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Bluestone Dam, WV
The Bluestone Dam holds back Bluestone Lake while emptying into the New River.
BSL-1-1
Travelling up the Western Freeway there are a number of roadworks being developed to widen the road. I noticed this bluestone church sitting nearly on the edge of the road, it is obviously remaining put as there has been a special road made so parishiners came still attend. We pulled off to the side so I could capture the old bluestone buliding. There were a couple of ladies working inside, I asked if it was ok to take a photo & they gave me their blessings, very proud of their old church, the lady commented how she was married there & still going 36 years on. Looks like a new roof too, so the old church must be doing ok.
This image of Stonehenge's vertical sarsen "bluestone" capped with lentils clearly shows the strategic placement of this approximately 2,500 year old structure created by Neolithic man.
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It is funny how sometimes my eye sees, what the camera doesn't see... and then there are times, where I think I see something, and it turns out the camera saw different.
A few peaceful minutes late in the evening on the beach at Bluestone Bay near Port Fairy in Victoria, Australia.
Looks like a good spot to start a TFS meetup. (makes a note)
Rolleiflex 2.8F - Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm 1:2.8 - Lomography Berlin 400 @ ASA-400
Cinestill D96 (Stock) 6:30 @ 20C
Scanner: Epson V700
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC
This sandstone (a feldspathic greywacke) was widely used for sidewalks and the like in New York City, back in the day.
Angas Buildings Adelaide Children’s Hospital.
John Howard Angas left as big a legacy for South Australia as his father did if not bigger. Historian Douglas Pike described John Howard Angas as George Fife Angas’ best memorial to SA. Both George Fife and John Howard Angas gave £500 each in 1874 to the fund to establish the Children’s Hospital in 1876. John Howard Angas was a consistent donor and benefactor over many decades. By 1903 he had donated £7,752 directly to the Children’s Hospital. Apart from serving in parliament he served on several pastoral, agricultural, educational and medical associations. John Howard Angas was vice president of the Adelaide Children’s Hospital from 1876 to 1904. His legacy to the hospital was the Angas Buildings on King William Road. The Angas Building was the second major building of the hospital and is now the oldest part of it. The Adelaide Children’s Hospital was formed in 1876 by a group of doctors and benefactors including both George Fife and John Howard Angas. Sixteen years later in 1892 John Howard Angas said he was prepared to defray the entire costs, about £2,000, for the second building which was needed by then. When the new Angas Building opened it doubled the number of beds or cots in the hospital. Angas commissioned architect Alfred Wells in 1893 to design a building facing King William Road which would form a quadrangle with the first building. It would contain two surgical wards, an outpatients section, dispensary and quarters for the surgeons. It opened in 1894. As offshoots of his work with the Children’s Hospital John Howard Angas also gave £600 to establish a children’s convalescent home at Mt Lofty and earlier in 1890 he donated £1,900 to build a new wing onto the children’s convalescent home at Semaphore. Angas commissioned architects Garlick and Partners to design the new wing at Semaphore. In 1899 John Howard Angas also donated £2,500 for the Angas wing at the Home for Incurables Fullarton. Before he died, he donated in 1904 £1,000 for the consumptives home at Kalyra Belair.
Apart from the Children’s Hospital John Howard Angas was a great financial supporter of the Barnardo Houses for children in England and elsewhere. Barnardo house provided accommodation for orphans and destitute children before they were fostered or adopted. For 30 years he donated £200 annually to this British organisation. In 1884 he donated £1,600 and from 1887 he donated £2,000 annually. In 1891 he donated £5,600 and by the time of his death he had donated £44,216 to the Barnardo foundation. His donations were so appreciated that they named a house in Essex after John Howard Angas. The Angas Home in Barkingside Essex operated for around 100 years until demolished to make way for a Tesco supermarket!
Kent Town Wesley Uniting Church
Built 1864 as Wesleyan Methodist Church.
Tapley’s Hill bluestone construction.
Transepts added 1867, vestries & classrooms 1869, lecture Hall 1874.
Opening service July 1865. First Pastor Rev S Ironside.
Church pioneers include Michael Kingsborough, Mayor 1870–71.
Originally Collegiate Church of Prince Alfred College.
*Ref: plaque by Kensington & Norwood Historical Society Inc. August 1994.
Kent Town was named after pioneer settler, Dr Benjamin Kent MD, who established East Park Farm in 1840 on Section 255 on land leased from Colonel Torrens. However, due to a dispute over ownership it was not subdivided until 1854 following Charles Robin’s purchase of the section. A mere two kilometres east of the city, Kent Town was the largest and most expensive sale of land in the colony and the close proximity made it a desirable residential area for prosperous merchants, enterprising businessmen and for many influential Wesleyan Methodists.
The reformist Wesleyan Methodists were part of South Australia’s great experiment in social democracy which fostered religious freedom and cultivated a ‘Paradise of Dissent’ that challenged the supremacy and authority of Anglicanism. A leading member of the community, Sir John Colton purchased three blocks at the corner of Kent Town and Grenfell Street on which to build a grand church to mark the 1864 jubilee of the Wesleyan Missionary Society and to be a symbol of Wesleyan achievement in the new province.
Prominent Wesleyans such as Francis Faulding of the pharmaceutical business, George P Harris, founder of Harris Scarf & Co, merchants Thomas & William Rhodes and W T Flint, insurance agent Thomas Padman, land agent George Cotton, importer Michael Kingsborough and local vigneron William Clarke donated money to the building of the church. An important benefactor was the wealthy mining investor and founding director of the Bank of Adelaide, Thomas Greaves Waterhouse, whose charismatic conversion to Wesleyan Methodism came after he married Eliza Faulding in 1852.
London trained architects, Edmund Wright (1824–1888) and Edward Woods (1837–1913) were commissioned to design the new church described as ‘English Gothic’ in style. Their design reflected the preoccupation with medieval forms and the devotion to ‘uplifting the spirit’ and the primacy of preaching in Methodism with its magnificent central pulpit. The church was constructed with a steeply pitched roof, pinnacles, arched window tracery, wall buttresses and an imposing grand interior that gave it an aura of religious splendour.
On Sunday 6 August 1865, the nave of the new church was opened by the evangelist American preacher, Reverend William ‘California’ Taylor, with over 4000 people attending the celebratory service. In 1868, transepts and a schoolroom were added to the building. The Kent Town Jubilee Church could seat 1100 people for a service making it one of the largest in the State.
As rivalry between the Wesleyans and the Anglicans grew the idea of a Wesleyan College was considered to counter the influence of the Collegiate School of St Peter’s at Hackney. T G Waterhouse purchased the last section of undeveloped land in Kent Town for the purpose of building a school devoted to the education of young men. In November 1867, one of the greatest controversies to beset the province of South Australia occurred when His Royal Highness Prince Alfred was invited to lay the foundation stone of the new Dissenters’ School and to give permission for it to be named Prince Alfred College.
For over a century, the Jubilee Church had a special place in the hearts of generations of Methodist who were moved to action by great preachers and beliefs which challenged the mores of South Australian society.
Ref: Jubilee Church story board
The famous hills from whence came the Bluestones of Stonehenge, pictured with the memorial monolith to poet Waldo Williams, 1904-1971. Married Linda Llewellyn in 1941 who sadly died just two years later. In 1950 he protested against the Korean war by refusing to pay income tax, a protest he maintained long after the war, ceasing only upon the ending of National Service. During this time he served two terms of inprisonment for non payment of income tax. He died in hospital at Haverfordwest and is buried at Llandysilio, Pembrokeshire.
In the middle distance, being admired by two people, ( click the picture to zoom in ) is one of two standing stones brought down from the hills above in April 1989. the other being transported in the same manner as were the original bluestones to Wiltshire
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.
Taken in one of Melbourne's many Alleys after some rain. I think the foreground may be a little bit distracting. Need to use a higher DOF next time, but was already shooting at high ISO, had poor lighting and did not want to drown the subject in flash.
A 12th century ruined church, in the Bluestone complex, Pembrokeshire.
... and yet another monochrome posting, Whats going on, I'm just not getting it with colour at the moment.
Former Hindmarsh Model School [plaque on building]
State Heritage Place
Built by James Shaw and designed to accommodate 1000 students, the Hindmarsh Model Boys School was opened in July 1878.
The Gothic style building and bell tower, built of Glen Osmond bluestone with bi-coloured brick dressings, was a significant part of the streetscape of historic Orsmond Street. The school’s name was later changed to Hindmarsh Primary School, and it began to admit girls as well as boys.
In 1910 a High School was established here but was later transferred to Woodville.
OFFICIAL OPENING OF HINDMARSH MODEL SCHOOL
The new Model School at Hindmarsh was officially opened by the Minister of Education (Hon N Blyth) on Friday, July 5. The school, which is centrally situated, is one of the largest and best buildings that has yet been erected in the colony. It is built of Glen Osmond stone with brick dressings, and has no pretensions to the ornamental in its style of architecture, but wears a handsome appearance because of its completeness.
Over the main entrance is a bell tower, and the various schoolrooms form the three sides of a quadrangle, the whole being on the ground floor. Entering a spacious hall the visitor perceives the master's room facing the entrance, and on the left the boy's, and on the right the girls' schoolroom. In the front or south portion of the building are a boy's schoolroom 54 ft x 24 ft, and classroom 18 ft x 24 ft and girls' school and classroom of the same dimensions.
On the west is another classroom 25 ft 6 in x 24 ft, and boys' schoolroom 54 ft x 24 ft. On the east are two similar rooms for girls, and the infants' school 45 ft x24ft, and classroom 18 ft x 24 ft.
A spacious and lofty corridor, well paved, extends through the whole building, and besides serving the purpose of hat and cloak room permits easy access to any of the departments by the master and teachers, and to the lavatories and outer offices by the scholars. The corridor is so wide that in summer time classes may be held or drill instruction given there in the shade instead of in the open playground, where the children would be exposed to the heat of the sun.
Shelter sheds stand in the corners of the playground, but while these are used in the intervals allowed for recreation the corridor will be available at all times and in all kinds of weather, and will be of great service in relieving the crowded state of the rooms when the school contains its full complement of a thousand scholars.
The area on which the building stands is enclosed with a substantial brick wall at the sides and rear, and a low wall and ornamental iron railing in front. A great deal of cost and trouble was incurred in levelling the ground, and the Hindmarsh Corporation should at once cause the ugly and dangerous hole outside the eastern wall to be filled up.
The contract for the school was accepted in July, 1877, and the building was finished in May of this year, at a cost of £7,466, the contractor being Mr Jas Shaw, who deserves credit for the manner in which the work has been carried out.
As proving the necessity which existed for so spacious a public school in that neighbourhood (the population of which is fast increasing) there are already nearly 600 children on the rolls, although the school was first opened for tuition on Monday last.
The head teacher is Mr W J Young AB, TCD, a gentleman who has gained other than collegiate distinctions in the old country, and who seems to be very well qualified for his responsible position. His principal assistants are Mr W J Kennedy, from the best school in Victoria (Hamilton): Mrs Maddison, head mistress of girls (from the same place): and Miss Stone, first assistant of girls also from Victoria. All the other assistants and pupil teachers are South Australians.
When the minister arrived at 3pm on Friday he was accompanied by Mr Hartley President of the Council of Education, by Mr Madley, Principal of the Training School, and by Mr Inspector Dewhirst. The visitors were met by Mr J Pickering JP, Mr Lees (Chairman of the Board of Advice), Mr Powell, and other residents of Hindmarsh, but the Mayor and Councillors were conspicuous by their absence.
The proceedings were opened by the Minister passing through the various rooms, making the acquaintance of the principal teachers, and observing the mode of instruction pursued after the children had been put through the various schoolroom exercises.
All the visitors and residents, to the number of upwards of a hundred, then adjourned to a room which had been left vacant, where the Minister delivered a few remarks prior to declaring the school open for public instruction.
Mr Pickering thanked the Minister for his attendance, and said that Hindmarsh was proud of possessing a building which he believed could not be equalled in the colony. He hoped the Board of Advice would take an active part in making the school successful, and that something would be done for the education, of the boys who were compelled to work during the day, and upon whose labours their mothers (many of them widows) were mainly dependent.
Mr Lees, as Chairman of the Board of Advice and President of the Hindmarsh Institute, congratulated the Minister upon the opening of the school, which he rejoiced to see, and said the education of which the foundation was laid there would be improved in after years by such places as the Institute of which he had the honour to be President. The erection of a school building of this kind would stimulate the residents of Hindmarsh to make their Institute more worthy of the town.
The proceedings terminated with cheers for the Minister, Mr. Hartley, and the master. [Ref: South Australian Chronicle and Weekly Mail (Adelaide) 13-7-1878]
Kyneton.
The Carlsruhe sheep run taken up in 1838 by Ebden covered a huge area from modern Woodend to Kyneton. In 1839 it was split into two pastoral runs and the run near Kyneton was taken over my Charles Wedge and then shortly after by Henry Jeffreys who built his slab homestead on the current town site astride the Campaspe River. In 1848 Henry Jeffreys went into partnership with Lieutenant Governor Charles La Trobe as this was still part of NSW then (the Governor was based in Sydney but the Lieutenant Governor was based on Port Phillip Bay.) Perhaps not coincidentally a small courthouse was established in 1848 on the Campaspe River at this spot after La Trobe had visited his and his partner’s property. La Trobe decided to make the courthouse site a town site which he called Kyneton after the birthplace of Henry Jeffreys’ wife who was born in Kineton Warwickshire. The town was gazetted as Kyneton in 1850 just before the first gold was found at Bendigo and around Mt Alexander in late 1851. Kyneton grew quickly as it was a resting place on the journey from Melbourne to Bendigo and impressive basaltic bluestone buildings were erected as there was a plentiful supply of good bluestone between Kyneton and Taradale. By the late 1850s there was an impressive array of bluestone public buildings in Kyneton including: the Kyneton Courthouse erected in 1856; the Anglian church (built 1852 and rebuilt 1856 with the west tower added 1928); the Congregational Church (built 1853 and rebuilt 1860 but now a theatre); the Mechanics Institute built 1854 (and rebuilt 1897); the Catholic Church built in 1857, the Presbyterian Church also built in 1857 and numerous banks, shops, the school (built in 1855, extended 1861 and in 1906 and still in use as the state school) and the hospital. Also built in the 1850s in bluestone was the De Graves three storey flourmill (1857) a few kilometres out of the town and another steam flourmill for Willis Brothers was built partially in bluestone in Piper Street in 1862. Some notable houses and residences were also built in the 1850s including the Attic House in 1858, the rear part of Carn Brae built in 1854 and Inverugie opposite the old town school which was built in 1858. The two storey grand Kyneton Hospital built between 1854 and 1856 with an amazing little morgue behind it of the same vintage as it was built in 1859 when the east wing was added to the hospital. The west wing was added in 1874. The hospital’s lacework wrought iron veranda was added in 1910 thus destroying the Georgian appearance of the hospital. General use of the hospital ceased in 1942. Alas it is now vacant and vandalised but there are plans to restore it and convert it into apartments. The oldest house in Kyneton is believed to be the Anglican rectory built in 1853. One of the many fine two storey banks - the former Bank of NSW built in 1856 is now the town museum which has the homestead of Theaden station (1840) relocated in its grounds.
Keyneton also has a fine Botanic Garden along the edge of the Campaspe River. It was established in the 1880s although the site was reserved for this purpose back in 1867. Across the river from the Botanic Gardens is the bluestone railway station and goods shed which were built in 1862. Some of the later buildings of Kyneton, not in bluestone, are also of great interest. They include the rebuilt Royal George Hotel which was built in its current style in 1915 to replace an earlier structure from 1860 which was called the Diggers Arms Hotel; the wonderful Art Nouveau style Bank of New South Wales built in 1904 in Mollison Street; the impressive Post Office and tower built in 1871; the Congregational Sunday School built in Arts and Crafts style in 1898; the former Kyneton Market on the corner of Piper and Ebden Streets built in 1878 which is again being sued for that purpose; and the slightly bizarre Ellim Eek house with tower and griffins along the roof which was built in 1890 and remodelled in 1906 with the griffins etc. It is now used as solicitor’s offices. Many of the shops of Kyneton date from the 1850s but one in classical style is worth special mention as it was constructed in 1852 exemplifying the optimism and confidence of the early settlers of Kyneton because of the nearby goldfields. This fine classical store is at 68 Piper Street almost opposite the town museum.
The five-storey bluestone flour mill at Smeaton was built in 1861 at the height of the gold rush.One of the earliest mills, it processed flour and oats and was key to manufacturing one of the key staples on the goldfields - porridge.
Autumn's in the air as the waters of the Bluestone River flow briskly beneath the abandoned Bluestone Branch of the N&W on the morning of October 6, 2018, in Coopers, WV.
Bluestone Bay, Freycinet National Park, Tasmania, AUSTRALIA
Rounded boulders polished by the action of the waves that pound this bay.
Specifications : Canon 5D, 16-35mm 2.8L, Gitzo tripod, polarizing filter, ISO 100, f18, shutter 0.8 seconds.
I had the pleasure of meeting my friend and fellow waterfall photographer Randy Sanger (www.wvscenicphotography.com) We hiked near the Bluestone river up to a beautiful waterfall. Unsatisfied with the view from below, I climbed up the shale slope on the side of the fall and was able to get a profile shot that accentuated all the lacy stair steps in the fall. I was able to get several nice shots this weekend, so I'll be posting daily the next couple of weeks! It's good to have some new stuff to work on! I'll catch up with your streams soon my friends!
Whiteoak Falls
New River Gorge West Virginia