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Designed by Charles Holden and built 1932-1937 with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, the University's central administration building was an immediate landmark, its 19-storey art deco tower (brick, faced with Portland stone) becoming London's second tallest building, after St.Paul's Cathedral. The cast-iron railings, with these geometric gateposts, are now included in Senate House's Grade II* Listing.
Given my screen name, I ought to mention that Senate House was also the home of the UK's Ministry of Information (1939-46), thereby inspiring the 'Ministry of Truth' in George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'; indeed, Senate House appeared in Michael Radford's 1984 film of the book.
Better On Black?
I thought these were gateposts, but I've been reliably informed they are chimneys.
John "Basil" Rooney told me "What I always thought were gate-posts, were in fact 2 chimney stacks at either gable end of a small out-house which was used as a laundry room for the Corrie Lair Lodge"
The Elm Road entrance with stone gateposts and welcome sign, denoting the fact that the park was opened in 1885. The Tranmere and Rock Ferry Alliance have sought to improve safety in the area by lighting a footpath that cuts through the park, as well as installing CCTV.
Designed and built by master Warrenton, NC builder, Jacob Holt not long after the end of the Civil War.
Category: Parks for All Seasons
Description: The gateposts of Calderstones park supported by the giant Atlantes
Location: Calderstones Park
An entry in the 2013 Parks Photography Competition. Details of the competition can be found at liverpool.gov.uk/leisure-parks-and-events/parks-and-green...
Pyrgo Park, London Borough of Havering. Gatepost of the former Pyrgo Palace.
Pyrgo Park is the site of one of Henry VIII's palaces. It is where he held meetings with his daughters Elizabeth and Mary, after which he decided to settle the succession on them rather than choose a more distantly-related male successor. Nothing remains of the palace on the surface. Local wisdom has it that the gateposts survive from the Tudor palace; though I suspect they actually belonged to the Victorian Pyrgo House (also demolished).
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Boots on gateposts at Windlass Hill Oregon Trail Site. Ash Hollow Park, Nebraska.
Neg# FENP 028. Mamiya RB67, 50mm, FP4 film. 1991
Delivery note for six pairs of gateposts from Endon Quarry, sent to Mr Richard Carter at Little Budworth, who I thnk was a land agent. The goods were despatched for William Clayton of Swanscoe who was the quarry owner as well as operating the Swanscoe Colliery. Transport would have involved being brought down from the quarry on Clayton's tramroad and inclined plane to the canal where it was loaded onto a narrowboat for shipping to Middlewich Wharf on the Trent and Mersey Canal. Onward carriage was by cart via Winsford. The signature at the bottom is that of the Middlewich wharfinger who took delivery from the boat two days after it was loaded at Kerridge. Each post weighed just a little less than half a ton so I suspect that the wharf crane was in order to offload them.
This memorial stone is on the gatepost of the Church of The Holy Trinity in Meanwood, Leeds. It reads:
"Lawrence Edward Grace Oates
of Meanwoodside in this parish
1880 - 1912
Captain 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
served with distinction in the South
African War. In 1912 he reached
the South Pole with Captain Scott
and on the return journey hoping
to save his companions went out
from them to die. His body lies lost
in the Antarctic snows.
His name is
here by his fellow villages recorded.
A very gallant gentleman."
Lawrence Oates was born in Putney on March 17 1880 and spent part of his life at Meanwoodside which was the family home in what is now Meanwood Park. Edward Oates, Lawrence's grandfather was largely responsible for laying out the walks parklands as they are now.
Oates was chosen for Captain Scott's expedition because of his experience with horses as an ex-dragoon. He clashed with Scott on a number of issues including the condition of the horses and the siting of the food depots along the expedition route.
Scott chose him as one of the five to make the final 167 miles to the South Pole. When they arrived there on 18 January 1912, they found a tent and a note from Roal Amundsen saying that his party had reached the pole on 14 December 1911, some 35 days earlier.
On the return journey, Scott's party experienced particularly bad weather conditions and suffered the death of one team member, Edgar Evans, after a fall in a crevasse. Oates suffered very severe frostbite of his feet, causing him the slow the party down considerably. On the morning of March 16 (some say 17, which would have been his 32nd birthday), Captain Oates left the tent with the words "I am just going outside and may be some time." He was never seen again.
Scott and the remaining two members of the party, Edward Wilson and Henry Bowers, struggled on a further twenty miles until they too succumbed to the cold on 29 March 1912, only 11 miles from the "one Ton" depot that could have saved them. Their frozen bodies were found by a search party on 12 November 1912. No trace was ever found of Captain Oates.
Meanwoodside, the Oates family home in Meanwood, Leeds.
www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2003923_27...
Short biographies of Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oates:
www.royalnavalmuseum.org/info_sheets_lawrence_oates.htm
www.historyhouse.co.uk/articles/oates.html
www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Laurence-Oates
A short biography of Captain Oates on the Polar Publishing website:
website.lineone.net/~polar.publishing/captainoates.htm
A photo of Captain Oates at the South Pole
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lawrence_Oates.jpg
A photo of the five from Scott's party that reached the pole and an article about Scott's last letter.
www.usatoday.com/weather/research/2007-01-11-scott-letter...
More on Scott's final letter.
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/jan/11/antarctica.world
Lawrence Oates on Wikipedia
Looking around while I was waiting !! In the under growth , some of which was birch trees, with 12inch trunks, was a set of Buffers at the end of a line, still in position, which had obviously been a siding alongside the existing platform. Further interest came in the shape of a large cast iron gatepost which can be seen next to the brickwork.
Not just any old gateposts, the gateposts are a reminder of what used to be here. It was the posts to the gates of the former level crossing at Elms Park Farm near Heybridge in Essex (UK).
The Witham to Maldon railway branch line crossed where the path runs across the photograph from left to right by the metal railings near the top of the picture. The path now forms the Blackwater Rail Trail.
What's amazing for me is i've researched in depth this part of the old railway, walked past this point on a couple of occasions and taken a few photographs too yet i've missed these posts everytime! so thank you to Dave for spotting these and taking the photograph.
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The branch line from Witham to Maldon opened on 2nd October 1848. The railway closed to passengers on 6th September 1964 by Dr.Beeching although the line soldiered on with freight only until April 15th 1966.
The track was removed in 1969.
Ornamental gate post by Hill & Smith of Brierley Hill.
The firm was established in 1824. In 1922 they were advertising constructional steel and iron work, bridges, girders, iron buildings, architectural wrought metal work, iron fencing, gates, railings forgings and castings. They were listed in 2012 as Hill & Smith Holdings carrying out the design, manufacture and supply of infrastructure products and galvanizing services.
OK, so it turned out 35.6mm... I tried.
My April theme is 35mm. That is to say that I set my 18-55mm zoom lens on 35mm and shoot. With my camera, that equates to about 52.5mm equivalent. My intent is to emulate a 35mm Prime lens on my camera. I'm trying now to find that exact spot on the lens to give an accurate setting at 35mm.
I know I've photographed some of these scenes previously with my cell-cam, but now my hand is nearly healed and I can use my dedicated camera once again.
Nikon AF-P DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR Zoom Lens
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Close-up of the gate and gatepost on the northwesternmost of the inner pillars of the Schley Gate, which is the northern of the two ceremonial gates at the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, in the United States.
The gates were constructed in 1932 as part of the construction of the Hemicycle (now the Women in Military Service to America Memorial) and Memorial Drive, which linked Arlington's new main gate to the Arlington Memorial Bridge and the George Washington Memorial Parkway. Arlington had expanded toward the Potomac River, making the old McClellan Gate and Sheridan Gate unuseable as an entrance as both were now deep inside the cemetery. Each gate consists of four granite pillars trending southwest-to-northeast. The southwesternmost pillar connects with the retaining wall that forms the Hemicycle. The gate itself is between the second and third pillars, while black wrought iron fences connect the outermost pillars to the innermost ones. A fifth pillar is set inward toward Memorial Drive from the northwesternmost pillar, and is connected to the fourth pillar by a black wrought iron fence. The two innermost pillars are topped by eagles, while the other three are topped by decorative funeral urns.
Gold gilded lamps top the hinge of each gate. On each gate, front and back, are two gold wreaths 30 inches (76 cm) in diameter. Each wreath cradles the shield of the U.S. Department of War (the precusor to the U.S. Department of Defense) as well as the armed services that existed in 1932. On the Schley Gate, these are the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard. (The United States Air Force did not exist until 1947.) Each gate is divided into 13 sections by wrought iron fasces, and above six of the sections are iron spikes topped by gold stars.
Section 36 of the cemetery is visible in the distance.
These solid gateposts lead into a field with no sign of the property they may formerly have been guarding.
Close-up of a gatepost on the southwesternmost of the inner pillars of the Schley Gate, which is the northern of the two ceremonial gates at the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, in the United States.
Each iron gatepost is decorated with military symbols. Here is a helmet in the design used by ancient Sparta, as well as the axe-head that is top a fasces (the ancient symbol of law). Just visible to the left of the helmet symbol is a floral design, commonly used in cemeteries.
The gates were constructed in 1932 as part of the construction of the Hemicycle (now the Women in Military Service to America Memorial) and Memorial Drive, which linked Arlington's new main gate to the Arlington Memorial Bridge and the George Washington Memorial Parkway. Arlington had expanded toward the Potomac River, making the old McClellan Gate and Sheridan Gate unuseable as an entrance as both were now deep inside the cemetery. Each gate consists of four granite pillars trending southwest-to-northeast. The southwesternmost pillar connects with the retaining wall that forms the Hemicycle. The gate itself is between the second and third pillars, while black wrought iron fences connect the outermost pillars to the innermost ones. A fifth pillar is set inward toward Memorial Drive from the northwesternmost pillar, and is connected to the fourth pillar by a black wrought iron fence. The two innermost pillars are topped by eagles, while the other three are topped by decorative funeral urns.
Gold gilded lamps top the hinge of each gate. On each gate, front and back, are two gold wreaths 30 inches (76 cm) in diameter. Each wreath cradles the shield of the U.S. Department of War (the precusor to the U.S. Department of Defense) as well as the armed services that existed in 1932. On the Schley Gate, these are the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard. (The United States Air Force did not exist until 1947.) Each gate is divided into 13 sections by wrought iron fasces, and above six of the sections are iron spikes topped by gold stars.
Maureen sitting on an old stone gatepost by the public footpath which runs between Cudworth and Carlton.
Close-up of a gatepost on the southwesternmost of the inner pillars of the Schley Gate, which is the northern of the two ceremonial gates at the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, in the United States.
Each iron gatepost is decorated with military symbols. Here is a fasces, the ancient symbol of law.
The gates were constructed in 1932 as part of the construction of the Hemicycle (now the Women in Military Service to America Memorial) and Memorial Drive, which linked Arlington's new main gate to the Arlington Memorial Bridge and the George Washington Memorial Parkway. Arlington had expanded toward the Potomac River, making the old McClellan Gate and Sheridan Gate unuseable as an entrance as both were now deep inside the cemetery. Each gate consists of four granite pillars trending southwest-to-northeast. The southwesternmost pillar connects with the retaining wall that forms the Hemicycle. The gate itself is between the second and third pillars, while black wrought iron fences connect the outermost pillars to the innermost ones. A fifth pillar is set inward toward Memorial Drive from the northwesternmost pillar, and is connected to the fourth pillar by a black wrought iron fence. The two innermost pillars are topped by eagles, while the other three are topped by decorative funeral urns.
Gold gilded lamps top the hinge of each gate. On each gate, front and back, are two gold wreaths 30 inches (76 cm) in diameter. Each wreath cradles the shield of the U.S. Department of War (the precusor to the U.S. Department of Defense) as well as the armed services that existed in 1932. On the Schley Gate, these are the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard. (The United States Air Force did not exist until 1947.) Each gate is divided into 13 sections by wrought iron fasces, and above six of the sections are iron spikes topped by gold stars.
Quite a severe crop from the original image as I couldn't get any closer (longer lens required!) before he flew off.
ODC - Something beginning with G
Gnomes, Gloves, Grass, Gorgeous Day, Grapes, Green..... all of these things and more sprang to mind but could I find anything to be the subject of my photo today? Nope.
So here's some granite - I'll post the full picture underneath as it's actually a carving at the gates of the local park - King George's Fields. I do like the fact that the park has these gates... oooh there's another G is for Gate!
ODC - Granite Gates (haha)
A lone gatepost stands behind a wire fence, where there used to be terraced properties is now rubble, with larger more substantial housing on the New Chester Road suffering from the same fate…although these properties are putting up a fight somewhat!
It's actually a gatepost I suppose, but like jokes, why ruin a good picture with the truth? On the lane leading to Hunterston Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland, near West Kilbride. I like the way that steel starts to look as natural as wood once it starts to rust. See also