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Painted in Irish Rail livery to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the company, 073 heads the Belmond Grand Hibernian through Clondalkin/Fonthill station.
DublinBus (Conyngham Road) SG525 captured on the Fonthill Road working an afternoon L53 from Liffey Valley to Adamstown.
The L53 was one of the new local routes introduced as part of the BusConnects C-spine changes along with the L51, L52 and L54.
A full album of photos from July can be found on my Smugmug here: Bus & Coach Ireland: July 2023.
Clondalkin - 28.07.2023
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Fonthill was the home of the archeologist and tile maker Henry Chapman Mercer. Built between 1908 and 1912, it is an early example of poured-in-place concrete and features 44 rooms, over 200 windows, 18 fireplaces, 10 bathrooms and one powder room.
The Moravian Pottery & Tile Works (MPTW) is a history museum located in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Handmade tiles are still produced in a manner similar to that developed by the pottery's founder and builder, Henry Chapman Mercer. Tile designs are reissues of original designs. Mercer was a major proponent of the Arts and Crafts movement in America. He directed the work at the pottery from 1898 until his death in 1930. - Wikipedia
"Built between 1908-1912, Fonthill Castle was the home of archaeologist, anthropologist, ceramist, scholar and antiquarian Henry Chapman Mercer (1856-1930). The castle serves as an early example of reinforced concrete and features forty-four rooms, over two hundred windows, and eighteen fireplaces. The building has limited accessibility with steep stairs and narrow, uneven passages."
-- Mercer Museum. Org
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Did you ever notice how photographers love to take pictures of red doors? It must be symbolic.... Well, here's another such door. Only this one is magic. It's interactive!... but you may have to view the big size to fully appreciate that....
Fonthill Castle was the home of the archaeologist and tile maker Henry Chapman Mercer. Built between 1908 and 1912, it is an early example of poured-in-place concrete and features 44 rooms, over 200 windows, 18 fireplaces, 10 bathrooms and one powder room.
The castle contains built-in furniture and is embellished with decorative tiles, made by Mercer at the height of the Arts and Crafts movement. The castle is filled with an extensive collection of ceramics embedded in the concrete of the house, as well as other artifacts from his world travels, including cuneiform tablets discovered in Mesopotamia dating back to over 2300 BCE. The home also contains around 1,000 prints from Mercer's extensive collection, as well as over six thousand books, almost all of which were annotated by Mercer himself.
The Castle was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, and was later included in a National Historic Landmark District along with the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works and the Mercer Museum. (Wikipedia)
We continue with the Dublin Tram Photographic Collection but today we have an image titled "Fonthill Boilers"! What the connection between boilers and trams is a moot point but I am hoping that someone out there can enlighten me?
Photographers: Harold Fayle
Collection: Dublin Tram Collection
Date: Undated
NLI Ref: NPA TRAM109
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Built between 1908-1912, Fonthill was the home of Henry Chapman Mercer (1856-1930). Archaeologist, anthropologist, ceramist, scholar and antiquarian, Mercer built Fonthill both as his home and as a showplace for his collection of tiles and prints. The first of three Mercer buildings in Doylestown, Fonthill served as a showplace for Mercer’s famed Moravian tiles that were produced during the American Arts & Crafts Movement. Designed by Mercer, the building is an eclectic mix of Medieval, Gothic, and Byzantine architectural styles, and is significant as an early example of poured reinforced concrete.
I saw the green grasshopper, but it wasn't until I got home that I noticed the second bug in the mouth of this Red-Winged Blackbird.
One of many pillars approaching a gateway to the Beckford Estate
Thanks to Lenabem-Anna for the texture
The "Graffiti House sits back in the woods near Fonthill, the home of Henry C. Mercer.
Fonthill was the home of Henry C. Mercer and is is one of three cast-in-place concrete structures built by him in 1898.
Mercer was involved with the turn of the century Arts and Crafts movement. He wanted to recreate early Pennsylvania pottery manufacturing techniques.
Ever since moving to the area I have had this location on Fonthill Road, Hove stored in my memory bank for a photo opportunity and with this weeks theme for the 52 0f 2012 group being "Roads, Paths & Trails" I thought it seemed like the right time to capture it on camera. The road itself runs underneath Hove Rail Stations line heading to Portslade and with low headroom for vehicles and damp stained brickwork is actually quite an interesting place. I tried taking a few shots as people were leaving work but it was just too busy so I went for a walk and returned when darkness had fallen and things had quietend down a bit. This is the shot I was most happiest with and the lonely figure of a man in the background was an unexpected bonus thrown in!
Makes a change for me to submit an entry before the weekend has started so now I can take it easy before conjuring up an idea for week #8's theme "Circle"...
EMD 071 Class locomotive no. 81 hauls the Belmond Grand Hibernian Express through Clondalkin/Fonthill station on a sunny Monday morning. The train's usual motive power, no 216 was in Inchicore Works receiving repairs. Thank you to the train guard for the friendly wave! :)
071 class locomotive no 076 makes light work of its load as it flies up the grade at Clondalkin/Fonthill with the North Wall - Ballina liner
Recently repainted 201 class No. 226 is seen passing Clondalkin / Fonthill light engine while being tested from Inchicore.
The trees, dead from Winter, now stretching to grab a little Springtime sun.
I do that, too, when Spring rolls around. I reach up, my fingers waggling to catch a little heat. Then I usually fall down and fracture my hip. I call out, but nobody's there. So I hit my little medic alert button -- "I've fallen, but I can't get up!"-- but I realize I don't have a medic alert button, I just have a remote control for the TV, so it turns the TV on, and I lay there, half-paralyzed, watching some weird rerun on the Food Network. Life is good.
Built between 1908-1912, Fonthill was the home of Henry Chapman Mercer (1856-1930). Archaeologist, anthropologist, ceramist, scholar and antiquarian, Mercer built Fonthill both as his home and as a showplace for his collection of tiles and prints. The first of three Mercer buildings in Doylestown, Fonthill served as a showplace for Mercer’s famed Moravian tiles that were produced during the American Arts & Crafts Movement. Designed by Mercer, the building is an eclectic mix of Medieval, Gothic, and Byzantine architectural styles, and is significant as an early example of poured reinforced concrete.