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A westbound Union Pacific Freight Train has left Helper, Utah and passing along the rock cliffs of the Castle Gate area.
The City of Aberdeen has two golden postboxes, one in tribute to Cyclist Neil Fachie, I already have that one in an earlier photo. The other is this one here in the historic Castlegate area of Aberdeen. This one is to Katherine Grainger who along with her partner Anna Watkins won gold for the Double Sculls Rowing on the 3rd August 2012 at Eton Dorey. Katherine Grainger had won three consecutive silver medals so it was particularly sweet for her to finally win gold. She said “It’s been a long, long wait. It’s not been painful. I’ve had a great few years. This is the culmination of a lot of hard work”. At last I managed to get a photo of this post-box it is situated right outside Castlegate Post Office. I believe these boxes are to remain gold in a lasting tribute from Royal Mail.
The gate of Pirot Fortress in the center of the city of Pirot in southeast of Serbia, near the Bulgarian border.
The Fortress was built during the reign of the Byzantine emperor Justinian the Great (527–565), in times when the Slavs and Avars were invading the Balkans.
This was an extra bonus for me today in Aberdeen. Our local bus company First Bus were displaying some of their historic vehicles in the Castlegate. I remember well travelling on the closest double decker bus. You can also just see the old Mercat Cross in this picture. This is all part of "Silver City Stories" which is bringing Aberdeen's history and heritage to life from 26th June to 2nd July 2017.
Second caisson now installed , I captured this shot Saturday 30th March 2019, info below on the installation, from my previous post, I will revisit each week for further updates.
My Previous Post.
I read that the first Caisson had arrived into Aberdeen South Harbour construction site at Nigg Bay.
In geotechnical engineering, a caisson (/ˈkeɪsən/ or /ˈkeɪsɒn/) is a watertight retaining structure used, for example, to work on the foundations of a bridge pier, for the construction of a concrete dam, or for the repair of ships.
I have followed this project for the past 2 years now, visiting the site periodically and capturing the progress, today I visited to do exactly that and capture the first Caisson before it is put into its permanent location.
News Item I read is below.
Aberdeen Harbour’s £350-million expansion has reached another landmark stage with the first 6,000-tonne caisson beginning its journey to South Harbour today, Monday 25th February 2019.
The concrete unit departed from Cromarty Firth this evening and will have an anticipated 48-hour arrival period into Aberdeen South Harbour between Wednesday 27th and Thursday 28th February, weather and tide dependent.
The first caisson measures 50 meters long, 15 meters wide and an incredible 16 meters deep and will be used to form the closed quay section of the development. In order to transport the caisson safely, it will travel the 180-nautical mile journey at two nautical miles per hour, escorted by ‘The Strathdee’ towage vessel.
Once the caisson has safely arrived in South Harbour, GPS equipment will be used to position it into its designated location with an accuracy of +/- 20mm. It will then be filled with water to sink it to the sea bed. When in place, various fill material will be used to displace the water. The process from arrival to sinking takes approximately 30 hours.
A total of 22 caissons will form the foundations of Castlegate and Dunnottar Quays, which will be 540 and 400 meters long respectively.
Keith Young, Engineering Director at Aberdeen Harbour Board, said: “The arrival of the first caisson in South Harbour will be significant milestone in the expansion project, and a logistical achievement for us all. I would like to congratulate and thank everyone who has been involved in the design, manufacture, transport and positioning of these caissons.
“Aberdeen South Harbour is of vital significance for our region and the rest of the country, and we look forward to the remaining caissons arriving as the project progresses.”
The caissons have been manufactured in La Coruna in North-west Spain and travel more than 1,000 miles by sea to the Cromarty Firth for quality checks and inspections. They are then individually towed to Aberdeen, when required, as construction of South Harbour continues.
In accordance with maritime tradition, each caisson is named after a family member of someone closely involved with the expansion project. The first caisson to arrive will be named ‘Caisson Brenda’ – named after the Aberdeen Harbour Board’s Chief Executive’s mother.
The Burgtor, built 1444 in late Gothic style, was the northern city gate of Hanseatic Lübeck, now in Germany. It is one of two towered gates remaining from the medieval fortifications, the other being the more famous Holstentor.
The Baroque helmet-like roof was added in 1685.
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The Hanseatic City of Lübeck (pronounced [ˈlyːbɛk], Low German [ˈlyːbɛːk]) is the second-largest city in Schleswig-Holstein, in northern Germany, and one of the major ports of Germany. Situated on the river Trave, it was for several centuries the "capital" of the Hanseatic League ("Queen of the Hanse"). Because of its extensive Brick Gothic architecture, it is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. In 2005 it had a population of 213,983.
The old part of Lübeck is on an island enclosed by the Trave. The Elbe–Lübeck Canal connects the Trave with the Elbe River. Another important river near the town centre is the Wakenitz. The Autobahn 1 connects Lübeck with Hamburg and Denmark (Vogelfluglinie). The borough of Travemünde is a sea resort and ferry port on the coast of the Baltic Sea. Its central station links Lübeck to a number of railway lines, notably the line to Hamburg.
HISTORY
The area around Lübeck was settled after the last Ice Age. Several Neolithic dolmens can be found in the area.
Around AD 700 Slavic peoples started coming into the eastern parts of Holstein, which had previously been settled by Germanic inhabitants; the latter had moved on in the course of the Migration Period. In the early 9th century Charlemagne, whose efforts to Christianise the area were opposed by the Saxons, expelled the Saxons out and brought in Polabian Slavs, allied to Charlemagne, in their stead. Liubice ("lovely") was founded on the banks of the river Trave about four kilometres north of the present-day city centre of Lübeck. In the 10th century it became the most important settlement of the Obotrite confederacy and a castle was built. The settlement was burned down in 1128 by the pagan Rani from Rügen.
The modern town was founded as a German settlement in 1143 by Adolf II, Count of Schauenburg and Holstein, on the river island Bucu. He built a new castle, which was first mentioned by Helmold in 1147. Adolf had to cede the castle to Henry the Lion in 1158. After Henry's fall from power in 1181, the town became an Imperial city for eight years.[citation needed] Emperor Barbarossa ordained that the city should have a ruling council of twenty members. With the council dominated by merchants, Lübeck's politics were led by pragmatic trade interests for centuries to come. The council survived into the 19th century.
The town and castle changed ownership for a period afterwards and were part of the Duchy of Saxony until 1192, of the County of Holstein until 1217, and as part of Denmark until the Battle of Bornhöved in 1227.
Around 1200 the port became the main point of departure for colonists leaving for the Baltic territories conquered by the Livonian Order and, later, Teutonic Order. In 1226 Emperor Frederick II elevated the town to the status of an Imperial Free City, by which it became the Free City of Lübeck.
In the 14th century Lübeck became the "Queen of the Hanseatic League", being by far the largest and most powerful member of this medieval trade organization. In 1375, Emperor Charles IV named Lübeck one of the five "Glories of the Empire", a title shared with Venice, Rome, Pisa and Florence. Several conflicts about trade privileges were fought by Lübeck and the Hanseatic League against Denmark and Norway with varying outcomes. While Lübeck and the Hanseatic League prevailed in conflicts in 1435 and 1512, Lübeck lost when it became involved in the Count's Feud, a civil war that raged in Denmark from 1534 to 1536. Lübeck also joined the Schmalkaldic League.
After its defeat in the Count's Feud, Lübeck's power slowly declined. The city remained neutral in the Thirty Years' War, but, the combination of the devastation from the decades-long war and the new transatlantic orientation of European trade, caused the Hanseatic League and thus Lübeck to decline in importance. But, after the Hanseatic League was de facto disbanded in 1669, Lübeck still remained an important trading town on the Baltic Sea.
The great Danish-German composer Dieterich Buxtehude (born in what is present-day Sweden) was appointed as the organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck in 1668 and served in the post until at least 1703.
In the course of the war of the Fourth Coalition against Napoleon, troops under Bernadotte occupied the neutral Lübeck after a battle against Blücher on 6 November 1806. Under the Continental System, the bank went into bankruptcy. From 1811 to 1813, Lübeck was formally annexed as part of France until the Vienna Congress of 1815.
In 1937 the Nazis passed the so-called Greater Hamburg Act, whereby the nearby Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg was expanded, to encompass towns that had formally belonged to the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein. To compensate Prussia for these losses (and partly because Hitler had a personal dislike for Lübeck after it had refused to allow him to campaign there in 1932), Hitler ended the 711-year-long independence of Lübeck, and ensured that almost all its territory was incorporated into Schleswig-Holstein.
^During World War II, Lübeck was the first German city to be attacked in substantial numbers by the Royal Air Force (RAF). The attack on 28 March 1942 created a firestorm that caused severe damage to the historic centre. The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II destroyed three of the main churches and greater parts of the built-up area. Germany operated a POW camp for officers, Oflag X-C, near the city from 1940 until April 1945. The British Second Army entered Lübeck on 2 May 1945 and occupied it without resistance.
On 3 May 1945, one of the biggest disasters in naval history occurred in the Bay of Lübeck when RAF bombers sank three ships: the SS Cap Arcona, the SS Deutschland, and the SS Thielbek - which, unknown to them, were packed with concentration-camp inmates. About 7,000 people were killed.
MAIN SIGHTS
Much of the old town has kept a medieval appearance with old buildings and narrow streets. At one time the town could only be entered via any of four town gates, of which today two remain, the well-known Holstentor (1478) and the Burgtor (1444).
The old town centre is dominated by seven church steeples. The oldest are the Lübecker Dom (the city's cathedral) and the Marienkirche (Saint Mary's), both from the 13th and 14th centuries.
FOOD & DRINK
Lübeck is famous for its marzipan industry. According to local legend, marzipan was first made in Lübeck, possibly in response either to a military siege of the city or a famine year. The story, perhaps apocryphal, is that the town ran out of all food except stored almonds and sugar, which were used to make loaves of marzipan "bread". Others believe that marzipan was actually invented in Persia a few hundred years before Lübeck claims to have invented it. The best known producer is Niederegger, which tourists often visit while in Lübeck, especially at Christmas time.
The Lübeck wine trade dates back to Hanseatic times. One Lübeck specialty is Rotspon, wine made from grapes processed and fermented in France and transported in wooden barrels to Lübeck, where it is stored, aged and bottled.
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Grantham, St Wultram's Church. The church is a grade 1 listed building, restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott 1866/7. It dates from the medieval period. It has a wealth of detail in the carvings.
Grantham, Lincolnshire, England - St Wulframs Parish Church, Castlegate and Swinegate
January 2020
Helmsley is a market town and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, the town is located at the point where Rye Dale leaves the moorland and joins the flat Vale of Pickering.
It is situated on the River Rye on the A170 road, 14 miles (23 km) east of Thirsk, 13 miles (21 km) west of Pickering and some 24 miles (39 km) due north of York. The southern boundary of the North York Moors National Park passes through Helmsley along the A170 road so that the western part of the town is within the National Park.
The settlement grew around its position at a road junction and river crossing point. Helmsley is a compact town, retaining its medieval layout around its market place with more recent development to the north and south of its main thoroughfare, Bondgate. It is a historic town of considerable architectural character whose centre has been designated as a conservation area. The town is associated with the Earls of Feversham, whose ancestral home Duncombe Park was built overlooking Helmsley Castle. A statue of William Duncombe, 2nd Baron Feversham stands in the town's square. The town is a popular tourist centre and has won gold medals in the Large Village category of Yorkshire in Bloom for three years. The town square is a meeting place for motorcyclists as it is at the end of the B1257 road from Stokesley, which is a favourite with bikers.
The Cleveland Way National Trail starts at Helmsley, and follows a horseshoe loop around the North York Moors National Park and Yorkshire coast for 110 miles (180 km) to Filey. The remains of Helmsley Castle tower over the town.
Archaeological discoveries indicate that the area around Helmsley was first settled in around 3,000 BC and small farming communities existed here throughout the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages and into Roman times. Finds of beehive querns confirm local agriculture and the milling of grain since at least the Iron Age. There are also reports of finds of Roman pottery and a second-century Roman coin. The ancient settlement, whose Old English name was Elmeslac, pre-dates the Domesday Book. It means ‘Helm’s forest clearing’ and indicates the nature of the landscape at that time. Vikings also left their mark in the Old Norse, "gate" ending of the names of many of the streets.
The ownership of much of the town and its surrounding land has changed hands only twice since the Norman Conquest. After the conquest it was governed within the wapentake of Maneshou in the North Riding of Yorkshire, held by William the Conqueror’s half brother the Count of Mortain; land to the west of Helmsley was a royal deer park. The ancient pollarded oak trees in Duncombe Park date from this period and the park is now a national nature reserve. In about 1100 the estate passed to Walter Espec, founder of Rievaulx Abbey. Walter Espec’s heirs were the eldest surviving sons of his three sisters and the Helmsley properties devolved upon Robert De Ros, the son of the youngest sister, Adeline. In 1191 Robert de Ros granted Helmsley its Borough Charter, which established it as the market town.
The charter created the burgage plots – long, narrow plots which can still be seen in the property boundaries on the west side of Castlegate and east side of Bridge Street. Large-scale sheep farming, wool production and weaving were the mainstay of Helmsley’s economy for several centuries. Despite setbacks, including marauding Scots and the Black Death, Helmsley grew steadily throughout the Middle Ages. When wool production declined after the dissolution of Rievaulx Abbey, Helmsley’s weavers turned to flax, much of which was imported. The weavers were located on Bond and Bridge Streets. By the beginning of the 17th century the form of Helmsley was largely complete, and many buildings in use today date from this period. The oldest surviving house is Canon's Garth, the vicarage. The town remained with the holders of the barony of De Ros through the Earls of Rutland and the Dukes of Buckingham until it was sold to the city financier, Sir Charles Duncombe in about 1689.
The ruined Norman castle is the most significant medieval survival of the buildings in the town, although parts of the parish church and Canon’s Garth are mediaeval in origin. The 18th and 19th centuries saw major developments and expansion in the hands of the Duncombe family, beginning with the construction of Duncombe Park outside the town. At the beginning of the 19th century the cottage weaving industry declined in the face of competition from new industrial cities. Despite this, the 19th century saw various major development in the town, notably the rebuilding of All Saints' Church, and at the end of the century, building of the town hall. More houses were built along Bondgate and, after the arrival of the railway in 1871, along Station Road. This period also saw older houses remodelled so that little thatch remained in the town. With the decline of weaving, agriculture became the mainstay of the economy.
I don’t remember where this photo came from so apologies for any copyright breach. The SRC minibus is the Students’ Representative Council.
St Peter, Castlegate, Aberdeen
Tucked away up an alley from trhe city's impressive Castlegate Square is this demur little Catholic church. Opening in 1805, which is to say still during the penal years, it was Aberdeen's first Catholic church to be built after the Reformation. Inside, a replica of the statue of Our Lady of Aberdeen, lost at the Reformation.
Arriva North East 7531 was captured after arriving from the south, in Castlegate, Berwick-upon-Tweed. The destination display has already been changed for the return south along the A1 to Alnwick and Morpeth from Berwick station. Normally, the X15 service would go through to Newcastle but this last run terminates at Morpeth. The vehicle is branded for Arriva's X18 Coast and Castles service which serves the lovely coastal villages through the Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
A fun afternoon exploring the Sheffield Castle site as part of the Heritage Open Days (Sunday 15th September 2019), learning about the history of Sheffield, seeing some of the finds from the 2018 Wessex Archaeology dig, and visiting some of the castle ruins not normally on public display... The tour was led by Professor John Moreland from the University of Sheffield's Department of Archaeology with help from the Friends of Sheffield Castle, Wessex Archaeology, and local historian and raconteur Ron Clayton.
It is believed that the first Castle on the site in Sheffield was a Norman motte & bailey castle (usually attributed to William de Lovetot, an Anglo-Norman Baron), with the earliest known reference to a castle at Sheffield being around 1188. The castle passed to the Furnival family who supported the Royalist cause during the Second Barons' War of 1264–1267. In 1266 a party of anti-monarchy barons, led by John de Eyvill, passed through Sheffield, apparently burning the castle.
In 1270 Thomas de Furnival obtained a charter from King Henry III to build a castle at Sheffield and this is the more well known one. It was built of stone and extended from the River Sheaf to Waingate and then from the river Don to Dixon Lane, an area of about 4.2 acres (17,000 m2; 180,000 sq ft). A 2,461-acre (9.96 km2; 3.845 sq mi) deer park was attached to the castle, one of the largest deer parks in the country at the time. Mary, Queen of Scots, was held prisoner in this castle and its associated estates for 14 years between 1570 and 1584. he castle was held by Royalist forces for part of the English Civil War, and was surrendered to the Parliamentarians in 1644 following a short siege. Its destruction was then ordered by an Act of Parliament in 1647 and the castle was razed to the ground. Over future years the site became home to a bowling green, cementation furnace, slaughter houses and then Castle Market in the 1960s.
Sadly there are no contemporary paintings or plans of Sheffield Castle so all reconstructions of Sheffield Castle are based on surviving descriptions and archaeology. The first excavation was led by Leslie Armstrong in 1927 and this discovered the gatehouse. The ruins here are quite extensive, a small portion of which is viewable, though via a manhole cover and step ladders and has been sealed now for several years. There is a second room containing a section of castle wall that is accessible and it was this that was viewable on the Heritage Open Days. It is hoped that in the future the site will be turned into a park with both the River Sheaf and Sheffield Castle foundations uncovered for all to enjoy.
CASTLEGATE GETS GREY TO GREEN TRANSFORMATION
The scheme links Castlegate to the under-visited ‘hidden jewel’ of Victoria Quays and has transformed the almost redundant former inner ring road from a barrier to a green corridor with sustainable drainage, floral meadows, segregated cycle lanes and public art.
Castlegate (the Street) has been closed to vehicles to create a large riverside terrace with potential to accommodate outdoor seating for existing and future cafes and bars including the former public toilet due to open as the Two Rivers Bar and the Tap and Barrel, now under new management by the Peddlers Market team. The street will also hold the newly established Sheffield Pollen Market, the first fresh flower market in Sheffield, which will take place every third Sunday of the month.
Fifty-seven new trees have been planted as part of the scheme, along with a multitude of low maintenance perennial meadow plants and bulbs which will provide a year long succession of colour and natural habitat for insects, birds and mammals.
The scheme includes four distinctive, specially designed ‘totems’ containing ‘bug hotels’ which provide places for bees and other insects to thrive, along with nature and heritage insights.