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This milestone, now illegible except for an incised bench mark, has been incorporated into the brick gatepost.
This article offers a photo tour of the house's "aggressive" sculpture collection. It also includes a close-up of one of the dragon/"gargoyle" light fixtures installed outside the second-floor door. Prior to today, I believe, we had seen that type of fixture exclusively (not to mention abundantly) at two different Pilgrim Church properties.
Another rainy day in Cumbria reminds me that photography here is often like fiting a round peg into a square hole hence the title.
Photograph taken by Vera Chapman (1923-2015), a geographer and local historian who wrote more than 20 local history books on Darlington and the surrounding area.
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 ' E820049447', or if you would like to see other images of the Darlington area please visit the Centre for Local Studies, at Darlington Library.
A nice slotted gatepost beside the footpath that leads westward from the hamlet of Luckdon over Easdon Hill on Dartmoor
“Nowadays we scarcely notice the high stone gates which mark the entrances on Hobart, Harvard, and Oxford streets, south of Washington Boulevard. For one thing, the traffic is too heavy, too swift; and then, again, the gates have been obscured by intrusions of shops and stores. At the base of the stone pillars appears the inscription “West Adams Heights.” There was a time when these entranceways were formidable and haughty, for they marked the ways to one of the first elite residential areas in Los Angeles. . . In the unplanned early-day chaos of Los Angeles, West Adams Heights was obviously something very special, an island in an ocean of bungalows—approachable, but withdrawn and reclusive—one of the few surviving examples of planned urban elegance of the turn of the century.”
– Carey McWilliams, “The Evolution of Sugar Hill,” Script, March, 1949: 30
Porst Compact Reflex SP on Lomography 800 film.
My mother used to work in the house beyond this gatepost - it's now a private residence but used to be a nursing home. Incidentally, that's my middle name in the foreground (Linden I mean, not 'House').
The leaning gatepost of Shibden - seen in photos on this very 'stream previously! :-)
Seems odd that a single gatepost, and one so tall as this should be still standing when the walls are mostly gone! The post may mark a boundary between one person's property and another, with the track going across them - it has to be said that the Stocks' owned a large part of this end of the valley, but different Farms would still have boundaries. It could be that it was used as a sign post, there being a split in the road - it is otherwise hard to see why you would need a wall so high out here! It could be the entrance to the Mine Road, erosion may have altered the layout, with that being, not the left post of the road, but the right of a gateway! Without some form of investigation it remains all theory!
To the split in the road! The road we are to follow goes into the line of Holly Trees (there seems to be a thing for planting them next to the roads, presumably to keep of the biting wind and to some extent the now, and perhaps to prevent the erosion of the track which the Beck is constantly doing! Anyway we will have to follow the newer route which walkers have made above the original route. The other road, which we are calling the Mine Road, is below that going downhill to the old Coal Mine (name unknown, to me) The Halifax Antiquarian Society has written on mines, perhaps it might appear in one of those!
Shibden Valley, Queensbury.
- and also I am told today that they are the site of the grave of Ann Mewburn
Recently volunteers have cleared this grave and found a stone near it which reads; Beneath this stone in a vault built by her kind deconsolate husband lies interred the body of Ann wife of William Mewburn August 16th 1757 aged 34 years. William married again in 1763 to Joanna Consett.
Eston Cemetery
GTP SE SIDE RD 24.4M SW PRODN HEDGE (ODN 84.043m, AGL 0.4m).
Destroyed
Location
Grid reference: SD 7066 4162.
Landranger 103: Blackburn & Burnley, Clitheroe & Skipton.
Explorer OL41: Forest of Bowland & Ribblesdale.
Structure: Gatepost.
The gate post was reminiscent of an ancient monolith, carved and banded with wrought iron. Beaten and weather worn, the edifice marked the boundary of his territory...
Stone gatepost at Thorp Perrow arboretum. Lacking a finger and a few adornments but still has a certain dignity.
After our meanderings on the Moor, we came down into Tavistock, which isn't a town we know particularly well. We've passed through a few times, and have been to a dance at the Town Hall, but apart from that, it's just not on any of our usual routes.
This is the Abbey Chapel. I'd not thought to take my tripod (space being at a premium in the car) and had forgotten to pick up the beanbag; so I ended up balancing this on the rounded top of a gatepost for the one-second exposure. This was quite inadequate as a form of stabilisation, so the whole thing came out a bit blurry. Instead of scrapping the picture, I decided to try to make a virtue out of a necessity, and modified the rest of the picture to suit.
Doncaster Market Place with pig gatepost topping the columns at Sunny Bar. There are 2 animals, joined by a weigh-beam. The columns are clad in tera cotta tiles. The roman town name of DANUM is set in the tiles.
Originally built in 1938-1939 with assistance from the New Deal-era Public Works Administration (PWA), the main building of Wallace Rider Farrington High School was designed in the Art Deco style by notable Hawaiian architect Charles William Dickey (C. W. Dickey). The school was named for Wallace Rider Farrington (1871-1933), an American journalist whom served as the sixth territorial governor of Hawaii from 1921 until 1929, which has become controversial in recent times as awareness of his support of policies favoring the domination of whites in Hawaii has become more prevalent. The school was established in 1936 to help expand the access to public secondary education among students on Oahu, owing to the minimum age of employment being raised and greater automation and efficiency leading to less need for plantation workers. The school’s main structure features geometric decorative Art Deco motifs with both simple geometric forms and stylized foliage, with multiple concrete and metal screens, open air corridors, fluted pilasters, a decorative sculptural flagpole base, a hipped roof, concrete structure and exterior walls, and a C-shaped layout wrapping a rear courtyard being the defining features of the building. The original building was utilized by the United States Army as a hospital during World War II, before being fully returned to civilian usage after the war. Following World War II, buildings were added to the campus, including the modernist Joseph Rider Farrington Community Auditorium, a natatorium with stadium seating, several additional classroom buildings scattered to the rear of the original building, a large gymnasium, a postmodern-style library, and a series of portable classrooms intended to add additional temporary classroom space. The front of the school features a sculpture known as The Seed created by local artist Satoru Abe. The school presently serves a majority Asian American and Pacific Islander population, with many being from the surrounding neighborhoods that have a lower income levels than most other areas of Honolulu. The school is an excellent example of Art Deco architecture and of the impact that programs funded by the New Deal had on the Hawaiian islands.
Notice on the old gatepost how high up the tidemark is.Backs-up what the Flood wardens reported, that at the waterfall - about a quarter mile downstream - after the overnight flooding the water level dropped by 12 inches / 30cm or so in an hour. And that's still waay high.
Also notice the original parent triffid still in place.
I saw several gateposts of this design in Helston with a snake coiled up to the top - this was my least worst attempt at taking a picture of them.
Decoration of the gateposts outside the Natural History Museum - all containing sculptures of animals.
The Natural History Museum forms part of 'Albertopolis' (a complex of buildings including the V&A, Science Museum, Imperial College, Albert Hall and Albert Memorial, to name but a few). The NMH itself grew from a collection belonging to Sir Hans Sloane. The current building came about in the mid-nineteenth century with the purchase of land in South Kensington, and an architectural competition in 1864 (won by Richard Waterhouse); work began in 1873, completed in 1880, and the museum opened in 1881.