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Abandone Benelux -

 

Nothing is left of the beautiful pleasure garden that the nineteenth century Goorhof was among the previous owners - the heirs de Namur. The castle, is owned by one of the many subsidiaries of a Dutch company . It made it rotten into a hovel that could not be restored, burnt out and completely emptied.

 

Firebacks, staircases, chandeliers, all marble, windows, doors, cast iron ornamental cars, even the parquet of the castle were stolen. Nobody that cared. Squatters, drug addicts, satan worshipers and Nazi sympathizers took possession of the castle.

Eliho Vedder, 1836 - 1923

The Sun God

1882

Cast iron

 

This is a fireback -- installed at the back of a fireplace, it would heat and glow, helping to radiate heat and providing an image that the artist said made the figure come to life.

 

The Huntington Gardens in San Marino, California

Name: Crested fireback (male)

Scientific: Lophura ignita

Malay: Ayam Pegar / Ayam Pegar Mata Biru / Bornean Crested Fireback / Burung Pegar

Family: Phasianidae

IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2020): Vulnerable

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close up. Approximate Focus Distance - 4.78m

Malayan crested fireback (male)

Taman Negara National Park, Peninsula Malaysia, Malaysia. Male.

NEAR THREATENED

 

See the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species listing here: www.iucnredlist.org/species/22727445/94949227

Approximate Focus Distance : 19.0m

 

Canon EF 600mm f/4L IS USM Lens

ISO Speed 1600

Aperture : f/5.6

Exposure : 1/160 secs

Exposure Bias : -2/3 EV

Focal Length : 600mm

Macro Monday - "Negative Space"

 

This is apparently a Siamese Fireback pheasant feather. I've been collecting feathers to decorate my many hats with.

 

Happy Macro Monday!

  

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Digital picture:

Taken with Nikon D50

D'après ce que j'ai lu c'est un faisan en voie de disparition et il est encore plus rare en captivité. Pourtant celui-ci est pensionnaire du zoo d'Anvers, on dit même qu'il s'agit d'un vieux mâle mais je ne sais pas sur quoi on se base pour déterminer son âge...?

 

Portrait of a siamese fireback (Lophura diardi), zoo Anvers - Belgium

 

Taman Negara, Kuala tahan, Malaysia

Re-did this one also.

Another sketch for the "Birds Of Thailand" group show.

 

We were once doing a research trip in one of the national parks here in Thailand... earlier in the day there had been a tiger sighting not far from where we were camped. As we were leaving camp... the bushes began to shake violently... as did I... but out popped a family of pheasants... much to everyones relief.

 

I always like watching these pheasants... they walk around so proudly... and look as if they are off to some fancy dinner party.

 

Bangkok, Thailand

Un faisan noble de delacour. Y avait pas plus court comme nom hihi

C'est la femelle du couple.

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Female Delacour's crested fireback (Lophura ignita macartneyi) - Antwerpen zoo - Belgium

 

Driving along the B6076 we came across this derelict factory which as the chimney suggests was Dysons. The company was founded by John Dyson who began mining clay and making bricks in the early 1800s.

 

For many years the factory manufactured refractory material and ceramics for the steel industry. They also produced firebacks and other household ceramic bricks for the likes of Aga's etc. This site closed in 2005 as technology developed but I understand the Dyson Group does still continue to produce ceramics in their Totley factory.

 

Many more photos at:

www.28dayslater.co.uk/dyson-ceramics-stannington-sept-15....

(lophura diardi) The Siamese Fireback is distributed to the lowland and evergreen forests of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia. This species is also designated as the national bird of Thailand.

Maker: A.A.E. Disderi (1819-1889)

Born: France

Active: France

Medium: albumen print from wet plate collodion negative

Size: 2 1/4 in x 4 in

Location: France

 

Object No. 2022.474

Shelf: B-2

 

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Provenance: faustinosdad

Rank: 45

 

Notes: William Alexander Archibald Hamilton, 11th Duke of Hamilton and 8th Duke of Brandon (19 February 1811 – 8 July 1863) styled Earl of Angus before 1819 and Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale between 1819 and 1852, was a Scottish nobleman and the Premier Peer of Scotland. He was the son of Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton and Susan Euphemia Beckford, daughter of English novelist William Beckford. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He was Knight Marischal of Scotland from 1846 and Lord Lieutenant of Lanarkshire from 1852 until his death. Though he had married in 1843, the duke did not succeed to his title until 1852. In that year, he purchased the house located at 22 Arlington Street in St. James's, a district of the City of Westminster in central London from Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort for £60,000. The duke lavished expenses on the house for approximately a decade, including installing iron firebacks with his coronet and motto. Upon his death, the house passed to his widow who sold it to Ivor Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne via auction in 1867.

 

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Scenes and wildlife from a recent trip to Thailand.

Et voici Monsieur faisan noble de delacour. Je ne sais pas si c'est par curiosité ou par souci de protéger Madame, mais pas moyen de le décoler du grillage et donc.. pas le choix, un gros plan de la tête :-)

Il est assez coloré. Ses plumes sont majoritairement bleu nuit comme vous le voyez puis une zone un peu rousse/brune vers le bas du poitrail. Une partie du dos est varie entre le rouge et le doré/cuivré et enfin les plumes du croupion sont euh... blondes :-)

 

Male Delacour"s crested fireback (Lophura ignita macartneyi) - Antwerpen zoo - Belgium

 

Réalisée le 11 novembre 2004 dans le parc national Khao Yai, Thaïlande.

 

Made on November,11th / 2004 in the Khao Yai NP, Thailand.

Name: Crested fireback (male)

Scientific: Lophura ignita

Malay: Ayam Pegar / Ayam Pegar Mata Biru / Bornean Crested Fireback / Burung Pegar

Family: Phasianidae

IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2020): Vulnerable

Gear: SONY α1 + SEL200600G

 

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Cat Tien NP, southern Vietnam

The clock is on Donegal House.

 

Guildhall on the left, Donegal House on the right.

 

The Guildhall in Lichfield has been part of Lichfield's City government for 600 years. In forme times it had been a meeting place of the Corporation, but also at various times a court, a prison, police station, theatre and fire station.

 

The Guildhall takes its name from the ancient Guild of St Mary and St John the Baptist. The first Guildhall may have been on this site in 1387, when Richard II had confirmed the incorporation of the Guild, even though it had existed for many years.

 

The old prison had existed round the back since 1553.

 

Major rebuilding took place in 1707 and 1741, but the building was so ruinous it could of fell down.

 

By 1844 the Conduit Lands Trust promised to put the Guildhall right "once and for all".

 

In 1846 a gothic frontage was built, with the stained glass window transfered from Lichfield Cathedral in 1891.

 

These day the Guildhall is used for civic events and Council meetings.

  

The Guildhall, Lichfield

 

LICHFIELD

 

SK1109SE BORE STREET

1094-1/8/62 (South East side)

06/03/70 The Guildhall

 

GV II

 

Guildhall. Parts probably C16 or C17 but extensively rebuilt

c1707 and extended to rear 1742; early C19 alterations; hall

rebuilt 1846-8, by Joseph Potter Jnr of Lichfield. Brick with

ashlar facade; brick rear wing; tile roofs. Right-angle plan

with earlier rear wing.

EXTERIOR: Hall in Gothic style: 2 storeys. Offset plinth,

cornice over ground floor; 1st floor offset buttresses and

sill course, coped gable. 2 pointed-arch entrances, that to

left has triple-chamfered continuous moulding and hood to

heavy door with strap hinges; that to right has hood and

paired half-glazed doors with studs and strap hinges. 1st

floor window has 5-light plate tracery with hood and relief

flower motifs, plain blind roundel above. Stair wing to left

has offset ground floor and coped parapet; 1st floor has

2-light single-chamfered plate tracery window. Plaque below

window commemorates Coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra and

is flanked by their busts. Returns have 2-light 1st floor

windows with ashlar plate tracery.

Rear wing of various dates, part to rear with rubble base and

early brickwork over, incorporating blocked C16 window of 3

triangular-headed lights with brick mullions; C18 and C19

brickwork above; varied fenestration; left return has 3 sashed

windows to 1st floor.

INTERIOR: Passage with iron grille with gate and cells to

left; hall has hammerbeam roof and panelling; arch to south

has glazed infill over trefoil-headed arcading and benches

used by quarter sessions; fireplace has segmental-pointed arch

and C16 cast-iron fireback with Royal arms; 1811 stained glass

to north window taken from north transept of Cathedral in

1891, figures of founders and patrons of the Cathedral and

1891 figure of Queen Victoria. Rear staircase has simple

turned balusters, square newels and moulded handrail.

c1710 cells to rear range have barrel vaults, segmental-headed

entrances with original doors and shuttered and barred

windows, benches and latrines; outer entrance and mullioned

window now in later infill wing.

HISTORY: The hall was used by the Guild of St Mary and St John

the Baptist until its dissolution, and by the Corporation from

1548.

  

Listing NGR: SK1179609481

 

This is a Georgian Town House on Bore Street in Lichfield calld Donegal House. It is Grade II* listed. It is sandwiched between Lichfield's Guildhall and the Tudor Cafe. It was built for local merchant James Robinson in 1730.

 

The Tudor Cafe is a beautiful example of Tudor architecture, built in 1510 (at the beginning of the 16th century). If you visit the house on Bore Street in Lichfield today, you will visit the Tudor Cafe and Restaurant.

 

It was originally called Lichfield House, now it is Tudor of Lichfield. It was built when Henry VIII came to the throne, a year before.

  

Donegal House

 

LICHFIELD

 

SK1109SE BORE STREET

1094-1/8/61 (South East side)

05/02/52 Donegal House (Tourist Information

Centre) and attached railings

 

GV II*

 

House, now council offices. 1730. Possibly by Francis Smith of

Warwick. For James Robinson.

Brick with stucco and ashlar dressings; parapeted roof with

brick stacks.

Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style.

3 storeys with basement; symmetrical 5-window range. Plaster

plinth with ground floor sill band; end Doric pilasters with

triglyph entablature blocks; top cornice and stone-coped brick

parapet with plaster terminals and 5 sections which brake

forward over windows.

Entrance has aedicule with attached Doric columns, entablature

and segmental pediment, and 8-fielded-panel (2 glazed) door up

steps with plain iron handrails. basement has segmental-headed

windows with keys; other windows have shaped lintels with

keys, those to ground floor over 6/9-pane sashes, those to

upper floors with sills and aprons, 6/9-pane sashes to 1st

floor, segmental-headed windows with 12-pane sashes to 2nd

floor; central 1st floor window has eared and shouldered

architrave with triglyph 'key', frieze and pediment, window

above has similar architrave with shaped top and key. Iron

area railings to left have decorative heads; 1928 clock on

enriched brackets to left.

Rear has cogged brick frieze with datestone just below; varied

fenestration, ground floor has pegged cross casement, some

6/9-pane sashes and round-headed stair window with small-paned

sash.

INTERIOR: inaccessible due to refurbishment (1990), but has

open-well staircase with slender turned balusters; panelled

rooms and window shutters.

The house was used by the Marquess and Earl of Donegal, who

lived at Fisherwick Hall from 1761 until his death in 1799. In

1910 the house was bought to serve as an extension to the

Guildhall.

(Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W:

Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.43, 83, 242-3; Buildings of

England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: P.194).

  

Listing NGR: SK1177609485

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