The Old Grammar School (built in 1851) was the first high school in Peel County. It served the Township of Toronto, parts of Halton County and Etobicoke. The building was used for a school for over 100 years. In 1966 it became Streetsville Town Hall and in 1974, a Police Station.

The building currently hosts Streetsville Kinsmen Senior Citizens' Centre.

Source: Canadian Register of Historic Places

Gate beneath the Tower of St John The Evangelist Church

Stanmore, Middlesex, Greater London. UK.

On the main street of small town Ontario.

The Oberbaum Bridge (German: Oberbaumbrücke) is a double-deck bridge crossing Berlin's River Spree, considered as one of the city's landmarks. It links the districts of Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg, former boroughs that were divided by the Berlin Wall, and has become an important symbol of Berlin’s unity. [Wikipedia]

Written by Frank Zappa after Ray Collins suggested the idea to him. The first Zappa/Collins collaboration at Pal Studio. The title comes from one of the catch-phrases Steve Allen would use on his TV show in which birds and ferns would often feature...

"Schmock, schmock! How's your bird?", "Bet your bird", "Hows your fern?", "Ferns for your creel" A Fanny/Granny couplet would appear again in Debra Kadabra on Bongo Fury. On 14th March 1963 FZ appeared on the Steve Allen show performing his Concerto For Two Bicycles he ended the interview with a plug for the record.

Steve Allen: Is there anything you like to say in closing?

FZ: Yes I would. Next week our record is being released called "How's Your Bird?" (audience laughter)

Steve Allen: Really?

FZ:Yes. I brought a dub of it over here, I don't think you heard it yet, and it's uh . . . go and buy it, it's wonderful. (audience laughter)

Steve Allen: Crazy.

FZ: It's got everything but a bicycle in it.

The Moot Hall was built in the first half of the 16th century, the exact date is unknown. It's believed to be one of the best preserved Tudor buildings in Britain. It is now home to the Aldeburgh museum and is still used for local council meetings.

The building was once used in the witch trials of 1645, when the Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins, was called in by the residents to purge Aldeburgh of its bad fortune. He accused seven women of witchcraft and locked them up in the Town Hall. In February 1646, all seven women were hanged.

Low-angled evening sunlight filters through the expansive, iron-and-glass roof canopy of Manchester Piccadilly station, casting a warm golden glow across the empty tracks and stone platforms below. The intricate steel framework, painted in structural silver and accented by sky-blue protective panels, stretches endlessly down the length of the train shed. On the left, an ornate red-brick wall featuring arched, multi-pane windows and white decorative pilasters adds a classic architectural elegance to the functional space. A modern passenger train sits idling under the vast structure, while a few lone commuters make their way along the elevated footway, captured in a quiet, contemplative moment within a bustling transport hub.

Architectural & Historical Reflection

The station’s soaring canopy displays the distinct structural language of Victorian "crystal architecture"—drawing a clear design line to the grand glasshouses and botanical conservatories popularized during the 19th-century Industrial Age. By utilizing prefabricated cast iron, riveted steel trusses, and sweeping glass spans, engineers transformed industrial spaces into cathedral-like halls designed to maximize natural overhead light while protecting passengers from the elements.

In the height of the steam age, this airy conservatory aesthetic would have stood in stark, dramatic contrast to the station’s intense daily atmosphere. Rather than the clean, golden tranquility captured here, the vast roof vault would have trapped swirling billows of thick black smoke and white steam spewed from coal-fired locomotives.

The air would have carried the sharp scent of hot oil, burning coal, and wet soot, echoing with the rhythmic clatter of piston rods, screaming steam whistles, and the reverberating shouts of porters and passengers. Sunlight would have struggled through soot-darkened glass panes, cutting dramatic crepuscular rays—or "god rays"—through the haze, illuminating an era driven by sheer thermodynamic power and heavy machinery.

St. Nikolai - Flensburg

Backstein-Gotik - Redbrick Gothik

This was the site of a log cabin built by James Westervelt. The current imposing structure replaced the log cabin in 1889.

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Albi is a commune in southern France. The episcopal city, around the Cathedral Sainte-Cécile, was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 2010 for its unique architecture.

Charlecote Park is a grand 16th century country house, surrounded by its own deer park, on the banks of the River Avon near Wellesbourne, about 4 miles east of Stratford-upon-Avon and 5.5 miles south of Warwick, Warwickshire, England.

Built in 1632 the Church was abandoned and left in ruins once the new Stone Church was finished in 1850

Looking up the Norman Style Red Brick Tower

Stanmore, Middlesex. North West London. England UK.

From the Victorian Heritage Database:

" . . . . Designed in 1890 by Public Works Department architect, AJ MacDonald, and erected in 1892-3, the three-storey red brick structure combines basic American Romanesque characteristics with Scottish Baronial forms and Art Nouveau and Australian decorative motifs in an asymmetrical picturesque composition. . . . . "

" . . . . The Former South Yarra Post Office is of architectural significance as one of the most important buildings in the evolution of a uniquely Australian style of architecture. While the building reflects the influence of the American Romanesque and Scottish Baronial forms, the use of Australian decorative motifs, such as gum nuts, gum leaves, flowers, birds and marsupials was a new symbolic language for Australian public buildings, and reflected a growing national awareness and the beginning of a distinctive Australian style of architecture in the years preceding Federation. . . . "

NB: powerlines digitally removed.

Architect: Walter Burley Griffin: 1936

Designed by internationally renowned architect Walter Burley Griffin, who previously worked under architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the Hindmarsh Incinerator is one of few such incinerators to remain in original condition in Australia and is therefore of high historic and aesthetic value.

The building’s formal architectural value as an example of early ‘organic’ modernism in South Australia is particularly important given the local conservative architectural context of the period. The bold use of textured, red brick cubic forms, at multiple levels, which abut the strong vertical element which houses the Incinerator stack, illustrates the architectural skill of Griffin. When compared to the contemporary architecture of the time, the Incinerator’s architectural style can be seen as a catalyst for modernism in South Australia. The building’s simplicity makes a strong architectural statement, particularly for an industrial building, a type which was traditionally afforded little architectural consideration.

Griffin was also responsible for the design of Australia’s capital, Canberra.

Sitting pretty!

Not leaning, just wobbling.

An old red brick cotton mill reflected in the still waters of the Ashton Canal.

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Old Montreal

Rosebery Hall, Clerkenwell

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Vintage cars on the beckground of the old flax factory buildings. I took this photo in my hometown, when we had here small old cars exhibition :)

The wonderful William and Mary-style country house Hanbury Hall in Worcestershire. This is a beautifully maintained and presented National Trust property.

Hanbury Hall was built c1701 by an unidentified architect for a wealthy Chancery barrister, Thomas Vernon, a distant relation of the Vernons of Haddon Hall and the Vernons of Sudbury Hall. This red brick house with stone dressings has a front of eleven bays with three-bay projecting wings. It also has a hipped roof and cupola.

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A spinoff from an image of icicles hanging over the eavestrough.

Thank you so much for your views, comments and faves! They are encouraging as I continue on my photographic journey.

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A vintage phone booth stands next to a single window on a red brick wall. The contrast between the old telephone booth and the sturdy brickwork creates a nostalgic, urban atmosphere.

Wilson, Kansas

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Minimalist red brick building with a single trailer in the parking lot.

A selection that made it to Flickr's "in explore", May 11, 2020.

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Nikon IX-Nikkor Zoom 30-60mm f/4-5.6

Fujifilm Fujicolor Nexia 200-40, expired 11/2003

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I love those farm houses with their benches out front - never can pass by without taking a photo. Doesn't it look inviting?

part of west side, Bay Street (at Scollard), Heritage site, peeling white paint to reveal the red brick below. Boarded up and empty, waiting to be incorporated into a new condo development

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Old waver's houses in my hometown. It's a complex of 6 small one-story houses with a residential attic, built before 1890 on the edge of a working-class neighbourhood. The houses were intended as flats and small weaving workshops. Weavers recruited by factory owners in Bohemia lived there. The buildings are distinguished by the characteristic half-timbered attic walls.

Żyrardów - small town in Central Poland, located in the Mazovia region. It owes its unique atmosphere to the characteristic architecture of an industrial town. The original spatial layout of the community, which grew around a manufacturing plant in the mid-19th century, has been preserved to the present day. The historic center of Żyrardów (mostly buildings from red bricks) is the only industrial architecture complex from the turn of the 20th c. in Europe that has been preserved to modern times in full. The old settlement covers a 76-ha area in the central part of the town. Diversified architectural forms and styles characterize the city, which has resulted from the multi-cultural character of Żyrardów. The flax trade gave the town its origins. A plant manufacturing flax that was one of the largest and modern factories in Europe was established there in 1829.

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Dawne domy tkaczy w Żyrardowie. Jest to zespół 6 niewielkich parterowych domków z mieszkalnym poddaszem, wybudowanych przed 1890r. na skraju dzielnicy robotniczej. Domy przeznaczono na mieszkania i małe warsztaty tkackie. Mieszkali tu tkacze sprowadzani przez fabrykantów, głównie z Czech. Wyróżnia je charakterystyczna drewniana konstrukcja ryglowa ścian poddasza, tzw. mur pruski.

Żyrardów leży w centrum Polski, na Mazowszu. Swój niepowtarzalny klimat zawdzięcza charakterystycznej architekturze miasta zaprojektowanej w połowie XIX stulecia. Zabytkowe centrum Żyrardowa jest jedynym w Europie zachowanym w całości zespołem urbanistyczno-architektonicznym miasta przemysłowego przełomu XIX i XX wieku. Osada fabryczna obejmuje centralną część miasta o powierzchni ok. 76 ha. Charakteryzuje ją różnorodność form architektonicznych i stylów, co wynika ze zróżnicowania narodowościowego mieszkańców Żyrardowa. Początek miastu dała fabryka lniarska, która powstała na terenie dzisiejszego Żyrardowa w 1829 roku. Była to jedna z największych i najnowocześniejszych fabryk ówczesnej Europy.