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Leerhotel Het Klooster is een rijksmonument uit 1952.
In dit klooster was de orde van de Kruisheren gevestigd, waar de paters onderwijs verzorgden en onderdak boden aan reizigers. Naast de missie – verkondiging van het geloof – waren dat de speerpunten van deze orde. De school van de Kruisheren bestond uit een hbs en een gymnasium.
In 1968 fuseerde deze jongensschool met een meisjeslyceum. De bovenbouw van de nieuwe fusieschool kreeg les in de schoolgebouwen van het klooster. Het aantal leerlingen groeide tot 900.
In de jaren vijftig woonden er veertig geestelijken in het klooster. Vanaf halverwege de jaren zestig traden er geen nieuwe Nederlandse leden meer toe tot de orde.
Toen er uiteindelijk nog maar vier paters in het klooster woonden, werd het voor hen onmogelijk om het gebouw te beheren. In 1999 vertrokken de laatste paters en kwam het klooster in de verkoop, waarbij de Kruisheren een speciale wens hadden. Het pand moest in oude glorie worden hersteld, maar ook wilden de Kruisheren elke zondag een eredienst houden in de kerk van het klooster, zolang de laatste Kruisheer nog leefde. ROC ASA, de voorganger van MBO Amersfoort, was bereid om aan die wens te voldoen. Tot enkele jaren geleden woonden hier nog zo’n vijftig parochianen de zondagse mis bij.
The Monastery Learning Hotel is a national monument dating from 1952.
This monastery housed the Order of the Crosiers, where the priests provided education and accommodation to travelers. Along with their mission—preaching the faith—these were the spearheads of this order. The Crosiers' school consisted of a secondary school and a grammar school (Gymnasium).
In 1968, this boys' school merged with a girls' high school. The senior class of the newly merged school was taught in the monastery's school buildings. The number of students grew to 900.
In the 1950s, forty clergymen lived in the monastery. From the mid-1960s onward, no new Dutch members joined the order.
When only four priests were left in the monastery, it became impossible for them to manage the building. In 1999, the last priests left, and the monastery was put up for sale, with the Crosiers having a special request. The building needed to be restored to its former glory, but the Canons also wanted to hold a Sunday service in the monastery church, as long as the last Canon was still alive. ROC ASA, the predecessor of MBO Amersfoort (school), was willing to fulfill this request. Until a few years ago, around fifty parishioners attended Sunday Mass there.
The large Accomodator storm drain, was awesome! This cast iron roofing section was defiantly the best part. We decided to bring out the fire monster, and create a inferno!
When branches are chopped the skin of the tree tries to cover the wound, sometimes leaving large holes like this. Such holes and crevices are homes to a variety of species including birds.
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Camp Crystal Lake...
This image is probably my personal favorite, I love winter, and its returning to Australia soon. The fog will be forming and photographers will be out in force... including me.
Landscape photography is all about trying to be in the right place, at the right time. Seconds before this shot was taken the fog covered the lake like a thick blanket. It felt spooky, the fog felt alive and I think we woke it up, because before we knew it, it was all around us, it had lifted from the lake and rushed us.
Enjoy.
- Canon 50D.
- ISO 100, f9, 2.5 seconds, 70mm.
- Canon 24-70 f/2.8 L lens.
- Tripod.
Processing
- 100% as the camera saw it. (WB is off, but hey, I like this temp.)
- Border in Photoshop 6.0. (yeah yeah, old school)
About Camp Crystal Lake
Camp Crystal Lake, the setting for many films in the Friday the 13th (franchise) series.
About Lake Moogerah
Lake Moogerah, formed by Moogerah Dam, is a water supply and irrigation dam on Reynolds Creek, a tributary of the Bremer River in Southeast Queensland's Fassifern Valley. The lake is used for recreation, fishing and camping.
The lake is located around 60 km southwest of Ipswich, and about 90 minutes drive from Brisbane. Boonah is the nearest town, about 15 km from the lake.
Construction on the dam began in 1959, although land for the project was resumed as early as 1916. Moogerah Dam was completed in 1961 as the central catchment of the Warrill Valley Water Supply Scheme. The dam wall at Lake Moogerah allows access to Mount Edwards in Moogerah Peaks National Park.
The dam supplies drinking water to the towns of Boonah and Ipswich, although the main user is the Swanbank Power Station. It also supplies irrigation water to small crop farms in the Fassifern Valley.
There is a popular caravan park at Moogerah Dam. Higher Ground Australia operate Camp Moogerah at the lake for church youth groups. On the western shore are Camp Mallon and Camp Laurence which offer group accommodation camps with educational and adventure activities for school students, family and church groups. On the southern shore is the Brisbane Grammar School Pepperina Hill Campsite, which is primarily used for grade 8-10 camps.
During the 1995 drought dam levels declined to a low of 1% total capacity
'Moogerah' comes from the aboriginal word Moojirah meaning home of the thunderstorm.
The autotrain passes an accommodation crossing on the Severn Valley Railway during the recent photo charter. A lovely rural setting to capture a typical service as seen on a number of former Great Western branches in the 1950s.
Ashford Castle on the bank of Lough Corrib, where we had our afternoon tea, County Galway, Ireland
Some background information:
Ashford Castle is a large medieval and Victorian castle that has been expanded over the centuries and turned into a five star luxury hotel. It is located near the village of Cong on the County Galway side of Lough Corrib, directly bordering the County Mayo side of the lake. Today, Ashford Castle, which was previously owned by the Guinness family, is a member of the Red Carnation Hotels organisation.
We just had an afternoon tea in the castle’s Connaught Room. The afternoon tea offers guests a wide selection of speciality teas, delicate finger sandwiches, freshly baked scones and delectable pastries, presented on a silver three-tier stand,. whereby every guest is served their own three-tier stand. On the lowest tier, there are the sandwiches. On the middle tier, guests will find three different scones, served with two types of clotted cream. And on the top tier, the elegantly presented pâtisserie is displayed.
I had an Irish Whiskey Cream Tea accompaning the delicacies and if you don’t manage to eat all of them, the leftovers are packed for you in a neat box, so that you can take them home. We had our afternoon tea at a table next to one of the windows, with view into the gardens and onto Lough Corrib. By the way, if you want to take your afternoon tea there, you have to order it in advance. Just dropping by would be pointless and you wouldn’t even be able to pass the gatekeepers of the estate.
In 1228, Ashford Castle was built on the perimeter of a monastic site by the Anglo-Norman noble House de Burgo. After having been more than three-and-a-half centuries in possession of the Burke family, the castle passed into the hands of Sir Richard Bingham, Lord President of Connaught, in 1589. A battle between the forces of the de Burgo family and those of Bingham had been preceded the change of the owner. Following the battle and thereby also the owner change, Bingham added a fortified enclave within Ashford Castle‘s precincts.
In 1670, Dominick Browne, Baron Oranmore and Browne, received the estate in a royal grant. In 1715, the estate of Ashford was established by the Browne family and a hunting lodge in the style of a 17th-century French chateau was constructed. In the late 18th century, a branch of the family inhabited the castle.
In 1852, the Irish brewer and philanthropist Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, who later received the title 1st Baronet of Ashford, purchased the estate. He added two large Victorian style extensions, extended the estate to 110 square kilometres (26,000 acres), built new roads and planted thousands of trees. After Sir Benjamin's death in 1868, the estate passed to his son Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun, who expanded the building further in the neogothic style.
Arthur Guinness was an avid gardener who oversaw the development of massive woodlands and rebuilt the entire west wing of the castle, designed by architects James Franklin Fuller and George Ashlin. The new construction connected the early 18th-century part in the east with two de-Burgo-time towers in the west. Additionally, battlements were added to the whole castle. After being rebuilt, Ashford Castle welcomed many famous guests such as the British King George V, among others who stayed with the Guinness family.
After having been sold to Noel Huggard in 1939, the new owner opened the estate as a hotel. Since then, the hotel has hosted many famous guests, such as Queen Mary, the author Oscar Wilde, the actors Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne, UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Ronald Reagan, US Senator Ted Kennedy, Prince Rainier III of Monaco and his wife Princess Grace, Prince Edward, the Beatles members John Lennon and George Harrison, as well as the actors Robin Williams, Pierce Brosnan and Brad Pitt. Professional golfer Rory McIlroy even married there in 2017.
In July 2015, Ashford Castle was voted third best world hotel by "Travel + Leisure magazine", US. In August 2015, it was voted world's best hotel during "Virtuoso Travel Week". Furthermore, in 2020 and 2022, the hotel claimed top spot in the prestigious World’s Best Resort Hotel in the UK & Ireland awards. And in 2023, it has been hailed as one of the world's best hotels by "Forbes Travel Guide", from which it received the maximum rating of five stars – just like only a handful of other hotels.
Lough Corrib, on whose bank Ashford Castle is located, is a lake in the west of Ireland connected to the sea at Galway by the River Corrib. It is the largest lake within the Republic of Ireland and the second largest on the island of Ireland (after Lough Neagh). Lough Corrib covers 176 km² and lies mostly in County Galway with a small area of its northeast corner in County Mayo. The main tributaries draining into Lough Corrib include the Cornamona, Bealanabrack, Owenriff, Drimneen, Cong, Clare, Annacourta, Black and Cross rivers.
The lake is rather popular with anglers because it has a large fish population. Among the fishes in the lake are trouts, pikes, perches and salmons. Furthermore, the wildlife in Lough Corrib includes birds and hawks, otters, mink, stoat, frogs and bats. In 1996, Lough Corrib was designated a Ramsar site and it has also been designated a Special Area of Conservation.
The lake is also of international importance as a marine archaeological site. Surveys have uncovered a number of objects of historical significance, which have been investigated by the Underwater Archaeology Unit of the National Monuments Service. These include Bronze Age and Iron Age vessels as well as the "Carrowmoreknock Boat", a well preserved 10th century vessel carrying three Viking battle axes. There are also a lot of islands on the lake. Among them are Inchagoill with ist Early Christian abbey ruins, Inishquin, Inishmicatreer, Inishdoorus and Rabbit Island, to name just the largest ones.
19D 3322 and 24 3655 at an accommodation crossing between Malmesbury and Moorreesburg on the Klawer branch in Western Cape.
Ham House is a 17th-century house set in formal gardens on the bank of the River Thames in Ham, south of Richmond in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. The original house was completed in 1610 by Thomas Vavasour, an Elizabethan courtier and Knight Marshal to James I. It was then leased, and later bought, by William Murray, a close friend and supporter of Charles I. The English Civil War saw the house and much of the estate sequestrated, but Murray's wife Katherine regained them on payment of a fine. During the Protectorate his daughter Elizabeth, Countess of Dysart on her father's death in 1655, successfully navigated the prevailing anti-royalist sentiment and retained control of the estate.
The house achieved its greatest period of prominence following Elizabeth's second marriage—to John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, in 1672. The Lauderdales held important roles at the court of the restored Charles II, the duke being a member of the Cabal ministry and holder of major positions in Scotland, while the Duchess exercised significant social and political influence. They began an ambitious program of development and embellishment at Ham. The house was almost doubled in size and equipped with private apartments for the Duke and Duchess, as well as princely accommodation suites for visitors. The house was furnished to the highest standards of courtly taste and decorated with "a lavishness which transcended even what was fitting to their exalted rank".[1] The Lauderdales accumulated notable collections of paintings, tapestries and furniture, and redesigned the gardens and grounds to reflect their status and that of their guests.
After the Duchess's death, the property passed through the line of her descendants. Occasionally, major alterations were made to the house, such as the reconstruction undertaken by Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart, in the 1730s. For the most part, later generations of owners focused on the preservation of the house and its collections. The family did not retain the high position at court held by the Lauderdales under Charles II, and a strain of family eccentricity and reserve saw the fifth Earl refuse a request from King George III to visit Ham. On the death of the 9th Earl – the last Earl to live at Ham – in 1935, the house passed to his second cousin, Lyonel; he and his son, Major (Cecil) Lyonel Tollemache, donated it to the National Trust in 1948. During the second half of the 20th century the house and gardens were opened to the public, and were extensively restored and researched. The property has become a popular filming location for cinema and television productions, which make use of its period interiors and gardens.
The house is built of red brick, and was originally constructed to a traditional Elizabethan era H-plan; the southern, garden frontage was infilled during the Lauderdales' rebuilding. The architect of Vavasour's house is unknown although drawings by Robert Smythson and his son John exist. The Lauderdales first consulted William Bruce, a cousin of the Duchess, but ultimately employed William Samwell to undertake their rebuilding. Ham retains many original Jacobean and Caroline features and furnishings, most in an unusually fine condition, and is a "rare survival of 17th-century luxury and taste".[2] The house is a Grade I listed building and received museum accreditation from Arts Council England in 2015. Its park and formal gardens are listed at Grade II*. Bridget Cherry, in the revised London: South Pevsner published in 2002, acknowledged that the exterior of Ham was "not as attractive as other houses of this period", but noted the interior's "high architectural and decorative interest".[3] The critic John Julius Norwich described the house as a "time machine – enclosing one in the elegant, opulent world of Van Dyck and Lely".[4]Wikipedia
This used to be the office of the Communication Workers Union but it has now been repurposed as accommodation.
Nun’s rooms at all Hallows Convent.
During my period as resident photographer at my local Emmaus I was able to record various aspects of the old convent building. When it was decided to renovate the first floor of Abbé Pierre House where the nuns rooms had been, I decided to document what they were like before being converted for other uses. The rooms were used as storerooms for various goods used by the charity but had originally been the very spartan accommodation for the residents of the convent. Each individual cell like room carried the name of the nun in residence.
Seattle, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2024
WorldMark Seattle - The Camlin
1. History and Architecture
Historic Opening: The building originally opened in 1926 as The Camlin Apartment Hotel. Designed by architect Carl L. Linde in a style resembling an Italian castle (or English Renaissance), it was described as "Seattle's aristocrat among residential hotels."
Celebrity Hangout: Over the years, it was an elegant fixture of downtown and hosted many celebrities, including A-listers like Frank Sinatra. Its top-floor suite later became the famous The Cloud Room lounge in 1946, an elite gathering spot.
Conversion: It was renovated in 1962 (with the addition of an outdoor pool) and later joined the WorldMark by Wyndham network, maintaining its historic charm blended with modern comforts.
2. Location and Accommodation
Premium Location: It is situated in the heart of Downtown Seattle on 9th Avenue. It is located directly across the street from the Washington State Convention Center and the Paramount Theatre.
Accessibility: It's within easy walking distance of key attractions like the Pike Place Market, the 6th and Pine shopping district, and provides easy access to the Space Needle and monorail via the nearby Westlake Station.
Unit Types: The resort offers studio, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom suites, many of which include partial kitchenettes (microwave, mini-fridge) and Murphy (pull-down) beds to maximize space, making them suitable for longer urban stays.
3. Key Amenities
Pool and Wellness: Features a heated outdoor pool (open year-round) and a hot tub, in addition to a fitness center.
Other Conveniences: Concierge services, shared laundry facilities, and paid valet parking (parking in downtown Seattle is noted to be limited and expensive).
172326 is trailing 2J81 with the 21.27 Stratford-upon-Avon to Stourbridge Junction service.
The train is viewed from the drafty waiting shelter its Perspex roof stained with slimy green algae. The human element has also left their mark with fast food wrapping and a couple of cans, given that the rubbish sack is less than 4 metres away it is a shame people are so damned bone idle.
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Southwell
The Workhouse, also known as Greet House, is situated in the small town of Southwell, Nottinghamshire. This austere building is now a museum operated by the National Trust. Built in 1824, it was designed by William Adams Nicholson an architect of Southwell and Lincoln, together with the Revd. John T. Becher, a pioneer of workhouse and prison reform. It was the prototype of the 19th-century workhouse. Its architecture was influenced by prison design and its harsh regime became a blueprint for workhouses throughout the country.
Designed to house around 160 inmates, they lived and worked in a strictly segregated environment with virtually no contact between the old and infirm, able-bodied men and women and children. Families were also split up and segregated, the entire building is split into separate zones.
Workhouses were controversial. On one hand they offered shelter and food to the infirm and the poor, but they were also authoritarian, brutal and those inside, who were capable had to work very hard, and very long hours.
The building remained in use until the early 1990s, when it was used to provide temporary accommodation for mothers and children. The stories of some of the people living there during this period can be heard inside, even then the conditions were cramped, very basic and could best be described as grim.
Before the building was acquired by the National Trust there were plans to turn it into luxury flats. Thankfully that didn’t happen, a tour around the interior is a real eye opener for people who think they are badly done to today. The exterior Victorian Garden with its fruit trees, flower beds and vegetable patches offer a welcome relief from what would have been the dour, gloomy and dismal inside.
What is worth remembering, the residents of the Workhouse were in many cases ‘better off’ than the people struggling in squalid conditions on the outside.
Thank you for your visit and your comments, they are greatly appreciated.
This Faro de Tostón or Tostón lighthouse north El Cotillo on Fuerteventura. This is the third lighthouse on this site, the first was opened in 1897. The current Faro was opened in 1980's and stands at 30m tall. It's light can be seen for 35 nautical miles. The keepers accommodation has been turned into a small cafe and museum.
This accommodation at Shad Thames in London, near Tower Bridge. These are the water side view of Java wharf and Jamaica wharf.
Rosebank.
The first white men to traverse the district were overlanders with flocks of sheep or cattle from NSW. One of their routes was to cross the Murray near Blanchetown and drive their flocks up the Marne River valley and into the Adelaide Hills. The first lessee of the district was George Melrose who took out a leasehold circa 1842. He established his homestead at Rosebank, east of Mt Pleasant in that year with his leasehold covering much of the land east of Mt Pleasant to the South Rhine (now Marne) River. He explored parts of SA for an outback station and liked the Lake Victoria country north of Renmark. When he married Euphemia Thomson in 1847 he took her to Lake Victoria for their honeymoon and she was the first white woman to visit such country. He probably had a simple cottage in the early years before he built a grand stone homestead at Rosebank around 1858. He acquired more runs in the north of SA, at Lake Victoria and at Franklin Harbour and Ulooloo. At a later stage in 1904 he built a grand stone shearing shed which is now heritage listed. He was undoubtedly a good employer for his workmen stayed for decades. Eight of his employees worked for him for between 30 and 50 years. George Melrose senior died at Rosebank in 1894 at the age of 87 years. He had had thirteen children. The Rosebank run, then freehold land was inherited by his third son Robert T. Melrose (1862-1945) who was born at Rosebank and managed it from 1896 until 1945. One of George and Euphemia’s daughters Elisabeth Melrose (1853 – 1945) married John Murray and they had a son named Sir John Stanley Murray. This grandson of George Melrose took over the property in 1946 after acquiring it from two of his uncles and he managed it until 1971. Sir John Stanley Murray (1884-1971) who was born on 27 March 1884 at Rosebank lived on the property and his managers were responsible for its development as a leading Aberdeen Angus stud. Sir John Stanley Murray’s daughter Alison Melrose Murray married Ian McLachlan (1908-1995) in June 1936. The three families of Melrose, Murray and McLachlan all have prominent headstones in the Mt Pleasant and Mt Crawford cemeteries. After Sir John Murray’s death in 1971 Rosebank passed to Angas McLachlan a son of Alison and Ian McLachlan who was born in 1944. His brother Ian, born in 1936 was the federal MP and Cabinet Minister in federal parliament from 1990 to 1998. The McLachlans purchased the Springfield House and estate near Williamstown in 1957. This historic house, Springfield House was built in 1841 for John Warren who took up land there circa 1840. Back at Rosebank in 2018 Will McLachlan and his family moved into the main house and took up the management role of the estate. Among the buildings on the property are accommodation cottages and the 1904 woolshed. At its peak 27,000 sheep a year were shorn in this shearing shed. Rosebank is still a Merino stud and its flock came from the Murray Merino bred by their relatives. Rosebank is also known for its beef production. Will McLachlan’s brothers are Gillon ( the retiring CEO of the AFL), Hamish and Banjo McLachlan.
Mindoro, Philippines
I took this photo in 1981 with my analogue Nikon FE camera and 35mm slide film, and later digitalised y using a Nikon Coolscan film scanner.
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Norwegen / Nordland - Helgelandskysten
Skarsfjorden seen from our accommodation in Forøy
Skarsfjorden gesehen von unserer Unterkunft in Forøy
Helgeland is the most southerly district in Northern Norway. Generally speaking, Helgeland refers to the part of Nordland county that is located south of the Arctic Circle. It is bordered in the north by the Saltfjellet mountains and Svartisen glacier, which form a natural border with the Salten district. In the south, Helgeland borders Trøndelag county.
The district covers an area of about 18,832 square kilometres (7,271 sq mi), with nearly 79,000 inhabitants. There are four towns in the district: from south to north these are Brønnøysund, Mosjøen, Sandnessjøen, and Mo i Rana.
Name
The Old Norse form of the name was Hálogaland (see Hålogaland).
Geography
Helgeland is commonly divided into three or four sections:
Southern Helgeland (actually southwest), which consists of the municipalities Bindal, Sømna, Brønnøy, Vega and Vevelstad.
Central Helgeland, which is sometimes further divided into the regions:
Inner Helgeland, which consists of the municipalities Grane, Hattfjelldal and Vefsn.
Outer Helgeland, which consists of the municipalities Leirfjord, Alstahaug, Herøy and Dønna.
Northern Helgeland, which consists of the municipalities Hemnes, Rana, Nesna, Lurøy, Træna and Rødøy.
Helgeland is characterized by pointed mountains and Strandflaten, a shallow lowland area, sometimes just above the sea surface, and sometimes just below the surface. People living on the coast have settled on this lowland (while inland towns, such as Mo and Mosjøen, are situated in valleys). A consequence of the Strandflaten is thousands of islands, and shallow waters going far into the sea. This has provided some shelter from stormy weather, which might occur in winter. Some islands are fairly large, often with unique mountains, such as Torghatten, De syv søstre (The Seven Sisters), Hestmannen, Rødøyløva (in Rødøy), Dønnamannen (picture), and Træna. There are several sea bird colonies, such as Lovund with thousands of puffins. The Solvær Islands (Solværøyene) in Lurøy consists of about 300 small and flat islands and has the highest densities of Eurasian eagle-owls in Europe.
The highest mountains, are located inland, where Oksskolten is the highest mountain in Northern Norway. There are many valleys inland, such as the Dunderland Valley, Vefsndalen, and Hattfjelldal. Røssvatnet is the second largest lake in Norway. There are three large national parks in Helgeland: Saltfjellet–Svartisen National Park (partly), Børgefjell National Park (partly), and Lomsdal–Visten National Park (created in May 2009).
Cultural references
Helgeland is the scene for Henrik Ibsen's 1857 historical play "The Vikings at Helgeland" (Hærmændene paa Helgeland), whose plot takes place at this region during the time of Erik Blood-axe (c. 930–934).
Helgeland Kammerkor, a mixed choir with members from all parts of Helgeland, have recorded an album of folk music from Helgeland (Folketoner fra Helgeland, 2005). The album contains 27 folk tunes from Helgeland, recorded in collaboration with folk musicians from the area. The album was recorded in Alstahaug Church, a 900-year-old stone church located near Sandnessjøen.
(Wikipedia)
Helgeland (im Mittelalter Hålogaland) ist eine Landschaft im Norden Norwegens, die heute den südlichen Teil des Fylkes Nordland bis zum Saltfjellet umfasst. Die Region hat 78.400 Einwohner und eine Fläche von 17.936 km². Die Region hat ungefähr 15.000 Inseln.
Im Mittelalter bezeichnete Hålogaland das gesamte Territorium nördlich von Trøndelag und war vor der Christianisierung Norwegens ein selbständiges Königreich, das auch den größten Teil von Troms umfasste und sich zeitweilig bis in das von Samen dominierte Gebiet (Finnmark, Schwedisch-Lappland, Nord-Finnland und Nordwest-Russland) erstreckte. Hålogaland nimmt einen hervorragenden Platz in den Sagas ein. Die Göttinnen Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr und Irpa der Jómsvíkinga saga stammen wahrscheinlich aus Hálogaland und wurden wohl vor allem dort verehrt. Der vermutlich bekannteste Einwohner Hålogalands war der Seefahrer und Kaufmann Ottar, dessen Bericht über seine Heimat einen Platz in Alfreds des Großen Übersetzung der Weltgeschichte des Orosius fand.
Der Name stammt nicht von derselben Wurzel wie heilig, wie es schon Adam von Bremen behauptete, sondern von einer Volksbezeichnung háleygir. In Snorri Sturlusons Jüngerer Edda wird er von einem mythischen König Holgi abgeleitet. Holgi wiederum soll ein Nachfolger von Odins Sohn Sæming (Säming) gewesen sein.
Die jüngere Form des Namens findet sich ab 1380, die ältere besteht weiter in den Namen der Bistümer Sør-Hålogaland (Nordland) und Nord-Hålogaland (Troms und Finnmark) und im Namen des Obergerichtes (Hålogaland lagmannsrett), das für die drei nördlichen Provinzen Nordland, Troms und Finnmark sowie für Spitzbergen zuständig ist.
In Helgeland befand sich bei Bratland und der Insel Aldra ein Sender des Omega-Funknavigationssystems. In der Nähe von Bratland befindet sich auch der Marinesender JXN, der wie einst der Omegasender eine Drahtantenne verwendet, die über einen Fjord gespannt wurde.
(Wikipedia)
Capertee Valley,
NSW, Australia.
My friends Bez, Ken, and myself had the opportunity to spend a weekend in the Capertee Valley and stay on a 100 acre property.
It was too good a chance to pass up as I’d wanted to explore the valley & also the ruins of Glen Davis for years.
We planned to spend friday and saturday night on the property and use it as a base to explore the area.
Also, Kandos & Rylstone, a couple of interesting historical towns were a short drive from where we were staying.
The Capertee Valley is about 3hrs drive north-west from Sydney.
It’s regarded as the 2nd largest valley in the world and also one of the deepest, it’s length is longer than the Grand Canyon in the US.
The valley is quite spectacular being surrounded by towering sandstone cliffs, and monoliths such as Pantoney’s Crown, which dominates the western side.
The valley is home to cattle farms and after decent rains is carpeted with green grass.
The original inhabitants were the Aboriginal Wiradjuri people.
The first Europeans to explore the area were James Blackman & Lieutenant William Lawson who passed through the valley on their way to Mudgee in 1821.
Over the 10 year period from 1851, the gold rush resulted in an increase in the colony’s population.
The village at Capertee grew from small accommodation inns, particularly Shervey’s Inn, during this time.
Capertee’s wealth and importance grew as coal, shale-oil and limestone were discovered and mined in the area.
Sheep properties were established in the 1940’s producing quality wool.
The mining town of Glen Davis was established on the eastern rim of the valley and flourished from 1938 - 1952, employing up to 1600 people at its peak.
A town of around 2,500 sprung around the mining operation, which was believed to be one of the richest shale oil deposits in the world.
A pipeline was built so that products could be pumped to storage tanks at Newnes Junction.
The pipeline followed the route of the Newnes railway line which was removed in the 1940’s.
When the Newnes mining town closed down much of the equipment was transferred to Glen Davis.
The Glen Davis shale works failed to be a successful business for the owners - the Davis Gelatine Company.
Eventually the mine at Glen Davis was closed down due to high operating costs, output was low, and cheap crude oil was available from the Middle East.
The equipment used at the site was sold off or auctioned.
The Glen Davis Hotel was built in 1939 to provide accommodation and a place for the locals miners to meet after work.
The hotel closed down after the mine ceased operations, and later became a Marist Bros. retreat.
Now, it’s been renovated and re-opened as an art-deco hotel, function, and conference centre.
With all the various mining operations closed down, the population in the area has dwindled to around 300.
The ruins of Glen Davis are now a popular tourist attraction.
Guided tours are available on weekends, and at other times you need permission to access the site.
The area is known as one of the premier bird-watching locations in NSW and is an Important Bird Area (IBA) - placing it among the top 50 locations in the world.
There are more species of birds to be found here than anywhere in the Southern Hemisphere.
There is a 20km walking track, called the Pipeline Track, that follows the old route of the train line, and ends up at Newnes in the Wolgan Valley.
Beyond The Capertee Valley to the east is the wilderness of the Wollemi National Park with its maze of rock pagodas and twisted canyons.