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Little remains of the Dunmore Estate except the walled garden and its unique pineapple topped building.
Pedestrians pause at a street corner during the start of a snowfall on 14th St NW in Washington, DC.
One of five off shoots of the war Museum, this one is based in Salford Manchester on the end of the Manchester Ship Canal in Trafford Park. The building is composed of three shards from an explosion of an imagined globe, the shards also represent earth, water and air.
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe[1] (German: Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas), also known as the Holocaust Memorial (German: Holocaust-Mahnmal), is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. It consists of a 19,000 m2 (4.7-acre) site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The stelae are 2.38 m (7 ft 10 in) long, 0.95 m (3 ft 1 in) wide and vary in height from 0.2 to 4.8 m (7.9 in to 15 ft 9.0 in). They are organized in rows, 54 of them going north–south, and 87 heading east–west at right angles but set slightly askew.[2][3] An attached underground "Place of Information" (German: Ort der Information) holds the names of all known Jewish Holocaust victims, obtained from the Israeli museum Yad Vashem.
Building began on April 1, 2003, and was finished on December 15, 2004. It was inaugurated on May 10, 2005, sixty years after the end of World War II, and opened to the public two days later. It is located one block south of the Brandenburg Gate, in the Friedrichstadt neighborhood. The cost of construction was approximately €25 million.
2013, Norway: Botanical garden Oslo.
Zoologisk og geologisk avdeling ved botanisk hage på Tøyen i Oslo.
Universitetes Botaniske Hage Tøyenhagen
Photo; Heidi Voss-Nilsen
Perhaps I wasn't thinking straight after my 5 mile (seemingly uphill both ways) hike, that, instead of walking to my car, I wandered into town. Like a moth to a flame, I saw some brilliant reds and golds. That, and historic architecture capped by this steeple. So a detour was in order, ignoring the protests from my hip flexors and it bands, to catch this. Nothing spectacular, but I really like the view, so there!
Harpers Ferry, WV
Oh, and thanks for the 600K+ visits, everyone!
“A quiet moment on Church Street, captured in timeless black and white. The sweep of the road draws the eye into the frame, past the textured facades of old houses, a lone passerby, and up into a sky scattered with drifting clouds. A slice of village life where history and everyday rhythms meet.”
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La petite fontaine derrière la chapelle (accès par les côtés de la chapelle) est toujours en service. Elle attire beaucoup de monde, Sainte Isbergue ayant sa réputation : elle pourrait guérir les maladies des yeux et de la peau.
Isbergues | Pas-de-Calais (62) | Nord - Pas-de-Calais - Picardie | France
Used to be a college which has been converted into many dwellings. Thought as I was in the area I's try and capture it in some nice afternoon light using the passing traffic to fill the "empty" space of the road in the foreground rather than catching it with no pedestrians or cars which I had also exposed but thought this worked better.
#449 Explore on Thursday, December 18, 2008
Hospital Santa Creu i Sant Pau
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What is today the Benares Historic House traces itself to 1837, when some original sections and outbuildings were constructed. The main house as it is seen today is from 1857. Originally home to four generations of the Harris and Sayers Family, today it is a museum in the City of Mississauga after the house and almost all of its contents were donated by the great-grandchildren of Captain Harris. Opened in 1995 as a public museum, the house is representative to what it would have looked like during the First World War.
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Photowalk, 4th of July Weekend, 2019, New York, NY.
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Sedan.
Ample evidence still exists in Sedan and the district of the early building techniques used. The stone buildings show the work of the masons, while the country buildings show the use of mallee root walls, dry stone fences, thatched barns and even the occasional pine and pug hut. The native pine used was Callistris species which are resistant to termites. We will see one such cottage near Sedan. The last remaining mallee root fence in the district has now gone. The dry stone walls are a feature of the eastern side of the Mt Lofty Ranges as the area was scattered with granite boulders and other rocks. Most of these walls were constructed before the 1870s to divide the great pastoral runs. Generally the walls are one metre high, and almost one metre wide at the base tapering to 40 cms at the top. Some walls were built as recently as the Great Depression of the 1930s, especially along road edges of the Sedan Hill road. The mallee root fences were erected as a cheaper version of fencing wire. Sadly all the mallee root fences are now gone.
Sedan lies in the Hundred of Bagot on the Murray Plains and was so-named by a farmer of Tanunda, Johann Pfeiffer when he purchased 306 acres of land in the vicinity in 1870. It is presumed he named his property sedan to commemorate the German victory over France in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. At that time he was not able to foresee that other localities in the district would also end up being named after battles. There had been earlier lessees of the land in the area but the leases were forfeited back to the government in August 1860 when the Hundred of Bagot was proclaimed. The land was subsequently surveyed for closer settlement. The rivers of the district were named by the famed SA geologist Menge who called them the North and South Rhine Rivers after the rivers of his homeland in Germany.
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 Blanchtown 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 in 1845. He established his homestead at Rosebank, east of Mt Pleasant. The run was inherited by his third son George Melrose (1860-1938) who was born at Rosebank in 1860. He managed other family properties near Cowell and Hallett. He was an important pastoralist as he introduced to Australia the first Dorset sheep, the first French Percheron horses (the police greys) and Wensleydale sheep. He purchased Booborowie station where he lived from 1897. Sir John Stanley Murray (1884-1971) was born on 27 March 1884 at Rosebank and acquired the property from one of his uncles Sir George Murray, a benefactor of the University of Adelaide. He lived on the property and his managers were responsible for its development as a leading Aberdeen Angus stud. Through marriage the property went from the Murrays to the McLachlans. The three families have prominent headstones in the Mt Pleasant cemetery.
Land sales started in July 1869 and gentlemen speculators as well as genuine farmers bought the land. The latter group mainly came from the North Rhine district around Keyneton and Eden Valley, but also from other areas of the Barossa Valley. Most were of German descent wanting new agricultural lands for their second and third sons. The town itself was surveyed in 1875 and again in 1883 by C. von Bertouch and very soon the town had a flour miller, a baker, blacksmiths and wheelwrights, a builder –stone mason, hotel keeper, butcher, store keeper, saddler and banker. Today Sedan has few of those services. The map for the self guided walk around Sedan uses the 1883 town survey map. A local Truro contractor Mr. Teasdale-Smith constructed the Cambrai-Sedan railway in 1919. The arrival of the first train was cause for great celebration. The line closed in 1964. One of the more unusual local industries was the production of lime. Between 1890 and 1930 lime kilns out of the town burnt crushed limestone and heated it until it flaked into lime powder. Wool Bay on York Peninsula also had lime kilns like those at Sedan. Electricity reached Sedan in 1956; and reticulated water came in 1968.
As noted above many of the early settlers were of German descent and during World War I all German names were changed by law. Rhine Villa became Cambrai, and the North and South Rhine rivers became the Somme and the Marne. All of these names were from WWI battles. During The Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916, the British suffered 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 dead. It was the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army yet despite terrible casualties it was a strategic success in the short term for the Allies against the Germans, as it halted the German advance. The Battle of the Marne, 1914, was a clearer victory for the Allies against the Germans. The Battle of Cambrai in 1917 allowed the British to open up the German lines but not for long. The battle was a stalemate like so many World War One battles. A second Battle of Cambrai in 1918 was a victory for the allies.
Roof arch detail at St Pancras Station, London, UK.
St Pancras railway station, also known as London St Pancras and since 2007 as St Pancras International, was opened in 1868 by the Midland Railway as the southern terminus of its mainline which connected London with the East Midlands and Yorkshire. When it opened, the arched Barlow train shed was the largest single-span roof in the world.
I know your probably thinking, there go's Andy, banging on about railway stations again....I tend to photograph things I like, and I really, really like St Pancras, taking a walk along the platforms here makes you feel proud to be British, it really is the most wonderful building, some fantastic place.
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Rmit Bubble Building - not finished yet, but destined to be a landmark and to have thousands of photos taken of it.
I had a day off today, so went out with my cameras into the city to be a tourist. I uploaded some photos along the way and will upload more shots from the higher res cameras later
The official visitbrighton.com site recommends visitors check out their top 10 roundup of graffiti art in the city. The image above is described on the site as 'Mural at Black Rock - an ever-changing unofficial gallery on the wooden hoardings beside Brighton Marina which reflects Brighton's lively graffiti scene'.
Black rock was the home of a beautiful Art Deco Lido constructed in 1936 at beach level. It was closed in 1978 and demolished in 1979 and the land, albeit the subject of endless multi-million pound building applications, including an olympic size ice rink, remains empty save for graffiti artists and an annual Sand Sculpture exhibition.
The Regency houses overlooking Black Rock in this image are known as Arundal Crescent. They form part of Sussex Square, Lewes Crescent and Chichester Terrace, the largest piece of Regency Architecture in Brighton's famous Kemp Town. Work began on the houses in 1823 and, after financial difficulties and a change of builders and sponsors, the work was completed in 1855. Sussex Square is said to be larger than Grosvenor Square in London and Lewes Crescent is the largest in Britain with a diameter 200 feet larger than Bath Royal Crescent.
After a period of decline in the late 1800's the area has been largely 'gentrified' again although the massive houses are mainly converted to apartments with the larger ones (apartments) fetching a million +.
2012, Norway; Javelin coffe and tea shop and Kampen Church on Kampen in Oslo.
Photo: Heidi Voss-Nilsen
Part of the Dallas light rail transportation system. This is the entrance to the subway platform, some 120 feet below the street level.
On this occasion, I had the option of taking the stairs or the escalator and the inclinator was undergoing renovation.
I took the escalator down, as evidenced by the third photo in this series, and took it back up, obviously.