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Retomando a ordem cronológica e normalmente atrasada desta Galeria.... Foto de Setembro! :-P
Este lindÃssimo Springfield serviu de base para uma combinação a postar em breve e ao princÃpio nem havia a intenção de o mostrar por aqui ( somente numa foto de comentários ), mas ele merece o destaque: cobriu com UMA só camada e ainda secou assim fantasticamente brilhoso e em tempo recorde!
Por isso digam lá que ele não tinha o direito à "distinção" ?
E além disso... que tom maravilhoso! Amei! <3 <3 <3
Former Lace factory in Sandiacre, Derbyshire; now converted to flats and sadly damaged by a fire earlier this year.
The view is looking northeastward at the skyline of Springfield, Illinois, in June 1977. I was standing on the Thomas Reese Memorial Carillon in Washington Park. (Scanned from an Ektachrome slide)
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield,_Illinois
Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat and largest city of Sangamon County. The city's population was 116,250 at the 2010 U.S. Census, which makes it the state's sixth most-populous city, the second largest outside of the Chicago metropolitan area (after Rockford), and the largest in central Illinois. As of 2019, the city's population was estimated to have decreased to 114,230, with just over 211,700 residents living in the Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Sangamon County and the adjacent Menard County.
Present-day Springfield was settled by European Americans in the late 1810s, around the time Illinois became a state. The most famous historic resident was Abraham Lincoln, who lived in Springfield from 1837 until 1861, when he went to the White House as President. Major tourist attractions include multiple sites connected with Lincoln including his presidential library and museum, his home, and his tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
The city lies in a valley and plain near the Sangamon River. Lake Springfield, a large artificial lake owned by the City Water, Light & Power company (CWLP), supplies the city with recreation and drinking water. Weather is fairly typical for middle latitude locations, with four distinct seasons, including, hot summers and cold winters. Spring and summer weather is like that of most midwestern cities; severe thunderstorms may occur. Tornadoes hit the Springfield area in 1957 and 2006.
The city has a mayor–council form of government and governs the Capital Township. The government of the state of Illinois is based in Springfield. State government institutions include the Illinois General Assembly, the Illinois Supreme Court and the Office of the Governor of Illinois. There are three public and three private high schools in Springfield. Public schools in Springfield are operated by District No. 186. Springfield's economy is dominated by government jobs, plus the related lobbyists and firms that deal with the state and county governments and justice system, and health care and medicine.
A view from the rear; with the early morning mid summer sun illuminating the track and train; Scotrails 158729 leading and 158725 nearer the camera just passed through Springfield station at speed working 2L62 06:02 Dundee to Edinburgh. Top mid frame can be seen Hospital Mill level crossing and less distinct where the lines curve to the right is Cults Mill level crossing. 22 June 2021.
A snapshot of the derelict Springfield Brewery from May 2015 showing part of the site along Grimstone Street - Banks's and Marston's lorries can be seen parked in the foreground although the old brewery was a Mitchells & Butlers concern.
The Myers Brothers Department Store in Springfield, Illinois, began as a general store in the city in 1865. The family later built in 1900 a five-story building at Firth and Washington downtown that was destroyed by fire in March 1924. It would be replaced by this 10-story structure that opened on Sept. 8, 1925. The store would eventually be sold twice and in 1983 was renamed Bergners for its second owner. The downtown Springfield store would close in 1989 with this sign at the top the only trace of a once proud tradition.
The line up at the Amtrak station in Springfield, MA with F40PH #280 and another, maybe #216? in 2000. - from my slide
In 1841 Springfield Hospital opened on 14th June as the first Surrey County Lunatic Asylum for Paupers in the London Borough of Wandsworth, Tooting. In 1938 97 acres of land had been purchased of an estate, Springfield Park which was so named due to the spring running through it. The original buildings were designed by Middlesex County surveyor Mr W. Moseley who had also previously designed the sprawling Middlesex Asylum in Hanwell.
Springfield was a fine specimen to behold in its time with state-of-the-art design features such as steam which was circulated through the galleries to keep the hospital at a constant temperature and hot air which was injected through the floors. The administration block was impressively designed, surrounded by a corridor plan layout and grand sweeping lawns (with a stone carved fountain) which flanked the original reception area although this has since been drastically modernised and now serves as the back of the site. Lunacy and melancholia were but a few of the commonly diagnosed symptoms being treated and numbers during the asylum's peak capacity reached just over 2000 patients and staff.
In 1856 a patient named Daniel Dolley was accidentally killed in the asylum under the orders of medical superintendant, Charles Snape during a routine hydrotherapy chastisement. The patient who was 65 had been acting hyperactively previously that day and was subjected to 28 minutes of cold water showering. Orders were given for the treatment to be followed with the administration of 2 grains of potassium antimony tartrate which is a poisonous crystalline compound often used in the treatment of parasitic infections and which can cause severe gastric inflammation. Daniel Dolley suffered a fatal convulsion only a few minutes after the treatment ceased.
Charles Snape was later charged with manslaughter, however the jury later stated that he had no case to answer and he was sent back to work at Springfield.
Recent years have seen the Institution at the focus of a great deal of media attention and controversy due to a high number of violent crimes relating to Springfield patient 'escapees'. The Freedom of Information Act revealed that 30 patients have escaped from secure wards in the hospital since 2005. In 2009 the Hospital has already experienced 2 absconds and 1 escape, one of whom is a rapist named Barrington Gordon as reported by a London Paper.
Much to the outrage of local residents the hospital boasts that it is not a high security facility but is only medium secure, yet the hospital receives 'day trips' from criminally insane patients from maximum security facilities such as Broadmoor. Perhaps the successful rehabilitation and support provided by a hospital of this scale is easily overlooked when it is overshadowed by so many systematic safety failures.
Springfield certainly appears to be a strange mix of open wards where people are free to 'walk through' in stark contrast to other areas that resemble a maximum security facility with courtyards penned off by curved edged fencing. In February 2009 a convicted killer named Paul Caesar who was on unescorted leave within the hospital grounds absconded and committed suicide on rail tracks.
In 2004 a patient who had escaped stabbed a man to death in Richmond Park. Another sad incident happened in 2000 when a patient named Anthony Josef was discharged only to stalk and murder his social worker, Jenny Morrison, who cared for him. Again, in 2006 a patient randomly killed fitness instructor Matthew Carter. And previously in 2003 a male nurse named Mamade Chattun was brutally beaten to death in the Hospital lobby by patient, Joseph Cann who had been sectioned the previous day.
The hospital accepted a fine of £28,000 in court and pleaded guilty to neglect resulting in Mamade's inability to seek any help or alert the authorities during the frenzied attack; he was provided with no attack alarm or radio for his safety and the nearby wall alarm was broken as were several others around the hospital.
Cabinet photograph, probably around 1900, of a mother & child. The photographer was Ferguson, Springfield, Missouri.
This is what I did with Springfield HS. A nice water fountain to welcome the students each morning. Plenty of outdoor seating for the students to study, or hang out with classmates.