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On entrance gateposts in south-east corner, opposite the Art Gallery of NSW. This gateway was built in 1873, embellished by these fine floral carvings in the sandstone. The gilt lettering has recently been renovated.
A lion guards one of the entrances to Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire. He and his companion on the other gatepost now guard a private entrance to the estate.
Taeniopteryx nebulosa stonefly (female) found on a gatepost on the Stony Holme golf course by the River Eden in Carlisle, 25 February 20.
Note on identification: The stonefly was identified as a member of the Taeniopterygidae family using the Ref 1 key. There are four UK species in this group, but according to Ref 2 the forewing venation alone can be used to identify the species as Taeniopteryx nebulosa (the sub-species britannica is not covered here) because there are only two branches to the cubital vein Cu 1 (Cu 1 and Cu 1a as marked on Photo 2), and there are no cross-veins between C and Sc 1 (also marked on Photo 2). Although the patterning shown in the key cannot be seen, this is apparently often indistinct, and so its omission is of no significance. Photo 3 includes supporting observations, ie the subgenital plate, which is a good match to reference sketch for this species (Ref 2, Fig 8 C), and the scar on the inner posterior side of the coxa (arrowed).
Ref 1: Pryce, Macadam and Brooks "Guide to the British Stonefly (Plecoptera) families: adults and larvae", FSC, 2007.
Ref 2: H B N Hynes "A Key to the Adults and Nymphs of the British Stoneflies (Plecoptera)", Freshwater Biological Association, Scientific Publication No 17, 1958.
People in Laos, out of necessity as much as anything else, are inventive and enthusiastic recyclers. Here, in the northern town of Phonsavan, expended US bomb cases recycled as gateposts are a fairly common sight.
Textured timbers on a gatepost near Underhill Farm.
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Now this is an odd one the cross is by the doorway and above the steps but is currently being used as a gatepost.
These gateposts are two of the few items that remain of the 'drowned' village of Derwent in north Derbyshire.
The village was demolished in 1943 to enable the flooding of the valley to create the Ladybower reservoir. The church spire was left intact as a memorial to Derwent, but this was dynamited in 1947 on safety grounds.
Lichen growing on gatepost of the Anglian Water reservoir near Burnham Beeches farm. Lichen are an indicator plant for air quality and these appear to be thriving in this rural location.
This concrete gatepost is the only remnant of the short Whitwood Mere branch railway and was part of a level crossing on Pottery Street. The line served a pottery, brickworks and a chemical works and was known as the "Potteries branch". The pottery and brickworks closed in the early 1960s and the line itself soon followed.
Originally, square holes were cut out of the stone to fit a wooden gate that slid in and out of the holes, then unusually they were filled in and a metal hinge was fitted to the post for a swinging gate.
Not many farmers would have "wasted" money on such frivolity
Braintree & Bocking Recreation Ground.
Fish on the pillar by the gatepost in John Ray Street.
8th January 2012, Braintree, Essex.
Micro 110 camera with Orwo UP 21 Double Super 8 black and white cine reversal film (develop before April 1991), reloaded 110 cartridge. Developed (as negative) in Ilfotec LC29, diluted 1+29 for 14 minutes at 19ºC.
A good example of a slotted gatepost on Holwell Lawn that is being used as part of a horse jump on the circuit.
A partly buried Guide Stoop to be seen in Hay Dale near Cressbrook. Dated 1737, it has been moved from its original site and also appears to have been used as a gatepost at sometime. Recycling isn't a new idea....
Stumps are the old gatepost on the WInter Hill Road, next to the masts on Winter Hill. They are of historic importance as the spot close to the place where George Henderson was murdered on the moor in 1838. At the trial of the accused murderer, the Stumps became a reference point for all of the activity on that fateful and very misty day. There is also a plaque remembering the air crash in 1958 which happened just to the right of this spot.
I spotted this weathered old gatepost in Clappers Lane, Fulking (splendid address), just catching the low, orange evening sun.
That prostrate tree in the background, incidentally, blew over many years ago (I suspect in the 1987 gales) and is now happily growing from its horizontal position.
Arms of Ipswich carved on a gate post of Ipswich Old Cemetery. Although rather weathered and not the highest quality of stone work, the features can still easily be distinguished. Two sea horses act as Supporters. The shield shows three demi-ships and a lion, that somehow seems to have turned itself into a cat and the crest has a demi-lion holding a small ship, believed to be a cog, which would have been the vessel commonly used by merchants of the Hanseatic League, of which Ipswich was a main trading port in the Middle Ages. The cemetery was opened in 1855. A second gate post displays the same image on the other side of the gate.
New gate and gatepost in traditional style recently added to 59 Meeting Street. Charleston, SC. Photo taken September 2011.
Image and text posted: 6 November 2011
Revised: 6 November 2011
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