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Stone gate posts for old large Victorian houses in Harrogate, UK. Most houses had their own gate post designs, but some streets had similar or the same design with the house name and number carved below.
CUT MARK: GT P NW SIDE ENT SW SIDE PLUNGINGTON RD (ODN 25.140m, AGL 0.4m).
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Location
Grid reference: SD 5301 3117.
Landranger 102: Preston & Blackpool, Lytham St Anne's.
Explorer 286: Blackpool & Preston.
Structure: Gatepost.
This stone is from the carboniferous period (so I'm told) Just loved teh way the light caught all its imperfections
Yet another in the long-running 'Gateposts We Have Known' series.
This one impressed through its daring combination of both blue and orange twine.
A cast iron gatepost by Baker's of Newport by the entrance,
The Shell Grotto in Pontypool Park was originally constructed in 1794 by the Hanbury family, local landowners and ironmasters. The wife of Caple Hanbury-Leigh made improvements in 1830, and is credited with the interior design of shells and animal bones. Unfortunately, in my childhood in the 1960s, it was seriously damaged by vandals and was shut up and abandoned for thirty years. In 1996 it was painstakingly restored.
It is now only opened on some Bank Holidays.
A WA Baker surface water access cover.
WA Baker established the Westgate Works in Newport, Mon, in 1880. In 1938, the Whitehead Iron & Steel Co acquired a controlling interest. In 1957, after several years of close collaboration with the American firm Black Clawson (also seen as Clawsen) International, this firm acquired the works. It is still in operation today, manufacturing machinery for the recycling industry. In the 1914 Johns' Newport Street Directory an entry for "Baker, WA & Co Ltd (1910), Westgate Foundry".
The sun was working with me in this direction. No photoshop tricks on the color, I just lowered the brightness a bit. We really did have great weather.
Many Taisho-era buildings seem to be square in aspect ratio and have painted clapboard. But this one with the original owner's dentistry name on the gatepost is stone, instead.
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