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We spent hours sitting on the beach facing Cumberland Sound, the body of water between Amelia Island, Florida and Cumberland Island, Georgia. I had my camera mounted on the tripod with my longest lens, hoping to get some good bird shots. There were birds and so much more, a never-ending parade of nautical activity.
Long-term stored GB Railfreight Class 92s, 92040 "Goethe" and 92045 "Chaucer" catch the rays of the Spring sunshine at the Brush Traction works, Loughborough.
With the recent announcement that the Brush Traction works are to close by the end of 2021, the futures of these locomotives look less certain than ever.
The History of the Stored Class 92s at Brush:
021, 040, 045 and 046 are the remaining stored Class 92s in the GB Railfreight fleet – with all four having been stored for over 20 years.
The Forgotten Four were part of the seven Class 92s originally owned by European Passenger Services (EPS) for use on the ill-fated Nightstar European sleeper service.
Up until April 2001, all of the EPS engines were used along with the rest of the Class 92 fleet as part of the common pool operated by EWS and based at Crewe ETD.
However, with the Nightstar project officially over, EPS offered their 92s for sale during 2000, but no buyers were found. Consequently, all seven were stored on 24 April 2001 - with 021, 040, 045 and 046 never having worked since.
021 and 040 were eventually purchased by Europorte (along with three other 92s) on 15 Feb 2007 from EPS for a total of £2m for the five locos (which cost £21m to build in 2007 prices).
021 and 040 remained stored and were moved by road from Crewe IEMD to Loughborough by Allelys in late July 2008. In Summer 2010, 021 and 040 moved to Cheriton where they remained for a while, before moving on to Coquelles/Frethun Eurotunnel Depot in Autumn 2011.
021 and 040 remained at Frethun Depot in store until being repatriated on 24/11/2018 and 08/12/2018 respectively for parts recovery and storage at Loughborough Brush.
The remaining two EPS 92s - 045 and 046 - were also purchased by Europorte in November 2007. They were both moved by road to Loughborough in late July 2008 and have remained at Brush ever since, donating parts to the rest of the Europorte/GBRf fleet.
In February 2014, all Europorte Class 92s – including the stored locomotives - were sold to its then subsidiary, GB Railfreight Limited. The Caledonian Sleeper contract meant the GBRf active fleet increased to 12 of their 16 engines. However, the remaining four stored locos – ironically all originally intended for sleeper operations – are unlikely to work again.
But they're so small! What can they do?
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The Dean Forest Railway made a lot in their ads for this weekends steam gala that ex-GWR 0-4-2T, 1450 was facing South, opening up lots of new photography possibilities. The steam engines on the line are usually facing North, up the ruling gradient to help ensure that the firebox crown remains covered with water. What they neglected to say of course was that they had sandwiched her in the middle of a pair of auto-coaches, so it didn't really make any difference which way she was facing. Well at least the sun was shining for a change :^)
Ancient Palais Herberstein, Nagl-Voelklhaus
Object ID: 22673 Linzer Straße 2
The main facade of the building is facing the Riemerplatz and there it has the number 1. The house, whose location at least since 1367 is built-up, was probably around 1725 by Joseph Munggenast baroquised. In addition to the Count Herberstein also the Mayor of St. Pölten William Voelkl was one of the owners of the building.
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History of the City St. Pölten
In order to present concise history of the Lower Austrian capital is in the shop of the city museum a richly illustrated full version on CD-ROM.
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On the occasion of the commemoration of the pogroms of November 1938, the Institute for Jewish History of Austria its virtual Memorbuch (Memory book) for the destroyed St. Pölten Jewish community since 10th November 2012 is putting online.
Prehistory
The time from which there is no written record is named after the main materials used for tools and weapons: Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age. Using the latest technologies, archaeologists from archaeological finds and aerial photographs can trace a fairly detailed picture of life at that time. Especially for the time from the settling down of the People (New Stone Age), now practicing agriculture and animal husbandry, in the territory of St. Pölten lively settlement activity can be proved. In particular, cemeteries are important for the research, because the dead were laid in the grave everyday objects and jewelry, the forms of burial changing over time - which in turn gives the archeology valuable clues for the temporal determination. At the same time, prehistory of Sankt Pölten would not be half as good documented without the construction of the expressway S33 and other large buildings, where millions of cubic meters of earth were moved - under the watchful eyes of the Federal Monuments Office!
A final primeval chapter characterized the Celts, who settled about 450 BC our area and in addition to a new culture and religion also brought with them the potter's wheel. The kingdom of Noricum influenced till the penetration of the Romans the development in our area.
Roman period, migrations
The Romans conquered in 15 BC the Celtic Empire and established hereinafter the Roman province of Noricum. Borders were protected by military camp (forts), in the hinterland emerged civilian cities, almost all systematically laid out according to the same plan. The civil and commercial city Aelium Cetium, as St. Pölten was called (city law 121/122), consisted in the 4th Century already of heated stone houses, trade and craft originated thriving urban life, before the Romans in the first third of the 5th Century retreated to Italy.
The subsequent period went down as the Migration Period in official historiography, for which the settlement of the Sankt Pöltner downtown can not be proved. Cemeteries witness the residence of the Lombards in our area, later it was the Avars, extending their empire to the Enns.
The recent archaeological excavations on the Cathedral Square 2010/2011, in fact, the previous knowledge of St.Pölten colonization not have turned upside down but enriched by many details, whose full analysis and publication are expected in the near future.
Middle Ages
With the submission of the Avars by Charlemagne around 800 AD Christianity was gaining a foothold, the Bavarian Benedictine monastery of Tegernsee establishing a daughter house here - as founder are mentioned the brothers Adalbert and Ottokar - equipped with the relics of St. Hippolytus. The name St. Ypolit over the centuries should turn into Sankt Pölten. After the Hungarian wars and the resettlement of the monastery as Canons Regular of St. Augustine under the influence of Passau St. Pölten received mid-11th Century market rights.
In the second half of the 20th century historians stated that records in which the rights of citizens were held were to be qualified as Town Charters. Vienna is indeed already in 1137 as a city ("civitas") mentioned in a document, but the oldest Viennese city charter dates only from the year 1221, while the Bishop of Passau, Konrad, already in 1159 the St. Pöltnern secured:
A St. Pöltner citizen who has to answer to the court, has the right to make use of an "advocate".
He must not be forced to rid himself of the accusation by a judgment of God.
A St. Pöltner citizen may be convicted only by statements of fellow citizens, not by strangers.
From the 13th Century exercised a city judge appointed by the lord of the city the high and low jurisdiction as chairman of the council meetings and the Municipal Court, Inner and Outer Council supported him during the finding of justice. Venue for the public verdict was the in the 13th Century created new marketplace, the "Broad Market", now the town hall square. Originally square-shaped, it was only later to a rectangle reduced. Around it arose the market district, which together with the monastery district, the wood district and the Ledererviertel (quarter of the leather goods manufacturer) was protected by a double city wall.
The dependence of St. Pölten of the bishop of Passau is shown in the municipal coat of arms and the city seal. Based on the emblem of the heraldic animal of the Lord of the city, so the Bishop of Passau, it shows an upright standing wolf holding a crosier in its paw.
Modern Times
In the course of the armed conflict between the Emperor Frederick III . and King Matthias of Hungary pledged the Bishop of Passau the town on the Hungarian king. From 1485 stood Lower Austria as a whole under Hungarian rule. The most important document of this period is the awarding of the city coat of arms by King Matthias Corvinus in the year 1487. After the death of the opponents 1490 and 1493 could Frederick's son Maximilian reconquer Lower Austria. He considered St. Pölten as spoils of war and had no intention of returning it to the diocese of Passau. The city government has often been leased subsequently, for instance, to the family Wellenstein, and later to the families Trautson and Auersperg.
That St. Pölten now was a princely city, found its expression in the coat of arms letter of the King Ferdinand I. from 1538: From now on, the wolf had no crosier anymore, and the from the viewer's point of view left half showed the reverse Austrian shield, so silver-red-silver.
To the 16th Century also goes back the construction of St. Pöltner City Hall. The 1503 by judge and council acquired house was subsequently expanded, rebuilt, extended and provided with a tower.
A for the urban history research important picture, painted in 1623, has captured scenes of the peasant uprising of 1597, but also allows a view to the city and lets the viewer read some of the details of the then state of construction. The economic inconveniences of that time were only exacerbated by the Thirty Years War, at the end of which a fifth of the houses were uninhabited and the citizenry was impoverished.
Baroque
After the successful defense against the Turks in 1683, the economy started to recover and a significant building boom began. Lower Austria turned into the land of the baroque abbeys and monasteries, as it is familiar to us today.
In St. Pölten, the change of the cityscape is closely connected to the Baroque architect Jakob Prandtauer. In addition to the Baroquisation of the interior of the cathedral, a number of buildings in St. Pölten go to his account, so the reconstruction of the castle Ochsenburg, the erection of the Schwaighof and of the core building of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Englische Fräuleins - English Maidens) - from 1706 the seat of the first school order of St.Pölten - as well as of several bourgeois houses.
Joseph Munggenast, nephew and co-worker of Prandtauer, completed the Baroquisation of the cathedral, he baroquised the facade of the town hall (1727) and numerous bourgeois houses and designed a bridge over the Traisen which existed until 1907. In the decoration of the church buildings were throughout Tyroleans collaborating, which Jakob Prandtauer had brought along from his homeland (Tyrol) to St. Pölten, for example, Paul Troger and Peter Widerin.
Maria Theresa and her son Joseph II: Their reforms in the city of the 18th Century also left a significant mark. School foundings as a result of compulsory education, the dissolution of the monasteries and hereinafter - from 1785 - the new role of St. Pölten as a bishop's seat are consequences of their policies.
1785 was also the year of a fundamental alteration of the old Council Constitution: The city judge was replaced by one magistrate consisting of five persons, at the head was a mayor. For the first mayor the painter Josef Hackl was chosen.
The 19th century
Despite the Napoleonic Wars - St. Pölten in 1805 and 1809 was occupied by the French - and despite the state bankruptcy of 1811, increased the number of businesses constantly, although the economic importance of the city for the time being did not go beyond the near vicinity.
Against the background of monitoring by the state secret police, which prevented any political commitment between the Congress of Vienna and the 1848 revolution, the citizens withdrew into private life. Sense of family, fostering of domestic music, prominent salon societies in which even a Franz Schubert socialized, or the construction of the city theater were visible signs of this attitude.
The economic upswing of the city did not begin until after the revolution of the year 1848. A prerequisite for this was the construction of the Empress Elisabeth Western Railway, moving Vienna, Linz, soon Salzburg, too, in a reachable distance. The city walls were pulled down, St. Pölten could unfold. The convenient traffic situation favored factory start-ups, and so arose a lace factory, a revolver factory, a soap factory or, for example, as a precursor of a future large-scale enterprise, the braid, ribbon and Strickgarnerzeugung (knitting yarn production) of Matthias Salcher in Harland.
In other areas, too, the Gründerzeit (years of rapid industrial expansion in Germany - and Austria) in Sankt Pölten was honouring its name: The city got schools, a hospital, gas lanterns, canalization, hot springs and summer bath.
The 20th century
At the beginning of the 20th Century the city experienced another burst of development, initiated by the construction of the power station in 1903, because electricity was the prerequisite for the settlement of large companies. In particular, the companies Voith and Glanzstoff and the main workshop of the Federal Railways attracted many workers. New Traisen bridge, tram, Mariazell Railway and other infrastructure buildings were erected; St. Pölten obtained a synagogue. The Art Nouveau made it repeatedly into the urban architecture - just think of the Olbrich House - and inspired also the painting, as exponents worth to be mentioned are Ernst Stöhr or Ferdinand Andri.
What the outbreak of the First World War in broad outlines meant for the monarchy, on a smaller scale also St. Pölten has felt. The city was heavily impacted by the deployment of army units, a POW camp, a military hospital and a sick bay. Industrial enterprises were partly converted into war production, partly closed. Unemployment, housing emergency and food shortages long after the war still were felt painfully.
The 1919 to mayor elected Social Democrat Hubert Schnofl after the war tried to raise the standard of living of the people by improving the social welfare and health care. The founding of a housing cooperative (Wohnungsgenossenschaft), the construction of the water line and the establishment of new factories were further attempts to stimulate the stiffening economy whose descent could not be stopped until 1932.
After the National Socialist regime had stirred false hopes and plunged the world into war, St. Pölten was no longer the city as it has been before. Not only the ten devastating bombings of the last year of the war had left its marks, also the restrictive persecution of Jews and political dissidents had torn holes in the structure of the population. Ten years of Russian occupation subsequently did the rest to traumatize the population, but at this time arose from the ruins a more modern St. Pölten, with the new Traisen bridge, district heating, schools.
This trend continued, an era of recovery and modernization made the economic miracle palpable. Already in 1972 was - even if largely as a result of incorporations - exceeded the 50.000-inhabitant-limit.
Elevation to capital status (capital of Lower Austria), 10 July 1986: No other event in this dimension could have become the booster detonation of an up to now ongoing development thrust. Since then in a big way new residential and commercial areas were opened up, built infrastructure constructions, schools and universities brought into being to enrich the educational landscape. East of the Old Town arose the governmental and cultural district, and the list of architects wears sonorous names such as Ernst Hoffmann (NÖ (Lower Austria) Landhaus; Klangturm), Klaus Kada (Festspielhaus), Hans Hollein (Shedhalle and Lower Austrian Provincial Museum), Karin Bily, Paul Katzberger and Michael Loudon ( NÖ State Library and NÖ State Archive).
European Diploma, European flag, badge of honor, Europe Price: Between 1996 and 2001, received St. Pölten numerous appreciations of its EU commitment - as a sort of recognition of the Council of Europe for the dissemination of the EU-idea through international town twinnings, a major Europe exhibition or, for example, the establishment and chair of the "Network of European medium-sized cities".
On the way into the 21st century
Just now happened and already history: What the St. Pöltnern as just experienced sticks in their minds, travelers and newcomers within a short time should be told. The theater and the hospital handing over to the province of Lower Austria, a new mayor always on the go, who was able to earn since 2004 already numerous laurels (Tags: polytechnic, downtown enhancement, building lease scheme, bus concept) - all the recent changes are just now condensed into spoken and written language in order to make, from now on, the history of the young provincial capital in the 3rd millennium nachlesbar (checkable).
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Facing Hyde Street, the rear of the building is almost as ornate as the frontage overlooking Hindmarsh Square. Originally “Young Women Christian Association” was stuccoed along the rear with “YWCA” in the central panel. [Photo from State Library of SA: PRG 631/2/164 (1901)]
Foundation stone 12 Jul 1900 by Miss Colton, opened 22 Nov 1900 for Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), architect G de Lacy Evans & R J Haddon, purchased 1914 by SA Branch of British Medical Association, Lady Colton Hall renamed Lister Hall, used for medical meetings & social activities, purchased 1929 by Royal Automobile Association, sold 1954, but re-purchased by RAA 1980s, now business premises. The site was originally the location of Heinrich Wilhelm Ehmcke’s sawmill & timberyard (later Ehmcke & Gaetjen).
“Young Women's Christian Association. . . The site for the new home is upon the western side of Hindmarsh-square, a little south of Grenfell-street, and on part of the block known for many years as Messrs. Ehmcke & Gaetjen's timberyard. A right-of-way along the north side of the building affords light and air on that aspect, and Hyde-street at the rear does the some on the west, while the architects have left an open passage along the best part of the south side, thus ensuring cross ventilation in every direction. The design is that of Messrs. de Lacy Evans and R. J. Haddon, of Melbourne, and shows a sensibly-treated work, which partakes somewhat of the style of architecture known as ‘Queen Anne’. Red brick and details in cement work form the exterior. The north-east salient angle carries a circular turret, with lead roof, while the main entrance is marked by a flight of steps, and a group of columns on each side. . . and the supervising architect is Mr. A. Barnaul Black, F.S.A.I.A.” [Advertiser 11 Jul 1900]
“The members of the Y.W.C.A. were unfortunate in having a wet day for the ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of their new building, the Lady Colton Memorial Institute. . . the stone, which was inscribed ‘Y.W.C.A. This stone was laid by Miss Colton, July 12, 1900’. The stone was presented by Mr. Torode, and the tablet and inscription were given by Mr. W. H. Martin.” [Advertiser 13 Jul 1900]
“the Lady Colton Memorial Institute, which, will be the future home of the Young Women's Christian Association. . . the accomplishment of the scheme which was set on foot nearly two years ago for the purpose of raising funds to erect a worthy memorial to the memory of Lady Colton, the founder and first President of the. Association [Register 12 Jul 1900]
“The South Australian branch of the British Medical Association has purchased the land and buildings of the Y.W.CA. in Hindrnarsh-square for £5,500. . . [Y.W.C.A.] have between 800 and 900 paid-up members. Connected with the different clubs and classes there are hundreds more, the actual total last year being 1,150 girls. You will understand, therefore, that the Institution cannot do its work properly in cramped quarters. The new boarding-home in Carrington-street is a magnificent branch. . . It is not proposed that the place shall be converted into a club for doctors. It will be purely an office and place of meeting to discuss subjects of interest to the profession. The Lady Colton Hall will be utilised as a lecture and demonstration theatre, in addition to a hall for meetings connected with lie Medical Association.” [Advertiser 13 Aug 1913]
“discuss the question of the location of the new building to be erected to replace the present hall, which has been sold to the South Australian branch of the British Medical Association. The matter was freely debated, and it was decided to build on the block of land south of the- Lady Colton Hall. That site has been the property of the Y.W.C.A. for several years.” [Register 28 Aug 1913]
“At the end of the present month the Young Women's Christian Association will relinquish possession, of Lady Colton Hall, which it sold to the British Medical Association. . . The present building was erected nearly 15 years ago, . . The initial meeting was held in the Pirie Street Methodist Church Lecture Hall in 1879. . . . In . . . rooms were taken in Franklin street. . . From 1888 to 1889 the home was in Flinders street, where, for the first time, a few beds were provided. In 1889 the association took the flat over Craven & Armstrong’s, in Pulteney street.” [Register 23 Apr 1914]
“The work of the Y.W.C.A. has progressed to such an extent that the accommodation at the headquarters, the Lady Colton Hall, has now become inadequate for carrying on the work. New, spacious, and more modern premises are therefore being erected on an adjoining site.” [Advertiser 25 Apr 1914]
“The new headquarters of the South Australian branch of the British Medical Association were opened yesterday afternoon and the hall was dedicated to the memory of the illustrious Lord Lister. . . the premises in Hindmarsh-square formerly occupied by the Young Women's Christian Association. The building has been renovated throughout, and will provide an excellent headquarters for the medical profession in South Australia. The opening ceremony was performed in the Lister Hall in the presence of a large gathering of medical practitioners and students..” [Advertiser 26 Jun 1914]
“Messrs. William Silver and Eugene Alderman entertained a number of friends at an "at home" at their new music-rooms, in the British Medical Association House, in Hindmarsh-square. The rooms are artistically decorated in sepia tones and blue dadoes; the walls being hung with pictures of the old masters.” [Chronicle 18 Jul 1914]
“Mr. Matthew McGregor announces that his classes for ballroom dancing will resume on March 1 at the British Medical Association Building, Hindmarsh square. The latest dance measures and fashionable figures will be included in the season's programme.” [The Mail 20 Feb 1915]
“Members of the Automobile Association of South Australia will occupy their own building in Hindmarsh square in about four months. Situated near the Young Women's Christian Association and known as the British Medical Association Building, it was purchased by the association some months ago. . . The interior of the building, which comprises two floors and a basement, will be reconstructed. . . The main hall, known as Lister Hall, will be used as a large general office,” [News 9 Oct 1928]
“The Royal Automobile Association head office in Hindmarsh square will be sold when the association moves to its new premises nearby, now known as 'Open House,' at the corner of Grenfell street and Hindmarsh square.” [Advertiser 4 Nov 1954]
“RAA. . . The association bought its present head office building in 1926 for £11,000 In recent years, it has acquired a 70 ft. by 100 ft. property a few doors south, formerly owned by Kean Oil Co., and a garage and workshops in Hyde street, at the rear of Hindmarsh square. It is likely that the present head office will be sold, but that the association will retain the other two properties.” [News 30 Sep 1954]
THE SITE
“Ehmcke's Steam Saw-Mills and Timber-Yard. — This establishment, situated in Hindmarsh Square. . . premises occupy about two acres of land, and the quantity of timber on band, including every variety of wood applied to colonial uses, is extremely large, all is studded from the injurious influences of weather by galvanized iron roofing. One of these timber-sheds is said to be the largest in the colony, its dimensions bring 100 feet by about 47. feet. Massive piles of cedar, deal, stringybark, and the other varieties of timber in request, and about 50 tons of galvanized roofing iron, . . a machine adapted for the cutting of backs and tops of chairs; another for cutting cedar planks, of which from 20 to 25 may be produced at once; and a large machine for cutting deals. . . A showroom, specially intended for the exhibition of doors and windows on sale, is all but completed; and an extensive range of stables and carriage-houses is in a similar stage of forwardness.” [Adelaide Observer 2 Jul 1864]
“a little girl lost her life, and another was seriously injured. Several children were playing in Mr. Ehmcke's timber yard at the corner of Hindmarsh-square, and the two girls . . . The yard was being fenced in, but since Mr. Ehmcke had bought the land there had not been time to complete the fencing.” [Weekly Chronicle 10 Dec 1864]
EHMCKE.— On the 14th August, at his residence, Wakefield-street, Heinrich Wilhelm Ehmcke, born Province of Hanover, Germany, aged 60 years. A colonist of 29 years.” [Register 15 Aug 1877]
“Mr. W. H. Ehmcke . . . was a native of the province of Hanover, but had been a -resident for 29 years in this colony, and was 60 years of age at the time of his death. . .Messrs. W. and T. Ehmcke, sons of the deceased; Messrs. R. Ziegler, F. Gaetjens, A. Kiedel, and R. Menz, sons-in-law.” [Chronicle & Weekly Mail 25 Aug 1877]
“W. Ehmcke & Gaetjens have much pleasure in intimating to their numerous Friends and the Public in general that having succeeded to that Old-established Business known as the Hindmarsh-Square Sawmills and Timber-Yards, So long and favourably conducted by the late H. W. Ehmcke.” [Register 15 Nov 1877]
“the premises of Messrs. Ehmcke & Gaetjens, timber merchants, of Grenfell-street, were discovered to be on fire, and before the conflagration, which lasted some hours, was suppressed, damage to the extent of about £7,000 was caused.” [Advertiser 27 Oct 1884]
“the premises of Messrs. H. W. Ehmcke & Gaetjens, proprietors of a large timber-yard fronting Hindmarsh square. The premises attacked by the flames form part of the Hindmarsh-square Sawmills and Timber-yard, which covered a large area of ground fronting the square. . . The property owned by Messrs. Ehmcke & Gaetjens is divided by Hyde street, a narrow thoroughfare leading from Grenfell-street to Pirie-street. On the east of this street are the sawmills, workshops, and a large stack of timber. On the west of Hyde-street, where the fire occurred, is a long row of seven sheds, containing Baltic and American timber, galvanized iron, sheeting, &c, and stables. The sheds were built of wood, brick, and galvanized iron.” [Register 8 Nov 1884]
“W. Ehmcke & Gaetjens, Hindmarsh-square Timber Yards, beg to inform Builders, Contractors, and the Public in General that having decided to Relinquish Business are now offering their Superior and Well-assorted Stock of Thoroughly Seasoned Timber, including Best Brands Joiners' Deal. Cedar, Walnut, Ash, Oak, Mahogany, Cherry, and Kauri Pine, American, Red and Clear Pine, Shelving, V.D.L. Stringybark, Jarrah, Oregon . . .” [Advertiser 1 Jun 1899]
YWCA
The YWCA began 1884 in rented rooms in Franklin St, 1887 in Flinders St, by 1890 they were in rooms over Cravens & Armstrong store on corner Rundle & Pulteney Sts. After the sale of the Hindmarsh Square building, they built adjacent, with foundation stone 7 Jul 1914 by Governor Sir Henry Galway, opened 14 Dec 1914. This building was converted to a munition-workers hostel during WWII. There was a club, “Open House”, for servicemen & women. The hostel closed 14 Aug 1946 & building later sold and became headquarters of RAA.
“The lately formed Y.W.C.A., will hold their meetings in the Y.M.C.A., until suitable premises can be secured.” [Christian Colonist 31 Oct 1884]
“The members of the Young Women's Christian Association will give their first 'social' at their rooms, Franklin-street, this evening.” [Register 17 Jan 1885]
“Y.W.C.A. now occupy the Old Military Club premises in Pulteney-street.” [Evening Journal 10 Mar 1890]
“the Y.W.C.A. is an educational and philanthropic society of many and varied activities. . . the foundation stone of which is to be laid to-day by Sir Henry Galway. The association is temporarily housed on the eastern side of Hindmarsh square. . . the basement, which includes gymnasium, teacher's room, lockers, baths, junior clubroom, and various storerooms. The other floors provide for the many classes, clubs, offices, lunchroom, and assembly hall.” [Register 7 Jul 1914]
“the handsome structure erected in Hindmarsh-square, on the block of land adjoining the original Y.W.C.A. building, now the property of the British Medical Association. When the association sold the old structure, and decided to put up a new one, it was necessary to look round for a temporary home, and the hall attached to the Hindmarsh-square Congregational Church was secured. Messrs. English & Soward, architects, were instructed to prepare plans for the new building, . . the facade is striking. It is of classic design, carried out in a special cement, which gives the effect of cut freestone. The wide entrance steps are composed of Angaston marble slabs, and ornamental tiles. Two large doors of Australian polished oak.” [Advertiser 8 Dec 1914]
“Among the many fine rooms in the building, perhaps the best is the Lady Colton Hall. There was a Lady Colton Hall in the old structure, and the marble tablet which commemorated it has been let into the walls of the new room.” [Register 12 Dec 1914]
“Reconstruction of the Y.W.C.A. Building at Hindmarsh square into a hostel for women munition workers is progressing very rapidly, and the completed quarters will soon be ready for occupation. The hall and gymnasium are being partitioned into cubicles. Other rooms will be made into bedrooms for four beds. What was the Y.W.C.A. library will be the new hostel lounge. New bathrooms are being constructed, partitions put up, and the building painted throughout. The finished hostel will house approximately 80 girls.” [News 29 Dec 1941]
“The problem of both leave and permanent accommodation for service women has been acute. All of the existing women's hostels in Adelaide — those of the YWCA at Carrington street and Hindmarsh square. St. Mary’s Catholic Hostel, those of the Girls' Friendly Society, the Travellers' Aid Society the WCTU, and the Salvation Army — have the same tale to tell of 'full house, and dozens turned away'. During a recent week-end, eight WAAAF’s slept in four beds at the YWCA. Hindmarsh Square Hostel, and many a time an extra bed has been made in the secretary's and other administrative offices.” [Advertiser 26 Aug 1942]
“Clubs and more clubs for the fighting services is the order of the day. The latest — Open House. YWCA's new rendezvous for men and women in uniform—in Grenfell street near Hindmarsh square, is one of the finest in Adelaide.” [Advertiser 15 Jul 1942]
“OPEN HOUSE, corner of Grenfell street and Hindmarsh square. — Men and women of the services may bring one civilian friend. Recreational facilities and cafeteria meals. Saturday night, dancing: Sunday night, concert.” [The Mail 20 Mar 1943]
“The SA National Football League may shortly take over the YWCA building in Hindmarsh square as its headquarters. The sale of the premises to the league has been completed except for the formal ratification by the YWCA at a meeting tonight.” [Advertiser 23 Jul 1946]
“the offices of the [SA] League and the Australian National Football Council will be changed to 55 Hindmarsh Square, Adelaide (former premise.ls of the Y.W.C.A.) as from Monday next, October 28. 1946.” [News 25 Oct 1946]
“It was decided that the name of the South Australian Football League's new buildings at Hindmarsh square be known as Football House.” [Advertiser 4 Feb 1947]
Mom went into the underbrush when she saw me. The almost grown white-tailed fawn didn't care that I was there.
c1910 postcard view of the Maxim Building (misspelled on the postcard) and the Masonic Temple in New Castle, Indiana. This is a view of Race Street taken from the court house square. The photographer was standing West of Main Street and facing southwest. There are hundreds of electric lights hanging above the street. The single story building at the left edge of this view (1225 Race Street) housed the TINY BUTTER TAILORS. The name ALBERTSON can be seen on a sign at the top of the building. The 1909 business directory placed online by Henry County Genealogical Services lists Eaglewood and Albertson as “merchant tailors” at this address. Next door (1221-23 Race Street) is the REDDING Building. Signs on that building are for the BEACH & MIKELS LAW OFFICE and THE GEM CLEANING, PRESSING AND REPAIRING. The 1909 business directory lists Beach & Mikels with an address at 1221 Race Street. The Sanborn map set shows a tailor in the basement and offices on the first and second floors of that building. The small sign posted on the second floor includes the word FACTORY. The CANDIES sign on the white building (1217-19 Race Street per the Sanborn map set) is the J. B. Wallace confectionery that is listed in the 1909 (and 1906) business directory with an address of 1217 Race Street. The BROWN & BEARD LAW OFFICE was upstairs. Clarence H. Beard and S. H. Brown are listed separately in the 1906 business directory at 1219 Race Street, but are listed together in the 1909 directory without an address.
The Maxim Building, according to the 1908 Sanborn map set, housed a restaurant and dry goods store on the first floor and an armory on the fourth floor. The building was built in 1902. Several businesses in this building had their names painted on the windows. The only such business on the top floor was the F. COFIELD DENTIST office. Frank J. Cofield is listed as a dentist in the Jennings Building in the 1909 business directory and isn’t listed in the 1906 directory. The advertising in the windows below the dentist’s office appears to include INSURANCE and AMERICA, but it’s unclear. Both Prudential and Metropolitan Life had offices in the building according to the 1909 business directory. Other offices on that floor were STEELE and TRACY, advertising INSURANCE, LOANS and REAL ESTATE. They are listed jointly in the 1909 business directory with an address of 302-03 Maxim Building. W. R. Steele was an attorney (ABSTRACTOR?). Next door (304 Maxim Building) was the HERBERT EVANS LAW OFFICE. The next windows advertise ABSTRACTOR, LOANS and INSURANCE. The name appears to be C. G. MORRIS, but is probably George G. Morris who is listed in a 1902 directory doing abstracts, real estate and loans in the Burr Block. He isn’t listed in the 1906 or 1909 directories. The next pair of windows on the third floor advertised DOCTOR FERRIS. This would be Dr. Edgar S. Ferris who is listed in the 1906 directory with an address on the 3rd floor of the Maxim Building. The 1909 directory lists him in the Burr Block.
The first windows on the second floor of the Maxim Building advertise the location of the WHITE DENTIST office. A. T. White is listed in both the 1906 and 1909 directories with an address of 200 Maxim Building. The next window advertises the REAL ESTATE, ____, INSURANCE and LOANS business of _. H. FISHER. The 1909 directory lists a James H. Fisher with an office in room 203 of the Maxim Building. The next window (Room 204?) advertises an ATTORNEY, but the name isn’t clear and doesn’t seem to match any listing in the 1906 or 1909 directories. The next windows advertise the JACKSON & HUNTER LAW OFFICE. The 1906 directory lists their address as 205-206 Maxim Building. In the 1909 directory, only Hunter is listed and the address is 204, 205 & 206 Maxim Building. The final window on the 2nd floor advertises BONDS, LOANS and RENTALS among other things. The name is T. WHITE. The 1906 directory lists Kulmer & White in Room 207 of the Maxim Building. The 1909 directory lists White & Millikan at that address under the insurance, real estate and loans business categories.
H. H. LOCKER had his HARNESS and STOVES business on the first floor of the Maxim Building when this photo was taken. The 1906 directory listed his business on Broad Street while the 1909 directory listed his address as 1211 Race Street (the Maxim Building).
Next door in the Masonic Temple is the FOX UNDERTAKER business. William A. Fox is listed in the “Funeral Directors” category with an address of 1209 Race Street in the 1909 directory. The address is 1207 in the 1906 directory. ALCAZAR can be seen above the main entry to this building. The 1909 directory lists the Alcazar Theater with an address of 1206 Race Street, but the correct address is probably 1205.
From a private collection.
The full postcard image can be seen here.
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Fear of being tied up. -- Figuratively and literally.
This image is from a growing series of photographs, "Facing fear with a Pinhole".
Le Bambole Mk. IV, ”The Midi” Pinhole Camera. Fujifilm FP-3000B film. Scan of negative-side (goop), and inverted in post-process.
Richmond Street facing Atlantic Avenue, January 13, 1949. (Collection # 5110.002), City of Boston Archives
Internal vs. External: My nightmares(internal) cause anxiety when I am awake and not sleeping. This affects my external and my everyday life. I used watercolor to show the flow of the dream. And oil paint for more harsh lines and clean lines. Like the nightmares are harsh and scary. The red sky is a real dream I did have so there is a lot of red tones in there because of how much that particular nightmare weighed on me. The purple blue and green are made to represent more of a dream instead of a nightmare and how facing this will let me be able to let me have dreams again
I've been thinking about creativity and how inspiration has to be forced out of us sometimes. Waiting for inspiration can be a trap. Sometimes you just have to pick up your camera and go looking for something to shoot. Today was one of those days. Like with anything else in life, some attempts will be a total loss; others will be more productive than you expected. Everything is a learning experience and an opportunity to grow in some way.
This side of this building faces west. It was about 3:30 when I took this shot. I liked the shadow and the lines of the wall and cornice. Using the sharpening tool produced some detail in the stucco.
I get the feeling Lana 2 is facing fear in this image. So, I edited the color to give it an ominous feeling. I don't know if she was feeling fear or not, but the portrait has that feel to me. When we are Facing fear it is always a battle. Love is the best weapon to fell this redoubtable opponent. Love defeats fear every time. Washington DC, 15 April 2017.
in commemoration of the battle where Magellan met his match in the tribal chieftain Lapu-Lapu in 1521.
the west face of the Mactan Shrine, Mactan, Lapu-lapu City, Cebu, the Philippines
more pics and journeys in colloidfarl.blogspot.com/
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When the future looks dark, search in the pages of history wise lessons from the past.
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Quando o futuro se apresenta sombria, procura nas páginas da história lições sábias do passado.