Examples of the original series of Thalys TGV sets heads towards the end of their journey from Amsterdam

The Statue of Liberty on Ellis Island and examples of urban forestry in New York City are seen from the High Line, an elevated railway line owned by the City of New York, today it is a 1.45-mile-long linear public park maintained, operated, and programmed by Friends of the High Line, in partnership with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, on Thursday, September 17, 2015. High Line was opened in 1934 and moved goods to and from Manhattan’s largest industrial district until 1980. The third and final phase officially opened to the public on September 21, 2014. The High Line's green roof system with drip irrigation is designed to allow the planting beds to retain as much water as possible; because many of the plants are drought-tolerant, they need little supplemental watering. When supplemental watering is needed, hand watering is used so as to tailor the amount of water to the needs of individual species and weather conditions, and to conserve water. High Line is independently funded from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service (USFS). Urban forestry and green spaces are priority areas for USFS. With 80 percent* of the nation's population in urban areas, there are strong environmental, social, and economic cases to be made for the conservation of green spaces to guide growth and revitalize city centers and older suburbs. Urban forests broadly include urban parks, street trees, landscaped boulevards, public gardens, river and coastal promenades, greenways, river corridors, wetlands, nature preserves, natural areas, shelter belts of trees and working trees at industrial brownfield sites. Urban forests are dynamic ecosystems that provide needed environmental services by cleaning air and water helping to control storm water, and conserving energy. They add form, structure, beauty and breathing room to urban design, reduce noise, separate incompatible uses, provide places to recreate, strengthen social cohesion, leverage community revitalization, and add economic value to our communities. Urban forests, through planned connections of green spaces, form the green infrastructure system on which communities depend. Green infrastructure works at multiple scales from the neighborhood to the metro area up to the regional landscape. This natural life support system sustains clean air and water, biodiversity, habitat, nesting and travel corridors for wildlife, and connects people to nature. Urban forests, through planned connections of green spaces, form the green infrastructure system on which communities depend. Urban and Community Forestry (UCF) is a cooperative program of the US Forest Service that focuses on the stewardship of urban natural resources. UCF provides technical, financial, research and educational services to local government, non-profit organizations community groups, educational institutions, and tribal governments. The program is delivered through its legislative partners, the state forestry agencies in 59 states and US territories. Forest Service cooperative programs are currently being redesigned to make more effective use of federal resources. Programs will be focused on issues and landscapes of national importance and prioritized through state and regional assessments. Over the next five years an increasing percentage of funding will be focused on landscape scale projects. Three national themes provide a framework for this work: conserve working forest landscapes; protect forests from harm; and enhance benefits associated with trees and forests. More information and upcoming webinars on December 9, 2015 | 1:00pm-2:15pm ET; January 13, 2016 | 1:00pm-2:15pm ET; and February 10, 2016 | 1:00pm-2:15pm ET can be seen at *http://www.fs.fed.us/ucf/program.shtml. USDA Photo By Lance Cheung.

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I was checking the local Craigslist in Vancouver, B.C. as well as Seattle looking for a sport/light tourer and came across this 1983 ( or '84 ) 59 cm Gran Tour in Seattle. Some searching on the internet showed it was sold as a frame only - hand built from Reynolds 531C in the ilkeston shop where the racing bikes were also made which was called SBDU or Specialist Bicycle Development Unit of Raleigh. Good company I guess! It was purchased in England by the original owner, who also had an older Carlton he decided to restore and sell the Gran Tour. I have found out very little about this particular model, coming across 7 other examples on the internet, my guess is they were built from 1983 - 1986 when the ilkeston shop was then closed and moved to Nottingham as I have not found it shown in any catalogs past 1985 but I am still looking into it.The bike supposedly had center pull brakes originally but was equipped with Shimano 600 side pulls and levers when purchased, I replaced them with Tektro R539 side pulls and Tektro levers. It had a rather ugly gray Avenir seat so I put a Brooks B17 Special on along with a Nitto Technomic stem and 44cm Noddle handlebars with leather tape. It came with a Cinelli 1A stem and Cinelli Giro D'Italia 42 cm bars which did not work for me unfortunately. I found the Shimano 600 pedals too narrow so replaced them with MKS Sylvan Touring and also put on some Soma New Xpress 35mm 700C tires. Otherwise everything else is as I found it. The rims are Super Champion 36H clinchers with Shimano 600 hubs. Six speed 13- 34 freewheel and Sugino 48/34 crank set. Rear derailleur is a Shimano DX long cage with a Deer Head front as well as 600 down tube levers. Shimano 600 head set. The saddle bag and rear panniers are from Carradice, along with a Tubus Logo rack which I added for light loads - easy to take off the panniers which is a nice feature. there are no rear rack mounts so I had to use p clamps. I intend to install some hammered fenders in the near future as well. I really like the black and gold paint scheme with the chrome and the bike itself is very stable, handles great and it tracks beautifully hands off, in fact it is the most stable bike in that regard I have ridden. Very fortunate to have found it in my size as the Light weight Reynolds 531C tubing gives a comfortable ride, that and the longer 44 cm chain stays along with the 35mm tires is a great combination. The paint and decals are a little worse for wear but I intend to keep the original finish - chrome is pretty good overall.

Example using the preceding texture.

The park and Palace of Pena are the finest examples of 19th Century Portuguese romanticism. They constitute the most important part of the cultural landscape of Sintra's world Heritage Site.

The bridge was washed out a week or so go with all the heavy rain they had!

On our National Park - Aoraki Mount Cook walk along one of the many walkways. On one of our stops on the way back to Christchurch. It was a dull overcast day but very calm and warm.

Last day of our fast trip around the South Island with my friends from the UK. November 8, 2013 Central Otago New Zealand.

Any one interested in following our trip around the South Island.. here is a map: www.wises.co.nz/l/south+island/#c/-45.149671/169.902439/14/

Mount Cook is New Zealand's tallest Mountain, standing 3754 metres (12,316 ft) above sea level. It used to be the world's 37th most prominent mountain standing, until the eastern face of its northern peak fell off in 1991. The Mountain was renamed to Aoraki/Mount Cook in 1998 following a settlement between The Crown and local Maori tribe Ngai Tahu, honouring the original Maori name meaning "Cloud Piercer", and continues as the only example of a conjoint name in the South Island where the Maori name is expressed first, signifying the mountain's national cultural importance.

Aoraki/Mount Cook is located in the Southern Alps amongst over 140 peaks higher than 2000 m, 19 of which are over 3000 m, that make up the Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park, and is part of Te Wahipounamu UNESCO World Heritage Area.

Mount Cook has a high annual quota of rainfall of around 7600 mm (300 in). This causes temperate rainforests in the lands below the mountains, but the Mount Cook area is above the treeline, so most of the plants are small alpine shrubs and wild flowers, including the Mount Cook Lily, the largest buttercup in the world which is endemic to New Zealand. Glaciers cover 40% of the National Park.

The area is abundant in walking tracks, with walking trails leaving Mount Cook Village taking anywhere between 10 minutes and 4 hours. There are also day tramps to some of the area's alpine huts, and for the more experienced, mountain climbing is widely popular, with guides are available. During winter ski excursions to New Zealand's longest glacier, the Tasman, are a unique opportunity to get on the ice.

For More Info: www.mount-cook.nz.com/

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El casco antiguo de Graz fue declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco en 1999.

A orillas del río Mur se encuentra una colina llamada Schlossberg, que tiene una altura de 475 metros.

Hace más de 1.000 años se construyó un castillo que dio el nombre a la ciudad (que se deriva de la palabra eslovena gradec, que significa "pequeño castillo"). Desde el año 1125 la colina albergó una impresionante fortaleza. En 1809 Napoleón ordenó destruirla. En dicha colina se edificó en 1560 la Torre del reloj, uno de los símbolos de la ciudad. Entre las diferentes calles que forman parte del distrito Innere Stadt destaca la calle Sporgasse. La calle es más antigua que la ciudad ya que fueron los romanos, los primeros que trazaron una vía que iba desde el valle del río Mur hasta la ciudad romana de Savaria (actual Szombately, en Hungría). Los artesanos que trabajaban en esta calle son los que dieron el nombre a la calle. En la actualidad, la Sporgasse es una calle dedicada al comercio.

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Innere Stadt (German pronunciation: [ˈɪnəʀə ʃtat]) is the 1st district of the Austrian city of Graz, capital of the federal state of Styria. It is the part of the Old Town (in German: Altstadt) containing the Schloßberg and the city park (Stadtpark). The district borders are formed by the Mur river between Radetzkybrücke and Keplerbrücke, the Wickenburggasse, the Glacis, Jakominiplatz and the Radetzkystraße. The district covers an area of 1.16 km² and -as of 2011- has a population of 3,545.

In 1999, the Old Town was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Graz [ˈɡʁaːt͡s] es una ciudad austríaca, capital del estado federado de Estiria (en alemán, Steiermark). Con una población de 269.997 habitantes (1-1-2014) es la segunda ciudad más grande del país. Ciudad universitaria por excelencia, fue nombrada Capital Europea de la Cultura en el año 2003.

Graz está situada a orillas del río Mura al sureste de Austria. Se encuentra a 189 kilómetros de Viena, la capital de país.

La primera mención de la ciudad apareció en un documento escrito por el margrave de Estiria Leopoldo I. En la actualidad no se dispone del original aunque existe una copia del siglo XV.

El último representante de la dinastía Otakar fue Otakar IV de Estiria, margrave de Estiria y duque desde 1180. Otakar no tenía descendencia y había contraído la lepra. En el año 1186 Otakar se reunió con el duque Leopoldo V, de la Casa de Babenberg, en la localidad de Enns donde firmaron el Pacto de Georgenberger mediante el cual Otokar designaba a los Babenberg como sucesores.

En 1379 Graz se convierte en la residencia de los Habsburgo al ser nombrada capital de la Austria interna (en alemán Innerösterreich), territorio que comprendía Estiria, Carintia, Carniola y algunas posesiones en Italia. La estancia de la familia imperial se prolongó hasta 1619.

El 10 de abril de 1797, las tropas francesas hicieron su entrada en Graz por primera vez. Dos días más tarde, Napoleón llegó a Graz, donde permaneció unos días hasta su marcha a Göss, cerca de Leoben. El 14 de noviembre de 1805, el ejército francés, al mando del general Marmont, invadió la ciudad por segunda vez. La ocupación finalizó el 11 de enero de 1806 con la retirada de las tropas galas. El 30 de mayo de 1809 se produjo la tercera incursión de la legión francesa, esta vez bajo las órdenes de MacDonald. El 4 de enero de 1810 los franceses abandonaron Graz definitivamente.

Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial el 16 % de los edificios fueron destruidos y 1788 personas perdieron la vida como consecuencia de la ofensiva. El casco histórico no se vio afectado por los ataques, a excepción de la Tummelplatz. La estación central y las plantas industriales del sur y el oeste de la ciudad fueron los objetivos de los bombardeos.

En los años posteriores a la proclamación de la independencia del país en 1955, se produjeron muchos de los cambios que conformaron la imagen actual de la ciudad. En el plano cultural destaca la creación de varios festivales. En 1968 se celebró la primera edición del steirische herbst, el festival de arte contemporáneo más antiguo de Europa. En 1985 se inauguró el Styriarte, festival dedicado a la música clásica. Ambos festivales se celebran cada año y son de gran importancia para la capital de Estiria. La fisionomía de Graz va a experimentar sucesivas modificaciones y ampliaciones. Así pues, se construyeron nuevos puentes y en 1972 se abrió la primera zona peatonal. A finales de los años 80 tiene lugar un importante crecimiento de la zona sureste. En 1988, Puntigam fue considerado como distrito independiente de Straßgang, quedando establecidos los diecisiete distritos en los que se divide Graz hoy en día.

En 1993 la ciudad recibió un premio de la organización ecologista Greenpeace. Ese mismo año organizó el Mes de la cultura europeo por encargo de la Unión Europea.

El casco antiguo de Graz fue declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco en 1999.

Graz cuenta con 4 universidades que reúnen a cerca de 40 000 estudiantes. Es la segunda ciudad universitaria más importante de Austria después de Viena. Uno de cada 7 habitantes de Graz estudia.

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Graz (/ɡrɑːts/ GRAHTS, German: [ɡʁaːts]) is the capital of the Austrian province Styria and the second-largest city in Austria after Vienna. On 1 January 2019, it had a population of 328,276 (292,269 of whom had principal residence status). In 2015, the population of the Graz larger urban zone who had principal residence status stood at 633,168. Graz has a long tradition as seat of universities: its six universities have almost 60,000 students. Its historic centre is one of the best-preserved city centres in Central Europe.[5]

For centuries, Graz was more important to Slovenes and Croats, both politically and culturally, than the capitals of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Zagreb, Croatia; it remains influential to this day.[6] In 1999, Graz's historic centre was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites and in 2010, the site was extended with Eggenberg Palace (German: Schloss Eggenberg). Graz was the Cultural Capital of Europe in 2003 and became a City of Culinary Delights in 2008.

The name of the city, Graz, formerly spelled Gratz, most likely stems from the Slavic gradec, "small castle". Some archaeological finds point to the erection of a small castle by Alpine Slavic people, which over time became a heavily defended fortification. In literary Slovene and Croatian, gradec still means "small castle". The German name 'Graz' first appears in records in 1128.

Graz is situated on the Mur river in southeast Austria. It is about 200 km (120 mi) southwest of Vienna. The nearest larger urban centre is Maribor in Slovenia which is about 50 km (31 mi) away. Graz is the capital and largest city in Styria, a green and heavily forested area.

The oldest settlement on the ground of the modern city of Graz dates back to the Copper Age. However, no historical continuity exists of a settlement before the Middle Ages. During the 12th century, dukes under Babenberg rule made the town into an important commercial center. Later, Graz came under the rule of the Habsburgs and, in 1281, gained special privileges from King Rudolph I.

In the 14th century, Graz became the city of residence of the Inner Austrian line of the Habsburgs. The royalty lived in the Schlossberg castle and from there ruled Styria, Carinthia, most of today's Slovenia, and parts of Italy (Carniola, Gorizia and Gradisca, Trieste).

In the 16th century, the city's design and planning were primarily controlled by Italian Renaissance architects and artists. One of the most famous buildings built in this style is the Landhaus, designed by Domenico dell'Allio, and used by the local rulers as a governmental headquarters.

Karl-Franzens-Universität, also called the University of Graz, is the city's oldest university, founded in 1585 by Archduke Karl II. For most of its existence, it was controlled by the Catholic church, and was closed in 1782 by Joseph II in an attempt to gain state control over educational institutions. Joseph II transformed it into a lyceum where civil servants and medical personnel were trained. In 1827 it was re-instituted as a university by Emperor Franz I, thus gaining the name 'Karl-Franzens Universität,' meaning 'Charles-Francis University.' Over 30,000 students currently study at this university.

The astronomer Johannes Kepler lived in Graz for a short period. There, he worked as a math teacher and was a professor of mathematics at the University of Graz, but still found time to study astronomy. He left Graz to go to Prague when Lutherans were banned from the city.

Ludwig Boltzmann was Professor for Mathematical Physics from 1869 to 1890. During that time, Nikola Tesla studied electrical engineering at the Polytechnic in 1875. Nobel Laureate Otto Loewi taught at the University of Graz from 1909 until 1938. Ivo Andric, the 1961 Nobel Prize for Literature Laureate obtained his doctorate at the University of Graz. Erwin Schrödinger was briefly chancellor of the University of Graz in 1936.

Graz lies in Styria, or Steiermark in German. Mark is an old German word indicating a large area of land used as a defensive border, in which the peasantry is taught how to organize and fight in the case of an invasion. With a strategic location at the head of the open and fertile Mur valley, Graz was often assaulted (unsuccessfully), e.g. by the Hungarians under Matthias Corvinus in 1481, and by the Ottoman Turks in 1529 and 1532. Apart from the Riegersburg Castle, the Schlossberg was the only fortification in the region that never fell to the Ottoman Turks. Graz is home to the region's provincial armory, which is the world's largest historical collection of late medieval and Renaissance weaponry. It has been preserved since 1551, and displays over 30,000 items.

From the earlier part of the 15th century, Graz was the residence of the younger branch of the Habsburgs, which succeeded to the imperial throne in 1619 in the person of Emperor Ferdinand II, who moved the capital to Vienna. New fortifications were built on the Schlossberg at the end of the 16th century. Napoleon's army occupied Graz in 1797. In 1809, the city withstood another assault by the French army. During this attack, the commanding officer in the fortress was ordered to defend it with about 900 men against Napoleon's army of about 3,000. He successfully defended the Schlossberg against eight attacks, but they were forced to give up after the Grande Armée occupied Vienna and the Emperor ordered to surrender. Following the defeat of Austria by Napoleonic forces at the Battle of Wagram in 1809, the fortifications were demolished using explosives, as stipulated in the Peace of Schönbrunn of the same year. The belltower and the civic clock tower, often used as the symbol of Graz, were spared after the people of Graz paid a ransom for their preservation.

Archduke Karl II of Inner Austria had 20,000 Protestant books burned in the square of what is now a mental hospital, and succeeded in returning Styria to the authority of the Holy See. Archduke Franz Ferdinand was born in Graz, in what is now the Stadtmuseum (city museum).

The more recent population figures do not give the whole picture as only people with principal residence status are counted and people with secondary residence status are not. Most of the people with secondary residence status in Graz are students. At the end of 2016 there were 33,473 people with secondary residence status in Graz.

Oceanic climate is the type found in the city, but due to the 0 °C isotherm, the same occurs in a humid continental climate with based in Köppen system (Cfb/Dfb borderline). Wladimir Köppen himself was in town and conducted studies to see how the climate of the past influenced the Continental Drift theory. Due to its position southeast of the Alps, Graz is shielded from the prevailing westerly winds that bring weather fronts in from the North Atlantic to northwestern and central Europe. The weather in Graz is thus influenced by the Mediterranean, and it has more hours of sunshine per year than Vienna or Salzburg and also less wind or rain. Graz lies in a basin that is only open to the south, causing the climate to be warmer than would be expected at that latitude. Plants are found in Graz that normally grow much further south.

Politically, culturally, scientifically and religiously, Graz was an important centre for all Slovenes, especially from the establishment of the University of Graz in 1586 until the establishment of University of Ljubljana in 1919. In 1574, the first Slovene Catholic book [sl] was published in Graz, and in 1592, Hieronymus Megiser published in Graz the book Dictionarium quatuor linguarum, the first multilingual dictionary of Slovene.

The Styrian Slovenes did not consider Graz a German city, but their own, a place to study while living at their relatives' homes and to fulfill one's career ambitions. The student associations in Graz were a crucible of the Slovene identity, and the Slovene students in Graz were more nationally aware than some others. This led to fierce anti-Slovene efforts of German nationalists in Graz before and during World War II.

Many Slovenian Styrians study there. Slovenes are among the professors at the Institute for Jazz in Graz. Numerous Slovenes have found employment there, while being formerly unemployed in Slovenia. For the Slovene culture, Graz remains permanently important due to its university and the Universalmuseum Joanneum archives containing numerous documents from the Slovenian Styria.

A symposium on the relation of Graz and the Slovenes was held in Graz in 2010, at the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the first and oldest chair of Slovene. It was established at the Lyzeum of Graz in July 1811 on the initiative of Janez Nepomuk Primic [sl]. A collection of lectures on the topic was published. The Slovenian Post commemorated the anniversary with a stamp.

For the year that Graz was Cultural Capital of Europe, new structures were erected. The Graz Museum of Contemporary Art (German: Kunsthaus) was designed by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier and is situated next to the Mur river. The Island in the Mur is a floating platform made of steel. It was designed by American architect Vito Acconci and contains a café, an open-air theatre and a playground.

The historic centre was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1999 due to the harmonious co-existence of typical buildings from different epochs and in different architectural styles. Situated in a cultural borderland between Central Europe, Italy and the Balkan States, Graz absorbed various influences from the neighbouring regions and thus received its exceptional townscape. Today the old town consists of over 1000 buildings, their age ranging from Gothic to contemporary.

The most important sights in the historic centre are:

Town Hall (Rathaus). The Schlossberg hill, a hill dominating the historic centre (475 m (1,558.40 ft) high), site of a demolished fortress, with views over Graz. The Clock Tower (Uhrturm) is a symbol of Graz, at the top of the Schlossberg hill. The New Gallery (Neue Galerie), a museum of art. The Schlossberg hill funicular (Schlossbergbahn), a funicular railway up the Schlossberg hill. The seat of Styria's provincial parliament (Landhaus), a palace in Lombardic style. It is one of the most important examples of Renaissance architecture in Austria and was built by Italian architect Domenico dell'Allio between 1557 and 1565.

The Armoury (Landeszeughaus) is the largest of its kind in the world.

The Graz Opera House (Opernhaus), the principal venue for opera, ballet, and operetta performances. It is the 2nd largest opera house in Austria.

The Graz Theatre (Schauspielhaus), Graz's principal theatre for productions of plays.

The Cathedral (Dom), a rare monument of Gothic architecture. Once, there were many frescos on the outer walls; today, only a few remain, like the Landplagenbild ("picture of plagues") painted in 1485, presumably by Thomas von Villach. The three plagues it depicts are locusts, pestilence and the invasion of the Turks, all of them striking the town in 1480. It features the oldest painted view of Graz.

The mausoleum of Emperor Ferdinand II next to the cathedral, the most important building of Mannerism in Graz. It includes both the grave where Ferdinand II and his wife are buried, and a church dedicated to St Catherine of Alexandria.

The Castle (Burg), with Gothic double staircase, built between 1438 and 1453 by Emperor Frederick III, because the old castle on the Schlossberg hill was too small and uncomfortable. The castle remained the residence of the Inner Austrian Court until 1619. Today, it serves as residence for the Styrian government.

The Painted House (Gemaltes Haus) in Herrengasse 3. It is completely covered with frescos (painted in 1742 by Johann Mayer).

The Museum of Contemporary Art Graz (Kunsthaus)

The Island in the Mur (Murinsel), an artificial island in the Mur river.

Buildings, inner courtyards (e. g. Early Renaissance courtyard of the Former House of Teutonic Knights in Sporgasse 22) and roofscape of the old town.

The Old Town and the adjacent districts are characterized by the historic residential buildings and churches found there. In the outer districts buildings are predominantly of the architectural styles from the second half of the 20th century.

In 1965 the Grazer Schule (School of Graz) was founded. Several buildings around the universities are of this style, for example the green houses by Volker Giencke and the RESOWI center by Günther Domenig.

Before Graz became the European Capital of Culture in 2003, several new projects were realized, such as the Stadthalle, the Kindermuseum (museum for children), the Helmut-List-Halle, the Kunsthaus and the Murinsel.

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A nice example of the fast 80s saloon, the Alfa 75, with the classic Alfa Romeo twin cam, 4 cylinder Twin Spark engine, with 2 sparkplugs per cylinder, an engine that was in production for many years, and was a popular alternative, for the ones, who could not afford, or did not have the need, for the legendary Alfa V6 engine :)

Lotus Climax 18 (1960) Engine 2497cc Coventry Climax Production est. 27

Chassis Number 18-373

Race Number 9 Paul Smeeth

LOTUS SET

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Lotus 18 was the first mid-engined car built by Lotus and was a marked improvement over Chapman's early and only moderately successful front-engined formula cars, the 12 and 16. It was introduced for the 1960 F1, F2 and FJ seasons, and 27 examples are believed to have been made though some were rebodied with the Lotus 21 skins to create the interim Lotus 18/21.

The 18 scored Lotus' first Formula One win, in the hands of Innes Ireland at Goodwood in the Glover Trophy.

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This example of "toilet humor" should be a bit more to everyone's liking, or should I say, tolerance level! Per the photo's time stamp, this was spotted way back on Christmas Eve 2016 at the Horn Lake Cracker Barrel.

And as stated at the last photo on Friday, strap yourselves in - the entirety of next week will be devoted to the final photos of my Horn Lake Rite Aid series - coinciding with the one year anniversary of that liquidation.

And while waiting for that upcoming final avalanche of Rite Aid photos, enjoy another set of music recommendations:

Blues Traveller (Four) - Fallible

Blondie (Pollinator) - Doom or Destiny

Beck (Midnite Vultures) - Mixed Bizness

Johnny Cash (American IV: The Man Comes Around) - Desperado (f. Don Henley)

Thrice (Palms) - Blood on Blood

Lynyrd Skynyrd (The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd) - Gimme Three Steps

Filter (Title of Record) - Take a Picture

Foo Fighters (Sonic Highways) - Congregation

Rush (Moving Pictures) - YYZ

30 Seconds to Mars (30 Seconds to Mars) - The Mission

Queen (The Game) - Coming Soon

Tears for Fears (Songs from the Big Chair) - Everybody Wants to Rule the World

Muse (The Resistance) - Uprising

Zac Brown Band (Jekyll + Hyde) - I'll Be Your Man (Song for a Daughter)

Weezer (Weezer (Teal Album)) - Happy Together

ZZ Top (Tejas) - She's a Heartbreaker

Five Finger Death Punch (A Decade of Destruction) - Bad Company

12 Stones (Beneath the Scars) - For the Night

Richard sent me these very cool techniques along with a great writeup on his blog. Details are now on Swooshable: #1 and #2.

"Madison's Treasures', the Madison Historical Society Centennial photo-book. Learn more about this new publication at madisonhistory.org/madison-treasures/. See more images of this new book at flic.kr/s/aHsm4ghhbJ.

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"High Bridge carries the High Street across the River Witham in Lincoln in eastern England. It is the oldest bridge in the United Kingdom which still has buildings on it. The bridge was built about 1160 AD and a bridge chapel was built dedicated to Thomas Becket in 1235 on the east side of the bridge. The chapel was removed in 1762. The current row of timber framed shops on the west side of the bridge date from about 1550. The two upper storeys of the shops are jettied forward and at the corners there are carved figures of angels. The shops were partly dismantled and re-erected in 1901–02 under the supervision of the Lincoln architect William Watkins.

Bridges like this were common in the Middle Ages, the best known being London Bridge, but most have long since been demolished because of their obstruction to the river flow and to shipping.

The 'Glory Hole'

The Glory Hole is the name given by generations of boaters to the High Bridge in Lincoln. It has a narrow and crooked arch which sets a limit on the size of boats using the Witham and going from Brayford Pool, at the start of Foss Dyke, to Boston and the sea.

Since the 14th century the bridge has contributed to floods in Lincoln and after any heavy rain the bridge is virtually unnavigable, which may be why it got its name. A design by William Jessop in the 19th century to reroute the waters of the Witham through the south of the town was never implemented.

The bridge is both a grade I listed building and a scheduled monument.

Lincoln is a cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire in the East Midlands of England. The non-metropolitan district of Lincoln had a 2012 population of 94,600. The 2011 census gave the urban area of Lincoln, which includes North Hykeham and Waddington, a population of 130,200. Roman Lindum Colonia developed from an Iron Age settlement on the River Witham. The city's landmarks include Lincoln Cathedral, an example of English Gothic architecture and the tallest building in the world for over 200 years, and the 11th-century Norman Lincoln Castle. The city is home to the University of Lincoln and Bishop Grosseteste University, and to Lincoln City FC and Lincoln United FC." - info from Wikipedia.

Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.

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Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire is an architecturally significant country house from the Elizabethan era, a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house. Built between 1590 and 1597 for Bess of Hardwick, it was designed by the architect Robert Smythson, an exponent of the Renaissance style.

Bess of Hardwick was the richest woman in England after Queen Elizabeth I, and her house was conceived to be a conspicuous statement of her wealth and power.

This image has been digitised from Queensland State Archives, Series ID S2149: Railway Glass Plate Negatives - Queensland Rail Heritage Collection. It is one of the images depicting the many stations, bridges and tracks that people and goods travelled from, on and through all over the Queensland Rail network.

Roma Street Railway Station occupies a 0.55ha site within the extensive Roma Street Station transit complex, located on the western side of the Brisbane central business district. The substantial masonry station building (1875) is set back from and faces Roma Street (although partially obscured by later development), and has a prominent centred entrance to the front (south) and a platform along the rear (north). A later platform and awning to the south is associated with the former Country Station development (1939/40).

Features of Roma Street Railway Station of state-level cultural heritage significance are:

Station building (1875)

Platform (1875)

Country Station platform and awning (1939)

Views

The state-level periods of significance of the place are layered and relate to its origins and use as a passenger station (1875-1940) and railway design, traffic and management offices (1875-1974), and the establishment of the former Country Station (1939/40).

A large iron-roofed shelter (c1980) to the east of the station, small buildings to the west, and a lift, stairs and escalators accessing the modern subway below, are not of state-level cultural heritage significance.

The Roma Street Railway Station was opened in 1875 as the first Brisbane Terminal Station for use on the Brisbane end of the Southern and Western Railway Line from Ipswich. The two-storey station building was designed by Francis Drummond Greville (FDG) Stanley, the Colonial Architect and Superintendent of Public Buildings, in 1873 and built over the next two years by Brisbane builder, John Petrie. The station operated as the Brisbane terminal station until 1889, as a major passenger and administration station until 1940, and Brisbane’s primary railway goods facility until 1991. It served as offices for the Queensland Railway Department (later Queensland Railways, later Queensland Rail) staff for over 100 years, and is the one of the oldest surviving railway buildings in Queensland.

In the Australian colonies, governments fostered the development of railways as a means of developing the country and encouraging settlement. It was argued that rail would reduce freight costs and save travel time for passengers.[1] Queensland’s first railway survey was undertaken by the New South Wales Government in 1856, and following separation, Queensland Parliament passed the Railway Act in 1863, enabling railways to be constructed in the colony. The railway network developed along decentralised lines extending from ports to pastoral and mining centres. The first line, between Ipswich and Bigge's Camp, 34km west of Ipswich (later Grandchester, QHR600729), was opened in 1865. This was the first stage of the four-stage Southern and Western Railway project which linked Ipswich to Toowoomba in 1867, Warwick in 1871, and Dalby in 1878. New railways opened west from Rockhampton in 1867 (the Northern Line, later renamed the Central Railway), west from Townsville in 1880 (the Great Northern Line), Cairns in 1887, and south from Normanton in 1891.

The Southern and Western Railway served the pastoralists and industrialists of Ipswich and the Darling Downs, and was primarily for goods, rather than passengers. With the railhead at Ipswich, a railway to Brisbane was not initially considered essential, as goods could be shipped from Ipswich to Brisbane’s port for export. However, the Bremer and upper Brisbane rivers could not cope with large shipping, and lobbying began for an extension to Brisbane. A preliminary survey of possible lines was completed in 1865,[4] but concerns over the extension’s financial viability put work on hold. A Royal Commission on Railway Construction was called in the 1870s, and recommended the extension: the business generated by it was likely to be profitable, and the colony’s economy, which had collapsed in the mid-1860s, had been bolstered by the Gympie gold rush and was better able to afford new infrastructure.

The extension between Ipswich and Oxley was approved in August 1872,[6] and, the first sod on the extension was turned at Goodna in January 1873. From Oxley, two lines had been surveyed, terminating either at North or South Brisbane. After extensive debate, the route to North Brisbane, via a bridge at Oxley Point (Indooroopilly), was chosen as more cost-effective. The terminus of this route, selected by Railway Department Chief Engineer HC Stanley, was located within the Grammar School reserve at the base of the ‘Green Hills’ (Petrie Terrace). The site was unused by the school and was large enough for a major passenger station and goods yard.

The section between Oxley and Brisbane was approved in October 1873,[9] and the Government called for tenders for the construction of the railway terminus station in Brisbane. FDG Stanley, the recently-appointed Colonial Architect and Superintendent of Buildings within the Public Works Department, was the designer of the building. Stanley had commenced with the Public Works Department in 1863, serving as Superintendent of Buildings after Charles Tiffin vacated the Colonial Architect’s position. He was the official Colonial Architect from 1873-1883, when the colony, recovering from the economic collapse of the 1860s, began to invest in public buildings. Stanley’s designs, balancing classical styles and stylistic features with climate-appropriate adaptations and economic restraint, helped define public architecture in Queensland. Extant examples of major works, designed while he was Colonial Architect, include the original State Library (1876-9, QHR600177); Toowoomba Court House (1876-8, QHR600848); Townsville Magistrates Court (1876-7, QHR600929); Townsville Gaol (now part of Townsville Central State School, 1877, QHR601162); Brisbane’s Port Office (1880, QHR600088); Toowoomba Hospital (surviving kitchen wing 1880, QHR601296); post offices at Gympie (1878-80, QHR600534), South Brisbane (1881, QHR600302) and Toowoomba (1880, QHR600847); as well as the Brisbane Supreme Court (no longer extant). As Superintendent of Buildings he designed the Toowoomba Railway Station (1874, QHR600872), Government Printing Office (1873, QHR600114) and Lady Elliott Island Lighthouse (1872-3).

The Brisbane Courier provided a detailed description of the proposed Terminus Passenger Station in October 1873:

The general style of the building will be that known as the Italian Gothic order of architecture. The material used...will be pressed brick with cut stone facings, this being chosen on account of its durability and as also affording the greatest consonant with economy. The station will consist of a main building, two storeys high, flanked at each end by a single storey wing.

The building was designed to house both a passenger station and railway administrative offices. Passengers would access the station from Roma Street via a carriageway, disembarking at the station’s central carriage porch. The porch fronted a 10ft (3m) wide arcade running the length of the main building. From the arcade, passengers would enter either the first-class booking office on the east or the second-class booking office on the west, both served by a semi-circular ticket office on the rear (northern) wall. Female passengers travelling on second-class tickets could wait in a small room located along a western passage, while separate waiting rooms for first-class male and female passengers were east of the first-class booking office. Doorways in the rear wall of the booking offices and waiting rooms led directly onto the 190-foot (58m) long departure platform. Arriving passengers exited the station via a second platform across the rail line. Luggage was loaded onto trains via the luggage passage, on the eastern end of the building. The guards and porters room, staff facilities, a lamp room and stairs to the upper floor were situated in the eastern wing. The western side of the building held public services, including the telegraph office, station master’s office, and parcel and book office, accessible via a public lobby at the end of the arcade. A private staircase to the traffic managers’ office, a staircase to the traffic department, and toilet facilities were located in the western wing. An office or book stall space, in the northwestern side of the building, was accessible from the platform.

Upstairs, the offices of the traffic department, clerks, accountant, draughtsmen, Railways Engineer, Resident Engineer and contractors were accessed from a central passageway which ran almost the length of the building; with a small S-bend in the western end. An arch in the centre of the corridor marked the separation of the traffic department from the Chief Engineer’s office. Both wings hosted staircases.

The building included adaptations for the climate. The arcade sheltered the ground floor rooms from the sun, while skylights in the ceiling and a ventilated lantern provided light and ventilation to the upper floor. All public rooms and most of the offices were fitted with fireplaces. A platform shade, installed on the northern wall of the building over the platform, sheltered passengers from the weather, and was composed of material from an iron station building imported from England for use at Toowoomba. It was supported by brick buttresses at both ends of the building (extant) and on the arrivals platform (no longer extant).

Commensurate with Stanley’s design approach, materials used for the station reflected elegance but economy. Apart from the recycled iron roof trusses and columns, the building was constructed of machine-pressed bricks made from locally-sourced clay, more affordable than stone, and praised as ‘cleaner, sharper [and] finer’ than Brisbane bricks used in earlier buildings. Freestone for the building dressings and columns was sourced from Murphy’s Creek.

Construction work took place over two years, after contractor John Petrie’s tender of £11,845 was accepted in December 1873. Progress was slow, with the stonework foundations underway in June 1874, and the building only ten foot above the ground by September. The line from Ipswich to Brisbane was opened without ceremony on 14 June 1875. The platform at Brisbane Terminus Passenger Station was half-paved, the rooms and corridors incomplete, the roofing over the platform in progress and there was no permanent lighting. Nonetheless, an interested crowd gathered to watch the first outbound services leave the station. The building was sufficiently complete by August 1875 for the Brisbane Courier to describe it as ‘in all respects convenient, handsome, and well-designed’. The station’s arcade was later highlighted as one of Brisbane’s valued architectural features.

The Brisbane to Ipswich route quickly became the busiest section of line in Queensland. Merchandise and imported goods from the ports were despatched along the line, while produce from the Darling Downs and surrounds – including coal, flour, wool, hay, maize, livestock, vegetable and dairy produce – was brought to Brisbane. A central goods handling facility was opened at the Terminal Station, including a large (64m long) goods shed and two sidings, erected in 1875-6 (no longer extant), while railway produce markets opened outside the station, along George and Roma streets. A maintenance yard also operated at Roma Street, including locomotive and carriage sheds. By 1882 the Terminal Station platforms had been extended to cope with the traffic and trade. Traffic reduced slightly after some export goods were diverted to South Brisbane in 1884,[32] but expanded again.[33] Cattle yards, produce sheds, carriage sheds, gas works, goods sheds, coal stages, cold stores, additional locomotive sheds and siding extensions were all added to Roma Street’s goods yard. None of these structures survive in 2020.

Passengers also used the line. Residential occupation of Toowong and Indooroopilly boomed as middle-class city workers took advantage of the four daily train services. In 1882 rail lines were opened from the Terminal Station to Sandgate and the Racecourse, taking day-trippers to the seaside and races, and bringing northern suburbs passengers into Brisbane. In January 1888, the first through-service to Sydney departed from the Terminal Station. However, travellers criticised the lack of direct access from the Terminal Station to the central business district, and in 1889, the Brisbane Central Railway Station was opened. Central Railway Station (QHR 600073) – located closer to the General Post Office and city office buildings – became Brisbane’s main passenger station, and the original Terminal Station was renamed Roma Street Railway Station.

Despite its diminished status, Roma Street remained a major centre for passengers and travellers. Through the 19th and early 20th centuries, guards of honour lined Roma Street to greet and farewell significant visitors and figures, including premiers Morehead and Griffith, governors Norman and Lamington; Governor-General Munro-Ferguson; the late politician JM Macrossan, who had died in Sydney; singer Nellie Melba; Lord Kitchener; and Salvation Army General Booth. Roma Street continued to operate as the Sydney Mail terminus until 1931, when the service shifted to South Brisbane. Crowds thronged to Roma Street Station as soldiers departed for the South African War and World War I. Travelling circuses performed in the Roma Street yards, and an historic parade in 1936 included a ‘Puffing Billy’ locomotive, which was displayed at the yards until 1959. Roma Street also continued as the city’s primary goods terminus.

The station building played an important role as office accommodation for Queensland railway staff. Internal rearrangements were made to the building to accommodate growing staff numbers, and improve their working conditions. It was one of the first buildings in Queensland to feature electric light, installed in 1884.[50] The Chief Engineer vacated the building in 1901 and was replaced by the general traffic manager’s department, with a telephonic system of communication installed the same year. Bunker, lumber and message rooms were added to the wings by 1907; a traffic collector’s office and new strongroom were installed in 1911; and parcels, printing offices and machine rooms replaced the first-class waiting rooms, guards’ room and lamp room by 1920. In 1915, an additional storey was constructed atop the central carriage porch, providing more accommodation for the Traffic Branch on the first floor. A traffic control system, coordinating trains between Brisbane and Gympie, was installed and operated from the additional storey in 1927.

Queensland’s railway network extended dramatically in the 20th century. The North Coast line connected Brisbane to Gladstone in 1898, Rockhampton in 1904, and Cairns in 1924, providing a direct rail link between Brisbane and Mackay, Townsville, Winton, Forsayth, Cloncurry and Blackall. Southern and western trains reached Dirranbandi, Surat, Cunnamulla and Quilpie. Central Station initially hosted ‘country’ services, but it lacked room for expansion, and Roma Street’s larger site was earmarked for a new country station. Roma Street’s locomotive, carriage and marshalling yard facilities were transferred to the Mayne Rail Yards between 1911 and 1927, and work began on the new station. A 350ft (106m) reinforced concrete, tiled passenger subway was constructed from Roma Street to the platforms in 1936-7, replacing an overhead walkway. A new steel awning was installed above the southern platform (Platform 3 in 2020), in approximately 1939. It was used in conjunction with two platforms at the new country station (no longer extant) for country and other passenger services.

On 30 November 1940 the Country Station was opened at Roma Street Station. This low-lying face brick building and its additional platform sat directly between the 1873-5 building and Roma Street. The new passenger station relieved congestion at Brisbane Central Station and made Roma Street the chief station for long distance travel north. The original station was refurbished, its roof re-clad with corrugated fibrous sheeting; and its brick walls painted red and lined in cream to match the new station building. The southwest pediment was removed and replaced by a new storey on the western end of the building. A covered area was added east of the building where the subway stairs emerged. The original station building was turned over to the General Manager, with offices for clerks, traffic-, livestock-, coach- and wagon staff, maintenance and locomotive staff, telephone and telegraph exchanges, and the train control section.

Further plans to upgrade and alter the building were postponed by World War II, during which time troop trains departed from Roma Street, and the pedestrian subway served as an air-raid shelter.[66] In 1945, plans were drawn to alter doors, windows and stairs in the wings, and partitions on the first floor. A second storey was added over the west wing in 1953 (later removed), and the General Manager’s staircase was repositioned in 1961. Externally, the iron carriage shed platform shade over the northern platform was removed in 1959.

Extensive change was undertaken at Roma Street around the original station building in the late 20th century. The southern and northern Brisbane railway systems were directly connected in the 1970s, with the opening of the Merivale Bridge in 1978. In 1985, the country railway station (1940 building) was demolished and replaced by a multi-storey centre incorporating new railway and bus facilities, a hotel, offices and function centre. The original station building was left intact, and two new interstate platforms with standard gauge rails were built on its southern side. The pedestrian subway was refurbished in 1986, with a broom finish concrete and expansion joints, and grated drains were laid on the floor, and a ceramic tile finish on the wall faces to match the subway tiles at Central Station. Roma Street’s rail freight facility was moved to Acacia Ridge in 1991. During the mid-1990s the platforms north and south of the early station building were re-arranged and extended. A bricked waiting area and new roof were added east of the station. Underground, a new concourse was constructed to replace the pedestrian subway, and a 19m section of the original subway converted to a storage room.

The station building remained the General Manager’s Office until 1974. The station master, staff workers and archive storage occupied the building in the 1990s. By 1993, Roma Street was acknowledged as the oldest surviving railway station building in an Australian capital city, and one of the oldest surviving railway buildings in Queensland. A new office fitout was installed on the ground floor for Queensland Rail and the Queensland Police Rail Squad in 1999. Stabilisation, waterproofing and reconstruction works commenced in 2012, including restoration of the brick, plaster, lead flashings, window joinery and stone works. Replacement bricks were custom made in England; Welsh slate was imported from the UK; replacement stone came from Helidon; and rolled lead from England was installed. In 2015, a new steel beams and suspension system was installed between the two storeys, to lift a 65mm bow in the timber floor beams fit amongst the existing timber structures. The second storey of the west wing was removed and the roofline reconstructed to its original configuration. The restoration received an Australian Institute of Architects Queensland award in 2015.

In 2020 the building is vacant, pending further repairs.

apps.des.qld.gov.au/heritage-register/detail/?id=601208

This shot is a first attempt to capture the essence of New Orleans Square and how it has transported me for decades to a place I've come to grow and love--though I've never actually set foot there.

I've often spoken with friends and colleagues who can't seem to figure out why I extol the virtues of Disneyland as an educated adult. Without getting incredibly political about it, I've found that having grown up in a modest household whose big family trip was to drive to Disneyland once every couple of years, Disneyland exposed me to things which I would have never had an interest nor appreciation in had I not felt the essence of it through a Disneyland recreation. New Orleans Square is the perfect example. To try and argue or explain the historic and cultural significance of New Orleans to a 15-year-old who grew up in the Western US is a pretty futile undertaking. Futile, unless you are Walt Disney who decided he could produce the sights, sounds, flavors, and wrought iron that come together to create the unmistakable feel of the Big Easy. Add a sailing voyage through the times of the Caribbean Pirates and an immersion into the Buccaneer lore that had such an impact on New Orleans and you put together an educational experience, which, while not a substitute for a real education, acts as an invaluable way for kids (or adults) who may never in their lives set foot East of the California state line to whet their appetite and stimulate an awareness that there is a world much larger than the daily routine which might dominate or even define the course of their lives. For this reason I love Disneyland--when it is at it's best, it is making visitors aware that the world is much larger than they often perceive it to be. It is not only entertaining, it is teaching. Whether cultural lessons through gumbo, jambalaya and Jazz in New Orleans Square, historical lessons through Barbershop quartets and the Main Street Cinema on Main Street USA, or about science and technology and why they are relevant to a kid in attractions such as Inner Space or Mission to Mars.

That's why Disneyland is more than a collection of roller coasters and dark rides. At its core, it has a point to make. A point about the world and its diversity (Small World, Tiki Room, Jungle Cruise, NO Square), a point about the relevance of knowledge on the human condition (Main Street USA, Tomorrowland), and a point about fostering a childlike humanity and being slow to relinquish the tender affections of youth (Fantasyland). For that reason, I still light up and start rambling on and on when someone tells me they've planned a trip to Disneyland or Disneyworld. I want them to "get it," because I know I definitely do.

3 handheld exposures (+1.3, 0 , -1.3 EV) blended in Photomatix' Details Enhancer using the Align by Matching Features option. Then polished and tweaked in ACR and photoshop.

Colac. Population 12,300.

In 1837 a group of pastoralists landed near Geelong to explore the hinterlands along the Barwon River for suitable pastoral states. The group include Hugh Murray, Thomas and James Austin from Van Diemen’s Land and others. The Austin brothers arrived in Hobart in 1831.The Austin brothers settled on the Barwon River (Winchelsea) and at Werribee and Hugh Murray settled near Lake Colac on the Barongarook Creek which now enters the lake at the Colac boat ramp by the Botanic Gardens. In 1838 Captain Foster Fyans the Land Commissioner of Geelong took up land here too for a beef property. In Geelong he became the magistrate in 1849 and lived in the town hence the suburb of Fyansford across the Barwon River. Hugh Murray built the Crook and Plaid Inn near his homestead which partially marks the start of Colac as a town in 1844. The town was surveyed that same year and a blacksmith set up for business in 1845 and a general store opened. Usually the beginning of postal service marks the development of a town and Colac had its first Post Office established in 1847. In 1848 a simple Presbyterian chapel opened and it was followed by a police station in 1849, a second hotel and a day school. In 1850 the town progressed further but the gold rushes of 1851 saw labourers leave the town and progress stalled. At this time Colac had a population of 672 people. More residences and a second Presbyterian Church were built in 1853 and a Catholic Church was erected in 1856. The town had a national school, a flour mill and a Methodist Church by 1860. It was an established town.

In the 1865 the Botanical Gardens were started, the first bank opened and the first Shire Hall offices were built. The first town newspaper began, the first Anglican Church was constructed and an Oddfellows Hall built. Although the Botanic Gardens were started at thinks time little happened. Trustees were appointed in 1874 and work finally began. William Guilfoyle of Melbourne Botanic Gardens had a private commission in 1910 to replan the gardens. In 1877 the railway to Colac from Geelong opened. Branch lines opened from Colac to surrounding towns but now all are closed. In 1889 three trains a day left Geelong at 8:45 am, 1:45 pm and 9:15 pm taking about two and a half hours to reach Colac. A few years later an express service was added making four journeys a day. It took less than two hours to do this trip. The town prospered on the back of sheep and their fleeces until the 1890s when dairying became a major industry. The Colac Dairy Company was formed in 1892. The Company closed in 1987 when the factory was taken over by Bonlac Milk Company. After Thomas Austin of Barwon Park estate introduced rabbits in 1857 the district was overrun. To capitalise on this Colac had a rabbit canning factory from 1871 to 1889. As a town Colac is distinctive because it is on the edge of Lake Colac. This freshwater lake has a circumference of 33 kms. It was formed by volcanic activity which created a depression and then lava flows blocked the path of two local rivers southwards forcing them to drain into the depression. It covers almost 2,900 hectares and is relatively shallow with birds nesting in the reeds and commercial eel farming and amateur fishing in the waters. Beyond this lake is Lake Corangamite which is Australia’s largest freshwater lake covering 23,000 hects.

Some heritage listed structures in Colac.

•1 Murray St. Great example of 19th century general store. Balustrade and pediment across roof line. Large windows.

•4 Murray St. The former Post Office. Built in 1876 with additions 1888. Similar to the Shire Office but it has central triple arched entrance with clock, rounded windows on upper floor and no pilasters on ground floor.

•6 Murray St. The impressive symmetrical Italianate Shire Hall built in 1892. It replaced the earlier 1865 Shire hall. It has good classical detailing. It complements the Post Office in style.

•15 Murray St. The former Union Bank has recently been an antiques shop. Built in 1916 by architect Walter Butler who designed matching banks in Shepparton, Yarra etc.

•21 Murray St. The former Regent Theatre opened in 1925. Later became the R.S.L Club rooms. Was the site of the first Wesleyan Methodist Church until a new one was built in 1925 in Skene St.

•28 Murray St. Former National Bank. Mr Alexander Dennis laid the foundation stone in 1884. Built in 1885. Rounded window’s on ground floor, central entrance with small triangular pediment above it.

•At corner of Murray and Hesse St is the former two storey Colonial Bank. It is now a shop. Built in 1881.

•As you turn right into Hesse St on your left is Memorial Square. The World War One memorial- a walk in memorial, was designed by Fredrick Sales in 1924. The Square also has memorials to Andrew Fisher, Cliff Young etc. Opposite the memorial back in Murray St is the two storey offices of the Colac Reformer newspaper established in 1875. This building was refashioned in stripped classical style in 1925 with unusual rounded shell fan decoration. Now Hulm’s Bakery.

•(Detour: at end of the park in Dennis St. you will see the Oddfellows Hall built in 1891 in classical style but the rear part was built in 1870. Further along is the former Fire Station built in 1923. North from the IOOF is Derrinook on the next corner north. This huge Edwardian weatherboard private hospital was erected in 1900 for Dr William Brown. Dr Brown died in 1926 and in 1935 it was converted into flats. End of detour. )

•35 Hesse St. The red brick Freemasons Hall with leadlight window in gable built in 1924. It has a temple like appearance and Arts and Crafts details. Note the masons’ symbols in the cartouche above the window.

•25 Hesse St. St Andrews Presbyterian Church built in 1877. Built in blue basalt stone with freestone quoins and window surrounds etc. Has a typical Presbyterian octagonal tower and spire and a rose window in the end gable. Behind the church is a red brick church hall.

•17 Hesse St. St Johns Anglican Church. It was built in 1870 in red brick with a square corner tower and narrow arched Gothic windows in the street facing gable. Next to it is an Art Deco parish hall and Sunday school room built in 1902 with two side Art Deco wings added in 1933. Designed with cream rendered gables to divide the red brick walls. Two blocks ahead is an entrance to the Botanic Gardens. From here one block to the left along Fyans St. is the Catholic Church 1979. (Original was 1883.) West of the church is the impressive two storey Convent of Mercy and its chapel built in 1889. Return to the town centre along Gellibrand St. at no 14 is the Elms House. This austere single storey villa with bay window and cream brick quoins was built in 1883.

•Corners of Bromfield and Corangamite Streets- two medical surgeries and doctors residences. Glenora built with Art Nouveau features in 1907 and Lislea House built in 1892 Edwardian/Arts and Crafts style.

Forest Meteorological site Hartheim, Scots pine forest

Is it my imagination or is there a certain ‘sameness’ about much college campus sculptures.

Last year I spent three days in Cork and it rained most of the time and I had to abandon my plans to photograph the University campus because the rain got so heavy that I ended up photographing raindrops. This year I decided to spend five days in the city assuming that that it was unlikely that it would rain for five days without stop.

As you may have guessed, it did rain every day but as there were many extended dry spells the weather did not impact on my photography. I did, however, have have a problem with dust on my sensor. I discovered that there was a large object attached to the sensor and I was unable to remove it but it only obvious under certain conditions. Further investigation leads me to believe that the debris was there since my visit to Belfast.

Previous years I walked from location I walked from location to location but this year I used the bus service which I found to be good. I got a lot advice from the bus drivers as to what I should photograph and how best to get to the locations in question.

A 1968 Ford Mustang GT 2+2 ‘Fastback’ Coupe, [63A]; One of 42,581 examples produced, painted in a shade of “Royal Maroon”, fitted W/ ‘Torq Thrust’ mag wheels. Black plate registration “FMA 387F”, imported to the U.K. in 2016. Sitting outside a specialist classic car restoration service in Ryedale, North Yorkshire, U.K. Other vehicles in this picture include a 5th-generation VW Golf, F-reg Ford Fiesta MKII, C-reg Jaguar, and a 2000s Land Rover Defender LWB.

PA_072 [10 points]

One of the many examples of a good re-activation in Paris. This one has been deleted long ago. I have seen this one in the beginning of my space invader hunting carreer in 2006 and now, more than 10 years later I went again to this spot to capture (and 'flash') the reactivated version of number 72, made with the same tiles as the original made by Invader in 1998.

Other views:

PA_072 (Zoom in, January 2006)

PA_072 (Street view, January 2006)

PA_072 (Zoom in, Re-Activation, July 2016)

Date of invasion: 23/06/1998

DELETED ? (2006 - ?)

RE-ACTIVATED March 2016

***UPDATE***When someone comes by amped up with a passion for stealer design--a healthy appetite for MCM, well gosh, that sends gets me into rare form, and Jonathan and I hit it off from the jump, the moment go. This one is going to a very appreciative person.

Ok. A bold statement from a guy absolutely never afraid to speak his mind. Find one exact example of this sectional available (or previously available, at any point ever) anywhere in the country in this configuration. One of the most insane MCM sectional I have ever seen. For those very reasons, I love this sofa. All day long. ALL DAY.

This is a prime example (pun intended) of the back-focusing issues the 50L has. I aimed at his nose but the focus shifted backwards to the eyes. Even Beibei was alarmed.

I spent yesterday evening pouring through reviews / comments of this lens especially in fredmiranda's forums. I already knew of these issues but had hoped for the best. This morning, the lens was off to the service centre. I will try to tame this beast when it is back because I think the image quality is actually pretty smooth! The bokeh's magic.

PS: Photo processed with Elusive Action so these colours are not from the 50L but by action of Photoshop filters. Image is just to show back-focusing problem. :-P

The Tupolev Tu-22 was the first supersonic bomber to enter production in the Soviet Union and the world's first aircraft of its class. Manufactured by Tupolev, the Tu-22 entered service with the Soviet military in the 1960s. The last examples were retired during the early 2000s.

Source: Wikipedia

Kirigami artwork by Chelsea Hrynick Browne.

Blogged: www.allthingspaper.net/2016/02/kirigami-collage-art-by-ch...

HMS Example in Lossie.

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A crappy picture but how many can you count. Most of my eagle photos are shot in the winter when the eagles are concentrated along the ocean because the rivers and lakes are frozen. This shot was taken on the spit at Homer Alaska. It dosent show but a tiny fraction. I counted one evening and there were 107 just looking one direction. Its suggested that in the neighborhood of 500 winter in and around Homer. I also shoot quite a bit in and around Eagle River (Appropriate Name) Alaska in February. The larger problem shooting winter eagles is you relly go through the batterys. I have had a couple ocassion where I went through 8 in a day. And remember they are short days in Alaska winters.

Don asked on another post how many gig I shot in Homer in March. A bit over 16 in less than 7 true hours of shooting in 6 days. We were weathered out most of the trip.

If your heart say you just must go on a major eagle excursion then alaska in the winter is the place. BUT be prepared to be weathered out and temps than can be -20F or worse. Homer shooting will never be what it was in the past due to some restrictions passed by the city council. I will give it a go one more time next march but I fear disappointment is in my future.

Another place you might look into is Haines Alaska. They have a Bald Eagle festival every November. I have been 3 times and got some decent shooting but snowflakes big as silver dollars everytime.

baldeaglefestival.org/

I had planned to attend again this year with a friend from BC but I got taped to teach a class in Nome Alaska that week. Oh And another in Bethel Alaska the last week of November. Dang I must be living right. 2 clases this fall and both in the bush. Yea Right!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I just know canon is gonna have that 40D on the market before spring migration and these classes will cover it and a couple new pieces of glass. My poor ol 20d is right close to 60 thousand shots.

Ok I have bore you enough. If yall knew how long it took me to type all this you would understand why my comments are most times short.

Pictured here alongside HMS Calliope, HMS Example is an Archer class patrol and training vessel.

An example of a box-like "architecture"... ;(

Образец коробчатой "архитектуры"... ;(

An entomologist sets up a trap to collect adult mosquitoes in a house. Afterwards he will bring it to the laboratory to study its behavior and pattern changes as for example insecticide resistance.

Credits: Joshua E. Cogan.

Is this a rare example of the changed bio on the reverse side of his card?? The bio on the left is the common version - the card on the right with the comma changed to a period and the "same will appear on the next issue" bio having been removed.

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Victoria Bees - Northwestern League - The Victoria Bees played in the Northwestern League, a Class B circuit that included teams from Vancouver, Seattle Spokane, and Portland. Professional Baseball returned in 1911 to Victoria and although the Victoria Islanders, who were later named the Victoria Bees, lost 125 games in 151 outings, they were well supported by local business and fans.

Link to - Victoria Bees 1911 Home Jersey - The Bees' home uniforms were made from this very rare cross-hatch pinstripe fabric - www.ebbets.com/products/victoria-bees-1911-home-jersey

Link to - Victoria Bees 1911 Road Jersey - www.ebbets.com/products/victoria-bees-1911-road-jersey

Link to a SABR photo - 1911 Victoria Bees, Northwestern League - www.nwsabr.org/vicbc00/

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John Joseph "Jack" Roche (b. November 22, 1890 in Los Angeles, California – d. March 30, 1983 in Peoria, Arizona at age 92) was a Major League Baseball catcher who played for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1914, 1915, and 1917. He was a retired breeder of Greyhound dogs. He moved to Arizona in 1980.

Batted: Right Threw: Right

MLB debut - May 24, 1914, for the St. Louis Cardinals

Last MLB appearance - April 18, 1917, for the St. Louis Cardinals

Nickname: Red

Height: 6'1"

Weight: 178 lbs.

by 1942 he has his height at 6' 1/2" and weight as 202 lbs.

On his U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 he has listed Dog Racing as his Business in Portland, Oregon

MLB statistics:

Batting average - .286

Home runs - 0

RBI - 9

Teams:

St. Louis Cardinals (1914–1915, 1917)

Link to stats for Jack Roche - www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=roche-...

Jack Roche, (left) a 21-year-old catcher, played for two seasons, 1912 and 1913 for the Calgary Bronchos, hitting .353 and .314. Later, he spent parts of three seasons in the majors with the Cardinals.

(Los Angeles Herald, 23 February 1911) (Winter Baseball) - SAN DIEGO TAKES ONE FROM GIANTS [Special to The Herald] SAN DIEGO, Feb. 22.—Jack Roche, the San Diego boy who goes to Victoria as a catcher, won the game for San Diego this afternoon in the first of a series of five games to be played here this week and Sunday with the Leland Giants. It was in the last half of the ninth inning, with the score 0 to 0, that Roche went to bat, with Capt. Ball on second. The catcher knocked the first ball thrown by Mooney over into left field. Wenston fumbled the sphere, and before he could recover himself and throw to home plate. Ball had reached home. Until Capt. Ball went up in the last half of the ninth, the hit column stood five to five. His blow and the one by Roche gave the Bears the majority.

(The Seattle Star, March 13, 1911) - Catchers for the new Victoria team - Jack Roche, from San Diego, Merton Hemenway, from Seattle; Jack Knotts, from Memphis; Dashwood, from California. Shortstop - Roddick, from Topeka; Vincent Ward, from University of California.

Games Jack Roche played in 6 games for the Victoria Bees during the 1911 season:

1 May 1911 - against (at) Seattle (Starkell) (Victoria 7 - Seattle 8 / 11 innings)

8 May 1911 - (at Victoria) against Spokane (Starkell and Lane) - Dashwood also played. (Spokane 8 - Victoria 10)

9 May 1911 - (at Victoria) against Spokane (Brown) (Spokane 6 - Victoria 3)

10 May 1911 - (at Victoria) against Spokane (Belford and Parks) (Spokane 11 - Victoria 9) Roche batted eighth and went 0 for 4 (pinch hit for in the ninth)

11 May 1911 - (at Victoria) against Spokane (Thomas) (Spokane 1 - Victoria 2) - Dashwood also played.

21 May 1911 - (at Tacoma) against Tacoma (Thomas) (Victoria 1 - Tacoma 10) - Dashwood also played (second game of double header)

(The Tacoma Times, April 08, 1912) - RECORD CATCH MADE - SAN DIEGO, Cal., April 8.— Jack Roche catcher for the Centralia team in the Washington State league holds the record for catching a baseball from an aeroplane. Roche caught a ball thrown by Jesse Puryear from a Wright biplane 427 feet in the air. Charles Street Washington American league catcher clung to a ball dropped off the Washington monument 555 feet high. Roche's catch is said to be the highest ever made from an aeroplane.

(Morning Oregonian, June 27, 1912) - Roche Is Now With the Portland Colts - Jack Roche, the Centralia backstop, is with the Colts, taking his place on the bench yesterday. He probably will be used in the game today, Williams figuring the right-handed hitter Roche will prove better than Otto Moore against Thompson. Roche, who tried out with Victoria last season and worked in the Southern California League last Winter, refused to stand a Centralia cut.

(Morning Oregonian, July 10, 1912) - Two Teams Want Jack Roche - CENTRALIA, Wash. July, 9 (Special) It was reported here today that two State League teams are after the services of Jack Roche, the former Centralia catcher, who was released by the Portland Northwest League Club Sunday.

(Morning Oregonian, July 13, 1912) - Roche Lands Job Paying $150. - CENTRALIA, Wash., July 12. (Special.) Jack the big catcher with Centralia during the 1911 and part of the 1912 season and who was recently released by Portland, has been signed by the Calgary, Alberta, Canada, club at a salary of $150 a month. Roche stopped off in Centralia last night his way to join his club.

(Evening Star. [Washington, D.C.], September 02, 1913) - Four clubs, including the St. Louis Cardinals, are bidding for Catcher Jack Roche of Calgary, who is batting .354 and fielding .986.

(San Bernardino Sun, 14 November 1915) - Tho Winter League baseball season opened in this city yesterday afternoon before a large Saturday crowd with San Diego walloping the newly organized local club San Bernardino 9 to 3. Just as Umpire Kitty Brashear stepped to the middle of the diamond to announce the batteries, Catcher Jack Roche and Pitcher Pete Schneider, both big league players and members of the San Diego club, announced that they refused to play the game unless Johnny Rawlings, Kansas City Federal league player was put out of the game. Recently the National Commission of organized baseball issued a statement declaring that any player participating in the same game with a Federal league player would be subject to a heavy fine. Schneider and Roche, both being members of major league teams, refused to play on the grounds that they might be fined more money than they could make playing winter baseball. This is the first case on record where a Federal leaguer was barred from a game because of objection of players in organized baseball. Manager Bill Cornett Anally' decided to take Johnny out of the game.

(Morning Oregonian, April 14, 1916) - Roche Once With Colts - PORTLAND, April 12. (To the Sporting Editor.) Did Jack Roche ever catch for Portland and what year? A FAN. Answer - Jack Roche came to Portland from the Washington State League in the Fall of 1912 and caught one game for the Portland Colts. He secured four hits, but his throwing was erratic. He participated in only one contest.

(The Sunday Oregonian, April 23, 1916) - ROCHE REAL HITTER - New Beaver Catcher Is Terror to Southpaw Hurlers. FANS RECALL HIS DEBUT Hitting Four Times in One Game as Colt In 1912 - Left-handed pitchers, beware! Walt McCredie has a backstop who can whale the tar out of 'em. His name is Jack Roche and he hails from San Diego, Calf. When the name of Roche is mentioned to Portland fandom it is immediately recalled that a certain gawky chap with the same handle created much mirth one day in July 1912, while catching a game for Nick Williams' Portland Colts, of the Northwestern League. At that time Williams had been keeping his eye on Roche, who was hitting way over .300 in the little Washington State League. He wrote him the week previous to report to the Colts. Roche did and was started in back of the rubber. He had an arm as strong as iron and had been used to throwing in the league from where he came across a diamond that had no raised mound. So every time a man started to steal Roche misgauged the distance and promptly threw the ball into center field. He nearly ran Eddie Mensor ragged. However, he got four safe blows out of four times to bat and was also running the opposition's outfield some. Williams carried him for three days and decided he was too inexperienced. A ballplayer of the Roche caliber would not be discouraged by this setback and he hiked promptly to the Calgary club, of the Western Canada League, where he finished the season. In the Fall of the next year, 1913, he was still with Calgary and led the league in hitting with an average of considerable more than 300. Although the St. Louis Nationals already had Catchers Frank Snyder and Ivy Wingo, they drafted him. Roche, perhaps, holds a record in the baseball world. He was with the St. Louis club for two years and did not start a single encounter behind the rubber. In 1914 Roche was at bat only 10 times and got seven hits, his batting average being of some heights, but not shown in the record book. Last year, however, he participated in 46 games, although he only finished seven, being used as a pinch-hitter. He hit for an average of .205, but did not get in the fielding averages. Last Winter Roche played Winter ball with his home town, San Diego. He received notice from Miller Huggins, of St. Louis, that he had been released to the Tacoma club. Tacoma could not meet his salary demands and he telegraphed the St. Louis management that if they would pay the difference in salary he would be glad to report to Russ Hall. St. Louis telegraphed his release and his joining the Portland club followed.

(Los Angeles Herald, 1 May 1916) - Catcher Roche Will Stay with Beavers - PORTLAND, Ore., May I.—Chairman Garry Herrmann of the national commission has wired Judge W. W. McCredie of the Beavers that the club will be able to use Catcher Jack Roche until further notice. Roche has been in the game nearly every day for the Beavers and has been a big help to the club. Roche signed a contract with Portland several days ago. The Cardinals claimed that they had not unconditionally released him but had sent him to the Tacoma club. Tacoma has given its consent to the Beavers to keep Roche and it is thought that the Cardinals will waive their claim.

(Los Angeles Herald, 14 August 1916) - Catcher Roche Wed in San Diego Today - SAN DIEGO, Cal, Aug. 14.—Jack Roche, catcher for the Portland club of the Coast league. Will “catch a peach" in San Diego when he is married to Miss Dale Davis at her home here this afternoon. Ho expects to appear on the Los Angeles field tomorrow with his bride.

(Morning Oregonian, February 07, 1917) - Walter McCredie was speaking about Jack Roche the other day. "I wish I had Roche back this year," said the Portland manager. "Jack is one of the finest fellows I ever had on my club. He is an erratic thrower and never will make much of a success behind the bat, but this year if he had remained I would have used him in the outfield. He can hit and run the bases. For a big fellow, Roche is exceptionally fast." Roche belonged to the St. Louis Cards last year and simply reverted to them at the close of the season. It is not believed the Cards have any Intention of using him, for he had ample opportunity to show hie wares during his sojourn for two or three seasons prior to last year.

(Los Angeles Herald, 1 March 1917) - By MATT GALLAGHER - Jack Roche declares that the National league must be in a bad way for catchers. Roche arrives at that viewpoint from his own case. He was a member of the Portland club last year and he figures that he did not set the world on fire with his work. Still the St. Louis Cardinals exercised their option on him. "If that is the way the Cards feel about it, I am going to show them that I am a real catcher,” said Roche. "The catching in the National league last year wasn’t any better than that in the Coast circuit. "I would rather play ball in Los Angeles than any other place, as my arm always felt good after the Beavers were here a couple of days.” Roche will leave Saturday for San Antonio, Texas, where the Cards will do their spring training.

(Sacramento Union, 24 April 1917) - OAKLAND BUYS ROCHE - SAN FRANCISCO. April 23.—1t was announced here today that the Oakland team of the Pacific Coast league had bought the release of Jack Roche, catcher, from the St. Louis team of the National league. Roche caught for Portland last season.

(Los Angeles Herald, 25 June 1917) Big Jack Roche, Oaks Backstop, Forsakes Club - SAN FRANCISCO, June 25,—Catcher Jack Roche of the Oakland team has joined the Jasper and Malls club. The big backstop, who formerly played with the Beavers and the St. Louis Cardinals, quit the Oaks last night and refused to make the trip to Salt Lake with the club. Manager Del Howard announced that Catcher Kilhullen, who started the season with the Oaks and was later sent to Marysville, will return to the team.

(Los Angeles Herald, 5 October 1917) - Del Howard is out with the statement that the person who started the report he is going to resign as manager is a crosseyed, and many another kind of liar. Howard is looking forward to next year. Jack Roche, who failed as a catcher, will try a comeback as an outfielder.

(Los Angeles Herald, 17 August 1918) - Jack Roche, who jumped the Oakland club a couple of years ago for the New Mexican circuit, is back in town. He expects to play for the General Petroleum team.

(Morning Oregonian, July 17, 1919) - Jack Roche, former Beaver, who has been playing first base for Oakland has quit the team. He turned in his uniform before the club left for Sacramento, and will play semi-professional ball. Del Howard and Roche parted the best of friends. Del advised Jack that Louis Guisto was coming to take his job and told him to protect himself. When Roche told Bonn Howard that he had a chance to play with a country team on Sunday, Del told him to hop to it.

All Saints, North Wootton, Norfolk

A rural setting at the northern tip of Kings Lynn's vast sea of northern suburbia. The old church was demolished in 1850 and the replacement was in the 13th Century style, the structure, fixtures and fittings the work of Anthony Salvin, a fine example of the period.

This example of an "easily and quickly designable font for inscriptions of all kinds.." appears in the seventh issue of "Buch - und - Werbekunst"/ Book & Advertising Art" published by the Leipzig concern of Der Offset-Verlag GMBH in 1930. It was deisgned by Jan Tschichold and the lower paragraph gives instructions on how to use this template.

Jan Tschichold (1902 - 1974), also known as Iwan or Ivan, was an influential German calligrapher, book designer and typographer. By 1925 he was working independently having been a student and teacher in Leipzig. By 1923 he was strongly influenced by Modernist design following contact with the Bauhaus. He fled Germany due to Nazi persecution in 1933 and settled largely in Switzerland but spent time in the UK during the 1930s and between 1947 and 1949 when he worked on the design of Penguin Books.

Created in the mid-to-late Nineteenth Century by Melbourne stained glass manufacturer Ferguson and Urie, the Lamb of God window may be found in the western wall of the entrance porch of Christ Church, Brunswick. The Lamb of God is holding a banner of the triumphal cross, symbolising the victory of the resurrected Christ over death.

Christ Church has been constructed in a cruciform plan with a detached campanile. Although not originally intended as such, at its completion, the church became an excellent example of "Villa Rustica" architecture in Australia. Like other churches around the inner city during the boom and bust eras of the mid Nineteenth Century as Melbourne became an established city, the building was built in stages between 1857 and 1875 as money became available to extend and better what was already in existence. Christ Church was dedicated in 1857 when the nave, designed by architects Purchas and Swyer, was completed. The transepts, chancel and vestry were completed between 1863 and 1864 to the designs created by the architects' firm Smith and Watts. The Romanesque style campanile was also designed by Smith and Watts and it completed between 1870 and 1871. A third architect, Frederick Wyatt, was employed to design the apse which was completed in 1875.

Built in Italianate style with overture characteristics of classical Italian country house designs, Christ Church is one of the few examples of what has been coined "Villa Rustica" architecture in Victoria.

Slipping through the front door at the bottom of the campanile, the rich smell of incense from mass envelops visitors. As soon as the double doors which lead into the church proper close behind you, the church provides a quiet refuge from the busy intersection of Glenlyon Road and Brunswick Street outside, and it is quite easy to forget that cars and trams pass by just a few metres away. Walking up the aisle of the nave of Christ Church, light pours over the original wooden pews with their hand embroidered cushions through sets of luminescent stained glass windows by Melbourne manufacturers, Ferguson and Urie, Mathieson and Gibson and Brooks Robinson and Company. A set of fourteen windows from the mid-to-late Nineteenth Century by Ferguson and Urie depicting different saints are especially beautiful, filled with painted glass panes which are as vivid now as when they were created more than one hundred years ago. The floors are still the original dark, richly polished boards that generations of worshipers have walked over since they were first laid. The east transept houses the Lady Chapel, whilst the west transept is consumed by the magnificent 1972 Roger H. Pogson organ built of cedar with tin piping. This replaced the original 1889 Alfred Fuller organ. Beautifully executed carved rood figures watch over the chancel from high, perhaps admiring the marble altar.

Albert Purchas, born in 1825 in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales, was a prominent Nineteenth Century architect who achieved great success for himself in Melbourne. Born to parents Robert Whittlesey Purchas and Marianne Guyon, he migrated to Australia in 1851 to establish himself in the then quickly expanding city of Melbourne, where he set up a small architect's firm in Little Collins Street. He also offered surveying services. His first major building was constructing the mansion "Berkeley Hall" in St Kilda on Princes Street in 1854. The house still exists today. Two years after migrating, Albert designed the layout of the Melbourne General Cemetery in Carlton. It was the first "garden cemetery" in Victoria, and his curvilinear design is still in existence, unaltered, today. In 1854, Albert married Eliza Anne Sawyer (1825 - 1869) in St Kilda. The couple had ten children over their marriage, including a son, Robert, who followed in his father's footsteps as an architect. Albert's brother-in-law, Charles Sawyer joined him in the partnership of Purchas and Sawyer, which existed from 1856 until 1862 in Queens Street. The firm produced more than 140 houses, churches, offices and cemetery buildings including: the nave and transepts of Christ Church St Kilda between 1854 and 1857, "Glenara Homestead"in Bulla in 1857, the Melbourne Savings Bank on the corner of Flinders Lane and Market Street (now demolished) between 1857 and 1858, the Geelong branch of the Bank of Australasia in Malop Street between 1859 and 1860, and Beck's Imperial Hotel in Castlemaine in 1861. When the firm broke up, Albert returned to Little Collins Street, and the best known building he designed during this period was St. George's Presbyterian Church in East St Kilda between 1877 and 1880. The church's tall polychomatic brick bell tower is still a local landmark, even in the times of high rise architecture and development, and St, George's itself is said to be one of his most striking church designs. Socially, Albert was vice president of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects for many years, before becoming president in 1887. He was also an inventor and philanthropist. Albert died in 1909 at his home in Kew, a wealthy widower and much loved father.

The stained glass firm of Ferguson and Urie was established by Scots James Ferguson (1818 – 1894), James Urie (1828 – 1890) and John Lamb Lyon (1836 – 1916). They were the first known makers of stained glass in Australia. Until the early 1860s, window glass in Melbourne had been clear or plain coloured, and nearly all was imported, but new churches and elaborate buildings created a demand for pictorial windows. The three Scotsmen set up Ferguson and Urie in 1862 and the business thrived until 1899, when it ceased operation, with only John Lamb Lyon left alive. Ferguson and Urie was the most successful Nineteenth Century Australian stained glass window making company. Among their earliest works were a Shakespeare window for the Haymarket Theatre in Bourke Street, a memorial window to Prince Albert in Holy Trinity, Kew, and a set of Apostles for the West Melbourne Presbyterian Church. Their palatial Gothic Revival office building stood at 283 Collins Street from 1875. Ironically, their last major commission, a window depicting “labour”, was installed in the old Melbourne Stock Exchange in Collins Street in 1893 on the eve of the bank crash. Their windows can be found throughout the older suburbs of Melbourne and across provincial Victoria.

A nice example of the Great Britain plate 3 Penny Black on an 1840 cover with red Maltese Cross and Preston CDS.

The Goodwood Revival takes place every September and is a classic car-based event that transports visitors back to 1940s-1960s period. Adding to the period feel, the shuttle bus 902 service from Chichester to the event features a number of vintage buses as well as modern examples.

I visited the shuttle terminals on a glorious Friday (13/09/2019) and enjoyed the atmosphere throughout the day. Buses in use on the various shuttle services / private hires included:

HAP985 1953 Brighton Hove & District Bristol KSW;

LRV992 1956 Devon General Leyland PD2 (new to Portsmouth);

2722CD 1961 Southdown Leyland Leopard;

406DCD 1964 Southdown Leyland PD3 'Queen Mary';

409DCD 1964 Southdown Leyland PD3 'Queen Mary';

BUF260C 1965 Southdown Leyland PD3 'Queen Mary';

BUF272C 1965 Southdown Leyland PD3 'Queen Mary';

DEK3D 1966 Wigan Leyland PD2;

JAH553D 1966 Eastern Counties Bristol FLF;

JJD565D 1966 Stratford Blue AEC Routemaster;

JRJ281E 1967 Salford Leyland PD2;

KPM91E 1967 Bristol FLF;

OKO816G 1968 Maidstone & District Leyland Leopard;

BFX666T 1979 Wilts & Dorset Bristol VRT;

J501GCD 1991 Stagecoach Dennis Dart;

KX06LYU 2006 Stagecoach Alexander Dennis Trident;

404DCD 2006 Stagecoach Alexander Dennis Enviro400 'The Pink Lady II';

GX11AKK 2011 Stagecoach Alexander Dennis Enviro400;

LX12DFV 2012 Stagecoach Alexander Dennis Enviro400;

LX12DHA/C/D/F 2012 Stagecoach Alexander Dennis Enviro400.

Art Deco in Mexico City Roma Norte neighbourhood at Av. Mexico 59.

Parisian-style architecture dots the streets of the capital’s most chic neighbourhoods, Roma, Condesa, and Juarez.

During the presidency of Porfirio Diaz (1876-1911) he thought France was the perfect example for Mexico.

During this time, referred to as El Porfiriato, Diaz commissioned the construction of many French-inspired buildings. This included theatres, monuments, and elegant department stores modelled on the boutiques of Paris.

The Art Deco and Art Nouveau architecture also caught on in the suburbs, including Roma.

One of the finest examples of a Sikh gurdwara I have encountered - Lodi, CA

epaselect epa04540896 A girl plays in the snow in Sion, Switzerland, 27 December 2014. Switzerland experienced the warmest fall and early winter ever recorded in weather statistics. EPA/OLIVIER MAIRE

Victoria and Albert Museum: Examples of the works of Art in the Museum – South Kensington Museum – Volumes 1 & 2

Sometime ago I posted some illustrations from Volume 1 of the above book and hoped I that would be able to find those items in the museum itself and them photograph them. This will be the second set of postings. This time they are of illustrations 16 – 30 from the book. As usual I investigated the V & A Search the Collections site for any further information. This is what I found (photographed) or in the case of those items in storage or drawings, didn’t find.

I have used 1881 throughout as the purchase date, as that was the date of publishing of the book. I fully expect the clue to be in the museum ref, however I don’t suppose it makes a fantastic amount of difference to my posting. This is the second half 24-30.