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Liverpool is a city in North West England. Its growth as a major port was paralleled by the expansion of the city throughout the Industrial Revolution. In the 19th century, it was a major port of departure for Irish and English emigrants to North America. Liverpool's status as a port city has attracted a diverse population, which was historically drawn from a wide range of cultures and religions.
Several areas of the city centre were granted World Heritage Site status by UNESCO in 2004. The city celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2007, and was jointly named the 2008 European Capital of Culture.
Liverpool is closely associated with the arts, in particular music. The popularity of the Beatles and other music groups from the Merseybeat era contributed to the city's status as a tourist destination. The city has the second-highest number of art galleries and national museums in the United Kingdom, with only London having more.
Location: Grand Union Canal, Stoke Bruerne, set in the heart of rural Northamptonshire.
Set off from here in any direction and you'll find unspoilt countryside, tranquil lanes and pretty villages.
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Location: La Rochefoucauld, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France.
The village of La Rochefoucauld takes its name from the magnificent chateau within the village, which has partial public access. It is also still inhabited by the Duke and Duchess.
In the early 11th century, the son of Fucaldus built a square keep (donjon), still identifiable at the heart of the present site. Two entrance towers were built from 1350, with three angle towers following, together with a heightening of the keep, in 1453.
Much of the medieval building was demolished in 1615 when the courtyard was opened out and improvements were made to honour a visit by Louis XIII of France. There was some rebuilding, following a fire, in 1760.
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Robert Forde (29 August 1875 – 13 March 1959) was an Antarctic explorer and member of the Terra Nova Expedition under Captain Robert Falcon Scott from 1910–1912.
Robert Forde is buried at the Old Church Cemetery, Cobh in his native County Cork. In March 2009,on the 50th Anniversary of his death, a Memorial was unveiled to Forde by The Robert Forde Memorial Committee in The Promenade, Cobh. The rough hewn granite stone faces out to Cork Harbour and has a bronze plaque showing Forde with his sled. A Plaque was also unveiled at 52 Harbour Row,Cobh where he lived.
Robert Forde was born in the parish of Moviddy 16 miles W.S.W. from Cork (city),Ireland. His father's name was George and his mother's was Charity (née Payne). He had joined the Royal Navy at the age of 16, rising to the rank of Petty Officer 1st Class. He joined the Terra Nova expedition as Petty Officer on 30 May 1910, one of a number of Irishmen who took part, including Tom Crean and another Corkman, Patrick Keohane. Forde was part of a group which headed out from Cape Evans in January 1911 to explore the polar capes. He suffered severe frostbite during the expedition and was eventually ordered back by Captain Scott for medical treatment.
He is remembered by the naming of Mount Forde, a monumental peak of over 1,200 metres at the head of the Hunt Glacier in Antarctica in his honour.
Forde’s role in the expedition led to his promotion to Chief Petty Officer onboard HMS Vivid and he served on her and several other British ships during World War 1. After demobilisation he retired to Cobh which was still then known as Queenstown and was a major naval port for the British in Ireland. He died there in March 1959.
John F. Kennedy Park - This promenade on the water’s edge is a favourite place for locals and visitors to relax. The bandstand is located near the spot where Queen Victoria stepped ashore in Ireland for the first time in August 1849. During the summer months regular band and music recitals take place there. The 2 cannons in the promenade were returned from the Boer and Crimean Wars in 1899 and 1854 respectively.
Winthrop, Washington - July 5, 2019: Street view of downtown Winthrop, a small wild west theme town in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State.
Ballybunion Sea & Cliff Rescue was founded in 1986 to provide a rescue service to the locality of North Kerry and West Limerick.
The unit, manned by 35 volunteers, is situated on the Ladies Beach in Ballybunion and operates as a declared resource to the Irish Coast Guard. BSCR operate on 7 minute readiness for the D Class and 12 minutes for the Atlantic 75, always available on 24 hour pager alert. As a declared resource we form part of a group of voluntary rescue boats collectively called Community Rescue Boats Ireland. This is made up of 13 units around the country (listed below)
Although maintaining the name Sea & Cliff Rescue, cliff rescue was taken over by the Ballybunion Unit of the Irish Coast Guard in 1991 (then the Coast and Cliff Rescue Service). The Irish Coast Guard unit based in Ballybunion is a separate organization and should not be mixed up with BSCR.
We rely on public donations and all year round fund raising to raise the €45,000 needed to keep the service afloat each year. None of our members are paid and all give their time freely.
A man walks along the waterfront at the Schulkill river in the Fairmount Park section of Philadelphia, PA on April 10, 2019. Each spring the vibrant cherry blossom tree line proves popular amongst tourists, photographers and Instagrammers.
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During our recent holiday in the Lake District I visit Blea Tarn hoping for a good sunset, but unfortunately the weather didn't play ball and it was pretty grey and drizzly. On the small hills either side of the road just before Blea Tarn I found this clump of heather and I thought the bright colour looked good against the dreary sky. A reasonable consolation prize! A focus stack from two separate images.
Oceanogràfic, Àgora & Pont de l'Assut de l'Or. City of Arts and Sciences Complex. Valencia. Spain.
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we were in Moscow for about ten days for work...each time we had a spare moment we tried to visit the Kremlin, but it was the week when Moscow was celebrating its birthday...and for two days Red Square was closed. It was odd seeing a place that is so normally filled with people empty apart from a lone alsatian sitting in the middle...
Cedar Key is a city in Levy County, Florida, United States. The population was 702 at the 2010 census. The Cedar Keys are a cluster of islands near the mainland. Most of the developed area of the city has been on Way Key since the end of the 19th century. The Cedar Keys are named for the Eastern Red Cedar, Juniperus virginiana, once abundant in the area.
The old-fashioned fishing village is now a tourist center with several regionally famous seafood restaurants. The village holds two festivals a year, the Spring Sidewalk Art Festival and the Fall Seafood Festival, that each attract thousands of visitors to the area.
In 1950, Hurricane Easy, a category 3 storm with 125-mile-per-hour (201 km/h) winds, looped around Cedar Key three times before finally making landfall, dumping 38 inches (970 mm) of rain and destroying two-thirds of the homes. Luckily, the storm came ashore at low tide, so the surge was only 5 feet (1.5 m).
Hurricane Elena followed a similar path in 1985, but did not make landfall. Packing 115-mile-per-hour (185 km/h) winds, the storm churned for two days in the Gulf, 50 miles (80 km) to the west, battering the waterfront. All the businesses and restaurants on Dock Street were either damaged or destroyed, and a section of the seawall collapsed.
After a statewide ban on large-scale net fishing went into effect July 1, 1995, a government retraining program helped many local fishermen begin farming clams in the muddy waters. Today Cedar Key's clam-based aquaculture is a multimillion-dollar industry.
A local museum exhibit displays a reproduction of one of the first air conditioning installations. The system, with compressor and fans, was used in Cedar Key to ease the lot of malaria patients.
Cedar Key is home to the George T. Lewis Airport (CDK).
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My two visits to Cobh in July were somewhat constrained because it rained most of the time.
Cobh,known from 1850 until the late 1920s as Queenstown, is a tourist seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. Cobh is on the south side of Great Island in Cork Harbour and is home to Ireland's only dedicated cruise terminal. Tourism in the area draws on the maritime and emigration legacy of the town - including its association with the RMS Titanic.
Facing the town are Spike Island and Haulbowline Island, and on a high point in the town stands St Colman's Cathedral, one of the tallest buildings in Ireland and seat of the diocese of Cloyne.
This trip was like a greatest hits of all my favourite Vegas places, plus some new ones as well.
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The Fremont Street Experience (FSE) is a pedestrian mall and attraction in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. The FSE occupies the westernmost five blocks of Fremont Street, including the area known for years as "Glitter Gulch", and portions of some other adjacent streets.
The central attraction is a barrel vault canopy, 90 ft (27 m) high at the peak and four blocks, or approximately 1,375 ft (419 m), in length.
While Las Vegas is known for never turning the outside casino lights off, each show begins by turning off the lights on all of the buildings, including the casinos, under the canopy. Before each show, one bidirectional street that crosses the Experience is blocked off for safety reasons.
Concerts, usually free, are also held on three stages. The venue has become a major tourist attraction for downtown Las Vegas, and is also the location of the SlotZilla zip line attraction and the city's annual New Year's Eve party, complete with fireworks on the display screen.
I got photos of this visitors center back in 2012, but never posted them for whatever reason. It was built in 2004 to greet folks coming off I-55 and onto Elvis Presley Blvd -- very nicely done little place, though I have to confess I've never been it! Not much history to go on in the assesor's records here either, but this being a corner lot, a safe guess would be an old gas station once stood here. Per that same, very pixelated 1971 aerial photo in the records, that appears to be the case, but what type of gas station is hard to determine (a wild guess is it was another Exxon). Something different was here by the 1981 photo however, but with that aerial's quality being not much better than the '71 photo, it's anybody's guess as to what that was also!
I left the photo cropped as such so we can see a couple more buildings (to the left of the visitors center) not covered in the series. Those are just a couple of hotels and nightclubs for the most part.
Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Neum is the only coastal town in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It comprises 24.5 km of coastline: the country's only access to the Adriatic Sea.
Neum has steep hills, sandy beaches, and many large tourist hotels. Prices tend to be lower than in neighboring Croatia, making it popular with shoppers. Tourism is the leading contributor to the economy of the area. Border formalities with Croatia are relaxed.
The inland area behind Neum has a rich archeological history and untouched wilderness.
Location: Plaza del Castillo, Benidorm, a coastal town in Alicante, Spain, on the Western Mediterranean.
Today Plaza del Castillo, in Benidorm's Old Town, is called Placa del Castell thanks to the growth of the Valencian language but the same old church remains on its rocky peninsula surrounded by an unbelievable number of hotels, apartment blocks, bars and restaurants that a visitor could be forgiven for believing they were in Las Vegas rather than on the coast of Spain.
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Location: Via Rizzoli, Bologna, the largest city (and the capital) of the Emilia-Romagna Region in Italy.
This is one of almost 40 kilometres of arcades that cover the city of Bologna. The arcades aren’t only an architectural element but they represent the essence of this city. In the summertime they are a perfect refuge from the sun and in the cold seasons a perfect refuge from the rain.
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Location: Via San Matteo, San Gimignano, Tuscany, Italy.
The aptly named Ristorante La Stella (the Star Restaurant) and what better place to eat out under the stars than in this romantic, medieval, walled Tuscan town of San Gimignano.
Known as the Town of Fine Towers, San Gimignano is famous for its medieval architecture, unique in the preservation of about a dozen of its tower houses.
The town featured in Franco Zeffirelli's 1999 film 'Tea with Mussolini' telling the story of young Italian boy Luca's upbringing by a circle of influential British and American ex-pat women, before and during World War II. It is said to be Zeffirelli's autobiography, Luca being based on his own life.
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One of the highlights of my trip to Las Vegas was exploring the Neon Museum in the downtown area. There is so much Vegas history in these old signs. I highly recommend a visit here if you are visiting.
View from Great Tor on Bamford Edge into the Dark Peak. Win Hill, Kinder Scout, Crook Hill, Ladybower Reservoir and Derwent Edge lie to the north.
This is outside on the Terrace Level of the Mary and Bruce Stevenson wing at the Maryhill Museum of Art. The photo is the view looking east. (Drinks and food from Loie’s: The Museum Café can be taken outside here to the Broughton and Mary Bishop Family Terrace).
The trees next to the building are the trees along the path from the parking lot to the museum's main entrance. The trees below are on the cliff the leads down to the Columbia River.
Those wind turbines are part of the Windy Point/Windy Flats project managed by the Cannon Power Group. The 90 square miles wind farm spans 26 miles along the Columbia River ridgeline.
The Maryhill Museum of Art has an agreement with Cannon Power Group and 15 of those wind turbines are located on the eastern end of the museum's 5,300 acre property. According to the American Wind Energy Association, this is believed to be the first wind energy project in the United States to generate revenues for a nonprofit museum.
Some of those wind turbines are located between US97 and the Maryhill Loops Road which is also part of the Maryhill Museum property. Maryhill Museum of Art founder Sam Hill was one of the Northwest’s first and most vocal advocates for modern roads. He was president of the Washington State Good Roads Association and spent much of his life championing the importance of highways in the Northwest. In 1913 Sam Hill convinced the Oregon governor and legislature to come and visit Maryhill to see the 10 miles of demonstration roads (the Maryhill Loops) he had constructed over the prior four years, at his own expense, as a way to experiment with road building techniques and surfaces.
Those road building techniques and surfaces would used starting in 1914 to build the Historic Columbia River highway. Hill was also instrumental in the construction of the Pacific Highway (Highway 99, the main north-south route through Oregon and Washington), Highway 101 along the coast, and a road to Crater Lake
A number of years ago I took a guided tour of this castle and guide told me that I was not permitted to take photographs using a 'professional' camera.
Open Daily: 10.00 - 18.00 17th May - 26th September
This great stone castle was founded in the early 13th century and became the principal residence of the Kildare branch of the Geraldines. The Kildare FitzGeralds extended their land holdings and influence, emerging as one of the most powerful families in Ireland with Maynooth Castle being one of the largest and richest Earl's houses. Garret Mór, known as the Great Earl of Kildare, governed Ireland in the name of the King of England from 1487 - 1513 and under his son, Garret Og the 9th Earl, the Castle became the centre of political power and culture. The original Keep, constructed c. 1203, was one of the largest of its kind in Ireland. Early in the 17th century the castle was remodelled and the main focus of the Castle shifted from the original Keep to the buildings in the east of the grounds. It was vested in the State in 1991 and a programme of restoration commenced in February 2000. There is an exhibition in the Keep on the history of the castle and the family.
With us being so close to Graceland now, you can smell the 70's (and jelly donuts!), guess it was about time for an Elvis song reference. My first tour of Graceland (and admittedly, my only tour) was sometime back in the early 80's just prior to these planes being moved to this location. There's a smaller plane, "Hound Dog II", that can't be seen due to being on the other side of the larger "Lisa Marie" (much better photo of it at that link), hence the odd photo title/song reference in the first place. Once the new visitors center is open, I'd sure like to revisit this (tourist trap!) again though, just for a closer view of those planes, if nothing else.
As you might guess, moving those planes from the airport was a bit of an undertaking back in the 80's, though I couldn't find any old articles about it (I remember a full page photo in the paper however). Seems like I remember they were able to move Lisa Marie without removing her wings, but they had to temporarily move some utilities/traffic signals out of the way in some places in order for the move to take place.
In the satellite view (linked in the previous photo), the planes can be seen in the top portion, and that gable-roofed building (now being replaced with the one seen in my photo) was original to the site: in other words, here during the days of Elvis (built circa-early 1960's), prior to all the tourist stuff being built, and part of the original shopping center that once stood here. Sad to see the last of that go :(
If you don't mind a bit more Elvis music, (and a few B to C-grade CGI shots!), you can see an interesting drone flyover video of the planes here.
Location: Menaggio, on the banks of Lake Como, Lombardy, Italy.
2 churches for the price of one in this shot. Half way up the street on the right, and set amongst the fashionable shops and restaurants, is the Chiesa di Santa Marta and at the top of Via Calvi is the magnificent bell-tower of the equally beautiful chiesa di Santo Stefano.
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