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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.
Ex-public convenience over the River Don on Blonk Street and Castlegate showing off curved walls with the curved-wall ex-pub the Alexandra in the background.
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.
Old postcard of Aberdeen with The Harbour, Brig O' Balgownie, Beach & Bathing Station, Marischal College and Union Street from East End (Castlegate). Originally posted approx 1920.
Mirrored pavilion in Castlegate, Aberdeen designed by Lucy Fisher from Scott Sutherland School of Architecture, Robert Gordon University (RGU) for the Festival of Architecture and Look Again Festival 2016
Information from the CWGC database:
Lieutenant George Strangman Shannon, 1st Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 5 May 1915, aged 26; awards: MC, Mentioned in Despatches; buried in Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery, Zillebeke, West-Vlaanderen (II. G. 3.); son of John S. Shannon, of 23, Castlegate, York: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/488633/SHANNON,%20GEO...
Lieut. Shannon was a Mathematical Master at Winchester House School in Deal from 1911 to 1914, before heading off to war. More information (and a photograph) can be found at: kidblog.org/whsblog/mrleach273145/we-will-remember-them-l...
The Times, 11 May 1915:
"SECOND LIEUTENANT G. S. SHANNON, 1st Dorset Regiment, son of Mr. J. S. Shannon, Principal of St. Martin's School, York, was killed in action near Hill 60 on May 6 [sic]. Lieutenant Shannon, who was in the teaching profession, joined the Special Reserve of the Dorset Regiment in 1913. He saw the fighting in the retreat from Mons and the advance to the Marne and around Ypres. He was mentioned in dispatches for distinguished conduct in the field and was awarded the Military Cross."
He was evidently a fine sportsman, playing cricket, football and golf.
He died at Hill 60 on the 5th May 1915, one described by CSM Ernest Shephard as a "bitter day" for the 1st Dorsets (Ernest Shephard, A Sergeant-Major's War: From Hill 60 to the Somme (Ramsbury: Crowood Press, 1987), p. 42). An account of the fighting at Hill 60 can be found in: Tony Spagnoly and Ted Smith, Cameos of the Western Front: Salient Points Three: Ypres and Picardy, 1914-1918 (Barnsley: Leo Cooper 2001) pp. 69-87. Spagnoly and Smith cite Shannon's fellow-officer, Captain A. L. Ransome:
Hill 60, on the 1st May; 1915, was the Dorsets' battle; the whole weight of the gas attack fell upon them; and they did not fail. In spite of their experiences on that day they did not hesitate for a moment when, five days later, they saw another unit, demoralised by gas fumes, streaming away to the rear. They faced again the forbidden weapon in the full knowledge of what its effects could be, either a painful death or severe illness with possible lasting after-effects. Led by four gallant officers - Lilly, Shannon, Mansel-Pleydell and Clayton - they went forward through the gas cloud to their old positions on the hill and remained at grips with the Germans throughout that long day, shelled sometimes by their own artillery and facing an enemy flushed with success and armed with hand grenades, so important in trench fighting, which were superior to their own. They held all their gains until relieved at night.
Commissioned, 6 June 1913: www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/28726/pages/3994
Despatch of Field Marshal J. D. P. French, 14 January 1915: www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29072/supplements/1664
Announcement of award of MC, February 1915: www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29074/supplements/1694
From Special Reserve to Second Lieutenant, May 1915: www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29168/supplements/4873
Castle house, Lady's Bridge, Sheffield, 1899-1900.
By Flockton, Gibbs & Flockton.
Grade ll listed.
On the banks of the River Don opposite Castlegate stands an unusual and impressive group of buildings in a 'Flemish' style, built in elaborate glazed brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs.
This group, including the office block west of the bridge was built in 1900 by John Henry Bryars, a successful animal breeder and vet who had the care of the Midland Railways Company's dray horses.
The horses were stabled in four floors of the large building, Castle House, facing the river, reached by ramps and served by a farriers shop and a sick bay. The vet's surgery was at the rear of the tenement block known as Royal Exchange Buildings. The surgery entrance is marked by a device incorporating a horse head. Later this stable became the home of the famous Tommy Ward's elephant, Lizzie, and later still, in 1928, it was taken over by Batchelors as their first canning factory. As such it is the birthplace of the 'mushy pea', an essential accompaniment of hot pies and fish and chip suppers.
The Church of All Saints is an Anglican parish church serving the town of Helmsley in North Yorkshire, England. It is located between the north-west corner of the market square, and Castlegate, on the B1257 road north of Helmsley Castle. Dedicated to All Saints, it has been part of the Church of England since the Reformation. It is one of four churches in the same benefice: Sproxton, Rievaulx, and East Moors. The church was granted Grade II* listed building status on 4 January 1955.
There has been a church in Helmsley since before the Norman conquest, and the churchyard was used as a market place in Anglo-Saxon times. Another measure of the church's antiquity is the hogback gravestone in the porch. A church was recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086.
An organ by Mr. Whitehead of York was installed in 1852-53. The opening service was on 27 January 1853 when the choir of York Minster were in attendance.
There was much rebuilding in the 19th century, between 1866 and 1869 funded by the Earl of Feversham by the architects Banks and Barry and the contractors Barton and Smith of Helmsley, at a cost of £16,000 (equivalent to £1,360,000 in 2016). Many changes were made in the rebuilding, and Norman and later features were lost, including the font, which was replaced in 1868; the original medieval font is now in the church at Pockley. However, the church gained some fine stained glass by Hardman & Co. of Birmingham.
In 1931 a Harrison and Harrison pipe organ was installed on a platform immediately west of the chancel. This organ replaced an existing instrument installed in 1868 by the Walker organ company. Mr Arthur Harrison retained some of the existing pipework and incorporated this in the new instrument.
The colourful north aisle murals were designed by the Rev. C.N. Gray and completed in 1909 by Mr Gast, a London artist. The murals depict the course of Christianity in the area and add beauty and historical interest to the church. The stained glass windows relate the story of the twelfth century lord of Helmsley, Walter Espec. The high altar and reredos were made for Moore by Robert Thompson, the celebrated 'Mouseman' of Kilburn.
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.
View On Black Hard to really show this as it is so big so you need to view it in original size really...
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.
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.
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.
Finalist: Adaptive Reuse
By: Manuela Core
Location: Castlegate, York, GB
York St Mary's is a beautiful medieval church that opened as a contemporary visual art venue in 2004. The church dates back as far as 1020, it was deconsecrated in 1958, and between 1975 and 2001 was a heritage centre. Each year, York Art Gallery commissions an artist to create a site-specific installation within this unique space. In 2007, artist Keiko Mukaide created a space in which to reflect on the memory of loved ones: "the Memory of Place." A pool of water filled the nave of the church, with the water flowing toward the transept, where a suspended column of glass rods was dramatically top-lit, suggesting a spiritual path to a higher place. Visitors were invited to light a votive candle and float it on the pool in memory of loved ones, a gesture meant to connect our modern life with that of our ancestors.
(Text source: www.yorkstmarys.org.uk/Page/yorkstmarys.aspx)