Waterloo, a History
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This is another one of those portfolio shots that all London photographers get around to shooting at some point.
Pre-covid image taken last winter.
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I'm going to be leaving this message on my next few posted images. This is to let the photographers that I follow know that due to the immense amount of time it takes me to go through all the photos that appear in my Flickr stream each day I am setting my stream to show only one image per day per person. It's either that or get Flickr burn-out. Apologies in advance if your photos don't get as much of my attention as they used to. Hopefully people will understand my reasons for doing so. Thanks.
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4th January 2015 - Low tide on the river and the anglers ply their trade during yet another stunning sunset.
Vertiginous pathway above Matlock Bath…not for the faint hearted or those of a wobbly disposition. The handrail is there so walkers can have something to hold on to whilst trying to push their lungs back inside their chest cavity.
Wow! I just want to thank everyone who took the time to comment and fav this image.
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The Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo (French: Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo) is a rotunda in Belgium that houses a monumental panoramic painting of the Battle of Waterloo. The neoclassical building is located immediately to the north of the Lion Mound, on the battlefield of the Battle of Waterloo, in the Belgian municipality of Braine-l'Alleud, in the province of Walloon Brabant.
The building and the painting were protected as historical monuments in 1998. In 2008 the Belgian government proposed that the panorama should be included within a UNESCO World Heritage Site listing.
Next to it is The Lion's Mound (French: Butte du Lion, lit. "Lion's Hillock/Knoll"; Dutch: Leeuw van Waterloo, lit. "Lion of Waterloo") is a large conical artificial hill located in the municipality of Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium. King William I of the Netherlands ordered its construction in 1820, and it was completed in 1826. It commemorates the location on the battlefield of Waterloo where a musket ball hit the shoulder of William II of the Netherlands (the Prince of Orange) and knocked him from his horse during the battle. It is also a memorial of the Battle of Quatre Bras, which had been fought two days earlier, on 16 June 1815.
Submitted: 29/04/2017
Accepted: 08/05/2017
Haven't been out much this week - up late watching the Olympics
Can Little Britain really be 2nd in the medals table?
Must be something in the water!
One of my favourite views of London from Waterloo Bridge
I'm not a massive fan of very wide panoramas but there are so many great buildings here it's difficult to leave any out
Best to approach this from the South Bank
If like me, you park near the Embankment - better hold your breath as you walk up the stairs - I always find myself singing The Message by Grandmaster Flash to myself for some reason - if you follow my drift!
If you go to the Golden Jubilee bridges further down next to the Hungerford bridge there's a better view of Big Ben but it's a bit bouncy for longer exposures (unless your a fan of unintentional ICM)
(or known unknowns!) :)
This is at Waterloo Underground Station on the moving walkway transit between the Northern Line and the futuristic Jubilee Line. This is the stationary part inbetween the 2 moving walkways.I have taken a few pictures here before as it is one of the rare Travelators on the system and is especially attractive with a metallic sheen
The picture was taken with a Sony A68 with a Sigma 10-20 wide angle zoom at 10mm. 3 images for HDR. The image was processed with Photomatix 6 using Tone balancer for a natural look.. Overall detail was brought up with Topaz Clarity. Next on a duplicate layer I used unsharp mask amount 31 amount and 31 radius for more pop. I used brightness adjustment layer to bring down some highlights using a layer mask
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Waterloo Village is a restored 19th-century canal town in Byram Township, Sussex County (west of Stanhope) in northwestern New Jersey, United States. The community was approximately the half-way point in the roughly 102-mile (165 km) trip along the Morris Canal, which ran from Jersey City (across the Hudson River from Manhattan, New York) to Phillipsburg, New Jersey, (across the Delaware River from Easton, Pennsylvania). Waterloo possessed all the accommodations necessary to service the needs of a canal operation, including an inn, a general store, a church, a blacksmith shop (to service the mules on the canal), and a watermill. For canal workers, Waterloo's geographic location would have been conducive to being an overnight stopover point on the two-day trip between Phillipsburg and Jersey City.
An eastbound manifest soaks up the last bit of evening light as it races along the Chicago Line at Waterloo, IN.
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The Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo (French: Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo) is a rotunda in Belgium that houses a monumental panoramic painting of the Battle of Waterloo. The neoclassical building is located immediately to the north of the Lion Mound, on the battlefield of the Battle of Waterloo, in the Belgian municipality of Braine-l'Alleud, in the province of Walloon Brabant.
The building and the painting were protected as historical monuments in 1998. In 2008 the Belgian government proposed that the panorama should be included within a UNESCO World Heritage Site listing.
Next to it is The Lion's Mound (French: Butte du Lion, lit. "Lion's Hillock/Knoll"; Dutch: Leeuw van Waterloo, lit. "Lion of Waterloo") is a large conical artificial hill located in the municipality of Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium. King William I of the Netherlands ordered its construction in 1820, and it was completed in 1826. It commemorates the location on the battlefield of Waterloo where a musket ball hit the shoulder of William II of the Netherlands (the Prince of Orange) and knocked him from his horse during the battle. It is also a memorial of the Battle of Quatre Bras, which had been fought two days earlier, on 16 June 1815.
Submitted: 25/05/2016
Accepted: 25/05/2016
IANR Oelwein crosses the Cedar River in downtown Waterloo, Iowa behind a four-pack of GP38-2s. Lead engine #3800 is a former B&O GP38 while the rest are former L&N GP38ACs rebuilt to Dash 2 specs.
There was the most amazing waterloo sunset today, no wonder The Kinks wrote a song about it ;)
113 Pictures in 2013 - #9 Represent a Beatles song - Here Comes The Sun
This was the former depot for the New York Central Railroad. They've kept it up well over the years.
The Waterloo Monument near Ancrum in the Scottish Borders is a 150-foot tower, built between 1817 and 1824 to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo. It was designed by the architect Archibald Elliot, after the original monument collapsed. The monument stands on a small Plateau, atop the 781ft hill “Peniel Heugh”. Inside the monument is a 228 step spiral staircase (not for the faint hearted) leading to the balcony which encircles the top of the tower, giving a superb 360deg view of the surrounding Scottish Borders countryside.
Waterloo is Britain’s largest and busiest station.
From
www.networkrail.co.uk/who-we-are/our-history/iconic-infra...
Waterloo Station was opened in 1848 by the London & South Western Railway as part of extending the line two miles to be nearer the city. This original station, known as ‘central station’, had six platforms.
From its very earliest days the station was popular with race goers travelling to Epsom; the original station opening in 1848 was brought forward a week to enable passengers to travel to the Derby by rail for the first time.
Through the remainder of the 19th century, Waterloo was extended in an ad-hoc way to cope with demand. In 1860 the ‘Windsor station’ was opened on the north-west side of the original central platforms. In 1878 Waterloo gained an additional two platforms on the south-east side for mainline suburban trains in an extension known as the ‘south station’. In 1885 the ‘north’ station was opened, adding a further six platforms bringing the total at Waterloo to eighteen.
It was however a confusing station for passengers with platforms divided between four different sections of the station, unclear platform numbering, four areas which were classed as concourses and poor information displays. There were significant delays to services as the whole station was served by just four approach lines, and difficult ticketing arrangements with rival railway companies such as the South Eastern Railway did not help.
A new station is designed
In 1899 London & South Western Railway (as the London & Southampton had become) sought permission to completely rebuild and expand the station. The Company sent its chief engineer J W Jacomb-Hood to America to gather information on termini buildings to assist its redesign.
Over twenty years as building work took place, Waterloo became a spacious station with a large open concourse. With 21 platforms under a huge ridge-and-furrow roof it became light and airy compared to the dark maze it once was. Widely praised for its architecture, the new curved building to the front of the station housed the LSWR’s offices and facilities for passengers including a large booking hall and upstairs dining room which were simple and elegant with Georgian style panelling in the dining room and Edwardian decoration in the bars.
The Victory Arch
As the station rebuild was drawing to a close, and as a memorial to their staff that died in the First World War, the LSWR commissioned the Victory Arch; designed by J R Scott, their chief architect and made of Portland stone and bronze it depicts War and Peace, with Britannia holding the torch of liberty above. Leading from Station Approach onto the concourse, the Victory Arch forms the main entrance to Waterloo.
International rail services
Waterloo remained largely unchanged until early 1990s when platforms 20 and 21 were demolished to make way for Waterloo International. Opened in 1994 this was the terminus for Eurostar services running through the new Channel Tunnel. However on completion of the new high speed line in 2007, Eurostar services were taken instead to St Pancras and the international platforms at Waterloo closed.
In July 2012 a first-floor balcony opened at Waterloo to help reduce congestion at the station in time for the London Olympic Games. Space has been created for passengers on the concourse by repositioning shops from the middle of the main concourse onto the balcony. With new escalators and lifts Waterloo station now provides step-free access to its neighbouring station, Waterloo East.
Did you know?
Waterloo provided the terminus of the London Necropolis Company. Opened in 1854, the small, private station was designed to accommodate mourners and hold funeral services before coffins were transported for burial at Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey.
The original station building was demolished in 1902 to make way for the expansion of Waterloo; its successor was destroyed during an air raid in 1941 and never rebuilt.
Another Digital Blending with 2 old jpg files.
From the lion's hamlet in Waterloo, Belgium
The hdr version: flickr.com/photos/hdr400d/639316500/
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