma dove eravamo finiti?
Non incontrammo paesi per chilometri finché la conferma ci arrivò dietro l’ultima curva, (direzione giusta, meno male!) quando raggiungemmo Sortino alle due del pomeriggio inoltrate. E Sortino sembrava deserta. Lo girammo due volte quel paesino di quattro case, accompagnati dagli sguardi dei vecchietti appoggiati ai tavolini del bar centrale, come nei saloon, a guardare lo straniero di turno con fare guardingo (o domandandosi se stavamo giocando a girotondo :D!).
Trovammo alla fine grazie a due giovani, un' osteria aperta. Di cucinato però l’oste non avevano nulla a quell’ora!
Non so che facce abbiamo fatto, a ripensarci mi vien da ridere, però fu veramente buffo (oltre che con sollievo) vederlo comparire dopo poco, con una signora, che iniziò ad elencarci quello che aveva (in casa) e se poteva andare bene.
Forse questo fu il là alle confidenze, o forse no - anzi alla fine dell'esperienza in Sicilia posso dire, che è l'animo siciliano che sponeamente porta con sé gentilezza, disponibilità, apertura agli altri - ma sta di fatto che uscimmo da lì con la storia della loro vita in tasca e la gioia finale del proprietario nel sapere che partiti da Sortino avremmo raggiunto Pantalica! Ma è fantastico! L’oste ci disse con orgoglio siciliano e aggiunse. Mi raccomando, godetevi il momento, godetevi la passeggiata, quel posto così speciale, perché sarà un esperienza indimenticabile…e ce lo disse con gli occhi che luccicavano.
Li salutammo con gratitudine e arrivati a Pantalica, non potei non pensare a quelle parole; camminando su quella strada rocciosa, millenaria, immersa in questo inaspettato Gran Canyon nostrano... tutto questo aveva veramente qualcosa di magico… (continua)
baci
*Starlight*
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It was half day and the car continued to follow the curves, on that earth, that seems Sicily anymore: sea, beaches, art, Baroque cities. Watch out from the car window, what I saw flow slowly instead, resembled more and more to an old American film, where traveling in caravan, along this so vast landscape, we waiting from a moment to another, to be attached by the Indians, look-outs on us from the peak of these mountains, so unusual, sour, so uninhabited. Where were we ended?
We didn't meet towns for miles, until the confirmation arrived (correct direction!) behind the last curve, when reaching Sortino at 2 p.m.. and Sortino seemed desert. We turned twice that little town of four houses, accompanied by the looks of the oldies sitting next to the central cafe's tables, as well as in a saloons, looking at the foreigners with a careful gaze (or asking thereself if we were playing "ring around Rosie" :D).
Then two young people of the place escorted us in an open inn. However the innkeeper says to us that they didn't have anything to eat at that hour! I don't know if it was for our expressions...but...it was really funny (and also with relief) to see him appear two minutes later, introducing us a lady that list us what she has (at home), what she can cook for us. Perhaps this was there "start" for confidence - or maybe not, can I say at the end of the experience in Sicily, Sicilians are basically so kind people, available, open - but anyway we went out of that place, with the history of their lifes in pocket and the final joy of the owner, when he heard that departed by Sortino we would have reached Pantalica! But it's fantastic! He said with a sicilian pride and add: "Please. Really I please you to enjoy the moment, enjoy deeply the walk in that special place, because it will be an unforgettable experience!" and he told us with sparkling eyes.
We thanked them a lot, and in reaching Pantalica, I coundnt not thinking about that words, when walking on that millenary path, in this unexpectable italian Grand Canyon.
(to be continued)
baci
*Starlight*
p.s.: if you want to say to me about your new President, it will be a pleasure to know what you think about, my dears
The Kings Arms and Old White Lion in West Lane, Haworth on 24th March 1979.
The Kings Arms has an interesting history in that it is a former manor house dating from the 17th century. In 1841 Enoch Thomas, a friend of Branwell Bronte, was the Innkeeper. The current private rooms upstairs were home to the Manorial Courts, whilst the local undertaker used the cellar as a mortuary. Ownership of the pubs is indicated by the signage but Tetley's Brewery in Hunslet, Leeds was closed in 2011, and demolished in 2012 while Webster's Fountain Head Brewery in Halifax was closed in 1996. Fortunately, the pubs continue to thrive under their current owners. Nowadays, along with a variety of other beers, they both sell Tetley Bitter but the product bearing that name is now brewed at the Banks's brewery in Wolverhampton.
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