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This large house is being renovated but being an older building has only relatively small windows to look out on to Mills Beach. Combe Martin, a historic and heritage-listed waterfront mansion located at 819–820 Esplanade in Mornington, Victoria. The prominent residence is celebrated for its distinct Old English-style architecture, featuring reddish-brown brickwork, striking tall chimney stacks, and a steeply pitched tiled roof. Approx 3.5million $!
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Happy Window Wednesday
Took a photographic walk along the alley behind the business district in East Liberty along Penn Avenue, a stretch that has seen many changes over the decades. I found several stupendous walls reflecting the passage of time and fashion, left raw and exposed because this is a back alley meant for deliveries, trash, etc. and no effort has been made to render them more presentable. (In this case, the front facades of the same buildings are not in especially presentable shape, either). Now that East Liberty has gone upscale in recent years, this kind of quaint connection to the past is likely to be tidied up--a sign of good times, for some anyway, and better times yet to come, but also a loss for those, like me, who find beauty in these untidy places.
This is the rear of the former Woolworth store, the anchor of the neighborhood at one time, in much the same way that the Target store now is. It's a reminder of simpler times of prosperity, of a thriving community before it fell victim to utopian 1960s urban redevelopment schemes and "white flight" triggered by the influx of poor blacks from the neighborhood near downtown that was removed to construct the Civic Arena, a hockey and performance venue. The Civic Arena itself, having lost a community fight for adaptive reuse, has been replaced by a parking lot for the new hockey arena, financed by profits from the natural gas fracking boom in this part of the state, the subject of a political fight between energy industry interests and environmental groups.
One of the red brick chimneys of Lincoln Castle's Victorian prison, with Lincoln Cathedral centre stage and to the right, the Castle's Observatory Tower.
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Few corners of England stop you in your tracks quite like this one. The zigzagging iron fire escapes climbing the soot-darkened Victorian brickwork of Mangle Street are so thoroughly cinematic that your eye half-expects a yellow cab to round the corner. It's no accident — filmmakers have been using this narrow alley as a Manhattan stand-in for decades, earning it the affectionate nickname Manc-hattan.
A Street Built on Cotton
The imposing warehouses that line Mangle Street were the workhorses of Manchester's 19th-century textile trade. Buildings such as Finlay's Warehouse (formerly Finlay, Campbell & Co.) handled the vast flows of cotton goods that made Manchester the commercial engine of the industrial world. The sheer scale of these structures — tall, uncompromising, built for function not beauty — is precisely what gives the street its brooding power today.
Written in Soot
That deep, velvety darkness in the brickwork isn't just age — it's the fossilised grime of the Industrial Revolution, baked into the stone over generations of coal smoke and factory exhaust. Manchester's pollution was so extraordinary during this period that it famously drove the natural selection of the dark carbonaria form of the peppered moth, one of the most celebrated real-world examples of evolution ever documented.
Lights, Camera, Mangle Street
The location's uncanny resemblance to old New York has attracted some major productions. Captain America: The First Avenger used it to conjure 1940s Manhattan. Peaky Blinders (Series 4, Episode 5) filmed in and around Mangle Street and Dale Street. Morbius and the original Alfie have also made use of its atmospheric alleyways.
A Photographer's Street
The street has drawn serious photographers too — David Gleave's long-running project Mangle Street Blues used it as a backdrop for raw, rebellious black-and-white portraiture, tapping into exactly the same visual energy that makes it so irresistible to location scouts and urban explorers alike.
Once dismissed as a redundant remnant of a vanished industrial age, Mangle Street is now one of the Northern Quarter's most treasured — and most photographed — corners.
Mike Oldfield once live at 38 Woodside Gardens N17 where he laid down the first demo to the classic Album Tubular Bells. That house is in this shot
Whopping big rubbish bin signs proclaiming their segregation. Found between the old Barr Smith Library and the Ingkarni Wardli building. The Recycling sign is leaning forward because it is attached tot he swinging lid of its bin.
The house appears to predate the civil war and is extremely well built. The house is reputedly haunted.
There were four of us taking photos and we all had issues with focusing. There was adequate light and flash when necessary. Stairway leading to the second floor.
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The main gate to the ruins of castle in Czersk.
Czersk is a small town, 39 km from the center of Warsaw, in Piaseczno County. Czersk’s main tourist attraction is its medieval brick castle which was built on a hill between 1398 and 1406 for the Mazovia Prince - Janusz I. It had three towers and curtains which were 8 meters high and almost 2 meters thick. Czersk became the capital of the Mazovian Duchy due to its significant settlement along the Vistula river. Queen Bona Sforza, among others, lived in the castle. In the 15th century, however, the Vistula river shifted its bed, moving away from Czersk. As a consequence the site fell into obscurity and the castle began to decay. During the war with the Swedes, in 1656, the castle became partly ruined. The retreating land army, close to Warta, under Stefan Czarniecki's command had captured the stronghold and had devastated it. The castle went through a reconstruction between 1762–1766, when Marszałek Franciszek Bieliński had commanded the reconstruction of the stronghold. However, due to the Prussian Partition, the Prussian leader had ordered for the demolition of the castle's defense walls, reducing the stronghold's military importance. From that time, nobody had every again took on the reconstruction of the castle. From the once mighty stronghold, all of the towers; a brick bridge from the eighteenth century; and the north and east wing of the castle had all survived. Today the castle ruins and the pituresque village have become tourist attractions. The towers were recently renovated and there is a fantastic view of the Vistula River valley from their terraces.
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Brama główna prowadząca na dziedziniec zamku w Czersku.
Czersk- dawne miasto, obecnie wieś w gminie Góra Kalwaria w powiecie piaseczyńskim. Jedno z najstarszych miast na Mazowszu i stolica jednego z księstw dzielnicowych. Miasto założone przed 1350 rokiem. Miejsce obrad sejmików ziemskich ziemi czerskiej od XVI wieku do pierwszej połowy XVIII wieku. Obecnie Czersk znany jest głównie z ruin średniowiecznego zamku książąt mazowieckich, które są główną atrakcją turystyczną tej małej miejscowości i równocześnie jednym z najcenniejszych zabytków na Mazowszu. W XI wieku w miejscu dzisiejszego zamku istniał drewniano ziemny gród o konstrukcji izbicowej, który został zbudowany w czasach panowania Bolesława Śmiałego lub Władysława Hermana. W XIV wieku książę mazowiecki Janusz I, rozkazał w miejscu przestarzałego grodu zbudować ceglany zamek, który powstał w latach 1388 - 1410. Była to jedna z najważniejszych rezydencji księcia Janusza I, który zmarł na tym zamku w dniu 8 grudnia 1429 roku. Gdy tereny te zostały przyłączone do Królestwa Polskiego w 1526 roku, zamek stał się własnością królewską. W tym też okresie nadbudowano cylindryczne wieże. Od 1547 roku zamek podlegał królowej Bonie, która nakazała wymianę drewnianej zabudowy dziedzińca na murowaną. W czasie Potopu szwedzkiego, w 1656 roku, zamek w Czersku doznał bardzo poważnego uszczerbku, zaś po III rozbiorze Polski i objęciu Czerska przez Prusaków mury zostały częściowo zburzone. Od tego czasu zamek jest zrujnowany. Do dzisiaj zachowana jest większość murów zamku oraz wszystkie trzy wieże (Brama, Południowa i Zachodnia), z których można podziwiać panoramę okolicy. Obecnie ruiny zamku udostępnione są zwiedzającym.
I had a hard time photographing the beautiful houses on this street (I didn't even post most of pictures). I took too pictures of this view. In the first one the lower areas of the houses looked fine but the tops blended into the sky. In this one the tops look good but the bottom features are too dark.
Rainbow behind the Holy Mother of consolation Parish Church. It's a first rainbow which I've seen in this year. It was very big and double :)
Holy Mother of consolation Parish Church - It's the biggest church in town. It was founded by the Sobański Family and Karol Dittrich and built from 1900 to 1903. It was designed in neogothic style and it's standing on the central square of my hometown. The church was patterned on Koln Basilica (eightfold lowered) and it has two 70 meters tall towers. The interior is decorated with the flowery motifs of stain glass windows made by Franciszek Białkowski according to the design attributed to Józef Mehoffer. The church furnishings refer to the gothic style.
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Tęcza za kościołem Matki Bożej Pocieszenia w Żyrardowie. Muszę przyznać, że wyglądała pięknie. Była pełna i podwójna. Dawno już takiej nie widziałam... :)
Kościół Farny pw. Matki Bożej Pocieszenia - zbudowany w centrum miasta, w latach 1900 - 1903 z fundacji rodziny Sobańskich i Karola Dittricha. Zaprojektowany przez Józefa Piusa Dziekońskiego w stylu neogotyckim. Kościół wzorowany był na bazylice w Kolonii (ośmiokrotnie pomniejszony), posiada dwie strzeliste 70-cio metrowe wieże. We wnętrzu znajdują się piękne secesyjne witraże przedstawiające kwiaty polskie (słoneczniki, maki, chabry, lilie, malwy i chryzantemy), wykonane w pracowni Franciszka Białkowskiego, prawdopodobnie według projektu Józefa Mehoffera. Wyposażenie kościoła utrzymane jest w stylu gotyckim.
Just a short walk from the Ashton Canal is this hidden gem. The Fairfield Moravian settlement is a beautifully maintained collection of red brick houses set around wide cobbled streets. Some history here - manchesterhistory.net/manchester/outside/moravian.html
Die zum Alten Rathaus von Berlin gehörende Laube ist 1871 in ihrer hochmittelalterlich-gotischen Fassung in den Park von Babelsberg (Potsdam) versetzt worden.
In 1871, the arbor belonging to the Old Town Hall of Berlin was transferred to the Park of Babelsberg (Potsdam) in its highly medieval-Gothic version.
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Bizarre seating arrangement outside no 144b. It's mild, but not that mild... Quite a sorry scene. Colour version of a similar, mono shot.