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Sightseeing in the neighborhood of River Forest. Looks like someone has 2 fireplaces at least, in ths house.
Blagnac, Haute-Garonne, France
I had myself dropped off at Blagnac. Literally, the village, not the airport. On purpose, to see the village. I walked the remaining 5 km to the airport.
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Seen from behind the pavilion on the Stonyhurst College Estate near Hurst Green in deepest rural Lancashire - The cricket pitch is over the hill. It was a murky and rainy day but the pavilion stood out against the gloom, low cloud and grassed slope and took my eye.
I find myself drawn to buildings like this one - stranded survivors, the last remnant of something that was once much larger, standing their ground on a cleared corner while everything around them has been swept away and rebuilt. This is what remains of Alexandra Place, known locally as The Dwellings, on the corner of Rochdale Road and Sudell Street in Manchester. It is, as one local writer put it, "one old triangle, refusing to jingle jangle to the modern dance."
The story of The Dwellings begins in 1903, when Manchester Corporation proposed to demolish 56 houses with 228 inhabitants in order to extend and improve three local schools. Land bounded by Rochdale Road, Sudell Street and Moor Street was earmarked for replacement accommodation, and the Corporation proposed to erect tenement dwellings - 32 two-roomed tenements at 5 shillings a week, and 32 three-roomed tenements at 6 shillings and 4 pence. The total cost of the scheme was estimated at £11,500. Henry Price, Manchester's City Architect, drew up plans for blocks four storeys high with living rooms, bedrooms, sculleries, larders, and fuel stores - the full domestic apparatus of respectable working-class life, stacked in an urban terracotta block.
What Henry Price produced was considerably more decorative than the bare utilitarian minimum. The surviving corner fragment shows the ambition clearly: Flemish-influenced stepped and curved gabling at the roofline, arched windows with stone dressings, a colonnaded ground-floor shopfront of cast iron and glazing, and the characteristic terracotta and red brick combination of late Victorian Manchester municipal architecture. The building was known as Alexandra Place, and at its height it housed many families in the dense streets north of the city centre. Then, gradually, it was gone - demolished in phases as the area was cleared and redeveloped - save for this one surviving corner at Rochdale Road and Sudell Street, which stands today boarded up at ground level, its upper floors empty, surrounded by car parks and cleared land.
I don't know what fate awaits it. But it deserves better than slow decay on a cleared corner. Buildings like this are the memory of the people who lived in them - and memory, once demolished, doesn't come back.
Garrelsweer, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Budapest is filled with beautiful building from various time periods, many have been renovated and reconstructed because of damages from WWII.
This is a church in Buda across from the Parliament.
A covered well in the courtyard of the High Castle in Malbork, crowned with a sculpture of a pelican feeding chicks with its own blood, which was the symbol of the order.
The Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork, the largest Gothic castle complex in the world, is a 13th-century Teutonic castle and fortress located near the town of Malbork on the river Nogat in Poland. It was originally constructed by the Teutonic Knights, a German Catholic religious order of crusaders, in a form of an Ordensburg fortress. The Order named it Marienburg in honour of Mary, mother of Jesus. In 1457, during the Thirteen Years’ War, it was sold by the Bohemian mercenaries to King Casimir IV of Poland in lieu of indemnities and it since served as one of the several Polish royal residences and the seat of Polish offices and institutions, interrupted by several years of Swedish occupation, and fulfilling this function until the First Partition of Poland in 1772. From then on the castle was under German rule for over 170 years until 1945. The castle is a classic example of a medieval fortress and, on its completion in 1406, was the world's largest brick castle. UNESCO designated the "Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork" and the Malbork Castle Museum a World Heritage Site in December 1997.
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Zadaszona studnia na dziedzińcu Zamku Wysokiego w Malborku, zwieńczona rzeźbą pelikana karmiącego własną krwią pisklęta, który był symbolem zakonu.
Zamek w Malborku – jeden z największych zamków na świecie, położony na prawym brzegu Nogatu, wzniesiony w kilku etapach od 1280 do poł. XV w. przez zakon krzyżacki. Początkowo konwentualna siedziba komtura, od 1309 po przeniesieniu przez Siegfrieda von Feuchtwangena stolicy zakonu do Malborka, siedziba wielkich mistrzów zakonu krzyżackiego i władz Prus Zakonnych do 1457, w latach 1457–1772 rezydencja królów Polski, od 1466 siedziba władz Prus Królewskich, od 1568 siedziba Komisji Morskiej, w 1772 zajęty przez administrację Królestwa Prus i zdewastowany w latach 1773–1804; rekonstruowany w latach 1817–1842 i 1882–1944, zniszczony w 1945, ponownie rekonstruowany od 1947; w 1949 wpisany do rejestru zabytków, w 1994 uznany za pomnik historii, w 1997 wpisany na listę światowego dziedzictwa UNESCO jako jeden z najznakomitszych przykładów średniowiecznej architektury obronno-rezydencyjnej w Europie Środkowej. Od 1961 zamek jest siedzibą Muzeum Zamkowego w Malborku.
Rode Hall , near Congleton , Cheshire, England
The first hall a black and white half timbered building, probably similar in style to the nearby Little Moreton Hall was replaced by smaller building to the right, completed in 1708 . The larger square Hall to the left was completed in 1752.
(Source:www.rodehall.co.uk/the-house )
Notice the bricked in windows, presumably an effect of the various window taxes brought in after 1696, this isn't confirmed by the web site. A cattle disease reduced the estates income drastically in 1866 and I wondered if this was one of the results, but of course the Wnndow Tax laws had been repealed in 1851. So presumably they were bricked up on one of the large increases in the century beforehand.
The house has extensive gardens leading down to a lake . They have been open to the public since the 1980's on Wednesdays and Bank Holidays , and for their Bluebell Walks in May. A beautiful place to visit .
The Cedar Garden at Tredegar House is lined with flowers at the end of summer... the Orangery and its garden are just over the wall.
This historical piece of Denver is long gone now. One day it's there and then when it goes away, you don't really notice that it's gone....
Founded in 1829 by Sir John Colborne, UCC is one of Canada’s oldest independent schools. Its campus sits north of St. Clair Avenue West, just west of Yonge Street in Toronto’s Deer Park area.
At the end of the day we have what we have, and this should be what satisfies us. Beyond that, the prize may not be what we need. Only what we want.
Happy Window Wednesday
Opened about 14 miles southeast of Big Valley by Mary Mehaffie. On 18 August 1949, it was changed to the Model School half a mile north of Hackett. In 1950, the school was moved to 1 ½ miles east of Jakes’ Butte. In 1958, the building was sold to Mr. A Warner, Big Valley.
Credit: Pioneering with a Piece of Chalk: The One-room Country Schools of Alberta, 1885-1982, Author William Peter Baergen
A one room school from the past, built to meet the needs of the community..... Notice the “hitching post” in the foreground.
As seen here on 25 May 2012 it is now used or has been used to store grain.
Surprised it has the strength to hold that kind of weight and stress after 100 years.
Checking Google Maps, the school is no longer standing, having been replaced by several metal grain bins. All that is left is a small marker on a post identifying where the school used to be.
Bathed in a warm, golden, autumnal glow, this scene captures the timeless, gritty elegance of Manchester’s historic canal network. Historic red-brick industrial masonry towers over the calm, dark waters, which shimmer with vivid orange reflections of the surrounding architecture and overhanging foliage. An arched stone bridge spans the narrow waterway, while prominent arched factory windows echo the city's rich heritage as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. The framing—interwoven with soft leafy branches—creates an inviting, cinematic atmosphere, bridging Manchester's hard-edged urban history with quiet moments of urban stillness.
A beautiful restaurant window, depicting the history of this Italian restaurant in Montreals' Little Italy district! Trust me it was beautiful inside & out, the food was delicious too!
The bottom lock at Braunston is part of the Braunston Lock Flight, a series of six locks on the Grand Union Canal in Braunston, Northamptonshire. These locks help boats navigate a 35-foot rise in elevation as they move between the lower and upper sections of the canal. The bottom lock is the first lock encountered when heading uphill toward Braunston Tunnel. It’s a busy spot, especially during summer, as Braunston is a major junction where the Grand Union and Oxford Canals meet. The lock is surrounded by charming countryside, making it a favourite among boaters and walkers.
Oud-katholieke kerk 'St. Joris op 't Zand'
Amersfoort, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Built in the late 19th Century, this building has served the community of Bridgnorth for over 130 years.
Brook, Speicherstadt, Hamburg, Deutschland
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Red brick walls festooned with a green climbing vine. They are on either side of the red brick steps leading up to the entrance of the Barr Smith Library.
Back in my uni days, I spent a lot of time in there pretending to study but really spending quiet but fun times with my friends as we met up between lectures. It feels like several lifetimes ago, and the university has undergone so many changes since.
Romanesque church in Tum, seen from close :)
The Collegiate Church of St. Mary and St. Alexius is an Romanesque church located in the village of Tum near Łęczyca, in central Poland. It was constructed out of granite blocks and sandstone in the mid-12th century. It has the form of an aisled basilica with galleries, a twin-tower west façade, and two apses (west and east). It was reconstructed in the 15th, 18th and mid-20th centuries; during the latest reconstruction the church returned to its simpler Romanesque form and round turrets at the east were added. The main (north) portal dates back to the first half of 12th century. In 2022, the church was designated an official Polish Historic Monument.
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Kolegiata romańska w Tumie z bliższej odległości :)
Kolegiata Najświętszej Marii Panny i św. Aleksego w Tumie, niedaleko Łęczycy, to romański kościół wzniesiony w pobliżu dawnej lokalizacji wczesnośredniowiecznego grodu. Został zbudowany z granitowych bloków i piaskowca w połowie XII wieku. Ma formę bazyliki z nawami bocznymi i emporami, dwuwieżową fasadą zachodnią oraz dwiema apsydami (zachodnią i wschodnią). Został przebudowany w XV, XVIII i połowie XX wieku. Podczas ostatniej przebudowy kościół powrócił do swojej pierwotnej, romańskiej formy, wzbogaconej o okrągłe wieżyczki od strony wschodniej. Główny (północny) portal pochodzi z pierwszej połowy XII wieku. W 2022 roku kościół został oficjalnie uznany za Pomnik Historii.
Originally a water-powered mill, this building milled corn through to the 1980s, when it ceased its activities. It is now unused that one can tell, waiting for the next step in its life.
A quick search suggests it has been around since at least the 1850s (thanks to the National Library of Scotland map archives)
Would hate to see it demolished.