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A village in the middle of nowhere in England... Castle Combe is a very picturesque village about 5 miles from Chippenham in Wiltshire. It is much loved by film-makers because not only does it contain many quaint old English stone buildings, it has no modern buildings. Also (presumably by byelaw) there are no aerials or satellite dishes to be seen, nor are there any telegraph poles.
Some of the numerous films that have used Castle Combe as a location include: Dr Dolittle (1967), Stardust (2007), Wolfman (2010), Warhorse (2011) as well as episodes of TV programmes such as Poirot.
The village's population of about 350 is vastly outnumbered by the many visitors it attracts. The history of the village dates back to at least the C14th with several existing buildings dating from this time, including the market cross. Most buildings in the village date from the C15th to C18th, and a large percentage of them are EH listed. One of the later buildings is the magnificent Manor House on the edge of the village, set in 365 acres of parkland, which is now a 4* hotel.
Benicia Arsenal Camel Barns
Buildings 7 and 9 were built in 1853 and 1854 and cost $10,000 and $12,000.
The Engine House between them was completed in 1855, it is now used as an office for the Benicia Historical Society.
These finely crafted sandstone Buildings were originally constructed for use as Warehouses. They gained their name and fame, however, during a brief period in 1863-64 when they were to stable a herd of camels imported by the U.S. Army for transportation in the American desert.
The Benicia Arsenal was a large military reservation located next to Suisun Bay in Benicia, California. For over 100 years, the arsenal was the primary US Army Ordnance facility for the West Coast of the United States.
In 1847 a 252-acre parcel of land adjoining the Benicia city limits on the east was acquired for a military reserve. First occupation of the post was on April 9, 1849, when two companies of the 2nd Infantry Regiment set up camp to establish Benicia Barracks, which also housed the 3rd Artillery Regiment . In 1851, after the urging of General Percifer F. Smith, the first Ordnance Supply Depot in the West was established in Benicia. In 1852 it was designated Benicia Arsenal. Notable military personnel who were stationed there during this time include Ulysses Grant, Edward Ord, and Joseph Hooker, among others.
The grounds of the Benicia Arsenal are also famous for stabling the Army's one and only Camel Corps. The short-lived Camel Corps was disbanded in 1863, but the Camel Barns, built in 1855, remain and are now the Benicia Historical Museum.
The Benicia Arsenal was a staging area during the Civil War for Union troops from the West, and the installation remained a garrisoned post until 1898 when troops were assigned to duty in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. During World War I, Benicia Arsenal gave ordnance support to all large Army installations in the Western States as well as supplying Ordnance material to American expeditionary forces in Siberia.
In the 24 hours following the Pearl Harbor bombing, 125 separate truck convoys were loaded and dispatched from the Benicia Arsenal, leaving its stock of ammunition, small arms and high explosives completely exhausted. Throughout the war, the arsenal supplied ports with weapons, artillery, parts, supplies and tools. In addition, the arsenal overhauled 14,343 pairs of binoculars, manufactured 180,000 small items for tanks and weapons and repaired approximately 70,000 watches. However, the arsenal is most famous for supplying munitions to Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle for the first bombing raid on Tokyo on April 18, 1942, launched from the USS Hornet.
Prior to 1940, the arsenal employed 85 civilian employees; by October 1942, the payroll had reached 4,545. The labor shortage in 1944 forced the arsenal commander to put 250 Italian and 400 German prisoners of war to work, alongside 150 juveniles from the California Youth Authority. Women comprised nearly half the civilian employee force. During the Korean War, the number of civilians reached an all-time high of 6,700 workers..
Benicia Arsenal was deactivated in 1963 and the facility was closed in 1964. Its functions were transferred to Tooele Army Depot in Utah. The arsenal has been redeveloped as work and sales space for artists and artisans.
Day Glyph of 6 Malinalli (Grass). Temple of the Sun. Earlier (15th Century AD) rebuilding with date glyphs. Volcanic Stone, Mexica, 15th Century AD. Zona Arqueologica de Tlatelolco, Plaza de las Tres Culturas, Tlateloco, Mexico. Copyright 2015, James A. Glazier. Tlateloco was founded by a sister tribe to the Aztecs at Tenochtitlan and was a major trading center during the Aztec empire, as well as an early competitor of Tenochtitlan. Like all Aztec Temples, these would originally have been covered with stucco and painted.
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Photograph of Dinkel's restaurant on Bridge Street in Belleville, Ontario.
Taken for the Historic Structures Committee of the Hastings County Historical Society in 1981.
Coats of Arms. 18th Century. Old town (Centro Storico). Ostuni, the "White City." Apulia, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
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Yes it's a Black and White from Shannon Rogers lol, I have been called Mr Color and Mr Vibrant among other colorful names, but sorry I just had to show that even I can produce a black and white image lol :))
Over 100 years old and yet still standing to see another night of Darkness, with so many story's to tell and one's unknown to those that pass by it... Is it haunted????
I couldn't see anything out of the paranormal, but I sure felt it and it was amazing how much this Old Ruin Light up under a full moon... I used torches to help light the scene, but I have never seen anyhting like how amazing this old Ruin light up! After all this was Taken near the Most Haunted town in Australia, called Kapunda in South Australia! It gives me goose bumps just going over it all again, it was seriously spooky and it takes a heck of a lot to make me feel spooked....... So I had to call this "Ghost of Ruin". Seriously if you don't believe in Ghosts, then I'll take you to a few spots that will make you think otherwise lol!!
Captured on the canon 7D, while teamed up with the Tamron 10-24mm lens on a long Exposure of around 6 minutes!
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Oil on Canvas, 18"X24"
I did this from a photo taken while on vacation in Wales. I was told that by a guy from Ireland that it reminds him of home - and that was before he knew it was Wales. I told him that he was very close, and that I liked his take on it. It's in a gold frame which suits it very well and brings out the warm colors of the cows in the front. There's also a goat and a sheep in there, and a little pile of poops - can you find it?
Location: 54 High St, Broadway, Worcestershire, England.
The Horse & Hound public house is a beautiful cotswold stone building set in the delightful Broadway, a charming village and civil parish nestling beneath the Worcestershire hills of the Cotswolds.
Today, Broadway attracts visitors from across the world – all drawn to the beauty and attractions of this quintessential English village.
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A special order from Finland this week!
I have been wanting to get into tiny scale work as there seems to be a lack of it out there in general.
This was a challenge to cut bricks, find a workable window (I used an HO scale window and cut it down to just the 6 panes) and the sails ended up being made from HO scale ladders (a huge time and money saver for me AND the buyer!). As with my HO scale windmills, the sails are made as a separate piece that fits snug into the face after shipping!
Then and now. Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden, formerly the Abigail Adams Smith Museum is dwarfed my modern buildings. Built in 1799 it began life as a stable and carriage house. In 1826 it was converted into a country hotel, this was at a time when residential construction ended at Chelsea.
O'Brien Steele Pinkston Luscombe Funeral Home on Moira Street West in Belleville, Ontario.
One of a series of photographic slides taken by the Keller family of Belleville between 1964 and 1994.
Another church going by the name of St Oswald's, and again in Lincolnshire. This time in the small village/hamlet of Blankney, south of Lincoln. Taken back in September 2009 on a glorious late summer afternoon.
This is another image put though Photomatix for a HDR look and then some final touches in CS4.
Rear view of The Family Bakery building and the parking lot. The bakery was located at 213A Front Street in Belleville, Ontario. Photograph by Garry Sherman.
Donated by Garry Sherman in 2008 (2008-31).
The front entrance to the Basilica of Our Lady Immaculate is quite elaborate befitting a church made in the Gothic Revival style in the 1860s and 1870s, and based on stylings of European cathedrals. This church is a designated Canadian Historical Site and while definitely a city tourist attraction, it is still a functioning Catholic church.
The Black Bread Cafe is on Race Street, Jim Thorpe. Many of the eating establishments and the great variety of shops found in the town have beautiful exteriors. They are lined along the narrow streets of this popular tourist town, located in the Pocono mountains resort area of northeastern Pennsylvania.
June 20, 2023 - "The Cité de Carcassonne is a fortified medieval city located on a hill in the old town of Carcassonne, in the Occitanie region of southern France. It is located on the right bank of the Aude and in the southeast of the current city. Its origins date back to Gallo-Roman times and it was enlarged into a fortress in the Middle Ages. The fortified city is surrounded by a double wall (each about three kilometers long with a total of 52 towers). The main buildings within the Cité, which is still inhabited, are a castle (Château comtal) and a church (Basilique Saint-Nazaire).
In the 19th century, the already decaying city of Carcassonne was restored under the direction of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. This resulted in an extensive well-preserved historical monument that was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.
Carcassonne was founded as Carcasso in the 1st century BC. Founded by the Romans on the site of today's Cité. The so-called Gallo-Roman towers with a horseshoe plan on the inner wall testify to the Carcasso period.
On the 14 hectares, where between 3,000 and 4,000 people lived in the Middle Ages, 229 permanent residents live today. All the others work for tourism and live abroad. La Cité is a large open-air museum used by tourists and is not normally accessible by car.
Legend has it that the fortress was once besieged by Charlemagne, when Mme Carcas was the lady of the castle. The siege lasted so long that famine soon claimed the first victims in the Cité. Mrs. Carcas then decided to stuff a pig with wheat and, when she was fat enough, she threw it off the castle wall. The besiegers, already exhausted, thought when they saw the fat animal that fell from their towers that the city must have food to spare. Dejected, Charlemagne's men gave up and returned home. When the town bells rang to celebrate the end of the siege, one of the besiegers is said to have exclaimed Madame Carcas sonne (Carcas sounds).
In 1208, Pope Innocent III, faced with the increase and extension of Catharism, decreed the Albigensian Crusade. The Count of Tolosa and the Viscount of Carcassonne are accused of heresy and their territories become the main target of the attack by the barons from France. On August 1, 1209, the city is besieged by the Crusaders. Raymond Roger Trencavel surrenders to them on August 15 in exchange for the lives of its inhabitants. The villages around the city are destroyed. The viscount dies of dysentery in his castle prison on November 10, 1209. Other sources speak of an assassination planned by Simon de Montfort.
The city becomes the headquarters of the crusade troops. The land and city are delivered to Simón de Montfort, military chief of the Crusader army. He died in 1218 during the siege of Toulouse and his son, Amaury VI de Montfort, took possession of the city, but was unable to manage it. He cedes the rights to it to Louis VIII of France, but Ramon VII of Toulouse and the counts of Foix allied against the king. In 1224, Ramón Trencavel II took possession of the city after Amaury fled.
Louis VIII launches a second crusade in 1226 and Ramón Trencavel must flee. The city of Carcassonne becomes part of the domain of the King of France and becomes the seat of a seneschal. A period of terror is installed inside the city among the inhabitants; the search and hunting of the Cathars multiplies the bonfires in the squares and there are continuous savage denunciations, with the installation of an Inquisition Tribunal within the city precincts.
Louis IX of France orders the construction of the second walled enclosure so that the city can withstand long sieges and sieges. Trencavel, refugee in Aragon, intends to recover his land. At the same time, the king of Aragon, Jaime I the Conqueror, is considered a constant threat to the region, very close to the borders of his kingdom, the city being part of the defensive system of the border between France and Aragon.
After the annexation of Roussillon to France by the Treaty of the Pyrenees, the military role of Carcassonne was greatly reduced, as the distance to the Spanish border increased considerably. The role of command post for the defense of the border was transferred to Perpignan.
The walls of the Cité date from various periods of construction. The oldest parts of the wall were erected at the time of the Visigoths. They can be recognized by the layers of small cube-shaped stones, interrupted by layers of bricks, and by the narrowness of the towers, which are already equipped with real windows. The castle was mainly built in the 12th century. The outer ring of walls with their smooth ashlars dates from the middle of the 13th century.
At the end of the 13th century some of the towers and parts of the inner wall were built, which was then being rebuilt and advanced. The ashlars from this period are mostly carved with art. The towers have several floors and are provided with loopholes. The building material for the two concentric belts of fortifications was brought from the surrounding quarries: hard sandstone, difficult to extract and work, but which over the centuries began to erode under the influence of violent storms from the southwest.
The interior of the walls is made of rounded stones, fragments of rock and sand, agglutinated with lime, which also serves as mortar. The texture of the masonry varies with each period of construction.
The regular outer wall, 1.5 kilometers long, was built in 15 years shortly after 1230, hence its uniform appearance. The construction history of the 1.3 km long inner wall is much more complicated and its masonry is far from uniform. At that time, the city already had a wall from the Gallo-Roman era that was around 1,000 years old, but it was no longer up to date. Today it forms the skeleton of the inner belt and can often be seen at the bottom of today's wall.
As always in such cases, the area between the two walls is called the Zwinger. The kennel kept the attacker in an area that militia projectiles could reach. The wall must be as high as possible, because until the 14th century people did not shoot back, they shot back. In times of peace, such a kennel was used for games and knightly combat festivals. In some cases, the old parts of the wall were supported on new foundations when they were tapped, so that the strange picture arises that the oldest part is higher than the later one.
The ditch around the wall was not filled with water, but it had the function of preventing the use of larger siege engines, which had to be directed against the wall at right angles to the direction of the Zwinger and therefore did not have sufficient access. here. The fortification of the city with a double fence corresponded to a new defensive tactic that had been designed around 1200 around the king in the time of Philip Augustus (1180-1223). His principle was: the defense must be active, it must be able to inflict heavy losses on the attacker. Therefore, more than a thousand archers were stationed on the battlements, and the towers flanked the entire wall without leaving a blind spot.
It was possible to advance towards the Zwinger between the two city walls without exposing oneself to the full mass of besiegers. This allowed early attackers who were said to have advanced this far to be pursued individually or in small groups. With this tactic, one could successfully resist even a numerically superior siege force.
Many towers of the outer line are so-called shell towers, i. that is to say, they are open at the back, so that the enemy could not take refuge once they crossed the first wall. Then it could still be attacked from the inner wall, for example by archers. However, the effectiveness of this defense has never really been proven." Previous description: www.topworldimages.com/Cite_de_Carcassonne.htm
Situated on the banks of the River Corrib in Galway city, Galway Cathedral is the most recently built of Europe's great stone cathedrals.
Ruins of the Medieval castle, built from the 11th Century AD to the 13th Century AD. Built over earlier Roman and Japigian structures. Italian. Cannae, Barletta, Apulia, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier. Scene of the great defeat of the Romans by Hannibal.
Francis X. Bushman was one of the biggest early movie stars, appearing in over one hundred films in the 1910s and '20s. His Mediterranean Style home was built in Lakeview Terrace around 1924.
More information on Big Read 2009: Robinson Jeffers and the Ecologies of Poetry is available on Occidental College's Big Read home page and on the Glendale Public Library's website.
Additionally, an interactive map of this Stone Castles and Cottages of the Verdugo Hills exhibit is available here.
Photo courtesy Little Landers Historical Society.
A village in the middle of nowhere in England... Castle Combe is a very picturesque village about 5 miles from Chippenham in Wiltshire. It is much loved by film-makers because not only does it contain many quaint old English stone buildings, it has no modern buildings. Also (presumably by byelaw) there are no aerials or satellite dishes to be seen, nor are there any telegraph poles.
Some of the numerous films that have used Castle Combe as a location include: Dr Dolittle (1967), Stardust (2007), Wolfman (2010), Warhorse (2011) as well as episodes of TV programmes such as Poirot.
The village's population of about 350 is vastly outnumbered by the many visitors it attracts. The history of the village dates back to at least the C14th with several existing buildings dating from this time, including the market cross. Most buildings in the village date from the C15th to C18th, and a large percentage of them are EH listed. One of the later buildings is the magnificent Manor House on the edge of the village, set in 365 acres of parkland, which is now a 4* hotel.
Photograph of the eastern side and rear of the Hutton-Ponton house at 250 Dundas Street West in Belleville, Ontario, taken by Colborne Powell Meredith in August 1925.
Original at Library and Archives Canada.
Traditional trulli stacked-stone houses. Alberobello, Apulia, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier. A UNESCO Word Heritage Site. Enjoyable spot, but someone must have been owed a favor.
Vila Romana da Abicada, 3rd Century AD. Quinta da Abicada, Faro, Portugal. Copyright 2023, James A. Glazier
Spanish Colonial Revival home built for R. Lee Heath, who served as the Los Angeles Chief of Police in the 1920s.
More information on Big Read 2009: Robinson Jeffers and the Ecologies of Poetry is available on Occidental College's Big Read home page and on the Glendale Public Library's website.
Additionally, an interactive map of this Stone Castles and Cottages of the Verdugo Hills exhibit is available here.
Remains of late Roman building built into Renaissance houses. Napoli, Campania, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
St. Tanwg's Church in Llandanwg
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The centre of the village of Hemswell in Lincolnshire, along with its Maypole. Such a shame there's an abundance of telephone wires criss crossing the road in all directions.
So here we are at last- we have reached the ancient village of Lahic/ Lahij (Azerbaijani: Lahıc, Tat: Löhij). This is a village and municipality on the southern slopes of Greater Caucasus within the Ismailli region of Azerbaijan, with a population of approximately 860 people who speak the Tat language. Lahic is famous across Azerbaijan not only for its dangerous road and breathtaking scenery, but for its artisans, blacksmiths and copper craftsmen. Lahij is one of the most ancient human settlements in Azerbaijan. More notes as we go along. (Lahic/ Lahij, Azerbaijan, Sept. 2017)
A village in the middle of nowhere in England... Castle Combe is a very picturesque village about 5 miles from Chippenham in Wiltshire. It is much loved by film-makers because not only does it contain many quaint old English stone buildings, it has no modern buildings. Also (presumably by byelaw) there are no aerials or satellite dishes to be seen, nor are there any telegraph poles.
Some of the numerous films that have used Castle Combe as a location include: Dr Dolittle (1967), Stardust (2007), Wolfman (2010), Warhorse (2011) as well as episodes of TV programmes such as Poirot.
The village's population of about 350 is vastly outnumbered by the many visitors it attracts. The history of the village dates back to at least the C14th with several existing buildings dating from this time, including the market cross. Most buildings in the village date from the C15th to C18th, and a large percentage of them are EH listed. One of the later buildings is the magnificent Manor House on the edge of the village, set in 365 acres of parkland, which is now a 4* hotel.
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The historical village of Hahndorf in South Australia’s picturesque Adelaide Hills celebrated its 175th birthday in 2014.
Hahndorf is Australia’s oldest surviving German settlement and is loved by tourists and locals, attracting between 750,000 and 1 million visitors per year. ....................................
Captain Dirk Meinertz Hahn had never sailed in southern waters before he took his ship the Zebra out into unknown seas, with 199 emigrants aboard from Europe. They were a whole community – shepherds, farmers, millers, woodcutters, craftsmen, and their families. Twelve passengers died on the voyage, but the remaining 187 arrived at Holdfast Bay on 28 December 1838. Captain Hahn was determined to see them settled in a small rural community of their own.
In January 1839, Messrs Dutton, Finnis and MacFarlane purchased the First Special Survey of 4,000 acres in the Mt Barker district. Needing a ready supply of labourers and servants for the future township of Mt Barker they were planning, the partners agree to allow the Zebra passengers to establish a village on 150 acres rent free for a year. The acreage was increased to 240 when a number of families from Klemzig decided to join them in the hills.
The settlers (54 Lutheran families) named their new village Hahndorf, in honour of Captain Hahn.
The surveyor Hermann Kook laid out the village as a “hufendorf” or “farmlet village” based on a plan used in Eastern Europe since the 10th Century. They cleared land and built shelters out of packing cases and tarpaulins. They planted vegetables and hired themselves out as washerwomen, shearers and labourers to pay off their ship and provisions debts.
The settlers came from the land, which gave the world the stories of Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel and The Three Bears, which probably accounted for the fact that one anxious arrival brought with him a bear trap. Their early cottages often looked like illustrations from Grimm’s Fairy Tales, and the men worked hard at their traditional occupations of wood cutting, tanning, farming, and milling.
Proscenium arch and curtain. Teatro San Carlo. Napoli, 1817 AD. By Antonio Nicolini. Interior 1842 AD. Campania, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Ferguson.
Built in 1969 by Chaix and Johnson Associates, this building replaced the original church on land originally donated by John S. McGroarty.
More information on Big Read 2009: Robinson Jeffers and the Ecologies of Poetry is available on Occidental College's Big Read home page and on the Glendale Public Library's website.
Additionally, an interactive map of this Stone Castles and Cottages of the Verdugo Hills exhibit is available here.