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Broadway Tower - Worcestershire
A Capability Brown Folly Tower built in 1798 on the second highest point on the Cotswold escarpment -1024 feet.The "Saxon" tower was designed by James Wyatt in 1794 to resemble a mock castle .Legend has it that its purpose was that of a signalling tower between the Springhill Estate of the 6th Earl of Coventry and the Earl's family estate at Croome Court near Worcester .
"Water Towers" by Bruce Munro. Made up of water-filled two liter bottles with optical fibers threaded inside. They are connected to a slowly scintilating light system that is linked to an audio system. Very cool.
Eureka Tower boasts the highest public vantage point in the southern hemisphere. We visited later in the day.
Arizona Falls is on the Arizona Canal in Phoenix, they have restored what was once a local attraction-- a cascade of water in the irrigation canals.
I spent much of the weekend at Netheravon airfield camp, home of the Army Parachute Association and the Red Devils parachute display team. The reason was that our son, Will, had signed up to do his first parachute jump under the watchful eye of the Army.
After a promising day (during which I had lunch in sunshine in a pub garden) I made my way to Netheravon late in the afternoon to watch, only to see the weather close in, the wind pick up and the planned jump postponed.
So I came back the next morning to low cloud and a still persistent wind and, after a few hours waiting, it was clear that conditions were not going to be favourable enough to allow Will and his Air Cadet buddies to jump. So it will have to wait for another time.
I amused myself while kicking around the airfield with a Nikon and a long lens. Here is the control tower and some indication of the nature of the sky on Sunday morning.
Oaktown is a good area for musk melon & watermelon crops. I saw musk melons the size of basketballs.
The Tower of London is a dominating landmark in central London—in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets— on the eastern border of the City of London, beside the northern bank of the River Thames.
It is often identified with the White Tower, the original stark, square fortress built by William the Conqueror in 1078. However, the Tower as a whole is a complex of several buildings set within the outer defensive walls and moat.
The Tower's primary function was as a fortress, a royal palace and a prison (particularly for high status and royal prisoners (such as the Princes in the Tower and the future Queen Elizabeth I). This last use has led to the phrase "sent to the Tower" meaning "imprisoned". It has also served as a place of execution and torture, an armoury, a treasury, a zoo, a mint, a public records office, and an observatory.
Germany, Hannover - VW Tower
Former communication tower, now used for an advertisement for Volkswagen.
Two defense towers and St. Margaret's clock tower, all rise above the medieval rooftops of the historic homes in Medias. (File: RPOP-2010-12-1662)
The Tower of Olyian was the third MOC I built as an AFOL. I was going for a very surreal, fanciful look, and I think I got it.
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