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Thank you to all the lovely people who have sent me post. I haven't had a chance to open everything yet, but so far here are the highlights...
From Guy - the best present in the world ever :)
From my mum and dad - lovely photos and also letters from both my grandmas
From Helen - lovely lovely soap that is making my room smell nice at the moment
From Hannah - a 'hug' t-shirt (I'm wearing it now!) and a letter proving she completely understands what it's like down here. And of course the worst postcard in the world from Spain!
From Chris and Gerri - a 'pre-baby' letter, now the baby is 7 months old!
From Cormac - hand delivered chocolates, yum!
From Stevo - a lovely painting which will be on my wall very soon.
... and much much more. I'll thank you all properly soon :)
Alva Noto
Book :
Éloge De La Couleur
Design . Architecture . Graphisme
La Piscine
2017
Ryoichi Shigeta
Japan
1968
CD :
Palatine
Factory
FAC400
Design by Peter Saville
iTunes :
Byetone
Postpostrefabricated
Raster - Noton
RN175
For Mrs GMA
Il Faut Reconstruire L'Usine En Couleurs ...
ok so basically i love all the post secrets so im gonna make my own. but mine arent gonna really be secrets. its just stuff about me thats kinda weird.
Heres the first one ♥
A lovely Topper Made by persons unknown decorated the post-box outside the Post Office in Swanage, Dorset.
I went to Wickham Park in CT today and I brought only my new 40mm pancake lens with me. Once I started to get a feel for the lens I ended up with quite a few keepers. It's not as "bokehlicious" as a tighter lens would be but I really like the framing it gives.
This post box is in the wall at O'Mahoney's Pub and Grocery Shop in Durrow, Stradbally County Waterford. O'Mahoney's is now a popular haunt because of its close proximity to the Waterford Greenway. What is interesting is the rather fancy lettering at the bottom, VR. This indicated the post box was erected in the reign of Queen Victoria, in Latin Victoria Regina. She was Queen of of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22nd of January 1901.
When Ireland became independent the Department of Post and Telegraphs was set up to replace The Royal Mail , this is now An Post.
Colour postcard of "Main Street and Post Office, Deseronto, Ont.", published by Valentine & Co. The card was mailed on 7 January 1908 to Mrs J. G. Dawe, 452 Erie Street, Stratford, Ontario, by one of her children, who had started work in one of Deseronto's schools.
The post office was designed by Thomas Fuller (1823-1898), Chief Architect of the Dominion of Canada. It bears the date 1901 on the south façade.
Part of the Floyd Marlin collection.
UNITED STATE POST OFFICE, 201 E. THIRD STREET. Built in 1931, this large brick post office is a Neo-Classical building with eight large Ionic columns across the recessed entryway, a raised basement level and long, narrow windows. The building has a hipped roof which is clearly visible, though surrounded by a raised parapet. The almost-original interior of the building includes a high-ceilinged lobby and service area with dentil moldings and original interior doors. This building has served as Sweetwater’s official post office since it replaced the original wood frame structure which served the purpose from the 1880s well into the 20th century. It was the original post office which was known as “Sweet Water,” until in 1918 the U.S. Postal Service mandated that it conform to local usage of “Sweetwater.” National Register of Historic Places (1984 – District).
The Bundaberg Region.
The rich volcanic soils of the plains near Bundaberg and the Burnett River were covered with thick scrub and bush but a few adventurous pastoralists tried to establish sheep grazing there in the 1850s. It was easier away from the Bundaberg site at Gin Gin and Gayndah further inland. More white settlers came in the mid-1860s as timber cutters. In these early years clashes with the local Aboriginal people were often violent. Aboriginal massacres are known to have occurred at Gin Gin in 1850, in North Bundaberg in the early 1860s. The first timber cutters arrived in the Bundaberg area 1867 followed by the first white farmers also in 1867. The first saw mill was erected in 1868. The town site was surveyed and laid in 1870. Experimental sugar cane farms began around 1871 and within a few months the sugar mills was built. As sugar plantations increased Bundaberg ended up with four major sugar mills. The sugar cane plantations were usually owned by the mills, run as large plantations and they employed Kanaka or South Sea Islander indentured labourers. Thus like Maryborough Bundaberg became a main entry point for the South Sea Islanders. The town grew quickly as more farmers took up small selections or acreages often growing maize or small amounts of sugar cane. The local Kolan Shire council was formed in 1873 and Bundaberg was emerging as a town. It became a municipality in 1881 and a city in 1913. The discovery of copper and that start of mining operations at nearby Mt Perry in 1871 really boosted the prospects of Bundaberg. The first bank opened in 1872, the first newspaper began publication in 1875 and a coach service operated to Maryborough until the railway line was completed in 1888. The government wharf in Bundaberg was built in 1875 with the main cargoes being timber and maize. The Primitive Methodists built an early brush and timber church in 1877 and the Anglicans completed their first church in 1876. But the Catholics were the first to build a permanent church which was consecrated in 1875. The town was well established but the big transformation occurred in the early 1880s when the land owners developed the sugar industry to its full extent until sugar eclipsed all other crops. In 1881 the Bundaberg region produced 3% of QLD’s sugar crop. In 1883 it produced 20% of QLD’s sugar crop. This domination of sugar persisted from 1880 through to 1915. New sugar mills started up with the new Millaquin mill in 1882 and mills for the Youngs of Fairymead and the Gibsons of Bingera. Stable prices for sugar assisted with this development of sugar mills and by the mid-1880s more sugar farms were being established reliant on European labour instead of South Sea Islander labour. The 1885 QLD Royal Commission into malpractices with the Kanaka trade meant the government intervened more to control conditions of the indentured labourers and limited the trade. These restrictions were lifted in 1891 to boost the sugar industry again but the emerging labour unions and associations of white labourers opposed the revival of the Kanaka trade as their employment suffered because of the trade. The new Commonwealth government of 1901 made the decision to cease the trade from 1906. As the sugar industry had to restructure itself the QLD government started to build and financially back the sugar mills itself at Gin Gin and Isis. They also tried to control the mills of Fairymead and Bingera and CSR (Colonial Sugar Refining.)The Labour government of QLD established sugar price control in 1915 and set up a board of appeal for complaints from growers against the sugar mills. By 1915 Bundaberg was in fierce competition with sugar cane areas in the Far North QLD and the industry was much regulated. But it has survived well to the present day. This has been assisted by a new port at Burnett Heads which was built in 1962.
Apart from the sugar industry the growth of Bundaberg has been assisted by mining, fruit and vegetable growing and the development of side products from sugar – molasses and rum distilling. The first rum was distilled from the Millaquin sugar mill in 1888. The town was boosted greatly by the opening of the railway from North Bundaberg to Mt Perry copper mines in 1884 which in turn encouraged the establishment of foundries and works to support the mines in Bundaberg. By the 1880s Bundaberg has some grand buildings appropriate for a regional city. The commercial and civic heart of the town was in Bourbong Street with the Post Office 157 Bourbong St (1891), the War Memorial 180 Bourbong St (1922), the School of Arts building 184 Bourbong St (1889), the former Commercial Bank 191 Bourbong St (1891) etc.
Rooks are heavily armed and/or armored, carrying destructive weapons such as submachine guns or explosive weaponry.
Thanks to Mainman for the Axe Bayonet idea.
Thanks to legohaulic for help with the rust and the guns. Used as escorts for the gunboat and a possible oil tanker
Tagestrip nach Stettin mit Johannes.
Dieses im Neorenaissance-Stil errichtete Backstein Gebäude wurde in Etappen zwischen 1872 und 1905 fertiggestellt.
www.adamswaine.co.uk - went back to hambledon village Bucks - had tea at the post office....wonderful.