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The exterior wall of an Aged Miners Home in Easington Village, not sure what the initials are all about. I have a feeling it may have something to do with the people who funded the original construction.
Is there escape from the fiery depths? Who knows.
But this isn't the "fiery depths". It is a ramp descending to backstage at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California. Opening in 1927, the Chinese Theater is arguably the world's most famous movie theater, with more Hollywood premieres than any other theater. Its forecourt houses the famous squares with famous movie stars' hand and footprints.
A creative look at The Stable Houses on the StmGiles Estate Wimborne St Giles back in 2010. #WimborneStGiles
Le restaurant Fleetschlösschen est situé au Brooktorkai 17, quartier Brooktorkay, dans la cité-État d’Hambourg (Hamburg), en Allemagne.
Ce charmant petit édifice, semblable à une petite chapelle est situé près du Sankt Annen Brücke. Il a été construit à la fin du 19e siècle dans le style néogothique typique de la Speicherstadt (littéralement « ville des entrepôts »). A cette époque, la zone appartenait au port franc et donc à la zone douanière. Le Fleetschlösschen servait donc initialement de bâtiment de service aux douanes pour contrôler les barges et enregistrer les marchandises transportées des grands voiliers jusqu'aux entrepôts des commerçants.
Lorsque la majeure partie du port a été déplacée vers la rive sud de l'Elbe, l’édifice a été utilisé par les pompiers de Hambourg comme caserne de pompiers. Plus tard, le bâtiment a servi d'abord de toilettes, puis de café pour les dockers. Depuis 2004, le bâtiment est utilisé comme restaurant gastronomique.
Deuxième ville d’Allemagne après Berlin et dotée d'un statut de Land, Hambourg (Hamburg) est l’un des plus grands ports du monde. Elle a d'ailleurs été fondée au 9e siècle à l'embouchure de la rivière Alster qui lui servait de port. L'Alster fut endiguée dès 1190, à l'origine pour alimenter un moulin à eau. En 1235 un autre barrage a été construit pour une deuxième usine, ce qui transforma la rivière en lac. Elle doit son essor économique à l'autorisation de commercer sur l'Elbe accordée par l'empereur Frédéric Barberousse en 1189 et son adhésion à la ligue hanséatique en 1321. Cette cité-Etat fut détruite à plus de 80 % lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Elle fut par la suite reconstruite et représente aujourd’hui une métropole fort intéressante.
Ville très riche (avec un revenu par habitant le plus élevé d'Europe), capitale de l’édition et des médias en Allemagne, Hambourg se révèle surprenante. Parmi ses caractéristiques, on compte plus de 64 kilomètres de canaux (d'où son surnom de la Venise du Nord) et 2500 ponts, une réputation comme ville la plus verte du pays tout en étant un livre ouvert d'architecture contemporaine (dont on peut voir les déclinaisons à Neustadt et, plus encore, à Fleet Insel - îlot nouveau construit sur le canal) avec aussi un quartier de nuit très chaud…
View on the buildings of the old flax factory from another old 19-th century building :)
Smile on Saturday - theme: "Framed" :)
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Explored #161 on July 4, 2020.
The Charter Oak Schoolhouse is a historic redbrick octagonal-shaped one-room schoolhouse in Schuline, Illinois, on the Evansville/Schuline Road between Schuline and Walsh. Built in 1873, it is one of 53 octagonal schoolhouses built in the United States, and is the only octagonal school built in Illinois. Only three of these octagonal schoolhouses are still standing.
The Charter Oak Schoolhouse was the third public school built at its location. The first school building was a simple log structure built in 1848. The second school building, a frame structure constructed in 1863, was destroyed by a tornado, necessitating the construction of a new building. Contractor William H. Holcomb constructed the third building at a cost of $1000. The school's teacher, Daniel Bishop Ling, proposed the construction of an octagonal building, which he believed would allow more light into the classroom and be more likely to survive severe winds. In addition to classes, the school building also hosted local meetings, competitions, and political events during its tenure as a school.
The building's foundation is made of locally quarried limestone, while the building's walls were built with red brick. A louvered belfry, which may not have been added until 1883, tops the building's low-sloping roof. Courses of corbelled brick along the roof line form the building's cornice. The vestibule at the school's entrance is sided with clapboard and rests on a concrete foundation.
Charter Oak schoolhouse closed in 1953, as did all other one-room schoolhouses in the area with the opening of a new and larger school. The Randolph County Historical Society purchased the building in 1960, and subsequently restored and converted it to an interpretive center of the history of the one-room schoolhouse. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
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I do not recall where this was taken. I do like these building shots from the corner point of view.
Happy Window Wednesday
Self-evidently, this was taken from a plane flying over the very centre of London; I've looked up at them from street level, but have only rarely been on appropriate routes myself, even rarer in suitable weather. There are far too many landmarks to mention, so I'll just pick a few highlights.
The Tate Modern, within the old Bankside Power Station on the Thames' South Bank, is at the extreme lower left, near the twin bridges of Blackfriars Station, its covered platforms extending right across the river, and Blackfriars Bridge, carrying road and pedestrian traffic. The curving facade of Unilever House is at the northern (right) end of the Bridge.
Almost midway between Blackfriars and Waterloo Bridge, the next one upstream (away from the camera), the 'spire' atop a redbrick-and-white striped building is the distinctive Oxo Tower. The trees immediately beyond are at Gabriel's Wharf. Just to the left of Waterloo Bridge is the National Theatre; just beyond is the rest of the South Bank complex of performance venues.
Back on the other side of the Thames, the 'wedding-cake' spire of St Bride's church, off Fleet Street, is nearly in the middle of the photo's bottom edge. The area of trees behind, extending almost to the riverbank, comprises Inner- and Middle Temple Gardens, at the heart of 'legal London' (the trees on the riverbank, extending as far as Parliament, line the Victoria Embankment). To the right of Temple, the Royal Courts of Justice (the primary civil, not criminal courts complex) are on the edge of the cloud and the western boundary of the City of London; everything beyond is the City of Westminster.
The obvious spired church beyond the Courts is St Clement Danes, at the junction of the Strand (Fleet Street became the Strand just east of the Courts) and Aldwych, which curves right then back left to rejoin the Strand at the approach to Waterloo Bridge. At the near end of Aldwych, facing St Clement's, is the Australian High Commission; immediately behind is Bush House, the ex-home of the BBC World Service, then behind that is the High Commission of India; the embassies of other Commonwealth nations are further along the Strand and into St James's.
To the left of Bush House, slightly indistinct behind a wisp of cloud, the spired church of St Mary-le-Strand stands on a traffic island in, yes, the Strand. To the left, between the Strand and the river, are King's College London and Somerset House, the latter including the Courtauld Gallery and Institute. Incidentally, as the name implies, the Strand was once the nearest road to the Thames, before Sir Joseph Bazalgette constrained the river to a narrower, faster-flowing channel by 1870.
Staying on the north side of the Thames: the Strand continues to Charing Cross and Trafalgar Square, roughly in line with the Hungerford Bridges (i.e. the Golden Jubilee (pedestrian) Bridges to either side of the Hungerford (railway) Bridge). I can't identify specific buildings in this section of the Strand, but I see the long roofs of Covent Garden market at the far right of the image and the triangle of riverside park is Victoria Embankment Gardens, with Cleopatra's Needle on the river wall.
I can see the spire of St Martin-in-the-Fields church on the near side of Trafalgar Square, but Nelson's Column is surprisingly difficult to discern, as is Admiralty Arch at the entrance to The Mall, the 'processional route' past St James's Park (note the long lake) to the Victoria Monument and Buckingham Palace, fortuitously visible in a gap in the cloud.
To the left of Charing Cross, er, roundabout is Charing Cross railway station, obviously leading to the railway bridge.
Beyond, the Embankment remains tree-lined past Whitehall Gardens to Westminster Bridge (note the RAF Memorial on the riverbank); one 'block' back from the Thames, Whitehall extends from Charing Cross to Parliament Square, lined by the major departments of government, such as the Ministry of Defence Main Building, behind the RAF Memorial.
To catch up on the South Bank: the huge observation Wheel of the London Eye stands opposite the RAF Memorial, with County Hall to its left, beside Westminster Bridge, and the Shell Centre to the left of Jubilee Gardens. Next to the left is the expansive roof of Waterloo Station, the terminus of railway lines snaking away into the distance.
Beyond Westminster Bridge stands St Thomas' Hospital, then Lambeth Palace Gardens and Lambeth Palace itself, the London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, at the southern end of Lambeth Bridge.
It's unfortunate that cloud slightly obscures the Palace of Westminster (aka Houses of Parliament), but one can still see the iconic Clock Tower (the 'Elizabeth Tower' since 2012) at the nearer end and the Victoria Tower at the other. Immediately to the right of the Clock Tower is St Margaret's Church then the rather larger Westminster Abbey. To the right of the Abbey's west front, and left of the corner of St James's Park, is the distinctive 'square dome' of Methodist Central Hall; further along Victoria Street, leading diagonally away to the right from the Abbey, one can see the tower and green domes of the catholic Westminster Cathedral.
To the immediate left of Parliament is Victoria Tower Gardens, extending as far as Lambeth Bridge; the large building immediately beyond the trees is Thames House, headquarters of MI5, the domestic 'Security Service'. The high-rise Millbank Tower, to the left, hides the Tate Britain gallery.
The next crossing of the Thames is Vauxhall Bridge, with the headquarters of MI6, the 'Secret Intelligence Service' at its south-eastern end.
Luckily, I've covered the next reach of the Thames in detail elsewhere, so will just mention Battersea Power Station and Battersea Park on the south side of the Grosvenor Railway Bridge and Chelsea Bridge, with the housing estates of Pimlico nearer on the north bank and Chelsea to the right.
The remaining visible bridges are, in sequence upstream, the Albert, Battersea, Battersea Rail and, ~8½ km away, Wandsworth Bridge.
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Building of the hospital in my hometown, as it looks in Winter :)
The hospital in Żyrardów, which was built from 1892 to 1894, took pattern from the most advanced at that time Carla Hospital i Dresden. The building complex was erected acording to the introduced at that time pavilon style and surrounded by greenery and equipped with electric instalation, central heating and sewerage. Now the main entrance is on the other side, but the building still has its original functions.
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Budynek szpitala w Żyrardowie pstryknięty zimową porą :)
Szpital w Żyrardowie - zbudowany w latach 1892-1894, wzorowany na jednym z najnowocześniejszych w tym czasie szpitali "Carla" w Dreźnie. Zespół budynków wzniesiono według wprowadzonego wówczas systemu pawilonowego, otoczony zielenią, wyposażony m.in. w instalację elektryczną, centralne ogrzewanie i kanalizację. Obecnie główne wejście znajduje się z innej strony, lecz budynek wciąż pełni swoje pierwotne funkcje.
Reflection of old and new in the Ashton Canal, this canal connects with the Huddersfield Narrow Canal in Ashton-Under-Lyne and continues the South Pennine Ring down into Manchester at Castlefields basin.
Grote Kerk, Voorstraat, Vianen, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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We are going to visit the castle in Malbork :)
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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Idziemy zwiedzać zamek w Malborku :)
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.
The castle in Malbork is really big and there is plenty of space to walk around :)
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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Spacerujemy wśród murów zamku w Malborku. Jest tu co oglądać :)
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.
This picturesque scene in Krakow features a charming historic building and a medieval tower, both showcasing the city's rich architectural heritage. The red brick structure with its pointed roofs and intricate windows contrasts beautifully with the stone tower, set against a backdrop of lush greenery and a clear blue sky. This image captures the timeless beauty and historical significance of Krakow's architectural landmarks, inviting viewers to explore the city's storied past.
The biggest church in my hometown lit by the afternoon sun, seen from the workers' housing estate.
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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Największy kościół w Żyrardowie oświetlony popołudniowym słońcem, widziany z terenu dawnego osiedla domów robotniczych.
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.
Afternoon sunlight on Red bricks at Dunston Norfolk.
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Here is Liverpool's new stadium, almost finished and looking good but as you can see there's still loads more work to be done on the surrounding area including the streets near by.
(did you know 'Anfield' is in Everton not Anfield)
Amersfoort, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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