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“Sex Workers use the park and accost people on Market Road,” warns the bulletin put out by The Friends of Caledonian Park. The whores have been pushed north by the development of Kings Cross. It’s a different kind of meat market now. Pimps, prostitutes, kerb crawlers, undercover police surveillance twitching in the bushes, men reading their papers on the park benches get approached for business. The girls have the faces of ghosts, the spirit having departed the body for protection. The Gazette carries the gruesome story of a prostitute picked up in Market Road then pushed out of the seven and a half tonne lorry after rowing about the cost of oral sex and crushed to death under its back wheels.
When HV Morton visited the market in 1926 he was offered a skeleton for sale. Down the road a woman’s mutilated body was fished out of the Regent’s Canal by a group of kids. “Ripper Killing Horror” screams the Islington Gazette. She was a prostitute, probably from the Market Road meat-rack, chopped up in a crack den round the corner on Conistone Way, an area that once housed abattoirs and horse slaughterers. Some believe that Walter Sickert was the real Jack The Ripper, his paintings depicting his victims’ anguished faces. The girls I see working the park gates have something of the Victorian about them. Dr Crippin murdered his wife not far away in Hilldrop Crescent and was hung in Pentonville Prison down the road. Is this another case of historic symmetry.
The old Rockford Clock Tower Resort has been demolished. It was cool walking around and seeing this abandoned resort. The water park might be saved but I doubt it.
Event: Reel London: Bexley in Archive Film
Using archive films from the Bexley Local Studies & Archive Centre, footage will include the opening of the clock-tower in Bexleyheath town centre (1912), Bexley Civil Defence during World War II and films showing civic events including: Bexley Royal Charter Celebrations (1935), May Queen Celebration in Sidcup Green (1935/36), Communist Party rally (1947).
Date: Tuesday 21 February 1 – 4 pm
Cost: FREE - drop in
Image Above:
Description: Bexley Clocktower
Date of Execution: 1964
Medium: Photograph
Collection: LCC photo collection
Reference No: SC/PHL/01/581/74/637
Find out more about Bexley on our online catalogue and our image library.
The Courthouse is one of the most photographed buildings in Santa Barbara.
Still, the building itself sits on two sides of a city block. If you take
a closer look the details could keep you busy for weeks with a camera. I can't imagine
the effort that went into creating them.
The small window beneath the clocktower on the Garden side
is one of those details that you might easily miss.
If you look around you can find these Quatrefoil or "four leafed"
windows all throughout the architecture of our city but I think
this is the most ornate and beautiful example you'll find.
Clocktower
Binz, Rügen, Deutschland/Germany
[DE] Binz ist das größte Seebad auf der deutschen Insel Rügen.
Binz liegt an der Ostküste der Insel Rügen zwischen der Bucht Prorer Wiek und dem Schmachter See. Nördlich von Binz erstreckt sich die Schmale Heide, eine Landzunge, die das Muttland Rügens mit der Halbinsel Jasmund verbindet. Östlich und südlich der Gemeinde ist das Gebiet hügelig, im Südosten werden in der Granitz Höhen knapp über 100 m ü. NN erreicht. Zu Binz gehört der Ortsteil Prora.
[EN]Binz is the largest seaside resort on the German island of Rügen.
It is situated between the bay of Prorer Wiek and the Schmachter See (a lake) in the southeast of the island. To the north of Binz stretches the Schmale Heide (the "narrow heath"), a tongue of land which joins the Muttland region of Rügen to the Jasmund peninsula. The land to the south and east of Binz is hilly, reaching a height of over 100 metres above sea level.
source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binz / en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binz
more: www.tomkpunkt.de
Clocktower in the former Eastney Marine Barracks, Eastney
Now part of a housing development called " Marine Gate "
Grade 11 Listed
Commemorates the first coroner of the borough John Birt Davies, who held the office for 36 years.
The clocktower in Five Ways is Grade II listed, and is in front of 60 Calthorpe Road.
Late C19. Iron. Square box with Gothic-style blank tracery to each face. On it a column with a 'capital' sweeping out to carry the clocktower, each face of which is beneath a little pediment. Finial at the top.
There was a flood in the laundry room, and next thing you know, they've got a RED ALERT BIOHAZARD LOCKDOWN on the third floor.
London King's Cross Station on the Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden. It is also quite close to the London Borough of Islington.
The station is quite close to London St Pancras International Station, split by Pancras Road.
Most of the station also goes down York Way.
It is the terminus of the East Coast Mainline. Virgin Trains are now operating East Coast.
The station is Grade I listed.
CAMDEN
TQ3083SW EUSTON ROAD
798-1/85/420 (North side)
10/06/54 King's Cross Station
GV I
Railway terminus. 1850-52. By Lewis Cubitt (architect), and
Sir William and Joseph Cubitt (engineers). Yellow stock brick.
2 train sheds (originally 1 for arrivals, the other for
departure) closed by monumental plain brick screen of 2 glazed
semicircular openings, framed with recessed arches (echoing
the train sheds behind) with central and flanking towers;
ground storey obscured by late C20 additions. Central tower
with rectangular clock turret with pyramidical roof, eaves
cornice and weather vane. To the west, 3 storey 3 window
office block with booking hall and service rooms at rear; 1st
floor with thin, debased Venetian windows, cornice at 2nd
floor level, 2nd floor segmental-arched sashes (flanking bays
tripartite), cornice. On east side, an extension with archway
to the cab drive (now bricked up); rusticated surround to arch
and quoins; cornice above which 3 tripartite sashes and
parapet.
INTERIOR: train sheds separated by round-arched brick
colonnade. Originally, train shed roofs of laminated wood,
inspired by the Crystal Palace, but these rapidly deteriorated
and were replaced by the present iron-ribbed roofs to the
eastern shed 1869-70, to the western 1886-7. (Laminated wood
trusses successfully used at 26 Pancras Road (qv).
HISTORICAL NOTE: when opened as the terminus of the Great
Northern Railway, was the largest station in England and is
the earliest great London terminus still intact.
The contrast of its functional simplicity with St Pancras
Station next door (qv) is powerful.
(Hunter M and Thorne R: Change at King's Cross: London: -1990:
59-64).
Listing NGR: TQ3026983130
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Source: English Heritage
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.
Four Seasons Hotel seen from the D&F Clocktower with the Moon looking over the Rocky Mountains...
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NASA Flight Director Chris Kraft: Rendezvous: two spacecraft meeting up in orbit. Want to have fun? Come over to my house. You stand in the back yard, I'll stand in the front, you throw a tennis ball over my roof and I'll try to hit it with a rock as it comes sailing over. That's what we're going to have to do...
--"From the Earth to the Moon" (HBO)
photo by ManRay (upside down), what remains of the JR installation from last year's images.ch exhibition. This one is bearing up well, others have completely disappeared by now (e.g. the one on the prison and the Salgado) and others looking very tatty. See my set to understand what I'm talking about ;-)
A framed view of the clocktower (formerly a belltower) of the Palazzo dei Giureconsulti or Palazzo Affari at Piazza Mercanti in Milan.
Michigan highway M-52 is Main Street as it passes through Chelsea. At the north end of town are the old buildings of the Glazier Stoveworks, with the clocktower anchoring the front corner of the factory building. At the right is the old recreation building that management provided for their factory employees.
The buildings have recently been refurbished as a retail and commercial complex.
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Handsworth Library Clocktower.
Seen from the no 74 bus on the Soho Road.
South & City College Birmingham and the former Handsworth Council House.
Grade II Listed Building
Public Library, Handsworth Council House and Job Preparation Unit
Listing Text
SOHO ROAD
1.
5104 Handsworth B21
Public Library,
Handsworth Council House
and Job Preparation Unit
SP 08 NW 6/43
II
2.
1878-9 by Alexander and Henman, as the Urban District Council Offices.
Red brick and terracotta with stone dressings; slate roof. Mostly 2 storeys
plus attic. To the left, the library part with a polygonal advanced bay
surmounted by an octagonal glazed and louvred lantern with miniscule gablets,
4 bays of windows and a broad gabled bay with a large first floor tripartite
window of 7 lights. The clock tower with entrance beneath a gable supporting
an oriel window, machicolations, parapet and glazed and timbered clock
stage has 2 bays of windows either side and, finally, on the right, there
is another gabled bay. The windows all with mullions and transoms. Some
pretty sculptural details.
Listing NGR: SP0479889438
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
Victoria Park, Downtown Kitchener
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