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this Victorian train station, once the largest in the UK, seems to withstand the all changing tooth of time although it is much smaller nowadays than it used to be ...
The curved Victorian streetscape of Philbeach Gardens in London's Earl's Court district with its pollarded trees. The crucifix belongs to St Cuthbert's Church of England, another magnificent piece of Victoriana.
Looking across Pollacappul Lough at Kylemore Abbey (County Galway, in western Ireland), on an afternoon of mixed sun, cloud, and rain in mid-September (2013).
Kylemore Abbey, in the Connemara region, was built 1867-1871 as the private home of Englishman Mitchell Henry, member of a wealthy Manchester family, and Margaret, his wife. The estate included the neo-Gothic Kylemore "Castle" and church, a family mausoleum, gardens, and woodland. Despite Margaret's death in 1874, as well as the death of his daughter, Henry stayed on until 1903, when he sold the estate to the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, who later sold it again. Since 1920, Kylemore has been an abbey, established by Benedictine nuns who had become World War I refugees from Ypres (Belgium); for decades, they ran a girls' boarding school. It is also open to visitors and has become a very popular tourist site.
In addition to the main building, Kylemore features an allée, restored late-Victorian walled garden, café, and gift shop. (The Irish name of the Abbey is Mainistir na Coille Móire.)
(Historical information from the Abbey website, last consulted 27 July 2020, and Wikipedia, last consulted 27 July 2020. Topographical information confirmed on Ordnance Survey Ireland map online, 26 July 2020.)
[Kylemore Abbey fuschia tree lake 2013 sep 16 c; IMG_3639]
Llandudno Pier, North Parade, Llandudno, North Wales LL20 2LP.
Llandudno Pier... Geolocation 53.33167° N, -3.825° E
Llandudno Pier is a Grade II* listed pier in the seaside resort of Llandudno, North Wales, United Kingdom. At 2,295 feet (700 m), the pier is the longest in Wales and the fifth longest in England and Wales. In 2005, was voted "Pier of the Year 2005" by the members of the National Piers Society.
The Opening
The pier was opened to the public on 1 August 1877 by director Dr Nicol. Although not completely finished by this time, the pier directors considered it was sufficiently complete to allow public access. According to The North Wales Chronicle, upon opening, "a throng of visitors flocked upon it and it presented quite a lively appearance". The first steamboat to land passengers on the new pier was the Prince Authur, which arrived in Llandudno at the start of May 1878.
Operation
The pier sustained its first damage during a heavy storm in November 1878, when the landing stage under the pier sustained light damage. The landwards extension to the same design, still in deep water and also supported on iron columns, was opened in 1884 and a new landing stage was added in 1891.
Towards the end of 1907, the owners announced intentions through an application to the Board of Trade to widen the pier, extend it by sea dredging and to construct pavilions and a tramway. By 1908, the pier would often be overcrowded during the summer season, causing inconvenience to passengers boarding and alighting from steamboats.
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If there is one thing you have to admire our Victorian ancestors for it is the sheer scale and vision in their infrastructure projects, many of which we still rely on today.
One such is the Elan Valley dam system, which supplies pure Welsh water to Birmingham. This is the Caban Coch dam which is the lowest dam on the system, and it is 120ft high by 610 ft wide. As you can see it was designed to turn into a giant waterfall when the reservoir behind it is full, and the experience of standing in front of it is a pure assault on the senses. I was fortunate that there were only a few people about when I visited, and one chap in a bright red coat was very obliging in standing in the very centre of the bridge over the River Elan just downstream from the dam.
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.
I think these indoor shots may have worked better on an overcast day, when I could have preserved the detail in the stained glass rather better. Oh, well, another time...
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, which the Church of England parish church for what 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 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.
The wonderful pediment above the main entrance to the Grade II* Listed Devere House, at the corner of Aked Street and Vicar Lane in Bradford, near the Cathedral. Devere House was built in 1871 as an American and Chinese Export
Warehouse by architects Lockwood and Mawson. Magnificent vine leaves, scrollwork, and floral arrangements surround the all-conquering carved eagle.
We spent a night at the East Brother Light Station. The bed & breakfast inn sits on a small island located at the border of the San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay near Richmond. Innkeepers Bryan & Stephanie welcomed us with champagne & hors d’oeuvres upon arrival, served us a multi-course dinner with wine, and a gourmet breakfast the next morning. We learned about the history of the lighthouse, and got a demo of the very loud diesel powered foghorn. This is the desk upstairs of the lighthouse keeper.
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The top station of the funicular railway, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Yorkshire, UK. The cliff railway dates to 1884.
A grand Victorian hotel just opposite Newcastle upon Tyne railway station, the County Hotel was built in 1874.
To the right is the Trustee Savings Bank building, now a Wetherspoons pub, build 1862-3 in the French Renaissance style. Designed by J E Watson, with coat of arms of the City of Newcastle on the pediment.
On the right is the clock tower of the historic St John the Baptist Church. The first church was built here around 1130, probably using stones from Hadrian’s Wall. It was much smaller than the present building and the only remaining feature from this time is one rounded Norman window arch in the chancel. The tower was added around 1230, and the church reached something approaching its current form by the end of the 15th Century.
Werribee Mansion, wider view of the whole structure and additions. Showing the arches, windows and tower with flag flying. On a bright and hot day earlier this month.
For more information on its history - "Werribee Park Mansion was built between 1874 and 1877 in the Italianate-style by the pioneering pastoralists Thomas Chirnside (1815-1887) and his brother Andrew Chirnside (1818-1890), from Scotland, founders of the "Chirnside Pastoral Empire"" and "From 1923 to 1973, Werribee Park Mansion was a Catholic seminary, Corpus Christi College. The wings, which are now the Mansion Hotel were added during that period." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werribee_Park
Here's an image from the first two trips that mileage-wise took us nearly halfway around the world. This is the iconic Tower Bridge, which is often confused with London Bridge. We took a walk across the Thames from our hotel to Queen's Walk where I shot this.
Fortunately I took it before I was told by a security guard that Queen's Walk is on private property and tripods weren't allowed.
Haight and Masonic SE
San Francisco, CA
05-02-21
Psychedelic sky produced as a pattern from the photo in Photoshop CC. I've been wondering when I'd first use the "patterns" tool in Photoshop CC which I just recently learned about. I've always used the kaleidoscope feature in Paintshop, and the patterns tool works much like it.
Since Haight-Ashbury is famous for "The Summer of Love" in 1967 and now sort of co-opts the "hippie" vibe, plus, there were no clouds in the sky so I had a "canvas" on which to paint a somewhat "psychedelic" vignette.
Prints available, of course on my website. Look in the 2021 Gallery of the Composites Album.
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This beautiful train station, built in the early 1870s and once serving the picturesque town of Kent, Connecticut on Housatonic Railroad, and before that the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, is a fine example of historic Victorian New England architecture.
I photographed this on a sunny, warm Autumn day in October, 2024. I liked how the overhanging roofing details shadowed diagonally onto the building. Today this building is used as a pharmacy.
Shot with the Olympus E-M1, Mark II and the Olympus M.12-40mm F2.8 Pro lens.
This photo has been in Explore on November 2, 2024. Highest position = #62. This is my 222nd photo in Explore.
I can't find any information on this attractive office block conversion near Bradford Cathedral, and the Jubilee Centre is not a listed building, but the jolly, well-kept, brickwork caught my eye as I walked past.
"Built to the design of a local architect, James A. Ellis, in 1887, this fire hall represents one of the new types of building that appeared in the nineteenth century as public services increased. Tall, wide doors were required for the apparatus, and a tall, slender tower for drawing up the canvas hoses to dry. The upper stage of the tower was rebuilt in its present form in 1908.
"The use of especially-large, round-arched openings is characteristic of the late 1880s and the 1890s. The fully-developed Romanesque Revival, with massive trim in carved stone and moulded brick, is rare outside Toronto, but is approached here in the overall effect of juxtaposed large and small openings and even in detailing like the arcaded corbelling in the parapet. The whole design is well co-ordinated and has a modest dignity."
From Ontario Towns, by Ralph Greenhill, Ken Macpherson, Douglas Richardson. Published by Oberon.
Jag var inte medveten om, förrän nyligen, att det fanns en svensk viktoriansk arkitekturstil, känd som Drottning Kristinas ...
This cropped 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 Fuji Reala 100 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
Also known as the Coeymans School, built in 1874 by Acton Civill as a polytechnic institute and used as a school until 1963; currently a residence for the elderly. Coeymans, New York.
Looking towards Threave House, in Threave Garden (Dumfries and Galloway, in southwestern Scotland), on an afternoon of mixed sunshine and cloud at the beginning of June (2022).
Threave Garden & Estate have been in the care of the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) since 1957. Established in 1960, the Trust’s noted School of Heritage Gardening provides intensive education and training in horticulture. It is located in Threave House, a red sandstone Victorian mansion that was designed in 1871 in the “Scottish Baronial” style (by architects John Dick Peddie and Charles Kinnear) and built for William Gordon and his family.
The talented students’ work is revealed in the widely varying garden sections or “rooms”; examples include the woodland garden, walled garden, arboretum, pond garden, and rockery, as well as the more recent Garden of Contemplation. Both over the seasons and through the years, Threave Garden continually changes, a development attested to by fellow visitors this year as well as by our own experience – we had first visited Threave Garden in 1994 and were struck this time by the newer features.
The Threave Garden & Estate land is located in Kirkcudbrightshire (a county until 1975, now a lieutenancy area), near the town of Castle Douglas.
(Information from Threave Garden & Estate (the official NTS guidebook, ©2021) and the National Trust for Scotland website, last consulted 26 July 2022.)
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In 2005 the Mount Royal Hospital, which had been a centre for Geriatric Care since 1950, was incorporated into the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH). www.thermh.org.au/about/about-rmh/our-history/history-roy...
However, its origins in the 19th century make for even more interesting stories. The Heritage Council of Victoria tells us that the main buildings, pictured here in what I call the Quadrangle, were built in 1874-75. The sepia look I have adopted might help us to imagine how a photographer in the late 1800s would have pictured the location.
I also find that white highlights in a sepia print tend to stand out more than in a normal grayscale image.
Phillips House
Angelino Heights, Los Angeles, CA
06-29-19
Here's a description of the Phillips House from the L.A. Conservancy website:
"Built in 1887, the imposing Phillips House was likely a project of local real estate developers George O. Ford and James B. Myer...
The house’s first owner was Aaron Phillips, an Iowa hardware merchant who came to Los Angeles in 1887. His wife, Maria, and daughter, Grace, had traveled to Los Angeles a year earlier to scout the area... Grace lived in the house until 1942, when her heirs sold the property to the current owner’s family.
One of the most ornate homes in Angelino Heights, the Phillips House blends two Victorian styles. The sharp angles, in both the shape of the house and its geometric decoration, typify the Eastlake style, while the overall decorative exuberance reflects the Queen Anne style."
The Haskins House on Carroll Ave. in the Angelino Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA.
Fron the L.A. Conservancy website: "Built in 1894 for real estate developer Charles C. Haskins, this is the last Victorian built on Carroll Avenue and one of the few "Gay Nineties" houses remaining in Los Angeles. It vividly illustrates the height of late Victorian exuberance, with carved sunburst patterns, fish-scale shingles, and curvaceous columns.
The home's asymmetrical façade, rounded forms, Mansard roof, and corner turret exemplify the Queen Anne style."
This former hotel dates to 1863, and was one of the world's first to have a private railway platform. It has been a residential building since the 1970's.
Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Yorkshire, UK
the perspective when crossing the Clifton Suspension Bridge over the extremely deep Avon river gorge.
Happy Monochrome Monday!
View across the River Lagan from the SSE Arena to the Belfast Harbour Commissioners’ building and, behind it, Sinclair Seaman’s Church.
The first section of the Harbour Commissioners’ building, designed by the Commissioners' engineer George Smith, was opened in 1854 and erected at a cost of £8,000. A subsequent extension, by the celebrated Belfast architect William Henry Lynn, was completed in 1895 at a cost of £14,349. The style of architecture reflects that of an Italian palazzo.
Sinclair Seaman’s Church is a Presbyterian foundation built in 1857-8 by Sir Charles Lanyon, the key architect of High Victorian Belfast, for visiting seafarers.
Yet another piece of Excel sheet anti-architecture is being built next to it, but I trust from how it is shaping up that the view across the river is being preserved. There are no guarantees with that given Northern Ireland’s planning system is as dysfunctional as the rest of its public administration and even parts of the riverfront that were beautifully reimagined as part of the late 1990s retrieval of the waterfront have already been lost.
This lovely little former village school with the schoolmaster's house attached is opposite the village green in Orlingbury. Dating from the mid-1800s, and possibly by the same architect as the nearby church, this Grade II-listed building is now a private residence. The village of Orlingbury lies between Wellingborough and Kettering in the north-east of Northamptonshire, a couple of miles from where we live. When we are at home I normally walk our little Yorkie on the village green.
Location: 172 Main St., Killingly (Danielson), CT
Architect: William Russell Walker (1830–1905)
Built in 1876 this “Second Empire” Victorian structure was once known locally as the “Music Hall”. It featured shows, plays and various musical events. In 1906 the Town of Killingly purchased the building for use as the Town Hall.
Unfortunately, the decorative slate roof that once adorned the mansard tower was changed to sheet metal or aluminum. The original Victorian entryway was also the victim of extensive glass and steel modifications.
The clocktower in Hay-on-Wye was built by J C Haddon of Hereford in 1881, at a cost of £600.
Hay-on-Wye is a small market town (population 1,500) in the historic county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire) in Wales, currently administered as part of the unitary authority of Powys. With over twenty bookshops, it is often described as "the town of books", and is both the National Book Town of Wales and the site of the annual Hay Literary Festival.
Although Sevierville is one of the older towns in East Tennessee, there are not many buildings which date prior to 1870 because of a widespread fire during the late 1850's and the lack of development during the Civil War period. Toward the late nineteenth century, the town began to expand and select residences were built in the ornate Victorian style. The Waters House (as seen above) was built around 1895 and represents one of the finest Victorian houses in Sevierville. It is located on Cedar Street, one of the older residential sections of town and was originally the home of Dr. A.W. Trotter who practiced dentistry in Sevierville. The home is a three story clapboard structure which is highlighted by the exterior decor (and interior) of craftsman, Louis Buckner, a 19th century black carpenter of exceptional skill. Gables abound on the home at various levels; three are formed on each side of the house to terminate the bay windows at the roof. "Butterfly wings" drape the sides of the bay windows at the second floor; the wings are the work of Buckner. The porch is trimmed with "Dumbbell" dowels and gingerbread trim; it is rounded at the corner toward the rear of the home. The yard is nicely landscaped and outlined by an iron fence in front.
Louis Buckner learned the carpentry trade as an apprentice to Colonel C.C. Stump just after the Civil War. Originally they worked together in a small shop in Sevierville. Later they moved to the Catlettsville vicinity. Buckner did both interior and exterior decor. His furniture and his mantels are most often oak; the lines are not overly extravagant, however, the result of his geometric and floral designs is one of charming and elaborate beauty. Buckner usually designed a piece of furniture for the space which it would accommodate; thus his furniture complements rather than overwhelms a room. Buckner ultimately worked on his own. He was noted to carry only a small bag of tools and his shop was located diagonally behind the Waters House. Unfortunately his own home was not completed when he passed away. Besides the Waters House, other fine examples of his work are to be found at the Denton Home (on Douglas Dam Road) and at least one piece of furniture is located at Rose Glen on the Newport Highway.
The Waters house is significant both as a excellent example of Victorian architecture and as a building which represents the outstanding talent of a wood craftsman of the time. For these reasons, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on June 18, 1975. All of the information above was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here:
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Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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