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Location: The Bill of Portland, Dorset, England, UK
Date of Photograph: pm 1 April 1994
OS Grid Reference: SY677683
Co-ordinates: 50:30:51N 2:27:23W
Elevation: 43 meters
In former times Weymouth was an important port, one of the busiest in England. Its ancient function is possibly best remembered for the facts that The Black Death made its British landfall there on 25th June 1348, and that in February 1805 William Wordsworth’s brother John, Captain of “The Earl of Abergavenny”, an East Indiaman, lost his life when his ship foundered in Weymouth Bay.
Weymouth is in the lee of Portland Bill, a windswept limestone promontory that juts miles into the Channel between England and France.
A fierce tidal current called The Portland Race arises from the opposition of tides confined between Portland Bill and The Shambles sandbank some three miles to the South-East.
The function of the light is to guide traffic entering Portland and Weymouth; mark the bank with a red sector; and act as a waymark for Channel through-shipping.
In 1669 Sir John Clayton took an abortive patent to erect a light at the Bill, but it was not until 26th May 1716 that the people of Weymouth were successful in petitioning Trinity House to erect a light. Two coal-fired lights were set up but very ill-run by the lessees. After sixty-one years the lease reverted to Trinity House.
In 1789, the brethren commissioned William Johns of Weymouth to demolish one of the existing pillars and replace it with another tower. In that year Argand lamps were installed, Portland being the first light in England so equipped. There were two banks of seven oil-fired Argand lamps with highly-polished reflectors. Further improvements were made shortly after when Thomas Rogers installed a separate low light with a catoptric system housing six Argand lamps to improve visibility at sea.
In 1869, the high and low lights were replaced with the current single tower. The low lighthouse survives as a bird observatory.
The present optic is arranged to transition from one flash to four between bearings 221° and 224°; and from four flashes to one between 117° and 141°. The lamp is an electric 1 Kw Mbi with a four-panel first-order catadioptric fixed lens, giving a white group flashing four times every twenty seconds. The power is 635,000 candela. The tower is sited 43 meters above Mean High Water, and has a height of 41 meters: The effective elevation of the lantern is therefore 84 meters yielding a visible range of about twenty-five nautical miles. There is an obsolete fog signal capable of blasting for three and a half seconds every thirty seconds.
The facility was demanned on 18th March 1996. Monitoring and control is now managed remotely from The Trinity House Operations Control Centre in Harwich.
Portland Building - Portland Municipal Services Building
Architects: Michael Graves,
Emery Roth & Sons
Built: 1982
Location: Portland, OR
U.S. National Register of Historic Places since October 25, 2011
Architectural style: Post-modernism
PORTLAND, ME - SEPTEMBER 5: Maine State Trooper Pat Flanagan returns to his unmarked cruiser after stropping a Maine driver for speeding on Interstate 295. (Staff photo by Ben McCanna/Staff Photographer)
The Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Monument was unveiled on September 29, 1888 in Longfellow Square, a triangular plaza formed at the southeast corner of Congress and State Streets. The monument consists of a bronze statue of Longfellow, which sculptor Franklin began the design in 1885, just three years after Longfellow's death, as seen late in his life, in a seated position. The statue is mounted on a granite pedestal designed by Francis H. Fassett.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a Portland native, was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, and was one of the five Fireside Poets.
National Register #90000580 (1990)
Red Crane is a crane on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. It is situated on the cliff edge at Portland's southerly point, the promontory Portland Bill. The crane is part of the now-disused Portland Bill stone loading quay, which has become a scheduled monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979, because it appears to the Secretary of State to be of national importance.
The original wooden Red Crane in 1962.
The area of Portland Bill had been quarried from the 19th-century or earlier, and continued until the early 20th-century. During its commercial years, stone shipping quays were created to transport the stone off the island. The stone shipping quay at Red Crane was Portland Bill's prime quay.
The hand-operated wooden crane known locally as Red Crane was originally designed for the same purpose, and after quarrying ceased in the area at the into the 20th century, Red Crane was mainly used to lower fisherman and their boats into the sea. The crane was later replaced by a steel crane, which has remained standing ever since. It continues to be used by fishermen, whilst the site has also become a popular spot for memorial plaques to loved ones who had an affection of the spot.
A similar crane, also steel, is the Broad Ope Crane (also known as Bob's Crane), and this one is located further east of Portland Bill, near Cave Hole.An original wooden crane exists further along the east of the island, named Sandholes Crane.
Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway, Alna, Maine. This two-foot gauge line is built on the right-of-way of the original WW&F and runs from Sheepscot Station over three miles of track (with more opening in August 2022). The star attraction is 0-4-4T No. 9, built by the Portland Company in 1891 for the Sandy River, and later used by the WW&F until its abandonment in the 1930s. The railroad is an incredible time machine into the past. You won't find radios - all moves are done with whistle signals and hand signs.
The wife of the gardener/chauffer at the Pittock Mansion was a cat fancier.
At Portland's Pittock Mansion.
Portland
Dranouter Festival 2018
3-AUG-2018
Jente Pironet Vocals & Guitar
Sarah Pepels Vocals and Keyboartd
Gill Princen Keyboards
Arno De Bock Drums
© Patrick Van Vlerken 2018
One of TriMet's Gomaco-built replica heritage streetcars operating on the Portland Streetcar back in 2003. Two of these Gomaco "Council Crest" replica cars recently moved to St. Louis for a new trolley operation being built there. The other two are now on the Willamette Shore Trolley operating out of Lake Oswego.
Note the crossing diamond in the foreground- when the first segment of the Portland Streetcar was constructed, the freight spur that crossed here (although unused) had not yet been abandoned, necessitating that a crossing be included. The diamond was removed after a few years.
The Portland Art Museum was designed in the 1930’s by Pietro Belluschi. I believe there were 2 additions to the building since the original structure was created.
This photo was taken from the second floor showing the lightwell.
Portland, OR felt a lot like a big sister to my hometown of Burlington, VT. Both my wife and I instantly felt at home in this great city and a quick walk brought us to the obligatory stops of Stumptown Coffee and Voodoo Donuts.
Next, pictures from a trip to the Left Coast. The skyline of Portland, OR. Sorry, no photos from Intel from Hillsboro, which was the reason for coming to this almost Nordic-style orderly, thoroughly pleasant, and clean town.
This is as far as I got with the new camera, too much sea spray to risk it !
Portland Bill 31.12.2015