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5766 R Singapore Camerman cards Some colonial architecture of Singapore. E.g. Orchard Road Presbyterian Church, Asian Civilisation Museum, National Library & Stamford Court. Printed in Singapore by Cameraman (S) Pte Ltd Tel: (65) 235 6603 Fax: (65) 235 5329 Braco Dora Tonka Vesna za Anđelku sent 8. IV. 2002.
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The Orchard Road Presbyterian Church, also known as Greja Kechil ("small church" in Malay) and Scotch Church, is a Presbyterian church in Singapore. The church was completed in 1878, and the building is the oldest Presbyterian church in Singapore.
History
The church originated from the congregation of the Mission Chapel of Singapore which included members of the Scottish community of early Singapore. In 1822, its Scottish members held a meeting with the aim of setting up a local Presbyterian church, however, the first service was not held until 6 October 1856 with the arrival of Rev Thomas McKenzie Fraser to Singapore. The earliest service was held at the London Missionary Society's chapel on Bras Basah Road, later services were also held at the St Andrew's Church. In 1875, a piece of land on Orchard Road was allocated by the Governor of Singapore for the construction of the church, and the foundation stone for the church was laid by Colonel Anson on 1 August 1877. The building was completed in 1878 at a cost of $20,000.
The building has been extended over the years. In 1921, the Tomlinson Hall was added as a side-extension, but this was later demolished n 2002. A Sunday School was added in 1953, and other parts of the church extended – the church hall in 1954, and the sanctuary in 1975. The Dunman Hall was added in 1985.
A branch of the church was established in Bukit Batok that became independent in 2013, and an independent church was also established in 2005 for its Chinese congregation, the Providence Presbyterian Church.
Architecture
The building is single storey structure with tiled pitched roofs, with a Palladian-styled facade facing Orchard Road. The dominant feature of the facade is the Serlian motif (also called a Palladian window) – a central arched opening flanked by openings on either side with flat entablatures. The motif forms the porch which is supported by double Ionic columns, and a smaller version with single columns is repeated above the porch. The front facade has finials at the four corners of the tower, and it is topped by a cupola supported by columns.
Services
The church originally catered to the Scottish community in Singapore and services were conducted in English. Later services in other languages were also offered to members of different communities, with the first Mandarin Chinese service given on Easter Sunday 1968. Currently the church also offer services in Indonesian and German.
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The Old Tao Nan School (Chinese: 旧道南学校; pinyin: Jiù Dàonán Xuéxiào) is a historic building in Singapore, located along Armenian Street in the Museum Planning Area, within the Central Area. The building was originally built for the Tao Nan School to serve the local Hokkien community, but the school has since been relocated to its current location in Marine Parade. The building was then used as a wing of the Asian Civilisations Museum, and now houses the Peranakan Museum. It was gazetted as a national monument on 27 February 1998.
The Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) is an institution which forms a part of the four museums in Singapore, the other three being the Peranakan Museum at Old Tao Nan School, the National Museum of Singapore and the Singapore Art Museum.
It is one of the pioneering museums in the region to specialise in pan-Asian cultures and civilisations. The museum specialises in the material history of China, Southeast Asia, South Asia and West Asia, from which the diverse ethnic groups of Singapore trace their ancestry.
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The Museum Planning Area is a planning area located in the Central Area of the Central Region of Singapore. The area plays a "bridging role" between the Orchard area and the Downtown Core, which necessitates proper transport networks for vehicles, pedestrians and public transport. Due to the sheer size of green areas in the district, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has designated it a 'green lung' in the Central Area. However, the Museum Planning Area is also home to cultural and commercial activities. Around 65% of the area is available for future development, making it a hotbed for new infrastructure and buildings. Despite the elaborate plans for the area, the URA was criticised for not materialising the plans soon enough.
Museum planning area is bounded by the planning areas of Newton and Rochor to the north, the Downtown Core to the southeast, Singapore River to the south, River Valley to the west and Orchard to the northwest.
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Stamford House (Chinese: 史丹福大厦; pinyin: Shǐdānfú dàshà) is a historic building located at the corner of the junction of Stamford Road and Hill Street, in the Downtown Core of Singapore. Originally known as Oranje Building (sometimes spelled Oranjie), it currently houses a shopping mall.
History
The building was designed by Regent Alfred John Bidwell (1869–1918) of Swan and Maclaren in 1904 for Seth Paul a Singapore citizen of American extraction. It was intended for Paul's tenant, retail firm Whiteaway Laidlaw & Co. Paul called the building Oranje Building, and Whiteaway Laidlaw carried out their business there until 1910.
Because of a shortage of hotel rooms, Raffles Hotel took over the top two floors of Oranje Building as an annexe for a number of years. In 1933, Seth's daughter Theodara Van Hein renovated the building and converted to become the Oranje Hotel. Before the Japanese Occupation of Singapore in February 1942, a number of survivors of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse were housed in the Oranje Hotel.
During the Japanese Occupation, the building continued to be used by the Japanese forces as a hotel. After World War II, the hotel rooms were rented out and ground floor of the building used as shops.
In 1963, the building changed hands and was sold to Basco Enterprises Private Limited. It refurbished the building and renamed the building as Stamford House. Together with the adjacent Shaw Building, which housed the Capitol Theatre, the Stamford House was once a main shopping centre in Singapore.
In 1984, the Stamford House, together with the Shaw Building, was acquired by the Urban Redevelopment Authority, which imposed planning restrictions to preserve the building. In May 1991, a decision was made to forgo preserving the similarly rustic four-storey Eu Court and conserve Stamford House instead as the latter had more potential for commercial purposes. Despite protests by the public, Eu Court was demolished in 1992 for road widening with the aim of easing future traffic congestion on Hill Street. Today, a new building, Stamford Court, is sited on a portion of the site of the former Eu Court building.
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Caption: Completing eachother
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I'm in love with the mods I made to my original design. Now featuring a working drivers hatch as well as opening ammo storage on the turret. Also has a much more realistic rotation point as I had been off before. Other than that it's pretty straight forward. All in all this has gone from a design I was 75% happy with to one I'm 100% happy with. Let me know what you think!
*ICARUS FRAMES* sportiff complete bike
BLUE LUG custom
SPEC
Frame: *ICARUS FRAMES* sportiff
Stem:*ICARUS FRAMES* custom stem
Headset:*CANE CREEK* 100.TR 1" (silver)
Front Wheel: *Schmidt SON* × *AMBROSIO* nemesis
Rear Wheel: *PHILWOOD* × *AMBROSIO* nemesis
Tire: *CHALLENGE* eroica tubelar tire (black/skin)
Crankset: *WHITE INDUSTRIES* VBC road crank (silver)
Pedal: *WHITE INDUSTRIES* urban platform pedal (silver)
Toe Clip:*BRUCE GORDON*
Brake lever:*TRP* RRL SR alloy road brake levers (black/silver)
Shifter:*SHIMANO*
FD: *SHIMANO* ultegra
RD:*SHIMANO* ultegra
Brakes:*SHIMANO*
Handle: *NITTO* mod177 noodle bar (silver)
Seat post: *NITTO* 65 seatpost (silver)
Saddle:*SELLE SAN MARCO* regal saddle (black)
Bartape: *FAIRWEATHER* leather bartape
Light:*Schmidt SON*
*ICARUS*complete bike
BLUE LUG custom
SPEC
Frame:*ICARUS* BLUE LUG CUSTOM
Headset:*CHRIS KING*nothread
Front wheels:*PACENTI*rim × *SCHMIDT*son hub
Rear wheels:*PACENTI*rim × *PHILWOOD* hub
Tire:*COMPASS*
Brake lever:*PAUL*canti lever
Shift lever:*DIA-COMPE*
Crankset:*RENE HERSE*
Pedal:*MKS*touring lite
FD&RD: *SHIMANO*
Brake:*PAUL*neoretro
Handle:*NITTO*b354aaf
Stem:*ICARUS*custom stem
Seat post:*NITTO*65
Saddle:*BROOKS*titanium
Front rack:*PASS AND STOW*
Front light:*SCHMIDT*son
I was feeling pretty accomplished the other day when I finished the maintenance and upgrades. Now that DevilDuc is put back together and washed, I feel complete :-)
SOLD!
Complete set...
Orrr... 109. + ship for the formal dress/crinoline, nylons, shoes, clutch and jewelry!
Mannequins NOT included!
This 1950 view shows a relatively new Sturrock Dry Dock in the Cape Town Harbour.It was completed in 1945 and according to 2001 publication it is the largest dry dock in the Southern Hemisphere.
L to R, from Back Row (where a head is up or down from the last named person, it is indicated as such; only non-PRC members are annotated):
Back Row: Stephan Strybol (Tour Guide Bus #2), Tom Shillington, Erika Slager, Peter Ross (Tour Guide Bus #1), Tracey Francis, Ron McConnell, Bob Stewart, David Black, Stuart Weeks on flag, Paul Hale on flag, Robert Marsh, Richard Marsh, David Moore, Barbara Masterman, William Turner, Nadine Turner, Glenn Nordick, Doug Delaney (Historian)
Second: Stan Tenson in ball cap, Vince Kennedy, Ron Paquin in hat, Ed Kenney, Al Johnston down, Kenella Johnston to his side, up to Dave Pentney, Del Foster, Janet Pentney, Kent Foster, RSM Kevin Lewis, Jacqueline Girouard, Ed Staniowski, Gillian Parker, Barbara Metaxas, Perry Metaxas-Mariatos, John Plantz, Doug Brooks, Bruce McDonald, Mathew Willow
Third: John de Chastelain in wide hat, Lisa Williams, Gina Roline, Carol Romses, Ray Romses, Sasha Ellyn, Cathan Perry, Phil Tweedie, Bev Tweedie (independents), CherylLynn Nordick, Wendy Kennedy, Jeanne Paquin, below Marie Paquin. Paul Paquin, Student Colin Kaduck, Ray Paquin, Cadt Bailey Nehring, Terry Loveridge (historian), Capt Christian Stenner, Stan Willow
Fourth: MaryAnn de Chastelain in hat, Margaret Ellis, Bill Hewson, Norah Hewson, Sgt Brad Lowes, Jason Magnan, Robert Curtin, above Karen Storwick, Aileen Beninger, Cdt Brayden Einboden, above Bill Johnson, Cdt Tristen Gagne, Valerie Johnson, below Cdt Athena Nash, Cdt Charlotte Clark, above Diana Cardoni, below Cdt Sara Bridal, Cdt Catherine Kroeker, Jane McKay-Byers, John Byers, Cdt David Wiebe, Cdt Owen Lepp, Patricia Forigio, Capt Stephanie Russell, Angela Reid, Tom Reid.
Front: Stdg – BGen Wayne Eyre (Guard President) , Madame Adrienne Clarkson Colonel-in-Chief PPCLI, LGen Ray Crabbe (Colonel of the Regiment), CWO Schiedl (Regimental CWO)
Photo by MCpl Louis Brunet, Canadian Army Public Affairs, 3rd Can Div PA HQ
AS01-2015-0011-005
BLAKE, SAMUEL HUME, lawyer, judge, Anglican layman, philanthropist, social reformer, and pamphleteer; b. 31 Aug. 1835 in Toronto, son of William Hume Blake* and Catherine Honoria Hume*; m. first 3 Feb. 1859 Rebecca Cronyn, daughter of Bishop Benjamin Cronyn*, in London, Upper Canada, and they had a son and two daughters; m. secondly 18 Oct. 1909 Elizabeth Baird in Rio de Janeiro; they had no children; d. 23 June 1914 in Toronto.
Samuel Hume Blake was born in Toronto soon after his refined Irish parents had abandoned an attempt at farming in Middlesex County. His father became a lawyer and his ambitious mother temporarily ran a girls’ school to help finance the family. Blake was educated by tutors at home and then was sent to Upper Canada College, where he excelled as a public speaker.
About 1850 Blake entered the Toronto mercantile firm of Ross, Mitchell and Company. However, after completing his four-year apprenticeship, he decided to follow his father and elder brother, Edward, into the legal profession. He concurrently worked as a student-at-law in the office of his uncle George Skeffington Connor* and began studies at the University of Toronto. In 1858 he graduated with a ba and was admitted by the Law Society of Upper Canada as an attorney and solicitor. He immediately entered into partnership with his brother and two years later was called to the bar.
The Blake firm enjoyed rapid success. Throughout his long association with it, Samuel was the one who usually kept shop, always resisting the allure of political office, which absorbed so much of Edward’s time. He shared Edward’s strong nationalism, however, and helped him as an organizer: he arranged a banquet in early 1870 for his brother, then the new provincial Liberal leader, and campaigned for him during the federal election of 1872. Samuel’s rising professional status was marked by his appointment as a bencher of the Law Society in 1871 and as a provincial qc the following year.
In 1872 Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald* offered the young but accomplished Blake the position of junior vice-chancellor on the Ontario Court of Chancery. Although it meant a significant drop in income and his resignation as a bencher, Blake agreed to replace Oliver Mowat*, who had resigned to succeed Edward Blake as premier, and in 1875 he became senior vice-chancellor. In addition, in 1876 Mowat appointed Blake, a lifelong advocate of temperance, a tavern-licence commissioner for Toronto. Blake’s judgements in court, on estates, mortgages, titles, insolvencies, sales, and other equity matters, won him wide respect. By the 1880s, however, his outspoken involvement in social and religious issues had made his position on the bench awkward; some felt he had crossed the line and they complained to the government. In 1881, at the age of only 45, he resigned and returned to practice to fill the gap left in the Blake firm by the appointment of John Alexander Boyd as chancellor. Blake’s unanticipated “descent” brought sharp criticism from a legal profession concerned about maintaining the dignity and independence of the judiciary.
Even before his appointment Blake had shown a keen interest in evangelism, his low-church Anglicanism a legacy of his parents. He first acted on his convictions by becoming a Sunday-school teacher, a duty he undertook for decades and for which he became celebrated in Toronto. He eventually taught several classes each week, including an interdenominational group of Sunday-school teachers. During the 1870s and 1880s the “Hon. Psalm Blake,” as one journalist later dubbed him, became increasingly involved in efforts to reform society. In 1874, for example, Blake, William Holmes Howland*, and other evangelical activists established the Prisoners’ Aid Association. Two years later Blake delivered a lengthy address to the Young Men’s Christian Association in Toronto. Immediately published as The young men of Canada, the first of Blake’s many religious pamphlets, it spelled out his philosophy of the Protestant work ethic balanced by fair play.
In 1869 Blake and other prominent Toronto Anglicans had founded the Evangelical Association, a low-church lobby against clerical and high-church domination of the diocese of Toronto. The most significant achievement of the association, which was reorganized as the Church Association in 1873, was the establishment in 1877 of the Protestant Episcopal Divinity School (later renamed Wycliffe College) as an evangelical response to the high-church teachings of Trinity College [see James Paterson Sheraton*].
Although the association was disbanded in 1879, following the election of the moderate Arthur Sweatman* as bishop of Toronto, the evangelical party, with Blake at the fore, continued to play a leading part in Canadian Anglicanism. Blake would serve as treasurer of Wycliffe for 25 years from 1888 and provide the drive on the board of the Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada, formed in 1901. He and his cohorts established Bishop Ridley College for boys in 1889 in St Catharines, Ont., and Havergal Ladies’ College in 1894 in Toronto. At the former he endowed a gold medal for “true manliness” but withdrew it in 1902 when the school’s principal accepted an honorary degree from Trinity. Within the diocese of Toronto, lay associations were key factors in the financial and organizational reconstruction being undertaken by Sweatman, and in this endeavour Blake was a force. A supporter of the Church of England Deaconess and Missionary Training Home, which opened in 1893, Blake for decades was the pre-eminent, and the most colourful, lay representative at synod. Beginning in 1896 he led a successful campaign to increase the endowment for the bishop’s salary, and in 1907 he lined up an assistant bishop and raised funds for his stipend.
By the 1880s and 1890s Blake’s organizational affiliations had become legion. He supported the Prison Gate Mission and Haven and the Industrial School Association, both in Toronto, and was sometime president, vice-president, or chairman of the international convention of Sunday schools, the Toronto branch of the Evangelical Alliance, the Protestant Churchmen’s Union and Tract Society, the Laymen’s Missionary Movement, the Irish Protestant Benevolent Society, the Toronto City Mission, the Lord’s Day Alliance, the Ontario branch of the Dominion Alliance for the Total Suppression of the Liquor Traffic, the YMCA, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the Toronto Humane Society. On occasion he travelled to the United States and England to represent Canada and speak at international gatherings of charitable organizations. Blake gave of his wealth unstintingly and unostentatiously to a multitude of such causes.
Blake’s success and stature as a business lawyer undoubtedly helped support these philanthropic activities. One of the finest legal minds of his generation, he counted among his clients the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Canadian Bank of Commerce, the City of Toronto, and the University of Toronto. The firm, which contained 13 lawyers in 1900, attracted the best legal lights, among them Zebulon Aiton Lash, another exceptional corporate lawyer, and Alexander Mackenzie*, who had been sent to Brazil in 1899 to advise on the foundation of utility companies [see Frederick Stark Pearson].
Named a dominion qc in 1885, Blake was an ex officio bencher of the Law Society from 1881, a member of several of its committees, and a lecturer on the ethics of law at the university’s faculty of law in 1889–94. A reluctant convert, he supported the admission of women to the profession in 1892 and employed Clara Brett Martin*, the first woman in the British empire to become a lawyer, as an articling student in his firm.
Like his father and brother, Blake took an active interest in the University of Toronto, with which Wycliffe federated in 1889. He acted as the university’s counsel at the provincial royal commission appointed under the chairmanship of Thomas Wardlaw Taylor to inquire into the student revolt of 1895. In the late 1890s he was elected to its senate and he served as a governor in 1906–9. During this period a dispute developed over teaching on biblical subjects at the non-denominational University College. By the fall of 1908 Blake had entered the fray, arguing that the instruction contravened the secular terms of the university act. In fact, Blake, a traditionalist with deep suspicions of new currents in religious study, also feared that higher criticism would undermine students’ faith, and his vociferous involvement, including yet another pamphlet, did much to inflame the controversy. More constructively, as trustee of the university’s residence fund, he succeeded in having three student residences built.
Though he was never elected to office, Blake’s legal and moral force was clearly felt in the political arena: he rarely refrained from speaking out or acting on public issues. Acting for the crown in 1885, for instance, he prosecuted Christopher William Bunting* and others accused of trying to bribe members of the legislature. Still a leading figure in the Prisoners’ Aid Association, he helped bring about the appointment in 1890 of the commission on the prison and reformatory system of Ontario, chaired by John Woodburn Langmuir. Although the Blake name was synonymous with Liberalism, he could not, in good conscience, endorse the Liberal government of George William Ross between 1899 and 1905, largely because of its electoral misdeeds and neglect of the University of Toronto. By the election of May 1902 Blake had shifted his support to Conservative leader James Pliny Whitney; in December he wrote an open letter to his Conservative mpp, James Joseph Foy, condemning the “carnival of corruption” in the ageing Liberal regime. When it was alleged soon afterwards that Robert Roswell Gamey, another Conservative mpp, had been bribed to support the teetering government, Blake acted as chief prosecuting counsel before the commission appointed to investigate the matter. Whitney’s victory in 1905 was greeted with enthusiasm by this disaffected Grit, who, as counsel for the privately owned Ontario Power Company, would become intimately involved in Whitney’s drive for publicly owned hydroelectricity.
Throughout his career Blake approached every task with the certainty of the evangelical. For him there was no paralysing self-doubt. Whether he was arguing in court, opposing Sunday streetcars in Toronto, or raising funds for additions to his beloved Wycliffe, he was always the worker, the crusader. “All theology that does not end in the practical,” he once wrote to the Reverend Henry John Cody*, “should be relegated to the paradise of fools!” Even on holiday at Murray Bay (Pointe-au-Pic), Que., where the Blakes had been escaping Toronto’s summer heat since the 1860s, he kept his stenographer busy typing letters to family, colleagues, and newspaper editors. These epistles, punctuated by frequent exclamation marks, often ran to ten pages and sometimes read more like legal briefs. All his writings reflected an exceptional command of fact and a voracious reading of classical literature, history, law, theology, and the Bible.
Blake was a complex, sometimes contradictory personality. One of his friends and courtroom rivals, Britton Bath Osler*, once quipped with much truth that “if Mr. S. H. Blake could not appear upon the platform during the week and vent his – he would not say spleen and malice, but it was something very like that – upon his fellow men, he would not be in shape to go into the pulpit on Sunday and express his unbounding charity to all.” Although he was “one of the most acrimonious. . . . intolerant partizans imaginable,” according to a student who had participated in the 1895 revolt, the tender-hearted Blake was “no sour fanatic,” in the estimate of the Toronto World. A master of repartee, he relished telling stories and jokes, often about himself, and thoroughly enjoyed life; in court he could mix thunder with long, disconcerting grins and bursts of laughter. One of his passions was yachting; in 1890 a boating accident near Gananoque, Ont., almost claimed his life.
Blake was always impatient with the shortcomings of others. A self-appointed defender of the faith, affectionately named “the Archbishop” by his family, he was ever on the offensive against high church, high finance, and higher criticism. With regard to high finance, his view was contradictory. Though aware that money could be used for good causes, he also recognized that seeking it for its own sake often led to corruption. On one occasion, a journalist wrote in 1911, Blake declared that the northern Ontario mining town of Cobalt “had resulted in so much lying, deceit, fraud, over-reaching ambition and in such a Pandora’s box of miseries, that it would almost have been better if the place had never been discovered.” At times his passionate nature and extemporaneous oratory got the better of him. On one public occasion, while recounting the difficulties of establishing Wycliffe, he remarked: “The bishop of the diocese said that he would not ordain our graduates. Well we prayed that this obstacle might be removed, and it again pleased God to answer our prayers, for shortly afterwards Bishop [Alexander Neil Bethune*] died!”
By the turn of the century Blake had reached his zenith. Subsequently, he suffered a series of adversities. His wife died in 1901 of a heart condition, and his own sturdy constitution gradually succumbed to years of relentless activity. His elder daughter, Mabel, divorced a son of former chief justice Thomas Moss*, and in 1907 Blake’s brother suffered a severe stroke. Mabel was remarried in 1908, however, to Alexander Mackenzie, by then vice-president of both São Paulo Tramway, Light and Power (another Blake client) and Rio de Janeiro Tramway, Light and Power, which merged to form Brazilian Traction, Light and Power in 1912. At his death, the largest asset in Blake’s estate was stock in Brazilian Traction worth $166,625.
Despite the encroaching years, Blake remained active and controversial. A multi-denominational committee formed in 1904 under his chairmanship, to investigate church-run schools for native children, revealed serious financial problems and the scandalous state of Indian missions, and brought an unflinching Blake into collision with both missionaries and bishops. Resisting popular desires for increased imperial attachment, in a speech in 1905 he denounced “the miserable spirit of jingoism and militarism” in Canada and dismissed the South African War “as one without glory.”
In the early 1900s Blake had a nagging feeling that more had to be done to fulfil the gospel in society. In 1902 he had switched his membership from the modest St Peter’s Church on Carlton Street to St Paul’s on Bloor Street, where the popular and evangelical H. J. Cody was rector. Here Blake rallied for one final project: the construction of what remains the largest Anglican church in Canada. He seems to have thought that it was symbolically important for the evangelicals to have their own cathedral-like structure. He laid its cornerstone in September 1910, and three years later the 2,500-seat “gothicized auditorium” designed by Edward James Lennox* was completed. Blake assumed the role of Cody’s mentor and on more than one occasion kept him from leaving St Paul’s to become a bishop. His goal, he told Cody, was to make it the one church in Toronto “where the simple and spiritual service of the Church of England is known and lived.”
In 1909, while visiting Mabel in Rio de Janeiro, the 74-year-old Blake married his 32-year-old housekeeper and private secretary. Despite failing health, he devoted himself increasingly to writing pamphlets; these often scorching proclamations were circulated in the thousands. Blake distributed many of them himself: an obituary would note his role as colporteur, when, as on his way to his office, he “rode Sphinxlike and solitary through the streets in his ambling barouche,” wearing his signature silk top hat. Yet Blake had become a caricature of the Social Gospel reformer. Young journalists began to make light of his “old fashioned morality,” though they remained eager to quote his caustic opinions, which made good copy. There was a frenetic despair about Blake’s last months. In January 1913 he wrote to Cody of the need for a “spiritual awakening! Why will not the Lord send it?” He lamented the loss of the moral standards of his youth and his failure to keep Toronto good.
Blake died in his 79th year. The élite of Toronto and Ontario society filled St Paul’s to witness his simple funeral, conducted by Cody and the bishop of Toronto, and he was buried in the family vault at St James’ Cemetery. He would probably have been gratified by Saturday Night’s unadorned assessment of his life: “Whether one agreed with him or not, nobody could be blind to his brilliance or to his solid virtues. Many controversies will have less savor now that he is gone, and the world loses a good citizen.” These qualities, the journal concluded, had made Blake “one of the most interesting, and perhaps exasperating figures in the political, social and religious life” of Canada.
An aerial look at the SR 20 Sharpes Corner and SR 20 Miller Gibralter roads roundabouts in Skagit County.
The central motif is cured, sanded and buffed. The remainder of the top veneer will be assembled as two side panels.
Stupas at Sanchi, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Madhya Pradesh, India
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On the Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden is what is now London St Pancras International Station.
It is on the corner of Euston Road and Pancras Road and lies next to London King's Cross Station.
Grade I listed building.
St Pancras Station and Former Midland Grand Hotel, Camden
CAMDEN
TQ3082NW EUSTON ROAD
798-1/90/421 (North side)
07/11/67 St Pancras Station and former
Midland Grand Hotel
(Formerly Listed as:
EUSTON ROAD
St Pancras Station (incl. train
shed, Chambers & ancillary buildings)
GV I
Railway terminus and hotel, comprising train shed, terminus
facilities and offices, ancillary buildings, taxi stand,
warehousing: including substructure and storage areas to sides
and rear, and structures to the forecourt.
Station, 1865-1869; former Midland Grand Hotel, 1868-76, both
by George Gilbert Scott. Train shed, 1865-8 by William Henry
Barlow (engineer). Deep red Gripper's patent Nottingham bricks
with Ancaster stone dressings and shafts of grey and red
Peterhead granite; slated roofs renewed in 1994 in carefully
diminishing courses.
STYLE: monumental, picturesquely composed Gothic Revival
building of 23 windows flanked by towers and a curved 10
window wing to the west.
EXTERIOR: 4 main storeys with 2 extra storeys in the roof lit
by stacks of gabled dormers. Station entered through 2
pointed, vaulted vehicle arches, flanked by pedestrian arches,
one in the left hand tower and one to the right. Arches with
recessed, elaborately patterned cast-iron pedestrian
footbridges with cast-iron plate tracery windows on foliated
cast-iron brackets. Hotel facade with round-arched ground
floor openings linked by impost bands; 2nd floor, pointed
2-light windows with plate tracery & colonnettes; 3rd floor,
cusped with colonnettes; 4th floor, arcaded windows of 3
lights. Articulated vertically and horizontally with strings
and with much elaborate carving. Lombard frieze below
balustraded parapet. Western curve similar to south elevation
of west range, that nearest Euston Road with elaborate stepped
gable over right hand entrance bay with similar gable.
South-east tower with 2-storey oriel, gabled clocks on each
face with pinnacles at each corner and spire. Left hand tower,
3 storeys of elaborately arcaded windows above the entrance
with Lombard friezes and bartizans with spires at angles.
Mansard roof with gabled windows to the south; other sides
with gables and chimneys. Main hotel entrance on end of curve
to Euston Road; arcaded porte-cochere above which 3 cusped
arches with small gabled roofs. Carved, stepped gable above
balustraded parapet flanked by turrets with spires and gables
over pointed windows.
West return elevation along Midland Road: first 3 bays
reproduce elevation found on principal facade. After the first
three bays of the return, the long elevation angles back to
follow the line of Midland Road with 8-window range followed
by a full height stepped gabled range marking the line of the
grand staircase. Former entrance from Midland Road simplified:
on first floor level above three segmental arches filled with
traceried windows; above this rising nearly to the top of the
gable is tripartite light with stone tracery.
This system of fenestration continues for one bay to the north
at which point the elevation begins to step down towards the
ancillary railway buildings to the north.
4 storeys over basement terminating in a corbelled parapet, a
total of 6 window ranges comprised of 2 and 3-light
double-height windows. 3-storey polygonal wing set between 2
storey blocks, that block to the right having one window range
and that to the left with 3-window range. St Pancras Station
is unusual in retaining a good deal of its related former
warehousing facilities. These are concentrated to the north of
the Hotel along Midland Road and Pancras Road, located at and
below track level. Although the elevation to Midland Road is
quite varied, a consistent feature is the pointed blind arcade
to ground floor.
Towards the Euston Road end there is a set-back which also has
blind pointed arcade; this section runs for roughly 11 bays of
the arched ground-floor structure. More elaborate 2-storey
structure of 8 window range with a flat arched opening for
vehicles consisting of a wrought-iron lintel set in the fifth
window range. To either side of this entrance the pointed
blinded arcade previously noted is continued.
Continuing north along Midland Road, there is another
carriageway entrance: a pointed arch with wooden doors and
hinges of original design. There follows railway arches Nos 17
through 25. To the first floor of this range is a blind
pointed arch arcade. Railway arches 14, 15 and 16 have been
rebuilt. Railway arches 4 through 9 have received a
first-floor brick addition.
Pancras Road elevation to the east.
Hotel elevation: the design of the main elevation continues
for 5 window ranges along the return, concluding in an
octagonal turret. On the east flank of the train shed a
2-storey structure with a lean-to roof, numbering Nos 9-91
Pancras Road. It is roofed in slate and on alternate bays
there are stacks. This structure has a 45-window range. At the
north it curves slightly. The elevation of every bay is
identical: on the ground floor a pointed segmental arch
carried on plain piers rebated to accommodate attached
columns. Above is a pointed arched window set in a shallow
pointed recess; all of the openings and recesses linked by a
carved impost. Many of the original shopfronts to the railway
arches survive intact. Also surviving are carriageway arches
to storage vaults under the station, originally for Burton
beer; these have double wooden doors with original ironwork,
grilles and hinges. North of No.91, the elevation steps up to
a tower with a blind arcade near the top. The substructure of
the station continues northwards to the first railway bridge.
The ground floor being articulated into bays pierced by
pointed arches. This arrangement continues to No.111. There is
an additional blind arch, formerly a carriageway, north of
this. There are 4 rectangular chimneys on the parapet line of
Nos 93 to 111. The original shopfronts have been altered,
though the structure itself is intact. Drinking fountain
comprising gabled stone block with granite eared and
shouldered inscribed aedicule having a semicircular basin.
Station approached by dramatic ramp rising from the western
end with arcaded retaining wall having inset shops. Ramp
gained by steps from the eastern end with pair of original
iron gates at the foot and bollards.
25-bay train shed a single 240 foot span in cast-iron arched
braces manufactured by the Butterley Iron Company (dated 1867)
and tied together by the floor girders of the station floor
which is effectively at 1st floor level. Ribs in the form of
pointed arches and whole structure supported under the
platform floor by a grid of iron columns; the structure of the
space was determined by the module of the Burton beer barrel.
Screen wall between concourse and hotel with pointed arch,
plate traceried windows which continue along the sides of the
shed at the southern end.
INTERIORS: booking hall: rectangular in plan and having 6 bays
and double height. Linenfold panelling to ground floor level
dates to the 1880s as does the curving wood screen of the
ticket office. Elaborately carved corbels to serving as
springers for former vaulting. The elevations of the booking
hall on north, south, east and west intact, that of greatest
interest to the east since it features 2 double-height, glazed
pointed arches with mullions and transoms: the glazing pattern
of original design; this forms a screen wall between the
booking hall and the platform. To west, decorative cast-iron
glazed canopy to taxi rank, narrow exit under arch to Midland
Road (qv). At east of concourse, Ladies' lavatories with
tiling and early C20 fittings.
Former hotel: painted decoration begun late in 1872 by
Frederick Sang at the suggestion of Scott; in December of 1873
Sang was replaced by Gillow and Co., who were also supplying
the furniture and fittings to the Hotel. Andrew Benjamin
Donaldson, a painter, oversaw the completion of the interior
decorations for Gillow and himself painted the figures at the
top of the grand staircase in 1876-77. By the summer of 1877
the interiors were largely complete. The interiors were
redecorated when electric light was installed between 1885 and
1889, the overseeing architects being Trubshaw and Towles.
This affected most of the principal public rooms; the entrance
hall from Euston Road and the lounge above did retain the
painted decoration from the first half of the 1870s. The
500-bedroomed hotel closed in 1935 and was used as offices but
has retained many original features, fixings and fittings
including tiles in fine ecclesiastical Gothic and Queen Anne
Revival styles. There are several interiors of exceptional
architectural interest. The entrance hall of Euston Road in
the west wing and the ladies' saloon above are said to have
been decorated by F Sang. Saloon with arcaded paired columns,
trabeated ceilings and other decorations, with balcony over
entrance. The Grand Staircase, also in the west wing, is of
stone supported on exposed and decorated cast-iron. It is set
in a rib-vaulted well, the spandrels to the vaults filled with
paintings of the virtues dressed in medieval and classicising
garb with the spandrel to the east depicting the arms of the
Midland Railway (being consolidated and restored at time of
inspection in September 1994). The Coffee Room on the ground
floor of the west wing has a crescent-shaped, square-ended
plan. It was altered with an overlay of Classical ornament in
the late C19 or possibly early C20, but many of the original
elements survive, the cornices and ceilings protected behind
later partitioning and false ceilings. Main staircase the most
dramatic space, the stone treads supported on exposed and
expressed cast-iron beams.
HISTORICAL NOTE: St Pancras was the terminus of the Midland
Railway and when built was the largest station roof in the
world without internal supports. In terms of both architecture
and engineering, it has claim to be Britain's most impressive
station. Dramatic roof line with gables and spires forms an
important landmark.
(Hunter M and Thorne R: Change at King's Cross: London: -1990:
65-74).
Listing NGR: TQ2980782564
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.
With temps between 95 and 100 almost every day I haven't been able to start prepping and painting the exterior. Instead I'm doing small projects as time and temperatures allow. The steering installation was pretty simple and is now complete.
Completed residences in Inala.
The history of Inala started as Serviceton suburb, the establishment of which was a meeting held in a Brisbane RSL Hall in May 1946. A group of ex-servicemen, led by Harold (Hock) Davis, were seeking affordable accommodation for their families during the post-war housing shortage. The Serviceton Co-operative Society was formed and they purchased 480 hectares of flood-safe land, which was then divided amongst the shareholders, giving them 800 square meters each. At that stage, Inala was planned as a satellite town set on a broad, high, gently sloping ridge. In 1949–1950 the Queensland Housing Commission purchased Serviceton, comprising approximately 850 acres (3.4 km) of land, from the faltering Serviceton Housing Co-operative.
The Housing Commission subsequently annexed another 200 acres (0.8 km) to the suburb and changed its name to Inala in 1953 to avoid postal confusion with another Serviceton in South Australia. The name 'Inala' is an indigenous word meaning 'resting place', as it was a traditional stopping point for indigenous travellers on their way east to the Moreton Bay region prior to colonisation. The traditional tribe is Jagera.
August 1962
www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/items/ITM436408
Neg: C2-4232
*SURLY* neck romancer pug complete bike
BLUE LUG custom
SPEC
Frame: *SURLY* neck romancer pug BLUE LUG CUSTOM PAINT by COOK PAINT WORKS
Fender: *PDW* dave's mud shovel
Stem: *EASTON* ea50
Wheels: *HOPE* evo2 × *SURLY* rolling darryl
Tire: *SURLY* nate 3.8
Brake lever:*AVID*
Sifter: *MICROSHIFT*
FD&RD: *SHIMANO* deore
Headset:*CANE CREEK* 40
Brake: *AVID* bb7
Handle: *RITCHEY* wcs riser bar (wet white)
Grip: *RITCHEY*
Saddle: *WTB* silverado (white)
The original vintage stocking is on the left "E R". I made the two matching stockings for a customer. She was pleased. :)
Here's a Ravelry link to get the free knitting pattern: www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/santa-claus-stocking
Completed Snow Hill Public Realm on Colmore Row.
I caught an X8 NXWM Platinum bus from Sheepcote Street in the Westside BID to Colmore Row in the Colmore BID.
For these views of the Snow Hill Public Realm.
Built during 2021, it was a bit late getting to completion.
I think they may also extend it beyond the Grand Hotel, at least as far as 103 Colmore Row.
*SURLY* krampus complete bike
BLUE LUG custom
SPEC
Frame: *SURLY* krampus BLUE LUG CUSTOM PAINT by COOK PAINT WORKS
Headset: *CHRIS KING* inset7 (black)
Wheels: *SURLY* rabbit hole × *CHRIS KING* classic hub (black)
Tire: *SURLY* knard
Brake lever:*PAUL* love lever (black)
Crankset: *SHIMANO* zee crankset
Bottom Bracket:*CHRIS KING*
Shifter:*SHIMANO* xt
RD:*SHIMANO* xt
Saddle: *WTB* volt
Brake: *AVID* bb7
Handle: *SALSA CYCLES* pro moto2 bar
Stem: *THOMSON* x4 stem (black)
Seatpost: *THOMSON* elite seatpost (black)
Chainkeeper: *PAUL* chain keeper
*REW10WORKS* complete bike
BLUE LUG custom
SPEC
Frame: *REW10WORKS*
Wheels: *VELOCITY* aerohead rim × *SHIMANO*
Tire: *SCHWALBE* marathon supreme tire
Shifter: *DIA-COMPE*
RD: *SHIMANO*
Crankset:*WHITE INDUSTRIES* eno single speed crank (silver)
Pedal:*MKS* lambda
stem: *NITTO* ui-2
Handle:*NITTO* b352 all rounder bar (silver)
Brake:*PAUL* racer brake
Brake Levers:*AVID
Seatpost:*THOMSON* masterpiece setback seatpost (silver)
Saddle: *BROOKS* b17
Racks:*NITTO* campee
Photography: Andréia + Nathalia Takeuchi
Model: Amanda Fiore @ Ford Models Brasil
Stylist: Marcela Baldissera | Styling | Tendências | Conceito
MUA: Jean Michel Battirola
Complete with its 'Great North Rail Project' lettering, Northern Class 150/1 150136 was passing Chapel Fold, running upgrade whilst working the 10.57 Preston to Colne service (2N16) on December 9th 2021. 150136 worked the first passenger carrying service over the then new Ordsall Chord at Salford on December 10th 2017.
An image recorded on the correct side of the low fence at this rural location.
A delicious blend of triangles from my Fat Quarter Shop bundle and a few extra fabrics including some hoarded AMH fabrics. Made and completed for my husband for Father's Day 2013.
I made my annual trip to London in November, as ever, the only bloke in a coach full of woman. I think it’s my 16th year now. A fund-raising trip in aid of Slaithwaite Brass Band it started as a one day trip and eleven years ago we started to stay overnight Sat/Sun at The Cumberland Hotel at Marble Arch, a superb central location. Leaving at seven we are usually at the hotel for 11.45 subject to traffic. We usually have really good weather, this year though Saturday was really wet, I was probably the only person on the trip who wasn’t bothered, having made the trip so many times I was looking forward to getting photos on the busy streets in the wet, all reflections and umbrellas, something different for a change. I headed off with my camera and backpack as soon as we got there. Currently struggling with a damaged ankle, I tried to keep the kit to a minimum and in the end, I decided to stick with my 16-35mm lens all weekend. I started with the Selfridges Christmas window display and worked my way to Piccadilly, making sure I found a licensed café for late lunch and a glass of wine (two actually) I was meeting my daughters and two of their friends to take them out later so I was working to a bit of an agenda.
After eating Italian, we popped along to the Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park only to find that they stopped serving food and drink at 10.00pm-it was the drink that we were after needless to say so we went back to the City of Quebec pub near the hotel. We were directed to the night club downstairs. Having been upstairs many times we had no idea the Quebec was a gay pub- we soon realised when we got downstairs. We had a good laugh and a drink or two and made it in before midnight.
I checked out loaded up with a beautiful breakfast at 8.15 on Sunday. It had dried up and was a glorious sunny day, a complete contrast to Saturday. I felt like I had London to myself for a while and made good progress, I made it to Covent Garden by 9.15. I walked through Seven Dials, Theatreland, Chinatown, St Pauls, crossed the Thames and down to Tower Bridge. I covered about ten Miles each day and took around 800 shots, mostly in the rain on Saturday.
I was father Christmas again on the way home, we all buy a mystery present and I get the job of going around the coach distributing them, there’s some serious drinking on the way home so things can get a bit boisterous at the back of the coach. We left at 3.15, had an overlong break at Tibshelf services and we were back in Slaithwaite for 8.30. A few of us dragged our bags to The Little Bridge wine bar for another latish night, followed by an early start for me unfortunately.