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To the untrained eye it might look like a UFO filling station.
But these six giant white and red pods are actually a relic from the golden age of motoring.
The iconic Mobil station designed by U.S. architect Eliot Noyes in the 1960s is the last remaining one of its kind in the UK.
English Heritage has now granted the building on the A6 at Red Hill in Leicestershire Grade II listed status.
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2140777/UKs-space-age-st...
Who would have thought that the one of the most innovative and distinctive petrol stations in the world is on the A6, in Birstall, on the outskirts of Leicester’s city centre.
The garage, now owned by BP, has made the top ten list featuring the best designed gas stations in the world.Which was voted by architects of DesignCurial magazine, which is based in London.
The structure, which consists of six large mushroom-like canopies, that form a symmetrical cover for pumps on the forecourt, was voted 6th on the list that contains the most iconic gas stations in the world, including the winner, the Pops Arcadia Station that sits alongside the famous Route 66, in the USA.
During the 1960s, Texas oil giants Mobil hired the architect Eliot Noyes, who was tasked to redesign all the companies gas stations during “Operation Pegasus” a major process to rebrand the company.
Whilst enlisting the help of graphic design firm Chermayeff & Geismar, the company who had designed the iconic Mobil sign, Noyes came up with the bold red, white and blue colour schemes that became instantly recognisable, particularly on the side of a highway.
Successfully meeting the design brief of being immediately identifiable, he designed a structure that fitted the golden age of motoring perfectly. The futuristic flying saucer-like parasols were created.
The circular canopies – unique for their overlapping design – were first built in New haven, Connecticut in the USA in 1966.
The stations were originally accompanied by Noyes’ cylindrical shaped pumps with brushed aluminium casings.
The design was used in 19,000 new and remodelled Mobil stations around the world. This particular petrol station in Birstall was built and finished in 1978/79.
Stations over the years have often been refurbished and replaced with new covers. Many stations have closed down and been demolished as larger supermarkets have bought up forecourts. Experts say ‘it is extremely rare to find any remaining canopies of this design’.
On our getaway to the sierra foothills, Angels Camp area, I had no idea where to look for birds. I did a google search and the one area that looked promising was the Calaveras Big Tree National Park that boasted many woodpeckers, one being the Pileated Woodpecker!...although uncommon.
The Pileated Woodpecker was at the top of my 'bucket list' for this year! As we were getting shots of the White-headed Woodpecker my best friend Marty said she saw something large land in the shade very near to us..boy were we both excited to see this amazing bird. It kept it's distance, flying around in the forest always landing in the shade and drumming from the top of a very high sequoia tree.
Not the best quality but I' so glad I finally got this one under my belt...that means there are more to come!!!...:)
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A South Shore westbound passes a highly visible detour listing along the Indiana Toll Road between Gary and East Chicago, Indiana.
Listed Building Grade I
List Entry Number : 1208577
Date First Listed : 1 June 1949
Prior's tower with hall range, extension and adjoining stables; now Deanery, museum and flats. For the Priory of St Mary, Carlisle. Late C15 tower and hall with C17 extensions and alterations; further 1853 extensions by James Stewart (internal alterations now partly removed, 1882 by CJ Ferguson); 1949-51 alterations dated 1950 on rainwater head. Red sandstone ashlar, some of the extensions are of squared red sandstone, on chamfered plinth, with string courses on tower and battlemented parapet. Flat lead roof on tower; otherwise greenslate roofs with coped gables and kneelers; full and half-gabled dormers; ashlar ridge and end chimney stacks. Stable range has sandstone flag roof. The main facade faces towards the Cathedral. Central square tower of 2 storeys over basement; the hall range at the right is 2-storey, 3 bays with projecting 2-storey extension; left 3-storey, 3-bay extension and beyond is the single storey, 4-bay stables. Tower has a central 2-light cusped headed oriel window, corbelled out, in a deeply chamfered surround under hoodmould and pent roof. Other small irregular casement windows; upper floor 2-light mullioned window with diamond leaded panes. The right return has a high crease for the original roof on the hall range. Rear has similar oriel and other windows. INTERIOR has rib-vaulted basement, contemporary with the tower; panelled upper floor room with panelled doors; painted wooden ceiling has decorative and heraldic devices, applied during Prior Senhouse's term of office c1494 - 1521. Angle newel stair to top storey and roof. The Deanery has a 1950 right doorway with projecting stone porch, in a single-storey 3-bay pent extension of 1853. First floor is C17 with 2-light mullioned windows and late C17 carved panel of Bishop's arms. 2-light gabled 1/2 dormers (appear on a view of 1715). The projecting facing double gable extension at right is of 1853 with 2- and 3-light mullioned and cross-mullioned windows. The rear wall of the hall range is probably C15 stonework but now with sash and mullioned windows. INTERIOR has ground floor C16 segmental-arched stone fireplaces; an upper floor fireplace is on corbels. Now internal front wall has former C17 doorway. Wooden staircase is probably of 1882 by CJ Ferguson; C19 panelled doors. Extensive repairs in 1988-9 required the gutting of the hall range. No.5 (the left extension) was formerly part of the Deanery but now a flat. Central panelled door in stone architrave with segmental pediment and flanking windows in stone architraves were all inserted in 1950 when an 1853 pent extension was removed; left blocked opening has a double chamfered surround; a right projecting stone porch (added since 1950) gives access to tower. Above are sash windows with glazing bars in C17 stone architraves with hood cornices. The V-jointed quoining at the left of calciferous sandstone is 2-storey and above it changes to red sandstone; the third storey was added in C19 with 1/2 gabled dormers. Rear 2- and 3-light mullioned and cross-mullioned windows. INTERIOR altered. Prior's Stables, Nos 5A and 5B, have a left recessed doorway now with C20 door, the C15 flattened arch with the initials TG (for Prior Thomas Gondibour, prior c1464-1494). Further right C15 doorway has segmental chamfered arch with hoodmould. Between the doors are a small and larger sash window with glazing bars in chamfered surrounds; further left C20 window in C20 opening. Left return has C20 double plank doors in C20 former garage opening. The roof had to be rebuilt in the 1960s. INTERIORS not inspected. It is now thought that the tower was built in the 1490s, not c1507 as previously thought.
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The Grade I Listed Manchester Town Hall a Victorian, Neo-gothic municipal building in Manchester, Greater Manchester
It is the ceremonial headquarters of Manchester City Council and houses a number of local government departments. The building faces Albert Square to the north, featuring the Albert Memorial and St Peter's Square to the south, home to The Cenotaph.
Designed by architect Alfred Waterhouse, the town hall was completed in 1877. The building contains offices and grand ceremonial rooms such as the Great Hall which is decorated with Ford Madox Brown's imposing Manchester Murals illustrating the history of the city. The entrance and Sculpture Hall contain busts and statues of influential figures including Dalton, Joule and Barbirolli. The exterior is dominated by the clock tower which rises to 280 feet (85 m) and houses Great Abel, the clock bell.
In 1938, a detached Town Hall Extension was completed and is connected by two covered bridges over Lloyd Street. The town hall, which was granted Grade I listed building status on 25 February 1952, is regarded as one of the finest interpretations of Gothic revival architecture in the world.
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Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1210006
Date First Listed : 16 June 1988
Built in the 1890's. this was originally the city treasurer's office, and has since been used for other purposes. It is in brick with a Welsh slate roof. The Fisher Street front has two storeys and three bays. A segmental archway leads through to a rear block of three storeys and ten bays. Most of the windows are sashes, with some casement windows on the Fisher Street front. Other features include a wooden oriel window, and doorways with fanlights.
The Grade II Listed Greene King Westgate Brewery and Visitor Centre, Westgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, East Anglia.
Greene King is a British brewery was founded by Benjamin Greene in 1799. It has grown to become one of the largest breweries in the UK through a series of takeovers which have been the subject of some criticism. The company owns pubs and hotels including the Hungry Horse pub chain. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 share index.
Greene King has grown both organically and via mergers and acquisitions. Key acquisitions in recent years include the Magic Pub Company (1996), Hungry Horse (1996), Morland (1999), Morrells (2002), a large part of the Laurel Pub Company (2004), Ridley's (2005), Belhaven (2005), Hardys and Hansons (2006), the Loch Fyne fish restaurant chain (2007), Cloverleaf (2011), Realpubs (2011), the Capital Pub Company (2011) and the Spirit Pub Company (2015).
The Greene King brewery in Bury St Edmunds produces beers branded in the names of breweries now closed, including Morland (Old Speckled Hen), Ruddles, Hardys & Hanson and Tolly Cobbold. The Belhaven brewery in Dunbar continues to operate in Scotland. The group operates 3,100 pubs, restaurants and hotels. Its retail division is split between its destination pubs and restaurants (with brands including Hungry Horse, Loch Fyne and Metropolitan Pub Company) and its local pubs. Its strategy is to open further retail outlets.
Its pub partners division has leased, tenanted and franchised pubs.[2] Its strategy is to reduce the numbers of these outlets.
There is a visitor centre next to the brewery, and tours are run regularly throughout the week. The brewery has an exhibition of pub sign artwork by George Taylor, who designed over 250 such signs for Greene King pubs.
The Grade I Listed Salisbury Cathedral, (formally known as the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary), one of the leading examples of Early English architecture. The main body of the cathedral was completed in only 38 years, from 1220 to 1258. The cathedral is the mother church of the Diocese of Salisbury and seat of the Bishop of Salisbury. In Salisbury, Wiltshire.
As a response to deteriorating relations between the clergy and the military at Old Sarum Cathedral, the decision was taken to resite the cathedral and the bishopric was moved to Salisbury. The move occurred during the tenure of Bishop Richard Poore, a wealthy man who donated the land on which it was built. The new cathedral was paid for by donations, principally from the canons and vicars of southeast England who were asked to contribute a fixed annual sum until it was completed. A legend tells that the Bishop of Old Sarum shot an arrow in the direction he would build the cathedral but the arrow hit a deer that died in the place where Salisbury Cathedral is now. The cathedral crossing, Old Sarum and Stonehenge are reputed to be aligned on a ley line, though Clive L.N. Ruggles asserts that the site, on marshland, was chosen because a preferred site several miles to the west could not be obtained.
The foundation stone was laid on 28 April 1220. Much of the freestone for the cathedral came from Teffont Evias quarries. As a result of the high water table in the new location, the cathedral was built on only four feet of foundations, and by 1258 the nave, transepts and choir were complete. The only major sections built later were the cloisters in 1240, the chapter house in 1263, tower and spire, which at 404 feet (123 m) dominated the skyline from 1320. Because most of the cathedral was built in only 38 years, it has a single consistent architectural style, Early English Gothic.
Although the spire is the cathedral's most impressive feature, it has proved to be troublesome. Together with the tower, it added 6,397 tons (6,500 tonnes) to the weight of the building. Without the addition of buttresses, bracing arches and anchor irons over the succeeding centuries, it would have suffered the fate of spires on later great ecclesiastical buildings (such as Malmesbury Abbey) and fallen down; instead, Salisbury remains the tallest church spire in the UK. The large supporting pillars at the corners of the spire are seen to bend inwards under the stress. The addition of reinforcing tie beams above the crossing, designed by Christopher Wren in 1668, arrested further deformation. The beams were hidden by a false ceiling, installed below the lantern stage of the tower.
Significant changes to the cathedral were made by the architect James Wyatt in 1790, including replacement of the original rood screen and demolition of a bell tower which stood about 320 feet (100 m) north west of the main building. Salisbury is one of only three English cathedrals to lack a ring of bells, the others are Norwich Cathedral and Ely Cathedral. However it does strike the time every 15 minutes with bells. In total, 70,000 tons of stone, 3,000 tons of timber and 450 tons of lead were used in the construction of the cathedral.
Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1292379
Date First Listed : 31 May 1949
Originally an early 19th Century house, later used as shops and an office, in brick on a chamfered plinth, with dressings in calciferous sandstone, quoins, and a Welsh slate roof. There are two storeys and four bays. On the front is an engaged Roman Doric porch that has an entablature with a paterae frieze and cornice. In the ground floor are shop bow windows, and in the upper floor the windows are sashes. At the rear is an extension with a bowed bay window.
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The spectacular Liverpool Waterfront is one of the most recognised skylines in the world.
The Three Graces
Three spectacular buildings located on the Waterfront.
The Three Graces are the Royal Liver Building, the Cunard Building and the Port of Liverpool Building.
The Three Graces from left to right:
Royal Liver Building
1908
byWalter Aubrey Thomas
Grade I Listed
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Liver_Building
Cunard Building
1914-16
by Willinck & Thicknesse with Arthur J. Davis
Grade II* Listed
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunard_Building
Port of Liverpool Building
1903-07
by Briggs & Wolstenholme with Hobbs & Thornely
Grade II* Listed
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.... Etnea avenue, On 5 February 2018, the day of the feast of the Patron Saint of Catania, the very young martyr St.Agatha ....
.... via Etnea, il 5 febbraio 2018, il giorno della festa della Santa Patrona di Catania, la giovane martire Sant'Agata ....
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The Grade I Listed St Grwst Church, Church Street, Llanrwst, County Conwy, North Wales.
The church was built in the in the 1470s in Perpendicular Gothic style, while the Gwydir Chapel was added in 1633–34 by Richard Wynn of Gwydir. The west tower was added in the early 19th century, replacing a bellcote. In 1884 the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin restored the church and added a north aisle. They also removed the west gallery, and reseated the church, increasing its capacity to 362. The cost of their work amounted to £2,300 (£200,000 as of 2014).
The Gwydir Chapel contains 17th-century fittings and fixtures, including stalls, a lectern and a communion table. There are also numerous monuments and a 13th-century stone coffin which is said to be that of Llywelyn the Great. The monuments date from 1440 to the 17th century, these include the tomb of Sir John Wynn, who died in 1627, and other members of the Wynn family.
"Bucket List" is the challenge for Our Daily Challenge today. Its my birthday and honestly, having personally survived Covid since my last birthday, I feel my Bucket List is gratifyingly full. Of course I can always wish for more foreign travel. Oh India! My life has been blessed with riches of many kinds and I have long known it. The task now is to be mindfully thankful and kind. And when restless review memories and photos.
There is a lot that I want to get done this year, so I designed a list to keep track of what I want to do.
Grade II* listed historic building originally constructed in the mid-1700's as a house.
"Spalding /ˈspɒldɪŋ / is a market town with a population of 28,722 at the 2011 census, on the River Welland in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. Little London is a hamlet directly south of Spalding on the B1172, whilst Pinchbeck, a village to the north, is part of the built-up area.
The town was well known for the annual Spalding Flower Parade, held from 1959 to 2013. The parade celebrated the region's vast tulip production and the cultural links between the Fens and the landscape and people of South Holland. At one time, it attracted crowds of more than 100,000. Since 2002 the town has held an annual Pumpkin Festival in October.
Archaeological excavations at Wygate Park in Spalding have shown that there has been occupation in this area from at least the Roman period, when this part of Lincolnshire was used for the production of salt. It was a coastal siltland. At Wygate Park salt-making seems to have come to an end by the mid-7th century BC; climatic change and flooding may have made such activities difficult, causing the practice to die out.
The settlement's name is derived from an Anglian tribe, the Spaldingas, who settled in the area during the 6th century. They may have retained their administrative independence within the Kingdom of Mercia into the late 9th century, when Stamford became one of the Five Boroughs of the East Midlands under Danish control after years of invasion and occupation." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
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Victoria Palace Theatre refurbishment, July 2018. The auditorium in all its glory. The new colour scheme (by Clare Ferraby) is radically different from the old dark red and gold.
On 9th April 2016 "Billy Elliot" closed at the theatre to allow for a multi-million refurbishment and extension of the grade 2* listed, Frank Matcham designed building. The most significant changes since the variety theatre opened in 1911. It reopened at the end of 2017 with the Broadway smash-hit "Hamilton".
www.victoriapalacetheatre.co.uk/index.php
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July 2018
The Grade I Listed Gatehouse to Nottingham Castle. In Nottingham, Nottinghamshire.
The Gatehouse, outerbridge and adjoining gateway were built between 1252-1255 for Henry III. It was altered in the mid 16th century, slighted 1651 and restored 1908. The parapet, string course and cross casement windows, are all early 20the Century.
When the castle itself was restored in 1875 the gatehouse of the medieval castle and much of the walling of the outer bailey were retained as a garden wall for the re-opened grounds. However, the northernmost part of the outer bailey was lost when an approach road was constructed in the 1830s for the development of The Park Estate on the former deer park.
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The Grade I listed Hospital of St John Baptist without the Barrs, St Johns Street, Lichfield, Staffordshire.
The building has ancient roots, once providing accommodation to travellers outside the southern city walls who would arrive in Lichfield after the gates had closed for the night. The distinctive eight chimneys fronting St John’s Street date back to the Tudor period when the hospital served as an almshouse for elderly gentlemen in the city.
In 1129, Roger de Clinton was appointed Bishop of Lichfield. He built a new cathedral fortified the Cathedral Close and laid out a new town. Finally, he constructed a defensive ditch and walls around the city. There were four gates or 'barrs' allowing movement in and out of the city walls, which were closed at 8 or 9 at night and reopened at 7 in the morning.
This created a problem for pilgrims and travellers to the city who arrived after the gates had closed for the night. At this time Lichfield was a popular place for pilgrims as the new cathedral housed a shrine with the remains of St Chad. To provide shelter for these many pilgrims and travellers outside the city walls, Bishop de Clinton ordered the building of a priory just outside the southern gate where the road from London entered the city.
The priory was completed in 1135 and the Bishop installed Augustinian Canons with solemn vows to provide food and shelter for the travellers. This priory brought into being 'The Hospital of St John Baptist without the Barrs’ (hospital referred to a place of hospitality and not to health care).
Information Source:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_of_St_John_Baptist_without...
The Grade I Listed St Peters Church in Scotter a village in West Lindsey, Lincolnshire.
The doorway is the oldest part of the church with the arch being Norman and the plain tympanum above the lintel thought to be Saxon. The porch is later in date with a record of it being reroofed in 1668 and completely rebuilt in 1820. The church was altered significantly in the early 13th century when the five arches in the north wall were constructed. In the 15th century the walls were lifted and the clerestory windows added for additional light.
The brass plaque above the pulpit is to Marmaduke Tyrwhitt, fourth son of William Tyrhwitt. Marmaduke was born in 1533, the fourth son of William Tyrhwitt. He was an ecclesiastical commissioner, and probably also had legal connections. He presided over a Manorial court at Bottesford in 1591, married Ellen Reresby, son of Lionel Reresby, and they had 5 sons and 6 daughters He died in his sixty sixth year 1599. The font is 14th century. The embattled tower was added about 1400 and was heightened to 72 feet a century later. It houses what is an important example of a turret clock by James Harrison of Hull.
Information Source:
britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101064133-church-of-st-peter...
The Grade I Listed Roman Baths in Bath, Somerset.
The water which bubbles up from the ground at Bath falls as rain on the nearby Mendip Hills. It percolates down through limestone aquifers to a depth of between 2,700 and 4,300 metres (8,900 and 14,100 ft) where geothermal energy raises the water temperature to between 69 and 96 °C (156.2 and 204.8 °F). Under pressure, the heated water rises to the surface along fissures and faults in the limestone. This process is similar to an artificial one known as Enhanced Geothermal System which also makes use of the high pressures and temperatures below the Earth's crust. Hot water at a temperature of 46 °C (114.8 °F) rises here at the rate of 1,170,000 litres (257,364 imp gal) every day, from a geological fault (the Pennyquick fault).
The statue of King Bladud overlooking the King's Bath carries the date of 1699, but its inclusion in earlier pictures shows that it is much older than this. The first shrine at the site of the hot springs was built by Celts, and was dedicated to the goddess Sulis, whom the Romans identified with Minerva. Geoffrey of Monmouth in his largely fictional Historia Regum Britanniae describes how in 836 BC the spring was discovered by the British king Bladud who built the first Moorish baths. Early in the 18th century Geoffrey's obscure legend was given great prominence as a royal endorsement of the waters' qualities, with the embellishment that the spring had cured Bladud and his herd of pigs of leprosy through wallowing in the warm mud.
The name Sulis continued to be used after the Roman invasion, leading to the town's Roman name of Aquae Sulis ("the waters of Sulis"). The temple was constructed in 60-70 AD and the bathing complex was gradually built up over the next 300 years. During the Roman occupation of Britain, and possibly on the instructions of Emperor Claudius, engineers drove oak piles to provide a stable foundation into the mud and surrounded the spring with an irregular stone chamber lined with lead. In the 2nd century it was enclosed within a wooden barrel-vaulted building, and included the caldarium (hot bath), tepidarium (warm bath), and frigidarium (cold bath). After the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the first decade of the 5th century, these fell into disrepair and were eventually lost due to silting up, and flooding. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle suggests the original Roman baths were destroyed in the 6th century.
The baths have been modified on several occasions, including the 12th century when John of Tours built a curative bath over the King's Spring reservoir and the 16th century when the city corporation built a new bath (Queen's Bath) to the south of the Spring. The spring is now housed in 18th-century buildings, designed by architects John Wood, the Elder and John Wood, the Younger, father and son. Visitors drank the waters in the Grand Pump Room, a neo-classical salon which remains in use, both for taking the waters and for social functions. Victorian expansion of the baths complex followed the neo-classical tradition established by the Woods. In 1810 the Hot Springs failed and William Smith opened up the Hot Bath Spring to the bottom, where he found that the spring had not failed but had flowed into a new channel. Smith restored the water to its original course and the Baths filled in less time than formerly.
Lancashire
Listed Building Grade II*
List Entry Number : 1361955
Date First Listed : 16 December 1952
Built around 1760 as a country house that contains earlier fabric, including timber-framing, and to which rear wings were added in the 19th century. It is in brick with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. There are two storeys with and attic and a symmetrical front of seven bays, with quoins and a cornice. The middle three bays project forward under a pediment, and the doorway has a Tuscan porch on four steps with pilasters. The windows are sashes..
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1361955
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed_buildings_in_Kirkland,_Lanca...
This is a photograph I took at Britten's chicane during the Hawthorn International Trophy race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in June 2008. It's Barry Wood in his 1959 Lister Knobbly leading Tom Walker in his 1952 Allard J2X Le Mans. Brian Lister started producing sports cars in 1954 first with an MG engine and later with a Bristol engine, but he had the most success with the 1957 car which used the Jaguar D-type engine. The first version of this car was known at the time as a Lister-Jaguar, but after the 1959 car was given a smoother aerodynamic body designed by Frank Costin (and designed to use the Chevrolet Corvette powerplant) the more bulbous earlier car became known as the Lister Knobbly. Barry Wood's car has the 3,781cc version of the Jaguar XK6 engine and is chassis BHL117. The Allard J2X Le Mans was developed from the Allard J2 which had motor cycle style mudguards and the J2X was introduced to comply with 1952 FIA regulations which said that cars must have all-enveloping bodywork. Tom Walker's car has a 5,425cc Cadillac V8 engine.