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Bethlehem, New Hampshire USA • I was invited to teach a public workshop at this amazing spot in neighboring New Hampshire.
Nestled in the heart of the White Mountains, The Rocks Estate is a 1,400-acre protected reserve that serves as the North Country Conservation and Education Center for the non-profit organization, the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests. Featuring more than 13 buildings on the National Historic Register, The Rocks' Heritage Trail evokes the gilded era of a century ago of long vacations in the refreshing summer air of the White Mountains.
Once a self-sustaining farm, The Rocks is now home to the Forest Society's sustainable Christmas tree farm. Each year trees are carefully hand-shaped and wreaths are meticulously decorated to raise money for land conservation in New Hampshire.
☞ The grounds and gardens were designed by Frederick Law Olmsted's company in the early 1900's. His company advised on all of the landscaping including the striking stone walls.
**U.S. Capitol Gatehouses And Gateposts** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 73002120, date listed 11/30/1973
7th, 15th, and 17th Sts., and Constitution Ave., NW.
Washington, DC (District of Columbia)
The design of the gateposts is generally attributed to Charles Bulfinch who in 1814 was commissioned to do the Capitol restoration. Until 1874, the gateposts stood at the foot of the west capitol grounds, but in that year were moved to their present locations. The gateposts are 4 sandstone pillars measuring 5' x 5' at the base and approximately 12' in height.
The design of the gateposts is classical. Horizontal bands, around the top of the pillars, are carved out of the posts and they are topped with a frieze relief matching the one atop the gatehouses. The design atop the posts is again a classical motif, voluted using the stylized acanthus leaf form. (1)
Built in 1828, these sandstone guardians silently watched over the U.S. Capitol grounds until 1874. In 1889, this gatehouse and its twin, located on Seventeenth Street and Constitution Avenue, were reconstructed in their present locations. These houses have weathered several floods, water, and the effects of acid rain. On the southeast side are markers indicating the high-water marks during floods. (2)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Formhttps://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_DC/73002120.pdf
A decorative stone gatepost stands next to a metal sign and a grassy park with plenty of trees. Each side of the post has a sloped, pointed top, like a roof, with a club-shaped crest above it.
H V McKay Memorial Gardens, Anderson Road, Sunshine, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Large and deeply incised cut mark on gatepost on byway between Kirkwhelpington and Great Bavington, Northumberland
Image from the Darlington Local Studies picture collection. If you would like a copy of this image please contact local.studies@darlington.gov.uk quoting picture reference E820060654, or if you would like to see other images of the Darlington area please visit the Centre for Local Studies, at Darlington Library.
Found image. This card was posted from Barnes in 1921 and shows a woman at the gate of 'Skinmore' 20 Bracken Gardens, Barnes.
Marble slab set into right hand side gatepost at the Marton Crossroads entrance to Stewart Park, Marton, Middlesbrough.
It commemorates the gift of the park in February 1924
and its opening to the public in May 1928.
Yours truly sitting on an old stone gatepost by the public footpath which runs between Cudworth and Carlton.
Fighter planes on the other gatepost, probably Spitfires but I can't be certain. During WWII there were lots of active RAF airfields in Lincolnshire, as the county is very flat and close to the east coast. RAF Wellingore was a fighter plane base, which closed in 1945.
My husband and son have been reading about the haul of buried Spitfires found in Burma, with great interest.
Part seven of my little series showing the early days in the construction of Gainsborough's Guildhall in 1962/3 (see comment below).
This one is almost as interesting for it's rare colour view of (right to left) Number 4 (with the curious niche set high in the wall), 6, the entry into Middleton Square and the old Attifer Works - all in Caskgate Street, and all demolished in 1969.
In the foreground we see that the basement levels of the Guildhall are now virtually completed. Originally used as secure storage and for the biolers,part of these underground areas were earmarked to be converted into the West Lindsey Council's "Emergency Centre" - nuclear bunker to you and me - in the early 1980s in response to a Government edict that all District and County Councils should have such a facility. Whether or not the bunker was ever completed - or indeed started (many were not), I am not sure. I think this picture was taken from the back window of the old Council offices on Lord Street, which were demolished early in 1966 once the Guildhall could be occupied.
Once again, this shot is easy to orientate to the modern World, as Elswitha Hall and it's distictive gateposts (still here in 2011) are clear to see.
Photo reproduced by kind permission - on loan to me
Some nice easy locations to guess!
Another new picture for the Flickr Guess Where UK group.
Where in the UK is this?
Name of the building, or its neighbour will get the point.
Seen near next door's gatepost, peeking though some thick ground-ivy The first one I spotted this year.
This gatepost is the only visible remainder of Tantallon (sometime residence of the Rev S Peshall and Mrs Peshall), demolished in 1969, for the construction of the Wessex Way, along with Stanfield (9) and Glendoe (13). The remains of their front gardens are now a strip of surface car parking.
"One of the 'Magnificent Seven' parkland cemeteries created in the early Victorian period, albeit set out in an entirely different way to the others and with somewhat wider purposes, Abney Park features an entrance designed by William Hosking FSA in collaboration with Joseph Bonomi the Younger and the cemetery's founder George Collison II. This frontage was built by John Jay in the then increasingly popular Egyptian Revival style, with hieroglyphics signifying the "Abode of the Mortal Part of Man": a venture too far into the architecture of the African continent for Augustus Pugin, who pilloried the idea, hoping no-one would repeat such a radical departure from 'good' Christian gothic design (see illustration for Grounds of a Quaker School). A similar criticism had previously been made when the first Egyptian-style entrance to a western cemetery had been constructed at Mount Auburn Cemetery in the 1830s, on which Abney Park Cemetery was partially modelled. By contrast, figures who appreciated the composition complimented Hosking and Bonomi on their scholarly frontage design; an arbiter of design taste, John Loudon, described it as a 'judicious combination of two lodges with gates between'."
"Abney Park cemetery is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries in London, England.
"Abney Park in Stoke Newington, in the London Borough of Hackney, is a historic parkland originally laid out in the early 18th century by Lady Mary Abney and Dr. Isaac Watts, and the neighbouring Hartopp family.
"In 1840 it became a non-denominational garden cemetery, a semi-public park arboretum, and an educational institute, which was widely celebrated as an example of its time. A total of 196,843 burials had taken place there up to the year 2000. It is a Local Nature Reserve.
"The cemetery is named after Sir Thomas Abney, who served as Lord Mayor of London in 1700–01. The manor of Stoke Newington belonged to him in the early 18th century and his town house, built in 1676, stood on the site of the present cemetery until its demolition in the 1830s.
"In 1840, Abney Park opened as a model garden cemetery, a pioneering non-denominational place of rest. Its approach was based on the Congregational church's role in the London Missionary Society (LMS), whose fundamental principle was to develop a wholly non-denominational exemplar. It also drew on American burial ideas, specifically Mount Auburn in Massachusetts."
Source: Wikipedia
A detail of one of the pair of bears on the gatepost of Berkeley's Hotpital and Almshouses, which is grade I listed:
www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=146872...
Originally posted for GuessWhereUK
guessed by PARK@ARTWORKS
An old South Wales Electricity Board (SWALEB) bilingual sign on a gatepost made from an old telegraph pole at Penyrheol.
SWALEB was formed in 1948 under the Electricity Act of 1947 which nationalised the electricity industry. Under privatisation in 1989, it became the South Wales Electricity Corporation (SWALEC). Today Western Power Distribution owns and runs the distribution network.
Note the telephone number is “Pontypridd 402228”, so the sign pre-dates the allocation of an STD dialling code to Pontypridd. Tge STD system was introduced from 1958, but not completed until 1979.
Bilingual signs in Wales started generally in the mid 1960s.