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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.
With Bluestone Mining & Smelting Heisler #1 holding the main with her standard gauge passenger consist, Carson & Tahoe Lumber & Fluming Co. #1 "Glenbrook", a narrow-gauge, wood-burner, accelerates her train off the siding at Wabuska Station and heads out on to the Nevada State Railroad Museum's dual-gauge loop. Historically, an operation such as this one would have been pretty rare as dual-gauged lines were uncommon.
This image was created during Day 3 of the July, 2022 "Great Western Steam-Up" event 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.
The remains of the old Pilot's Jetty at South Gare (and not the Powder Jetty - my thanks to somebody with real local knowledge)
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.
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Urrbrae House is a beautiful two-storey bluestone mansion, completed in 1891 as the home of Peter and Matilda Waite..
It replaced a large single-storey house believed to have been constructed about 1850 by Robert Forsyth Macgeorge..
"Urrbrae" was the name given by Macgeorge to land he bought in 1846 in the foothills south of the city of Adelaide: "Urr" after his home parish in Scotland and "brae" denoting a slope or hillside especially near a creek or river. The land on which the estate was based has remained unsubdivided since 1839..
Peter Waite acquired the Urrbrae estate in the mid 1870s with the assistance of Thomas Elder. Waite and his family moved into the existing Urrbrae House in March 1877..
The new Urrbrae House was designed by C. H. Marryat and E. J. Woods, built by Nicholas W. Trudgen and the interior decorations were designed by Aldam Heaton, a contemporary of William Morris. After the death of its founder in 1897, Aldam Heaton & Co. would go on to design much of the interior of the Titanic. Urrbrae House was his only commission in Australia..
Urrbrae House was the Waite family home until the deaths of Peter and Matilda in 1922. It was subsequently handed over to the University of Adelaide by their daughters, Lily and Eva Waite in February 1923. From which time the house has been used for many purposes..
From 1924 until the end of 1973 Urrbrae House was the residence of Directors of the Waite Agricultural Research Institute and their families. In the first years of the Waite Institute's existence Urrbrae House also accommodated the administrative offices, the library and a laboratory of the fledgling Institute until 1929..
In the late 1960s the Waite Director, Dr James (Jim) Melville suggested that part of the house might be used for the benefit of the staff and students of the Institute. Through the 1970s and 1980s Urrbrae House was the home of the Waite Staff Club and the Waite Refectory/Cafeteria..
During the 1990s Urrbrae House and its gardens underwent a major revitalisation as its heritage value and its potential as a focus for cultural and social activities for the on-campus community and the general public were recognised by then Director, Professor Harold Woolhouse..
Today, Urrbrae House is an accredited museum, and the historic and cultural heart of the University of Adelaide's Waite Campus..
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Took a bit of a gamble on the roads being open to go the three and a half miles off the main road at Rosebush down a narrow track to Manachlogddy. Fortunitely it was ok if not a little hair raising in places. This slab of Preseli Blue Stone was placed here by Chinook helicopter in April of 1989 and came from the crest of Carn Menyn. The origin of the Bluestones that built Stonehenge, one was also taken there by the local council and is still displayed there today. This one was erected to show people where they originated from.
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Bit of a contrast with the modern police station next door.
Vindel House. Constructed around 1858 - 1862.
Police station is vintage 2010.
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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.