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Blanchetown and Paisley.
This usually bypassed Murray River town is one of the oldest river towns in SA but with two modern bridges across the Murray few ever venture into the old town. It was named after Lady Blanche, wife of our 6th Governor, Sir Richard MacDonnell. Blanchetown replaced an earlier settlement a few kms south of this spot called Moorundie. More of that later. Blanchetown was a very isolated spot being the only settlement between Truro and Wentworth in NSW when it was established. The nearest settlement was Mannum established in 1856 and the earliest town along settled along the Murray was Wellington established in 1840. Blanchetown was surveyed as a government town and laid out in 1855 and like Wellington it had a police presence and a police station from 1859 as there were no other law officials between Wellington and Blanchetown. This was frontier country. The government had decided to act and create a town at this place because of the birth of the River Murray boat trade after 1854 (Captains Randell and Cadell had had their race up the Murray to Wellington with paddle steamers and the Governor of SA Sir Henry Fox in 1853). Suddenly this areas were more attractive to pastoralists and traders. And as noted above the government had commissioned a rail survey and feasibly plan in 1856 for the extension of the railway line from Kapunda to Blanchetown. This was a very preliminary study as the railway line from Adelaide did not reach Gawler until 1857 and although it had been planned earlier the railway did not reach Kapunda until 1860! Despite this drawback the town of Blanchetown progressed because of the river boat trade and the opening up of trade links to the pastoralists up the Darling River beyond the early settlement of Wentworth. But its dreams of being a rail terminus and major port along the Murray never eventuated. Morgan got that prize and consequential wealth in 1878.
Blanchetown was created out of Edward John Eyre’s 1839 Moorundie Special Survey of around 4,000 acres. Town lots were first sold in 1857 and the town soon had a hotel (1858), which was the license from Eardley Heywood’s Old Whipstick Inn which was first licensed in 1845 on his Portee Station. In Blanchetown it was named the Heywood arms which was later changed to the Blanchetown Hotel. Later came a Post Office and Telegraph Station (1865), a general store and Police Station. The current Police Station built in 1969 is not in the town but on the main highway near the roadhouse. A proposed Customs house for the river trade to NSW in 1856 never eventuated as it was later built in Morgan. Attempts were made to build paddle steamers in Blanchetown but only two ever completed. But the commercial ferry service across the river (from 1869) bought some business and trade to the town as did the mail and coach service from Truro to Wellington and sheep stations away from the riverbanks via Blanchetown. The government took over the punt service in 1879 as a sop to the town after the opening of the port of Morgan and the town losing its Sub Collector of Customs. In the same year 1879 the state school was built. No early churches were built here despite the growing size of the town. But like later Riverland towns Blanchetown would have been serviced the church paddle steamers. The Methodists had the paddle steamer Glad Tidings from 1894. This was a very appropriate name for a church boat. This was later replaced by the Endeavour in 1909. Once the Riverland towns were established between 1910 and 1920 the church paddle steamers were stopped. The Anglicans had the paddle steamer the Etona which operated up and down the river, including stops at Blanchetown, from 1891 to 1914 conducting baptisms, marriages, masses and even occasional funerals if they were in port when needed. Eventually Blanchetown got a church – the Paisley Lutheran Church on the eastern bank of the Murray which opened in 1903. Paisley was an early area for irrigated fruit orchards at Blanchetown. The Hundred of Paisley was declared in 1860 but it attracted few settlers until irrigation was possible after the completion of Lock One at Blanchetown in 1922.
dance -> fashion -> archiecture experiment with Heidi Wikar and Elpida Orfanidou. A living solution so perfect, so primitive, we have always been refusing it... The placenta as architecture and garment...
dance -> fashion -> archiecture experiment with Heidi Wikar and Elpida Orfanidou. A living solution so perfect, so primitive, we have always been refusing it... The placenta as architecture and garment...
dance -> fashion -> archiecture experiment with Heidi Wikar and Elpida Orfanidou. A living solution so perfect, so primitive, we have always been refusing it... The placenta as architecture and garment...
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Yup - nothing makes me happier than standing on public property and rattling the cage of the financial mall cops when I shoot at night. They look like deer in headlights most of the time, not sure what to make of me which is really the bizarre part of it all.
Either way, I always am in awe of the first few floors of the One M&T Plaza Building on Main St, in Buffalo, NY. This is a building that is often under appreciated, as its surrounded by some of the best architecture in the city within two city blocks. Sourced with local Bethlehem Steel (one of a few last buildings to do so here) in the 1960s - this was designed by Minoru Yamasaki. For those unaware of his stature in his field - he designed the NYC World Trade Center before they fell in 2001.
Truly a link to greater history in NY and greater global events of my time, but I believe most don't even realize its significance by proxy.
15 Belshaw Place in Regent Park South, Toronto.
The ongoing redevelopment of the Regent Park neighborhood in downtown Toronto plays like a narrative that could happen anywhere.
The Toronto slums were bulldozed in the 1950s and redeveloped but by the mid to late 1960s these modernist buildings fell into disrepair.
The architect Peter Dickinson designed five fourteen story Maisonette Tower's. Appropriating ideas from Le Corbusier’s Unite d’habitation in Marseilles, Dickinson, then with Page and Steele Architects won the Massey Silver Medal in 1958 for these towers.
15 and 63 Belshaw Place are demolished, Three towers are still standing. The property at 14 Blevins Place is recommended for inclusion on the City of Toronto Inventory of Heritage Properties for its cultural heritage value and interest.
dance -> fashion -> archiecture experiment with Heidi Wikar and Elpida Orfanidou. A living solution so perfect, so primitive, we have always been refusing it... The placenta as architecture and garment...
dance -> fashion -> archiecture experiment with Heidi Wikar and Elpida Orfanidou. A living solution so perfect, so primitive, we have always been refusing it... The placenta as architecture and garment...
dance -> fashion -> archiecture experiment with Heidi Wikar and Elpida Orfanidou. A living solution so perfect, so primitive, we have always been refusing it... The placenta as architecture and garment...
dance -> fashion -> archiecture experiment with Heidi Wikar and Elpida Orfanidou. A living solution so perfect, so primitive, we have always been refusing it... The placenta as architecture and garment...
dance -> fashion -> archiecture experiment with Heidi Wikar and Elpida Orfanidou. A living solution so perfect, so primitive, we have always been refusing it... The placenta as architecture and garment...
dance -> fashion -> archiecture experiment with Heidi Wikar and Elpida Orfanidou. A living solution so perfect, so primitive, we have always been refusing it... The placenta as architecture and garment...
Photo taken from Leopold Street looking towards Town Hall (The building in the middle with the clock tower dating from 1897).
In the far corner of the Graveyard of St. Helens is this Charnel House, it was a makeshift mortuary used until the bodies were taken away for burial. Its location close to the river Thames is key as bodies found washed up or floating were stored here awaiting identification. Used until the start of 20th Century. Public health acts forced it's closure.
Bendigo.
This gold city literally sits above gold deposits. It is generally acknowledged that the wives of two workmen (Kennedy and Farrell) on Ravenswood sheep station found the first gold in 1851 on Bendigo Creek. A memorial to the two women was erected in Golden Square in 2001. A township emerged overnight as Bendigo although officially it was Sandhurst for some time. Diggers rushed to the Bendigo goldfields in November 1851 from mines at nearby Castlemaine. Bendigo went on to become one of the major goldfields in Australia with the mine giving up millions of dollars’ worth of gold. Alluvial gold was found near Golden Square but eventually petered out. Shaft mines continue finding gold at Epsom, Kangaroo Flat, Eaglehawk and Diamond Hill now suburbs of Bendigo. 30,000 miners including many Chinese flocked to the district in 1852 with government officials and police soon on their heals. The big boom in shaft mining commenced in the 1850s the some work still continuing.
The main streets of Bendigo were surveyed in 1854 and many early structures from this period still remain but because of the wealth of the city grand and eloquent buildings were built a few years later in the 1870s and 1880s especially civic buildings, churches, banks, hotels and shops. Bendigo had a provincial Stock Exchange as gold company stocks were traded on markets around the world until it was closed in 2012. By the 1870s the city had 28,000 inhabitants. Many of the cities fine buildings were designed by a local architect William Charles (or Carl Wilhelm) Vahland who was born in Hanover Germany in 1828. Vahland arrived in Bendigo in 1854. He redesigned the Bendigo Town Hall between 1878-86 as well as designing the Fountain in Golden Square, the Masonic Temple (now the Capital Theatre), the famous Shamrock Hotel, Fortuna Villa and the School of Mines and Institute. The greater urban area of Bendigo today has over 110,000 people.
Scanned from a magic lantern slide..For more information or to obtain a print please contact East Sussex Libraries: library.enquiries@eastsussex.gov
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This was shot at the University of Guelph
© 2015 Patrick Younger Photography - Guelph, CA
A 1988 scanned negative of the foyer of the Clock Cinema at Harehills in Leeds, whilst it was in use as a bingo hall. The interior has now been completely gutted. The entrance foyer had a tremendous height, steps lead off to the balcony whilst the stalls were straight ahead from the entrance.
Harehills, Leeds, west Yorkshire - Clock Cinema
A scan of a negative taken in March 1986
dance -> fashion -> archiecture experiment with Heidi Wikar and Elpida Orfanidou. A living solution so perfect, so primitive, we have always been refusing it... The placenta as architecture and garment...
dance -> fashion -> archiecture experiment with Heidi Wikar and Elpida Orfanidou. A living solution so perfect, so primitive, we have always been refusing it... The placenta as architecture and garment...
dance -> fashion -> archiecture experiment with Heidi Wikar and Elpida Orfanidou. A living solution so perfect, so primitive, we have always been refusing it... The placenta as architecture and garment...
dance -> fashion -> archiecture experiment with Heidi Wikar and Elpida Orfanidou. A living solution so perfect, so primitive, we have always been refusing it... The placenta as architecture and garment...
dance -> fashion -> archiecture experiment with Heidi Wikar and Elpida Orfanidou. A living solution so perfect, so primitive, we have always been refusing it... The placenta as architecture and garment...
dance -> fashion -> archiecture experiment with Heidi Wikar and Elpida Orfanidou. A living solution so perfect, so primitive, we have always been refusing it... The placenta as architecture and garment...
The name of this town has nothing to do with the country of Finland; its name in Latin means "Daughter of the Andes". Filandia is one of the biggest towns of the Quindio department. It has well-preserved old-style architecture in the typical for this region style "bahareque": one and two story houses made of bamboo, generally painted white, but with brightly colored window and door frames. A popular telenovella "Cafe con Aroma de Mujer" was filmed here.
Название этого города не имеет никакого отношения к государству Финляндия. "Филяндия" в переводе с латыни - "Дочь Анд". Филяндия - один из самых крупных населённых пунктов департамента Киндио. Здесь хорошо сохранилась старинная архитектура в стиле баареке, традиционном для этого региона Колумбии: одно- и двухэтажные дома из бамбука, в основном выкрашенные в белый цвет, но с яркими оконными и дверными рамами. В Филяндии снимали популярный сериал "Кофе с Ароматом Женщины".
I took this photograph on 9 October 2011 as I wanted to record the repair/restoration work as it then appeared on this the northern facade.
My patience was rewarded - I had to beware of incessant traffic which threatened my safety and I wanted a shot which did not also feature a moving or stationary vehicle.
Hampi (Kannada: ಹಂಪೆ Hampe) is a village in northern Karnataka state, India. It is located within the ruins of Vijayanagara, the former capital of the Vijayanagara Empire. Predating the city of Vijayanagara, it continues to be an important religious centre, housing the Virupaksha Temple, as well as several other monuments belonging to the old city. The ruins are a UNESCO World Heritage Site, listed as the Group of Monuments at Hampi.[1] According to statistics of 2014, Hampi is the most searched historical place in Karnataka on Google.
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