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Hornby Castle is a Lancashire country house that was developed from a medieval castle. The Grade I-listed building overlooks the village of Hornby in the Lune Valley in the north of the county.
The castle originally dates from the 13th century but virtually nothing of this is now left. The polygonal tower dates from the 16th century, and was probably built for Sir Edward Stanley, 1st Baron Monteagle. His great-grandson, the fourth Baron Monteagle, became famous as the peer who was forewarned about the Gunpowder Plot in 1605.
During the English Civil War the castle was captured and subsequently occupied in 1648 by the Duke of Hamilton and his Scottish army. The castle then had numerous owners, ending up with Pudsey Dawson, High Sheriff of Lancashire for 1845.
Dawson commissioned the Lancaster architects Sharpe and Paley to rebuild much of the structure and this was carried out between 1847 and 1850. The architects retained the older parts, including the polygonal tower, but rebuilt the front of the castle, adding wings and a portico, and replacing the round tower with a square one. Further additions and alterations were made later in the 19th century.
Tower Bridge in London on a beautiful July day. Photos taken with my Canon camera from Butlers Wharf looking back into central London.
Photographing the complete cottage from this angle has always been impossible, because of the large tree which used to tower over the area in front of the cottage.
It's been cut down, a casualty of drought and beetles. The stump is there in the center of the image.
A lot of trees in California, and at various public gardens like the Arboretum, have perished over the past half decade.
This rather attractive building, known as The Old Forge, is on the corner of Rectory Lane, opposite the village green in Orlingbury in Northamptonshire. The single story building at the rear of it has been converted into a tea-room. Neither building is listed, but I would I imagine The Old Forge is perhaps Victorian or slightly earlier, when horses played an important role in both town and country. It is adjacent to Orlingbury Hall, and may have had a role to play there.
At over 1,000 feet long it was part of the largest textile mill complex in the world when it opened in 1872 along the Mohawk River. Today the mill has been repurposed into living space. Cohoes, New York.
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I had a work-related course on the edge of Wilton the other day, a mild and sunny February day that reminded us that winter won't last forever, so I nipped into the village centre afterwards to take some photos.
St Mary and St Nicholas, better known as the Italianate Church, is the Church of England parish church for the large village of Wilton which had once been the county town of Wiltshire, is an enormous edifice, with a separate bell-tower reaching a height of 33 metres. It also has an interesting backstory.
By the mid-19th century, the old medieval church of Wilton was in a dreadful state of disrepair. The Hon Sidney Sidney Herbert, son of the Russian Dowager Countess of Pembroke and local aristocrat, loved Italian architecture—he'd been on the Grand Tour, innit—so, in 1845 he convinced his formidable mother to help build a new church in the Italian style, an undertaking that would cost them £20,000, a staggering sum for the time.
They called in young TH Wyatt, then only 34, the diocesan architect for Salisbury, for what would be his first really major commission.
Wyatt and his partner David Brandon created a stunning church, oriented on a southwest axis to front onto West Street. The chosen site had been home to the medieval church of St Nicholas, which was in ruins by the 15th century. There is a totally separate bell tower, or campanile, following Italian tradition. The church itself is on the Roman basilica plan.
The excellent www.britainexpress.com supplied some of the information for this description.
Third in this series. I photographed and posted several houses in Brush Park five years ago. On a visit to Detroit, on March 18, 2024, I spent sometime going through the neighborhood again.
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Brush Park in midtown Detroit was developed in the second half of the 1800s as an upscale neighborhood, but began a decline in the early 1900s. By the time of Detroit's general, steep decline later in the 20th century, Brush Park, once nicknamed "Little Paris", suffered severe urban blight. Today, some of the relatively few historic buildings remaining are being renovated. This HP Pulling House has been renovated and converted to a duplex.
View from the Walled Garden of Glenveagh Castle Gardens (County Donegal, Ulster Province, in the northwest corner of the Republic of Ireland), looking down towards the castle, on a partly cloudy afternoon in early May 2024. In the background are part of the Derryveagh Mountains (Sléibhte Dhoire Bheatha in Irish) across from Lough Beagh (also spelled in English as Lough Veagh, Loch Ghleann Bheatha in Irish).
The castle, gardens, and mountains are all within the Glenveagh National Park – its Irish name is Páirc Náisiúnta Ghleann Bheatha – which had its origins in the Glenveagh Estate created 1857-1859 by John George Adair (1823-1885). He became notorious for abruptly evicting 224 of his tenants from the land in 1861, a deed recorded in contemporary documents, history, and local tradition as the Derryveagh Evictions. The castle itself was built along Lough Beagh between 1867 and 1873, designed by architect John Townsend Trench based on the “Scottish baronial” style popular during the Victorian period.
Adair’s widow, Cornelia Wadsworth Ritchie Adair (1837-1921), established the garden from around 1888, a sheltered spot around the castle that she continued to improve and expand. In the 1940s and 1950s, a later owner, art curator and collector Henry Plumer McIlhenny (1910-1986), oversaw the introduction of many new species. In 1979, he gifted the castle and gardens to the Irish State, after having sold most of the rest of the Glenveagh Estate to it in the mid-1970s. Today, the park is managed by the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), while the castle and gardens are in the care of the Irish Office of Public Works through its Heritage Ireland unit.
The gardens are noted for their lush appearance, as they benefit from and reinforce the micro-environment of a temperate rainforest in the midst of the rugged landscape of mountain and moorland. They contain a number of plants that originated in other parts of the world, including palms, bamboo, a wide variety of rhododendrons, and many others. In addition to this Walled Garden, there are the Pleasure Grounds (a long lawn framed by extensive borders), the Belgian Walk (with landscaping work done by World War I Belgian refugees), Italian Terrace, Himalayan Garden, Rose Garden, Oriental (Japanese-style) Garden, View Garden, Swiss Walk, and Tuscan Garden.
(Information from the print guide -- Ó Gaoithín, Seán. Guide to Glenveagh Castle Gardens: Glenveagh National Park (Glenveagh National Park, 2022) -- as well as from the NPWS Glenveagh National Park website and Wikipedia, both last consulted 27 June 2024. Place names in English and Irish from logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland (reference numbers 111338, 111119, and 111025), last consulted 28 June 2024. Names in tags partly from US Library of Congress/NACO name records (reference numbers n84081220, no2004019921, and n84153406).)
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I photographed and posted several houses in Brush Park five years ago (not this particular one, however). On a visit to Detroit, on March 18, 2024, I spent sometime going through the neighborhood again.
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Brush Park in midtown Detroit was developed in the second half of the 1800s as an upscale neighborhood, but began a decline in the early 1900s. By the time of Detroit's general, steep decline later in the 20th century, Brush Park, once nicknamed "Little Paris", suffered severe urban blight. Today, some of the relatively few historic buildings remaining are being renovated.
Morwellham Quay is now an open-air museum on the Devon bank of the River Tamar. It includes the restored 19th-century village with several cottages, shops, a pub and various workshops, the docks and quays, a restored ship, and a riverside copper mine which can be toured via a small electric train. There is also a small farm which has featured in two TV series.
There has been a quay here ever since the monks of Tavistock developed one in the medieval period. Its heyday was in the 19th century after the Tavistock Canal was completed. The canal ended here and its water was used to power various pieces of machinery while its boats delivered a variety of ores from local mines to the quay, from where they were shipped to South Wales. Coal was brought back on the return trip. The small village that grew up included cottages for local workers, including miners.
Alfred J. Salisbury House, a restored Victorian home on Hoover Street in Los Angeles' historic North University/West Adams District, photographed in 10mm with the camera on the grass.
happy halloween! `i took this photo some time ago. i think the house is a foreign embassy, but i'm not sure.
san francisco, california
Who knew the floors would be so gorgeous underneath bad carpet, padding, and three layers of plywood!
The Royal Albert Dock is a complex of dock buildings and warehouses in Liverpool, England. Designed by Jesse Hartley and Philip Hardwick, it was opened in 1846, and was the first structure in Britain to be built from cast iron, brick and stone, with no structural wood. As a result, it was the first non-combustible warehouse system in the world.
I took my camera down to Fareham Creek with me. The tide was on it's way in on a beautiful day but cloudy day. William the Conqueror's reserve army landed here in 1066 during the Norman Invasion of England
From the building's website: "Originally built in 1881 as The Kasson Opera House, it had seating for 1400 and was a cultural hub for the entire area." In more recent times the building has been thoroughly restored and repurposed. Gloversville, New York.
Grade I listed. Museum 1873-81 by Alfred Waterhouse.
The detail throughout the building is astonishing, flora & fauna are everywhere even on the very high vaulted ceiling.
The imposing clock tower at Shuttleworth House stands as a testament to Victorian architectural ambition. Designed by architect Henry Clutton and completed in 1876, this four-stage tower rises approximately 100 feet, featuring clock faces on each side and surmounted by arcading, complementing the house’s Jacobean-style design.