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A 'raw' scan of the ambrotype before I try some simple restoration. I'm not going to touch the front (emulsion) side, but simply want to remove the paper and re-black the reverse.
Calahorra, La Rioja (Spain).
Better seen in Fluidr.
Se ve mejor en Fluidr.
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Calahorra, La Rioja, Spain is located in the comarca of La Rioja Baja, near the border with Navarre on the right bank of the Ebro.
Calahorra has been inhabited since the Paleolithic, and its stable population dates to the Iron Age.
Rome conquered the town in 187 BC and brought it to its highest point of importance as an administrative centre for surrounding regions.
Calahorra supported Quintus Sertorius in his war against Pompey, whom the city resisted successfully since 76 BC. It was only taken four years later by Pompey's legate Lucius Afranius, after a lot of inhabitants had died from starvation and there had occurred cannibalism.
Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar gave the city (then named Calagurris) numerous distinctions, converted it into a municipality, and developed its city planning, economy, and politics. Its archeological remains show that it had a circus, baths, an amphitheatre, and other services found in large cities. It minted money and served as a justice administration centre.
Quintilian, well known for his descriptions of the culture of that time, was born in Calahorra, and the Parador in the city is named after him. It has Roman ruins in the grounds.
Saints Emeterius and Celedonius, martyred in the city around 305 AD, are the patron saints of the city, and the city's coat-of-arms depict their names. The cathedral is dedicated to them.
After the rule of the Moors in the 9th and 10th centuries the Christian king García Sánchez III of Navarre captured the city in 1045.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calahorra
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Calahorra es una ciudad española de la comunidad autónoma de La Rioja perteneciente a la comarca de la Rioja Baja. Tiene 24.787 habitantes, según los datos del INE para el año 2009, una extensión de 91,41 km² y una densidad poblacional de 264,9 hab./km². Ostenta los títulos de Muy Noble, Muy Leal y Fiel Ciudad. Desde los siglos IV - V, es sede de la diócesis de su mismo nombre, que en tiempos pasados llegaba hasta el Cantábrico. Es la segunda ciudad de la comunidad autónoma de La Rioja en importancia y población tras la capital, Logroño.
Capital de la comarca de la Rioja Baja, destaca por su producción agrícola y su antigüedad. Fue importante ciudad romana, la Calagurris Nassica Iulia, con ceca que mantuvo hasta la Edad Media. Calahorra, además, es cuna del gran maestro en oratoria Marco Fabio Quintiliano, autor de varios textos y maestro en la corte romana. En su honor se erige una estatua frente al Ayuntamiento.
Las primeras noticias de asentamientos humanos en el territorio municipal datan del período musteriense, tal y como atestiguan los numerosos restos de industria lítica hallados en la zona. Los hallazgos realizados en el yacimiento de Sorbán indican que grupos procedentes de las emigraciones indoeuropeas se asentaron en la zona. Hay pruebas de un asentamiento estable para la Edad del Hierro.
Hacia el siglo II a. C., el general romano Catón logró el sometimiento o la alianza a Roma de los pueblos del valle del Ebro. Entre el siglo I a. C. y el siglo II, la ciudad perteneció al pueblo de los vascones, como citan expresamente los geógrafos Estrabón (Str. III, 4, 10) y Claudio Ptolomeo (Ptol.2.6.66). Kalakorikos, que destacó como un importante centro urbano en el valle medio del Ebro. Según se deduce del relato Tito Livio (Liv. frag. XCI), durante las guerras Sertorianas, entre el 75 a. C. y el 74 a. C. Sertorio construyó un puente en esta ciudad que era su aliada en su lucha contra Pompeyo y Metelo, quienes finalmente la sitiaron en el año 72 a. C., forzando la resistencia de los habitantes que, según la crónica de Salustio, recurrieron al canibalismo.
La primera noticia del establecimiento del cristianismo en el municipio de Calahorra se tiene en referencia al martirio y ajusticiamiento de los que ahora son sus patrones, San Emeterio y San Celedonio, que fueron legionarios romanos que abrazaron la fe de Cristo, y como consecuencia de ello fueron decapitados. La leyenda cuenta que sus cabezas fueron arrojadas al río Ebro y que estas, en vez de ser arrastradas por la corriente, ascendieron río arriba. El martirio de estos soldados de las legiones romanas sucedió hacia el año 300 después de Cristo y se cree que sucedió en el lugar donde ahora se levanta la Catedral de Santa María.
La ciudad de Calahorra contó con una judería que estaba aislada por murallas del resto de la ciudad y tenía sus propias leyes. Los primeros asentamientos judíos se remontan al siglo XI y su mayor auge se dio en el siglo XIV, cuando contó con unos 600 habitantes que gozaban de gran prosperidad. Cuando Enrique II de Trastámara ocupó Calahorra, muchos de los habitantes de la judería huyeron a Navarra. Cuando los reyes Católicos publicaron el decreto de Granada que supuso la expulsión de los judíos de los reinos de España, muchos de ellos se fueron (llevando el apellido de Calahorra o Calahora) y se ubicaron en Cracovia, mientras otros de convirtieron al cristianismo.
La judería fue ocupada por cristianos llegados de fuera de la ciudad, y los judíos que luego volvieron fueron ubicados en otros barrios para facilitar su integración. La sinagoga se encontraba en el terreno que actualmente ocupa la ermita de San Sebastián, y su Toráh se guarda en el museo diocesano sito en la Catedral de Santa María. En esta judería pasó la última etapa de su vida el poeta, literato y astrónomo Abraham Ben Ma'ir Ben Ezra relevante personaje de la cultura hispano-hebraica.
La Catedral de Santa María de Calahorra es un edificio básicamente gótico del siglo XVII, con añadidos de diversos estilos y épocas. Levantado sobre el lugar de martirio de los patronos de la ciudad, San Emeterio y San Celedonio, es un edificio de sillería con tres naves, crucero, girola y claustro. La fachada norte de estilo plateresco, esta dedicada a San Jerónimo.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calahorra
Bal Harbour Ritz Carlton (previously known as Regent Hotel Bal Harbour and One Bal Harbour hotel)
10295 Collins Ave, Bal Harbour, FL 33154
*** Some Bal Harbour history...
The Ritz Carlton address - 10295 Collins Ave - Collins Avenue is also known as State Route A1A. SR A1A is a north-south Florida State Road that runs along the Atlantic Ocean, from Key West at the southern tip of Florida, to Fernandina Beach, just south of Georgia on Amelia Island. Jimmy Buffett's 1974 album title "A1A" makes sense - as the road is a beach lover's paradise. Locally 1A means the road by the beaches running from South Beach of Miami to Fort Lauderdale. 10295 Collins Ave. was previously the address for the Harbour House North which was demolished in 2004. The adjacent address 10275 Collins Ave was previously the address for the Harbour House Hotel now a condominium known as the New Harbour House. Collins Avenue leaves Bal Harbour via the Baker's Haulover Bridge. Before the channel was deepened and the bridge was built, a certain Mr. Baker used to haul-over fishing boats from the bay to ocean across the spit of land. The inlet was carved in 1925 to connect Biscayne Bay with the Atlantic Ocean. In 1949 a new bridge was built over Baker Haulover as earlier versions were damaged in hurricanes.
In 1929 a Detroit-based real estate development corporation purchased 245 acres of Bay Harbour raw land. Miami Beach Heights, Inc. was headed by Graham Paige automobile manufacturer Robert C. Graham, with associates Carl Fisher (Fisher's firm made nearly every headlamp used on automobiles in the U.S) and Walter O. Briggs (Briggs Manufacturing Company and owner of Detroit Tigers). The task of crafting a new community began.
The dream village that was envisioned over 70 years ago started with a name. Bay Harbour was not good enough, it did not represent the city's location on the Atlantic Ocean. The "b" was taken from the word “bay” and the "al" from “Atlantic” to create "Bal," signifying a city running from the bay to the Atlantic Ocean.
They hired urban planning firm Harland Bartholomew & Associates, to design the Bal Harbour Village. From the beginning, the Village was envisioned as a modern community that would maintain exceptionally high standards, provide superior services and foster civic pride. The west side was zoned for hotels and the east side zoned for residential. The development was halted during World War II, when the land was leased to the US Military for $1 a year. The Air Corps used the land to train soldiers and established a Prisoner of War camp. Bal Harbour was the first planned community in Florida to have its utilities placed underground. Following the war the first home was built in 1945 at 160 Bal Cross Drive. It was built by Mr. Robert C. Graham Jr., who was the son of Bal Harbour Developer Robert C. Graham.
In December 1946, the first hotel, Kenilworth-by-the-Sea, opened Oceanfront at 102nd Street for business. The the 160-room ten-story Kenilworth promoted the concept of “luxurious leisure.” Thomas E. Raffington was the Owner/Managing Director. The Kenilworth was made famous in the U.S. because Arthur Godfrey broadcast his tv show from a hotel balcony overlooking the Atlantic. Raffington sold the Kenilworth to associates of Arthur Godfrey and in 1953 re-opened the Golden Strand Hotel & Villas at 179th and Collins. In 1953 Raffington swapped the Golden Strand for the Copa Cabana later named the Ivanhoe Hotel (101st and Collins). In 1958, Raffington who lived at 148 Bal Bay Drive, sold the Ivanhoe to actress Gloria Vanderbilt and Herman Phillips. Phillips. Phillips was a majority owner of the Sherry Netherlands in NYC.
In 1965, the Bal Harbour Shops was built by Stanley Whitman at a cost of $7 million, excluding the land. Stanley Finch Whitman was born into South Florida's ruling class. His father, William Francis Whitman, was a millionaire businessman from Chicago who built a successful business largely by printing the Sears Roebuck catalogue. He retired in 1915 with his wife, Leona, to a sparsely inhabited stretch of swampland named Miami Beach. Stanley grew up in an oceanfront mansion on 32nd Street and Collins Avenue with two brothers William Jr and Dudley. His father, who died in 1936, was the developer of Espanoia Way and builder of the Indian Creek apartments and the Whitman by-the-Sea Hotel (later named the Robert Richter Hotel). The Whitman family mansion was sold in 1948 to Chicago banker George D. Sax (he introduced drive-in banking) and in its place is the Saxony Hotel. The Saxony was the first luxury hotel built in Miami Beach and was the first hotel to have central air-conditioning. The profits from Mrs. whitman's property sales were largely used by Stanley Whitman to buy the land which became the Bar Harbour Shops.
In the 50's Stanley Whitman sensed that Lincoln Road to the south of Bal Harbour, which had long been the Fifth Avenue of Miami, was floundering. He teamed up with Robert Graham, the original Bal Harbour developer and later bought 16 acres of land from Mr. Graham which were originally planned for a gas station and grocery store. Whitman bought the land in 1957 for $2 per sq ft. or approximately $1.3 million for the 15 acres. Designed by Mark Hampton of the firm Herbert H. Johnson & Associates (Welton Becket & Associates started the design but were fired) the center would have 107,000 of lease space, 70 shops, restaurants and 1,000 parking spaces. Hampton's design tapped into the natural beauty of the area - using greenery and the outdoor light.
At opening in 1966 the high fashion stores in Bal Harbour Shops were paying Whitman an average of $5 a square foot or 5-6 per cent of gross sales, which ever was larger. A disappointment at opening was Whitman's inability to attract a specialty department store such as a Saks or a Bergdorf Goodman. One of the original restaurants was 257-seat Schraffts fountain, bar-lounge & restaurant. Schraffts was booted out following its purchase by Pet, Inc. and a decline in quality. Whitman got Stanley Marcus to open a 60,000 sq ft Neiman-Marcus department store in 1971, the first Neiman-Marcus outside the state of Texas. The longest lasting original tenant was FAO Schwarz which departed in 2006. Dining occupies 10 percent of the center’s square footage. Stanley Whitman hired a scientist to study wind flow through the walkways - and the walkways were changed to allow cooling sea breezes flow through the center. Bal Harbour Shop's security guards were uniformed like traditional Bahamian police, or gendarmes, in military-style black trousers, red tops, and white helmets. The official logo of the Shops is a silk-screened silhouette of a helmeted gendarme. Bal Harbour Shops are considered the world’s most productive shopping center. Bal Harbour in 2011 lost Louis Vuitton, Dior, Cartier and Hermes. Bal Harbour's leases prohibit tenants from opening a second store within 20 miles unless the center received a percentage of sales from the addditional store.
Stanley Whitman was very influential in the Bal Harbour community, helping to acquire a new zip code, traffic plans, landscaping and beach restoration, an improved water main and a resort tax. Stanley Whitman died in 2017 at age of 98. The Whitman family continues today to operate and own Bal Harbour Shops.
*** The Hotel Development...
In the 1950s, Bal Harbour and Miami Beach were considered America’s Riviera, a magnet for the era’s top musicians and entertainers. During the 50's and 60's a total of nine resorts would line the Village’s Atlantic Ocean beachfront — the Sea View Hotel, the Bal Harbour, the Balmoral, the Ivanhoe, the Colony, the Singapore, the Beau Rivage and the Americana. These resorts attracted an upscale clientele. By 2004 all hotels had been demolished in favor of high rise condominiums except the 220-room Sea View Hotel located directly across from the Bal Harbour Shops at 9909 Collins Avenue.
WCI Communities would build the first hotel in Bal Harbour in 47 years. The 2004 original plans were for 185 condominium units (with some priced as high as $12 million) and 126 hotel units. WCI was the homegrown building and development company built by Florida developer Al Hoffman Jr. In the 1990s, Hoffman engineered the union of his own company, Florida Design Communities, with Westinghouse Communities, taking the combined company public in 2002. Hoffman was once the Republican National Committee's finance chair. WCI's specialty was leisure-oriented, amenity-rich master-planned communities and condo-hotels targeting affluent homebuyers. In 2000 revenue reached $1.1 billion. Profits reach $186 million in 2005 and plummet to $9 million in 2006. WCI filed for bankruptcy in 2008.
Smith Property had owned two apartment rental houses known as Harbour House North (10295 Collins Avenue) and Harbour House South (10275 Collins Avenue). Smith Property's intention was to sell-off Harbour House North and its 5 acres to a condo developer and have the building torn down (reducing the rentals market) and with the cash help with the renovation of Harbour House South. WCI acquired the 5 acre site from Smith Property Holdings. In 2004 WCI Communities signed an agreement for Regent International Hotels to manage WCI's 124 unit condo/hotel at One Bal Harbour tower. The new hotel will be known as The Regent Bal Harbour. Regent Hotels is a subsidiary of Carlson Hospitality Worldwide, the Minneapolis-based owner of the Radisson hotel chain. The residential condominium component was named The Regent Residences at One Bal Harbour.
Culpepper, McAuliffe and Meaders, Inc., (CMMI), an Atlanta-based international design firm, provided planning and interior design services for the condominium hotel, and interior design for public amenity spaces in the condominiums. The Coral Gables architectural firm of Nichols, Brosch, Sandoval & Associates designed the hotel structure's curvilinear façade with glass exteriors. Two side wings of the building dramatically intersect a 26-story tower. Pricing for the condos was $600,000 for 511 sq ft studio and $975,000 for 1,075 sq ft one bedroom. Each guestroom suite has a custom-designed private elevator featuring wood floors and a foyer with leather walls and custom artwork. All guestrooms have six-fixture bathrooms (sink, sink, toilet, shower, bathtub, bidet) either overlooking the ocean or Intracoastal Waterway. The glass-enclosed showers feature a signature Regent touch: the “toe-tap” groove for testing water temperature before entering.
In May 2006 three construction workers were killed at WCI's One Bal Harbour construction site. The workers were on the 27th level of the building, pouring its concrete roof, when the supporting frame structure below them gave way, dropping them to the 26th floor. Despite efforts by co-workers to save the men, a 3-foot layer of hardening concrete encased one worker and partly buried the others. The construction contractor was Boran Craig Barber Engel.
In March 2008, and over a year late, the $225 million Regent Bal Harbour celebrated its grand opening with opening room rates starting at $750 per night. The signature Mediterranean-influenced restaurant was known as 1 Bleu. Helmed by chef Gerdy Rodriguez (followed by Mark Militello in 2009) the restaurant was partnered with Le Cordon Bleu. The country’s first Guerlain spa was at the Regent. Later names of the restaurant were One Kitchen, Bistro Bal Harbour and currently known as the Artisan Beach House with Chef Paula DaSilva is at the helm.
The opening general manager was Guenter H. Richter. In the 1970s, Richter held General Manager and Managing Director posts at The Washington Hilton, Washington DC; The Palmer House, Chicago; and The Waldorf Astoria, New York. During the 1980s, he was Vice President/Managing Director of the St. Regis Hotel, in New York, before becoming Vice President of Operations for Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, with posts including The Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas, Texas and The Bel Air Hotel in Beverly Hills. Prior to joining The Regent Bal Harbour, Richter was the Managing Director of The St. Regis in New York. Since 2015 The current general manager is Sase "Sasha" Gjorsovski. Previously he was general manager at Turnberry Ocean Colony from January 2014 thru April 2015 and General Manager The Acqualina Resort and Spa from 2008 thru 2014.
In August 2008, six months after opening the Regent Bal Harbour, owner WCI Communities, Inc. filed for bankruptcy. WCI had $1.9 billion in debt of which $758 million was in default. The former trophy development of WCI Communities was sold in 2009 for $14.6 million to Bogota, Columbia natives 34 year-old Jorge Arevalo and 29 year-old Juan Arevalo and their company Elcom Hotels. Arevalo's money partner was Thomas Sullivan the owner of Lumber Liquidators. The sell to Elcom (elevation community) included the hotel's common areas, now named One Bal Harbour Resort & Spa, and 51 units. The land remained with the condo owners association. Regent Hotels departed upon date of the sale.
Gary Daniels, the president of 10295 Collins Avenue Hotel Condominium Association, was uneasy about the 2009 sale to Jorge and Juan Arevalo. The Arevalo's had no experience in managing a 5-star hotel, let alone the financial aspects of a condo-hotel. During the period 2009 through 2013 the Arvvalos were sued by condo-hotel owners for misappropriation of $1.1 million from the FF&E escrow account, for failure to pay $11.8 million in assessment fees for the 51 condos owned by Elcom and the siphoning of $2.6 million from hotel operations for sports cars and lavish entertaining. Elcom's former finance director said she was asked to doctor financial records. For a short while Benchmark Hospitality managed the hotel for the court appointed receiver. On October 2, 2014, Elcom Hotel & Spa, LLC went out of business.
On Oct 2, 2014 the condo owners association One Bal Harbour Hotel Facilities, LLC and its affiliates sold the Hotel for $12 million to LK Hotel LLC and LK Units LLC, affiliates of Miami's Lionstone Development. Lionstone paid $12 million at the bankruptcy-auction to the buildings condominium assocation to gain control of the One Bal Harbour Hotel, which included 9 hotel rooms and certain hotel operating areas. Ritz-Carlton assumed management of ONE Bal Harbour Resort & Spa on October 2, 2014. The luxury resort was named The Ritz-Carlton Bal Harbour, Miami. Headed by Alfredo Lowenstein and Diego Lowenstein, Lionstone Development also owns the Ritz-Carlton South Beach, the Epic Hotel & Residences in Miami and other hotels.
Lionstone is a family-owned company run by Diego Lowenstein, who serves as CEO, and his father, Alfredo Lowenstein. The company name comes from "lowen" which means lion in German and "stein" means stone. In 1966, the Lowenstein family purchased The White House Hotel, on the Ocean at Fifteenth Street, Miami Beach, which was their first Miami Beach investment. Lionstone’s interests include three hotels and two casinos in Curaçao, a hotel in Aruba, and a future development in Puerto Rico. Lionstone also has partnered with Sir Richard Brandon’s Virgin Group to establish Virgin Hotels in Chicago.
Compiled by Dick Johnson, March 2018
richardlloydJohnson@hotmail.com
Former Plymouth Citybus driver training vehicle 911 (MHJ 347F) was on display at the North Weald Bus Rally which was held on June 25th 1995. This bus was one of a a batch of three East Lancs bodied Leyland Titan PD3/4 which were new to Southend Corporation in December 1967.
A friend asked me to do a restoration on a 70 year old photo he had of his grandfather. The original was about 2x3 inches. I would like to do better, but I don't think that there are any more details to bring out, and if anything over sharpened.
A restoration I did to for my friend Areti. First pic is the listing pic on ebay, that's how she got them, but taadaa I made them look all new again! Megara's hair have two different styles of curls and Pocahontas has handmade necklace and added belt (made by me). Well, I'm proud!
Pike Electric workers load power poles in preparation for helping Gulf Power Company recover from Hurricane Michael in Panama City, Florida
Gothem Church (Swedish: Gothems kyrka) is a medieval Lutheran church in Gothem on the Swedish island of Gotland, in the Diocese of Visby.
The presently visible, Gothic church is probably the successor of two earlier churches, the first a stave church or at least a wooden church, which was later replaced by a Romanesque stone church. Rebuilding of the church into its present form was carried out between the early 13th and mid-14th centuries. The church may originally have been built to serve a large farmstead. Since its completion during the 14th century, the church has remained largely unaltered.
The church has a tall and slender western tower, built by the anonymous Gothic master builder Master Egypticus and which contains 1 bell. The nave is divided into two by a single column, and the choir ends in an apse. During a restoration in the 1950s, medieval frescos were uncovered. They now again completely dominate the interior of the church. They are partly designed as imitations of drapery and tapestries, and partly depict biblical scenes and other figures (including knights and footmen fighting). They date from c. 1300 and were probably executed by an anonymous German artist.
The church also incorporates a choir bench from the first half of the 14th century and a church bell from 1374; otherwise, most of the furniture is later, Baroque in style.
Close to the church are the relatively well-preserved ruins of a defensive tower dating from the 12th century, built as a place for protection for the congregation during times of war or danger.
Source: Wikipedia
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Gothems kyrka på Gotland tillhör Gothems församling i Visby stift.
Kyrkan i Gothem är en av de ståtligaste kyrkorna på Gotland. I sin nuvarande form består den av ett rektangulärt långhus med kor och absid i öster samt kyrktorn i väster. Norr om koret finns en sakristia. Mellan långhus och kor finns en vid, spetsig triumfbåge.
De äldsta delarna, koret med absid och sakristia är från 1200-talets början. Tornet påbörjades vid 1200-talets slut och fullbordades i mitten av 1300-talet, tornet var tidigare cirka fem meter högre men förstördes i mitten av 1800-talet till följd av ett åsknedslag och hade då ett lätt annorlunda utseende.
Källa: Wikipedia
A restoration/hand colorization I did at the request of another Flickr user who has asked to remain anonymous.
Restoring power to Toomey/Starks/West Vinton. Entergy’s Hurricane Laura information website provides customers with storm restoration and recovery updates. Visit the site at entergy.com/hurricanelaura
Walking up the gravelled pathway this is the first glimpse of the church as the path meanders by the old trees, curves around the headstones and past the mausoleum to the West door. Being out in the countryside, away from busy roads and built-up areas, the scenery here is so peaceful and tranquil.
The Anglican church of St. Bigseach at Kilbixy, Westmeath was built c.1798 at the bequest of Richard Malone (Lord Sunderlin). A fine example of early Gothic revivalism with it’s high arched windows, arched niches and stone-carved finials atop of the supporting pillars, it is believed to have been designed by Francis Johnston. The bell tower is still complete but no longer in use as the wooden structural components are quite fragile and in need of restoration. St. Bigseach may be on the site of a medieval church but nothing remains of this earlier building. On display inside, there is a fragment of a local medieval grave slabstone showing a finely carved cross that dates to the 12th century or earlier.
There are a number of similar gothic-revival churches of this type in Westmeath but unfortunately, most have been disused a long time ago and fallen into ruin. Many of these were built during the late 18th and early 19th centuries with funds from the Irish Board of First Fruits ( books.google.ie/books?id=ishbrAfJ3SMC&pg=PA34&lpg... of fruits ireland&f=false ). Thankfully, St. Bigseach is still attended by a small Church of Ireland community of about 22 people for service there on Sundays.
The building itself suffered a disaster in the late 1960’s when most of the roof collapsed in, no one was hurt in the incident. The cause of this had never been confirmed but may have been due to long-term decay of it’s wooden supports. Due to the small size of the remaining congregation and insufficient funds, the East end of the church was refurbished but to only a third of it's previous size and continues in use. The remaining uncovered section of nave serves as an entrance courtyard and this works quite well, giving it a wonderfully intimate and cosy feel. The original internal fixtures and fitting were retained in the Eastern section but unfortunately the magnificently decorated Victorian cast-iron radiator and 19th century organ loft have gone.
The windows are of Georgian plain cross-hatched glazing with many of it’s original panes in-situ but unfortunately, occasional vandalism over the years has taken it’s toll and replacements with modern glass panes just don’t blend in. The magnificent East window behind the alter was rescued from another Westmeath Anglican church ( www.flickr.com/photos/23885771@N03/3603464020/in/set-7215... ). There is also a magnificent carved oak (?) lectern ( www.flickr.com/photos/23885771@N03/3602648939/in/set-7215... ), a historical display of photographs showing previous Ministers and the church as it was looked before.
St. Bigseach church is set in beautifully landscaped grounds surrounded by well kept graves. The grounds include the Malone mausoleum ( www.flickr.com/photos/23885771@N03/3602651247/in/set-7215... ) and remains of one of Ireland's few surviving medieval leper hospitals. The ruins of the Leper House of St. Brigid are heavily overgrown and difficult to access. I am unsure if it has been archaeologically investigated? But one claim to fame has to be the enormous chestnut tree that recently adorned the grounds. It was reputed to be over 300 years old and one of the first chestnut trees introduced into Ireland. As recent as three years ago this tree was intact with it’s enormous trunk and vast network of branches would surely convinced any onlooker of it’s antiquity. Unfortunately, a major section broke off during a storm a few years ago and more recently much of the remaining trunk collapsed as well. Only a couple of secondary growths remain of this once magnificent tree. A program of tree planting a few years ago will ensure the grounds remain well stocked with hardwoods for the foreseeable future.
Other references:
www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&... (architectural review of the building)
Thank you for reading.
Stuart.
Capitol Visitor Center guides admire the freshly restored space.
Full Rotunda Interior Restoration project details are at www.aoc.gov/rotunda.
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The great pyramid of Djozer in Memphis being restored. This is the site of the original Pyramids in Egypt from 2650 BC. The king was seen as the living embodiment of the God Horus.
For most of our time in Egypt there was a heat haze and the sky was generally Grey, so sepia, black & white and split toning seem to be the only options for these photos...
Capitol Visitor Center guides admire the freshly restored space.
Full Rotunda Interior Restoration project details are at www.aoc.gov/rotunda.
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Additional crews have been brought in to support restoration our efforts; we have nearly 500 people in the field working around the clock.
Many people think if it's a fibreglass cab you escape any rot. Not the case most fibreglass structures have some strengthening in them, be it wood or steel, once the water gets in there's nowhere for it to get out, and here's what happens with wood, steel just spall's and bursts the fibreglass, most of the wood in this cab will have to be replaced, and then re-glassed back in.
The backfilling of the MacArthur Ditch is part of the larger Kissimmee River Restoration project. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project will eliminate an artificial drainage feature in the floodplain that was created more than 50 years ago by the MacArthur family to protect their property from flooding.
A small borrow canal resulting from the construction of a levee around this property has grown to almost 3 miles in length and up to 60 feet wide as a result of the reintroduction of flow to the Phase I restoration area in 2001. This dated feature drains the floodplain quickly while it continues to grow in length and width. If not backfilled, it would decrease the inundation depth and duration of water in the floodplain wetlands and impact the quality of fish and wildlife habitat.
Awaiting it's turn for restoration at the Oxford Bus Museum in one of the smaller sheds across from the main hall is Ex Chiltern Queens 1962 AEC Reliance / Duple Brittania C41F. Photo taken 15/12/13
A big thank you to Gerard Caffrey for allowing me to share my restoration of this photographer of his grandfather Martin O’Brien, taken during World War 1.
Martin O’Brien is on the left of the photograph.
Martin was a private in the 9th Battalion of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers (Reg. No: 8794). He was killed in action on the Somme in the battle for the village of Ginchy, Flanders on the 9th of September 1916. Martin was born in Donnybrook and at the time of his death he was 34 years old married with children.
The photograph is believed to have been taken shortly before his death. At first glance the men appear to be posed in a comfortable environment note the furniture, but look more closely and you can see the rough ground beneath their feet.