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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.
The former Belfast Telegraph offices in Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter, a handsome red-brick reminder of the city’s newspaper past. The old frontage still carries a sense of purpose, even as the building now sits quietly among changing streetscapes and fading signs of its earlier life.
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Lucy + Fat Burns collaboration - Hobart street art at number 42.
This large scale, spray paint, street art work was created in October 2012, next to the Theatre Royal on Campbell Street in Hobart. The work was commissioned by MyState, as both a permanent art work as well as an accompaniment to Polygot's 'We Built This City' which happened on this site on the 10-11th of November, 2012.
You can visit the artists page @ www.jamin.com.au/
7440/7432 S. South Chicago Avenue
*8/2025 update - 7440 (building on the left) has been erased. 7432 has been given a new skin of concrete block lining the redbrick walls.
Cat on the window, catching the sun in last warm Autumn days... Taken in my hometown, Żyrardów (Poland).
Found hibernating in the front porch behind a hung up coat. There was a smaller group, too. Unfortunately this group contains lots of 'Harlequins'.
Crenellations on a private house are always a bit of a wink, and this one commits fully — a squat brick tower with a notched parapet, a deep arched window recessed into its face, and a little tile-roofed hood over the entry that shifts the whole thing from castle to something warmer. Norman and Tudor Revival vocabulary ran through Northern California in the 1920s and '30s, when brick masons had real work and homeowners wanted a bit of Europe on a quiet street. Look at the coursing: header rows set into the arch voussoirs, dark clinkers scattered through the field, a mason showing off in ways nobody pays for anymore.
Getting low and centering on the walkway does the real work here. That crouched vantage lets the brick path swell to fill the foreground and pulls the clipped boxwood into two curving green walls that sweep the eye straight to the door — a compressed, almost theatrical approach on what's actually a short front yard.
Mackerel sky helped too. Broken cloud over deep blue gives the red brick something to push against, and the diffused light keeps the arched window reveals open rather than blocked into shadow.
In Maizuru City, there are many red brick structures that were built between the Meiji Period and the Taisho Period since the opening of the former Navy Maizuru Shrine Office in 1901. This red brick warehouse group is one of Japan's most valuable historical brick buildings, with 8 out of 12 buildings designated as important national cultural properties.
When you come here, you can imagine the time and feel the history.
Our Daily Challenge - theme: "Window"
Part of the building of an old Resursa (merchant club), cultural and social institution run in an English way. It was built about 1870. and it became a seat of Żyrardów Factory joint-Stock Company Officials' Association. The Club was a venue for social events such as: dances, concerts, theatre shows, occasional balls and lectures. In the beautiful ballroom there are some colorfull frescoes. In last years the building was restored and now there are some representative rooms (for ex. theatrical-dance room) and The Centre of the Cultural Information.
Fragment budynku dawnej resursy. Była to placówka kulturalna urządzona na wzór klubów angielskich. Zbudowana ok. 1870r. Mieściło się tu Zrzeszenie Urzędników Towarzystwa Akcyjnego Zakładów Żyrardowskich. Wnętrza zostały urządzone z wyjatkowym przepychem, zwłaszcza piękna sala balowa zdobiona złoceniami i barwnymi malowidłami ściennymi. Odbywały się tu m.in. przedstawienia teatralne, odczyty i zabawy okolicznościowe. W ostatnich latach miała miejsce rewaloryzacja budynku resursy i kręgielni oraz ich adaptacja na cele kulturalno-artystyczne i dziś mieści się tam m.in. Centrum Informacji Turystycznej i Kulturalnej.
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In the late nineteenth century, the Anglican Church began to make concerted efforts to minister to the poor rural communities of the Sussex Weald: redbrick mission rooms, churches and chapels sprung up in even the most isolated places, attended by families of farmers, woodsmen, bodgers and wood-colliers. Many of these communities were also miles from the nearest school and there was a pressing need, especially after the Elementary Education Act of 1870, to provide adequate schooling. Where children were too few to justify a board school, the Church typically filled the gaps, teaching basic reading, writing, arithmetic and religious instruction.
It was against this background that William Townley Mitford (1817-1889), Member of Parliament for Midhurst and Squire of nearby Pitshill House paid for a dual-purpose church and school to be built at Bedham. The modest brick building, dedicated to St. Michæl and All Angels, was built in a hollow below the road on a northwest-southeast alignment. A plaque on the north-west wall states that:
"FOR THE WORSHIP OF ALMIGHTY GOD/ IN GRATITUDE FOR MANY BLESSINGS/ THIS BUILDING WAS ERECTED BY/ WM. TOWNLEY MITFORD, OF PITSHILL/ ANNO DOMINI 1880."
During the school week, the building was divided in two by a curtain separating infants from seniors; every Friday afternoon, the chairs and desks would be turned to face the altar ready for Sunday service. Worship was led by the Rector of nearby Fittleworth with the master of Fittleworth School serving both as lay reader and headmaster. Despite the two annual maintenance visits from Mitford's own carpenters, by 1913 the school was found to be in 'a very unsatisfactory state' with 'defective lighting and ventilation' and the girls' earth closet 'very offensive indeed.' Due to a falling rural population, the school closed in 1925, but the building continued in regular use as a church for a further thirty years. The congregation was never a large one and with the demise of the charcoal industry and the effects of two world wars attendance declined to almost nothing: the last wedding held here was in 1959 and there is no record of any later services.
Bedham itself lies deep within the Western Weald, a tiny hamlet of no more than a handful of houses once inhabited by farmers and charcoal burners. Its tranquility made it a retreat for several artists, writers and composers in the nineteenth and early twentieth Centuries including Rex Vicat Cole (1870-1940), Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Stella Bowen (1893–1947) and Ford Maddox Ford (1873-1939).
The church and surrounding land are now part of a 395 acre nature reserve which is open to the public.
Culver House, 412 W. Prairie Avenue in Decatur, Illinois, a beautiful redbrick Queen Ann style home, took 20 years to be built. John and Florence Culver began construction in 1881 and it wasn’t finished until 1901. John H. Culver was a prominent local businessman who owned an electric and telephone company. Shortly after his family moved in, it experienced an frightening event when a dark figure emerged from the fireplace. This unsettling apparition appeared during a spate of sightings of a “black ghost” in the area. Ever since, the house has a reputation for being haunted. The Historic Decatur Foundation has worked hard to restore it to its former glory.
We traced a path from redbrick out to limestone
We walked across the earth
A compass for a heart
The needle points to North.
With unfinished business, we all returned to Gauber limestone pavements on Tuesday to capture 60021 PENYGHENT crossing Ribblehead Viaduct with 6F69, 12.54 Ribblehead Quarry to Tuebrook.
Looking up from the street in the old part of Amsterdam. www.picfair.com/pics/05259033-pretty-end-of-terrace