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This wonderful little building (1920) stands on the UC Berkeley campus right on the edge of Strawberry Creek, among the tall trees. Designed by John Galen Howard and built entirely of redwood.
Now this little gem has been completely renewed and is clad in beautiful, all-new, California redwood.
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Amazingly, those new windows are aluminum-clad.
The original redwood siding remained completely stable for 100 years!! Redwood is an amazing building material. No wonder the original trees of this region were relentlessly cut and utilized over 100 years ago.
Did a ton of restorations this summer- a great learning experience! Made good use of clone stamp and patch tool to eliminate crease lines.
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Bagan formerly Pagan is an ancient city from the 9th to 13th centuries,. The city was the capital of Myanmar. Bagan is one of Myanmar’s main attractions. It was the capital of Bagan empire, where Theravada Buddhism was the main religion. The area also known as the Bagan Archaeological Zone, occupies an impressive 26-sq-mile area. Marco Polo described Bagan as one of the finest sights in the world. Despite centuries of neglect, looting, erosion, regular earthquakes, not to mention questionable restoration, this temple-studded plain remains a remarkably impressive and unforgettable vision. Bagan’s kings commissioned more than 4000 Buddhist temples. Htilominlo Temple is a Buddhist temple located in Bagan built during the reign of King Htilominlo, Anno 1211-1231. The temple is three stories tall, with a height of 46 metres and built with red brick. It is also known for its elaborate plaster moldings. On the first floor of the temple, there are four Buddhas that face each direction. You can climb up to terraces and view both the inside and outside of this temple. It has examples of painted stucco walls, many of which are still in good shape.
Probably because it is one of the first Bagan temples I saw but I was impressed by its magnificence and the way it was build inside. Situated close to the road between Nyaung U and Bagan, and about 1.5 km northeast of Bagan. This large temple was built by King Nantaungmya in 1218. The temple is known to be the last Myanmar Style temple built in Bagan. The name is a misreading of the Pali word for 'Blessings of the Three Worlds'. Inside the 46-metre-high temple, which is similar in design to Sulamani Temple there are four Buddhas on the lower and upper floors.
De stad Bagan is één van de vroegere hoofdsteden van Myanmar, en is gesticht in het jaar 849. Het was de hoofdstad van het Bagan-rijk, waar het Theravada-boeddhisme het belangrijkste geloof was. Bagan is één van de absolute top bezienswaardigheden van Myanmar. Een reis naar Myanmar zonder tussenstop in Bagan is gewoonweg ondenkbaar. Bagan wordt niet voor niets vaak op één lijn geplaatst met Angkor. Bagan, dat is 42 km² bezaaid met tempels. Er zijn er meer dan 4400 in totaal. Dat is waanzinnig veel. Ondanks dat deze rijkdom al lang is verdwenen worden er tegenwoordig nog steeds nieuwe tempels bijgebouwd. In 1975 zijn er echter veel tempels afgebroken bij een grote aardbeving in Myanmar en vandaag de dag zijn nog steeds niet alle gebouwen hersteld. Tijdens ons bezoek aan Bagan huurden we fietsen. We fietsen langs alle bijzondere boeddhistische tempels in Bagan. De
Htilominlo tempel is een boeddhistische tempel in Bagan gebouwd tijdens het bewind van koning Htilominlo, Anno 1211-1231. De tempel is drie verdiepingen hoog, met een hoogte van 46 meter en gebouwd met rode bakstenen. Het is ook bekend om zijn uitgebreide gipsen afgietsels. Op de eerste verdieping van de tempel, zijn er vier Boeddha's die in elke richting staan. Je kunt de terrassen beklimmen en bekijken van zowel de binnen- en buitenkant. De wanden binnenin zijn beschilderd waarvan er vele nog steeds in goede conditie zijn.
The dash of EZA put back and looking tidy. The two loose wires are for a brake fluid warning light yet to be fitted in the dash. Almost done!!
Big Ben / The Clock Tower / The Elizabeth Tower, Westminster, London, England. Designed by Augustus Pugin, completed in 1859, seen here in 2021 during its restoration.
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125 Picturs in 2025 #81 Restoration
The Bob Hall Pier in Corpus Christi, Texas was severely damaged in 2020 by Hurricane Hanna. It was only back in May 2025 that a plan for rebuilding the new pier was finalized and construction began. This is how it looks today. Hopefully they will finish before the heat death of the universe.
It's a shame I couldn't restore the loco itself on Photoshop!
D1001 Western Pathfinder with the 1A05 12.00 Paignton to Paddington passing Sprey Point Teignmouth on 2-8-75.
This was a very grotty transparency which I have managed to drag back to life.
Not one of my slides so part of the Tom Derrington Collection with photographer unknown.
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Sefton Park is a public park in south Liverpool, England. The park is in a district of the same name within the Liverpool City Council Ward of Mossley Hill, and roughly within the historic bounds of the large area of Toxteth Park. Neighbouring districts include modern-day Toxteth, Aigburth, Mossley Hill, and St Michael's Hamlet.
The park is 235 acres (0.95 km2) in area[1] and has been designated a Grade II* Historic Park by English Heritage[citation needed] making it one of three such parks in the city, along with the nearby Princes Park and St James Cemetery.
History
The site of the park was once within the boundaries of the 2,300-acre (9.3 km2) Royal Deer Park of Toxteth which became "disparked" in 1591. The land eventually came under the control of the Earl of Sefton.
As Toxteth rapidly grew, the green fields and woodland of Toxteth Park grew into narrow streets and courts packed tiny uninhabitable houses where the air was stagnant, there was little or no sanitation and running water consisted of one tap in the middle of the court. At the same time there was demand for large aristocratic mansions in the South of Liverpool. In 1862 the Borough Council Engineer recommended a site for this development. An Act of Parliament[which?] in 1864 permitted corporations to borrow sums of money up to half a million pounds to be repaid over thirty years. This allowed steps to be taken towards the purchase of land for Sefton Park. In 1867 the Council purchased 375 acres (1.52 km2) of land for the development of the park for £250,000 from the Earl of Sefton.
Even though it was recognised by politicians that clean, fresh open spaces were now regarded as necessity there was an outcry from the public that £250,000 was extravagant and wasteful. As with neighbouring Princes Park plots of land on the perimeter were sold for housing which helped in the funding of the layout of the park.
Soon after, a European competition was launched to design a grand park. 29 entries were received and the competition was won by a French landscape architect Édouard André with work on the design also undertaken by Liverpool architect Lewis Hornblower. The park was opened on 20 May 1872 by Prince Arthur who dedicated it "for the health and enjoyment of the townspeople".
The Park design is based on circular, oval and marginal footpaths, framing the green spaces, with two natural watercourses flowing into the 7-acre (0.028 km2) man-made lake. Hornblower’s designs for the park lodges and entrances were elaborate structures, and included follies[specify], shelters and boathouses. The parkland itself included a deer park and the strong water theme was reflected by the presence of pools, waterfalls and stepping stones. The Park, its exclusive villas and ornamentation reflected the grandeur of the City during its mid Victorian period when Liverpool was the second city of the Empire.
The perimeter road's outer edge is lined with Victorian buildings constructed to around 1890, and Edwardian houses. Additional development of the park continued with the construction of the iron bridge in 1873.
The park had a gallops[specify] which led to it being nicknamed "the Hyde Park of the North" but was always referred to by locals as "The Jockey Sands".[citation needed]
A major park improvement programme was undertaken in 1983 prior to International Garden Festival.
Sporting uses
Sefton Park Cricket Club moved their ground to the park in 1876 and WG Grace was amongst the three Gloucestershire players who made up a "South of England" team who won there in 1877. The park also has tennis courts, a bowling green, a popular jogging circuit and local league football is a regular weekend fixture. It is also used every November to hold the European Cross Country Championships trial races for the British team.
Entertainment uses
The park has also been a site for Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra's summer pops season, Africa Oyé and the Moscow State Circus. Bands have also played at the park in the 80s such as Echo and the Bunneymen.
Restoration
In 2005 the park received provisional approval for a major £5 million Heritage Lottery funded renovation project which involves the refurbishment and improvement of many of the park's features. The work began in June 2007 was expected to be completed in summer 2009. This work was very controversial with some regular users of the park as it included destroying trees and breeding sites of birds.[2] The work led to the formation of the "Friends of Sefton Park" campaigns.
Notable features of the park
Palm House
This is a Grade II* three-tier dome conservatory palm house designed and built by MacKenzie and Moncur of Edinburgh which opened in 1896. Liverpool millionaire Henry Yates Thompson (the great nephew of the founder of Princes Park) gifted £10,000 to the city to fund the construction. It was designed in the tradition of Joseph Paxton's glass houses and was stocked originally with a rich collection of exotic plants.
During the Liverpool Blitz of May 1941 a bomb fell nearby and shattered the glass. It was reglazed in 1950 at a cost of £6,163 with costs covered by War Restoration funds. A period of decline and deterioration culminated in its closure in the 1980s on grounds of safety.
In June 1992, a public meeting was held highlighting the dereliction and calling for restoration. A petition was presented to the City Council by what had become the "Save the Palm House" campaign. A public fund raising campaign was established, with a "sponsor a pane" programme generating over £35,000. This led directly to the conversion of Save the Palm House into a registered charity (Friends of Sefton Park Palm House). The Palm House was partially repaired and reopened in 1993. It was fully restored at a cost of £3.5 million with Heritage Lottery and European funding and reopened in September 2001. It is now both a popular visitor attraction offering free and paid-for public entertainment and is venue for hire.
The eight ‘corners’ of the Palm House are marked by statues by the French sculptor Leon-Joseph Chavalliaud. These include explorers Captain Cook, Christopher Columbus, navigators Gerardus Mercator and Henry the Navigator, botanists and explorers Charles Darwin, Carl Linnaeus and John Parkinson and landscape architect Andre le Notre. Inside the Palm House are two sculptures by Benjamin Edward Spence "Highland Mary" and "The Angel's Whisper".
The grounds of the Palm House feature a statue of Peter Pan which was one of the last works by the British sculptor Sir George Frampton. This is Grade II listed and is a replica of a similar statue given as a gift for the visiting public to Kensington Gardens by author J.M. Barrie. The statue was donated to the park by George Audley in 1928 and was unveiled in the presence of Barrie. It originally sat in Sefton Park but was damaged in the 1990s. It was restored at Liverpool's Conservation Centre, and returned to the more secure location of the Palm House's grounds in December 2005.
Shaftesbury Memorial and Eros Fountain
This is Grade II listed and situated in the centre of the Park next to the cafe and former site of the aviary. The fountain, made from bronze and aluminium, was unveiled in 1932 and is a replica of a memorial to Lord Shaftesbury created by Sir Alfred Gilbert in London's Piccadilly Circus. It was restored in 2008 with a new aluminium Eros statue replacing the original which now resides in Liverpool's Conservation Centre.
Grotto
An artificial cave also known as Old Nick's Caves. This was built around 1870 by French rockwork specialist M. Combaz. It includes a waterfall which flows into a mirror pond.
Other statues and facilities
The park features a Gothic drinking fountain and several prominent statues including a memorial to William Rathbone V by Sir Thomas Brock unveiled in 1887, and an obelisk, the Samuel Smith memorial located by the principal entrance to the Park. There is a bandstand, popular since the Victorian era, which is said[by whom?] to be the inspiration for The Beatles' song Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. An iron bridge was opened in 1873 which spans the Fairy Glen. There is a cafe in the centre of the park called the Aviary Cafe and a pirate themed children's play area opened in 2009.
Former features of the park
Aviary
An aviary was introduced to the park in 1901 and was home to many exotic birds. After falling into disuse in the 1990s, the old cages were removed during the restoration project and replaced with a new curved viewing point overlooking new outside planting.
The Concert
The park also boasted a small open-air theatre – "The Concert" – near the café which featured singers, magicians and talent contests to entertain local children during the summer holidays. This was removed in the 1970s.
Boating lake
The lake was a popular venue for boating until the 1970s, with a jetty and boat hire facilities. The lake was totally emptied in 2007 for the extensive renovation work and all of the fish (which included specimen weights of carp, tench, roach, pike and golden orf)[citation needed] were caught with large nets and sent to various locations across the UK. Following its restoration, the lake was refilled in 2010. Turtles have also been spotted in the lake.
Others
There was a small pirate ship located in one of the lakes until the early 1990s when it was removed due to falling into disrepair.
A dilapidated old chair for sale at the same shop as the Singing Fish (see photo in first comment below). Both the singing fish & the toolbox appear to have been sold since my last visit HWW!
Taken for 117 Pictures in 2017 #68 A Piece of Furniture
A recent purchase, the model was in rough shape. All of the valve gear needed work, many parts needed to be re-soldered. Made by Akane Models on March 11, 1963. Distributed in the USA by Gem Models. I still have some minor details for fix, like the coupler bar on the pilot and a loose step that I missed the first time around.
Scale: HO
Category: Steam
Subcategory: Logging
Road: MISC. ROADS (MISC. ROADS)
Whyte: 2-4-4-2
Description: #126 ARTICULATED
Importer: Gem Model Railways (GEM)
Catalog: 625
Builder: Akane
Year(s): 1963
Qty Made: 30
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Trinity Church, Wall Street
The church has undergone extensive cleaning and repair work in the interior and exterior. Updated wiring, electrical systems and all controlled with 21st Century technology. Seen on a tour as part of Sacred Sites Open House Weekend by the New York Landmarks Conservancy. Estimated completion of the project should be by the end of the year.
The church was consecrated in 1846 and designed by architect Richard Upjohn. It's the third building on the site. Trinity's history begins in 1697, the original building burned in a great fire during the American Revolutionary War.
At Shantytown, New Zealand, railway equipment waiting for restoration,
Taken from my slide collect of the early 1980s.
This was my entry into Canon's Project Imagin8ion Contest that has made it into the finals in the "Goal" category of the contest.
Does it have what it takes to actually take the grand prize place in the Goal category? Chances are very slim, there are 9 other really great shots that it is competing with.
Just an honor just to have made it this far in the contest. Beyond any type of dream I could have imagined. Feels just as surreal as the image above appears ;^)
I posted a couple of photos earlier that were rather cryptic and did not fully explain that work has been underway with restoration of ex Abbotts of Blackpool AEC Reliance / Harrington Grenadier 487 GFR. Perhaps it is time to catch up with what is going on. The coach was restored for preservation in 1989 and last repainted in 1995 when it re-entered commercial service with Prestige Tours' Scottish Heritage operations and then on to MCT Travel in Motherwell, before retiring again in 2000. In short, it has easily had its design life time again and has now become a bit down at heel. I was pursuaded by my two colleagues who were invaluable help in the restoration of Dennis Lancet UF YYB 118 that since mechanically and electrically it was sound (hmmm...) a modest amount of attention could see it back on the road and prevent furthur deterioration. The jury is still out on what constitutes a modest amount of work.
It is suffering at least four of the aliments known to afflict Harrington Cavalier and Grenadiers. The first is that the window rubbers have detriorated and water has leaked into the gap between the inner and outer panel. Fortunately the main structural parts below the window pans are aluminium and largely unaffected, but the support sections for the exterior bright trim were for some reason made of steel. Rust hastened by disimilar metal corrosion has set in. In 1989 some of these metal sections were replaced by wood, but not all. Presumably the remaining ones were in good condition 28 years ago, but not now. There are various reasons why I don't think wood is the best solution so the whole lot are being replaced in aluminium - the material they would have been in older styles of Harrington coachwork. In this photo the wood and steel supports are both visible, plus the polystyrene blocks that prevented the panels from drumming.
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Friday’s Food for Thought
In life we find that to make it to the next level it takes all we have physically, mentally, and spiritually in us to get there. But once we are there, we see things in us that have been damaged, worn down, cracked, or lacking. For example, for a mother to give birth to a child it takes all she has and then some but the joy on the other side no one can describe. Months later she see things are not where they use to be. Business is the same way. It takes all you have to get your business bring forth fruits of your labor. But then you recognized that the person you are now has lost something. It could be communication with friends and family, meditation, prayer, or time for self. That is when a season of restoration is needed to restore those foundations to make you stronger for the next level in life. If you forget to strengthen your foundation chances are you won’t make to the next level that is waiting for you.