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Historic Environment Record for H BUILDING, Malvern, UK
The building, having military purposes and designated locally as H building, sits on a former Government Research site in Malvern, Worcestershire at Grid Ref SO 786 447. This site was the home of the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) from 1946. It has been owned by QinetiQ since 2001 and is in the process (October 2017 to February 2018) of being sold for redevelopment.
This unique building has at its heart a ‘Rotor’ bunker with attached buildings to house radar screens and operators as well as plant such as emergency generators. Twenty nine Rotor operational underground bunkers were built in great urgency around Britain to modernise the national air defence network, following the Soviet nuclear test in 1949. Two factors make H building’s construction and purpose unique; this prototype is the only Rotor bunker built above ground and it was the home to National Air Defence government research for 30 years.This example of a ROTOR bunker is unique instead of being buried, it was built above ground to save time and expense, as it was not required to be below ground for its research purpose.
H Building was the prototype version of the Rotor project R4 Sector Operations Centre air defence bunkers. Construction began in August 1952 with great urgency - work went on 24 hours a day under arc lights. The main bunker is constructed from cross bonded engineering bricks to
form walls more than 2 feet thick in a rectangle approximately 65ft x 50ft. The two internal floors are suspended from the ceiling. The original surrounding buildings comprise, two radar control and operator rooms, offices and machine plant.
The building was in generally good order and complete. The internal layout of the bunker remains as originally designed. The internal surfaces and services have been maintained and modernised over the 55 years since its construction (Figure 3). The first floor has been closed over.
There are some later external building additions around the periphery to provide additional accommodation.
In parts of the building the suspended floor remains, with 1950s vintage fittings beneath such as patch panels and ventilation ducts.
The building has been empty since the Defence Science & Technology Laboratories [Dstl] moved out in October 2008
As lead for radar research, RRE was responsible for the design of both the replacement radars for the Chain Home radars and the command and control systems for UK National Air Defence.
Project Rotor was based around the Type 80 radar and Type 13 height finder. The first prototype type 80 was built at Malvern in 1953 code named Green Garlic. Live radar feeds against aircraft sorties, were fed into the building to carry out trials of new methods plotting and reporting air activity
A major upgrade of the UK radar network was planned in the late 1950s – Project ‘Linesman’ (military) / ‘Mediator’ (civil) – based around Type 84 / 85 primary radars and the HF200 height finder. A prototype type 85 radar (Blue Yeoman) was built adjacent to H Building in 1959. live radar returns were piped into H Building.
Subsequently a scheme to combine the military and civil radar networks was proposed. The building supported the research for the fully computerised air defence scheme known as Linesman, developed in the 1960s, and a more integrated and flexible system (United Kingdom Air Defence Ground Environment or UKADGE) in the 1970s.
The building was then used for various research purposes until the government relinquished the main site to QinetiQ in 2001. Government scientists continued to use the building until 2008. Throughout its life access was strictly controlled by a dedicated pass sytem.
Notable civil spin-offs from the research in this building include the invention of touch screens and the whole UK Civil Air Traffic Control system which set the standard for Europe.
Chronology
1952 - Construction work is begun. The layout of the bunker area duplicates the underground version built at RAF Bawburgh.
1953 - Construction work is largely completed.
1954 - The building is equipped and ready for experiments.
1956-1958 - Addition of 2nd storey to offices
1957-1960 - Experiments of automatic tracking, novel plot projection systems and data management and communications systems tested.
1960-1970 - Project Linesman mediator experiments carried out including a novel display technique known as a Touch screen ( A World First)
TOUCHSCREEN
A team led by Eric Johnson in H building at Malvern. RRE Tech Note 721 states: This device, the Touch Sensitive Electronic Data Display, or more shortly the ‘Touch Display’, appears to have the potential to provide a very efficient coupling between man and machine. (E A Johnson 1966). See also patent GB 1172222.
Information From Hugh Williams/mraths
1980-1990 - During this period experiments are moved to another building and H building is underused.
1990-1993 - The building was re-purposed and the bunker (room H57) had the first floor closed over to add extra floor area.
2008- The bunker was used until late 2008 for classified research / Joint intelligence centre
2019 - Visual Recording of the buildings interior by MRATHS. Be means of a LIDAR scan and photographs being taken. The exterior was mapped with a drone to allow a 3D Image of the building to be created via Photogrammetry. This was created in Autodesk Photo Recap.
2020 - Building demolished as part of the redevelopment of the site.
Information sourced from MRATHS
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Taken at Kew Gardens in the Palm House.
Nous sommes arrivés en France! We are staying in this lovely country for two months this spring. Our primary residence is Lyon, the third largest city in France, located to the southwest. It is a historical, cultural, and very picturesque city founded as the Roman city of Lugdunum, spread out over two hills and two rivers -- the Saône and Rhône.
With side trips to locations as diverse as Paris, Perpignan, Aix-en-Provence, and more, Steve and I aim to get our fill of a country neither of us has seen in a decade, and enjoy the cuisine, culture, language practice, scenery, and generally, la vie quotidienne.
Read more about our travels at www.circumnavacation.com!
I didn't think you could make a large indoor space with a very tall ceiling seem claustrophobic, but this indoor public space at 60 Wall Street does the trick. It's always been a rather disorienting and unpleasant space to pass through, much less occupy.
Ceiling Fan
H: 28” x D: 58” (71 cm x 147 cm)
Property from the Alejandro Roces Legarda collection
Opening bid: P 2,000
Lot 984 of the Leon Gallery online auction on July 27-28, 2018. Please see www.leonexchange.com for more information.
The glass sheltered ceiling at the revamped the Chinatown Food Street is 3 storeys high with built-in cooling system with 24 food stalls.
The exhibit Chihuly at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (October 20, 2012-February 10, 2013) featured the wonderfully colorful glass artistry of Dale Chihuly (b. 1941). Persian Ceiling was an overhead display of more than one thousand pieces of glass resting on clear plate glass supported by steel beams; it occupied the exhibit space leading into the Northwest Room and Chihuly's collection of colorful Indian blankets. I like to view the photo of those blankets (preceding image) and the Persian Ceiling together, because their color palettes are so similar [ISO 5000, 1/60 sec., f/4; flash & tripods not allowed].
The boudoir at Knightshayes Court was the private sitting room of the lady of the house. The ceiling, designed by Victorian designer John Dibblee Crace, has as its centrepiece eight rondels depicting signs of the Zodiac.
Knightshayes is an elegant Victorian country house and estate, now owned by the National Trust, and located near Tiverton in Devon.
"At the center of the Melanesian gallery is a soaring, boldly colored ceiling from a ceremonial house of the Kwoma people of New Guinea. More than 80 feet long and 30 feet wide, the ceiling is composed of more than 270 individual paintings, commissioned from a group of Kwoma master artists in the early 1970s. The redesigned space allows the ceiling to be displayed at its full height, imparting a cathedral-like atmosphere to the gallery." More...
Taken during a visit to the The Metropolitan Museum of Art (aka "The Met") in New York City in May 2009. Despite spending 6+ hours exploring the museums Egyptian, Japanese, and Modern Art collection, we only managed to see a small portion of what the museum has to offer.
San Giovanni Grisostomo (English: Saint John Chrysostom) is a small church in the sestiere or neighborhood of Cannaregio, Venice day 5 of our Cosmos tour, October 4, 2012.
The church was founded in 1080, destroyed by fire in 1475, then rebuilt starting in 1497 by Mauro Codussi and his son, Domenico. Construction was completed in 1525. The campanile dates from the late 16th century. The interior is based on a Greek cross design.
Behind the façade are hung two canvasses, formerly organ doors, by Giovanni Mansueti depicting Saints Onuphrius, Agatha, Andrew and John Chrysostom. Onuphrius was the co-titular patron saint who was revered by the confraternity of the Tentori (dyers of fabrics, covers, and sheets). In 1516, a relic of the saint, his finger, was donated to this church.
The chapel on the right has the painting Saints Christopher, Jerome and Louis of Toulouse (1513) by Giovanni Bellini. On the left rear, the chapel of the Rosary or Madonna della Grazie has an altarpiece of Saints John Chrysostom, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Theodore, Mary Magdalen, Lucy and Catherine by Sebastiano del Piombo, commissioned by Caterina Contarini. On the wall of the apse are a series of canvases on the life of Saint John Chrysostom and Christ. On the high altar is a relief of the Deposition from the Cross. To the left is the chapel built for Giacomo Bernabò, with sculptural design by Codussi. The marble altarpiece of the Coronation of the Virgin (1500–1502) was completed by Tullio Lombardo.
For More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Giovanni_Grisostomo,_Venice
Inside Salisbury Cathedral everything was so visually beautiful and awe inspiring!! Even, and maybe especially the arched ceilings. This is in the Quire area.
Weakened by his defeat by the French in 1214 and keen to avoid a civil war he feared losing, King John met the barons at Runnymede (between Windsor and Staines in Southern England) on 15 June 1215 and agreed the terms of the document now known as Magna Carta. Its content, driven by the concerns of barons and church, was designed to re-balance power between the King and his subjects. When King John set his seal on Magna Carta he conceded the fundamental principle that even as king he was not above the law.
Magna Carta (Latin for "Great Charter") 1215 is one of the most celebrated documents in English history. At the time it was the solution to a political crisis in Medieval England but its importance has endured as it has become recognised as a cornerstone of liberty influencing much of the civilized world.
A visit to view the best preserved original Magna Carta in the Chapter House is for many visitors the highlight of their time at Salisbury Cathedral.
Magna Carta contains 63 clauses written in Latin on parchment. Only three of the original clauses in Magna Carta are still law today. One defends the freedom and rights of the English Church, another confirms the liberties and customs of London and other towns, but the third is the most famous:
'No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled. Nor will we proceed with force against him except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.'
Ceiling of the Ancient Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne, now the nave of Aachen Cathedral. The mosaic ceiling is a nineteenth century creation.
After such an intriguing exterior the interior of Aachen Cathedral is no less perplexing, particularly in regard to it's confusing layout.
In place of the usual long nave here we are confronted with the ancient, byzantine inspired octagonal space at that forms the heart of the cathedral and was the chapel of Charlemagne's Royal Palace built in the ninth century.
Beyond this early, Romanesque looking space can be glimpsed the high Gothic of the choir, a complete stylistic contrast, which makes this cathedral seem more a collection of remarkable rooms cobbled together rather than a unified church building, like some sort of full scale architectural history lesson!
Aachen Cathedral can only be described as perhaps one of the most uniquely bizarre, fascinating and liturgically difficult churches in Christendom, no other church has a profile or ground plan quite like it!
The nucleus of the building is the octagonal nave (crowned today by a dome) which is the surviving chapel of Charlemagne's palace built in c805, somewhat Byzantine in appearance, and one of the oldest complete sections of any cathedral in Europe.
As a result the cathedral is a fairly compact building, with no long central aisle, just a round central space. The western entrance was once through an atrium, on the site of the present courtyard, but the simple bulk of the entrance / lower part of the west tower survives from this time, though now carrying gothic additions, a baroque entrance porch and a neo-gothic belfry dating from 1884..
The Cathedral has grown somewhat organically since Charlemagne's time, with a delicate choir in French gothic style added to the east of the ninth century octagonal nave and consecrated in 1414. Various chapels were also added around this time, which now sprout from the ancient nave in all directions on both sides, in richly ornamented late gothic style with one baroque exception. These contrast heavily with the simplicity of the oldest parts of the church and make this exterior perhaps the most bizarre, cluttered and eccentric cathedral anywhere!
The Eagle, RAF Bar - Cambridge, England
June 12, 2015
©Dale Haussner
Malcolm Ozzie Osborn's "A Famous Ceiling" -
"The many thousands of tourists visiting Cambridge will almost certainly visit the famous Kings College Chapel, where they will gaze in wonderment (as I always do) at the breathtakingly beautiful medieval fan vaulted ceiling. But many of them will be completely unaware that just a half block away exists another famous ceiling. But this ceiling is actually in a Public House called the 'Eagle' certainly not medieval, but a priceless historical ceiling nevertheless. The Eagle is probably the oldest pub in Cambridge.
The site upon which the Eagle stands was bequeathed
to Corpus Christi College, still the present day owners,in 1525. Then known as the ‘Eagle & Child’, it built up a reputation as an excellent coaching inn during the 17th century. By 1834, it was possible to board a superior fast coach to London for the sum of four shillings. The coming of the railway in 1850 saw the Eagle lose its coaching status
and it became a standard tavern.
During the dark days of WWII, the pub became a favourite
haunt of off duty R.A.F personnel eager to unwind from the stresses of the air war over Germany. It is believed that in late 1941 or early 1942, a young airman stood precariously balanced on a chair atop a table in the back bar, then using a candle he burned his Squadron’s number into the ceiling. This started a tradition that was to continue until war’s end and beyond, right up to the days of the Berlin Airlift in fact.
In 1942 the 8th AAF came to England and many of the
former RAF airfields became home to American Bomber and Fighter Groups.Many of the young US airmen came to Cambridge to relax at the American Red Cross club just around the block from the Eagle, but they also visited the
pub and using lipstick, charcoal, candles and Zippos, proudly added their units to the ceiling’s now crowded surface.
The war ended and with the passing of time and the atmosphere caused by constant smokers, the ceiling became covered in nicotine deposits and its dark brown surface gradually hid everything underneath. One day,
a pub regular named James Chainey, spotted
something on the ceiling above his head. With the landlord’s permission he cleaned the area and this led to his cleaning the whole ceiling. James then set about recording every inch of the ceiling and deciphering all the units.I met James a few times in the Eagle and we had some interesting conversations his many years of research into his precious ceiling. Sadly he is no longer with us, but thanks to him and other protestors, the ceiling was preserved when the Eagle was closed for two years for restoration.
The 398th is there on the ceiling, just after entering from the courtyard, take a couple of steps and look up and there it is. I wonder who stood up there and burned it into this famous ceiling? Can you imagine the babble and noise on a dark winters evening in 1944, the sudden cheer as another young airmen climbs up towards the ceiling, slowly he uses his
Zippo to burn 398, then falls into his comrades arms. I wonder if he survived his missions, many would not. So if you are ever visiting Cambridge, please be sure to visit the Eagle and raise your glass to the memory of all those who flew from East Anglia, many never to return."