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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.
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
Oakbank, South Australia.
A derelict formal gateway on the Onkaparinga Valley Road between Oakbank and Woodside, South Australia.
As the 6Y43 arrives , from Basford Hall, with new track for the up line between Tai Lon and Wig Crossing. No ID for the Freightliner 66!
No 77 Malone Road, Belfast, on corner of Adelaide Park.
Louis MacNeice is believed to have written the poem "Snow" in a downstairs room of this house, during the period when it was the Church of Ireland Episcopal Palace of Down, Connor and Dromore and when his father, John Frederick MacNeice, lived there as bishop.
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...... is what the frost on the top of this old gatepost looked like to me! Or is it that I see everything through a cake-decorator's eyes? ;o)) LOL
Taken at Norman's Bay, East Sussex at the beginning of this month when the temperature was -3*C ........ the forecasters say cold weather is due to to return this weekend ..... but I hope not that cold!
Close-up of a decorative footing on 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.
Each iron gatepost is decorated with military and other types of symbols. Here is scrollwork, which symbolizes law and government. False rivets also decorate the ironwork.
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.
St Peter and St Paul's Churchyard
...in this Medieval village each building is more fascinating than the last.
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The gatepost in the foreground belongs to Elswitha Hall, on Gainsborough's Caskgate Street, and carries a Grade 2* listing, quite seperate from the house itself.
In the background is the unlisted - but surely worthy - Guildhall.
The Guildhall was built for the former Gainsborough Urban District Council, and opened on the 7th July 1966 by Sir Roger Stevens, Chairman of the Yorkshire & Humberside Economic Planning Council. (The building had been occupied since April of that year).
The new building was a concrete framed structure clad externally on the principal elevations with Portland stone and Westmorland slate. Hand-made facing bricks were used on the other elevations. The main entrance on Caskgate Street (though within five years of the Guildhall's construction the route of Caskgate Street was moved about 30 yards to the West) was supported by columns - supposedly in homage to Pillared House, a well known town landmark that had been demolished in the 1930s. Along the roofline of the Guildhall was a concrete wave - a reference to the Aegir (Tidal Bore) on the River Trent which the Guildhall overlooks.
With the reorganisation of local Government in 1973/4, the Guildhall became the main headquarters of West Lindsey District Council, which occupied the building (and extended it) until it moved to new premesis in Marshall's Yard in 2008. A 1980s extension at the rear has recently been demolished, and the future of the main building still seems uncertain.
Nikon F5, Nikkor 28-80mm Lens, Kodak Ektar 100 Film.
One of a pair of gate post caps. They are about 18" round. 24" tall. Quite a sizeable hunk of stone...
Bug nymph found on a gatepost at the edge of broadleaf woodland at Low Ploughlands, 22 August 17.
Many thanks to rockwolf for suggesting Megacoelum infusum. Unfortunately the British Bugs website doesn't include this particular instar, but a good match can be seen here (bottom image):
www.ukwildlife.net/heteroptera/miridae/megacoelum_infusum...
The timing and habitat are also right for this species, and taking these factors into account I can't see anything else that ticks all of the boxes.
NBN Atlas currently shown no UK records for this species north of Leeds and so this would be a great finding if confirmed.
Info passed to Tullie House for comment...
The nest has been in this old gatepost for a few years now.
Loggerheads Staffordshire UK 29th August 2016
Any old iron...
Today I was going through my redundant legacy lenses and photographing them to list on the bay when I ran into my old M42 Jupiter 9/85 f2, a legendary Russian portrait lens from the past.
This lens is basically a copy of a Zeiss Sonnar 85mm f/2.
It has little problems related to old age like me. One of them is that the preset aperture stop will move if stopping down with more than a little force, but has no effect on the actual aperture selected. I can forgive it for that.
Before I made the decision whether or not to sell it, I hooked it up to the Sony NEX-6 and took a couple of shots out the back. The fantastically smooth bokeh from it's 15 blade iris saved it's hide, and it can live here with me as long as it wants.
The granite gatepost-flanked junction of one of the many old quarrymen's tracks which girdle the eastern slopes of Carn Marth
"TELL LAURA I LOVE HER ( The Musical ) " was performed during 1st - 4th of July 2009 . However it lacked suitable original music to complement its old song material and possessed a much too corny a plot together with other inconsistencies to impress.
Laura was advertised as a new rock' n' roll musical play but it was hardly that : it would have required a complete re-write to appeal to the wider public. Though its publicity flyer suggested it was the 2007 copyright of Richard C Hague that assertion would have been impossible to prove.
Credits : The Work's First Production was at the Gatepost Theatre Company .
The Work's Artwork and Logo are Copyright - 2007 .
The 1960 death disc styled hit song "Tell Laura I Love Her," was written by Jeff Barry and Ben Raleigh and first recorded by Ray Petersen a young and popular American vocalist . Later that same year a recording by EMI Columbia England's own young vocalist Ricky Valance was issued .The Ricky Valance version's issue followed the U.K. Decca Record Company's abandonment of its intended issuing of the Ray Peterson recording in reaction to hostile public criticism of the song's lyrics .