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Historic redbricked rowhouses line the boulevard style street. The light at afternoon yesterday was so weird that even dark red things stood out starkly.
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Saturday Self Challenge
Our challenge this week will be:
"Odd Numbers"
Take a photo of an odd number of any subject or object (3,5,7 etc.) and arrange it so that it's pleasing to the eye. You will have to use your compositional skills for this challenge:
All post-processing is allowed for this challenge.
I had this challenge sorted earlier in the week but today when I spotted this there was a quick change of plan. After a wait of around 20 minutes I managed to get the photo free of people with selfie sticks !!
The Liverpool Mountain is by the Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone. It is his first public artwork in the UK and the first of its kind in Europe. The piece is inspired by naturally occurring spires or pyramids of rock, and the art of meditative rock balancing. It stands at 10 metres in height (32 feet) and is located in the Mermaid Courtyard, outside Tate Liverpool on the Albert Dock.
It consists of five coloured granite rocks, stacked vertically which seemingly appear to defy gravity.
This sculpture marks the 10th anniversary of Liverpool European Capital of Culture.
It’s would appear the residents of the city of Liverpool are divided into the ‘love it’ or ‘hate it’ categories. One local lady approached me as I was taking the photo expressing her dislike, followed shortly by another who loved it. So I suppose it’s make your own mind up. Personally I think it would have been much better without the paint job, I’m sure the natural granite would have looked much better.
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The Uni have started to light up the clock face with red lights. Very impressive look to Old Joe especially in the evening.
Seen in my hometown. This dog was sitting in the window of the old building and watching on courtyard :)
This old carriage house, built in either 1900 or 1910, was built for the Iddings family.
The Iddings House on S. Main Street was constructed in 1894 for Alfred H. Iddings, a well-known Dayton doctor. Later it housed the Cappel family of Cappel Furniture, owned by Fred Cappel. Later it was converted to 9 apartments but had been vacant for over a decade when it burned down.
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Superior, Wisconsin. The place is still operating. Down the street is the Dick Bong Bridge. Superior was the home of Dick Bong, American Hero, Awarded the MoH by MacArthur.
The house on the corner of Westgate and Slack Walk has few windows and borders an industrial unit giving it a slightly aloof feel.
It does, however, have a certain charm and rather a grand door with portico.
This feels like Suburbia although being right on the edge of Town it is strictly (I Guess) very much Urban living with Town Centre shops just round the corner, a cinema, and a bus stop.
A very well cared for area too, neat, tidy and pleasant to the eye.
Chinatown, Melbourne
"Cheong Cheok Hong (1853?-1928), missionary and social reformer, was born in the See Yap district, near Canton, China, son of Huh Cheong (Cheok Peng Nam), a Presbyterian missionary who went to Ballarat in the 1850s. Cheong arrived in Melbourne about 1863. He attended Scotch College and qualified for matriculation at the University of Melbourne. In 1873 he joined the Presbyterian congregation at Napier Street, Fitzroy; the minister, Dr Robert Hamilton, was convener of a mission committee for work among the Chinese and ran a training seminary for catechists. Cheong was his assistant for some time, probably as an interpreter, and with a friend made missionary tours on Sundays 'among their heathen countrymen'. The seminary closed in 1877 and Cheong appears to have begun study at the Presbyterian Theological Hall. In 1883 at the mission committee's request he was made an elder so that he could assume duty as superintendent at once. However, relations soon became strained; he returned to business life for a short time, probably for financial reasons.
In 1885 at the annual meeting of the Anglican Board of Missions Cheong gave such a remarkable address that his transfer from the Presbyterians was sought and approved; with the sanction of Bishop James Moorhouse he was appointed missionary superintendent for twelve months. In addition to organizing the work of Chinese catechists throughout Victoria, he collected sufficient funds for building in Little Bourke Street a mission hall and training centre for Chinese evangelists. In 1897 control of this property was given to the Church Missionary Association of Victoria. Cheong continued as superintendent but, after some friction with the association, resigned voluntarily in August 1898. With help from dissatisfied supporters he started an unofficial Anglican mission at the Temperance Hall in Russell Street; more than eight hundred people attended its first annual meeting. Again Cheong raised funds successfully for another mission hall in Little Bourke Street, controlled by the Church Missionary Association Reformed. In 1904 it was fully recognized by the Church of England, and Cheong's son, James, was appointed its ordained chaplain. Cheong remained superintendent of the mission until 1928. He was always known as Mr Cheong. Under a later archbishop the establishment was renamed the Church of England Chinese Mission of the Epiphany."
Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography
This redbrick church built in 1904 was one of the first concrete buildings in France; Built in the art nouveau style with Moorish elements. The bricks had to be added later to soothe offended locals. According to our Paris Walks tour guide (Oriel Caine), the church is known to locals as St. John of the Bricks" (En Francais, of course!)
The Zollern Colliery
A castle of labour
At first sight palatial redbrick facades and artistically adorned gables on buildings dotted around a grassy square are more reminiscent of an aristocratic residence than a coal mine. This was exactly one of the ideas behind the architecture.
Today the “mansion of labour” in the west of Dortmund is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful and impressive testimonies to Germany’s industrial history. The engine house with its famous Jugendstil (art nouveau) doorway is already an icon. But the museum’s outstanding industrial architecture is only one of many different attractive facets. The various sections of the exhibition will take you into a world of harsh working conditions, and the stories of the men and women who worked in coalmining during the 20th century will bring this vividly to life.