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Eureka, CA
05-01-22
“The Pinc,” as the new owners now affectionally call her, has seen a lot of history through her jewel-toned, stained-glass windows on 202 M Street in Eureka, California.
Perched on Humboldt Bay, the majestic, historic home was built in 1889 by lumber magnate William Carson as a wedding gift for his son J. Milton Carson and his wife Mary Amelia (Bell) Carson. William lived across the street in the renowned Carson mansion, considered one of the grandest Victorian homes in America.
The J. Milton Carson House, locally known as “The Pink Lady” over the years, is crowned in iconic, ornamental, Victorian features. Famous as a classic example of the Queen Anne architectural style, her large bay windows, delicate cornices, graceful turret, and lacey gingerbread trim attract tourists and architectural enthusiasts alike.
(from "The Pinc Lady" website: pincladymansion.com/)
The Straining Tower at Vyrnwy reservoir photographed through one of the dam arches, Powys, Wales, UK
"In the entire time you've been here have you said thank you once?" she asked in a rebuke to my manners.
London's Royal Albert Hall in winter's afternoon sunlight. A concert hall opened in 1871 by Queen Victoria in memory of her late husband, Albert.
A soggy evening in Lockdown 2 provided a chance to get a nice shot of these buildings, often difficult to photograph with the incessant parked cars.
Located on the west side of the Market Square of Devizes in Wiltshire (population 15,500), the Bear Hotel, dates back at least to the 16th Century, but reached both its current form with Doric front and stucco pillars, and the height of its popularity towards the end of the 18th Century, when it provided lodging and alimentation for the then rapidly expanding coach traffic transiting the town between London and Bath or Bristol. The statue of the bear above the front door was removed from its previous perch in the Market Square and placed here around 1800.
This majestic Gothic Revival schoolhouse was designed and built by W.W. Eldridge in 1889. It served the community until 1986 when the school was relocated to a modern building. Renovations were carried out and it was converted into Council Chambers until the Town Council was amalgamated with the larger Northern Midlands Council in 1993.
But the building still serves the community as a tourism information hub, and importantly continues to house Evandale's valuable historical archival material.
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Pacific Grove Inn
Pacific Grove, CA
05-01-2018
Processed: 04/17/22
I took this somewhat prescient photo on my birthday in 2018 when visiting Pacific Grove for the first time. Looks like the place was up for sale back then. It's operating nicely now in 2022 cause I booked a one night stay there for my birthday eve for Spring Birthdaycation 2022!
I'll be turning 69 this Mayday and I always take my Spring "Birthdaycation" around that time.
I visited San Francisco in 2021 but the cable cars weren't even active because of Covid. My itinerary for this year:
April 29th: Morro Bay
April 30th: Pacific Grove
May 1st-3rd: Eureka
May 4th-6th: San Francisco
I'll be visiting places north of San Francisco I've never photographed, like Point Reyes, Bodega Bay, Mendocino, Trinidad, and Eureka.
And I'll be staying at this quaint Victorian Inn when in Pacific Grove!
An alternative view of the late 19th century Leaderfoot Viaduct, part of the Berwickshire Railway, Scottish Borders, UK
Christ Church in the Wiltshire village of Worton, near Devizes, was built in 1841; before that villagers had to walk around 2 km into Potterne to go to Church, and the nearby Methodist Chapel at Marston was much closer. The site of the church is on the south side of the village to enable it to serve Marston as well as Worton. The two villages today have a total population of around 800. The Wesleyan Chapel a few hundred metres away and now disused, was completed in 1848 despite being an easy stroll from Marston. The 1840s obviously witnessed a bit of an Anglican-vs-Methodist ecclesiastical arms race in these villages!
This is a simple but handsome preaching box with box pews; the pulpit may be 18th Century, and therefore older than the church. It was built to designs of T.H. Wyatt, in ashlar blocks, with an octagonal stone bellcote. Christ Church is Grade II listed. Pevsner described its windows as "oddly tall, slim".
The iconic 1970s vintage HST sets are scheduled to finish their final passenger duties down in the South West by the end of the year and, in this shot, 'Castle' class power cars 43187 and 43004 are seen leaving Par top and tailing respectively GWR's 11.28am Exeter St Davids - Penzance service (2C20). The formation is the usual '2+4' used on this route.
Sadly, the notice in the signal box poignantly announces that, at 11.00pm on 3rd March 2024, the bells fell silent and Par Signal Box, opened in 1879, finally closed.
The semaphore legacy still just about hangs on in these parts however. Around the corner at St Blazey, on the otherwise quiet Newquay branch, a few examples can be found still doing service signalling the trains.
1.39pm, 30th June 2025
Galveston est une ville construite sur une île dans le golfe du Mexique, dans le sud du Texas. Elle se distingue par la présence de nombreuses demeures victoriennes surnommées les Broadway Beauties et classées historiques comme le Bishop’s Palace construit de granit texan en 1886.
La ville est aussi célèbre pour avoir été victime de l'ouragan de Galveston en 1900 qui, avec environ 8 000 morts, reste la catastrophe naturelle la plus meurtrière des États-Unis. Aujourd'hui, la ville compte 57 000 habitants pour une superficie de 540 km2, dont seulement 119 km2 de terres. Elle a été à nouveau menacée le 23 septembre 2005 par l'ouragan Rita et en 2008, l'ouragan Ike a encore durement frappé la ville.
Queen Anne Hotel
San Francisco, CA
05-01-21
This is the sitting room of the Queen Anne Hotel, where I stayed while in San Francisco. It is so rich and "Victorian" that I'm somewhat sad I didn't get to spend more time there, however I was "out and about" taking photos all the time I could. When I was in my hotel, I took advantage of the fact I had it pretty much all to myself and I took lots of photos of the richly appointed rooms.
St. Pancras International Station
London
This monumental 20m high writing is suspended from the spectacular steel and glass roof of the Victorian station.
‘I want my time with you’...Hanging in the concourse where people reunite after months apart, these words make the intimate feelings a public thing. It is also a statement that reaches out to everybody from Europe arriving in to London’.
Voyage - Zoë Më
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🎶One day you’ll understand
That flowers are more beautiful
When you water them
You’ve cut me so many…
…times
If you want I’ll go
With you on a journey
Go on a journey, journey
Go on a journey with you 🎶
On W. Broadway in Bangor, Me. One of the first places I photographed on my recent New England vacation.
New Brighton evokes a sense of nostalgia for its Victorian past. As the sun dips low, the sky transforms into a canvas of soft oranges and cyans, illuminating the historic buildings. The fading light casts long shadows, inviting a moment of reflection on the beauty and history that still linger in this seaside gem.
Please enjoy the golden details in Large. Thank you so much for your visit!
As I walked up to this old schoolhouse a man was working in the garden. We got talking and it turns out he was a Queenslander who bought this old school at auction not long after it was closed in 1999. He and his wife had come over for their usual summer holidays, and after the border closures were declared found themselves spending the whole winter here as well. He kindly let me look around and take this photograph.
I think I found the perfect spot for my composition. As soon as I saw this I thought of Emily Brontë's great novel "Wuthering Heights". All that gothic sensibility on the Yorkshire moors. The tree, the Victorian building and the light just made a black and white the logical choice.
This schoolhouse was built between 1875 and 1877, and it was the first state school in the area. We have already seen the earlier St John's School. It was put up for sale after being closed in 1999 because of low enrolments. www.visitross.com.au/interactive-map-of-ross/
Pepper and Perrins was a drapery business established in 1870 as we see here on this building. The architecture, however, dates from 1898, as the original building was seriously damaged by fire earlier that year, and the shop front we see here is the rebuild. Unlike the building we saw yesterday, this one is lovingly cared for. We can also see the building across the street reflected in its windows.
Grand Parade in Bath from the River Avon, with the rushing waters of the Pulteney Weir obvious.
On the left is the late Victorian mass of the Empire Hotel, as it was. Completed in 1902, it designed by the Bath City Architect Major Charles Edward Davis for the hotelier Alfred Holland and built from Bath Stone. It was described by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as a ‘monstrosity and an unbelievable piece of pompous architecture’. I rather like it, albeit it IS in fact incredibly pompous to have architecture on the roof showing the three socal classes: a castle on the corner for upper class, a house for the middle classes, and a cottage for the plebs and peasants!
Right of shot is Pulteney Bridge, a bridge over the River Avon in Bath, England. It was completed by 1774, and connected the city with the land of the Pulteney family which it wished to develop in the parish of Bathwick. Designed by Robert Adam in a Palladian style, it is highly unusual in that it has shops built across its full span on both sides. It is a Grade I listed building.
In the centre is spire of St Michael’s Church, a Victorian structure on a site used for Christian worship since medieval times. It was built in 1835-7 to a design by G P Manners with tall and narrow ‘W’ tower. It is Grade II* listed.
To its left, on Grand Parade, is the dome of the 1897 Victoria Art Gallery, also Grade II* listed.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
GBRf 'Shed' unit 66770 nears journey's end as it rolls south through the elegant St Denys station bang on schedule heading the 3.56pm Hams Hall (Birmingham) - Southampton Western Docks (4O32) container train. The extent to which export traffic like this will suffer over the coming months given recent political developments remains unclear.
Per Wiki: The station buildings are fine examples of the Victorian Italianate classical style architecture introduced to the LSWR by William Tite. The original 1867 station building on platform 1 is Grade II listed, now privately owned and renamed Drummond House. Platforms 2 and 3 (seen in this shot) house the waiting room and ticket window, whilst the old station buildings on platform 4 house The Solent Model Railway Group.
The yellow bin in the foreground is of rather more recent vintage, and holds grit for use on the platform surfaces during icy weather.
Techie stuff: Canon EOS 5DMkIII, 24-105mm lens, 25600asa, 1/320s @ F5.0
Comments off for this one, thanks.
8.52pm, 20th March 2025
Barmouth Bridge, or Barmouth Viaduct is a Grade II* listed single-track wooden railway viaduct across the estuary of the River Mawddach near Barmouth, Wales. It is 900 yards long and carries the Cambrian Line. It is the longest timber viaduct in Wales and one of the oldest in regular use in Britain.
Barmouth Bridge was designed by and constructed for the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway on its line between Aberystwyth and Pwllheli. Work was authorised in 1861 and commenced in 1864. On 10 October 1867, the completed bridge was officially opened.
Green Gables Inn
Pacific Grove, CA
04-29-21
The Inn, originally a private home, was built in 1888 by Englishman William Lacy, an amateur architect.
My photo, taken on my "Birthdaycation" in April, is a 6 image HDR focus stack manually composited in Photoshop CC.
Prints available in the Buildings Gallery of the Bridges and Buildings album of my online store.
Longfellow-Hastings Octagon House
Heritage Square
Los Angeles, CA
11-01-20
From the Heritage Square website: More than 1,000 of these unique structures were built in the United States. Only twenty are known to have been built in California. The Hastings-Longfellow Octagon House is one of less than 500 octagon structures left in the United States and is one of the remaining, unaltered examples of this style in Southern California.
The building, which incorporates the former Shanklin Town Hall, is a Grade II listed building built in 1879.
Every window, every curve of brick and beam, feels plucked from the pages of a storybook, where characters in top hats and long dresses wait just behind the glass.
Please enjoy the architectural details in Large.
Thank you so much for your visit!
St Anne's Pier is a Victorian era pleasure pier in the English seaside resort of St Anne's-on-the-Sea, Lancashire. The pier was originally intended to be a sedate promenading venue for the resort's visitors, but attractions were later added. Changes made to the estuary channels to improve access to Preston Dock left the pier on dry land and ended its steamer services to Blackpool and Liverpool.
The village of St Germans is situated on the River Tiddy in the south-east of Cornwall. In Victorian times it was a busy fishing port and cargoes of timber, limestone and coal were loaded onto ships at St Germans Quay. The former warehouse on the quay (now the premises of the local sailing club) dates from 1850 and is Grade II-listed. I would imagine that these pretty little cottages on the side of the quay date from around the same time and would originally have housed staff who managed the quay.