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The Cathedral Church of Saint Mary the Virgin is a cathedral of the (Anglican) Scottish Episcopal Church in the West End of Edinburgh. Designed in a Gothic Revival style by Sir George Gilbert Scott, the foundation stone was laid on 21 May 1874. The nave of the cathedral was opened on 25 January 1879 and from that day, daily services have been held in the cathedral. The twin spires at the west end, known as "Barbara" and "Mary" after the Walker sisters who funded its construction were not begun until 1913 and completed in 1917. The architect for these was Charles Marriott Oldrid Scott, Sir George's grandson.
The handsome curve of Lansdowne Crescent, a classically pretty Edinburgh New Town street, frames the building here.
Nantgwyllt Church was built in 1898-1903 to replace the original medieval church which was swallowed up by the flooding of the Elan and Claerwen Valleys to create reservoirs to supply water for Birmingham in the early 20th Century. It was carefully sited to achieve maximum aesthetic impact, aligning with the viaduct and the Foel valve tower at the north end of the viaduct to create a picturesque scene.
Holy Communion is celebrated once per month according to the rites of the Church in Wales, the country's Anglican Church.
The raised-lettering nameboard at what is effectively the preserved Victorian museum piece that is Hebden Bridge railway station, is deliberately shown off here. Completing the frame is Northern's departing 11.23am York - Blackpool North service (1B25), in the hands of CAF class 195 unit 195108.
A shot that didn't make the cut at the time but which I think maybe has some merit. Anyhow, a change from the Southern Region at least.
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12.40pm, 1st December 2022
Rockland, ME
10-12-2019
Processed: 07-07-21
There's a lot of character on these streets, even when it's raining. I remember I had to keep wiping and cleaning the lens on my camera, even when using my hoods. I didn't make any attempt to turn the sky blue using filters in this treatment. Gives more of the actual "atmosphere" of the location.
I did amp up the colors slightly from what I've been doing during processing lately.
Belfast’s Custom House is a symmetrical two-storey building, with basement and attic, designed in an Italianate Palazzo style by Sir Charles Lanyon. The building was designed by Lanyon in 1847 and built by D and J Fulton 1854-7. There were significant repair and refurbishment projects in 1983 and 1996.
Viewed from the Station Street flyover, the eye is led gently to it by the Lagan Weir Bridge for pedestrians and cyclists (2015). the Lagan Weir (1994), which ensures the River Lagan is not subject to tidal fluctuations as it passes through Belfast City Centre.
Prior to the building of the weir, low tide would expose mudflats, which were unsightly and emitted a strong odour, particularly in the summer months. The Lagan Weir was the seen by the Laganside Corporation as a catalyst for its redevelopment projects in the city's fomer docklands and shipbuildng areas.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
We are taking an early evening stroll down Marieville Esplanade in Sandy Bay, a beachside suburb of Hobart. It is Springtime, so the blossoms are out. I like the way the sunlight caught the red bricks of this Victorian house.
The Merchant Hotel on Belfast’s Waring Street was the headquarters of the Ulster Bank for a century and a half, and since 2010 has been a luxury hotel.
Bank Directors Robert Grimshaw and James Heron visited Glasgow and Edinburgh in 1857 to glean as much information as possible on the best banking buildings. It was their earnest wish that the building should appear elegant, substantial and prosperous. The location was deemed eminently suitable being, as it was then, in the heart of Belfast’s mercantile and commercial centre.
The Glaswegian architect James Hamilton designed an imposing building in High Victorian Italianate style executed in Giffnock sandstone. Sculptures depicting Commerce, Justice and Britannia, look down benignly from the apex of the magnificent facade.
The Merchant Hotel is located in the Cathedral Quarter nightlife district.
This description incorporates text taken from the Merchant Hotel’s website.
for the last decade these homeowners have been working on this house-- the porch on the left and the roof tiles on the right were the latest.
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hmm, i think this posting means i am done-- a day ahead. must go check and see if all of them have gotten into the group pool :)-- nope, still have to do dried
The Haskins House, a perfectly restored Queen Anne style Victorian home on Carroll Street in the Angelino Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city.
The Grade II listed St John's House in the Wiltshire market town of Devizes (pop. 15,500); built ca. 1850 from local Bath stone, originally for the local friendly society.
Once an important junction on the L&SWR's route between Exeter and Plymouth, the station at Okehampton was closed to regular passenger traffic in 1972 after closure of the two branches it also served (to Bude and Padstow), along with the through route to Plymouth, had succumbed in the 1960s.
Luckily the line continued to thrive as a freight route supporting British Rail's busy ballast quarry at nearby Meldon - at least until the operation wound down in 2011, by which time the political climate for the reopening of old railways to passenger traffic was more agreeable.
As a result, the northern side of the original station was sold back to Network Rail by the local Council for £1, and work began on sympathetically restoring it to capture the aesthetic glories of the past while ensuring it met the standards a contemporary passenger would expect. The extensive project also included renewing and replacing sections of track and signalling along the route.
With fanfare and national TV coverage, the line and station were reopened in November 2021 to a 2-hourly service to / from Exeter - which quickly proved so popular that an hourly service was introduced the following year.
With this shot I've tried to capture a flavour of the station building and its heritage-style restoration. Through the open door can be seen the Council-owned southern side of the station, porter's trolley and trunks, and the entrance to the museum. One of the original signal boxes has been retained at the end of the platform, and is now used to house a model railway depicting Okehampton station in the 1950s. Just as appealing is the book shop on the station, and not least the cafe!
No surprise I took plenty of shots on the visit here, and this was one of my favourites. Comments disabled, thanks.
12.30pm, 28th June 2025
Another shot from the back-catalogue that didn't make the cut at the time and which, coincidentally, also features a castle.
The fine backdrop in this case is Windsor Castle, and the station is Windsor & Eton Riverside. A pair of South Western Trains 4-car 'Desiro' units, 450072 and 450089, stand waiting departure time with the 2.51pm service to London Waterloo (2U44).
In proof that money and nobility talked, the town is served by two very ornately constructed Victorian stations. But perhaps it's the ex-Great Western Railway's 'Windsor & Eton Central', now served by a three-times an hour train from Slough, that's the most elaborate.
Sadly much of the most elegant part of that station has been repurposed as shops and commercial premises, so many of the poor passengers have to disembark from beyond the roof shelter, hardly convenient in poor weather. Apparently money still talks - but perhaps now from rather less noble origins.
Nothing arty about this upload, but it was nice to incorporate the King's sometime residence for once. Sad to say I didn't have time to pop in for afternoon tea this time around....
2.44pm, 13th October 2023
GBRf 'Shed' unit 66734 'Platinum Jubilee' rolls slowly into Carlisle station for the scheduled crew change on the 7.11am Mossend - Clitheroe Castle (4M01) discharged cement tanks.
The exceptionally fine roof here was the subject of a £14.5m renovation 5-6 years ago where the traditional glass panes (which would occasionally fall to the platform due to distortion in the roof trusses) were replaced by polymer material, and the roofing structure generally strengthened.
The result is remarkable to say the least with a much brighter and more pleasant environment than the one I remember from previous visits. Formerly known as Carlisle Citadel station, it was built between 1846 and 1848 at a cost of £53,000 and, externally at least, was designed by William Tite to be sympathetic to the Citadel located close by.
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11.57am, 24th March 2023
This magnificent top floor of "Craiglea" in Paterson Street, Launceston, shows the kind of ornate architecture employed in the Victorian era.
Christ Church is a Church of England parish church in Clifton, in the Diocese of Bristol. It is a Grade II* listed building.
The church was built in 1841 by Charles Dyer. The steeple was built in 1859 by John Norton, and the aisles in 1885 by William Basset Smith.
A Christian mission organised here is credited with inspiring Emma Saunders to devote her life to good works. She spent fifty years as the "Railwayman's Friend" in Bristol starting in 1878.
The cruciform limestone building has a slate roof. It was built in the Early English Gothic Revival style. There is an octagonal apse. The north transept is supported by buttresses.
The steeple above the five-stage tower reaches 65 metres. At its base is a doorway with Purbeck marble shafts. Inside the church is a west gallery supported by cast iron columns with timber cladding.
A replica of the church exists in Thames Town, a suburb of Shanghai built in a style imitative of English architecture.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
DB Cargo 'Shed' unit 66107 crawls around the less salubrious side of Crewe station (aka Platform 1) with the 7.56am Arpley Sidings - Stoke Marcoft Engineering (6K51) wagon move. Rather unfortunate that the train seemed to consist of flats this time around, but hey-ho.
I was actually waiting on a train to Nottingham when I noticed 6K51 on the move, and set up the shot to include the infamous Crewe Arms Hotel in the composition.
The hotel has some history being built in 1837 to serve the station, an important stop on the Grand Junction Railway. It would later fall into the ownership of the London and North Western Railway upon its formation in 1846. Queen Victoria became a regular overnight visitor on her summer journeys between London and Balmoral, and an underground tunnel was built allowing her to move between the hotel and station without public gaze. The hotel became part of British Transport Hotels when the railways were nationalised in 1948, and they sold it to a third party sometime in the 50s/60s.
Most recently it was re-branded as a Best Western Hotel but, in October 2021, was abruptly and surprisingly 'closed to the public' by its owners, with no reason given. However, in November 2022 and probably by way of explanation, the Cheshire East Council announced the hotel was being used as temporary accommodation for asylum seekers.
Whatever the future holds for this iconic landmark remains to be seen, but its days of providing accommodation to weary long-distance rail travellers have long since gone.
Info courtesy of Wikipedia and other sources.
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8.36am, 22nd May 2023
Llandudno, Conwy County, North Wales.
Llandudno Coordinates...53°19′21″N 3°49′30″W
The town of Llandudno developed from Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements over many hundreds of years on the slopes of the limestone headland, known to seafarers as the Great Orme and to landsmen as the Creuddyn Peninsula. The origins in recorded history are with the Manor of Gogarth conveyed by King Edward I to Annan, Bishop of Bangor in 1284. The manor comprised three townships, Y Gogarth in the south-west, Y Cyngreawdr in the north (with the parish church of St Tudno) and Yr Wyddfid in the south-east.
Modern Llandudno takes its name from the ancient parish of Saint Tudno. The modern town has grown beyond the ancient parish boundaries to encompass several neighbouring area, including Craig-y-Don and Penrhyn Bay, which were in the parish of Llanrhos (or Eglwys Rhos), which also included Llanrhos village and Deganwy. The ancient parishes of Llandudno, Llanrhos and Llangystennin were in the medieval commote of Creuddyn in the Kingdom of Gwynedd, which was made part of the new county of Caernarfonshire under the Statute of Rhuddlan in 1284.
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The Prince of Wales Hotel on Southport's Portland Street. Grade II listed. Built in 1876-7 in Gothic Revival style. Anoter fine piece of Southport Victoriana.
No, not the ornate Victorian roof supports at Northwich Station (although I suppose by definition it applies), but rather the coal train passing through.
Once one of the main freight revenue earners for British Rail and subsequent TOCs, traffic is now little more than a trickle. And, when a press release proudly announces that the UK's electricity generating needs were delivered for the first time without coal over a 24 hour period last week, you know the writing really is on the wall for coal-driven power stations.
The train here is the 12.14 Ferrybridge Power Station - Fiddlers Ferry Power Station (6F12) coal transfer, in the hands of Freightliner Shed 66506. Moving deck-chairs around on the Titanic somehow springs to mind.
8th May 2017
The Collegiate is a striking, Grade II* listed building, with a facade of pink Woolton sandstone, designed in Tudor Gothic style by the architect of the city's St. George's Hall, Harvey Lonsdale Elmes. The foundation stone was laid in 1840 and the Liverpool Collegiate Institution was opened by William Gladstone on 6 January 1843, originally as a fee-paying school for boys of middle-class parents and administered as three distinct organisations under a single headmaster. The Upper School became Liverpool College and relocated to Lodge Lane in 1884, whilst the Middle and Lower (or Commercial) Schools occupied the original site and would combine to form the Liverpool Collegiate School in 1908.
Mortimer House on Castle Road is one of many iconic Victorian Gothic buildings in Nottingham, UK designed by the acclaimed local architect Watson Fothergill. It dates to 1883. Today it houses a bar and a restaurant, one of which is named 'Fothergills' after the architect.
Situated at the rear of the Town Hall, the Buttermarket was designed as a covered market hall and opened on October 13th 1884. The red brick front carries a stone carving of the borough arms with the words "Our chartered rights" underneath. The two main entrances are from Middlegate, on which I am standing and from the Market Place, at the other end of the market.
Over the past few years it had been in decline but recently lots of money spent to make it more appealing with new businesses opening. It is a listed building, that is it is Heritage Protected.
Point Fermin Lighthouse
Point Fermin Park
San Pedro, CA
01-18-25
A shot of one of my favorite architectural subjects taken using my latest wide angle lens.
The Old Divinity School, now part of St John’s College, Cambridge. Tudor revival, built by Basil Champneys in 1878-9 following a competition in 1876. The statue on the corner is of Erasmus.
This stable complex together with living accommodation looks as though it was once part of a much larger estate with a grand country house. According to British Listed Buildings, it dates from 1845 and is Grade II-listed. It lies just off the country lane from Casterton to Barbon and is within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. At one time, it would have been within the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is now within the Ceremonial County of Cumbria.