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Commissioned by James IV. Part of the castle previously used by the Argyle and Sutherland Highlander’s regiment.
Built in 1712 as the Queen Anne Parsonage for use by missionaries to the Mohawk Indians. Later, the house was occupied by William Harper, Montgomery County delegate to the Constitution ratification convention at Poughkeepsie in 1788. This is one of the oldest surviving structures in the Mohawk Valley.
Fort Hunter, New York.
This is St Giles in the Derbyshire village of Great Longstone, in the middle of the Peak District. A very nice quaint village with the church high on the hillside looking over the parish.
The old village chapel in the picturesque village of Blencow in Cumbria. The building is now a private house I think - going by the line of washing that was hung outside just off to the right of this image.
Cockington is a village near Torquay, in the Torbay district, in the ceremonial county of Devon, England. Cockington with Chelston had a population of 8,366 in 2021 It has old cottages within its boundaries, and is about two miles from the centre of Torquay.
Cockington Village, ca. 1890 - 1900
The village was probably founded 2,500 years ago during the Iron Age with evidence of two hill forts on either side of Cockington Valley. Little is known about Cockington from that point up until the remains of a small Saxon village were found near the Drum Inn. The evidence from this village shows that it was primarily a fishing and farming village. The first official documentation of the village was in the 10th century. The manor was owned by Alric the Saxon, before William Hostiarus, William de Falaise and Robert FitzMartin, who passed it down to his son Roger, who renounced his name to become Roger de Cockington. The Cockington family owned Cockington Estate from 1048–1348. The Cary family (this particular branch included George Carey (c. 1541–1616)) owned the court from 1375 to 1654. It was then sold to the Mallock family a family of rich silversmiths from Exeter, who owned it from 1654 to 1932 when they sold the estate to the Torquay Corporation.
In 1921 the parish had a population of 279. On 1 October 1928 the parish was abolished and merged with Torquay.
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the church of scotland, built in the 1800s. sits on the banks of the river wauchope, (wauchope water) and the river esk, (border esk) just over the church brig, from caroline street. langholm, dumfriesshire, scotland.
This historic church at Walter's Falls, Ontario (near Owen Sound) was founded by John Walter over 160 years ago. John Walter (1804 - 1867) and his wife Elizabeth Payne (1804 - 1882) are buried in the church yard of St. Phillip's Anglican Church. This beautiful stone church, built in 1880, is located beside the Falls Inn, a great place to stay and dine. Settling around the river, John harnessed the water power to develop a sawmill, feedmill and woolen mill which have since been restored.
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Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity
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I have wanted to visit this stunning castle for some time and finally made it.
The Eileen Donan Castle is an iconic building sat on the edge Loch Duich in the Scottish Highlands.
There was beautiful light yesterday, but I was late and the sunlight was gone by 5.15pm when this was taken. It's a handheld shot of the Birgu waterfront, from L-Isla. The old Royal Navy Bakery is now the National Maritime Museum. The parish church of St Lawrence and the dome of the church of St Dominic can be seen to the right.
Ruins of Fort Crown Point, built by British and provincial troops on Lake Champlain in 1759 to guard against French invasion from Canada. A fire destroyed the fort in 1773, leaving only stone officers and soldiers barracks and earthen fortifications behind. During the Revolutionary War the fort was held first by the Americans and then by the British, who abandoned it in 1780, after which it was left to decay. Today the preserved ruins are part of the Crown Point State Historic Site in Crown Point, New York.
The remains of a window and window seats in the ruined keep of Hopton Castle, just outside the small village of Hopton Castle (South Shropshire, in the Welsh Borders region of western England), on a mostly sunny morning at the beginning of June 2015.
The castle originated as an Anglo-Norman site, located by an earlier settlement -- there had been a late Anglo-Saxon manor there. The keep, all that remains, has Anglo-Norman features of the 11th or 12th century, but it may have been built during the 1260s (1264 being the date of the earliest surviving written record of it) in a deliberately "archaic" style. During the "English" Civil War (which actually involved Wales, Scotland, and Ireland as well as England), it was held by Parliamentarians until it was taken by Royalists during a fierce siege in 1644. The part of the structure that survived the siege subsequently fell into disrepair and ruin. A restoration project begun in 2006 shored up walls, conserved plaster, added railings for safety, and provided explanatory panels; the restored site opened to the public in December 2011.
Hopton Castle is located in a quiet valley off a side road not far from the border between southwestern Shropshire and northwestern Herefordshire.
(Information about the castle from the Hopton Castle Preservation Trust website and Wikipedia, both last consulted 30 July 2019.)
As restored, one can imagine these seats covered with cushions, with people sitting in them, making the most of the light and the view.
[Hopton Castle window seats 2015 jun 3 c; IMG_5375]
Prompt: In the artistic style of artist painter Ann Mortimer, Vintage bakery building, all in flowers with a bicycle outside the shop. sign hanging at the top "Bakery". A stone building in a medieval town with flowers hanging all over it, a bicycle stands at the entrance. Through the window you can see delicious buns, watercolor painting --ar 4:3 --stylize 250 --v 6.1
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This image was taken during a very cold night shoot with Dave (@dscreativ). Dave had already come up with the location, composition and light-painting concept for the old ruin before we arranged permission to access the property.
After shooting beneath the Milky Way, the final image was assembled from 10 exposures, combining the light-painted ruin with the night sky above.
Today in Ross will be an entirely monochrome experience. I think each of these photographs lent themselves to this interpretation - the afternoon sun and shadows and of course the old buildings.
Here is "Captain Samuel's Cottage". First built in 1830 it has been "used as a convict barracks, a grindstone shop, butchery, antique shop and private home". At the moment it is "Cupid's Nest" and has been turned into a couple of tourist apartments. But its most interesting occupant was clearly Captain Samuel Horton.
He was a wealthy merchant seaman who retired to Ross. His biggest achievement was establishing the nearby Horton College which ran as a prestigious boarding school until 1894. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horton_College
The Cupid's nest reference makes me think of that classic movie and later TV series, "The Ghost and Mrs Muir". Perhaps the ghost of Captain Samuel Horton also visits the people staying there today.
[Make sure you enlarge this one to take a closer look.]
The Château d'Azay-le-Rideau, in the village / small town of Azay-le-Rideau (the département of Indre-et-Loire, located in the Centre-Val de Loire region in central France), on a mostly clear afternoon in mid-October 2016.
While broadly considered part of the "Loire Valley" or Val de Loire, Azay-le-Rideau actually lies along the River Indre, which is a tributary of the Loire itself. The château, a small gem of the Renaissance period, is surrounded by the Indre, which forms a natural moat, as well as a garden and parkland. The current château was primarily built between 1518 and 1527 while owned by Gilles Berthelot, a royal official and mayor of nearby Tours, on the site of a former, mostly destroyed medieval fortified castle (château-fort) of Ridel (or Rideau) d'Azay, who had held the land in the late 12th century. The fact that the surviving structure was built within a fairly short period helps to account for its unified architectural style, designed for elegance and expression of status rather than for defence. It has been owned by the French State since 1905.
(Information from the website of the Château d'Azay-le-Rideau and Wikipedia, both consulted 29 July 2017, as well as from the Michelin Châteaux of the Loire Green Guide (Watford, Herts., UK: Michelin Travel Partner, 2015 printing).)
When we visited in 2016, it was undergoing extensive renovation, an ongoing project since 2015; therefore, it was partly closed off and covered in scaffolding and drapes. Fortunately, my husband has long been fascinated by European scaffolding, and the situation reduced the number of other visitors, so we enjoyed our visit!
[Azay-le-Rideau: château corner scaffolding restoration 2016 oct 10 f; DSCF0297]
According to legend the original castle was built by Uther Pendragon, father of King Arthur, in the 5th century and may have been the site of his death when a well was poisoned by the Saxons.
Charles Livingston built this stone house overlooking the Hot Springs community in 1920.
Big Bend National Park, Texas.
Schech's Mill near Caledonia, Minnesota. The mill was built in 1876 and is still in operation. It is the oldest operating mil with original equipment in Minnesota.
In Monteriggioni
Monteriggioni is a comune in the province of Siena in the Italian region of Tuscany. It borders on the communes of Casole d'Elsa, Castellina in Chianti, Castelnuovo Berardenga, Colle di Val d'Elsa, Poggibonsi, Siena, and Sovicille.[3] The town is architecturally and culturally significant; it hosts several piazzas, and is referenced in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy
.Monteriggioni is a medieval walled town, located on a natural hillock, built by the Sienese in 1214–19 as a front line defensive fortification in their wars against Florence, by assuming command of the Via Cassia running through the Val d'Elsa and Val Staggia to the west. It withstood many attacks from both the Florentines and the forces of the Bishop of Volterra.
In 1554, the Sienese put the town's garrison under the command of Giovannino Zeti, who had been exiled from Florence. In 1554, in an act of reconciliation with the Medicis, Florence's ruling family, Zeti simply handed the keys of the town over to their forces— considered a "great betrayal" by the townspeople.
June 28, 2023 - "The New portal of Santa Engracia was built around 1583 in the current Plaza de la Virgen de la O. Over time, the current New Door became a New Portal.
At the siege of Pamplona in 1823, the portal was destroyed in a bombing, being closed to traffic until 1826.
Between 1906 and 1907 it was renovated on the occasion of the project to widen the city's portals.
In 1950, the metal bridge, which replaced the primitive wall, was replaced by the current stone bridge that joins the gardens of the Taconera with the Plaza de la Virgen de la O. The vaults that form the two towers of the portal bridge have a curious acoustics (quadraphony) that can be seen in the center of them.
On the inner facade it had two shields of the Count of Fuensalida (1676-1781)." Previous description: www.monumentalnet.org/monumento.php?r=NA-CAS-119-PSE
Way out in the middle of nowhere - Doing Business since 1887 - They sure must have done something right.
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This is St Michael's in the East Yorkshire village of Eastrington. A patchwork of brickwork on this church in the centre of the village.
Pennsbury Manor is the colonial estate of William Penn, founder and proprietor of the Colony of Pennsylvania, who lived there from 1683 to 1701. He left it and returned to England in 1701, where he died penniless in 1718. Following his departure and financial woes the estate fell into numerous hands and disrepair. Since 1939 it has been the name of a reconstructed manor on the original property.
Penn had his manor built on an 8,000-acre (3,200 ha) parcel, part of his much larger grant of land from the Crown. It was located about 25 miles north of Philadelphia along the Delaware River in present-day Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Source: Wikipedia
My daughter included Pennsbury Manor on our trip with her young family to visit some historic sites in some old Colonial states. It is situated on what may be the eastern-most point of Pennsylvania, overlooking the Delaware River. The barn still houses a few cows, sheep and horses.
In Explore, 18 Sep 2018. Best position: #38.