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Dated 1881. Interesting 3-storey, asymmetrical Scottish Baronial tenement with shop to ground. Crowstepped gable and corbelled square turret with doocot to right. Snecked sandstone bull-faced rubble with ashlar dressings. String courses over ground floor, stops of both courses overlap downpipes. Central entrance flanked by carriage pend to left and large display window. Windows at 1st floor, segmental-headed with hollow chamfered surround. 2 windows with moulded architraves to 2nd floor. Crowstepped gable with date stone 1881 and ball finial. Corner tower with arrow-loop, piended slate roof divided by flight holes. Used to have weathervane. Tall stack at wallhead to left.
Fallrohr-Sticker
Sticker on a downpipe
Nikon F6, 55mm Makro, Kodak TriX in Moersch EFD, Lithprint auf Fomatone MG 131; Moersch SE5 (first tray 50 A , 50 B 1000 H2O, 40 D; second tray 5 Lith Omega 500 H2O), partially bleached, partially selenium toned
A section of a facade of a commercial building clad with modern materials. At the lower left edge of the picture you can see the section of a (side) door.
Morphett Street - the gent and his dog looked interesting but when the stream of water from the downpipe popped in that was it - snap! Silver Efex Pro: Fuji Neopan ACROS 100 and 50% green filter
I could not pass this without a shot , a Yucca Gloriosa in bloom - a bit earlier than I thought they bloomed , must have got that wrong .
I was going to post a shot I took not far from here - a small hole in the pavement with ants and flying ants moving in and out . Again I thought flying ant day was somewhere in mid July so I am not sure why they were out and about today as it has not been that warm at all !!
Old Town is always an idyllic place after nightfall. This place is called Möbel Hansson, and they do some various things here but basically it's an antique shop.
The exquisite tiny courtyard. The building still operates as a modern almshouse and is therefore normally closed to the public, but you can always poke your camera through the ornate iron gate from the street as I did.
Only the downpipes and rainwater heads post-date the original build. The heads themselves date to 1784.
It was founded in 1509 by William Ford who endowed an almshouse for 5 men and a woman. This was completed, before his death in 1517, by William Pisford who increased the size of the endowment providing for six men and their wives. By 1800 the charity had become confined to women only. The North Side of the hospital was directly hit by a bomb in 1940 which killed the warden, a nurse and six residents. The damaged area was rebuilt in 1951-3 using original timbers and the whole structure was restored.
Wikipedia states it was constructed with a large amount of teak; surely an incredibly expensive and difficult to obtain imported item in early 16th century England, but being such a hard wood, perhaps why the timbers survived the bombing.
I'm no expert, but I've never heard of teak being used at this date before, certainly for vernacular buildings.
Grade l listed it is considered one of the finest examples of this style of vernacular architecture. (Wonderful carving on the barge-boards around the gables and the upper windows - easy to miss there is so much detail!)
In 2006, the building was used as a location for the episode of Doctor Who called The Shakespeare Code. In attempting to reconstruct the Globe Theatre, Shakespeare scholars have used Ford's Hospital to understand Elizabethan doorways.
sometimes the best bits are at the back of a building and not the facades, but where it butts up against adjoining buildings. sometimes its also the stuff of necessity rather than decoration that's the most interesting.
MONOCHROME of prior post
Nikon D800, 28-70mm lens,
A large warehouse divided into two parts. I liked the strict interplay of lines and surfaces - and the little bit of house wall resulted in a charming and lying triangle.
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Yesterday was the first day I went out without any cap on my head. There was basically no wind, just sun and melting ice pouring from all the downpipes. That sound is so amazing btw, because for me it literally means SPRING is here. This year spring came later than before but the gorgeous snow has brought some beautiful images too.
I noticed this little crocus by mistake. It was hidden underneath some thorn bushes...but yet so gorgeously violet, it took my breath away. Here you can see how the roots are still covered in snow. Sunlight made it bloom though and open up a little.
Happy Saturday and Easter eve.