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Looking from outside into an open window one never sees as much as when one looks through a closed window. There is nothing more profound, more mysterious, more pregnant, more insidious, more dazzling than a window lighted by a single candle. What one can see out in the sunlight is always less interesting than what goes on behind a windowpane. In that black or luminous square life lives, life dreams, life suffers.
Across the ocean of roofs I can see a middle-aged woman, her face already lined, who is forever bending over something and who never goes out. Out of her face, her dress, and her gestures, out of practically nothing at all, I have made up this woman's story, or rather legend, and sometimes I tell it to myself and weep.
If it had been an old man I could have made up his just as well.
And I go to bed proud to have lived and to have suffered in some one besides myself.
Perhaps you will say "Are you sure that your story is the real one?" But what does it matter what reality is outside myself, so long as it has helped me to live, to feel that I am, and what I am?
Windows/Charles Baudelaire ~ Translated/Louise Varèse ('Paris Spleen', New Directions Paperbacks,1970)
Poor Kim had to clean the windows of my ' Dancing Lily " studio since alittle birdie told him they were dirty...That's what happens when your creations nest on the window sills.
The Quay Merchant’s Bar of The Star Hotel on Hall Quay in Great Yarmouth
In ABCs and 123s: W is for Window
I want to introduce you to the tram shack I grew up in. I slept in the beds, staring at the ceiling. I opened the windows and dropped into the dining table the other side.
I hurt myself on the bars near the doors and lost toys down the retractable windows. I crawled under the tram and have many Christmas memories of this tram.
This is the Jenkin Tram shack at Pt Parham and if you ask the right people, you can rent it for some relaxing time at the beach.
My Grandfather bought the Tram and land back in 1955.
I believe the tram is a Type C. It has been in my family since the 1950's.
It is a Straight roof combination car - nickname 'Desert Gold'
This class of Adelaide tram included No's 171 - 190. (This is a photo of 190)
They were introduced in: 1918
Withdrawn: 1954
Electrics: 2 x 50hp GE 202 motors, magnetic track brakes
Size: 34ft x 8ft 11in
Seating/Crush load: 40/102
These trams were very fast cars which were used to compete with unlicensed private (known as pirate) buses in the 1920s.
www.trammuseumadelaide.com.au/01_things_02history.html
Originally known as ‘Desert Golds’ after a fast race horse of the time.
During the First World War (1914-18), the MTT (Municipal Tram Trust) urgently needed more tramcars because of passenger traffic generated by line extensions and the Port Adelaide system. Wartime conditions made it hard to obtain equipment, so twenty tram cars similar to the seventy type A trams were built – again by Adelaide car-building firm Duncan & Fraser. They looked very modern because of the simple arched roof, but this was simply a cost saving measure, not a design feature.
Larger motors made them faster. Like the A types they were modelled on, they seated forty passengers and carried a further sixty-two standees.
A planned purchase of large trams was delayed by World War I. Type C trams were small combination cars, built in 1918–1919 as an interim measure. They were similar in basic design to the older A type but had a more modern curved roof rather than a clerestory roof. During their construction, the old motors from the E type (General Electric 202 motors) were fitted to these new trams. Rated at 50 hp each compared to the 33 hp units fitted to the A types, these trams were considerably faster.
Due to the their consequent higher speeds they became known as Desert Gold trams, after a New Zealand racehorse that had won races in Australia at the same time. This speed became useful in competition against unlicensed buses in the 1920s, and they were used in peak service until 1952 with the last use for the royal visit of 1954. Trams 181 to 190 inclusive were allocated to the Port Adelaide system for a short period in the 1930s before closure of the system, mainly used on the Port Adelaide - Albert Park line.[49] During the 1930s, the original Hale Kilburn seating fitted to these trams were replaced with Brill Winner seats taken out of 20 A type trams (numbers unknown).
Introduced 1918–1919
Builder Duncan and Fraser
Weight 11.20 tons
Height 10' 5"
Length 34' 0"
Width 8' 11"
Truck type Brill 21E
Traction motor type (2x) General Electric 202
HP per motor 50 hp per motor
Type of controller Westinghouse T1F
Canon EOS 5D, EF L 24-70
2011
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Fenesta provides information about interior design of windows, window interior design so that interior windows can be constructed or modified so as to give maximum benefit to it users.
A closer look at the large stained glass window placed over the main entrance of St. Patrick's Cathedral
Showing The Council at Jerusalem, surrounded by various other scenes from The Acts of the Apostles.
In memory of Jacob Clements, (1820-98) sometime SubDean at the Cathedral.
Glass by Clayton & Bell.
Window in my apartment, looking out to a thorough, crap-ass backlot.
Nikon D700
Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 Ai-S @ f/1.2
Single, unedited JPEG
This window display allowed people to walk up, write their secret, and post it anonymously. Sort of like a Grouphug.us IRL.
Peterborough Cathedral, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire is unusual as an English county in having not one but two major medieval cathedrals, and unique in that neither is in the county town. Peterborough Cathedral's setting in the heart of the busy city is quite different to that of its neighbour Ely Cathedral, which dominates a small, beautiful market town. There is something special about stepping out of Peterborough's Bridge Street, with its department stores, and Cathedral Square, with its chain restaurants, into the peaceful precinct below the superb Early English west front, a match for the spectacular frontages of both Wells and Lincoln.
Peterborough cathedral is dedicated as the Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew, and these Saints images appear in statue and stained glass form several times. Originally the church of a Benedictine Abbey, the current structure was begun in the spring of 1118, and was largely complete by about 1250. The vast wooden roof of the nave is, amazingly, the original, one of only four such roofs in Europe. The fire of 22nd November 2001 came within minutes of destroying it. As it was, the painstaking and expensive process of cleaning the roof, which had just been completed, had to be immediately repeated. The most spectacular part of the cathedral is not Early English at all, but the late medieval retrochoir with its fan-vaulting of 1496-1508, by John Wastell who used the same trick at Kings College Chapel across the Fen in Cambridge.
That Cambridgeshire can claim Peterborough Cathedral is an accident of history, of course, because Peterborough only became a part of the much enlarged county of Cambridgeshire in 1974. In fact, almost all of the county of Cambridgeshire is in the Diocese of Ely, including much of the city of Peterborough. All of the city south and east of the River Nene is in the Diocese of Ely, not Peterborough. And yet, the Cathedral close has a frontage that is almost on the Nene. Because of this, Peterborough Cathedral is closer to the edge of its Diocese than any other English cathedral, including both St Paul's Cathedral and Southwark Cathedral, separated as they are by just a few hundred yards and the River Thames.
North nave window at Burton Hastings, installed in 2001 and designed by local artist Roger Fifield.
Fifiled's work makes a very attractive contemporary adition to this ancient building, and is beautifully painted and stylised, echoing his earliest work from the 1960s, without looking backwards.
The subject appears to be a celebration of village life, with various landmark buildings and elements of the village featured without any obvious religious theme (beyond the small dove in the tracery light above).
This formula for stained glass seems to be popular with certain congregations, who prefer to commemorate 'down-to-earth' subjects of mainly local, secular relevance, than convey a spiritual message. The artist is then given a 'shopping list' of relevant features to include in the design at all cost!
This is a Windows XP desktop using Minimalist Room wallpaper (by 4chan) with a dock by ObjectDock Plus; alternative icons for xplorer2, trashcan, MS Office apps and Acrobat facilitated using ObjectDock and Icon Packager; clock, date and stats skins implemented using Rainmeter.
Shop window of Needful Things, an antique furniture and art business, in St James’s Street, Kemp Town, Brighton, East Sussex.
Needful Things is the name of Stephen King novel and film.
The kitsch shop is like a splendid part of the Addams Family mansion plonked down onto the street.
The local council claim that the shop does not have planning permission for the style of front door, (and would not gain it, even if applied for).
There appears to be a hypocritical element in the local council's attitude. In the same street an unlicensed Starbucks has been the focus of protesters as it has been operating for some time despite not having the appropriate planning permission.