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A view across the busy Tesco car park of Meadow Mill which was built in the 1880s for T & J Leigh for cotton and wool spinning
These Victorian Ladies certainly are skilled at putting on makeup!
This photo was taken by a Zenza Bronica S2 medium format film camera with a NIKKOR-H 1:3.5 f=5cm lens and Zenza Bronica 82mm L-1A filter using Kodak Ektar 100 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
Built in 1841, the Ouse Valley Viaduct (also called Balcombe Viaduct) over the River Ouse on the London-Brighton Railway Line in England north of Haywards Heath and south of Balcombe is 1,475 feet (450 m) long.
The viaduct is 96 feet (29 m) high and is carried on 37 semi-circular arches, each of 30 feet (9.1 m), surmounted by balustrades. Each pier contains a Jack arch with a semi-circular soffit to reduce the number of bricks required.At each end of the abutment is an ornamental square open tower, the brickwork of which is faced with stone from Heddon Quarries near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The viaduct was designed by engineer for the line John Urpeth Rastrick in association with the architect of the London to Brighton railway, David Mocatta. It has been described as “probably the most elegant viaduct in Britain.”
The viaduct was opened in July 1841. The 11 million bricks needed for its construction were shipped up the Ouse River (via Newhaven and Lewes) from the Netherlands. It cost £38,500 to build (equivalent to about £3½ million in 2014).
The structure is a Grade II* listed building and was restored in 1996 with grants from the Railway Heritage Trust and English Heritage. Matching stone was imported from France, to ensure a close match with the existing balustrades and pavilions.
The viaduct is still used, with around 110 trains per day passing over it on the Brighton Main Line.
Victorian age house at 1345 Carroll Ave. in Angelino Heights.
The Sanders House was featured in Michael Jackson’s Thriller. The stately property, which has been undergoing renovations since forever was built in 1887 and is built in the Queen Anne/Eastlake-style
I applied a couple of my go to filters in both Photoshop Elements and CC to achieve this version. The actual photo was taken at around 10am.
Headed down to the south coast from London yesterday to catch some fresh air. This picture was taken on Brighton beach and features the famous Brighton Bandstand; a local landmark of the city. I had to wait a long time to get this picture as there was a wedding reception on the bandstand in the afternoon and early evening. The long exposure has also blurred the movement of the table tennis players. I couldn't wait for them to get out of the way, it was getting dark very quickly.
Have a great Sunday Flickr folk, and thanks for visiting.
Richmond's Old City Hall was completed in 1894 in the High Victorian Gothic Style. It took eight years to build.
It was the city hall until the late 1970's.
It borders Capitol Square in downtown Richmond.
The interior has been wonderfully restored and is a must to see when touring Richmond.
The view from Capitol Square.
We are visiting the Low Head Pilot Station (established 1833) in the early evening. No one is around. The lock down has taken effect.
On a summer afternoon the lawns are usually filled with tourists and the museum - seen here in front of the Norfolk pines - is filled with people learning about its fascinating maritime history.
Pilots still operate here today in Australia's oldest continuous pilot station.
Early spring morning brings a welcome splash of color along the Back Bay's iconic Commonwealth Avenue. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
La llegada de la primavera trae un agradable toque de color a lo largo de la icónica Avenida Commonwealth del Back Bay. Boston, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos.
The Victorian-era Grand Gallery opened as the Royal Museum in 1866. Designed by Francis Fowke of the Royal Engineers who also designed the Royal Albert Hall and was inspired by The Crystal Palace. Now amalgamated with a neighbouring modern structure this museum is well worth a visit.
Church of St Augustine, Queen's Gate
Completed in 1876, designed by William Butterfield in Gothic style. Constructed in Gault brick with stone and red brick banding, areas of patterned diaper work to parapets and gables, and decorative carved stone panels. There is rich polychromatic decoration internally. Re-slating of the north slope of the nave and the north aisle was completed in 2011 with funding from Historic England and the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The south side is in need of similar work, along with brick and stone repairs, particularly to the west elevation where mortar re-facings of brickwork are failing.
Leadenhall Market in London is close to the Bank Of England. There has been a market on this site since the 14th Century, This building was built in the 1880s. Used in Harry Potter as a shooting location for scenes at Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron. Amazing place
Charles Smith Hyman, Idlewyld’s builder, was born in London in 1854. Educated at Hellmuth College, Charles worked for John Birrell and Co. until 1874 when he became a junior partner in his father’s tanning business.
In 1876, he married Elizabeth Birrell and built the original Idlewyld, a large brick home, in 1879 on land purchased for $4,000 from Elizabeth’s sister.
Two years later, Hyman commissioned the architectural firm of Tracy and Durand to design an addition and alterations that would cost more than the original house and outbuildings. The architects integrated the picturesque roof line and heavily ornamented gables of the 1879 Queen Anne design with a simpler addition featuring parapet gables at each end. Inside, identical Eastlake molding unified the two early parts of the house. In 1912, a ballroom was added to the eastern wing.
After his father’s death in 1878, Charles took over the tannery, entered municipal politics, and became mayor in 1884.
Elected M.P. for London in 1900, Hyman became Minister of Public Works in 1905. He had close ties with Sir Wilfrid Laurier who stayed at Idlewyld when he visited London.
Charles was also a noted sportsman. Seven times in a row he was the Canadian Men’s Singles tennis champion. He was also captain of the Canadian champion cricket team and a member of the London Tecumsehs baseball team. Hyman was exceedingly generous and loyal to his friends. He was known to have given away $1,000,000, including $100,000 to sporting and social clubs.
After the death of Elizabeth in 1917 he married Alexandra Rechnitzer, becoming stepfather to her four sons, who took over Hyman Tannery when Charles died in 1926. In the last years of his life, Charles took an extensive world tour including several months in China.
Today, Hyman is remembered by the street named after him and this house which later became a luxurious inn.
Situated in London’s quaint Old South neighborhood, the historic Idlewyld has sustained its grandeur for over a century. The Victorian character, landscaped grounds, well-kept gardens and overall ambience of the Inn appeals to travelers who are looking for unique and intimate accommodations.
Harlaxton Manor is an early Victorian country house close to the village of Harlaxton near Grantham in Lincolnshire. Building of the house was started in 1832 and was designed by the architect Anthony Salvin for the local squire Gregory Gregory. The house was mostly complete by 1837 and by this time Gregory had replaced Salvin with the Scottish architect William Burn who designed most of the interior of the house.
The house is built in a Gothic, Jacobean and Baroque style and has many sumptuous states rooms including a grand cedar staircase and a medieval style great hall. The house is now the UK base for the University of Evansville.
Built in 1841, the Ouse Valley Viaduct (also called Balcombe Viaduct) over the River Ouse on the London-Brighton Railway Line in England north of Haywards Heath and south of Balcombe is 1,475 feet (450 m) long.
The viaduct is 96 feet (29 m) high and is carried on 37 semi-circular arches, each of 30 feet (9.1 m), surmounted by balustrades. Each pier contains a Jack arch with a semi-circular soffit to reduce the number of bricks required.At each end of the abutment is an ornamental square open tower, the brickwork of which is faced with stone from Heddon Quarries near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The viaduct was designed by engineer for the line John Urpeth Rastrick in association with the architect of the London to Brighton railway, David Mocatta. It has been described as “probably the most elegant viaduct in Britain.”
The viaduct was opened in July 1841. The 11 million bricks needed for its construction were shipped up the Ouse River (via Newhaven and Lewes) from the Netherlands. It cost £38,500 to build (equivalent to about £3½ million in 2014).
The structure is a Grade II* listed building and was restored in 1996 with grants from the Railway Heritage Trust and English Heritage. Matching stone was imported from France, to ensure a close match with the existing balustrades and pavilions.
The viaduct is still used, with around 110 trains per day passing over it on the Brighton Main Line.
The Federal Building in Clarksville has remained unchanged since its erection in 1897-98. It is of Victorian appearance, showing a mixture of architectural, styles including Queen Anne and the Stick Style. The building is unusually flamboyant in style for its size with its highly pitched roof with large eagles on the four corners, its steep gabled windows, and elaborate terra cotta ornamentation combining to give importance to a relatively small building. Additionally, there are a total of 20 dormers on the building, five on each side. The central gable dormer on each side has a curvilinear opening, and is flanked by hip roof dormers. All the dormers are surmounted by pinnacles, and there is a series of three stepped pinnacles on the angles of the roof line running up from each corner. Each corner is surmounted by an eagle on a pedestal. And an ornate tower is located on the apex of the roof.
As indicated above, a great attention to structural & decorative detail is evidenced in this small but unusual structure. Designed by U.S. Treasury Architect, William Martin Aiken, the building was constructed by Charles A. Moses of Chicago. His bid of $32,243 was the lowest of fourteen submitted. David A. Murphy, Superintendent of Construction of U.S. Public Buildings, supervised the construction. Ground was broken on September 1, 1897 and the building was completed the following year. Clarksville was able to obtain this building primarily because of the large volume of foreign mail occasioned by its tremendous tobacco business. The building was used as a post office until the 1930's. Since that time, it has served as offices of the Clarksville Electrical Department.
Due to the major significance of this Federal Building's unusual and distinctive architecture, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on June 13, 1972. All of the information above was gleaned from the original documents submitted to the NRHP for listing consideration and can be found here:
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This photo was taken in 2013 during my previous Project 365…please visit my album for this “REMASTERED” Project 365 as I revisit each day of 2013 for additional photos to share!!
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D5200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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Albion House (also known as "30 James Street" or the White Star Building) is a Grade II* listed building located in Liverpool, England. It was constructed between 1896 and 1898 and is positioned on the corner of James Street and The Strand across from the Pier Head.
Designed by architects Richard Norman Shaw and J. Francis Doyle, it was built for the Ismay, Imrie and Company shipping company, which later became the White Star Line. After White Star merged with Royal Mail Line the headquarters remained at Albion House until 1934 at which time the British Government forced the merger of Cunard Line and White Star Line. The building is situated on the corner of The Strand and James Street. The facade is constructed from white Portland stone and red brick. In 1912, when news of the disaster of the Titanic reached the offices, the officials were too afraid to leave the building, and instead read the names of the deceased from the balcony. During World War II, the gable was damaged and was later rebuilt in the late 1940
Built in the Nineteenth Century, this little weatherboard cottage may be found in the small alpine town of Wandiligong.
Proudly it sits behind its wire fence and well established garden. It features a corrugated iron roof and a verandah to help keep the cottage cool and shady during the warmer summer months. You might notice that it has two gables, and this is because the original cottage would only have been a couple of rooms making up the front building. However, in ensuing years the owners of the cottage became more prosperous, and were thus able to extend the cottage twice its original size. It is not unusual to see little miner's cottages with two or three extensions added onto the back of the original cottage. This once would have been the cottage home of one of the many miners that panned for gold during the Victorian Gold Rush.
Wandiligong is a town in north-eastern Victoria in the alpine region around 330 kilometres from Melbourne. Established in the 1850s as part of the Victorian Gold Rush, Wandiligong became a hub for many gold miners, including a large Chinese community. At its peak, the town was home to over two thousand inhabitants and boasted shops, churches, a public library, halls and even an hotel. Much has changed since those heady days of the gold rush, and the picturesque town nestled in a valley and built around the Morses Creek, is now a sleepy little town full of picturesque houses which are often let to visitors to the area. The whole town is registered with the National Trust of Australia for its historic landscape and buildings of historic value.
Morrill Hall was the University's first newly constructed building, built at a cost of $70,111 and opening on October 7, 1868 as South University Building, or less formally, as South Hall It is the southernmost of the three buildings which comprise the "Stone Row" which forms the west side of Cornell's Arts Quadrangle, all constructed of Ithaca bluestone quarried from the base of Libe Slope.
The Distillery District is a national Historic Site with an incredibly rich history. The site was once The Gooderham and Worts Distillery, and represents the largest and best preserved collection of Victorian Industrial Architecture in North America.
In its time, The Gooderham and Worts Distillery played an important role in the growth and wealth of both the city and nation. In addition to various involvements in real estate and banking, the company at one time contributed more to Federal coffers than any other enterprise in the country.
The Distillery Historic District opens in May 2003 and quickly becomes a vital part of the city and one of Canada’s top tourist attractions.
Built as Banque de Paris in 1882.Now BNP Paribas.Monument Historique,Edouard Corroyer Architect,Aime Millet Sculptor,Paris France-35mm Olympus Stylus Epic,Ilford XP2 400
On a prominent hilltop site just at the point where East Belfast suddenly goes from being very poor to being very rich, Saint Mark’s Church of Ireland, Dundela, is visible for miles around. It was designed in red sandstone in Gothic Revival style by the eminent Victorian architect William Butterfield, most famous for designing Keble College Oxford. The 45 metre high bell tower creates the impression of a large church. Sir John Betjeman described St Mark's as "Butterfield at his best".
The church has much treasured connections with C S Lewis, who was baptised here, and the door handle of the former rectory is in the shape of a lion and may have inspired him.
My title here is suggestive of a prison. In the middle of this courtyard is indeed a lovely Victorian garden, but there is still a relatively large space that would allow a significant number of people to exercise.
This idea is not so far removed from the historical facts (and Victoria's largest high security juvenile prison is in fact a literal stone's throw away behind razor wire). There is even a photograph on this link that shows "Female inmates in 1928" [Royal Park: from parklands to a home: 1840s-1920s] www.thermh.org.au/about/about-rmh/our-history/history-roy...
Now of course they weren't strictly prisoners, but those destitute and under the care of the state were certainly institutionalised in a way that we no longer find acceptable.
So in a nutshell, the land was purchased in 1858 to form an experimental farm. The farm ultimately came to nothing and in 1875 an Industrial School for Girls was set up. Might I suggest that the term "Industrial" here has much in keeping the with term "Female Factory" in Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania) in the first half of the 19th century. These young women were essentially wards of the state.
In 1880 the girls were moved into foster homes and young males were moved into the buildings on the same conditions. This didn't last long. The rest of the story is best summarised from the history supplied by the RMH:
"By 1881, the boys had been removed and the Royal Park Industrial School buildings were left vacant. In July 1882, the site and buildings were given to the Immigrants’ Aid Society by the government for use as a home for houseless and destitute persons. At this time, the Male Division of the Society was relocated from St Kilda Road to Royal Park.
In 1914, the remaining operations, including female and child inmates, were transferred from St Kilda Road to Royal Park.
The change in name of the Society to Victorian Homes for Aged and Infirm, in 1902, was followed by another in 1925, to Victorian Benevolent Home and Hospital for the Aged and Infirm. By this time the majority of inmates no longer represented a range of ages, but were primarily elderly. This constituted the true start of geriatric care for the institution." www.thermh.org.au/about/about-rmh/our-history/history-roy...
So it is not an exaggeration to say that the space in this photograph was indeed at one time an exercise yard.
Dating from 1885 and once named Annecy-on-the-Bayou, this Queen Anne mansion in Tarpon Springs FL has been freshly restored.
There were clear distinctions in the seamen ranks. The boatmen lived on one side of the station (but in fine houses for the times), and the pilots and Captain lived on the other side, with their houses opening directly onto a beautiful beach area.
This cottage was originally a built in 1866 as a school house for the children who lived on the station. When the children started going to the regular community school, it was turned into another cottage for a pilot and his family.
This rear view allows us to see how well kept the cottage is, and also to witness the soft evening light.
Port Townsend, Washington
Ask Washington residents which city in their state is most noteworthy for its Victorian-era architecture and the answer will likely be Port Townsend. The downtown commercial center boasts one of the state’s finest collections of late nineteenth century commercial structures, comprising a historic district recognized as a National Historic Landmark.
Located at the corner of Water and Taylor Streets, the Hastings Building serves as the anchor to Port Townsend’s historic downtown. Constructed in 1889 and named for Captain L.B. Hastings, the architectural details and ornamentation adorning the Hastings Building illustrate the flamboyance and optimism of the early 1890s.
The Hastings Building is located in Port Townsend’s downtown Historic Commercial District.
This beautiful example of Elmer H. Fisher Victorian architecture has three floors which are currently planned for a full historic rehabilitation as part of the Hastings Building/Hastings Landing Project.
There were two buildings named similarly--the Hastings Building and the James and Hastings Building--built nearby to each other at the same time in Port Townsend. Lucinda Bingham Hastings (1826-1894), the widow of Loren Brown Hastings (1814-1881), a local dry goods merchant, turned to real estate investment after her husband's death in 1881, and provided the capital for this building and half of the cost of the James and Hastings Building.
References: hastingsestate.com/hastingsestate.com/Hastings_Building; preservewa.org/city/port-townsen; pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/19951
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