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Cootamundra.
The Cootamundra run of around 50,000 acres was licensed in 1847. A few years later in 1860 a town was surveyed on the banks of Muttama Creek within the Cootamundra run. Town lots were sold in 1862 and were taken up quickly as gold mining had started on the Muttama Reef. But there was no rush to Muttama until a much bigger find of gold was made in 1882. By 1864 the town had the Albion Hotel, a Post Office, a general store and a few residents. The police station and a second hotel opened by 1866 and the first stone Catholic Church was built in 1870 followed by a slab hut Anglican Church in 1874 and the first government school in 1875. The current state school was built in 1877 which was also the year in which the first train reached the town. With access to markets in Sydney the town started to grow and many substantial buildings were erected in the next 20 years. Early in the 20th century two significant events occurred; firstly the birth of Donald Bradman, later Sir Donald, in a cottage hospital in Adams Street; secondly in 1911 the establishment of the Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls. It operated until 1968. Girls removed from their families by the state government were sent here to be trained as domestic servants. Whilst there is some acknowledged abuse at the home there was certainly more abuse of the girls once they turned 14 years when they were sent to be servants. The home was run in the former hospital (1887) called Bimbadeen which was handed over to the Aboriginal Evangelical Fellowship in the 1970s. To promote the Bradman connection (his family moved to Bowral in 1911) there is a statue of all 42 of the Australian cricket team captains, including the Aboriginal captain who led the 1868 his team against England. The busts are in Jubilee Park.
Historic buildings in Cootamundra include: the Gothic style railway station built in 1884 to 1888 with a tower; the Catholic Church in Morris St.(1916) and the convent (about 1880) and behind it the first Catholic Church 1870; along Thompson St is the state school (1877); in Wallendoon St the old Council Chamber (1936); the NAB bank formerly CBC bank (1887)- exceptionally fine cast iron veranda columns; the Post Office and its four storey tower designed by architect Walter Vernon (1881); the Globe Hotel ( rebuilt after a fire in 1903); behind the Globe is the Courthouse(1901) with symmetry, side pavilions, Greek columns; old corner bank now Custom Accounting (about 1900); the Albion Hotel (rebuilt 1920);the Bank of NSW now Westpac (1895) with classical colonnade and Victoria gable; the ANZ Bank (about 1920); quaint building next to ANZ (about 1900) still with slate roof; turn right at end main street at Cootamundra Hotel (1875 but remodelled 1930s) and then right again – Presbyterian Church now Uniting(1936) – the first Presbyterian church built 1882. In the park west of the Main Street is the Captains’’ Walk a series of busts of all Australian cricket team captains.
Ok - I did a little photoshop to make the color pop. Not too much though. Inspired by one of my contacts. Check him out.
"This funky hostel in a redbrick building is 2-minutes’ walk from Hallgrímskirkja, a towering cathedral built in 1986, 7-minutes' walk from the popular shopping street Skolavordustigur and 2 km from Perlan, a revolving restaurant with a glass dome.
Bright rooms, and mixed-sex dorms with bunk beds sleeping 14 people, offer free Wi-Fi and shared bathroom facilities."
Note: Christmas decoration stay up throughout the dark months (photo shot mid Jan)
Nos. 83 and 84 are timber-framed, refronted late C18 or early C19. No. 83 was once the Fox Public House. No. 84 was the Old Mitre Restaurant when listed in 1974. The 3-storey no. 85 is C18 and forms an attractive Grade II listed group with 83 and 84. Farnham, Surrey, UK.
There are a handful of streets where old red paving bricks are exposed and can be seen. Victoria Drive (north of East Hastings), Francis Street (east of Commercial Drive) and New Westminster's Fourth Street (south of Royal Ave) are good examples.
Alberta Street (north of East Broadway) had red paving bricks until they were removed during road construction several years ago and never re-installed. Gastown has red paving bricks but they were installed during the 1970s to help revitalized the area. Red bricks were exposed briefly several years ago on Robson Street (near Broughton Street) before getting paved under asphalt.
Built of red brick in 1878, the Wandiligong Public Library is a simple building that may be found along Morses Creek Road in the pretty Alpine town of Wandiligong.
Simple it may be, with minimal ornamentation and elegant lines, but this building shows how important and populated Wandiligong was during the Victorian Gold Rush. Not every town had a public library, which makes this survivor a significant piece of history.
Today the Wandiligong Public Library is used as a small local art gallery.
Wandiligong is a town in north-eastern Victoria in the alpine region around 330 kilometres from Melbourne. Established in the 1850s as part of the Victorian Gold Rush, Wandiligong became a hub for many gold miners, including a large Chinese community. At its peak, the town was home to over two thousand inhabitants and boasted shops, churches, a public library, halls and even an hotel. Much has changed since those heady days of the gold rush, and the picturesque town nestled in a valley and built around the Morses Creek, is now a sleepy little town full of picturesque houses which are often let to visitors to the area. The whole town is registered with the National Trust of Australia for its historic landscape and buildings of historic value.
The Goodman Building and Plant Biodiversity Centre were opened by the Hon John Olsen MP Premier of South Australia 20 November 1999: Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and State Herbarium. It was built 1908 as the administration building for The Municipal Tramways Trust (MTT), Adelaide, South Australia.
This distinctive heritage listed landmark building is now an integral part of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.
The Board of the MTT met for the first time on 4th February 1907.
Within two years, the first route of the electric tram system, to Kensington opened on 9th March 1909. By the end of 1909, electric trams were working the inner lines to North Adelaide, Walkerville, Payneham, Maylands, Marryatville, Parkside, Unley and Hyde Park - and at the same time, the MTT continued to operate the remaining horse trams routes, which it had taken over, retiring each horse tram service as the electric routes became operational.
Following the short lived appointment of J J Bodley, who had been manager of the Adelaide and Suburban Tramway Company (the largest of the horse tram companies) Mr W G T Goodman (later Sir William Goodman) then Chief Electrical Engineer was appointed General Manager, a position he held until his retirement in 1950 at age 78.
The Adelaide tramway system was designed, built and then managed for over 40 years by Sir William Goodman.
Born at Ramsgate, UK in 1872 he worked in Tasmania, New South Wales and as an electrical engineer for the Dunedin N Z Corporation before joining the Municipal Tramways Trust.
In the space of the first two years Mr Goodman and his staff had in place:
• 70 trams (of an initial order of 100) to start with.
• A very large car shed to put them in.
• A workshop to maintain them.
• A headquarters to run them from.
• A special phone system to know where they were.
• 10 miles of old horse tram tracks removed and replaced,
• Bridges strengthened.
• A 600v DC electrical distribution system.
• 55 miles of overhead wires.
• A power station planned and contract shipping to bring a steady supply of coal from NSW. (Until the power station was completed in 1910, power was supplied by the Adelaide Electric Supply Co to the MTT’s battery house and converter station at the corner of Pirie Street. and East Terrace.)
On opening day at 2.30pm, a procession of fourteen tramcars (carrying seven hundred passengers) led by tram No 1 left Hackney Depot travelling to Gurrs Road, Kensington. As the Premier, Mr T Price was very ill, Mrs Price officially drove the leading tram under Mr Goodman’s guidance. The procession returned to King William Street and then reversed direction to return to Hackney Depot for afternoon tea.
Refs: Heritage of the City of Adelaide: An Illustrated Guide 1996.
*Henry Evan Sibley and Charles Wooldridge were architects of this building.
In the local tavern, near the place where we lived in Darłówko, we often liked to buy fresh smoked fishes. They were very tasty! You could to buy them just from this smoking furnace :)
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Świeże rybki wędzące się przy tawernie w Darłówku. Pyszne były! :)
There was a little alley in San Francisco back of the Southern
Pacific station at Third and Townsend in redbrick of drowsy lazy
afternoons with everybody at work in offices in the air you feel
the impending rush of their commuter frenzy as soon they’ll be
charging en masse from Market and Sansome buildings on foot
and in buses and all well-dressed thru workingman Frisco of
Walkup ?? truck drivers and even the poor grime-bemarked Third
Street of lost bums even Negros so hopeless and long left East
and meanings of responsibility and try that now all they do is
stand there spitting in the broken glass sometimes fifty in one
afternoon against one wall at Third and Howard and here’s all
these Millbrae and San Carlos neat-necktied producers and
commuters of America and Steel civilization rushing by with San
Francisco Chronicles and green Call-Bulletins not even enough
time to be disdainful, they’ve got to catch 130, 132, 134, 136 all
the way up to 146 till the time of evening supper in homes of the
railroad earth when high in the sky the magic stars ride above
the following hotshot freight trains--it’s all in California, it’s all a
sea, I swim out of it in afternoons of sun hot meditation in my
jeans with head on handkerchief on brakeman’s lantern or (if not
working) on book, I look up at blue sky of perfect lostpurity and
feel the warp of wood of old America beneath me and I* have
insane conversations with Negroes in second*-story windows
above and everything is pouring in, the switching moves of
boxcars in that little alley which is so much like the alleys of
Lowell and I hear far off in the sense of coming night that engine
calling our mountains.
Jack Kerouac-October in the Railroad Earth
On 12 Februrary 1974, a friend and I visited the Bay Area for a first ride on BART as well as a trip on the SP commutes. We were planning to go over Christmas break, taking the Coast Starlight from Davis to Richmond, riding BART, then going to the SP's 3rd and Townsend Street station to catch a commute, pulled by an H-24-66, to San Jose and the Starlight back to Davis and home.
This was the very end of 3rd and Townsend, the station SP had built for the 1915 Pan-Pacific Exposition as a temporary structure that somehow held on for almost 60 years, through wars and streamlined Daylights and Larks and dieselization and Amtrak ending long distance passenger service into SF, and now, here it was, with a couple of SDP45s supplementing the F-Ms and Geeps that had been the commute power since the day I was born when diesels took over the commutes from the last of SP's steam.
Within a year or so, the F-Ms were gone and a new station was built south of 4th Street, which Caltrain still uses and is now over 40 years old itself, as old as 3rd and Townsend was when Kerouac and Neal Cassady were working for SP and they and their fellow Beats were having poetry readings in North Beach.
In 1974, there were flagmen who would block 4th Street to traffic when a train was due to leave or arrive at the station during the day. They would come out with their STOP signs from their little cabins and hold up cars for a few seconds until the train cleared, then go back to doing whatever they had been doing.
When rush hour approached and some of the trains extended beyond 4th Street, they would extend a chain across 4th Street and open up 5th Street a block south and flag that for the evening commute parade. 130, the first train that Kerouac mentions in Railroad Earth left at 514 and ran non stop down to what we now call Silicon Valley, before making its stops. In 1974, it was one of the first trains to have an SDP45 and ran with 9 gallery cars, which extended over 4th Street, as did some of the other trains. SP dispatched trains at 3 minute intervals at the rush hour, and my 1958 Official Guide shows the same train numbers and times as prevailed at rush hour in 1974.
Today, Caltrain runs a different service, reflecting that many people are commuting south in the morning and north in the afternoon as Santa Clara County has turned from a bedroom community to an economic powerhouse. The whole neighborhood has changed with former SP yards and freight houses now apartments and condos, and the Giants' 3 Com Park a few blocks north. Streetcars again serve the station with Muni's E, N and T lines.
A long line of people was waiting outside the McKittrick Hotel, a self-described Performance Art Theater Space in Chelsea.
I don't know what they were waiting for, and I was headed elsewhere.
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I found this photograph in my iPhoto yesterday, I decided to color splash it or whatever you want to call it, and put it on the front of my website.
The University of Montevallo is a small (originally) teacher's college in the hear of Alabama. The beautiful grounds are home to remarkably maintained red brick buildings and dormitories.
Merrion Square is a Georgian square on the southside of Dublin city centre. It was laid out after 1762 and was largely complete by the beginning of the 19th century. It is considered one of Dublin's finest surviving squares. Three sides are lined with Georgian redbrick townhouses; the West side abuts the grounds of Leinster House, Government Buildings, the Natural History Museum and the National Gallery. The central railed-off garden is now a public park.
The park in the square was until recently officially named "Archbishop Ryan Park", after Dermot Ryan, the Catholic archbishop who transferred ownership to the city. The square was leased to the Archdiocese of Dublin by the Pembroke Estate in 1930 to permit the building of a Cathedral on the site to replace to the pro-Cathedral. Despite efforts over the next 20 years to advance the project, no progress was made and the site was transferred to the city of Dublin in 1974. Now managed by Dublin City Council, it contains a statue of Oscar Wilde, who resided in No. 1, Merrion Square from 1855 to 1876, many other sculptures and a collection of old Dublin lamp standards. In 2009, Dermot Ryan was criticised in the Murphy Report; in January 2010, Dublin City Council sought public views on renaming the Park. In September 2010, the City Council voted to rename the park as Merrion Square Park even though many wanted to name it after Oscar Wilde.
Until 1972 the British Embassy was based at No 39; however following the Bloody Sunday shootings in Northern Ireland a crowd of over 20,000 people converged on the site in protest and the building was burnt to the ground.
Natives of Dublin city are very fond of their public statues, and sometimes give them amusing and/or rude nicknames. Please note that some of these nicknames would be considered offensive in many parts of the world; in Ireland, insults are considered the norm between friends and an Irish person is quite capable of applying an offensive epithet to someone they are extremely fond of. This statue has a number of nicknames including "The Quare In The Square" and "The Fag On The Crag"
This is probably Dublin's best statue and it is my favorite. It is located inside the park of Merrion Square, and can only really be seen from inside the park, so you'll have to arrive before closing time, which varies between 9:30pm in midsummer and 4:30pm in midwinter.
This statue of Wilde is impressive. The great man reclines on a rock and is positioned so that he is looking at the last house on the north side of Merrion Square, the house where he once lived. The statue is made from stone of different colours - for example, Wilde's jacket is green stone with red stone cuffs. Also part of the sculpture are two stone pillars which are covered in quotations from Wilde. One has a bronze figure of a pregnant naked woman kneeling on the top, while the other has a bronze male torso. My understanding is that they indicate Wilde's ambiguous sexuality and aesthetic sensibilities.
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He was famous for always being elegantly turned out, wearing a green carnation in his buttonhole, and always ready with a witty riposte for any situation. His most famous literary works are his plays The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady Windermere's Fan and his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the tragedy of his imprisonment, followed by his early death.
He is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
Alfred Waterhouse's famous Red Brick University building in Liverpool, 120 years old on the 13th December 2012
Godfrey Barnsley built this mansion in northwest Gerogia in 1841. Ruins of the building survive today and they are now a part of a private resort. I had a chance to visit last weekend with my camera club, and there were some mentors there who really had an eye for architecture and composition. I learned a lot.
Convergence - Gray Cobbled Street and Redbrick Wall - Dundee Scotland - I like cobbled - there is an implied permanence and simplicity
They had me put the 5' sculpture together over two days at a convention in Denver. Here I'm nearly finished - and deeply attached to my rubber mallet. :)
Posted with permission from Crum & Forster.
Gustav Adolf Church or the Scandinavian Seamen's Church is a historical building located in Park Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It consists of a church, built between 1883 and 1884, and an attached minister's house, and provides a centre for the Liverpool International Nordic Community.The combined church and minister's house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
During the later part of the 19th century, large numbers of Scandinavian emigrants were passing though Liverpool, and there was a need to serve their spiritual needs. The first Scandinavian priest was appointed in 1870, who visited the emigrants in ships and boarding houses. There was perceived to be a need for a permanent centre. The commission to design a church and minister's house was gained by W. D. Caroe, whose father, Anders Kruuse Caroe, was the Danish Consul in the city. It was Caroe's first independent commission to design a church.[3] Building started in 1883 and was completed the following year, at a cost of £15,000 (equivalent to £1,430,000 in 2016).