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The depressing sight of the small housing development in the village, which is creating a lot of mud, great heaps of the stuff and muddy, clay coloured water streaming down the road.
125 pictures in 2025 (63) muddy
“To minimize development costs, NASA evaluated variations of the proven Saturn launch vehicle as booster for the Shuttle. Here the external tank is mounted on an unpiloted rocket stage, neither of them reusable. The operational cost of this concept was judged to be too high.”
Above per the placard associated with model of this configuration on display at the NASM, linked to, and credited below.
Also, per David S. F. Portree, at his "No Shortage of Dreams" blog:
“By mid-1971, this was one of the two leading Space Shuttle design configurations. The first stage, bearing the letters "USA" and a single stabilizing oversized tail fin, might have been derived from the Saturn V S-IC first stage.”
At:
spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2016/11/rube-goldbergs-sp...
And:
spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-apollo-shuttl...
With good reason, this image has been oft-published/reproduced. However, the above are about all I could find for a “caption”. Note also that my posted photo is an earlier/original(?) publication...from 1971. The 1972 re-issue seems to be the replicated version widely reproduced. Making this crazy rare & coveted...right?!
Another interesting variation:
www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum30/HTML/001098.html
Credit: collectSPACE website
Lastly, the source photo:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_13_Launch_(S70-38747).jpg
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Just gonna throw it out there...possibly by Loren R. Fisher. Maybe even Don Mackey?
SITUATED NEAR THE NORTH-WEST TIP OF WALES, THE TINY ISLET KNOWN AS SOUTH STACK ROCK LIES SEPARATED FROM HOLYHEAD ISLAND BY 30 METRES OF TURBULENT SEA, SURGING TO AND FRO IN CONTINUOUS MOTION. THE COASTLINE FROM THE BREAKWATER AND AROUND THE SOUTH WESTERN SHORE IS MADE OF LARGE GRANITE CLIFFS RISING SHEER FROM THE SEA TO 60 METRES. THE LIGHTHOUSE TOWER IS 28METRES TALL. THE LIGHTHOUSE FLASHES A WHITE LIGHT ONCE EVERY 10 SECONDS AND CAN BE SEEN FOR 24 NAUTICAL MILES.
SOUTH STACK LIGHTHOUSE WAS FIRST ENVISAGED IN 1665 WHEN A PETITION FOR A PATENT TO ERECT THE LIGHTHOUSE WAS PRESENTED TO CHARLES II. THE PATENT WAS NOT GRANTED AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL 9TH FEBRUARY 1809 THAT THE FIRST LIGHT APPEARED TO MARK THE ROCK. THE LIGHTHOUSE, ERECTED AT A COST OF £12,000, WAS DESIGNED BY DANIEL ALEXANDER AND ORIGINALLY FITTED WITH ARGAND OIL LAMPS AND REFLECTORS. AROUND 1840 A RAILWAY WAS INSTALLED BY MEANS OF WHICH A LANTERN WITH A SUBSIDIARY LIGHT COULD BE LOWERED DOWN THE CLIFF TO SEA LEVEL, WHEN FOG OBSCURED THE MAIN LIGHT.
IN THE MID 1870'S THE LANTERN AND LIGHTING APPARATUS WAS REPLACED BY A NEW LANTERN. NO RECORDS ARE AVAILABLE OF THE LIGHT SOURCE AT THIS TIME BUT IT WAS PROBABLY A PRESSURISED MULTIWICK OIL LAMP. IN 1909 AN EARLY FORM OF INCANDESCENT LIGHT WAS INSTALLED AND IN 1927 THIS WAS REPLACED BY A MORE MODERN FORM OF INCANDESCENT MANTLE BURNER. THE STATION WAS ELECTRIFIED IN 1938.
ON 12TH SEPTEMBER, 1984, THE LIGHTHOUSE WAS AUTOMATED AND THE KEEPERS WITHDRAWN. THE LIGHT AND FOG SIGNAL ARE NOW REMOTELY CONTROLLED AND MONITORED FROM THE TRINITY HOUSE OPERATIONAL CONTROL CENTRE IN HARWICH, ESSEX.
THE CHASM BETWEEN THE MAINLAND AND THE ROCK WAS AT FIRST TRAVERSED BY A HEMPEN CABLE 21 METRES ABOVE SEA LEVEL, ALONG WHICH A SLIDING BASKET WAS DRAWN CARRYING A PASSENGER OR STORES. THIS SYSTEM WAS REPLACED IN 1828 BY AN IRON SUSPENSION BRIDGE 1.5 METRES WIDE AND AGAIN IN 1964 BY AN ALUMINIUM BRIDGE. THE PRESENT FOOTBRIDGE WAS COMPLETED IN MID-1997. GRANTS TOTALLING £182,000 WERE RECEIVED FROM THE WELSH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY TO FUND THE STRUCTURE WHICH WAS DESIGNED AND BUILT BY LAINGS/MOTT MACDONALD. THE LANDWARD APPROACH TO THE BRIDGE IS BY DESCENDING 400 STEPS CUT INTO THE CLIFF FACE.
WITH THE COMPLETION OF THE FOOTBRIDGE THE ISLAND AND THE LIGHTHOUSE WERE REOPENED TO VISITORS.
Ship Yard Buildings, Crane. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Weathered ship yard buildings illuminated by saturated colors of artificial lighting
I recently had a chance to return to this old ship yard facility near Vallejo, California to work on night photography. This is actually the place where I first tried out that genre approximately fifteen years ago. It was more or less on a whim — I read that someone was inviting photographers to come up to Mare Island, in conjunction with the annual Flyway Festival, and find out about night photography. I knew almost nothing about it, but decided to give it a try. Since that time I've been hooked. I've returned to photograph that locations often during the intervening decade and a half, and my night photography expanded from that beginning point to incorporate other subjects and places. (Most recently I have focused on night street photography done with small handheld cameras.)
This photograph is a prime example of several of the things that intrigue me about photographing at night. Scenes that might seem mundane in "normal" daylight are often transformed in the night. Not only do many distractions simply disappear, but the light itself, especially in areas with varied artificial illumination, transforms these subjects. In many places LED lights have replaced the wild mix of tungsten, fluorescent, sodium vapor, and other sources today — an unfortunate development in the visual sense, as LED light is more or less like daylight. But in places like this spot, the colors of the light become intense. Here it is the exceedingly green light of a large work light that predominates. Another appealing aspect of night photography is that it lets me make photographs of things that I really can't see with my own eyes. In the ambient lighting I could only barely see the details of this scene. But with a long exposure there is enough light to reveal features that I could not see at all, a pure example of "seeing what the camera sees."
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A second photo of the Leyland Dromedary chassis,
I have cropped the picture to give a better view of the prototype Atlantean bus in the background,
I will post the complete picture shortly
Platinotype (right) from enlarged negative (28x28 cm) (bottom left) from medium format (6x6: Top left)) through reversal development over lith film. Pure palladium. Developer Potassium oxalate, arches platine.
Observation in Development
Observation ID: 230
Observation Data ID: 765
Norad ID: 39444
Ground Station: 16
Start Datetime: 2015-10-08T20:28:51Z
End Datetime: 2015-10-08T20:40:48Z
Transmitter ID: Pt4MFHSC8UFHu3aTQTLz9K
Audio File: ogg file
Past observations of 39444: production - development
Fenix II development transforms old warehouse by stacking new apartments on top of the 100yr old building.
heuer microsplit LED / LCD 1/100-stopwatch development (from left): ref. HL 820 (1973) - ref. 520 (1974, this one is a ref. 530) - ref. 320 (1975) - ref. 370 (1976).
the development can see as a revolution. the size is always getting smaller, also the batterys (from 4 x AAA to 2 x LR1130 - some specials-models with accus)
> the first microsplit was designed inhouse, the other ones by richard sapper.
> the first two models are with split- and taylor-function, the following models only with split-function.
from the ref. 820 you get ref. 802 with 1/10 s. from the ref. 520 there are also models with 1/100 min. or 1/100 h. the ref. 320 has a following model in plastic (also without split-function), who endet up as a solar-model (also to TAGheuer) in diverse colours. the ref. 370 you can have with silver body und black strap.
I've been searching the last two years a way to turn digital raw into pastel like Fujifilm 400H Pro colors.
I've failed a million times and thought that it's impossible since film reacts to light differently each time vs. digital sensor.
I've come close, but the results vary between lighting situations from bad to excellent. But now I've really cracked something cool.
This particular preset + method editing 8bit jpg (now raw) has been revolutionary discovery. I've gotten excellent results every time and the pictures are always blooming with bright pastel like colors.
I'm about to write this to my blog and release this updated 400H preset in the next few days.
aerial view of the construction of the Mill View Orbit development in Dereham - Norfolk UK aerial image
trying some macro...
old beroflex AF 35-70mm lens from an old minolta dynax 3ix cam. as i don't have any adapter on my e-mount, i used some piece of toilette paper roll :).
proceed in darktable
Graflex Speed Graphic
150mm f/6.3 Fuji
Foma Fomapan 400 4x5
Rodinal/Adonal 1+100 Stand Development 1hr
All of the images are "tracings" and hail from various sources. The entry covers at least two or three days from last week and more or less reads from top to bottom.
A new commercial complex known as Haymarket House is to be constructed at this site at Burgess Lane in Smithfield.
Tuesday, 23 April, 2019
Development location:
1-6 Haymarket, Dublin, Dublin, D07 CDN0
Description:
Enabling works consisting of: demolition (in full) of the existing office & residential block at the Haymarket Site inclusive of the basement ( 1-6 Haymarket, 56-58 Smithfield including Smithfield Chambers), provision of associated hoarding and also provision of temporary stays for the Luas OHL (ahead of demolition of the existing building block currently providing support) with associated works. The site was formally known as the Tully Site. The demolition duration is approx. 5-6 months. All of the works above will not form a part of the permanent structure of the Mixed Use Office Development (Building) planned to be constructed on this site once enabling works completed. Mixed Use Office Development (Building) will be a subject of a separate Commencement Notice with documentation (Long Form).
Kodak Tri-X 400 @ 1600
Rodinal 1+100, 120 min @ 23°C
Semi stand development, gentle agitation 10 sec every 30 min
Helsinki, Finland 2024.
Praktica MTL3
Chinon Auto Chinon 55mm f1.7
Agfaphoto APX 100 shot at ISO 800
Compard R09 One Shot 1+90 semi-stand development 120min at 18-19°C
Agitation 1min + gently at 45 and 90 min
this land used to be an informal settlement now reclaimed by the national government for development
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The west side of the island, near to Playa Blanca in Lanzarote. Much development stopped during the 2008 financial crash.
2012
The Development of Armidale. What is so special about Armidale? Well it is a cathedral city with both Anglican and Catholic cathedrals; it is a wealthy city with a prosperous hinterland and many mansions; it is Australia’s highest city with a bracing English style climate; it is an education city with a university and several prestigious boarding schools; it was one of a number of sites considered for the Australian capital city site after Federation; it has been one of the centres wanting to secede from the rest of NSW; and it has an interesting history with a squatting phase, mining phase, agricultural phase etc. It is also a regional capital and has always been considered the “capital” of the New England region - a distinctive Australian region defined by rainfall, altitude, etc. And it has always been on the main inland route between Sydney and Brisbane but that is no longer of importance in this aviation transport era.
The origins of Armidale district go back to Henry Dumaresq when he squatted on land here and took out leaseholds on Saumarez and Tilbuster stations in 1834. He and other squatters soon displaced the local aboriginal people after a period of considerable violence. The turning point in terms of the city came in 1839 when George Macdonald was appointed Commissioner for Crown Lands for the New England District. He arrived with a small police force and he set about building a house and office headquarters. The site he chose is now Macdonald Park. NSW land regulations allowed the government to set aside reserves for future towns or to resume leasehold land for the creation of towns. Macdonald immediately surveyed the local landowners of which there were 37 in New England, giving it a population of 422 people. But this was the convict era of NSW and half of the population were assigned convicts. They provided the brawn to develop the stations, build the shepherd’s huts, dig the wells and dams, and fell the timber and clear the land. Of the original 422 people in New England only 10 were females, probably wives of shepherds or convict women who were cooks etc. Most stations had between 8 and 12 assigned convicts. Saumarez for example, had 11 convicts and 8 free male workers in 1839. In 1841 convicts still accounted for 42% of the population of New England and as they completed their seven year terms, many stayed on to become the founders of towns like Armidale. Transportation of convicts to NSW ceased around 1843 and so convict assignees gradually declined in the region, but ex-convicts remained.
Macdonald named the town site Armidale after the Armadale estate on the Isle of Skye. Macdonald had barracks built for the police men, stables, a store shed, his own house and he enclosed some paddocks for the growing of wheat and vegetables. His first years were often taken up with writing reports about Aboriginal massacres and deaths including the Bluff Rock Massacre on the Everett brothers’ run at Ollera near Guyra. Macdonald seldom investigated reports of Aboriginal deaths closely. He was a pompous little man, just 4 feet 10 inches tall with a deformed hunched back. But he was meticulous in most matters. In 1841 he was jilted just before his proposed wedding to a local woman. He remained in Armidale until 1848 overseeing the early development of the town.
By 1843 a small town had emerged with a Post Office and a Court House, blacksmith, wheelwright, hotel, general store etc. The town provided government and commercial services to the surrounding pastoral estates. But the town reserve included other lands that were sold or leased to farmers- agriculturists who grew wheat. By 1851 Armidale had two flour mills. The long transport route to Newcastle and on to Sydney meant all wheat had to be converted to flour before it was transported to the markets. The old dray route down to the coast was also used for the transport of the region’s major product- wool. The official town was surveyed and the streets laid out in 1849. Many of the early pastoralists were commemorated in street names – Beardy, Dumaresq, Dangar, Marsh, Faulkner and Rusden to name a few.
In 1851 Armidale also had local industries for the regional population- two breweries, general stores, chemist, butcher etc. In the early 1850s the churches began to erect their first buildings and the town became “civilised” with more and more women living there. Then gold discoveries near Uralla and towards the eastern escarpment boosted the town’s population and services. A newspaper was founded, a hospital was built and the population reached 858 in 1856. A gaol was built on South Hill in 1863, the town became a municipality in 1864, and the Robertson’s Land Acts (1861) were introduced throughout NSW to break up the big pastoral estates for ‘selectors” or small scale farmers on 320 acre blocks. This boosted the total population of the Armidale region but as noted elsewhere the pastoralists also used this era to buy up large lots of land freehold for themselves by the process of “dummying”- using relatives and employees to buy small parcels of land which they sold on to the large land owners. But the early years of growing wheat around Armidale collapsed in the 1870s as the wheat lands of South Australia opened up and cheap SA imports destroyed the New England wheat industry. Other forms of agriculture were then taken up in New England.
Another key factor in the growth of Armidale in the late 1870s and into the 1890s was its English style climate. In 1885 Armidale was proclaimed a city. It had a population of 3,000 residents - a remarkable achievement for a locale so far from the coast. This was of course boosted further with the arrival of the railway in Armidale in 1883. The line soon reached the Queensland border with a connection on to Brisbane. But the railway was not all good news as the city of Armidale could then receive beer and other supplies on the railway from Newcastle or Sydney and some local industries closed down with the arrival of the railway. By the 1880s the boom years were apparent as large mansions and prominent commercial buildings were erected in the growing city.
The fact that Armidale is equidistant from Sydney and Brisbane was one of the factors considered in its application to become the new Federal capital. The fact that Armidale had nearby reservoirs and a large water supply big enough for a large capital city was also an important consideration. The new Federal government was considering the site of the capital city after a long drought so access to water supplies was a major concern. As we known the site of Canberra near Yass was finally selected despite its lesser supply of water but it was closer to Sydney.
Regional Art gallery and Aboriginal Art Centre.
This gallery is one of the regional galleries funded by the NSW government. It is especially noted for its outstanding collection of Australia Art which was donated to the gallery by Howard Hinton (1867-1948.) Hinton was a company director and art collector. Despite poor eyesight he travelled the world looking at galleries and he befriended several artists. In Sydney he met and lived with noted Australian painter such as Tom Roberts, Arthur Stretton and Julian Ashton. He made his first donation of art to the National Gallery of NSW in 1914. Over the years he gave 122 paintings to that gallery. He was a trustee of the National Gallery of NSW from 1919-1948. He was knighted in 1935 for his services to art. In 1928 when the National Gallery of NSW refused some of his donations he decided to endow the relatively new Teachers’ College at Armidale with a collection of art. The Director of Education who was in charge of the College concurred with the idea and the first paintings were received in Armidale in 1929. He later gave over 1,000 paintings to the Teachers’ College and over 700 art books for its library. His collection illustrated the development of Australian art in particular from the 1880s through to the 1940s. The artist Norman Lindsey described the collection as the only complete collection of Australian art. A portrait of Howard Hinton is held by the former Armidale College of Advanced Education which is now part of the University of New England. The art collection has been transferred on to the Armidale Regional Art Gallery. The Hinton Collection is partially on display always. The Persian Love Cake in the Art Gallery café is to die for!
Teachers College and the Education Museum.
In the 19th century most school teachers were untrained but a few were trained in Fort Street Normal School in Sydney from 1848. The first teachers college was not established until 1912 in some temporary buildings. The college opened in new premises in 1920 which were not completed until 1924. But Armidale got the second teachers college in NSW in 1928 with its first proper building being constructed in 1930 at the height of the Great Depression. Why was this so? The answer is political. New England was in the midst of a secession movement in the late 1920s and New England was the home to several Country Party politicians with great influence. The Country Party came to power in NSW in 1927 and the new Minister for Education, David Drummond was the local member for New England. Drummond favoured a second teachers college because the staff at Sydney Teachers College had complained that country students coming to Sydney to be trained were being seduced by the ways of the sinful city and they seldom wanted rural school postings after a stint in Sydney! A Teachers College in Armidale would stop the debauchery! Although Armidale Teachers’ College was the first, the government made plans for additional teachers colleges in Bathurst and Wagga Wagga which eventually were established. The 1863 gaol in Armidale was closed in 1920 and was demolished to make way for the new teachers college building. As one commentator said at the time “a new Parthenon on the hill was to replace the penitentiary on the hill”!
The government appointed Cecil Bede Newling (1883-1975) as the principal of the new college. Today the old Teachers College building is named the Newling building. Newling had gone out as a probationary teacher in 1899 before attending courses at Fort Street Normal School from 1904. He later described his teacher training as dull. He was first appointed head teacher at Cootamundra in 1923, and then inspector at Broken Hill in 1925. He had a rapid rise in the Education Department. By 1925 he had also been awarded a BA and a MA from the University of Sydney. As first principal of the Armidale Teachers College he influenced everything. He had a forceful personality and took interest in all aspects of the College from the grounds and gardens to the curriculum and to the health of the students. During World War Two he became secret custodian of priceless art and written materials from the Mitchell Library and the National Gallery of NSW. He retired in 1947 with his “college on the hill” well established and valued. It is open weekday afternoons from 2 to 4 pm to members of the public.
Central Park Historical Walk and Nearby Structures.
The buildings of significance around Central Park are the old Wesley Methodist Hall and the now Uniting Church- just off the Park in Rusden Street; St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church and Hall; St. Peter’s Anglican Cathedral, Deanery and Parish Hall; and St. Mary’s Catholic Cathedral. Nearby along Faulkner Street is the Town Hall( just off Faulkner), the Post Office, the Court House, and the entrance to the Mall.
•Masonic Building. The Lodge here in Armidale purchased this land in 1860 and had a lodge built by a local builder Frederick Nott. A new severe classical style Lodge was erected in 1924 to replace the earlier one.
•Lindsay House is at 128 Faulkner Street and it dates from the mid 1920s. It is a mock Tudor house with exposed beams and woodwork on the exterior and stucco areas. This “English” style of house was popular in New England at this time. It is a typical “gentleman’s “house and it was built for a local doctor. In 1972 the former Armidale College of Advanced Education purchased the house for staff accommodation and they renamed it Lindsay House. Today it is a luxury bed & breakfast establishment.
•Southall is a fine 1888 residence at 88 Barney Street oppopsite Central Park. At one stage it was called Girrawheen Boarding House as it provided accommodation for the girls enrolled at New England Ladies College. This house was purchased in 1928 by the Armidale Teachers’ College for accommodation for female teaching students. It was linked to Smith House, next door, in 1960 and then became a university residential college but it is now a backpackers complex. Apart from wrought iron lace work it features two toned brick work on the quoins and the bricks are done in Flemish bond pattern.
•Catholic Cathedral and Convent. See next page.
•Anglican Cathedral and Deanery. See next page.
•St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church. The foundation stone dates the building to 1881. Its Gothic style, tall steeple, wrought iron decorations and lancet windows add considerably to the appearance of Central Park. The white painted masonry quoins, window surrounds etc contrast sharply with the dark coloured bricks.
•Old Wesley Methodist Hall and Church. The Old Wesley Church was erected in 1864 and is one of the oldest still standing churches of Armidale. It was replaced by a new Methodist Church in 1893 and it then became the church hall. The Old Wesley Church also has Red Cedar joinery inside.
•The Folk Museum. This is housed in the old School of Arts and Mechanics Institute building of 1863. Such places were crucial education centres in the 19th century. It was used as the town library for many years and is now a museum.
•Armidale Town Hall. This impressive structure was completed in 1883 just before Armidale became a city in 1885. It has many decorative features including pilasters (flat columns), scroll work, a central triangular pediment above the main entrance, a niche like entrance with a curved upper balcony and balustrade. In 1990 the City decorated the interior in Art Deco style!
•The Armidale Post Office. The first PO was established in 1843. This building was constructed in 1880. The beautiful arched veranda and upper balcony were added in 1897. It is still the city Post Office.
•Lands Board building now the Lands Office. This elegant building with its filigree lace work on the upper balcony and the lower veranda originally had a slate roof and slate chimney pots. The symmetry of this building is superb. It was designed by the same architect who did the government Post Office next door and the style would date it to the same period -1880.
•Opposite are the architectural plans for the amazing Imperial Hotel. It was built in 1890 William Miller who was of the original discoverer of gold at Hillgrove. He made his fortune on the gold fields and then erected the finest hotel in Armidale. It is noted for its proportions, classical style, ornate parapets along the roof line and filigree caste iron. The urns atop the “floating” triangular pediments are wonderful. It demonstrates how important the travelling public were to early hoteliers like William Miller. Miller began life as a poor farmer at Saumarez Ponds. It is run down today.
•On the opposite corner is the current Westpac Bank. It was formerly the Bank of NSW and it was put up in 1938 in classical style. The 1817 on the parapet refers to the founding of the Bank of NSW by Mary Reibey, a former convict, depicted on our $20 note. Along from this is the marvellous AMP building with its statute on top.
•Armidale Court House in the Mall. This imposing building with a classical Greek façade with columns, and wrought iron gates was built in 1859. It was extensively altered in 1870 when the two side wings were attached. The clock tower was added in 1878. Inside the joinery is all Australian Red Cedar. Note the cobblestoned courtyard. At the rear of the Court House is the original Sheriff’s Cottage (1870) which was originally a “lock up “for prisoners!
•Hanna’s Arcade in Barney Street. See the leadlight mural, wooden arcade, and fine department store.
Catholic Cathedral and building.
The first Catholic priest to arrive in Armidale came in 1853. He took services in a small wooden Catholic Church that had opened in 1848. The priest then built a parsonage which became part of De La Salle College, now O’Connor High School. It has since been demolished. In 1862 the Catholic Diocese of Armidale was established but it was 1869 before the first bishop, Bishop O’Mahony, settled in Armidale. He was consecrated as bishop in 1871 at the same time as the commissioning of the cathedral. It was dedicated in 1872 but replaced by the current cathedral in 1912. When Bishop O’Mahony left he was replaced by Bishop Torreggiani who was replaced by Bishop O’Connor in 1904.
The new cathedral of St. Mary and St. Joseph was built in Pyrmont stone from Sydney and Armidale polychrome (or multi- coloured) bricks. Such brick work was popular in the 1880s but out of fashion by 1912. Brown, cream and red bricks were used for the cathedral to highlight its architectural features. It is a much larger structure than the Anglican cathedral and dominates the townscape around Central Park. The brickwork was used for quoins, cross banding and other feature work. It was designed in Gothic style by Sherrin and Hennessy in Sydney and constructed by a local builder Frederick Nott. It has a turreted tower with a needle spire on top with louvre windows. It has the original slate roof and fine marble work inside and outside in the form of fine marble statues. The interior is also noted for its fine hammer beam ceiling. The pipe organ was made in 1900 in England and rebuilt here in 1912. Like the Anglicans, the Catholics divided the New England diocese in 1887 when the Diocese of Grafton was established.
Near the cathedral but further along Barney Street is the Merici House which was built as a Catholic School and convent very early in 1882. Angela Merici was the founder of the Ursuline Order of Nuns who began teaching at that school in 1883. The Ursulines arrived from London in 1882 to do missionary work in Armidale. Their order was established in Italy in 1534. The Ursulines in Armidale established their mother house here and sent nuns out to many other communities across NSW and Qld from Armidale. But in Armidale they set up St. Ursulines College from their small origins in Merici House near the Catholic Cathedral. It was erected as a fine two storey house for a local businessman in 1877. He sold it to the Ursuline Order in 1882. St. Ursuline College operated from 1882 until it merged with the Catholic boys’ school, La Salle College (established 1906 by Bishop O’Connor) in 1975. The amalgamated school was renamed O’Connor High School after Bishop O’Connor. O’Connor High School operates on a different site in the city of Armidale to the north east of the town.
Anglican Cathedral and associated buildings.
Bishop Broughton conducted the first Anglican service in Armidale in 1845 with the first church opening in 1850, followed by a parsonage for Rev. Tingcombe who was the first minister arriving in 1846. Armidale was part of the Diocese of Newcastle. Then in 1869 the diocese of Grafton and Armidale was established. The founding Bishop was James Turner from Norfolk, England. His diocese was the size of England! He started with 10 clergy and 21 churches. He appointed John Horbury Hunt to design and oversee the building of a suitable cathedral in Armidale. The foundation stone was laid in 1873 and the cathedral opened in 1875 as St. Peter’s. Hunt designed a relatively small cathedral of brick, his favourite building medium, rather than stone. Turner continued as Bishop until 1893. Before he left the diocese of Armidale he had the Christ Church Cathedral erected in Grafton in 1884 and a new Grafton diocese created. Bishop Turner also used John Horbury Hunt for cathedral that we saw in Grafton. By the time Turner left he had 2 diocese and 58 churches.
The Anglican Cathedral was made of Armidale blue bricks with clay taken from Saumarez station. The vestry was added in 1910 according to Hunt’s design (he died in 1903) and the tower, again according to Hunt’s design in 1936. The cathedral features Gothic arches, a square tower, small pyramids on top of buttresses, moulded bricks for special areas and interesting English bonds and patterns. Uralla granite was used for keystones and the foundations. The Deanery was also designed by Hunt and built of the same Armidale blue bricks in 1891. Hunt was known to make great demands on the brickies as he was a perfectionist and supervised all the intricate brickwork very closely. The result was an outstandingly fine cathedral. Note the band of green tiles above the main door included by Hunt. Note also the fine stained glass windows, and one is a memorial to Bishop Turner’s wife who died in 1879. The cathedral has a fine timber ceiling. Hunt even selected the pulpit and lectern to suit his design. The pulpit has an effigy of St. Peter carved in the sandstone. Some of Hunt’s original plans can be viewed in the Tower Room.