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Design
Princes Bridge is 30 metres (99 ft) wide and 120 metres (400 ft) long, with Harcourt granite squat half columns resting on the bluestone piers that support the three iron girder arch spans. The coat of arms on the bridge belong to the municipal councils who contributed towards the cost of construction. Other design features include an elaborate balustrade along the top of the bridge, and lamp standards crowning each pier.
The bridge design bears a close resemblance to the earlier Blackfriars Bridge over the River Thames in London, a resemblance which was noted at its opening. Princes Bridge is wider, 30 metres compared with 26 metres, but with 3 spans of 33 metres and an overall length of 131 metres, it is much shorter than Blackfriars Bridge's 5 spans with a central span of 61 metres. Both are excellent surviving examples of Arch Bridge design in the late 19th century.
The bridge underwent a restoration before the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
History
Princes Bridge, originally Prince's Bridge, is a bridge in central Melbourne, Australia that spans the Yarra River. It is built on the site of one of the oldest river crossings in the city, and forms a gateway into the central city from the south. The bridge connects Swanston Street on the north bank of the Yarra River to St Kilda Road on the south bank, and carries road, tram and pedestrian traffic. The present bridge was built in 1888 and is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.
Because of its position, Princes Bridge is often a focal point for celebratory events in Melbourne such as the Moomba Festival, New Year's Eve and many celebrations taking place on the Yarra River where it flows through the city.
In the late 1870s it was decided to replace the 1850 bridge, and a competition was held in 1879. This was won by architect and engineer John Grainger, only recently arrived in Adelaide, in partnership with local architect Mr Jenkins, with a design largely as eventually built. Jenkins was likely included simply as a local representative, with the design mainly by John Grainger (1855–1917), who already had experience with bridges, and who was working alone by the time the bridge was completed. (Grainger was the father of the Australian composer Percy Grainger.) Construction was delayed over funding and other issues, and it was not until 1884 that the old bridge was disassembled and replaced by a temporary structure. The stones were lettered and numbered and neatly stacked, to allow future re-erection at another location. In the event this did not occur, as the materials were instead reused in the replacement bridge.
David Munro & Co. supplied the winning bid for the construction of £136,998 9s.9d., incorporating reused materials from the old bridge and ironwork fabricated by Langlands foundry in Melbourne. (Munro was also responsible for the construction of Queens Bridge and the nearby Sandridge Bridge.)
The foundation stone of the new bridge was laid on 7 September 1886, and a memorial stone with a suitable inscription was built in over its position in the west end of the south abutment. The new bridge was opened on 4 October 1888,[1] in time for the second International Exhibition to be held in Melbourne. As with many historic Melburnian buildings and bridges, the bridge is built on solid bluestone and concrete bulwarks with plenty of cast iron. The abutments, piers and wing walls are built of solid bluestone.
In 1924, the bridge was reinforced to take the weight of the electric trams which were soon to replace the previous cable trams along St Kilda Road and the side-streets. The name of the bridge is now rendered as Princes Bridge, in line with the policy that possessive apostrophes are not used in place names.
Princes Bridge was also the name of a railway station located on the northern side of the river, to the east of the bridge, on the current site of Federation Square. It was linked to Flinders Street station by the railway tracks that run underneath the northern approach to the bridge.
Until about June 2013 there were two vehicle lanes and a tram lane across the bridge in each direction; the wide footpaths on each side were divided for pedestrians and bicycles. At that time the bicycle lanes were moved to the road surface and the number of vehicle lanes was reduced to a single lane in each direction - starting with the Western (in-bound) side.
Simon Stevinplein in Brugges is named after and dominated by the statue of the Brugges-born mathematician Simon Stevin, best known for proving the law of equilibrium on an inclined plain. The bronze sculpture of Stevin stands atop a plinth made of Belgian bluestone measuring in total 3 meters high. It was erected in 1839 by resolution of The Brugges City Corporation and the provincial government of West Flanders
Bluestone Bay | Freycinet National Park | Tasmania
What an amazing sunrise we witnessed at Bluestone Bay. It's a spectacular location in its own right, however the sky we got was just phenomenal. Not the easiest location to get to, it requires a 4WD to access, but certainly worth the effort.
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Andrew Currie / fs disaster - Bluestone - Melbourne - Australia
Published in Confusion Magazine Issue #8
No need to comment on these - I'm uploading a series of shots from our woods. In this area, the bluestone breaks the surface of the ground. You can see how this dense sandstone would split along clear lines, and there is a lot of quarrying of this rock, to use as walkways.
A mill? Or the house of someone who was interested in basic geometric shapes?
I'm going with "mill".
ETA> Still a fan of the mill theory, given its incredible similarity to this steam mill in Bulla: Lochton Steam Mill
Further ETA> Definitely a mill! Here's a photo from 1966: Old Mill
This is an art installation at The National Botanic Gardens of Wales created by Darren Yeadon, Goodwick, Pembs.
The Great Western Steam Up was held on the grounds of the Nevada State Railroad Museum from July 1 – July 4, 2022, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad. Nine operating steam locomotives were featured with many more on display. The event was billed as the largest reunion of existing V&T locomotives in over 75 years.
These images are from the second day of the Steam Up, July 2, 2022
Daily events included rides behind visiting narrow and standard-gauge steam locomotives, a daily pageant of steam locomotives, historical vehicle and equipment displays, local food trucks, live entertainment, and “lost art” demonstrations.
The featured locomotives were:
Glenbrook, narrow gauge 2-6-0 (Baldwin 1875) built for the Carson & Tahoe Lumber & Fluming Company and used at Glenbrook, Nevada, along with an identical twin, Tahoe (see NCNG 5, below). It last ran in the 1920s and was acquired by the Nevada County Narrow Gauge for parts. In the 1940s it was placed on exhibit at the Nevada State Museum in Carson City and beginning in 1981 was restored to service (completed in 2015). It has been returned to its 1875 appearance.
No. 1, Joe. Douglass, narrow gauge 0-4-2T (H. K. Porter 1882) built for the Dayton, Sutro & Carson Valley Railroad. It operated at a mine in Dayton, Nevada, and later helped build Lake Arrowhead dam in California. It was cosmetically restored to its present appearance in 1994 and is displayed at the Nevada State Railroad Museum. It is a wood burner, but not operational.
No. 1, narrow gauge 0-4-0T (Porter 1889) built for the Sacramento Brick Company. It was later acquired by Hal Wilmunder and operated on his private Antelope & Western Railroad near Roseville, California. The engine is now owned and cared for by the Wilmunder family, and can usually be seen at the NCNG Museum in Nevada City, Calif.
No. 1, standard gauge 2-truck Heisler (Heisler Locomotive Works 1916), built for Bluestone Mining & Smelting. It originally worked on a 2.5 mile line near Mason, Nevada, before being acquired by a quarry in California. This oil-fired locomotive is owned by Chris Baldo and sees frequent use at Roots of Motive Power in Willits, California.
No. 1, Lyon, standard gauge 2-6-0 (Gentry/Strasburg/Kloke) which is a partially completed replica of the first locomotive built for the Virginia & Truckee. The original was manufactured by the Union Iron Works of San Francisco in 1869. The full-scale working replica was donated to the Nevada State Railroad Museum by Stan Gentry, builder, and is being completed by the museum shop staff. It will burn wood as did the original.
No. 3, standard gauge 0-4-0T (Porter 1909) built for the Santa Cruz Portland Cement Company. Upon retirement it was used as a billboard for a chicken restaurant in Stockton, California. It was restored to service by Stathi Pappas beginning in 2006 and is currently located at the Placerville & Sacramento Valley Railroad in Folsom, California. Nicknamed “Chiggen,” it is oil-fired.
No. 4, Eureka, narrow gauge 4-4-0 (Baldwin 1875), built for the Eureka & Palisade Railroad. Retired in 1938, it was later featured in several Hollywood movies. This classic wood-fired locomotive was restored by Dan Markoff in the 1980s and is usually kept at his home in North Las Vegas, Nevada.
No. 5, Tahoe, narrow gauge 2-6-0 (Baldwin 1875) built for the Carson & Tahoe Lumber & Fluming Company and used in logging service. It was later sold to the Nevada County Narrow Gauge of Grass Valley, Calif., and was retired in 1942. It then appeared in numerous movies and TV shows for owner Universal Pictures. No. 5 is now part of the NCNG Museum in Nevada City, Calif., and was restored to service in May 2022. This oil-fired locomotive has been restored to its 1940s appearance.
No. 8, standard gauge 4-4-0 (Cooke Locomotive & Machine Works 1888) built for the Denver, Texas & Fort Worth Railroad, and later operated on the Dardanelle & Russellville in Arkansas. It was used in 1976 on the V&T tourist railroad at Virginia City. Oil fired, it last steamed in the early 2000s.
No. 11, Reno, standard gauge 4-4-0 (Baldwin 1872) built for the Virginia & Truckee. The most renown of all V&T’s Americans, the Reno was retired in 1937 and sold to a movie studio. It spent over fifty years at Old Tucson Studios in Arizona before being acquired by the V&T tourist railroad of Virginia City, Nevada, in 2021. It is currently under restoration. Oil fired.
No. 12, Genoa, standard gauge 4-4-0 (Baldwin 1873) built for the Virginia & Truckee. It was a back-up locomotive to the Reno and was retired in 1908. For the past 40 years it’s been on indoor static display at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. It last ran in 1979 and was never converted from burning wood to burning oil, like most V&T 4-4-0s were.
No. 18, narrow gauge 4-6-0 (Baldwin 1911), built for the Nevada-California-Oregon and last used by the Southern Pacific. Restored by Carson & Colorado Inc. in 2017 after being on display in an Independence, Calif., park since 1954. It is normally kept at the Eastern California Museum in Independence. Oil fired.
No. 18, Dayton, standard gauge 4-4-0 (Central Pacific Sacramento Shops 1873) built for the Virginia & Truckee. Ran on the V&T for nearly seven decades before being acquired by a movie studio. It was cosmetically restored for display in 1982 by the Nevada State Railroad Museum. Oil fired.
No. 21, J. W. Bowker, standard gauge 2-4-0 (Baldwin 1875) built for the Virginia & Truckee. Bowker served as a switch engine in Virginia City. It was later purchased by the Sierra Nevada Wood & Lumber Company. Wood-fueled but not currently operational, it has been exhibited at the California State Railroad since 1976. An oil burner, it is not currently operational.
No. 22, Inyo, standard gauge 4-4-0 (Baldwin 1875), built for the Virginia & Truckee Railroad. It served in passenger service and was nicknamed “Brass Betsy.” It was later sold to Paramount Pictures and appeared McLintock, Union Pacific, and The Great Locomotive Chase. Restored to operation in 1983 and currently housed at the Nevada State Railroad Museum. Wood fired.
No. 25, standard gauge 4-6-0 (Baldwin 1905) built for the Virginia & Truckee to handle both freight and passenger trains. It was the first new steam locomotive purchased by the V&T and replaced older 4-4-0s on the passenger run between Reno and Carson City. Oil fired, it was restored to operation in 1980 and sees frequent service at the Nevada State Railroad Museum.
In the early days of the Victorian Railways expansion, right at the height of the gold rush, one of the first regional lines built was the Melbourne to Bendigo line. The line was built to an incredibly high standard for the era: double track mainline throughout; cuttings, embankents and gradients that facilitated high speed running; ornate station buildings made of bluestone; and viaducts and bridges, made from wrought iron and bluestone. The line was engineered for the future, and thus saw little improvement over the proceeding hundred years. However, the cost of construction, coupled with the declining gold rush, made this one of only three lines built to such a high standard.
Symbolic of the quality of the line, the well presented bluestone viaduct just outside of Sunbury is still in use today with no visible alterations. Here, it adequately takes the load of R711 (a locomotive designed and built almost a hundred years after the bridge), K153 and train as they storm out of the growing township and head onwards to Castlemaine, with Steamrail's 2015 Members Train.
In the interests of full disclosure, this photo has been digitally altered: the vegetation around one of centre bridge piers has been cleared and some graffiti has been removed.
For my first international filmswap I'm delighted to have teamed up with one of my absolute favourite photographers, the superb hodachrome from Japan. If you haven't already, check out his photostream as you won't be disappointed. Hodaka shot Yokkaichi industrial complex, Yokkaichi-shi, Mie (only faintly visible) and I shot Stonehenge, with a splitzer-assisted triple exposure.
LC-A+, Lomography Chrome 100, X-Pro
Bit of a contrast with the modern police station next door.
Vindel House. Constructed around 1858 - 1862.
Police station is vintage 2010.
Gothic style mansion built in 1889 for Arthur Waterhouse. Arthur was a son of T.G. Waterhouse, who owned Waterhouse Chambers, corner of King William and Rundle Streets, Adelaide.
St Margaret’s is remarkable for its beautiful squared blue stone walls. Dressings are all of brick.
The mosaic floor in the porch is said to have been brought to Adelaide from an excavation in Greece. Originally, the roof was made from slate, but later replaced by corrugated, galvanised iron.
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[8 photos in this series] This building in Keysville, Virginia, probably the last vestige of Bluestone-Harmony Academy, is no more. It was demolished a couple of years ago. Supposedly this structure dating from about 1920 was a dormitory on the grounds of what began in 1898 as Bluestone-Harmony Academic and Industrial School for black students. At a time when education for African-Americans was scarce to non-existent, a group of black Baptist churches (the Bluestone Association) established a boarding school that attracted students from across the state. The state chartered the school in 1899 and the school prospered after World War I. Located on a 100-acre tract, cultivation of the land helped to defray financial costs along with student tuition and support from the Bluestone Association. The school closed in 1950. The property was eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places but that was not to be. This move to provide education for black students predated the efforts of Julius Rosenwald to assist in establishing schools for African-Americans throughout the South.
These photos date from 2011, over 60 years since the closing of the school. The building shown is a 3-story, wood clad structure with windows and most doors blocked. The main façade is the west but is replicated on the east; the shorter north and south façades also are also duplicates in positioning of windows and doors. The roof appears to be metal and reasonably flat. The foundation is brick piers which provided support for the structure.
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NS ES44AC 8136 shoves on the rear of eastbound coal train 82G as it ducks under the replacement signals at Bluestone, WV
Abandoned bluestone cottage in a soon to be redeveloped industrial estate,western suburbs of Melbourne.
Meander Valley Road, Westbury, Tasmania.
This large cruciform bluestone church in the Decorated Gothic style was begun in 1869 and the building consecrated in 1874. It was designed by Henry Hunter, Tasmania's most prolific Victorian architect. The tower was added early this century.1 The marble high altar and reredos were designed by Alexander North.
c.1880 William Anderson; opened February 1881.
Ren 2007 Laurie Pipe Organs. 2m., 17 sp.st., 3c., tr.
Gt: 8.8 divided.8.8.4.4.2-2/3.2.8. Sw: 16.8.8.4.2.8.8. Ped: 16.
Historical and Technical Documentation by John Maidment
© OHTA (last updated May 2011)
More of the buildings history can be found on this page - www.ohta.org.au/organs/organs/WestburyCath.html
Prior to taking to the loop as the power on the standard gauge excursion train, Bluestone Mining & Smelting Co. Heisler #1 stops to take on water at the Nevada State Railroad Museum's Wabuska Tank. This tank is said to be modeled after the Virginia & Truckee's wooden tank house at Franktown, NV, which was on the main line between Carson City and Reno.
The locomotive pictured here is an oil-burning, standard gauge, 2-Truck Heisler, which is currently owned and operated by the Roots of Motive Power Museum in Willits, CA. This image was captured during the July, 2022 "Great Western Steam-Up" event at the Nevada State Railroad Museum.