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Inside the second story of an abandoned house, I found this hallway, two connecting bedrooms, and a small attic space all hidden away behind a bedroom closet door that locked from the outside. Extremely creepy.
In Paris all the way across the pedestrian bridge (Pont des Arts) leading to the Louvre museum, you will see an endless row of locks with couples names or initials. Seems to be a romantic gesture of endless love that can be found in cities from Rome, Italy all the way to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
"My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me;
We'll lock them up together,
And throw away the key."
(Frederick Saunders)
I'm so busy with preparations for our vacation... Have nice Thursday!
Locked out from cooperative progress with our world!
Just a few hours before President Donald Trump was set to announce whether he will withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change, Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz questioned the president’s reported intent to walk away from the accord.
"Syria and Nicaragua are the only nations that didn't sign the Paris Agreement. Nicaragua said it wasn't tough enough. What's Trump's excuse?" the representative from Florida tweeted June 1.
Stocks are devices used internationally, in medieval, Renaissance and colonial American times as a form of physical punishment involving public humiliation. The stocks partially immobilized its victims and they were often exposed in a public place such as the site of a market to the scorn of those who passed by.
The stocks are similar to the pillory and the pranger, as each consists of large, hinged, wooden boards; the difference, however, is that when a person is placed in the stocks, their feet are locked in place, and sometimes as well their hands or head, or these may be chained.
With stocks, boards are placed around the ankles and the wrists in some cases, whereas in the pillory they are placed around the arms and neck and fixed to a pole, and the victim stands. However, the terms can be confused, and many people refer to the pillory as the stocks.
Since stocks served an outdoor public form of punishment its victims were subjected to the daily and nightly weather. As a consequence it was not uncommon for people kept in stocks over several days to die from exposure.[citation needed]
The practice of using stocks continues to be cited as an example of torture, cruel and unusual punishment. Insulting, kicking, tickling, spitting and in some cases urinating and defecating on its victims could be applied at the free will of any of those present. The hapless feet were also taken advantage of by such savage cruelties as inserting burning materials between the toes or by such nuisances as carefully rubbing feces all over the feet and hair.
One of the earliest reference to the stocks in literature appears in the Bible. Paul and Silas, disciples of Jesus, were arrested. Their treatment by their jailer was detailed in the Book of Acts: "Having received such a charge, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks." The Old Testament's book of Job also describes the stocks, referring to God: "He puts my feet in the stocks, he watches all my paths."
The stocks were also popular among civil authorities from medieval to early modern times, and have also been used as punishment for military deserters or for dereliction of military duty. In the stocks, an offender's hands and head, or sometimes their ankles, would be placed and locked through two or three holes in the center of a board. Offenders were forced to carry out their punishments in the rain, during the heat of summer, or in freezing weather, and generally would receive only bread and water, plus anything brought by their friends.
The stocks were popular during the Colonial days in America. Public punishment in the stocks was a common occurrence from around 1500 until at least 1748. The stocks were especially popular among the early American Puritans, who frequently employed the stocks for punishing the "lower class."
In the American colonies, the stocks were also used, not only for punishment, but as a means of restraining individuals awaiting trial.
Photo taken at Bewdley Museum, Bewdley Worcstershire.
The lock on the Kennet and Avon canal at Wootton Rivers. We had just had lunch at the Royal Oak having seen a sign a couple of miles away in Savernake Forest and took the detour. Well worth going there.
Taken from the bridge over the canal in Sallins, kildare. Originally I was shooting towards the boats on the other side and decided to give the darker and less congested side a scope out. Turns out it was better than expected
Just a random object hanging from a hook on the edge of my fireplace.
Why?
Because it was a random object that my mother had hanging near hers.
Do I need a better reason than that?
Trent Lock is the area of canal locks around the point where the River Soar (flowing northwards) meets the River Trent (at this point flowing east). Near this point two canals also meet the Trent - the Erewash Canal, coming south-east from Long Eaton, and the short Cranfleet Cut which provides a route for boats heading downstream on the Trent, avoiding a weir.
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Captured with a manual Nikkor 50 mm ƒ1:1.2 on my Nikon Df, post processed in Lightroom using VSCO Film Pack.
German's Lock (Lock No. 5) and Bridge (No. 3) on the Rufford Branch of the Leeds Liverpool Canal. It's quite a common feature of canals for a lock to abut a bridge. When excavating the canal bridges would need to be built where tracks and roads crossed the line so why not situate the locks as near as possible to where carts could deliver the stone, wood and iron?