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Stewartby Brickworks on a mucky day. This site used to be one of the foremost brick making sites in the country making 5,000,000 a year at its height. I believe that the chimneys are due to be demolished as they are considered unsafe. If this is done a new one will be built as part of a heritage site commemorating the all of Bedfordshire's brick production heritage.
The Irene is a hundred foot, hundred ton West Country ketch built in Bridgewater in 1907. She was designed for the carriage of bricks and tiles for Colthurst Symons of the Bridgewater Tile and Brick Company and named for a daughter of the Symons family. The Bridgewater area was noted for the suitability of it's clay and no fewer than eleven brickworks operated in the immediate vicinity.
Her maiden voyage was to Penzance and subsequent cargoes took her as far afield as London, Rotterdam, Rouen, the Clyde and Ireland. In the decade that followed the Kaiser's War she was sold on a couple of times but then was re-incorporated into the Colthurst Symons company having, in the interim, gained an auxiliary engine.
Just before the Hitler war a more powerful engine was installed which enabled her sailing rig and thus her crew to be reduced by half. With these economies she remained in commercial service until 1961.
There followed a period as a Thames houseboat before a refit saw her engaged in the Caribbean passenger charter market.
A serious fire gutted the hull and led to an epic six year rebuild between 2003 and 2009 and she is now available for European charter work.
Fort Pulaski National Monument is located on Cockspur Island at the mouth of the Savannah River just east of Savannah, Georgia. Built to protect the city of Savannah, the structure was part of the Third System of forts built to protect the United States after the War of 1812. Today it stands as one of the best-preserved examples of these coastal defenses.
The Third System refers to 19th century military architecture in the United States. Shoreline defense was fragmented and weak when the British burned the nation's capital during the War of 1812. At the time coastal defenses were composed of a haphazard assortment of batteries and outposts. In response to lessons learned in the War of 1812, a new coastal defense system was designed. This new defense system was an attempt to protect critical United States shorelines.
The Third System was established during a relatively peaceful time for the United States. These conditions provided for an unprecedented level of standardization in design and planning. For the first time, a professional board was appointed to oversee design and construction. Close to 200 forts were envisioned to guard the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, however only 30 were built between 1816-1867. Some structures were never completed in part because of events at Fort Pulaski during the Civil War.
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D5000 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
Traditional .. with polychromed dentaled frieze and romanesque arch with english bond brickwork .. all good stuff if your into heritage architecture .
The Workshops Rail Museum
Ipswich . Qld
Somehow this brickwork caught my eye. The bottom of the building was unfortunately covered with a flat surface material the took away from the beautiful architecture.
Toruń es una ciudad situada en el norte de Polonia, en las márgenes del río Vístula. Es, junto con Bydgoszcz, la capital del voivodato de Cuyavia y Pomerania. Tiene una población de 208.000 habitantes. Toruń, ciudad natal de Nicolás Copérnico, forma parte del Patrimonio de la Humanidad de la Unesco desde 1997. Es famosa por tener más de 300 monumentos inscritos en la historia del arte de Europa. La composición de la plaza mayor y las calles adyacentes sigue siendo la misma que hace 700 años.
Al contrario que muchas otras ciudades históricas polacas, quedó casi intacta tras la segunda guerra mundial. En particular la ciudad antigua y todos sus monumentos importantes son originales. La ciudad es conocida por haber conservado su apariencia medieval casi intacta y muchos edificios (góticos), todos ellos construidos con ladrillo.
A love bridge leading to a warhouse at Kanavaranta 7 turned into a bar & restaurant area with the Uspenski Cathedral Helsinki, Finland.
Porth Wen, near Amlwch, UK. The vague history of the works can be read on Wikipeadia, here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porth_Wen_Brickworks This is one fabulously romantic site that I have wanted to visit for a long time. It's not easy to get to, but well worth the hike from Cemaes. We picked an amazing day to go, but perhaps a bit more cloud would have helped the photos. If you intend to visit then visit soon as the sea will soon reclaim the crushing house and one of the kilns. The chimneys look very dodgy too!
A long awaited photting meet-up with www.flickr.com/photos/jimthejoker/ took us to the East Midlands on the first day of August - a full and productive day ensued in a totally new area for me. Thanks very much Jim for a great day out, for researching the workings and showing me some new locations....oh and doing the driving!
With the cooling towers of the old Willington Power Station in the distance, Freightliner shed 66606 heads the Rugeley B Power Stn to Doncaster Down Decoy hoppers near Barrow upon Trent.
A shot inspired by a recent upload by www.flickr.com/photos/123410911@N03/
A lower angle viewpoint of a much earlier posting - the QJ's in tandem are working steadily over the Brickworks Viaduct in their climb up the western side of the Jingpeng Pass on the Jitong Line in Nei Mongol Autonomous Region of China. Steam finished in 2005. This picture was taken in October 2004. © David Hill.
The Bell-Edison Telephone Building at 17-19 Newhall St, Birmingham was completed in 1896 to the design of architect Frederick Martin of the firm Martin & Chamberlain. Whilst fairly plain at ground level, the upper storeys feature a rich variety of terracotta ornamentation.