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Not another entry in my 'Abandoned Filling Stations' set but a house in Uley, Gloucestershire that has re-employed a couple of old petrol pumps for gateposts. Maybe they originally came from a station that does appear in that set!
As per the previous photo, this is Will's own woodland. With WIll in it. It isn't a great photo but does complete the partial story.
He tells me that the woodland was an unintended consequence of the house purchase - it came bundled with it.
The old gateposts featured here mark a small path that run up through the wood. They huge slabs of millstone grit, centuries old. From the gouges etched on the right hand side, it had a gate on it until not that long ago.
The path leads up to his field, but is heavily overgrown with holly, brambles and general shrubbery. In the woods, there is at least one badger set - we thought there had been building work, such was the huge mound of excavated soil. Apart from an old rope swing and the obligatory stash of empty booze bottles, the woods are a standard deciduous affair with beech, oak and so forth. As far as can be judged from old OS maps, the woodland is over 150 years old.
I think my fascination with wood, trees and woodland dates back to my free-range rural childhood. Woods were my natural playground for my formative years. Until the age of 12, our house backed onto 5 miles of woodland up the Colden valley.
In the last few years, since owning a log burner, you also look at wood quite differently. Whereas some might think, 'hmm, a fallen branch', I'm thinking 'hmm, probably a few kgs of decent logs there'
I suppose if you didn't have that kind of childhood or some kind of later life arboreal epiphany, you might think me a little weird. But I'm thick-skinned and can handle the strange looks, tutting and thrown objects. Ahem
Somerleyton Hall is a country house in the village of Somerleyton near Lowestoft, Suffolk, England. It is a Grade II* listed building
This is one the stags on the gatepost on the east facing faƧade.
Originally posted for GuessWhereUK
This is close to Vauxhall Railway Station and Vauxhall Bridge in Great Yarmouth. Someone added a comment to a previous photo of this of mine saying that this is a railway relic. I'll add a link to the other photo. Does anyone know if it was a railway gatepost please?
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Just spotting ornaments on gateposts along the river today. I know one of the anglers in the angling club is very into 3D printing so I think that is the explanation. They are very well glued on!
"The old gates and gateposts of Bidadari Cemetery were also relocated and now form the entrance to the Memorial Garden."
www.nhb.gov.sg/NHBPortal/Resources/WalkingThroughHeritage...
Victorian Lodge House enters the modern housing market.
Now an independent residence from the main house.
Reaching back into my archives, cos I got nothin'!
A little while back I posted a shot of these gateposts in bw; here they are again in color and from a different angle. Wish I hadn't chopped off the top of the third one in...oh well!
Ornamental gate and gateposts on Hanbury Road; the gateposts are finished on the corners with squint bricks
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
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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