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The tomb of the King of Sweden and Duke of Mecklenburg, Albrecht III (1338-1412), and his wife Richardis (she died already in 1377) is an important example of Gothic royal grave art. The folds in Richardis' dress are particularly detailed. The lion at his feet symbolizes strength and the dog at hers loyalty -- both a bit ironic given his life story.
The brick gothic Doberaner Münster (Minster in Bad Doberan) near Rostock is one of the finest churches in Germany. It has the best-preserved interior of any former Cistercian abbey church in Europe. Artwork includes many items from around 1300 including the oldest wing altar in art history, the tallest Gothic tabernacle in Germany, a very elaborately decorated double-sided cross altar, and fine oak carved pews. The church was the burial site of the rulers of Mecklenburg from 1302 to 1920 and has many fine tombs and epitaphs including the first female tomb sculpture in a Cistercian church.
Grimbsy Street, off Brick Lane, is closed for car parking in preparation for Tower Hamlet Council's clean up operations of the graffiti on that street (1-3 February). So here are a few snaps to remind you what the place looked like. Click the pics to enlarge. There's a lovely piece of work by Stik ... dearie.me/graffiti-is-vandalism-grimbsy-street-buffing
This brick is amongst many from Coltness, on the steep path on the south side of Lanark. It came from the Meadow Brickworks in Carluke, and is over a hundred years old.
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I am really battling with these Crayola crayon colors for the sixty-four color group....the only brick red thing I could find this week is our shower curtain and I couldn't think of a clever way to shoot it. So here it is, in all its boring glory.
The box's lid has a large flap that slides down the front, which would be a bit hard to close if I would've just shoveled the bricks in, like in Pic. 5.
By Stanley A. Griffiths and Horace G. Bradley
Built 1930
Whilst the Odeon Perry Barr is not in the Art Deco style, this was the first cinema in the United Kingdom to be called Odeon and was managed/operated by Oscar Deutsch who later founded his Odeon Theatres Ltd. chain in 1933.
Located in the Perry Barr district in the north of Birmingham. The Odeon Theatre, Perry Barr opened on 4th August 1930 with Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers in “Illusion” and Stewart Rome in “Dark Red Roses”. It was designed by architects Stanley A. Griffiths and Horace G. Bradley in a Moorish style both externally and internally. The facade was painted white and had rounded features that gave an impression of domes. Inside the auditorium seating was arranged for 1,160 in the stalls and 478 in the balcony. An unusual feature was that the stalls area widened out towards the proscenium. There were Moorish scenes painted on the side walls in the front stalls area. The Odeon became part of the Odeon circuit from 17th July 1935.
In 1953 the facade of the building was re-built in a plain design of bare brick. It was closed by the Rank Organisation on 3rd May 1969 with Dean Martin in “The Wrecking Crew”.
It re-opened on 14th August 1969 as a Top Rank Bingo Club which continued until closing on 19th February 1983. The building lay empty for a while until it was taken over by an independent bingo operator and was known as the Perry Bingo Club. Later taken over by Granada Bingo and lastly operated by Gala Bingo it finally closed on 5th April 1997. It remained empty for several more years until August 2002 when it was converted into the Royale Banqueting Suite used for banquests and receptions.