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Huddersfield is notable for its abundance of fine Victorian architecture. It has the third highest number of listed buildings of any town or city in the UK[19]. The most conspicuous landmark in the Huddersfield area is Victoria Tower on Castle Hill. Overlooking the town, the tower was constructed to mark Queen Victoria's 60th Jubilee Year. A picture of the Victoria Tower features on the New Zealand wine Castle Hill.
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I didn't know this place existed in South Cal until I came across this shot so i had to go to check it out for my self. In LA was sunny this day, but when i got there is was so cloudy. I was expecting to catch a better light and sunlight. Perhaps next time!
Victoria Tower was designed by Jesse Hartley and was constructed between 1847 and 1848, to commemorate the opening of Salisbury Dock.[1] Its design was based upon an earlier drawing by Philip Hardwick in 1846.[2]
Victoria Tower, which was often referred to as the 'docker's clock', was built as an aid to ships in the port, as it allowed them to set the correct time as they sailed out into the Irish Sea, while its bell warned of impending meteorological changes such as high tide and fog.[3] Upon its completion is also served as a flat for the Pier Master
"At the north end of the palace is the Elizabeth Tower, commonly known by the nickname "Big Ben". At 96 metres (315 ft) it is only slightly shorter than the Victoria Tower, but much slimmer. It was called the Clock Tower until 2012, when it was renamed to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II. The Clock Tower was designed by Augustus Pugin and built after his death. Charles Barry asked Pugin to design the clock tower because Pugin had previously helped Barry design the palace.
The tower houses the Great Clock, which uses the original mechanism built by Edward John Dent to designs by amateur horologist Edmund Beckett Denison. It is highly accurate by nineteenth-century standards, striking the hour to within a second of the time, and remaining reliable since it entered service in 1859. The time is shown on four dials 7 metres (23 ft) in diameter, which are made of milk glass and are lit from behind at night; the hour hand is 2.7 metres (8 ft 10 in) long and the minute hand 4.3 metres (14 ft).
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In the lantern at the top of Elizabeth Tower is the Ayrton Light, which is lit when either House of Parliament is sitting after dark. It was installed in 1885 at the request of Queen Victoria, so that she could see from Buckingham Palace whether the members were "at work", and named after Acton Smee Ayrton, who was First Commissioner of Works in the 1870s." (Wikipedia)
Huddersfield Bus 308 Optare Solo (YJ09MJO) passing Jubilee Tower enroute from Huddersfield to Stocksmoor on it's first day of service on the first day of the newly aquired route 341, Huddersfield on 27th April 2009.
Tonight's sunset was very beautiful, we decided on the spur of the moment to visit Castle Hill which is near Almondbury, Huddersfield West Yorkshire UK..
When we got there it was blowing a gale, not the right conditions for handheld hdr but what the heck we gave it a go and this was one of the best results.
A 3xp HDR with +-1ev on each shot, compiled with Photomatix and then balanced in Photoshop CS3.
Nice stormy sky for this zoom photo from the Thames embankment, of the Houses of Parliament (Victoria Tower) and the Millennium Wheel. Looks like a sunset, but was actually mid afternoon.
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Victoria Tower opened 1899 to commemorate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee in 1897. Built on Castle Hill (scheduled monument) where there was Iron Age forts, a C12 castle. Tower is 106' (32.3m tall cost £3,298.
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This type of small coastal defence Martello Tower, sometimes just called Martellos, was built across the British Empire during the 17th century, from the time of the French Revolutionary Wars, and onwards.
Shoal Tower National Historic Site of Canada, originally known as the Victoria Tower, is a circular stone defensive tower located on a shoal in the harbour (Confederation Basin), directly offshore from the site of the historic City Hall and the site of the former Market Battery in Kingston Ontario. From this location, the Shoal Tower had a commanding field of fire over Kingston’s commercial harbour and the entrance to the Rideau Canal.
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Ce type de petite tour Martello de défense côtière, parfois simplement appelée Martellos, a été construit dans tout l'Empire britannique au cours du XVIIe siècle, à partir de l'époque des guerres de la Révolution française et au-delà.
Le lieu historique national du Canada de la Tour-Shoal, connue à l'origine sous le nom de la Tour-Victoria, est une tour défensive circulaire en pierre, située sur un haut-fond du port (bassin de la Confédération), au large de la côte, directement en face de l'hôtel de ville historique et du site de l'ancienne batterie du Marché de Kingston, en Ontario. La tour Shoal offrait un angle de visé dominant du port commercial de Kingston et de l’entrée du canal Rideau.
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
En route to visit friends in Brighouse, we looked in at Victoria Tower. The tower is located on the site of a Middle- ages hill fort, close to the village of Almondbury and just south of the outer suburbs of Huddersfield. It was built to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, in 1897. The original idea was to fly the site with my drone but, on arrival, it was obvious that the gusting wind was way too strong. So it was, once again, down to the SLR and phone cam.
This tower was built to impress.
This photo was taken by a Kowa Super 66 medium format film camera with a KOWA 1:3.5/55 lens and Zenza Bronica 67mm SY44•2C(Y1) filter using Kodak TRI-X 400 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
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Huddersfield is notable for its abundance of fine Victorian architecture. It has the third highest number of listed buildings of any town or city in the UK. The most conspicuous landmark in the Huddersfield area is Victoria Tower on Castle Hill. Overlooking the town, the tower was constructed to mark Queen Victoria's 60th Jubilee Year. A picture of the Victoria Tower features on the New Zealand wine Castle Hill.
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14-11-12 - First time of trying this out properly. A London bus driving past me while the camera is set up for a long exposure. Hoping to head back at some stage and better this shot!
Dawn over Parliament a few mornings back. I had been hoping for a nicer sunrise but it clouded over about half an hour before this shot was taken. Anyway, was good to be back out with my camera, it's been a while.
An interesting fact here: the closest tower in this photo, Victoria Tower, is actually taller than the more famous Elizabeth Tower, housing Big Ben. There's only 2 metres in it though, so not particularly noticeable.
This was shot from the same location as a previous picture, taken over 2 years ago: www.flickr.com/photos/danielcoyle/17042651817/
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Another shot against a bridge (one of my favourite viewpoints, as you know. Myself and vulture labs were out on a photowalk and decided to get the Houses of Parliament (Palace of Westminster) at sunset. We had taken a load of shots straight on during the main sunset, then I decided I wanted to change position.
There are some steps that lead down from underneath the bridge into the Thames. Luckily it was low tide, so I climbed over the gate and wall, had my stuff passed down to me, and walked down the mossy steps to almost the level of the water. I reeled off a few HDR shots, but settled on this single long exposure. I quickly climbed back out again, in case the river police came and had a word with me.
Even though this was a lovely sunset, I decided I preferred this shot in monochrome. To be honest, nearly every shot I've processed this weekend has ended up in black and white and/or monochrome, so expect a lot of that this week! (I hope you won't mind). I really love the figure on the bridge in the foreground.
Please view this large on black, as it really does make a big difference! Does this image have the right feel to add to my Espionage! set?. You tell me.
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Victoria Tower is a Grade II listed Gothic Revival clock tower located alongside Salisbury Dock in Liverpool, England. Positioned among the two river entrance gates to the Salisbury Dock itself, the tower acted as an aid to ships by providing both an accurate time and also warning of impending meteorological changes.
And finally in this short London Eye series, here are the four spires of the Victoria Tower. As well as being the royal entrance to the House of Lords and House of Commons, the tower is also the repository of the Parliamentary Archive. Every Act of Parliament since 1479 (and much else besides) is stored here.
Behind the spires can be seen the four chimneys of the old Battersea Power Station, once a major provider of the capital’s energy and now a centre of shopping malls, restaurants, a cinema, upmarket apartments, exhibition spaces, a heritage trail, art galleries and goodness knows what else.
'Victoria Tower' ( Castle Hill, Huddersfield.) lit up in Blue in support of our NHS and all key workers.
Tot i que menys coneguda que el Big Ben, la Victoria Tower és el seu contrapès en l'estructura del parlament de Westminster.
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Although not as famous as the Big Ben tower, the Victoria Tower is a kind of counterweight to it, on the southern side of the Parliament, in Westminster.
See the notes. Facing West from the top of the London Eye. Sorry for any reflections or distortions on the glass, blame British Airways. ;-)
Roll call:
Victoria Tower: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Tower
Clock Tower (Big Ben): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Ben
Houses of Parliament: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houses_of_parliament
Westminster Bridge: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_bridge
Portcullis House: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portcullis_House
Methodist Central Hall
Westminster Abbey: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_abbey
St Margaret's Westminster: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Margaret's,_Westminster
Former New Scotland Yard: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scotland_Yard
Battersea Power station: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battersea_Power_Station
River Thames: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Thames
This photo is one of a set of photos, the others are here:
West:
flickr.com/photos/koltregaskes/331229065/
flickr.com/photos/koltregaskes/331227344/
flickr.com/photos/koltregaskes/330084330/
North:
flickr.com/photos/koltregaskes/331226522/
flickr.com/photos/koltregaskes/331225807/
East:
flickr.com/photos/koltregaskes/331225367/
South:
flickr.com/photos/koltregaskes/331228258/
flickr.com/photos/koltregaskes/331227939/
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