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This meeting house does not appear in Butler 1999. Thomas Stubbs held a Meeting for Worship in 1655 in a previous building here when it was owned by Mungo Bewley. This structure was built in 1713 and described in a sale in 2006 and by a very old villager in 2009 as a former Quaker Meeting House. A Quaker burial ground was recorded behind the house in 1923 which adds weight to the idea that this was both a home and a meeting house. According to Donald A. Rooksby, And Sometime Upon the Hills. 3 vols. Vol. 3, The Quakers in North-West England (Colwyn Bay: 1998), "another Quaker family which lived here was the Bartons; Barnard Barton (d. 1773) is claimed to have been the inventor of the spinning jenny, which was improved upon by Arkwright; the poet Bernard Barton (1784-1849) was his grandson." This is disputed on two unspecified counts at bartonhistory.wikispaces.com/The+Grange%2C+Ivegill although no source is given.
Last week I bought the Nik Color Efex Pro 3.0 (Complete) + Capture NX 2 Bundle.
To take the software for a spin, I pulled out this photo from the 2009 Chandigarh/Shimla trip and re-processed it from scratch. I'm happy with what I could achieve with the photo here as compared to the previous attempt with UFraw (below).
U-points rock. U-points with 52 new enhancement and stylization filters kick serious butt!
Urbex Benelux -
Follies began as decorative accents on the great estates of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, but they flourished especially in the two centuries which followed. Many estates had ruins of monastic houses and (in Italy) Roman villas; others, lacking such buildings, constructed their own sham versions of these romantic structures.
Photo John Cottis.
Built 1717; closed by 1779. Used as two cottages by 1935 and as a single cottage by 1956. The roof has possibly been raised and the old chimney may not be original.
The railway line from Peterborough to Quorn was being built: Bruce, on that line, was declared a town in 1881.
From 1917 the railway linked Adelaide with Perth with the Transcontinental Railway.
The land around Bruce was not suited to farming and by the 1970s the town had become almost a ghost town.
This is the dwelling of the Sufi Master Sri Radha Mohan Lal (d. 1966) in 2004. Keep in mind that the house has been downsized and a great portion of the once verdant and spacious grounds have been sold for such purposes as to satisfy various inheritance issues. Remember the house was originally constructed and completed in 1938 by Sri Brij Mohan Lal (1898-1955)…A very famous and powerful Sufi Master of great renown...And the oldest son of Chachaji Maharaj (d.1947)
In use. Photo Hilary Whitehead. www.flickr.com/photos/39948874@N08/ 1909 extension (architect Shaw & Vowels). Part of the building was sold to a housing association in 1989 and this part retained; the classroom altered to be a meeting room and a flat provided on the first floor.
View of a building partially hidden by trees. There are people on the front porch
and a woman standing on the second-floor porch.
Digital Collection:
North Carolina Postcards
Publisher:
MacGowan Cooke Printing Co., Chattannooga, Tenn.
Date:
1908
Location:
Gastonia (N.C.); Gaston County (N.C.);
Collection in Repository
Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077); collection guide available
online at www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/77barbour/77barbour.html
The Irrawaddy river is the largest river in Burma. It remains the country main communication axis, used for trade and transportation.
The delta is a fertile area, one of the world's major rice-growing areas, and a biodiversty hotspot thanks by its mangrove ecoregions.
The best transport modality is the boat. But please don't rush! More than 28 hours are necessary to reach the Ayeyarwady region capital Pathein from Yangon, a mere 150km… So enjoy the view!
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Bienvenue dans le delta de l'Irrawaddy.
L'irrawaddy est le principal fleuve de Birmanie, coulant du nord au sud du pays pour se jeter dans la mer d'Andaman. Il est longtemps resté le principal axe de communication, structurant la nation birmane.
Le delta est une région fertile, propice à la culture du riz et doté d'une grande biodiversité notamment grâce à ses mangroves.
Le meilleur moyen de se déplacer dans le delta reste le bateau. Il ne faut cependant pas être pressé : 28 heures sont nécessaires pour parcourir les 150km séparant Rangoun à Pathein, la capitale de la région d'Ayeyarwady. Alors apprécions le paysage et la vie sur l'eau !
Included with a few pictures from the circles area in a personal blog post today. dennissylvesterhurd.blogspot.com/2024/08/queens-park-neig...
This Cob dwelling was started during the very first SGNB workshop and finished by Sasha in in the 2004
Title: Mexican Quarters at El Paso, Tex.
Creator: Horne, Walter H., 1883-1921
Date: ca. 1904-1918
Part of: George W. Cook Dallas/Texas image collection
Series: Series 3: Photographs
Series 3, Subseries 3, Postcards
Series 3, Subseries 3d, RPPC, Texas
Place: El Paso, El Paso County, Texas
Description: Small buildings of mud and wood near the railroad.
Physical Description: 1 photographic print (postcard): gelatin silver; 9 x 14 cm
File: a2014_0020_3_3_d_0460_r_elpasomexican_opt.jpg
Rights: Please cite DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University when using this file. A high-resolution version of this file may be obtained for a fee by contacting degolyer@smu.edu.
For more information and to view the image in high resolution, see: digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/gcd/...
House on Maiden Street, Weston, Hertfordshire. Numbers 1, 2 and 4, but looks like they might have all been incorporated into one, as there are bricked-up doorways.
Hertfordshire GOC's 12 July 2014 walk of 11.5 miles, a circular route in Hertfordshire from Weston via Weston Green End to Bygrave, Wallington, Clothall and back to Weston via Weston Church End. Please check out the other photos from the walk here, or to see my collections, go here. For more information on the Gay Outdoor Club, see www.goc.org.uk.
A tenant-owners´society, the dwellings were built in 1952. At that time it was the biggest in Gothenburg: 278 dwellings. The bricks and balconies are original. The building is designed like a comb with five open yards - in each yard the balconies have their own colour.
I lived in the dwelling on the ground floor for 10 years.
www.gbghus14.se (website for the tenant-owners´society, only in Swedish)
"Selling the Dwelling: The Books That Built America’s Houses, 1775-2000" At the Grolier Club December 11 2013-February 7 2014; Curated by Richard W. Cheek
"In December of 2013 the Grolier Club will host an extraordinary exhibition on the history of the American Dream of home ownership. Over 200 rare books, periodicals, drawings, periodicals, and printed ephemera will show how the idea of “A Home for All” was marketed in the United States, first through eighteenth-century builder’s guides, then by nineteenth-century pattern books, and finally by twentieth-century house plan catalogues.
"The plans, elevations, and large, elaborate, and often colorful perspective views in these books fueled the growth of home ownership in America. The story begins in 1775 with George Bell’s reproduction of Abraham Swan’s The British Architect, credited as the first architectural book published in America. The show will contrast early American editions of luxurious pattern books for the wealthy with a selection of the more modest “builder’s guides” used by most Americans who desired to construct a house. As the Republic grew, and novel styles of design began to challenge Classical and Federal norms, new domestic pattern books such as Alexander Jackson Davis’s Rural Residences (1837) began to offer plans and elevations in the new Italianate and Gothic styles.
"After a hiatus in building during the Civil War, American house building resumed in earnest, fueled by an explosion of architectural book publishing, which now focused on providing house plans by mail. The trend begins in 1856 with Cleaveland and Backus’s Village and Farm Cottages and Cummings and Miller’s Architecture (1865), and grows throughout the 1870s with Hussey’s 1875 Home Building, and Palliser’s Model Homes for the People (1876).
"By the 1880s the quasi-periodical publications of Robert W. Shoppell’s “Co-operative Building Plan Association” illustrate the growing importance of magazines -- Godey’s Lady’s Book, Ladies’ Home Journal, House Beautiful and House and Garden -- as a vehicle for popularizing house designs. At the turn of the century, as the demand for more small houses increased, local millwork companies and national retailers like Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward began to produce pre-cut homes that could be shipped by railroad for assembly by local carpenters. The exhibition devotes a special section to the advertising and marketing of this new mode of house-building.
"With so many different businesses issuing house plan books simultaneously, an incredible variety of often elaborately-designed and printed publications was produced, usually accompanied by other forms of advertisement such as home planning guides, company journals, flyers, posters, calendars and paper models. Focusing directly on the consumer, chiefly on women, this vast panoply of promotional material promised a tasteful, convenient, and comfortable dwelling to anyone who purchased the products and services or followed the advice being offered. The post-WWII home-building boom reinvigorated plan book production, with modernism gaining a foothold when the undecorated version of the ranch house became part of the vogue for wide, single-level houses in the 1950s and early 1960s.
"The exhibition tracks extensive and rapid changes to the literature of house building after 1970. The level of house catalogue publication declined in the 1970s and 80s, chiefly because large tract developers were making more of the design decisions for new dwellings than prospective homeowners were. Many smaller house plan publishers went out of business, and the supply of plan books was further diminished in the 1990s, as house designs became increasingly available on internet sites which offered CD-ROMS instead of printed catalogues.
"The evolution of the house design book in the United States is a long and complicated story, filled with architectural creativity and banality, commercial genius and excess, egalitarian and humanitarian ideals, literary and social ambition, can-do individualism, faith in progress and invention, and endless energy. All of these quintessential American traits are bound within the pages of the builder’s guides, pattern books, catalogues, and other forms of architectural literature that have competed for the financial and psychological rewards involved in designing and building a domestic haven for every citizen. Curator Richard W. Cheek highlights the more visually arresting and socially compelling examples of this genre, focusing on books that reveal the character of our country as much as they do the style of our houses."
Photograph by James Russiello