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Sandhill has been used as a quayside since Roman times. The area was named Sandhill because originally it was little more than a hill of sand when the tide was out. It became home to several prominent merchants during the 16th century, and contains a number of Grade 1 listed buildings.
At the center of this photo is Phoenix House, situated at the junction of Queen Street and Lombard Street. It was designed and built by William Parnell in 1869 as offices for the Royal Insurance Company. The Tyne Bridge (built in 1928) can be seen crossing the roof of the building.
The photo was taken as the sun was rising at the left hand side of the frame.
The construction of the Tyne Bridge (flic.kr/p/2o2U1Z9) during the 1920s involved building a bridge over some existing properties. This was done by adapting techniques borrowed from shipbuilding whereby sheets of steel were suspended over the buildings and then riveted in place.
This is a photograph of the bridge passing over properties at the junction of Queen Street and Lombard Street. It shows how close the bridge is to the buildings, and how the sheets of steel were riveted to hold them together.
Phoenix House, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Design (1869): William Parnell, as offices for the Royal Insurance Company.
The Tyne bridge was designed in 1925 by Mott, Hay and Anderson.
This is the whole work, which is split up into three different pictures as well. I went back to the house where I grew up. I lived here from the ages of 2 two about 13. It was strange going back after nearly four years. It's abandoned now, so it's even more strange now.
From the blurb on the dustjacket:
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Phoenix House and Tyne Bridge. Opened in October 1928, the grade 2* listed Tyne Bridge passes seeming through the early Victorian Phoenix House and Princes Buildings (both grade 2 listed). Phoenix House was designed by William Parnell for the Royal (later Phoenix) Insurance Company, and opened c1869.
City of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, North East England - Princes Buildings, Side / Queen Street
September 2023
A scultural piece on the side of a 1960's office block in Oldham and no - it isn't a Pterodactyl or a Phoenix although you may be forgiven for thinking either especially as it is found on Phoenix House on Union St. The clue is in the original name of the developer - Heron and it's founder businessman HEnry RONson. This slightly scary heron, and I don't know the artist responsibel, isn't unique as they appear to have graced several of the company's constructions and one can, I think, still be seen in London on Heron Place in George St.
A facility run by Phoenix House- long abandoned on Hart Island. Not for nothing, but there's not anything like putting a bunch of drug addicts on potter's field to help cure them.??? I've heard from another source that they used to have them make shoes as part of their rehab. They found platform shoes. Abandoned since the 1970s. No one is allowed on the island. This was taken with a zoom lens.
**Note: I took this picture on 17 May 2023. Sadly, the mural was painted over a few months later.
Artists from Ukraine and Kenya created a set of three huge murals in Nairobi's Central Business District, called the “Grains of Culture,” to symbolize solidarity in the wake of the ongoing war in the Ukraine; they were unveiled in March 2023. The mural project on Phoenix House along Muindi Mbingu Street, at the corner of Kenuatta Avenue, was the final of five such murals; the others were created in Vienna, Berlin, Marseilles, and Brussels. The murals stress the political, economic, and diplomatic relationships between Kenya and Ukraine through the symbols of coffee and wheat grains.
Ukrainian artists included Nikita Kravtsov and Andrii Kovtun; those from Kenya were Paul Kelemba, Moha Graphix, and Eliamin Ink.
**Note: I took this picture on 17 May 2023. Sadly, the mural was painted over a few months later.
Artists from Ukraine and Kenya created a set of three huge murals in Nairobi, called the “Grains of Culture,” to symbolize solidarity in the wake of the ongoing war in the Ukraine; they were unveiled in March 2023. The mural project on Phoenix House along Muindi Mbingu Street, at the corner of Kenuatta Avenue, was the final of five such murals; the others were created in Vienna, Berlin, Marseilles, and Brussels. The murals stress the political, economic, and diplomatic relationships between Kenya and Ukraine through the symbols of coffee and wheat grains.
Ukrainian artists included Nikita Kravtsov and Andrii Kovtun; those from Kenya were Paul Kelemba, Moha Graphix, and Eliamin Ink.
A first visit to the new Pret a Manger on Newhall Street in Birmingham's Colmore Business District.
It's the third Pret in the Colmore BID area.
Multiple levels up and down steps.
Door to Pret Kitchen.
This was my first-ever trip to South Kortright, a small hamlet on a side street off NYS Rt 10. Apparently a James McLean lived here as a lad, went off to make his fortune, and returned to live conspicuously. The property was once known as Belle Terre, and is now a residential drug and alcohol treatment center called Phoenix House. On this beautiful day we could see residents playing volleyball and fishing in a pond. The former carriage house across the street is now the Plum Tree Event Center.
More info at www.dcnyhistory.org/sk_mclean_residences.html, www.dcnyhistory.org/ts_mcleans.html, www.electricscotland.com/history/descendants/chap100.htm, www.phoenixhouse.org/locations/new-york/phoenix-house-del...
This was my first-ever trip to South Kortright, a small hamlet on a side street off NYS Rt 10. Apparently a James McLean lived here as a lad, went off to make his fortune, and returned to live conspicuously. The property was once known as Belle Terre, and is now a residential drug and alcohol treatment center called Phoenix House. On this beautiful day we could see residents playing volleyball and fishing in a pond. The former carriage house across the street is now the Plum Tree Event Center.
More info at www.dcnyhistory.org/sk_mclean_residences.html, www.dcnyhistory.org/ts_mcleans.html, www.electricscotland.com/history/descendants/chap100.htm, www.phoenixhouse.org/locations/new-york/phoenix-house-del...
In the 1950's this was the Formby Preparatory School and later became a childrens nursery. According to our 1954 Street Directory Mrs Birtwhistle was the Principle of the school.
This is a photograph from the "Diminishing Landscapes" book by Christime Drummond & Keith Snape.
I think its been mentioned on here before.
The caption below the pic reads:
The Salvation Army Citadel on Union Street opened in 1886 next to the old skating rink. This actually formed part of the Citadel for many years. The church was closed in the early 1960s as it was too costly to carry out the necassary renovations. Services were conducted in the adjacent school. This photograph was taken in 1967 and a year later the entire unit was sold to a London company called Heron Management who demolished the castellated Citadel a replaced it with Phoenix house.
This was my first-ever trip to South Kortright, a small hamlet on a side street off NYS Rt 10. Apparently a James McLean lived here as a lad, went off to make his fortune, and returned to live conspicuously. The property was once known as Belle Terre, and is now a residential drug and alcohol treatment center called Phoenix House. On this beautiful day we could see residents playing volleyball and fishing in a pond. The former carriage house across the street is now the Plum Tree Event Center.
More info at www.dcnyhistory.org/sk_mclean_residences.html, www.dcnyhistory.org/ts_mcleans.html, www.electricscotland.com/history/descendants/chap100.htm, www.phoenixhouse.org/locations/new-york/phoenix-house-del...
This was my first-ever trip to South Kortright, a small hamlet on a side street off NYS Rt 10. Apparently a James McLean lived here as a lad, went off to make his fortune, and returned to live conspicuously. The property was once known as Belle Terre, and is now a residential drug and alcohol treatment center called Phoenix House. On this beautiful day we could see residents playing volleyball and fishing in a pond. The former carriage house across the street is now the Plum Tree Event Center.
More info at www.dcnyhistory.org/sk_mclean_residences.html, www.dcnyhistory.org/ts_mcleans.html, www.electricscotland.com/history/descendants/chap100.htm, www.phoenixhouse.org/locations/new-york/phoenix-house-del...
A closer look at the tile frog rock seen at Phoenix of Santa Barbara. Artist is Dan Chrynko.
UPDATE April, 2019: This is not here anymore.
Mrs Birtwisle was the Principal of the school.
It is thought the following pupils names, in this School photo, may not be correct.
? Lesley
Baxter Peter
Brereton ?
Carisforth Anthony (the thief)
Clement Mike
Dodgson John
Downham Peter
Drain Peter
Eddie Anne
Fitzgerald Jane
Fitzgerald Katherine
Gordon Hockings (nicknamed Hockey Sticks)
Hazlehurst Terry
Hudson John (little bastard)
Lean ?
Margaret Becket
Mawdsley ?
Miller Carol
Moorcroft Dennis
Mossap Billy
Page Barry (nicknamed Dribbler)
Sue Barker
Taylor Anne
Thompson Tony
Wagstaff Philip (nicknamed Waggy)