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Portland Park
Kirkby-in-Ashfield
Nottinghamshire
UK
Saturday, 20 February 2021
The bird feeder in the nature reserve.
Long-tailed Titmouse.
Portland, March 2007. Dressed overall for her Service of Dedication as she entered service into the RFA
Taken in 2013.
On the left is a banner saying you're in Portland (Maine); in the center is the Hay Building (a "flatiron" building); and on the right is the Portland Museum of Art.
HMS Portland F79 Type 23 (aka Duke-class) Frigate of the British Royal Navy arrives on the River Mersey for the CLT. She was assisted on the berth by Boluda tugs VB Belgie and VB Sandon.
Little fact: During sea trials Portland attained a top speed of 30.8 knots (57.0 km/h), the fastest speed attained by any Type 23 frigate at that time. (WIKI SOURCE). She is the eighth HMS Portland
IMO: 8949733
Pennant Number: F79
Name: HMS Portland
Vessel Type - Detailed: Military Ops
MMSI: 234627000
Call Sign: GDIS
Flag: United Kingdom
Homeport: HMNB Devonport, Plymouth
Commander: Ed Moss-Ward
Gross Tonnage: .......
Displacement: 4,900t (4,800 long tons; 5,400 short tons)
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 133 x 16.1 m
Draught: 7.3m
Motto: Craignez Honte "Fear Dishonour"
Ordered: February 1996
Builder: Marconi Marine, Clyde, UK
Laid down: 14 January 1998
Launched: 15 May 1999
Sponsored by: Lady Brigstocke
Commissioned: 3 May 2001
Refit: LIFEX 2018 onwards
Propulsion Systems: CODLAG: x4 1510kW (2,025shp) Paxman Velenta 12CM 4 stroke 12 cyl diesel gens & x2 GEC electric motors delivering 2980kW (4000shp) AND x2 Rolls-Royce Spey SM1C gas turbines delivering 23,190kW (31,100shp) - these sounded absolutely amazing! Truly impressive!
Speed: In excess of 28kn (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range: 7,500 nautical miles (14,000km) at 15 kn (28 km/h)
Complement: 185 (accommodation for up to 205)
Sensors and processing systems: Sonar 2087
Electronic warfare & decoys: UAF-1 ESM, or, UAT Mod 1 Seagnat & Type 182 towed torpedo decoy & Surface Ship Torpedo Defence
Armament: Anti-air missiles: x1 32-cell GWS 35 Vertical Launching System (VLS) for: x32 Sea Ceptor missiles (1–25+ km). Anti-ship missiles: Up to x2 quad Harpoon launchers (x8 missiles). Anti-submarine torpedoes: x2 twin 12.75 in (324 mm) Sting Ray torpedo tubes
Guns: x1 BAE 4.5 inch Mk 8 naval gun & x2 30 mm DS30M Mk2 guns, or, x2 30 mm DS30B guns & x2 Miniguns & x4 General-purpose machine gun
Aircraft carried: x1 Westland Wildcat HMA2, armed with x2 anti submarine torpedoes OR x1 Westland Merlin HM2, armed with x4 anti submarine torpedoes
Aviation facilities: Flight deck & Enclosed hangar
Portland. This is Maine’s largest city with a metro population of 500,000. The historic port area is of most interest. When Maine became a state in 1820 Portland was the capital until it was moved to Augusta in 1832. Maine never abolished slavery because it never allowed it. Massachusetts, which had included Maine until 1820, abolished slavery in 1781. Because Portland was a major port and involved in the slave trade, taking salted cod to the South and the Caribbean, returning with molasses and transporting slaves across the Atlantic from Africa, it was also a centre for slave stowaways who escaped on ships. Runaway slaves then alighted at Portland and made an overland journey up to Canada and freedom. The city was a major ‘station’ for the Underground Railroad and black businessmen in the city assisted runaways. The city has developed its own ‘freedom trail’ of sites linked to the Underground Railroad. Anti-slavery lectures were popular in Portland and the Quakers and other religious groups supported abolition of slavery. The city has the third oldest African church in America - the Abyssinian Meeting House (1828). The waterfront affords views across Casco Bay and the city centre is known for its charming 19th century buildings. Before arriving in Salem we cross New Hampshire bypassing the city of Portsmouth.
1960s/70s South Auditorium Urban Renewal apartment towers; taken in homage to this, which used to be on the Stumptown Confidential blog
To this day, the Portland Development Commission, which administers Urban Renewal, calls this development "spectacular".
"An 1878 view of downtown Portland taken from Sixth and Yamhill, looking southeast. The cupola of the new Pioneer Courthouse dominates the skyline. *CORRECTION (Monday): The cupola belongs to the old Multnomah County Courthouse, since demolished. The new Pioneer Courthouse would be just outside this frame."
From the 2012 article "Downtown's houses: The ornate, the restored and the unnoticed" at: www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/06/downtowns_h...
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"Downtown's houses: The ornate, the restored and the unnoticed
By Mike Francis | mfrancis@oregonian.com
on June 02, 2012 at 4:21 PM, updated June 04, 2012 at 2:24 PM
Portland State University, which dominates the southwestern portion of downtown, is home to three century-old houses. The jewel is the 1900 Simon Benson House, at 1803 S.W. Park Ave. As Hawkins notes, the house's Queen Anne turret and Moorish porch signal an elegance appropriate for Portland timber baron and philanthropist Simon Benson. Benson gave the city its Benson Bubbler drinking fountains, the Benson Hotel, Benson Polytechnic, the land containing Multnomah and Wahkeena falls, and built the Columbia Gorge Hotel in Hood River. The house was in danger of condemnation in the early 1990s, but the university and concerned citizens stepped in to move it from its former site at Southwest 11th and Clay and restore it on campus. Now it is the alumni center.
Hawkins once consulted on a plan to restore the Marston House, an 1893 Queen Anne that stands at 1622 S.W. 12th Ave. Although its onion dome has been removed and the first level clad in brick, the interior is intact, he said. It serves as home to PSU's Graduate Honors Program.
A third house, the Harder House at 1604 S.W. 10th Ave., has been radically modified and serves as a graduate systems science building.
The closest thing to an intact "century block" downtown is the south side of Southwest Jackson Street from Broadway around the corner to Sixth Avenue. Wrapping from the set-back, cut-away two-story at 2027 S.W. Sixth Ave., which seems to have been moved to the site, to the former Green Onion restaurant at 632-6 S.W. Jackson St., the block is home to a collection of 1900-era houses and apartment buildings. It was punctured by the unfortunate addition of a mid-century apartment complex on Southwest Broadway, and slashed by the curve of Interstate 405, but parts of it look much as they did when it was a thriving Jewish neighborhood 110 years ago.
A little farther to the east, several houses still stand, if precariously. Lawyer Randal Acker waged a vigorous campaign to stave off condemnation of his Queen Anne office at 525 S.W. Jackson St. after TriMet and Portland State had targeted it for redevelopment. Now it holds a lonely place between a PSU high-rise and a MAX turnaround.
On the block bounded by Southwest Fourth and Fifth avenues, College and Jackson streets, two radically remodeled houses linger in a block of missing teeth. A double-bayed Italianate dating from 1894 is a duplex at 1986 S.W. Fifth Ave. Around the corner at 420 S.W. College St., in an 1880 building that now houses Alexandrya Restaurant, a resident named Sarah Neusihin once pickled cucumbers and sold them in barrels on the sidewalk. Neusihin, sister to a rabbi, established a company that was later sold but whose name lingers in the Mrs. Neusihin's brand of kosher dills.
A couple of downtown houses, at 921 S.W. Clay St., and at 1421 S.W. 12th Ave., were built as rectories for the churches next door. The more attractive of them is four-square Hafner Haus on Southwest 12th, built in 1911. The other, a 1905 two-story listed by the city as "American Basic," was built the same year as the First German Evangelical Church -- now the Portland Korean Church -- next door.
Probably the most dramatic house still standing downtown is the 1879 High Victorian Gothic three-story built as a rectory for Archbishop Francois Blanchet, who conducted masses in now-demolished cathedral next door. Today his former house stands alone, home to Al-Amir Restaurant at 219 S.W. Stark St.
Surviving 100-year-old downtown houses
The survivors on the block: 420 S.W. College St. Built in 1880, the Queen Anne house was home to Neusihin Pickles. Since remodeled, it now houses Alexandrya Restaurant. It's around the corner from 1986 S.W. Fifth Ave., an 1894 Italianate duplex that had its double bays cut in half in a remodeling.
525 S.W. Jackson St. The 1894 Queen Anne survived redevelopment pressures and was renamed the Figo House by its commercial occupant, lawyer Randal Acker.
2021 S.W. Sixth Ave. Built in 1880. 2013-2015 S.W. Sixth Ave. Built in 1889. 2027 S.W. Sixth Ave. Built in 1880 and later sawed off to accommodate the highway. The Sanborn insurance map of 1901 shows the site listed as "Shed," so the house apparently was moved from another location. 624, 626 and 632-6 S.W. Jackson St., all built in 1900 in the Colonial Revival style.
1924 S.W. Broadway. Date unknown, but an apartment house in the same block was built in 1895. This Victorian Italianate was modified and is home to Baan-Thai Restaurant and Broadway Coffee.
Campus collection: On Portland State University's campus stand the attractive Benson House at 1803 S.W. Park, the Marston House at 1622 S.W. 12th Ave., and the radically remodeled Harder House at 1604 S.W 10th Ave. All are being used by the university.
The rectories: 1421 S.W. 12th Ave. Built 1911 in the Craftsman style, it stands next to Grace Bible Church. 921 S.W. Clay St. Built in 1905, the same year the First German Evangelical Church (now the Portland Korean Church) was built next door. 219 S.W. Stark St. The Bishop's House, was built in 1879 as living quarters for Archbishop Francois Blanchet, next to a cathedral that was demolished in 1894. Now it's home to Al-Amir Restaurant.
Next-door neighbors: 1326 S.W. 12th Ave. 1890, Queen Anne Vernacular, now houses a hair salon and law office, and 1318 S.W. 12th Ave., also 1890, a law office.
1134 S.W 12th Ave. The 1880 Morris Marks house, designed by architect Warren Williams. Must be relocated. It stands next to a Craftsman duplex at 1142-6 S.W. 12th Ave., listed by the city as being built in 1890. (Here's a link to a page with the City of Portland's 1984 historic resource inventory.)
1023 and 1015 S.W. Yamhill St. Both date from 1888 and both standing on their original sites, according to Hawkins. Across from the Central Library, they house a salon and a law office.
The apartment houses: z1402-06 S.W. 12th Ave. Possibly built in 1908 as a duplex, now divided into 10 units. 1515 S.W. 10th Ave. The Ada Apartments, with twin gables. 1415 S.W. 11th Ave. The Hidwell Apartments, built 1908, stand across from the 1882 Old Church.
The loner: 1123 S.W. Yamhill St. An 1883 Italianate that was later wrapped in brick still shows its double-bay shape, a chimney and a trace of the old back porch. It's known as the Tilbury/Rothman or just Tilbury Building, after the lawyers who worked there. One part-owner says it may go on the market soon, following a relocation of his practice. He also said it sometimes seemed to be haunted.
--Mike Francis"
...but misfortune befalls them YET AGAIN. In the form of accidental murders. Sort of.
Sketches from the dress rehearsal for the 2012 production of Leonard Bernstein's "Candide" at the Portland Opera.
Photos from 2017 Kumoricon, Oregon Convention Center, Portland.
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Godless America - Shilo Inn, Portland Oregon, November 2001.
This was a fun day, I was running around downtown in the rain grabbing photos, having a blast :) So much kookiness to photograph in Portland, so little film....
Portland is the largest city in Maine which is located in Cumberland County.
Visitors enjoy Portland's historic Old Port district along Portland Harbor, at the mouth of the Fore River and part of Casco Bay, and the Arts District, which runs along Congress Street in the center of the city. Portland Head Light is located in nearby Cape Elizabeth and marks the entrance to Portland Harbor.
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Maine visited on cruise
Carnival Cruise Line
7 Day Canada/New England from Boston, Massachusetts
Carnival Glory Ship
06/09/2013 thru 06/16/2013
Itinerary
Boston, Massachusetts - The United States of America
Portland, Maine - The United States of America
Saint John, New Brunswick - Canada
Halifax, Nova Scotia - Canada
Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Portland, Maine, USA, North America
06-10-2013