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Port of Liverpool Building. 100/365
The Port of Liverpool Building is one of the Three Graces that line the Pier Head and the architectural features were designed to be reflective of Liverpool's importance to the maintenance of the British Empire. However, the building that exists today is actually a modified version of the originally chosen design.
Designed in Edwardian Baroque style, the Port of Liverpool Building's structural form has been likened to those of Renaissance palaces.
The main entrance is located in the centre of the river-facing side of the building and is flanked by two three-metre-high stone statues of women representing "Commerce" and "Industry", which were designed by Charles John Allen.
Because the building has a large central dome, it has been compared architecturally to many other buildings throughout the world, including Belfast City Hall, the Capitol Building, St. Peter's Basilica and St. Paul's Cathedral.
Architect. Arnold Thornely
Chester Cathedral Founded as a Benedictine abbey in 1092,The original church was built in the Romanesque or Norman style, parts of which can still be seen today. This church was subsequently rebuilt from around 1250 onward in the Gothic style, a process which took about 275 years an resulted in the incredible structure seen today.
Chester City Centre Cheshire. 157/365
Mersey Chambers was built in 1878 for the Harrison Shipping Line in Liverpool, England. it was designed by G.E. Grayson. It is a Grade II listed building.It fronts St. Nicholas' churchyard, which was laid out as a public garden in 1891 in memory of James Harrison, a partner in the company.
The rear elevation to Covent Garden is a functional design with rows of oriel windows to admit maximum light. Inside, the offices are arranged around a glazed court.There is a splendid panelled boardroom of around 1920, in classical style.
At the top of the building sits the 'third Liver bird', a smaller version of its more famous relatives.
Liverpool City Centre. 81/365
Christchurch, New Zealand
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Launceston, Tasmania
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Obidos is the classic Portuguese fortified town, and is one of the most picturesque locations in Portugal. Obidos radiates Portuguese charm, from the narrow cobbled streets, the quaint houses, through to the imposing medieval castle, which once guarded the region.
To find the source of Manesty’s Lane you have to backtrack to Hanover Street. Here, at Hanover Galleries (current home of the Chocolate Cellar) you’ll find what’s left of its original route, snaking behind the 18th century warehouses.
The Street was named after John Manesty, owner of a fleet of slave ships, including the notorious African, responsible for transporting thousands of slaves in the ‘triangle trade’ linking our city to Africa and the West Indies.
Liverpool City Centre 44/365
The Picton Reading Room 1879. Sir James Picton was the driving force behind the construction of Liverpool's first public library. He had been elected to the Council in 1849 and was made the first Chairman of the Library and Museum Committee, formed at his instigation, in 1851. An Act of Parliament allowed the city to raise funds for a public library but without the generous help of William Brown, a wealthy local merchant, there would have been insufficient funds to start the project. He paid for the building on the proviso that the City Council furnished the interior. Following his generous contribution, the City renamed the street (formerly Shaw's Brow) in his honour.A competition was held for the design of the new Library and Museum and was won by Thomas Allom. However, his winning design proved to be too costly and it was a revised version, designed by the City surveyor, John Weightman, which was actually built and opened in 1860 The Picton Library (or, more correctly, the Picton Reading Room) was added to the William Brown Library in 1879. The architect was Cornelius Sherlock."The great drum of the Picton Reading Room neatly realigns these classical streets," says David Lewis, adding that the Central Library is "the main library of the the city, with the Reading Room its most obvious feature; the main entrance is hidden away like an a second thought, beneath the towering Roman temple of the Liverpool Museum"
Liverpool Library Merseyside. 84/365
Bete aba libanos monolithic rock-cut church, Amhara region, Lalibela, Ethiopia , Camera: ILCE-7RM2 , f4.5 , 1/800 , 24.0 mm , ISO 400 , © Eric Lafforgue www.ericlafforgue.com
Cool store just north of the Georgia / North Carolina state line. Bought some fudge, candy, preserves and dog treats there. Met their resident bear, too.
Igreja do Carmo was built in the first half of the 17th Century and brings together the Classic baroque influence pulpits and altar pieces.
Porto Portugal.
A lighthouse was first built on the Flamborough Headland in 1669 but was never lit. This current lighthouse was built in 1806 and acts as a waypoint for deep sea vessels and coastal traffic as well as marking the Flamborough Headland for vessels heading for the ports of Scarborough and Bridlington.The first lighthouse, built by Sir John Clayton, was completed in 1674 and is one of the oldest surviving complete lighthouses in England. Built from chalk, it was never lit. This is now a Grade II* listed building.
Flamborough Head East Yorkshire
Braga is a city and a municipality in the northwestern Portuguese district of Braga, in the historical and cultural Minho Province. The municipality, which includes 37 civil parishes had a resident population of 181,494 inhabitants in 2011, representing the seventh largest municipality in Portugal (by population). Its area is 183.40 km². Its agglomerated urban area extends from the Cávado River to the Este River. The city was the European Youth Capital in 2012. It is host to the archdiocese, the oldest in Portugal. Under the Roman Empire, known as Bracara Augusta, the settlement was centre of the province of Gallaecia. Braga is also the third largest metropolitan area of Portugal behind Lisbon and Porto, as well as a major hub for inland Northern Portugal.
Braga Portugal
Father Joe's Place.
"A scenic 11-acre island in Mystic, Connecticut where men and women from all walks of life come to experience renewal, healing and inspiration." (www.endersisland.com/about)
See flic.kr/s/aHsmHeP3QL for more views from this visit.
Today Sunday is Chinese New Year,Year of the Rat and celebrations in Liverpool are at full swing.Fire Cracker smoke the dragon dance and chinese culture all around with Tai Chi performances and a Chinese Youth Orchestra playing a great experience for all the family.
新年快乐 "Gong hei fat choy"
Liverpool City Centre 2020
"The design of the pavillon consists of 151 custom laminated lightweight beech plywood segments. In order to combine these ultra-thin plywood strips into a structurally stable configuration, newly developed robotic sewing techniques for prefabrication and manual lacing on site are applied."
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Madrid City Centre on a busy highway at to be at my fastest today, not really i was on a crossing.
Madrid Centro Spain. 280/365
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Looking West at sunset from the Rialto Tower Observation Deck, which sadly closes at the end of this year - a real shame considering the spectacular views. More than anything I wanted the wavy roof of Southern Cross Station in this one. It's a cool feature.
San Jose City Hall, CA.
Shot with Kodak Retina Reflex IV and 28mm Schneider-Kreuznach Curtagon f/4 lens with CPL at f/11, 1/125sec on Kodak Portra (new) ISO-160 film (expired 08/2013).
"Dallas Skyline at Dusk" - Illuminated by a blend of ambient and artificial light, sunset radiates off the Dallas skyline as the city is reflected back in the flooded Trinity River. As the sun prepares to dip below the horizon, Bank of America Plaza (centered) glows neon green while lights on the iconic Reunion Tower (far left) flash and sparkle, bringing the city to life as the night quickly approaches.
The County Sessions House is in Liverpool’s city centre. It is located to the east of the Walker Art Gallery, and close to the city’s famous World Museum. A Grade II listed building which, like many in the city, is clad in ashlar stone and built in the neoclassical style, County Sessions House originally functioned as a county court house.
Built between 1882 and 1884 and designed by local architects Francis & George Holme, the building once contained three separate courtrooms, barristers’ chambers, legal offices, and cells for the accused. As a courthouse, the building was required to have four separate entrances, for judges, solicitors, prisoners and the public. The interior is ingeniously designed so that the paths of these four groups did not cross until they reached the courtroom.
County Sessions House has been described as a Venetian style building, and has a distinctive portico columned entrance at the front. The coat of arms above the entrance is that of Lancashire County Council, to which the city of Liverpool once belonged. Now owned by National Museums Liverpool, the building houses a lecture theatre and other research facilities relating to the organisation’s many art galleries.
Liverpool City Centre. 93/365
Canning Dock on the River Mersey is part of the Port of Liverpool was opened in 1737 as the Dry Dock, a protected tidal basin providing an entrance to Old Dock. Adjoining the dock basin are two dry graving docks built by Henry Berry. Canning Dock was restored from 1983 providing access to the Canning Graving Docks, which are part of the Merseyside Maritime Museum.From the dock you can see the Museum of Liverpool the three graces modern architecture on the dock buildings on the Strand and the Merseyside Maritime Museum.
Canning Dock Liverpool.
The Union Steamship building on the Esplanade at Strahan, Tasmania
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Obidos is the classic Portuguese fortified town, and is one of the most picturesque locations in Portugal. Obidos radiates Portuguese charm, from the narrow cobbled streets, the quaint houses, through to the imposing medieval castle, which once guarded the region.
St Paul's Church, Colwyn Bay is an active Anglican parish church in the town of Colwyn Bay, Wales. It is located in the deanery of Rhos, the archdeaconry of St Asaph, and the Diocese of St Asaph.The church is large and cruciform, built in coursed rubble limestone with Runcorn red sandstone dressings and bands.The nave of five bays is broad with low arcades and a tall clerestory. The windows are lancets, with a rose window in the south transept. The tower is "bold, craggy and heavily buttressed".
Colwyn Bay North Wales. 212/365
The Blue Coat School is located in Upper Northgate Street, Chester, Cheshire, England.It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. The building has a symmetrical U-shaped plan, and is constructed in brick with stone dressings. It has a hipped roof in grey slate, and is in two storeys. The main block has five bays, with the entrance bay in the centre; the second and fourth bays are recessed. Between the bays, and on the corners of the building, are rusticated quoins. The entrance bay leads to a through passage. The entrance is surrounded by a Tuscan-style doorcase with a basket arch. Above it is a niche containing the painted statue of a Blue Coat boy sculpted by Edward Richardson. In the upper storey is a six-pane sash window, above which is a pediment containing a circular clock face. The recessed bays contain a basket-arched 19-pane sash window, and each lateral bay has a doorway with pilasters, above which is a blank panel. Between the storeys is a stone band. Every bay in the upper storey has a sash window similar to that in the central bay. Centrally on top of the block is an octagonal cupola with a copper roof. The internal faces of the lateral wings have fenestration similar to that in the main block. Their front faces have basket-arched sash windows, and the north wing has an additional basement window.
Chester City Centre 56/365
Bowness-on-Windermere is a small town in Cumbria, Bowness or " Bulnes "meaning the headland where the bull grazes has a parish church of Saint Martin was built in 1483 but of an older foundation.
Bowness on Windermere Cumbria.
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Nazaré is a town and a municipality in subregion Oeste and Leiria District, in Portugal. It is one of the most popular seaside resorts in the Silver Coast/Costa de Prata, Portugal.
This is bridge No 139 over the Shropshire Union Canal, known as Meadow Lane Bridge, is built in brown brick with sandstone coping on the parapet. The bridge carries a track over the canal and is Grade II.listed in the National Heritage list of England.
Stoak Cheshire.
shadows of this strange industrial structure and light blue colour caught my eye, but also the fact that homes are just steps away
Entrances to the back of Georgian properties in the Canning Area of Liverpool
Canning is an area on the borders of Toxteth and Liverpool city centre, England. It has no formal definition but is generally agreed to be bounded to the south by Upper Parliament Street, to the east by Grove Street, to the north by Myrtle Street and to the west by Hope Street.
Canning is an area of almost entirely residential Georgian architecture, most of which strictly speaking dates from after the Georgian era. The area takes its name from one of its principal thoroughfares, Canning Street, which is named after George Canning, (1770–1827), a British politician who served as Foreign Secretary and, briefly, Prime Minister.
In 1800 the Liverpool Corporation Surveyor, John Foster, Sr., (1758–1827) prepared a gridiron plan for a large area of peat bog known as Mosslake Fields, which was to the east of Rodney Street. The area was built for and populated by the extremely wealthy of Liverpool. With the city's decline in the 20th century, the area grew unfashionable, and much of it became derelict. Areas along Upper Parliament St and Grove St and Myrtle St were demolished. The tide began to turn noticeably in the 1990s and the area is now much sought after. Nevertheless, the Office for National Statistics finds that it is one of the most deprived districts in the UK.
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