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I.ROSE.M. # through the windshield on the SF Bay Bridge (icolor added; check out the original photo in my album called "San Francisco City by the Bay").
For some, privacy is tantamount. But for others, letting a little light through the fence adds to the decorative nature of the surrounding landscaping.
Along Hwy 26 in central Oregon. People just stop an throw their old shoes at the tree and have been doing so for years.
added a little fluid acrylics... allowing myself to go slowly and gently with this painting (not a big change but just some highlighting of areas and some 'punching up' of colours)
Place your cursor over parts of the image to reveal further information.
A very potted history of The Square.........
The Square is where seven roads leading to and from all parts of the borough converge. Although not geographically at the centre of town it is at the heart of what is known as the Town Centre.
The seven roads are.....Old Christchurch Rd ,Gervis Place, Exeter Rd, Commercial Rd, Avenue Rd, Bourne Ave and Richmond Hill.
Two hundred years ago and beyond it was the point at which the Bourne stream was crossed, by way of a ford, by those travelling over the unspoilt heath that lay between Christchurch and Poole.
The area was frequented by smugglers who carried out their illegal goings on along this isolated section of coast through much of the 1700s and early 1800s.
From the mid 1700s a small property, Bourne House / Decoy Pond Cottage stood where Debenhams now stands, with an associated decoy pond, used for hunting and trapping wildfowl, being created along the Bourne stream where the War Memorial now stands in the Central Pleasure Gardens.
The Square has undergone a number of facelifts in the last 200 years since Bournemouth was officially founded in 1810 by Lewis Tregonwell. The ford was replaced by a wooden bridge in the late 1830s, then a stone one in 1849. Over time the bridge was replaced and the area enlarged resulting in the stream running underground as it flowed from the Central Pleasure Gardens into the Lower Pleasure Gardens on its way to the sea, meaning it can be crossed by thousands of people every day without anyone having to get their feet wet.
Not suprisingly the area was known as The Bridge but became known as The Square from the mid 1850s.
In 1899 a roundabout with a tall lamp post was created in the centre of The Square which survived until around WW1 when a plain oval 'roundabout', minus the lamp post, replaced it.
In 1925 a Captain Norton donated a shelter cum waiting room, adorned by a clock, that was used by tram and trolleybus passengers until 1948, when it was replaced by a large roundabout in the middle of which stood a tall pedestal with the clock from the shelter ontop.
In 1992 The Square was semi-pedestrianised with a path created across the roundabout to link the two sides, with the opening of the fully pedestrianised Square, complete with a pebble mosaic, Millenium Flame and Obscura Cafe coming in February 2000.
FURTHER INFORMATION RELATING TO THE ABOVE IMAGE.
A.
Southbourne Terrace was built between 1863 and 1865 by Henry Joy who also built the Gervis [ Bournemouth ] Arcade and Westbourne Arcade.
In this image the far right hand end is still being built, with the construction site obscuring the view of the Tregonwell Arms that was originally built as the Tapps Arms in 1809.
WH Smith have occupied part of Southbourne Terrace since 1919 and it is the oldest surviving building in The Square. Despite having undergone alterations to its facade as various tenants have come and gone over the years, it still retains something of its original appearance.
B.
Bournemouth's Yellow Buses, operated by Bournemouth Transport, were owned by Bournemouth Council.
Trams first appeared on the town's streets in 1902 and were replaced by trolleybuses in the 1930s.
The trolleybuses were officially retired in 1969 and were superceded by the diesel engined bus.
Prior to 1951, when their bus depot opened in Mallard Rd, the main depot was in Southcote Rd. There were further small depots located on Wimborne Rd in Moordown, and Christchurch Rd at Pokesdown.
In 2005 the Council sold Yellow Buses to Transdev, a French company, and moved into new premises in Yeomans Way behind Castlepoint.
Transdev have recently sold up to RATP.
C.
Rebbeck's Corner at the junction of Old Christchurch Rd and Gervis Place.
William Rebbeck came to Bournemouth in the 1830s as estate agent to the 'Bourne Tregonwell' estate.
In 1851, Rebbeck's small single storey office was built here, with the family home, Gervis Villa, standing directly behind. A second storey was added in 1873.
In 1887 it was replaced by a much larger Rebbeck's building which they occupied until 1934 when they moved to their new premises, next door to what is today the Moon In The Square pub, where they still trade as Rebbeck Brothers, although there is no longer any family involvement.
Their former premises were replaced by this current building, a shop, in 1936.
It was a Dolcis shoe shop for years and is a T Mobile store in 2011.
D.
The Lower Pleasure Gardens were formally laid out in 1873 after several years spent draining and preparing the land.
Westover Gardens, a smaller area opposite the Westover Villas on Westover Rd, had been enclosed in 1849. Trees and undergrowth were cleared, paths created and two bridges built over the stream. A walkway was created through the pines that remained standing on the Westover Rd side of the gardens, and was known as Invalids Walk, later renamed Pine Walk, which is still in use today.
A small charge was made to enter the garden.
Well... After a thinking it over a little, I decided to go ahead and add two additional features to the unit. I have now added an Intervalometer and a Lightning Detector to it's capabilities! :-)
The Intervalometer is a bit more capable than the standard ones out there and certainly the one I have built into my camera. It has the ability to set intervals down to the milliseconds! The ones have used in the past only allowed me to set intervals in seconds and not fractions of a second. I am sure there are other uses for it but I know for sure it would have been handy in doing some time lapses while doing higher speeds in a vehicle. The Lightning detection circuit is about as simple as it can get and will work with any camera having a shutter lag of less than 90 milliseconds (just to be on the safe side).
I also spent a lot of time re-writing the code for the update routines to make it easier to navigate through the system parameters, make changes to them, and then added the ability to save them to non-volatile memory so that the saved parameters will be reloaded on power up of the system. All in all, I think this unit will work very nicely in what I want it to do! :-)
All of this has taken up pretty much every moment of the last two days, but most of that time was spent fighting a bug that I ran across in the Arduino compiler in dealing with complex OR comparisons. That was bit frustrating to figure out, but I finally worked my way around it. :-)
So... now I can get back to work on finishing the tutorial and getting the wiring diagram drawn up!